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BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE: Eight Exercises in Political Thought, by Hannah Arendt.First Penguin Paperback Edition, Second ...
06/11/2026

BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE: Eight Exercises in Political Thought, by Hannah Arendt.

First Penguin Paperback Edition, Second Printing.

Enlarged Edition.

Penguin, 1978. 

A very good vintage edition in wraps. Wraps are in nice shape, with minor wear and a touch of glue wrinkling to spine, else great. Original price on front wrap blacked out. A straight, square copy with a tight binding. Internally clean and crisp with unmarked pages. NO names. NO writing. NOT a remainder. A nice vintage copy. 

$22 shipped / DM to claim


On this day in 1928, the writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak is born in Brooklyn, NY. “I remember my own childhood viv...
06/10/2026

On this day in 1928, the writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak is born in Brooklyn, NY.

“I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them.”

— Maurice Sendak

THE HUMAN CONDITION, by Hannah Arendt.First Phoenix Edition, 8th Impression.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 19...
06/10/2026

THE HUMAN CONDITION, by Hannah Arendt.

First Phoenix Edition, 8th Impression.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Softcover, in wraps. Octavo. 331 pp. 

A good+ copy of a scarce vintage edition approaching very good. Straight and square with a smooth, unbroken spine. Minor wear to edges, and corners; light scuffing to wraps; faint toning; U of Chicago sticker on front wrap. Else nice. Internally clean and unmarked with crisp pages. NO names. NO writing or underlining. NOT a remainder.

Increasingly hard to find in this edition.

$28 shipped / DM to claim


The real life of the man whose stories helped define—and push back against—the mythical “New Yorker story.”The Letters o...
06/10/2026

The real life of the man whose stories helped define—and push back against—the mythical “New Yorker story.”

The Letters of John Cheever. Edited by Benjamin Cheever. First edition, first printing with full number line. Hardcover. Octavo. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Quarter-bound in cream cloth with Carolina blue paper over boards and gold gilt titles to spine; blue endpapers; 381pp.

A very good first printing approaching near fine. Internally unblemished. Apparently unread. Housed in a very good unclipped dust jacket with minor wear, now protected in a Mylar cover.

A collection of warm, witty letters from Cheever to friends, lovers, and other writers beginning in the 1930s and stretching to the early ‘80s

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The public library is where place and possibility meet.— Stuart DybekTHE COAST OF CHICAGO. Signed first edition. SOLD.
06/07/2026

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

— Stuart Dybek

THE COAST OF CHICAGO.

Signed first edition.

SOLD.

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05/24/2026

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NOW AVAILABLE, a nearly pristine first trade edition of Caleb Carr’s follow up to his award-winning, genre-defying novel...
05/24/2026

NOW AVAILABLE, a nearly pristine first trade edition of Caleb Carr’s follow up to his award-winning, genre-defying novel THE ALIENIST.

THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS, by Caleb Carr.

First Trade Edition, First Printing with Full Random House Number Line.

Inspiration for Season 2 of the TNT series THE ALIENIST (titled The Alienist: Angel of Darkness).

New York: Random House, 1997. Hardcover. Thick octavo. Publisher’s black quarter cloth with black paper over boards. Gold gilt lettering to front board and spine. Decorative pastedowns and endpapers featuring street maps of Manhattan. Deckled fore edge. 629 pp.

A very good+ to near-fine first printing that’s straight, square, sharp, and still firm. Minor edge wear and light rubbing to spine ends, else great. Internally unblemished with clean, crisp pages. NO names. NO writing. NOT a remainder. Housed in a very good+ dust jacket, NOT price-clipped, now protected in archival Mylar.

Collectible title for fans of historical mysteries, crime fiction, and Gilded Age New York.

$22 shipped / DM or comment to claim


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