Paul Radin

The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology by Paul Radin. First paperback edition, second printing, published by Shocken Books 1973. 

Good condition title that’s right but shows its age a bit. Scuffing, staining, light crease on spine, and an old price. 

ISBN: 080520351

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maine

A Study in American Indian Mythology

The myth of the Trickster—ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman—is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind. Nowhere does it survive in more starkly archaic form than in the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebago Trickster Cycle, recorded here is full. Anthropological and psychological analyses by Radin, Kerényi, and Jung reveal with Trickster as filling a twofold role: on the one hand he is "an archetypal psychic structure" that harks back to "an absolutely undifferentiated human consciousness, corresponding to a psyche that has hardly left the animal level" (Jung); on the other hand, his myth is a present-day outlet for the most unashamed and liberating satire of the onerous obligation of social order, religion, and ritual. With commentaries by Karl Kerényi and C. G. Jung Introduction by Stanley Diamond

The Trickster

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Larry McMurtry

Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. First edition, hardcover copy published by Simon and Schuster 1993. 

Very good/very good condition copy. Some slight warping, foxing and thin strip of old tape on back cover of jacket. 

Sequel to the Pulitzer Prize winning Lonesome Dove. Here we get an old, grizzled version of Call with his old friend Gus long dead, he’s turned to bounty hunting and finally maybe bitten off more than he can chew. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Captain Call, a bounty hunter hired to catch bandit Joey Garza, assembles a group of unlikely assistants and travels to Crowtown, Texas

Streets of Laredo (1st ed.)

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Jamaica Kincaid

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid. First US edition, hardcover copy published by Farrah Straus Giroux 1990. 

Fine/fine condition copy. Old price tag on inside front flap of jacket and small mark to the top spine of the jacket are the only damage to speak of. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to work as an au pair for a wealthy American couple, discovering the dark side behind their facade of happiness as she also awakens to her own sexuality

Lucy (1st ed.)

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Diane Stein

Casting the Circle: A Women’s Book of Ritual by Diane Stein. Paperback copy published by The Crossing Press 1990. 

Some creasing and wear to the front and back cover, along spine. Otherwise a tightly bound, very solid copy. 

A Woman's Book of Ritual

A comprehensive guide including 23 full ritual outlines for the waxing, full, and waning moons, the eight Sabbats, and rites of passage. It also contains a wealth of information on developing, planning, and leading personal and group rituals.

Casting the Circle

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Margo Anand

The Art of Sexual Magic: Cultivating Sexual Energy to Transform Your Life by Margo Anand. First edition, first printing hardcover copy, published by Tarcher/Putnam (1995). 

Very good/very good condition copy. Light rolling around top/bottom of jacket, faint foxing on first leaf. 

Cultivating Sexual Energy to Transform Your Life

Shows couples how to increase their physical and spiritual energy during sex and channel it into their professional lives, using a series of exercises based on ancient rituals. By the author of The Art of Sexual Ecstasy.

The Art of Sexual Magic (1st ed.)

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Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph. D. A near fine/fine, first edition, 16th printing hardcover copy published by Ballantine Books, New York. Some light rubbing to the front and back of jacket are the only wear to speak of. 

A Jungian analyst explores the feminine psyche through stories of "wild women"--the mythological archetype of the strong, primitive woman. 115,000 first printing.

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (1st ed, HC)

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Octavio Paz Lozano

Helen Lane

The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism by Octavio Paz, translated from Spanish by Helen Lane. Hardcover first edition, first US printing published by Harcourt Brace and Company 1995. 

Fair condition jacket, good condition volume. Rolling and wear to jacket at top of spine, old price tag on back, and some dirty browning to cover and along top of pages. 

ISBN: 9780151001033

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A collection of essays examines the themes of love and sex in literature, from Plato to modern fiction

The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism (1st US ed.)

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Umberto. Eco

William Weaver

A really lovely near fine/near fine copy of Baudolino by Umberto Eco. Hardcover first US edition, first printing published by Harcourt 2002. Translated from Italian by William Wearver. Only wear to speak of is a very slight rolling at the top of the jacket. 

Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino narrates the story of his life, from his adoption by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his education in Paris to his arrival in Constantinople during the turmoil of the Fourth Crusade.

Baudolino (1st ed.)

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Sherlock Holmes The West End Horror by John H Watson (Edited by Nicholas Meyer). First book club edition published by H. P. Dutton and Co 1976. 

Very good jacket, very good+ volume.

Classic Holmesian pastiche by one of the best to write in the genre and packaged in a lovely looking hardcover edition!

The West End Horror 

Thomas Pynchon

Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. A beautiful condition first edition hardcover copy published by Henry Holt and Company, New York 1997. 

A book that has recently begun to garner some more attention, and rightly so. Pynchon’s wonderful spin on the Story of the Mason Dixon line and the axe men by their side who made it all possible. A really fantastic book that I can’t recommend enough. 

The New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997
Time Magazine Best Book of the Year 1997

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.


Mason and Dixon (1st ed.)

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Christine Sparks

The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks, paperback 1986. Based on the film by David Lynch! 

Poor condition but boasts a fantastic cover that still really pops despite the wear. 

A Novel

John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in the workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak. But beneath that tragic exterior, within that enormous and deformed head, thrived the soul of a poet, the heart of a dreamer, the longings of a man. Merrick was doomed to suffer forever—until the kind Dr. Treves gave him the first real home in the London Hospital and the town's most beautiful and esteemed actress made possible Merrick's cherished dream of human contact—and love.

The Elephant Man

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Clive Barker

Imajica Book 2 the Reconciliation by Clive Barker. Harper Torch paperback printing 2002. 

A few dings here and there but seemingly unread copy in very good condition. 

The Reconciliation

The magical tale of ill-fated lovers lost among worlds teetering on the edge of destruction, where their passion holds the key to escape. There has never been a book like Imajica. Transforming every expectation offantasy fiction with its heady mingling of radical sexuality and spiritual anarchy, it has carried its millions of readers into regions of passion and philosophy that few books have even attempted to map. It's an epic in every way; vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. A book of erotic mysteries and perverse violence. A book of ancient, mythological landscapes and even more ancient magic.

Imajica II

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Louis Pauwels

Jacques Bergier

The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier. First Scarborough House trade paperback edition 1991 with new introduction by Charles Berlitz. 

Good+ condition, light peeling on corners of top plastic layer of cover, some light foxing on pages. Otherwise a tight copy that appears to never have been read.

"The groundbreaking and classic study that first popularized occultism, alchemy, and paranormal phenomena in the 1960s- Provides profound insights into our perceptions of reality, telepathy, mutants, and parallel universes- Reveals the occult influences on the Nazis and introduces the alchemist Fulcanelli and the work of Charles Fort and Gurdjieff- Over Half a Million Copies SoldThis groundbreaking, international bestseller, first published in 1960, couples profound insights into the hidden history of humanity and our perceptions of reality with the scientific evidence that supports the existence of paranormal activity, telepathy, and extraterrestrial communications. The first book to explore in depth the Nazi fascination with the occult, Pauwels and Bergier also broke new ground with their study of pyramidology, alchemy and its close kinship with atomic energy, and the possibility of a widespread mutation of humanity that would herald the dawn of a new age for the earth."

A really fascinating title that covers a lot of ground!

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Morning of the Magicians (1st trade ed. 1991)

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Haruki Murakami

"The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers"--

Killing Commendatore (1st US ed.)

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The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. First book club edition Published by Harper and Row 1971. 

A really fantastic condition early hardcover copy of the book that would in 1973 be brought to life on film by director William Friedkin in his infamous adaptation. 

Good+ jacket, very good volume. Small tear and rolling on top and bottom corners of spine area of jacket. Book plate and old price marked in pencil inside cover.

The Exorcist (First Book Club ed. 1971)

Roald Dahl

Excellent condition hardcover first edition published by Viking (2000). No chocolate factories in this one! A fun shift away from the children’s literature you know Dahl for. This collection of short stories was published following Dahl’s death. 

This fiendishly clever collection of 13 tales introduces teenagers to the adult short stories of Roald Dahl, described as one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived.

Skin and Other Stories (1st ed.)

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Some staining to cover, rolling of page corners, and marking inside cover. Otherwise a very lovely large edition, written in French, with 35 original woodcuts by S. Lecoanet. Published by Artheme Faust’s & Cie. (1933). It’s worth the purchase for the woodcuts alone!

La Paix Chez Les Bêtes

Good condition jacket, excellent condition book. Tears at base and front corner of jacket, marked interior page. Alfred A. Knopf (1963) first edition hardcover copy. 

Telephone Poles and Other Poems (1st ed.)

1950 Universal Library First Paperback Edition. Good condition copy of a fairly scarce edition these days. 1.5 inch long slice but not cut through on the outer edge of cover towards the center. Some creasing along spine. Fading on the from of first leaf after opening the cover. Due to an original news clipping from Lowell, MA announcing Kerouac’s burial in town. Two pieces of history for the price of one! A great edition of Kerouac’s first novel!

The Town And The City (1st paperback ed.)

Walter Sullivan

Jack is in poor condition, but has been wrapped to prevent further wear. Everything else is in very good condition. Anchor/Doubleday (1979) third printing. 

The Edge of Space, the End of Time

Speculations and discoveries that have convinced many leading minds of science that black holes exist and may even make up a large part of our universe.

Black Holes

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Poor condition dust jacket, however the book itself is in excellent condition. Fairly scarce hardcover third printing Triangle Books Edition (October 1940). Jacket has been wrapped in Mylar to prevent further deterioration. 

The Stray Lamb 

Amy Sedaris

A good condition, signed first edition copy. Wear to edges and corners, stickers on cover. Some classic, crazy Amy Sedaris! Buy it!

Crafts for Poor People

Describes how to make unconventional crafts from simple materials and offers humorous advice on finding inspiration for crafts, creating a craft room, avoiding the most common crafting accidents, and cooking edible crafts.

Simple Times (Signed, 1st ed.)

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Graeme Macrae Burnet

Very good condition. First edition hardcover copy, Skyhorse Publishing (2016). An odd little title that I quote liked. It had a very nihilistic feel to it not dissimilar to The Stranger. 

Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae (Man Booker Prize Finalist 2016)

Man Booker Prize Finalist, LA Times Book Prize Finalist, New York Times Editor’s Choice, and an American Booksellers Association National Indie Bestseller! Named a Best Book of 2016 by Newsweek, NPR, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times! In the smash hit historical thriller that the New York Times Book Review calls “thought provoking fiction,” a brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? And will he hang for his crime? Presented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. They offer conflicting impressions of the accused; one interviewee recalls Macrae as a gentle and quiet child, while another details him as evil and wicked. Chief among the papers is Roderick Macrae’s own memoirs where he outlines the series of events leading up to the murder in eloquent and affectless prose. There follow medical reports, psychological evaluations, a courtroom transcript from the trial, and other documents that throw both Macrae’s motive and his sanity into question. Graeme Macrae Burnet’s multilayered narrative—centered around an unreliable narrator—will keep the reader guessing to the very end. His Bloody Project is a deeply imagined crime novel that is both thrilling and luridly entertaining from an exceptional new voice.

His Bloody Project (1st ed.)

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John Varley

A pretty crusty early book club edition. However, it’s a relatively scarce edition and the cover still really pops and has lasted the damage incredibly well. That alone is worth the price of admission here. 

The satellite-sized alien Gaea has gone completely insane. She has transformed her love of old movies into monstrous realities. She is Marilyn Monroe. She is King Kong. And now she must be destroyed.

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