Classic Literature

The books you want to read! Buy More and Save: 5% when you buy 210% when you buy 315% when you buy 4 or more ** Check out my other Build Your Own Lots and Book Bundles for more book deals – you can buy from all of them and any extra shipping charges will be refunded – OR – I can build custom bundles from any of the books in those lots or anything else I have listed, so if you see some things you’d like from any of my listings, let me know what you’re interested in and I’ll create a personalized lot for you with a discount and flat rate shipping charge. !! Banned Books | Subversive Books | Cult Novels | Outsider Lit | Existentialism | Mystery Novels | Drama | Eastern Philosophy | Contemporary Classics | European Authors | African American Literature AVAILABLE TITLES: Author – Title – Grading – Price All books are trade paperbacks (sized approx. 5 in. x 8 in.) except those marked MMP, which are mass market paperbacks (4 in. x 7 in.) or Large PB which are generally 6 in. 9 in. (See below list of titles for details on my grading system) NEWEST ADDITIONS: Ama Ata Aidoo – The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa (Good, a few scattered colored pencil marks, front cover has indentations and some creases) Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (MMP) (Acceptable, spine cracked, but all pages secure) Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (G+) Beaumarchais – The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro [MMP] (Fair, considerable cover wear, still a readable copy) Saul Bellow – Henderson the Rain King (G+) Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men [40th Anniversary Edition] (VG+, minor edge wear) Ambrose Bierce – The Devil’s Dictionary (VG) Eric Bogosian – Drinking in America (G+) Jeremy Brecher – Strike! [Revised and Updated Edition] (Fair, ex-library, stain on side page ends, rubbing along edges, creases on cover, corners somewhat curled – reading/studying copy) Bertolt Brecht – Mother Courage (MMP) (G+, just some light foxing) (MMP) Vincent Bugliosi – Helter Skelter (MMP) (G) Anthony Burgess – The Wanting Seed (VG-, pages show some mild reading wear, some minor edge wear and corners slightly curled, else fine.) Edmund Burke – Reflections on the Revolution in France (VG-) Sir Richard Burton, trans. – The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Complete and Unexpurgated (MMP) (VG) Joseph Campbell – Man and Transformation (Bollingen Series XXX) (G) Albert Camus – The Plague (VG-, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends) Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (G+, name written on bottom page ends) Raymond Chandler – Farewell, My Lovely (Good, bit of a wave in book) Anton Chekhov – The Plays of Anton Chekhov (G+) Noam Chomsky – Necessary Illusions (G+) Arthur C. Clarke – The Fountains of Paradise (G, crease on front cover) J. M. Coetzee – Waiting for the Barbarians (Good) Joseph Conrad – Nostromo (MMP) (G+) Ricardo Cortez Cruz – Straight Outta Compton (VG) Wade Davis – The Serpent and the Rainbow [MMP] (G, some creased, light page discoloration, edge wear) Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene (Good, revving along edges and spine, small closed tear along edge of spine, some creases, blemishes and indentations on cover, corners somewhat curled) Thomas De Quincey – Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (G+) James Dickey – Deliverance (VG) W.E.B. Du Bois – The Souls of Black Folk (G) Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz – An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (Large PB) (VG) Stephen Dunn – Different Hours (G, coating wrinkled along edge of cover, a few pencil marks) Lawrence Durrell – Reflections on a Marine Venus (MMP) (VG) George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss (Good) $3 Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho (G+, pages have some minor reading wear, a few indentations on cover and mild signs of age) James Ellroy – Because the Night [MMP] (G, spine creases, rubbing along edges) John Fante – The Brotherhood of the Grape [Ecco Press] (Fair, some moisture exposure with wrinkled pages and cover, corners curled – still very readable) Philip José Farmer – The Magic Labyrinth: Riverworld Saga, Book Four (Good, top of some page ends slightly wrinkled, minor edge wear, corners raised. Philip José Farmer – The Dark Design: Riverworld Saga, Book Three (Good+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear, corners somewhat raised.) William Faulkner – Sanctuary (Acceptable, some underlining and notes in pencil, some cover creases) Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere (G+, spine creased, edge wear, corners slightly curled) Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude (VG-) Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera (Fair) Paul Gauguin – Intimate Journals (Good) William Golding – Lord of the Flies (G+) Graham Greene – The Comedians (G+) Graham Greene – The End of the Affair (Good) Dashiell Hammett – The Glass Key (G) Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon (G+) Graham Hancock – Fingerprints of the Gods (Fair, reading wear, corners curled, discoloration on page ends – reading copy only) Joseph Heller – Catch 22 (VG-, mild reading wear) Michael Herr – Dispatches (UK paperback) (G, spine creased) Hermann Hesse – The Glass Bead Game (MMP) (Good+) Patricia Highsmith – The Price of Salt (VG) Chester Himes – Cotton Comes to Harlem (G+) bell hooks – Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (Acceptable, pages have reading wear, rubbing along edges with coating on cover starting to curl) Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston – Farewell to Manzanar (G, spine creased, stamps on side page ends, rubbing along edges) Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (G+) Aldous Huxley – Point Counter Point (HC) (Good, shows some sings of age and shelf life, corners bumped, no dust jacket) Robert A. Johnson – Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche (G, small closed tear on side of front cover, some reading wear, normal edge and cover wear. Edward P. Jones – The Known World (VG) Erica Jong – Fear of Flying (MMP) (G) Erica Jong – Fear of Flying (G+) Carl G. Jung – Man and His Symbols [MMP] (VG-, light reading wear, spine lightly creased, else just minor rubbing along edges of cover, else fine – pages clean and bright.) Franz Kafka – The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical) (G, some underling and notes) Garrison Keillor – Love Me (G, small stain on side page ends from moisture exposure) Thomas A. Kempis – The Imitation of Christ (G+) Jack Kerouac – On The Road [Movie Tie-In Cover] (G+, some reading wear, corners slightly curled) Gene Kerrigan – Little Criminals (VG) Ken Kesey – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (VG-, minor reading wear) Ken Kesey – Sailor Song (VG) Karl Ole Knausgaard – My Struggle, Book 3 (VG+) Krishnamurti – Education & the Significant of Life (G) Krishnamurti – The Flame of Attention (G, some chips on back cover) Nella Larsen – Passing (VG) Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (VG-) Mikhail Lermontov – A Hero of Our Time (VG-) Jonathan Lethem – Motherless Brooklyn [MMP] (Good, creases on spine and front cover, normal reading wear) Jeff Lindsay – Dearly Devoted Dexter (VG) Dambudzo Marechera – Cemetery of Mind (G) Cormac McCarthy – The Road (VG-, minor edge and cover wear) Larry McMurtry – The Last Picture Show (G+) Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman (VG+) Toni Morrison – Jazz (Fair) Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye (G+, a few pen marks in margins) Toni Morrison, ed. – Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality (Acceptable, some underlining and notes, some pages creased, spine creased, rubbing along edges – reading/studying copy only.) Sallie Muirden – A Woman of Seville (VG) Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita (G) R.K. Narayan – The Indian Epics Retold: The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, Gods, Demons, and Others (Acceptable, spine cracked, a few pages loose, but all present, page ends discolored – still very readable.) Mark O’Donnell – Vertigo Park (VG) Eugene O’Neill – Long Day’s Journey Into Night (VG-) José Ortega y Gasset – The Revolt of the Masses (G+, light foxing, minor edge and cover wear) George Orwell – 1984 (MMP) (G – stains and small hole on back cover) Chuck Palahniuk – Haunted (Fair) Sylvia Plath – Ariel (Good, some underlining and marginalia) Silvia Plath – The Bell Jar (G, small amount of underlining and a few notes, name written on bottom page ends, rubbing along edges) Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Fair) Thomas Pynchon – The Crying of Lot 49 (VG-) Thomas Pynchon – V. [MMP] (G+, some rubbing along edges, light blemishes on side page ends, stamp on bottom) Samuel Richardson – Pamela (MMP) (G, spine creases) A.N. Roquelaure – The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (G+, reading wear, edge wear) Tom Robbins – Jitterbug Perfume (G, some black ink on side page ends, looks like a printing defect … ) Tom Robbins – Another Roadside Attraction (Fair) Edward Said – Culture and Imperialism (G+, two pages in introduction have some underlining, all others look clean, just normal reading wear, corners somewhat curled and spine is a little slanted) Ferrol Sams – Epiphany (VG-) Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea (G, small amount of underlining) Amy Scholder & Ira SIlverberg, Eds. – High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings (Includes Kathy Acker, Burroughs, Mary Gaitskill, Dennis Cooper, Dorothy Allison, et. al.) (G, small amount of moisture wrinkling) David Sedaris – Naked (VG+) Hannah Senesh – Her Life & Diary (G+, minor edge and cover wear) Ntozake Shange – For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (G+) Bernard Shaw – Man and Superman (Fair, some faint underlining and marginalia in pencil) Oz Shelach – Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments (MMP) (VG-) Isaac Bashevis Singer – The Collected Stories (Large PB) (VG) Alexander Solzhenitsyn – Nobel Lecture (G) Laurence Sterne – A Sentimental Journey (VG) Irving Stone – The Agony and the Ecstasy (MMP) (G+) Dan Simmons – Hyperion (Fair, spine is heavily creased and slanted, else just minor edge and cover wear, all pages secure) Robert Stone – Dog Soldiers (G+, small closed tear on front cover at bottom of spine, repaired with tape, else just normal reading and handling wear) Thomas Sugrue – The Story of Edgar Cayce: There is a River [MMP] (G, a few passaged highlighted, spine creased and slanted, small crease on front cover) Michael Talbot – The Holographic Universe (G, rubbing along edges of cover, light foxing on page ends, else fine) Studs Terkel – Working (MMP) (G+, really nice copy with red page ends) Studs Terkel – The Studs Terkel Reader (VG) Dylan Thomas – The Collected Stories (G) John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces (Fair) B. Traven – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (G, reading wear, cover wear) Robert Tressell – The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (VG-, light crease on edge of front cover) Calvin Trillin – Family Man (VG) Mark Twain – Letters from the Earth (G+) Yoshiko Uchida – Samurai of Gold Hill (VG) Sigrid Undset – Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath (G, some rubbing along edges, mild reading wear) Sigrid Undset – Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross (VG+) Boris Vian – Mood Indigo (VG+) Kurt Vonnegut – Galapagos (VG) Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five (Acceptable, underlining in pencil – not distracting, cover wear) Kurt Vonnegut – Welcome to the Monkey House (G) Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five [MMP] (G, spine creased, rubbing along edges, minor cover wear) Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass (G) Elie Wiesel – Night (VG) Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (VG) William Carlos Williams – In The American Grain (G, some foxing) Rosalind Wiseman – Queen Bees & Wannabes (VG) Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff (VG-) Richard Wright – Black Boy (MMP) (G, spine creased, a few small creases) Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway (VG+) Richard Wright – Uncle Tom’s Children (MMP) (G, some chips pieces missing along edge of front cover, repaired with tape, otherwise in great shape.) Richard Wright – Native Son (G+) Xu Xi – Dear Hong Kong (MMP) (VG) Howard Zinn – A People’s History of the United States (G+, some edge and cover wear) Howard Zinn – Disobedience and Democracy (G) – – – Gradings: Very Good+ : almost like new, just a few issues to cover, usually unread pages Very Good : pages show some mild reading wear, the cover will have some edge wear or a few other flaws Very Good- : somewhere between Very Good and Good+ – a few issues short of being Very Good, like creases on cover, light discoloration or foxing – nothing too distracting. Good+ : close to being Very Good with a few small but significant blemishes like curled corners, a few small pen marks, some slight moisture wrinkling, cover creases, spine creases … these are your reading/studying copies … Fair : cover damage, reading wear to pages, covers rubbed, corners curled, blemishes on cover or light water damage – but still good reading copies. Acceptable : any of the above issues plus considerable reading wear and/or cover wear, underlining/highlighting – but still readable – spine creases, cover damage. – – – – I’m constantly adding new titles. SHIPPING: Ships USPS Media Mail, promptly and well protected in bubble mailers or boxes, depending on quantity. I use recycled shipping materials whenever possible. $4.00 for the first book, .50 each additional. – – – Check out my other listings for other titles in this category, as well as literature, graphic novels and other books of note and consequence. Besides individual listings, I have several Build Your Own Book Lots and Author Bundles to choose titles from. I combine shipping for a flat rate. I can also create custom bundles with a discount. So if you see some stuff you like, hit me up. Any questions? Please ask! . . .