Recent Arrivals from Banba Books

Newest/6th edition of this course textbook, just released in 2024. In shrinkwrap (new, mint). This is the version without readings. [Tip: If you're a student buying your textbooks, make sure you're ordering the right edition for your class.]

Overall a very solid copy. Some fading of color ink on cover and spine. Some pencil/pen underlines from previous owners, but these are minimal. Photos are of the actual copy. Most importantly, brilliant content here, a landmark study demonstrating the power of the Daoist mystical tradition preceding Buddhism in China.

Darnell Hunt-edited canonical essay collection on blackness in television. Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America presents fifteen studies of the shifting, complex relationship between popular television and blackness. Using a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, the various authors of these essays examine key issues that have framed popular and scholarly inquiries into the… Read more about this item

Mass-market Bantam pbk. edition, 1981 printing. The pages are rather yellowed, as is to be expected, but this is still a quite readable copy -- text is clean and unmarked. Minor crease down spine, a couple minor bumps; otherwise, aside from predictable paperback aging, a good copy. The real attraction of this series, in any case, is the William Edwards… Read more about this item

Mass-market Bantam pbk. edition from the 1970s. The pages are a bit yellowed, but this is still a quite readable copy, intact and no underlining to text. The real attraction of this series, in any case, is the William Edwards cover art. Some minor soiling and slight rippling, a bit of creasing at edges, and a crease down spine, name… Read more about this item

Mass-market Bantam pbk. edition from the 1970s. The pages are slightly yellowed, but not badly, and this is a quite readable copy of the iconic novel. An additional attraction of this series is the William Edwards cover art. A couple minor dings, one minor short crease, but overall looks pretty good. 248 pp. Pages unmarked, no underlining. The accompanying photo… Read more about this item

First posthumous collection from the Irish poet James Liddy, who died in 2008. Liddy is among Ireland's most interesting and exciting poets. He began as a friend and acolyte of Patrick Kavanagh, published with the venerable Irish publisher Dolmen Press, and spent his later life in the U.S., where he made connections with and absorbed the influence of the "New… Read more about this item

Evergreen Review, vol 6, no. 24, New York, May-June 1962. Solid copy; minor wear. First Edition. Cover fully intact with light rubbing of edges and corners. Front spine edge rubbed. Binding solid overall, but somewhat weak at about page 30. Pages unmarked and clean. Contains the photo-essay "Paris La Nuit" by Henry Miller, with photographs by Brassaï, poems… Read more about this item

Evergreen Review, vol 5, no. 16, New York, Jan.-Feb.1961. Solid copy; minor wear. First Edition. Cover fully intact with light rubbing of edges and corners. Front spine edge rubbed; spine head rubbed and lightly bumped. Minor smudging on back cover, which could probably be cleaned off (cover is glossy). Binding solid. Pages unmarked and clean, aside from a very small… Read more about this item

First Edition (preceded only by a limited edition of the Franklin Library). Signed by Robert Stone. New York: Ticknor & Fields (A Houghton Mifflin Company), 1992. Hardcover. Book is Fine, with sharp corners and no visible wear. Text is clean and unmarked. Tight binding. DJ is also Fine, with no tears and no visible wear, in mylar cover.

New York: Viking Press. 1975. Signed, First Edition, Hardcover with original DJ. Signed by Durrell during his visit to the U.S. in 1986. Book is Near Fine with only a small amount of rubbing on spine; DJ is intact with no tears, just a a couple of very small scratches/nicks at the top of the right-front, and a bit of… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 1959. First edition, hardcover. Octavo, original gray cloth. Book is VG, with only some rubbing on spine, otherwise would perhaps be near-fine, with sharp corners on the boards. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked, with no significant yellowing. DJ is Fair, with some fading to the spine area, a tear in the upper-left-front that affects the… Read more about this item