Recent Arrivals: Paul Eluard, Jamaica Kincaid, John Wyndham, and More!

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Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
by Anne Applebaum. Signal, 2024. 211 pp. ISBN: 9780771006210. Hardcover. Fine in a fine jacket. $10

Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy. Modern Library, 2001. 337 pp. ISBN: 9780679641049. Introduction by Harold Bloom. Hardcover. Very good in a very good jacket. $10

American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. Picador, 1991. 384 pp. ISBN: 9780330319928. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Invention of Clouds : How an Amateur Metorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn. Picador, 2002. 292 pp. ISBN: 9780312420017. Softcover. Near fine. $10

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. NYRB, 2008. 199 pp. ISBN: 9781590172926. Introduction by Christopher Priest. Softcover. Near fine. $10

The Unending Mystery: A Journey through Labyrinths and Mazes by David Willis McCullough. Anchor, 2004. 262 pp. ISBN: 9781400031641. Illus. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Fauna by Christiane Vadnais. Coach House Books, 2020. 135 pp. ISBN: 9781552454169. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis. Picador, 2015. 304 pp. ISBN: 9781250062437. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Del Rey, 2021. 289 pp. ISBN: 9780593356821. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Sacred Sites, Sacred Places. Edited by David L. Carmichael, Jane Hubert, Brian Reeves, and Audhild Schanche. Routledge, 1994. 394 pp. ISBN: 9780415096034. Illus. Series: One World Archaeology, 23. Hardcover. Near fine. $30

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Selected Poems by Paul Eluard. Calder, 1988. 158 pp. ISBN: 9780714539959. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai. New Directions, 2026. 576 pp. ISBN: 9780811239707. Softcover. Very good. $10

Vertigo by W.G. Sebald. New Directions, 2016. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780811226165. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry. Harper, 2007. 448 pp. ISBN: 9780061120152. New afterword by William T. Vollmann. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Japanese Design Motifs: 4,260 Illustrations of Heraldic Crests compiled by the Matsuya Piece-Goods Store. Dover, 1972. 216 pp. ISBN: 9780486228747. Translated by Fumie Adachi. Softcover. Very good. $20

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson. Verso, 2006. 240 pp. ISBN: 9781844670864. Softcover. Near fine. $10

The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. 228 pp. ISBN: 9780374107314. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket. $10

The Night House by Jo Nesbo. Random House, 2023. 245 pp. ISBN: 9781039007857. Translated by Neil Smith. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket. $15

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage. Faber & Faber, 2009. 114 pp. ISBN: 9780571223282. Softcover. Near fine. $10

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. Puffin, 2016. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780141354910. Softcover. Near fine. $7.50

Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England by John Putnam Demos, Oxford University Press, 1983. 560 pp. ISBN: 9780195033786. Softcover. Very good. $10

Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters. Library of America, 2008. 979 pp. ISBN: 9781598530179. Second printing. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket. $20

Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston. Amistad, 2006. 264 pp. ISBN: 9780061120060. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Federico Garcia Lorca: a Life by Ian Gibson. Pantheon, 1989. 551 pp. ISBN: 9780679731573. Softcover. Very good. $15

The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England by Haia Shpayer-Makov. Oxford University Press, 2011. 429 pp. ISBN: 9780199577408. Illus. Hardcover. Near fine. $40

The Princess Bride: 25th Anniversary Edition by William Goldman. Ballantine Books, 2000. 416 pp. ISBN: 9780345430144. Hardcover. Fine in a fine jacket. $50

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William Burroughs: a Portrait by Barry Miles. Virgin, 2002. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780753507070. Illus. Softcover. Very good. $10

Is that Kafka? 99 Finds by Reiner Stach. New Directions, 2016. 336 pp. ISBN: 9780811221238. Softcover. Near fine. $10

On Violence by Hannah Arendt. Harcourt Brace, 1970. 106 pp. ISBN: 9780156695008. Softcover. Very good. $10

The I Ching or Book of Changes. Princeton University Press, 1972. 740 pp. Translated by Richard Wilhelm. Rendered into English by Clay F. Baynes. Foreword by C.G. Jung. Bollingen Series XIX. Hardcover. Very good in a good+ jacket. $20

The Leadbelly Songbook edited by Moses Asch and Alan Lomax. Oak Publications, 1962. 96 pp. Softcover. Good. Some rubbing to edges of covers. Library stamp. $20

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami. Knopf, 2024. 449 pp. ISBN: 9780593801970. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket. $20

Ladies and Gentlemen Lenny Bruce!! By Albert Goldman. Random House, 1974. 565 pp. Illus. Hardcover. Very good in a good+ jacket. Two small tears in edge of jacket. $25

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