The books you want to read! Buy More and Save: 5% when you buy 210% when you buy 315% when you buy 4 or more ** Check out my other Build Your Own Lots and Book Bundles for more book deals - you can buy from all of them and any extra shipping charges will be refunded - OR - I can build custom bundles from any of the books in those lots or anything else I have listed, so if you see some things you’d like from any of my listings, let me know what you’re interested in and I'll create a personalized lot for you with a discount and flat rate shipping charge. !! Banned Books | Subversive Books | Cult Novels | Outsider Lit | Existentialism | Mystery Novels | Drama | Eastern Philosophy | Contemporary Classics | European Authors | African American Literature AVAILABLE TITLES: Author - Title - Grading - Price 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 list of titles for details on my grading system) NEWEST ADDITIONS: Ama Ata Aidoo - The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa (Good, a few scattered colored pencil marks, front cover has indentations and some creases) Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (MMP) (Acceptable, spine cracked, but all pages secure) Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale (G+) Beaumarchais - The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro [MMP] (Fair, considerable cover wear, still a readable copy) Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King (G+) Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward - All the President’s Men [40th Anniversary Edition] (VG+, minor edge wear) Ambrose Bierce - The Devil’s Dictionary (VG) Eric Bogosian - Drinking in America (G+) Jeremy Brecher - Strike! [Revised and Updated Edition] (Fair, ex-library, stain on side page ends, rubbing along edges, creases on cover, corners somewhat curled - reading/studying copy) Bertolt Brecht - Mother Courage (MMP) (G+, just some light foxing) (MMP) Vincent Bugliosi - Helter Skelter (MMP) (G) Anthony Burgess - The Wanting Seed (VG-, pages show some mild reading wear, some minor edge wear and corners slightly curled, else fine.) Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France (VG-) Sir Richard Burton, trans. - The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Complete and Unexpurgated (MMP) (VG) Joseph Campbell - Man and Transformation (Bollingen Series XXX) (G) Albert Camus - The Plague (VG-, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends) Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (G+, name written on bottom page ends) Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely (Good, bit of a wave in book) Anton Chekhov - The Plays of Anton Chekhov (G+) Noam Chomsky - Necessary Illusions (G+) Arthur C. Clarke - The Fountains of Paradise (G, crease on front cover) J. M. Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians (Good) Joseph Conrad - Nostromo (MMP) (G+) Ricardo Cortez Cruz - Straight Outta Compton (VG) Wade Davis - The Serpent and the Rainbow [MMP] (G, some creased, light page discoloration, edge wear) Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (Good, revving along edges and spine, small closed tear along edge of spine, some creases, blemishes and indentations on cover, corners somewhat curled) Thomas De Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (G+) James Dickey - Deliverance (VG) W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk (G) Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (Large PB) (VG) Stephen Dunn - Different Hours (G, coating wrinkled along edge of cover, a few pencil marks) Lawrence Durrell - Reflections on a Marine Venus (MMP) (VG) George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss (Good) $3 Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho (G+, pages have some minor reading wear, a few indentations on cover and mild signs of age) James Ellroy - Because the Night [MMP] (G, spine creases, rubbing along edges) John Fante - The Brotherhood of the Grape [Ecco Press] (Fair, some moisture exposure with wrinkled pages and cover, corners curled - still very readable) Philip José Farmer - The Magic Labyrinth: Riverworld Saga, Book Four (Good, top of some page ends slightly wrinkled, minor edge wear, corners raised. Philip José Farmer - The Dark Design: Riverworld Saga, Book Three (Good+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear, corners somewhat raised.) William Faulkner - Sanctuary (Acceptable, some underlining and notes in pencil, some cover creases) Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (G+, spine creased, edge wear, corners slightly curled) Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude (VG-) Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera (Fair) Paul Gauguin - Intimate Journals (Good) William Golding - Lord of the Flies (G+) Graham Greene - The Comedians (G+) Graham Greene - The End of the Affair (Good) Dashiell Hammett - The Glass Key (G) Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon (G+) Graham Hancock - Fingerprints of the Gods (Fair, reading wear, corners curled, discoloration on page ends - reading copy only) Joseph Heller - Catch 22 (VG-, mild reading wear) Michael Herr - Dispatches (UK paperback) (G, spine creased) Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game (MMP) (Good+) Patricia Highsmith - The Price of Salt (VG) Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem (G+) bell hooks - Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (Acceptable, pages have reading wear, rubbing along edges with coating on cover starting to curl) Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston - Farewell to Manzanar (G, spine creased, stamps on side page ends, rubbing along edges) Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (G+) Aldous Huxley - Point Counter Point (HC) (Good, shows some sings of age and shelf life, corners bumped, no dust jacket) Robert A. Johnson - Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche (G, small closed tear on side of front cover, some reading wear, normal edge and cover wear. Edward P. Jones - The Known World (VG) Erica Jong - Fear of Flying (MMP) (G) Erica Jong - Fear of Flying (G+) Carl G. Jung - Man and His Symbols [MMP] (VG-, light reading wear, spine lightly creased, else just minor rubbing along edges of cover, else fine - pages clean and bright.) Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical) (G, some underling and notes) Garrison Keillor - Love Me (G, small stain on side page ends from moisture exposure) Thomas A. Kempis - The Imitation of Christ (G+) Jack Kerouac - On The Road [Movie Tie-In Cover] (G+, some reading wear, corners slightly curled) Gene Kerrigan - Little Criminals (VG) Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (VG-, minor reading wear) Ken Kesey - Sailor Song (VG) Karl Ole Knausgaard - My Struggle, Book 3 (VG+) Krishnamurti - Education & the Significant of Life (G) Krishnamurti - The Flame of Attention (G, some chips on back cover) Nella Larsen - Passing (VG) Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird (VG-) Mikhail Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time (VG-) Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn [MMP] (Good, creases on spine and front cover, normal reading wear) Jeff Lindsay - Dearly Devoted Dexter (VG) Dambudzo Marechera - Cemetery of Mind (G) Cormac McCarthy - The Road (VG-, minor edge and cover wear) Larry McMurtry - The Last Picture Show (G+) Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman (VG+) Toni Morrison - Jazz (Fair) Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye (G+, a few pen marks in margins) Toni Morrison, ed. - Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality (Acceptable, some underlining and notes, some pages creased, spine creased, rubbing along edges - reading/studying copy only.) Sallie Muirden - A Woman of Seville (VG) Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (G) R.K. Narayan - The Indian Epics Retold: The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, Gods, Demons, and Others (Acceptable, spine cracked, a few pages loose, but all present, page ends discolored - still very readable.) Mark O’Donnell - Vertigo Park (VG) Eugene O’Neill - Long Day’s Journey Into Night (VG-) José Ortega y Gasset - The Revolt of the Masses (G+, light foxing, minor edge and cover wear) George Orwell - 1984 (MMP) (G - stains and small hole on back cover) Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted (Fair) Sylvia Plath - Ariel (Good, some underlining and marginalia) Silvia Plath - The Bell Jar (G, small amount of underlining and a few notes, name written on bottom page ends, rubbing along edges) Michael Pollan - The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Fair) Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49 (VG-) Thomas Pynchon - V. [MMP] (G+, some rubbing along edges, light blemishes on side page ends, stamp on bottom) Samuel Richardson - Pamela (MMP) (G, spine creases) A.N. Roquelaure - The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (G+, reading wear, edge wear) Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume (G, some black ink on side page ends, looks like a printing defect … ) Tom Robbins - Another Roadside Attraction (Fair) Edward Said - Culture and Imperialism (G+, two pages in introduction have some underlining, all others look clean, just normal reading wear, corners somewhat curled and spine is a little slanted) Ferrol Sams - Epiphany (VG-) Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea (G, small amount of underlining) Amy Scholder & Ira SIlverberg, Eds. - High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings (Includes Kathy Acker, Burroughs, Mary Gaitskill, Dennis Cooper, Dorothy Allison, et. al.) (G, small amount of moisture wrinkling) David Sedaris - Naked (VG+) Hannah Senesh - Her Life & Diary (G+, minor edge and cover wear) Ntozake Shange - For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (G+) Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (Fair, some faint underlining and marginalia in pencil) Oz Shelach - Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments (MMP) (VG-) Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Collected Stories (Large PB) (VG) Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture (G) Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey (VG) Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy (MMP) (G+) Dan Simmons - Hyperion (Fair, spine is heavily creased and slanted, else just minor edge and cover wear, all pages secure) Robert Stone - Dog Soldiers (G+, small closed tear on front cover at bottom of spine, repaired with tape, else just normal reading and handling wear) Thomas Sugrue - The Story of Edgar Cayce: There is a River [MMP] (G, a few passaged highlighted, spine creased and slanted, small crease on front cover) Michael Talbot - The Holographic Universe (G, rubbing along edges of cover, light foxing on page ends, else fine) Studs Terkel - Working (MMP) (G+, really nice copy with red page ends) Studs Terkel - The Studs Terkel Reader (VG) Dylan Thomas - The Collected Stories (G) John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces (Fair) B. Traven - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (G, reading wear, cover wear) Robert Tressell - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (VG-, light crease on edge of front cover) Calvin Trillin - Family Man (VG) Mark Twain - Letters from the Earth (G+) Yoshiko Uchida - Samurai of Gold Hill (VG) Sigrid Undset - Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath (G, some rubbing along edges, mild reading wear) Sigrid Undset - Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross (VG+) Boris Vian - Mood Indigo (VG+) Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos (VG) Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (Acceptable, underlining in pencil - not distracting, cover wear) Kurt Vonnegut - Welcome to the Monkey House (G) Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five [MMP] (G, spine creased, rubbing along edges, minor cover wear) Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass (G) Elie Wiesel - Night (VG) Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (VG) William Carlos Williams - In The American Grain (G, some foxing) Rosalind Wiseman - Queen Bees & Wannabes (VG) Tom Wolfe - The Right Stuff (VG-) Richard Wright - Black Boy (MMP) (G, spine creased, a few small creases) Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway (VG+) Richard Wright - Uncle Tom’s Children (MMP) (G, some chips pieces missing along edge of front cover, repaired with tape, otherwise in great shape.) Richard Wright - Native Son (G+) Xu Xi - Dear Hong Kong (MMP) (VG) Howard Zinn - A People’s History of the United States (G+, some edge and cover wear) Howard Zinn - Disobedience and Democracy (G) - - - 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 … Fair : cover damage, reading wear to pages, covers rubbed, corners curled, blemishes on cover or light water damage - but still good reading copies. 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. SHIPPING: Ships USPS Media Mail, promptly and well protected in bubble mailers or boxes, depending on quantity. I use recycled shipping materials whenever possible. $4.00 for the first book, .50 each additional. - - - Check out my other listings for other titles in this category, as well as literature, graphic novels and other books of note and consequence. Besides individual listings, I have several Build Your Own Book Lots and Author Bundles to choose titles from. I combine shipping for a flat rate. I can also create custom bundles with a discount. So if you see some stuff you like, hit me up. Any questions? Please ask! . . .