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AVAILABLE TITLES: Title – Author – Grading 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. (See below for details on my grading) LATEST ADDITIONS: Douglas Adams – The Restaurant at the End of the Universe [Pan UK TPB 42nd Anniversary Ed.] (G, one corner has a small closed tear, indentations and creases on cover, corners somewhat curled) Douglas Adams – Mostly Harmless [Pan UK TPB 42nd Anniversary Ed.] (VG, only shelf wear – part of a five book set, of which I only acquired 3-5) Douglas Adams – So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish [Pan UK TPB 42nd Anniversary Ed.] (VG, only shelf wear – part of a five book set, of which I only acquired 3-5) Margery Allingham – Traitor’s Purse [MMP – Berkley Edition, January, 1961] (Fair, shows some reading wear and signs of age: rubbing along edges, bottom edge of spine is split on both sides, glue in binding has become brittle and starting to fall apart – stored in poly sleeve.) Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim (VG) Maya Angelou – I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (MMP) (G+ Ex-Library, but really nice laminated cover, barely read) Maya Angelou – Poems [MMP] (Fair, spine cracked but pages secure, some rubbing along edges, light foxing on inside covers) Paul Auster – The New York Trilogy [1990 Penguin Books] (F, some reading wear, a few stains and some wrinkling from moisture, minor rubbing along edges) James Baldwin – The Amen Corner (G+) Roland Barthes – Camera Lucida (Fair, underlining and marginalia in pen, reading wear, rubbing along edges – reading/studying copy) Donald Barthelme – The Dead Father (G, some reading wear, light foxing on page ends, some blemishes on cover, minor edge wear, corners slightly raised) Samuel Beckett – Malone Dies (G+, some reading wear, minor edge wear) Samuel Beckett – Molloy (VG-) Samuel Beckett – Murphy (Acceptable, some underlining and marginalia in pencil, univ. bookstore sticker residue on back cover, spine creased) Edward Bellamy – Looking Backward (G+) Saul Bellow – Henderson the Rain King (VG) Saul Bellow – Herzog (G, crease on front cover, rubbing along edges, signs of age) Gina Berriault – The Lights of Earth: A Novel (VG-, some light scuffs on cover, minor rubbing along edges, remainder mark on bottom page ends) Heinrich Böll – The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Acceptable – some light highlighting – unobtrusive, edges of cover curled, univ. bookstore sticker) Ray Bradbury – Dandelion Wine [MMP] (G+, some reading wear, small crease on front cover, minor rubbing along edges, some foxing on page ends) Ray Bradbury – Vintage Bradbury (Fair, some wrinkling from small amount of moisture, foxing on inside cover) Jimmy Breslin – I Don’t Want to Go to Jail [MMP] (G, some reading wear, spine creased and somewhat slanted, some reading wear and light foxing) Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (G+) Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights (VG-, mild reading wear, some rubbing along edges) Rita Mae Brown – Six of One [MMP] (G, spine creased and somewhat slanted, some rubbing along edges and corners, light foxing on inside front and rear cover) Charles Bukowski – Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (G, reading wear, page ends stained, some pages wrinkled from small amount of moisture, edge wear) Mikhail Bulgakov – Heart of a Dog (G, reading wear, creases on front cover, rubbing along edges, indentations on cover) Tim Cahill – A Wolverine is Eating My Leg (G+, light crease on spine, minor edge wear) Albert Camus – The Stranger (VG-, mild reading wear, minor edge wear) Albert Camus – The Stranger (G+) Orson Scott Card – Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus [MMP] (G, spine creased, light indentations and scratches on cover, minor rubbing along edges) Angela Carter – The Bloody Chamber (VG) Raymond Carver – Cathedral (Good, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear, univ. stickers on back cover and spine) Raymond Carver – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (VG) Raymond Carver – Where I’m Calling From (G, some reading wear, light foxing on page ends, minor rubbing along edges) Michael Chabon – The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Good+) Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep (Acceptable – some underlining and notes) Stephen Chobsky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower (VG-) Agatha Christie – Murder on the Orient Express [MMP – Movie Tie-In with color film stills] (VG-, minor rubbing along edges) Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me [HC/DJ] (VG/VG, light reading wear) Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone (VG) Evan S. Connell – Mrs. Bridge (G, some spots on page ends, minor rubbing along edges, spine faded, mild reading wear) Noël Coward – Collected Plays: Two (Private Lives, Bitter-Sweet, The Marquise, Post-Mortem) (G+, light foxing on page ends, minor edge wear, one corner bumped) Noel Coward – Three Plays: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives (G+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear) Don DeLillo – White Noise (G, reading wear, edge and cover wear) Emily Dickinson – The Essential Emily Dickinson : Poems, selected with an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates (VG-, a few pages slightly wrinkled, mild reading wear) Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking (Hardcover) (VG-/VG-, minor reading wear, dust jacket has mild edge wear.) Joan Didion – Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (G, rubbing along edges of cover and spine, light foxing on inside of covers, a few dogeared pages) Joan Didion – South and West: From A Notebook [Hardcover] (VG-/VG-, pages have some reading wear, dust jacket has minor edge wear) Viola Di Grado – 70% Acrylic 30% Wool (G, some page a bit wrinkled along edges, possible moisture exposure, else just minor reading wear) Annie Dillard – An American Childhood (Good+, one corner dented) J. P. Donleavy – The Ginger Man (VG-, some reading wear, small crease on front cover, minor edge wear) Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose [MMP] (G, spine creased and somewhat bowed, rubbing along edges) Umberto Eco – How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays (G+, spine sun-faded, light reading wear, minor edge wear) Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad (VG-) Dave Eggers – You Shall Know Our Velocity (VG) Richard M. Elam, Jr. – (Teen-Age) Science Fiction Stories [MMP] (G, mild reading wear and signs of age, light discoloration on page ends) William Faulkner – Light in August (G) William Faulkner – Absalom, Absalom! (G+, some reading wear, rubbing along edges, small wrinkles on spine) Sigmund Freud – Beyond the Pleasure Principle (MMP) (Good, some foxing, univ. bookstore sticker) Jostein Gaarder – Sophie’s World (VG) Gabriel García Márquez – Strange Pilgrims (VG-, crease on front cover, minor edge wear, normal reading wear) Nadine Gordimer – July’s People (G+) Nadine Gordimer – The Pickup (VG) Graham Greene – The Ministry of Fear [Penguin Classics] (VG-, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, foxing on inside wraps) Günter Grass – Headbirths Or The Germans Are Dying Out (MMP) (VG- mild foxing) Günter Grass – My Century (Good+, creases on spine) Steven Hall – The Raw Shark Texts (G, reading wear, discoloration on page ends, minor rubbing along edges) Barry Hannah – Yonder Stands Your Orphan (G, spine creased and slanted, reading wear, minor edge wear) Thomas Hardy – Far From The Maddening Crowd (VG) Michael Herr – Dispatches (VG-) John Hersey – A Bell for Adano [MMP] (G, signs of age, one page has a closed tear, light foxing, glue in binding is somewhat brittle, but still fully secure, minor rubbing along edges) Hermann Hesse – Demian (G+, some foxing on page ends and tips of inside front and rear cover, inscription on half-title page, minor edge and cover wear) Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha [Penguin Deluxe Edition] (VG) Hermann Hesse – Narcissus and Goldmund [MMP] (G, light crease on spine, edge wear, light foxing on page ends, minor signs of age, else fine) Gerard Manley Hopkins – Selected Poetry [Oxford World’s Classics] (VG, minor edge wear) L. Ron Hubbard – The Invaders Plan [MMP} (Fair, foxing on insert front and rear cover, which has become brittle and cracked with some piece missing, now repaired with tape, else spine creased and mild reading wear) Langston Hughes – Short Stories (G, spine creased, reading wear, rubbing along edges, corners somewhat curled) Victor Hugo – Les Misérables [MMP] (G+, spine creased, some rubbing along edges, light reading wear) Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (Acceptable, some notes on a few pages, rubbing along edges) Henrik Ibsen – A Doll’s House and Other Plays (G, spine creased, reading wear, rubbing along edges) Eugène Ionesco – Rhinoceros & Other Plays (G) John Irving – The World According to Garp [MMP] (G+, light crease on front cover, some foxing on inside front and rear cover) Christopher Isherwood – Goodbye to Berlin (G, pages have some reading wear, minor edge wear, some blemishes on cover) James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Good, some rubbing along edges, corners slightly curled, mild discoloration on page ends Jamaica Kincaid – A Small Place (G+) Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon [MMP] (G, reading wear, some wrinkles on spine, light stains on side page ends, rubbing along edges, small closed tear on back cover repaired with tape) Milan Kundera – Immortality (VG-, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, minor edge and cover wear) Hanif Kureishi – The Buddha of Suburbia (G, reading wear, note on first page) Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams – A People’s Future of the United States [New SF Anthology] (VG-, some pages a little wrinkled, else just minor edge wear) Andrea Lee – Russian Journal [MMP] (G+, spine sun-faded, minor edge wear) Ursula K. Le Guin – A Wizard of Earthsea (G, reading wear, corners of cover somewhat curled, one corner has small amount of water damage) Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook (G+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear from normal use) C. S. Lewis – The Great Divorce [2001 Edition with French flaps and deckled page ends] (VG) C.S. Lewis – Miracles (G+, crease on front cover, some light stains on uncoated cover, minor edge wear, light reading wear) Beth Lisick – Everybody into the Pool (Good+, some reading wear to pages) Ross Macdonald – The Way Some People Die [MMP] (Fair, mostly cover, several creases on front panel, rubbing along edges, some sticker residue, reading wear) Alexander Maksik – You Deserve Nothing (G+, bit of a warp in book, otherwise just minor edge wear) Bernard Malamud – The Fixer [MMP] (G+, minor signs of age, light foxing, minor edge wear. Armistead Maupin – Tales of the City (VG, minor edge wear from light use) Jack McKinney – Robotech #11: Metamorphosis (G, spine creased, rubbing along edges, some pages a little wrinkled) John McPhee – The Control of Nature (Fair, rubbing along edges, spine creased and slanted, page ends stained, corners slightly curled) Czeslaw Milosz – The Captive Mind (G, small amount of underlining, used bookstore stickers, minor edge and cover wear) Toni Morrison – Jazz (VG) Harry Mulisch – The Assault (VG-, minor edge wear) Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita [1997 UK Movie Tie-In Cover] (G, spine creases, rubbing along edges, small closed tear along spine, corners somewhat curled) Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita [Vintage International] (VG, light reading wear) R. K. Narayan – The Painter of Signs [Penguin 20th Century Classics] (VG-, mild reading wear, minor edge wear) Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil [Penguin Classics] (VG+, sticker on back cover, mild shelf wear) Anaïs Nin – Delta of Venus [HC] (VG, no dust jacket, else just mild signs of light use) John O’Brien – Leaving Las Vegas (G – one page has a corner tore off – doesn’t interfere with text) Kanzaburō Ōe – Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (VG, minor edge wear) George Orwell – 1984 [MMP] (VG+) Chuck Palahniuk – Choke (G, spine creased, reading wear, page ends discolored, edge wear) David Peace – Occupied City (VG) DBC Pierre – Vernon God Little (G+, reading wear, minor edge and cover wear) Daniel Pinkwater – 4 Fantastic Novels: Borgel, Yobgorgle, The Worms of Kukumlima, The Snarkout Boys & the Baconburg Horror (G, some reading wear, small closed tear along top edge of spine, corners slightly curled.) Sylvia Plath – The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Acceptable, crease on front cover, light foxing, bottom page ends wrinkled and a bit stiff from some moisture exposure, corners somewhat curled) Charles Portis – True Grit [Movie Tie-in cover] (G+, light reading wear, minor edge wear) Charles Portis – The Dog of the South (G, pages have reading wear, spine creased, rubbing along edges, discoloration on page ends) Marcel Proust – Within a Budding Grove: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II [Modern Library] (G, spine creased, reading wear, rubbing along edges, corners slightly curled) Marcel Pynchon – V. [1973 MMP] (G, reading wear, rubbing along edges, creases on spine, corners somewhat frayed) Jean Rhys – Good Morning, Midnight (G, some reading wear, rubbing along edges) Tom Robbins – Another Roadside Attraction [MMP] (G, spine creased, light stains on front cover, rubbing along edges) Henry Roth – Call It Sleep (VG) Salman Rushdie – Midnights Children (G) J.D. Salinger – Nine Stories [MMP] (VG) Jean-Paul Sartre – No Exit and Other Plays (G+, some reading wear, some light creases on cover, univ. bookstore sticker on spine, rubbing along edges) Bruno Schulz – The Street of Crocodiles (F, reading wear, rubbing along edges, some staining on page ends) David Sedaris – Barrel Fever (VG) Ntozake Shange – For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (G, some passages underlined in pencils, mild reading wear, minor edge and cover wear) Sam Shepard – Seven Plays (G, spine creased, reading wear, rubbing along edges, some foxing on inside front and rear cover) Patti Smith – Year of the Monkey (Hardcover) (VG/VG-, dust jacket has some minor edge wear.) Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn – The First Circle [MMP] (G, sun-fading on spine, edge wear, light foxing on page ends, minor signs of age, else fine) John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath (G+) John Steinbeck – Zapata (G+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear, light foxing on page ends and inside wraps) John Steinbeck – Cannery Row [MMP] (G, vintage pocket paperback with some rubbing along edges, grease pen mark on front cover, signs of age) Wallace Stevens – The Collected Poems (G+, some reading wear, several pages have dogeared corners, mild rubbing along edges, minor cover wear) Irving Stone – The Agony and the Ecstasy [MMP] (VG-, small closed tear on edge of spine repaired with tape, else just minor edge wear) Irving Stone – Lust for LIfe (Fair, spine bowed, rubbing along edges of cover, corners slightly curled, pages have reading wear, light foxing on page ends) William Styron – Darkness Visible (VG) Michelle Tea – Valencia (G, reading wear, spine creased, rubbing along edges) Ngugi wa Thiongo – The River Between [2008 African Writers Series] (Fair, front cover is beat up – some long creases, numerous indentations that bleed through to the first several pages, there’s some rubbing along edges, some dents and scrapes, etc … the book has obviously experienced an unfortunate mishap, but it’s still a good reading copy – pages look great) Hunter S. Thompson – The Rum Diary (VG-, light reading wear) Pramoedya Ananta Toer – This Earth of Mankind (VG) Footsteps – The Buru Quartet, Book 4 (G+, some reading wear, light creases on cover, minor edge wear) Leo Tolstoy – The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories [MMP] (F, corner back cover missing, rubbing on edges, crease on cover, light foxing on page ends, still good reading copy) Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina [MMP] (G, some foxing on inside front and rear cover, rubbing and a few small chips along edges, a few closed tears repaired with tape, light crease on spine) Kurt Vonnegut – Jailbird (Fair, reading wear, rubbing along edges, some creases on cover, closed tear on back cover repaired with tape, corners curled and a bit frayed) Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence (G, rubbing along edges, spine creased, small crease on front cover, reading wear) Colson Whitehead – The Colossus of New York (VG-, crease on front cover, else fine) Charles Williams – All Hallows’ Eve (G, spine cracked, all pages secure, foxing, edge wear, some signs of age) Kevin Wilson – Nothing to See Here (VG) Thomas Wolfe – You Can’t Go Home Again [MMP] (G, small chip on top corner of front cover, edge wear, light foxing on inside front and rear cover, minor signs of age, else fine) Thomas Wolfe – Look Homeward, Angel (G, discoloration on bottom page ends, rubbing along edges, stamp on top page ends, wrinkle on bottom of spine, signs of age but no foxing) Tom Wolfe – The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (G, pages have reading wear, heavy crease on front cover repaired with tape, some bookstore stickers on back cover, rubbing along edges of cover) Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own (G+, some light indentations in cover, rubbing along edges, spine discolored) Herman Wouk – Don’t Stop the Carnival (G, spine creased and slanted, pages have reading wear, rubbing along edges of cover, corners slightly raised) Cao Xueqin – The Story of the Stone (Also Known As The Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 1: The Golden Days) (G, creases on spine, rubbing along edges, unfading, light foxing, corners slightly curled) William Butler Yeats – Mythologies (G, spine faded, edge wear, corners slightly curled) Yevgeny Zamyatin – We [Modern Library] (G, reading wear, page ends discolored, rubbing along edges of cover with used bookstore sticker on back cover) – – – 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. $4.50 for the first book, .50 each additional. Looking for more Literature? Check out my other Book Lots and Bundles.