Recent Arrivals: Joan Didion, Wendy Cope, Simone de Beauvoir, and More!

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Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec. David Godine, 2009. 661 pp. ISBN: 9781567923735. Translated by David Bellos. Softcover. Near fine. $20

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Back Bay Books, 2016. 1079 pp. ISBN: 9780316306058. 20th Anniversary edition. Foreword by Tom Bissell. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Bowie: the Biography by Wendy Leigh. Gallery Books, 2014. 306 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9781476767093. Softcover. Very good. $10

On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac. Viking, 2007. 408 pp. ISBN: 9780670063550. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket. $15

The World of the Curl: an Unconventional History of Surfing by Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul. Crown, 2013. 405 pp. Illus. ISBN: 978030771485. Hardcover. Very good in a very good jacket. $25

Farm Workshop Guide. Algrove, 2006. 196 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9781897030493. Classic Reprint Series. Reprints the 1947 edition. Softcover. Fine. $15

Manga Stories by Haruki Murakami. Tuttle, 2023. 142 pp. ISBN: 9784805317648. Adapted by Jean-Christophe Deveney. Illustrations by PMGL. Hardcover. Fine. $10

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Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski. City Lights Books, 2001. 204 pp. Softcover. Very good. $10

Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac & Ginsberg by Carolyn Cassady. Overlook Press, 2007. 448 pp. ISBN: 9781590201046. Softcover. Very good. $10

Atop an Underwood by Jack Kerouac. Penguin, 200. 249 pp. ISBN: 9780140296396. Edited with an introduction and commentary by Paul Marion. Softcover. Good+. $10

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. Vintage, 2009. 179 pp. ISBN: 9780307397379. Softcover. Very good. $10

Zen Mind, Beginners Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki. Weatherhill, 1984. 138 pp. Edited by Trudy Dixon. Preface by Huston Smith. Introduction by Richard Baker. Softcover. Near fine. $20

Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag. Picador, 2008. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780312428501. Edited by David Rieff. Softcover. Near fine. $20

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag. Picador, 2012. 523 pp. ISBN: 9781230024121. Edited by David Rieff. Softcover. $20

Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors: a Study in Historic Relationships by Andrew Donskov. University of Ottawa Press, 2019. 455 pp. ISBN: 9780776628509. Illus. Revised edition. Softcover. Very good. $25

Nothing is Lost: Selected Essays of Ingrid Sischy. Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. 568 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9781524732035. Foreword by Laurie Anderson. Hardcover. Very good in a very good jacket. $25

Salvador by Joan Didion. Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983. 108 pp. First Canadian edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket. $25

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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Aladdin Books, 1986. 133 pp. Illus. Softcover. Good+. $7.50

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope. Faber and Faber, 1987. 69 pp. ISBN: 9780571137473. Softcover. Near fine. $10

The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher. North Point, 1989. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780865473928. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant. McClelland and Stewart, 2002. 362 pp. ISBN: 9780771032820. Introduction by Michael Ondaatje. Softcover. Near fine. $10

The Process: a Novel by Brion Gysin. Overlook Press, 1987. 320 pp. ISBN: 9781585671614. Softcover. Very good. $10

Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino. Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983. 250 pp. ISBN: 9781550135411. Translated by William Weaver. Softcover. Very good. $10

Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell. Sarah Crichton Books, 2014. 512 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780374156084. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket. $15

Simone de Beauvoir: a Biography by Deirdre Bair. Summit, 1990. 718 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780671606817. Hardcover. Very good in a good+ jacket. $25

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