Walker Percy

Condition Fair. A read and worn copy.

Winner of the National Book Award (in a year when Franny and Zooey, Catch 22, The Château, and The Spinoza of Market Street were all nominated), included in Time's “Best English Language Novels from 1923-2005” and ranked sixtieth on Modern Library's “Hundred Best Novels from the Twentieth Century”.

This is not a novel about going to the movies. It just happens to be that Binx Bolling, the novel's protagonist, is a moviegoer. In fact it is a skeptical novel; a philosophical glance into, if not a certain case study of, everydayness and objectivity clearly drawing influence from the likes of Sartre and Kierkegaard.

“On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is adrift. He occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a quest - a harebrained search for authenticity that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the gaudy chaos of the French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, "The Moviegoer" is a genuine American classic.”

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Georgia

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award

The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.

The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.

The Moviegoer

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Stephen King

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A collection of short stories, including pastiches of Doyle & Chandler, a vampire story, & a sports story.

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

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J. D. Salinger

Nine Stories

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e. e. cummings

A collection of poems coupled with line drawings by the author.

E. E. Cummings’s erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume. Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke. Here, collected for this first time in a single volume, are those erotic poems and sketches, culled from Cummings’s original manuscripts by the distinguished editor George James Firmage. from “16” may i feel said he (i’ll squeal said she just once said he) it’s fun said she (may i touch said he how much said she a lot said he) why not said she

Erotic Poems

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Henrik Ibsen

This dark psychological drama was first produced in Norway in 1890 and depicts the evil machinations of a ruthless, nihilistic heroine: the infamous Hedda Gabler. Readers will discover a masterly exploration of the nature of evil, along with the potential for tragedy that lies in human frailty. A true masterpiece.

Hedda Gabler

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Condition- Very Good; Hardcover with original dust jacket; Printed 1963

Inspired by the author's own family history (du Maurier being a fifth generation descendant of a master glassblower who relocated to England during the French Revolution), The Glass-Blowers is the dramatic story of a family of master craftsmen, the Busson family,  in France from the time of the Ancien Régime to the ascendance of Napoleon.

The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world'. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution, against which the family struggles to survive.

Years later, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. Drawing on her own family's tale of tradition and sorrow, Daphne du Maurier weaves an unforgettable saga of beauty, war, and family.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Glass-blowers

John Grisham

First edition. 

"The life of a ten-year-old  black  girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless  white  men. The mostly white town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi, reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime—until  the girl’s  father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his  own  hands.
For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as  defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client’s life—and then his own.”  -Johngrisham.com

Before "The Firm" and "The Pelican Brief" made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle -- and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own... "From the Hardcover edition."

A Time to Kill

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One inch tear at top of Dust jacket, otherwise Near Fine condition.

Hercule Poirot's most famous case as well as Christie's most frequently adapted story takes place in the isolated environment of the titular luxury train, lending itself to tense detective work among an intimate and anxious cast of characters. Included in several best-of mystery fiction lists and adapted for radio, film, television, comic book and video game, this work is a true classic of the genre.


Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Murder on the Orient Express

Gabriel García Márquez

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Gloria Naylor

On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces. A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense.

Mama Day (first ed.)

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A collection of plays by a massively influential Irish literary figure.

Mrs. Warren's Profession; Arms and the Man; Candida; Man and Superman

Plays by George Bernard Shaw

First printing (1990). Dust jacket in excellent condition.

Meg Venturi never expected the windfall she inherits when her grandfather dies. For some unknown reason the eccentric old millionaire has left her his profitable antique jewelry business. But there is a catch. Meg must share the business with an aloof, mysterious, and somewhat sinister young man called A.L. Riley. The town is whispering about her enigmatic new partner. Rumors spread about unspoken secrets, a dark and disturbing legacy... and murder. Soon a series of troubling events has Meg looking uncomfortably over her shoulder. The longer she stays in this tiny New England village the clearer two very troubling truths become: all that glitters is definitely not gold... and someone will stop at nothing to drive her away.


Into the Darkness

Edith Grossman

A New York Times Notable Book

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known.

Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master’s work.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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Jean Paul Sartre

Lloyd Alexander

Consisting of five short stories (The Wall; The Room; Erostratus; Intimacy; The Childhood of a Leader) The Wall is an essential, and perhaps Sartre's most deliberate, work of existentialism. Originally published in 1939, the stories are still glaring relevant and relatable to us and our human condition today.

This version is translated by Loyd Alexander, who also translated the first English edition of Sartre's 'La Nausée' (translated as: The Diary of Antoine Roquentin) as well as having a prolific writing career himself.

Good condition; inscribed "I love you, Sam" on the title page.

(Intomacy)

One of Sartre s greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher s existentialism.

The Wall

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Chinua Achebe

A Novel

The contemporary African writer's classic novel depicting the destruction of traditional tribal life by the white man

Things Fall Apart

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William Golding

Lois Lowry

Jennifer Buehler

All pages and cover intact. Normal reader's wear.

Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age. This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler. At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.

Lord of the Flies

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Michio Kaku

A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimens Ion

An exploration of the theory of hyperspace by a professor of theoretical physics discusses the superstring theory and the concept of a jigsaw-puzzle universe

Hyperspace

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A defining work from a major figure of the beat movement.

Good condition. Corner crease on cover.

The Town and the City

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Wolfe

Scribner 2006. A little paint on cover, otherwise very good copy.                                                                             "A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929..." (Scribner)

The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young man's coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature.

A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. It gave the world proof of his genius and launched a powerful legacy.

The novel follows the trajectory of Eugene Gant, a brilliant and restless young man whose wanderlust and passion shape his adolescent years in rural North Carolina. Wolfe said that Look Homeward, Angel is "a book made out of my life," and his largely autobiographical story about the quest for a greater intellectual life has resonated with and influenced generations of readers, including some of today's most important novelists. Rich with lyrical prose and vivid characterizations, this twentieth-century American classic will capture the hearts and imaginations of every reader.

Look Homeward, Angel

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A previously read book with normal edgewear and a few pages turned at the corner.

The Luminaries

Paladin (Grafton Books); Illustrations by the author; Some wear/stains evident in photos

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