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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.

LATEST ADDITIONS: 

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (G, reading wear, rubbing along edges, some blemishes on cover, discoloration and light foxing on page ends.) 

Edward Abbey - The Brave Cowboy (G, reading wear, rubbing along edges, spine sun-faded, minor blemishes on cover, light discoloration on page ends.) 

Mumia Abu-Jamal - Live from Death Row [1996 Avon Trade Paperback] (G+, some reading wear, rubbing along edges, wrinkle on edge of spine, light discoloration and foxing on page ends and inside wraps.)

Chinua Achebe - No Longer at Ease [MMP] (G+, some reading wear, signs of age, spine discolored, light foxing on page ends, name written on first page.) 

Isabel Allende - Of Love and Shadows [1988 Bantam MMP] (G, some reading wear, creases on spine, stain on bottom page ends, rubbing along edges, some foxing.) 

John Allyn - 47 Ronin [2018 Tuttle TPB] (VG+, minor edge wear.) 

Jonathan Ames - The Extra Man (G, some reading wear, rubbing along edges, creasing on cover, light discoloration on page ends, spine sun-faded, remainder mark.)

Qasim Amin - The Liberation of Women: A Document in the History of Egyptian Feminism (VG, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear.) 

Isaac Asimov - Foundation [2004 Bantam Spectra MMP] (G+, some reading wear, creases on spine, minor edge wear, light discoloration on page ends.) 

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice [Norton Critical Edition] (G, some reading wear, underlining, minor edge wear.)

Honoré de Balzac - The Fatal Skin [MMP] (G+, some reading wear, signs of age, stains on cover, light foxing on page ends, name written on first page.) 

Djuna Barnes - Biography of Julie von Bartmann [2020 Green Integer Mini Paperback] (G, some highlighting, minor reading wear, minor rubbing along edges.)   

Lynda Barry - The Good Times Are Killing Me (VG-)

Jacques Barzun - Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers [1994 Revised Edition] (G, coating on front cover wrinkled, minor edge wear.) 

Robert Bly - A Little Book on the Human Shadow (G+, some rubbing along edges, light reading wear) 

Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky (G, reading wear, rubbing along edges, spine creased, wrinkles and creases on cover, along with some blemishes, light foxing on page ends and inside wraps.) 

Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine [MMP] (G+, some reading wear, spine creased and slanted, light foxing on page ends, name written on inside front cover, rubbing along edges.) 

Ray Bradbury - The Vintage Bradbury [1990 Vintage TPB] (G, some reading wear, discoloration on page ends, minor rubbing along edges, some blemishes on cover.) 

Richard Brautigan - A Confederate General from Big Sur [1968 - Eighth Evergreen Printing] (G, reading wear, signs of age, rubbing along edges, blemishes and light stains on cover, discoloration and soiling on page ends, name blacked out on inside front cover, small stain on first page.) 

Kate Braverman - Palm Latitudes (G+, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, some creases on cover, light discoloration on page ends.)  

Helmut Brinker - Zen in the Art of Painting (VG-, some foxing on page ends, minor edge wear) 

Adrienne Maree Brown - Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (G, reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, scuffs and blemishes on cover, rubbing along edges.) 

Clarence Brown (ed.) - The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader [Viking Portable Library MMP] (F, reading wear, small stain on top edges of front pages, heavy rubbing along edges, a few nicks and closed tears repaired with tape, creases on cover.) 

Dee Brown - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West [2007 Picador TPB] (VG+, minor edge wear.) 

Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth (G+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear.) 

Bulfinch’s Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable [2000 Dover Thrift Editions TPB] (G, some reading wear, scattered pen marks, some underlining, minor edge wear.) 

Erskine Caldwell - Journeyman [1947 First Penguin Books Edition MMP] (F, reading wear, signs of age, rubbing along edges, corners and edges of cover reinforced with transparent tape, some discoloration on page ends.) 

Lee Camp - Bullet Points and Punch Lines (VG+, minor shelf wear.) 

Orson Scott Card - Ender’s Game [Tor MMP] (G, reading wear, creases on spine, rubbing along edges and corners, minor cover wear.) 

Orson Scott Card and Keith Ferrell - Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures [1997 DAW MMP] (G+ some reading wear, minor edge wear, light discoloration on page ends.) 

Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (VG, small tears on front cover.) 

Carlos Castaneda - The Fire from Within [1985 Pocket MMP] (G, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, minor rubbing along edges, sun-fading on spine.) 

Edgar Cayce - My Life as a Seer: The Lost Memoirs [2002 MMP] (G, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, rubbing along edges, creases on spine.)  

Bruce Chatwin - In Patagonia [Penguin Classics] (VG, minor edge wear.) 

Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower [Movie Tie-in Cover] (G, reading wear, some rubbing along edges, minor cover wear.) 

Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya [2014 New Version by Annie Baker] (G+, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, light staining on page ends.)  

Sandra Cisneros - The House on Mango Street (VG+, minor edge wear from light use.) 

Arthur C. Clarke - Dolphin Island [1968 Dragon MMP] (G, some reading wear, signs of age, foxing on pages and inside wraps, some blemishes on cover, minor edge wear.) 

Eldridge Cleaver - Soul On Ice [1968 Delta TPB] (G, reading wear, signs of age, light discoloration on page ends, some rubbing along edges and spine, some blemishes on cover.) 

Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus (VG, light reading wear, minor edge wear.) 

Colette - The Shackle [MMP] (VG-, mild reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, spine sun-faded.) 

Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone [Oxford World’s Classics MMP] (G, some reading wear, spine creased, minor rubbing along edges, light foxing on page ends.) 

Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness [Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition] (F, heavy underlining and marginalia in pencil throughout, otherwise just minor edge wear.) 

Joseph Conrad - Typhoon and Other Stories (G, some reading wear, creases and rubbed spots on cover, rubbing along edges, light discoloration and staining on page ends.)  

Stephen Crane - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction [Bantam MMP] (Good, reading wear, foxing on pages and inside wraps, rubbing and some nicks along edges.) 

Simon Critchley - On Humor [Thinking in Action] (VG, name written on first page, minor edge wear.) 

Simon Critchley - Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (VG-, light scuffs and blemishes on cover.) 

Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction - Stephen Eric Bronner [MMP] (G, mild reading wear, scattered pen marks, minor edge wear.) 

e. e. cummings - 100 Selected Poems (G, heavy crease on front cover, reading wear, rubbing along edges, light discoloration on page ends.)  

Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species (G, some reading wear, light discoloration/foxing on page ends, minor rubbing along edges, staining on cover.) 

William Davies - Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason (VG, mild reading wear, minor edge and cover wear.)

Madame de Lafayette - The Princess de Clèves [1992 Penguin Classics] (G, small amount of underlining, reading wear, univ. bookstore stickers, edge wear.) 

Jacques Derrida - On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness [Thinking in Action] (G+, some scuffs on cover, rubbing along edges, light discoloration on page ends.) 

A Discourse By Three Drunkards on Government - Nakae Chōmin (Fair, some reading wear, underlining and notes in pencil, minor edge wear.) 

J.P Donleavy - The Ginger Man [1970 MMP] (G+, some reading wear, signs of age, spine creased and repaired with transparent tape, light foxing on page ends, rubbing along edges.) 

Marcia Douglas - The Marvellous Equations of the Dread (VG, small crease on front cover, light discoloration on page ends, minor edge wear.) 

Frank Edwards - Stranger Than Science [1973 Bantam MMP] (G, reading wear, signs of age, spine creased, rubbing along edges, light foxing on page ends and inside wraps.) 

Eve Ensler - The Vagina Monologues (VG, minor edge wear.) 

Bergen Evans - The Natural History of Nonsense [1958 Vintage MMP] (G, some staining on cover, rubbing along edges, light discoloration on page ends.) 

Reshad Feild - The Invisible Way: A Time to Love - A Time to Die [1979 Element Books UK TPB] (G, some reading wear and signs of age, spotted foxing on pages and page ends, rubbing along edges.) 

Henry Fielding - Tom Jones (MMP) (Good) 

Zelda Fitzgerald - Save Me the Waltz [MMP] (G+, some reading wear, foxing on page ends and inside wraps, spine creased, minor rubbing along edges.) 

Ford Maddox Ford - Good Soldier [Oxford World’s Classics] (G, some reading wear, spine creased, minor edge wear.) 

John Fowles - A Maggot [1986 Signet MMP] (G+, some reading wear, minor scuffs on cover, spine creased, traces of foxing on page ends and inside wraps.)

John Fowles - The French Lieutenant’s Woman [MMP] (G+, some reading wear, signs of age, spine creased, light foxing on page ends, rubbing along edges.) 

Sigmund Freud - A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis [1965 Washington Square Press MMP] (G, reading wear and signs of age, spine sun-faded, discoloration and foxing on page ends and inside wraps, rubbing along edges.)

Erich Fromm - The Art of Loving (VG-, some reading wear, light foxing on page ends, minor edge wear.) 

Howard Gardner - The Quest for Mind: Piaget, Lévi-Strauss, and the Structuralist Movement [MMP] (G, reading wear and signs of age, light discoloration/foxing on page ends, rubbing along edges, some scuffs, rubbed spots on cover.) 

Shakti Gawain - Creative Visualization (F, reading wear, discoloration and foxing on page ends, rubbing along edge, corners curled, scuffs/creases on cover.)

Barry Gifford - Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (VG, mild reading wear, light discoloration on page ends.)  

Stephen Gray - The Penguin Book of Southern African Stories [1986 Penguin] (G, light foxing on page ends, rubbing along edges, blemishes and rubbed spot on back cover.) 

Graham Greene - A Sort of Life (MMP) (Good) 

Graham Greene - Monsignor Quixote [MMP] (G, reading wear, signs of age, spine creased, rubbing along edges, discoloration on page ends.) 

Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory [MMP] (G+, some reading wear, spine sun-faded, minor edge wear.) 

John R. Gribbin and Stephen H. Plagemann - The Jupiter Effect: The Planets as Triggers of Devastating Earthquakes [1975 Vintage MMP] (G, reading wear, spine creased, foxing on pages, rubbing along edges.) 

Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon (G+, minor reading and handling wear) 

Barry Hannah - Yonder Stands Your Orphan (VG, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, corners slightly raised, minor rubbing along edges.)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure [1989 Bantam Classic MMP] (G, reading wear and signs of age, discoloration and foxing on page ends with a small stain on side, small creases and wrinkles on cover, rubbing along edges.)

Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd [MMP] (G+, some reading wear, spine creased, light foxing on page ends, minor rubbing along edges.) 

Václav Havel - The Vaněk Plays (G, some reading wear, small amount of underlining and marginalia, a few paragraphs highlighted, minor edge wear, univ. bookstore stickers on back cover.) 

Václav Havel - The Memo (VG, some reading wear, minor edge wear, univ. bookstore sticker on back cover.) 

Seamus Heaney - Selected Poems 1966-1987 [1998 FSG TPB] (VG, minor edge and cover wear.) 

William Least Heat Moon - Blue Highways: A Journey into America (VG, minor edge wear.)

Joseph Heller - Catch-22 [1996 Scribner TPB] (G, reading wear, some rubbing along edges, front corner curled, light blemishes on page ends.) 

Lillian Hellman - Scoundrel Time [1984 UK PB] (G+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear) 

Frank Herbert - Dune (VG, a few creases on cover, top corner dented.)

Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah [2019 Ace Premium MMP] (VG, minor edge wear.) 

Herein Lies the Treasure-Trove: Inspirational Talks of Tripitaka Master Hua - Volume One (G, some reading wear, spotted foxing on page ends, scuffs on cover, minor rubbing along edges.) 

Chris Horrocks and Zoran Jevtic - Introducing Foucault (G, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, back cover scuffed, light discoloration on page ends.)

Henry James - The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers and Two Stories [Barnes & Noble Classics] (VG, mild reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, minor edge wear.)

William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience (G, some reading wear, light discoloration and foxing on page ends, a few pen marks, spine creased, minor edge/cover wear.)

Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat [1985 MMP] (G, mild reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, rubbing along edges, stain on back cover.) 

Charles Johnson - Middle Passage (VG, light blemishes on cover.) 

LeRoi Jones - Dutchman + The Slave (G, some underlining, reading wear, minor rubbing along edges.) 

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1996 Penguin Popular Classics MMP] (G+, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, corners slightly curled.) 

Carl G. Jung - The Undiscovered Self [1958 - Seventh Printing Mentor MMP] (G, reading wear, signs of age, light foxing on pages and inner wraps, rubbing along edges.) 

Mary Karr - The Liars' Club (VG, minor edge and cover wear.) 

Walter Kaufmann - Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist [1965 Meridian TPB] (G, reading wear, discoloration and foxing on page ends, cover scuffed, rubbing along edges, spine creased.) 

Molly Keane - Good Behaviour [1981 Abacus UK] (G, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, light discoloration and foxing on page ends.) 

Thomas À Kempis - The Imitation of Christ [MMP] (G+, some reading wear, light discoloration/foxing on page ends, creases on spine, minor rubbing along edges.) 

John F. Kennedy - Profiles in Courage - Commemorative Edition [1992 Harper Perennial MMP] (G+, mild reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, light foxing on page ends.) 

Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place (G, some reading wear, stain on first page and inside front cover, minor edge wear.) 

Jamaica Kincaid - Annie John (VG, mild reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, faint blemishes on back cover, minor rubbing along edges.)

Stephen King - ’Salem’s Lot [1976 Signet MMP] (G, reading wear, signs of age, rubbing along edges, spine creased, creases on cover, discoloration on page ends.) 

Karl Ole Knausgaard - My Struggle, Book 1 (G+, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, minor rubbing along edges) 

Krishnamurti - Think on These Things (G, reading wear, writing on inside front cover, some pages slightly wrinkled, light discoloration and staining on page ends, rubbing along edges, some creases on cover.) 

Milan Kundera - The Joke (VG-)

R.D. Laing and A. Esterson - Sanity, Madness and the Family [MMP] (G, reading wear and signs of age, light discoloration on page ends, minor rubbing along edges, some blemishes on cover.) 

Noel Langley - Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation [1967 Paperback Library MMP] (G, reading wear and signs of age, rubbing along edges, a few scuffs on cover, traces of foxing on pages and inside wraps.) 

William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick - The Ugly American [1965 MMP] (G, some reading wear, signs of age, light foxing on page ends, minor rubbing along edges.) 

Fran Leibowitz - The Fran Leibowitz Reader (VG, minor edge wear from light use.) 

Madeleine L’Engle - Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith & Art [1994 Harold Shaw] (G, small amount of pink highlighting, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear.) 

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest [MMP] (G, reading wear, signs of age, spine creased, rubbing along edges, discoloration and light foxing on page ends.) 

Primo Levi - Survival in Auschwitz (VG, minor edge wear.) 

C. S. Lewis - Mere Christianity [MMP] (VG-, mild reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, minor rubbing along edges.) 

John Locke - The Second Treatise of Government & A Letter Concerning Toleration [Dover TPB] (G, some reading wear, small amount of underlining in pencil, minor edge wear.) 

Lucretius - On the Nature of the Universe [1968 Penguin Classics MMP] (F, reading wear and signs of age, spine creased, rubbing along edges, discoloration and foxing on page ends, a few pen marks.)  

John D. MacDonald - The Girl, The Gold Watch & Everything [1991 Fawcett MMP] (G, reading wear, small closed tear on spine repaired with tape, some stains on pages, minor rubbing along edges.) 

Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince [Norton Critical Edition] (F, some underlining and notes, reading wear, minor edge wear.) 

Bernard Malamud - The Assistant (G+, some reading wear, minor edge wear, light foxing on page ends and inside wraps.) 

Andre Malraux - Man’s Hope [1968 Bantam MMP] (G, reading wear and signs of age, rubbing along edges, blemishes and stains on cover, light discoloration on page ends.) 

W. Somerset Maugham - The Summing Up [1967 Pocket MMP] (G, reading wear, signs of age, creases on cover, blemish and sticker residue on spine, scratch across from cover, rubbing along edges, traces of foxing on pages.) 

W. Somerset Maugham - The Razor’s Edge [1984 MMP] (VG-, mild reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, light crease on front cover.) 

W. Somerset Maugham - The Moon and the Sixpense [1986 MMP] (VG-, mild reading wear, minor rubbing along edges.) 

W. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage [MMP] (G+, mild reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, spine creased, minor edge wear.) 

Cormac McCarthy - The Road (F, reading wear, heavy rubbing along edges, spine creased, discoloration on page ends.) 

John McPhee - Coming in the Country (VG+, small crease on front cover.) 

John McPhee - Coming into the Country [1979 Bantam MMP] (G, reading wear, spine creased and slanted, rubbing along edges, light discoloration and traces of foxing on page ends.) 

Margaret Mead - Coming of Age in Samoa [Harper Perennial Classics] (F, somme highlighting, pen marks, rubbing along edges, univ. bookstore stickers, light discoloration on page ends.) 

Herman Melville - Billy Budd and Other Stories [1986 Penguin Classics TPB] (G, some reading wear, rubbing along edges, light discoloration on page ends, some wrinkles on cover.) 

Joe Meno - Hairstyles of the Damned (G+, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, light discoloration on page ends.) 

Indu Menon - The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories (G, some reading wear, writing on pages of one story, minor rubbing along edges, corners slightly curled.) 

Prosper Mérimée - Carmen/Colomba [1965 Penguin Classics MMP] (G, reading wear and signs of age, rubbing along edges, scuffs on cover, discoloration on page ends, corners slightly curled.) 

Thomas Merton - Zen and the Birds of Appetite (G, some reading wear, staining on page ends, rubbing along edges, closed tear on back cover repaired with tape.) 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (F, reading wear, signs of age, spine creased and weakened, rubbing along edges, discoloration on page ends.) 

John Muir - Wilderness Essays [2015 Gibbs Smith HC] (G, reading wear, staining on page ends, rubbing along edges of boards with some indentations and scuffs.) 

Harry Mulisch - The Assault (Very Good) 

Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory (G, some reading wear and signs of age, a few passages underlined, discoloration and soiling on page ends, rubbing along edges with chipping and frayed corners, scuffs and scratches on cover.)

Flannery O’Connor - Spiritual Writings (F, reading wear, underlining, minor edge and cover wear.) 

Flannery O’Connor - Everything That Rises Must Converge (G, front cover damaged - top corner wrinkled and creased, minor rubbing along edges.) 

Nnedi Okorafor - Noor (VG, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear.) 

Eugene O’Neill - Long Day’s Journey into the Night (F, reading wear, highlighting, signs of age, rubbing along edges, discoloration on page ends, staining on cover.) 

Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby (G, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, scuffs on cover, stains along top edge, light discoloration on page ends.) 

Chuck Palahniuk - Rant (VG-, reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, small stain on side page ends, minor rubbing along edges.)

Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club (VG, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, minor rubbing along edges.)

Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values [1984 TPB] (G+, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, light discoloration on page ends, dust residue on top page ends.) 

Neil Postman - How to Watch TV News (G+, some reading wear, scattered passages underlined in pencil, minor rubbing along edges, univ. bookstore stickers on spine and cover.) 

Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time Vol. 6: Finding Time Again [2002 Penguin Modern Classics] (VG, some reading wear, minor edge wear.) 

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel (F, reading wear, some underlining, bottom of spine chipped, rubbing along edges, spine creased, univ. bookstore stickers on back, discoloration on page ends.) 

Ayn Rand - The Virtue of Selfishness [50th Anniversary Edition MMP] (VG, mild reading wear, minor edge wear, light discoloration on page ends.) 

Olive Schreiner - The Story of an African Farm [Penguin Classics] (G, pages have reading wear, some pages wrinkled, minor rubbing along edges, crease on spine, light discoloration on page ends.)

Leonardo Sciascia - To Each His Own (F, water damage, some pages wrinkled, some highlighting and notes, reading wear, rubbing along edges,. univ. bookstore stickers on cover.)

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)  

Ignazio Silone - Bread and Wine [1982 MMP] (G, some reading wear, signs of age, light foxing on page ends, rubbing along edges, small crease on front cover.)