Essays from Great Northern Books

New York: Pantheon, 1992. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. An omnibus volume collecting the following books: "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon," "Old Mr. Flood," "The Bottom of the Harbor," and "Joe Gould's Secret" (made into a movie) as well as several previously uncollected stories. Includes an author's note from Joseph Mitchell. Slight edgewear to dustjacket else a… Read more about this item

New York: Farar, Straus, & Giroux, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. "Susan Sontag's now classic essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness as a figure or metaphor in our culture. " [from the jacket]. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Library of America, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. An intelligently selected and diverse collection of the best baseball poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. Nichols is the author of "Sterile Cuckoo" and "The Milagro Beanfield War." He has written an autobiographical appreciation of the simple life illustrated with color photographs by the author.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1925. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. First printing. Mcfee was born on a a three-masted ship and known for his tales of the sea. Front cover panel has color paper label image of the sun and clouds above a ship at sea. Paper label on spine. Title page is printed in… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, 1992. Fifth printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. An omnibus volume collecting the following books: "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon," "Old Mr. Flood," "The Bottom of the Harbor," and "Joe Gould's Secret" (made into a movie) as well as several previously uncollected stories. Includes an author's note from Joseph Mitchell. Slight edgewear to dustjacket else a… Read more about this item

Washington DC: United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 1977/78:Winter. First printing. Periodical. Very Good +. First print appearance of Ellison's most famous essay, later republished in the book, "Going to the Territory." A complete issue of the periodical, The American Scholar v.47:no.1; Winter, 1977/78. A clean unmarked copy.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1997. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. "Vidal on writers and politicians, the CIA and the American Empire... " [from the jacket]. A clean unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 2007. First UK edition. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. A collection of sixteen essays and addresses, written in the last years of Sontag's life, published posthumously. Edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump. Foreword by her son, David Rieff. Wonderful black and white photograph of Sontag on dustjacket that wraps from the rear panel to… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. First printing. SIGNED BY THOMAS SANCHEZ on the half title page. Sanchez is the author of "Rabbit Boss" and "Zoot-Suit Murders. Slight shelfwear to cover, else a clean unmarked copy.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Canadian edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. Pamuk's first book since winning the Nobel Prize. Slight edgewear to dustjacket else a clean unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

New York: Harper Collins, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page, "Patricia - tide's up! Barbara Kingsolver." Illustrations by Paul Mirocha. Also includes a publisher's postcard. A clean, unmarked copy.

London: Folio Society, 2008. First edition thus. Hardcover Slipcase. Near Fine. First printing. This ed. uses the text of the second edition of 1792. Also includes Wollstonecraft's "Hints towards a second volume," which remained unwritten. Includes seven illustrations by Sheri Gee with hand-lettering by Stephen Raw. Bound in white with black and red decorations, shelved in a red… Read more about this item

Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co., 1998. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. A collection of essays by the late author of "Infinite Jest" and "The Broom of the System." A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First printing. A collection of twenty pieces on food. A clean, unmarked copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Advance Reading Copy/Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good. SIGNED BOLDLY BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. The third book by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Housekeeping." Rubbed along edges of cover, else a clean, unmarked, uncreased copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. First printing. A collection of 25 essays, a continuation of Dubus's candid, intensely personal exploration into matters of morality, religion, and creativity, the last book published during his lifetime. Also includes two newspaper clippings, Dubus's obituary and a review of his book. A clean, unmarked copy… Read more about this item

New York: Lyons Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. Illustrated by Matt Brown. "In this personal narrative, Wetherell "tries to record and celebrate the pleasures of a life." [from publisher] A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. First printing. Illustrations by Thomas W. Nason. A collection of essays on life in rural New Hampshire, by Donald Hall, the fourteenth poet laureate of the United States. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Knopf, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First printing.Third book by the author of the screen plays "When Harry Met Sally" and "Julie & Julia." Randon House image remainder mark to bottom of textblock else a clean, unmarked copy.