Cloth; Used. Fine. Dust Jacket: Good. Baby, It s Cold Inside: Thirty-two Side Splitting Stories by S.J. Perelman. First Edition First Printing. Essays. A collection of funny, ironic essays from one of the great humorists of the twentieth century. Culled from the pages of The New Yorker, Holiday, TV Guide, and Venture, these thirty-two stories…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore. First Edition First Printing. Short Stories. In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore explores the passing of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, irony and half-cracked love…
Cloth; Used. Fine. Dust Jacket: Fine. Beloved by Toni Morrison. First Edition First Printing. Historical Fiction. Beloved, novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987 and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The work examines the destructive legacy of slavery as it chronicles the life of a black woman named Sethe, from her pre-Civil…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel. Psychological Fiction. This is Hilary Mantel s tenth novel and her first for six years. Beyond Black is an hilarious and deeply sinister story of dark secrets and dark forces, set in an England that jumps at its own shadow, a country…
Cloth; used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Billy Creekmore by Tracey Porter. Signed, First Edition First Printing. Historical Fiction. Folks say I m bound to be unlucky in life, for I was born at midnight on a Friday, the thirteenth of December, and Peggy says it s certain I can commune with spirits. But…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Blood Sucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore. First Edition First Printing. Humor Fiction. Jody, a young, single, red-headed woman living in San Francisco, is attacked by a vampire and soon finds that she has become one herself. While attempting to adjust to her new nocturnal…
Cloth; Used. Fine. Dust Jacket: Good. Books Do Furnish A Room by Anthony Powell. First U.S. Edition First Printing. Nonfiction Narrative. A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. The novels follow Nicholas…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi. First Edition First Printing. Fantasy Fiction. Boy Novak, a young white girl, is born to an abusive father who works as an exterminator and whom she refers to as the rat catcher. In the winter of 1953, when she is twenty…
Trade Paperback; Used. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Historical Fiction. Catch-22 Summary. Captain John Yossarian, a World War II bombardier, is stationed on the island of Pianosa. He is an individualist who seeks to protect his own life by fleeing to the hospital, since a “catch-22” in the Air Force regulations prevents him from being…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead. First Edition First Printing. Fiction Literature. When Robey Childs s mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she instructs her only child to find his father on the battlefield and…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Crazy Cock by Henry Miller. First Edition First Printing. Nonfiction Narrative. In 1930 Henry Miller moved from New York to Paris, leaving behind — at least temporarily — his tempestuous marriage to June Smith and a novel that had sprung from his anguish over her love affair…