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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: 

Arabian Nights Volume I [Signet Classic MMP] (G, some reading wear, creases on spine, rubbing along edges, staining on bottom page ends.) 

Jack Henry Abbott - In the Belly of the Beast (G+, small stain on side page ends, minor reading wear, some rubbing along edges.) 

Diane Ackerman - A Natural History of the Senses (VG-, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, minor edge wear.) 

James Agee - A Death in the Family [1969 Bantam MMP] (G, some reading wear, light foxing on page ends, minor rubbing along edges, faint blemishes on cover, signs of age.) 

Sherman Alexie - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (VG, mild reading wear.) 

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.) 

Danielle Allen - Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (VG, minor edge and cover wear.) 

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 - Choice: Extraterrestrials & Eclipses [1978 Dale MMP] (G, reading wear, signs of age, rubbing along edges and spine, stamp on bottom page ends, light traces of foxing on page ends and inside wraps, minor blemishes on cover.) 

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.) 

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

John Barth - Chimera (VG)

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

Antonio di Benedetto - Zama (F, some water damage, pages wrinkled, some underlining, notes, rubbing along edges, light discoloration on page ends.) 

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

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.) 

Jerome Bruner - Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (G+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover 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.) 

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)

Martin Buber - I and Thou [MMP] (G+, minor edge and cover 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.) 

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood (G, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, light discoloration on page ends, wrinkles on cover.) 

Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics [Bantam MMP] (G, some reading wear, signs of age, foxing on page, light crease on spine.) 

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.) 

Edward Hallett Carr - What Is History? [Vintage MMP] (G+, some reading wear, foxing on page ends, minor edge and cove wear.) 

Lewis Carroll - The Annotated Alice: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (G, reading wear, signs of age, foxing on pages, rubbing along edges, blemishes on cover.) 

Clayborne Carson - Malcom X: The FBI File (G, some rubbing along edges)

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.) 

Carlos Castaneda - The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge [1977 Pocket MMP] (G, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, rubbing along edges, blemishes on cover.) 

Elizabeth Catte - What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia (VG, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear.)

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.) 

Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales [1988 Penguin Classics MMP in Perma-Bound Hardcover binding] (G, some foxing on pages, number written on top and bottom of page ends, light blemishes on cover.) 

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

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.) 

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me [HC] (G+/VG, some passages underlined in red ink, else just minor reading wear / dust jacket has minor edge wear) 

J. California Cooper - The Future Has A Past (Good+)

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.) 

Erich von Däniken - Chariots of the Gods: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past [1999 Berkley MMP] (VG, light reading wear.) 

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

Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [2017 Del Rey TPB] (G+, some reading wear, minor edge wear, corners slightly curled.) 

Mbella Sonne Dipoko - A Few Nights and Days (Good, reading wear, edge and cover wear) 

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)

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.) 

Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity! (G+, some reading wear, light stains on page ends, minor edge wear.) 

Loren Eiseley - The Firmament of Time [MMP] (VG, some reading wear, univ. bookstore stickers on cover, minor edge wear.) 

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) 

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

Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality: Volume 1: An Introduction (F, underlining and notes throughout book, reading wear, edge wear, one corner curled .) 

Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl [Bantam MMP] (VG, some rubbing along edges.) 

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

Galileo Galilei - Sidereus Nuncius Or The Sidereal Messenger [1989 Univ. of Chicago Press] (G, a few instances of highlighting and a couple pen marks, minor edge and cover wear.) 

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) 

William Golding - The Lord of the Flies [Perigee premium edition MMP] (G, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear.) 

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) 

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) 

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.) 

Václav Havel - Open Letters: Selected Writings 1965-1990 (G, some reading wear, light foxing, univ. bookstore stickers on back cover, minor edge wear.) 

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables [1965 Scholastic Library (Second Printing) MMP] (G, reading wear, signs of age, foxing on page ends, rubbing along edges, a few pages wrinkled, some blemishes on 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.)

Robert A. Heinlein - Friday [1983 Del Rey MMP] (G, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, creases on spine, rubbing along edges, blemishes on cover.) 

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) 

Michael Herr - Dispatches (G, reading wear, rubbing along edges, scuffs on cover) 

Theodor Herzl - The Jewish State [1980 Dover TPB] (G+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear, small bit of writing on half-title page.)

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha [Barnes & Noble Classics] (G, crease on front cover, rubbing along edges, reading wear.) 

Matthew Hollis and Paul Keegan - 101 Poems Against War (VG-, light reading wear, minor edge wear.) 

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.)  

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

Zora Neale Hurston - Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (VG-, some reading wear, minor edge wear, light blemishes on cover.) 

Zora Neale Hurston - Seraph on the Suwanee [1997 Griot TPB] (G+, stain on first pages, minor rubbing along edges, light discoloration on page ends.) 

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) 

Henry James - Daisy Miller [2007 Penguin Classics] (VG, minor edge and cover wear, mild reading wear.) 

Henry James - The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels [1995 Signet Classic MMP] (G, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, spine creased, light discoloration on page ends.) 

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

James Joyce - Dubliners [Penguin UK MMP] (VG, minor edge and cover wear.) 

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.) 

Aryeh Kaplan - If You Were God (G, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, light discoloration on page ends, crease on back cover.) 

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

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [Signet Movie Tie-In MMP] (F, ex-library - pocket on inside front cover, stamp on spine - reading wear, signs of age, rubbing along edges and spine, foxing on page ends and inside wraps.) 

Søren Kierkegaard - The Seducer’s Diary [1997 Princeton MMP] (G, reading wear, scattered underlining/notes, minor edge and cover wear.) 

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

Stephen King - Misery [Signet MMP] (VG+, minor edge wear.) 

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) 

Milan Kundera - The Joke (VG-)

Anton Szandor LaVey - The Satanic Witch [1989 Feral House] (F, reading wear, rubbing along edges, some stains, front cover appears to have been stabbed repeatedly with a knife - pierced through cover and first 26 pages or so… doesn’t obscure text.) 

Dorothy Lazard - What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World (VG, minor reading wear - signed by author.) 

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird [1982 Warner MMP] (G, some reading wear, rubbing along edges, spine creased and somewhat slanted, light discoloration and some faint foxing on page ends.)

Ursula K Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea (Book One in the Earthsea Cycle) [MMP] (VG-)

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.) 

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

C.S. Lewis - The Four Loves (G+, rubbing along edges and corners of cover) 

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.) 

Jack London - South Sea Tales [MMP] (VG)

Barry Holstun Lopez - Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter [1981 Avon MMP] (G, foxing on pages, rubbing along edges, some scuffs on cover.) 

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.) 

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

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.) 

Arthur Miller - The Portable Arthur Miller [1986 Viking Portable Library MMP] (G+, some reading wear, light discoloration and faint traces of foxing on page ends, minor edge wear.) 

Desmond Morris - The Naked Ape [1984 Laurel MMP] (G+, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, minor rubbing along edges.) 

Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon (VG)

Flannery O’Connor - Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (G, reading wear, spine creased, some rubbing along edges, signs of age.)

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

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

Adam Phillips - Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life (G+, some reading wear, crease on front cover.) 

Marco Polo - The Travels [Penguin Classics] (G, reading wear, some pages slightly wrinkled, rubbing along edges, one corner curled, light discoloration on page ends.) 

Frank Portman - Andromeda Klein (VG)

Dorothy L. Sayers - The Mind of the Maker (G, remnants of price sticker, inscription on first page, reading wear, minor edge wear.) 

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.)