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LATEST ADDITIONS: Edward Abbey – The Monkey Wrench Gang (Good+) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah – Friday Black (Very Good) Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart (Good+) Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart [MMP] (G, small chip on back cover, spine faded, rubbing along edges) Chinua Achebe – Arrow of God (G, cover wear, univ. stickers, some sticker residue, corners a little curled) Chinua Achebe – No Longer At Ease (Acceptable, some pink highlighting, minor cover wear, corners somewhat curled) Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [MMP] (VG) Sherman Alexie – Reservation Blues (VG-) Sherman Alexie – The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (VG-, small crease on back cover) Isabel Allende – The House of the Spirits [MMP] (G, spine creased, rubbing along edges) Isabel Allende – The Stories of Eva Luna (MMP) (Very Good) Martin Amis – Success (MMP) (Good) George Andrews & Simon Vinkenoog – The Book of Grass: An Anthology of Indian Hemp [MMP] (Fair, cover repaired with tape, spine heavily creased, reading copy only) Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (G+) Margaret Atwood – Cat’s Eye (VG) Lynda Barry – The Good Times Are Killing Me (VG-) John Barth – Chimera (VG) Jean-Dominique Bauby – The Diving Bell and Butterfly (Very Good+) Madison Smart Bell – Zero db (G) Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky [MMP] (G+, light creases on spine) Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (G, rubbing along edges, number written on top page ends, corners curled) Richard Brautigan – The Abortion [MMP] (Fair, spine sun-faded and cracked down center of book – all pages secure, though) Bertolt Brecht – Parables For the Theatre (Acceptable – foxing on pages, edge wear) Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights (VG) Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (G, some rubbing along edges) Dorothy Bryant – Confessions of Madame Psyche (G+, spine creases and minor cover wear) Dorothy Bryant – The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You (VG) Carlos Bulosan – America is in the Heart (G, front front cover creased, corners slightly curled, first couple pages wrinkled from moisture exposure, univ. bookstore stickers, else fine – pages clean) Edward Bunker – Education of a Felon (Large PB) (VG-) Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange (G, page end discoloration) Clayborne Carson – Malcom X: The FBI File (G, some rubbing along edges) Raymond Carver – Cathedral (Acceptable – reading wear, foxing, edges of cover curled) Giacomo Casanova – The Story of My Life (VG) Camilo Jose Cela – The Family of Pascual Duarte (G spine creased and somewhat slanted) Noam Chomsky – What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World (VG) J. California Cooper – The Future Has A Past (Good+) Angela Y. Davis – Women, Race and Class (Fair, some highlighting, otherwise just light edge wear, good reading/studying copy) Mbella Sonne Dipoko – A Few Nights and Days (Good, reading wear, edge and cover wear) Alfred Döblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (G – cover wear, spine creases) J.P. Donleavy – The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar [MMP] (Acceptable, back corner on cover repaired with tape, a few pages have closed tears, spine creased, top corner of front cover cut, rubbing along edges, signs of age) John Dos Passos – 1919: The USA Trilogy, Volume Two (VG-, some light foxing on inside covers) John Dos Passos – The Big Money (The U.S.A. Trilogy, Book Three) (VG) Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment [MMP] (G, corners slightly curled) Emile Durkheim – On Morality and Society (Acceptable – some underlining and highlighting, spine creased, edge wear) Lawrence Durrell – Justine (MMP) (Good) Lawrence Durrell – Balthazar (MMP) (Good) Jennifer Egan – A Visit From The Goon Squad (Good+) Nawal El Saadawi – Memoirs from the Women’s Prison (Fair, bottom page ends are wrinkled and stiff from moisture exposure, still a good reading copy – a few pen marks, but most pages clean – sticker on front cover) Nawal El Saadawi – The Innocence of the Devil (VG) Henry Fielding – Tom Jones (MMP) (Good) Sigmund Freud – Character and Culture (MMP) (G, signs of age) Sigmund Freud – Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious – Sigmund Freud (VG) Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera (G+, writing on last blank page) Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – The Classic Slave Narratives [MMP] (VG) Jean Genet – The Blacks: A Clown Show (G+, spine faded, minor edge wear) Kahil Gibran – The Prophet [HC/DJ] (VG/VG-, dust jacket has a few wrinkles, minor edge wear ; inscription on front endpaper, else fine) Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Herland (VG) Allen Ginsberg – Howl and Other Poems (VG-, mild reading wear) William Golding – The Lord of the Flies [MMP] (G+, minor indentation, light reading wear) Emma Goldman – The Traffic in Women (VG) Günter Grass – The Rat [Large PB] (G+) Graham Greene – The End of the Affair (VG-, mild signs of age, light indentations on cover) Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory (VG-) Graham Greene – A Sort of Life (MMP) (Good) George and Weedon Grossmith – The Diary of a Nobody (VG) Ernesto Che Guevara – The Motorcycle Diaries (G, small stain on bottom side page ends, a few pages have dogeared corners, else fine) Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X [MMP] (Good, back cover and last few pages have some wrinkling from moisture, else just mild edge wear) Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X (MMP) (G+, spine crease) Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon (G+, minor reading and handling wear) Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises (VG) Ernest Hemingway – For Whom The Bell Tolls (VG-) Hermann Hesse – Beneath the Wheel (Acceptable – cover damage) Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha (Good+) Patricia Highsmith – A Suspension of Mercy (G, some rubbing along edges, small closed tear on edge of front cover repaired with tape, first couple pages have a light stain) S.E. Hinton – The Outsiders [Platinum Edition] (VG) David Horowitz – Empire and Revolution: A Radical Interpretation of Contemporary History [MMP] (Fair, shows signs of age, rubbing along edges and spine on cover, some light foxing, but still very readable.) Elspeth Huxley – The Flame Trees of Thika (Very Good) The Best from IF Magazine, Volume 2 (MMP) (Fair, spine cracked but secure, reading wear and cover wear) Shirley Jackson – The Haunting of Hill House (MMP) (G, some underlining and marks in margins, spine creases) Denis Johnson – Tree of Smoke (Very Good) Carl Jung – The Portable Jung (Fair, corner of front cover cut, else fine) Franz Kafka – The Trial [Shocken Classics Edition] (G+, spine faded, minor reading wear) Mary Karr – The Liars’ Club (Very Good-) Wassily Kandinsky – Concerning the Spiritual in Art (G – edge wear) Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata (Very Good) Susanna Kaysen – Girl, Interrupted (G+, coating on cover slightly wrinkled on top of front cover) Jamaica Kincaid – A Small Place (Good) Maxine Hong Kingston – China Men (Good+) Naomi Klein – Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (VG) Naomi Klein – No Logo (G, spine creased, rubbing along edges, small amount of staining on some pages) Jerzy Kosinski – Being There (MMP) (Good+) Milan Kundera – The Joke (VG-) Milan Kundera – The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (G) Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Good+) R.D. Laing – The Divided Self [MMP] (G, only a few passages underlined, pages mostly clean, just light foxing and normal cover wear) Joe R. Lansdale – Hap and Leonard (Good+) Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird [50th Anniversary Ed. MMP] (G, spine creased and somewhat slanted, edge wear) Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird (Very Good) Ursula K Le Guin – A Wizard of Earthsea (Book One in the Earthsea Cycle) [MMP] (VG-) Doris Lessing – Walking in the Shade 1949-1962 (Very Good) C.S. Lewis – A Grief Observed (VG-) C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity [MMP] (G+, mild cover wear, pages great) C.S. Lewis – The Four Loves (G+, rubbing along edges and corners of cover) C.S. Lewis – That Hideous Strength (MMP) (Fair, corner of front cover cut, some hipping along edges) C.S. Lewis – Out of the Silent Planet (MMP) (Good, some chips along edges of cover, closed tear on front cover) Jack London – South Sea Tales [MMP] (VG) H.P. Lovecraft – The Doom That Came to Sarnath (MMP) (Good, reading wear, edge and cover wear) H. P. Lovecraft – Tales of H. P. Lovecraft (Selected by Joyce Carol Oates (Large PB) (G, spine creased) Lois Lowry – The Giver (G+, one corner curled) Lois Lowry – Messenger (MMP) (Good+) Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano [MMP] (G) Helen Macdonald – H is for Hawk (VG+) Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince and Other Political Writings (VG-) Jerry Mander – Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (G – page and cover wear) Beryl Markham – West with the Night (G+) W. Somerset Maugham – The Moon and Sixpence (MMP) (Good+) Armistead Maupin – Tales of the City (Very Good) Carson McCullers – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Good+) Carson McCullers – The Member of the Wedding (MMP) (Good+) Joseph Mitchell – Joe Gould’s Secret (VG-) N. Scott Momaday – House Made of Dawn (G+) Toni Morrison – Song of Solomon (VG) Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye (G) Toni Morrison – Song of Solomon (Good) Harry Mulisch – The Assault (Very Good) John G. Neihardt – Black Elk Speaks (G, scattered pen marks) Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide (MMP) (G, top page ends has name blacked out with marker, all pages clean) Naomi Shibab Nye – 19 Varieties of Gazelle : Poems of the Middle East (VG) Flannery O’Connor – The Violent Bear It Away (Very Good) George Orwell – 1984 (MMP) (Good) Boris Pasternak – Doctor Zhivago (G+, creases on spine and front cover) C.D. Payne – Youth In Revolt (Large PB) (Good+) Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar (Acceptable – underlining and pen marks, edge and cover wear) Jacques Presser – The Night of the Girondists (Very Good) Thomas Pynchon – Inherent Vice (Good) Ayn Rand – The Fountainhead (MMP) (Good+) Jean Rhys – Voyage in the Dark (Fair, a few passages underlined, not excessive, else minor cover wear – good reading copy) Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea [Norton Critical] (Very Good) Adrienne Rich – On Lies, Secrets, and Silence : Selected Prose 1966-1978 (G, signs of age, cover wear, corners somewhat curled) Adrienne Rich – Of Woman Born (VG) John Rollin Ridge – The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, The Celebrated California Bandit (Acceptable, pink highlighting, several pages have dogeared corners, rubbing along edges, minor rubbing along edges of cover) Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint (Good+) Carl Sagan – The Dragons of Eden [MMP] (G, back cover has a gouge and scrape, else just minor edge and cover wear) J.D. Salinger – Raise High the Roofbeams [MMP] (Fair, closed tear on front cover, repaired with tape, small stain on cover, light foxing and general signs of age) J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye (MMP) (Very Good) David Schickler – Sweet and Vicious (Very Good) Budd Schulberg – What Makes Sammy Run – (Very Good) Idries Shah – The Way of the Sufi [MMP] (G, some foxing on page ends, small closed tear on edge of front cover, normal signs of age) Ntozake Shange – For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (G, some discoloration on page ends, rubbing along edges, reading wear, corners slightly curled) Elizabeth Smart – By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Good+) Betty Smith – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Very Good) Agnes Smedley – Daughter of Earth (G+, spine creased) John Steinbeck – The Wayward Bus [MMP] (VG-) Wallace Stegner – Crossing to Safety (G+) Neal Stephenson – Quicksilver (Good+) Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash (VG-) Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (G – foxing, spine crease) Tom Stoppard – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Good) Italo Svevo – Further Confessions of Zeno (Good) Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (G+, minor page wear, spine crease) David Talbot – Season of the Witch [Large PB] (Fair, spine creased, one corner on spine is split and frayed, crease on front cover, page end corners curled. Hunter S. Thompson – Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie [Large PB] (G+, corners slightly curled) Jim Thompson – The Killer Inside Me (Good+) John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces (Very Good-) Sigrid Undset – Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross (G+) John Updike – Rabbit Is Rich (Very Good+) John Updike – Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit, Run (G, rubbing along edges and spine) Mario Vargas Llosa – Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Very Good-) Viking Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Fair, some highlighting and underlying, limited to a few chapters, else just minor cover wear – good reading copy) Kurt Vonnegut – God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (G) Kurt Vonnegut – Hocus Pocus (MMP) (G, creases on spine) Kurt Vonnegut – Welcome to the Monkey House (Good+) Jane Wagner – The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (VG) Alice Walker – The Color Purple [Musical Edition] (VG-, library stamp and number on bottom page ends, otherwise very little wear) Wendy Wasserstein – The Heidi Chronicles (Good+) Peter Weiss – The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat (G – edge and page wear) Colson Whitehead – The Nickel Boys (Very Good) Elie Wiesel – Night (VG, minor edge wear) Joy Williams – Honored Guest (Very Good) P.G. Wodehouse – Mulliner Nights (Good+, some reading wear, spine creased, minor edge wear, else fine.) Tom Wolfe – The Bonfire of the Vanities (MMP) (Very Good) Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication on the Rights of Woman (VG) Virginia Woolf – To The Lighthouse/The Waves (Critical Ed.) (G+) Richard Wright – Eight Men [MMP] (G) Richard Wright – Native Son (Good+) Jan Yoors – The Gypsies (Fair, rubbing along edges, particularly the edges of spine) – – – – – 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 … Good : cover damage, reading wear to pages, covers rubbed, corners curled, blemishes on cover or light water damage – but still good reading copies. Poor/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. 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 more literature