Literature from The Parnassus BookShop

Little, Brown & Company, 1994. Collectible First Edition Hardcover As New/As New. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. From National Book Award Winner and Master Storyteller John Barth. 396 pages. "Once Upon A Time" is a memoir bottled in a novel and launched on a sea voyage, a many faceted journey over a lifetime of memories, with tales of… Read more about this item

Harvest Books, 1978. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently used book. Clean blue and black wrappers, light rubbing to edges, tight and solid binding, pages spotless, no creases. "The Waves" is often regarded as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. It begins with 6 children playing in a garden by the sea, 3 girls and 3 boys, and follows their lives as… Read more about this item

Library of America, 2003. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Publisher: Library of America, First Thus, 2003. Hardcover Retired LIbrary Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Notes by Townsend Ludington. Clean, unmarked, except for minimal library marks, tight and solid volume. Red ribbon page marker. Internals as new. Written n the decade before… Read more about this item

Vintage, 1991. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Vintage, 1991. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked cover has crease to lower corner, light wear around edges; binding solid and square; pages completely free from any marks, no creases, not toned. 110 pages/ 5/25x8". Told in a series of vignettes, this is… Read more about this item

Vintage International, 2016. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. First Vintage International Edition, 11th Printing. 2016. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean, hinged, blue cover with white titles, creased down the hinge, edges rubbed. Binding solid and square. Pages very clean, no markings of any kind. From a winner of the Nobel Prize… Read more about this item

New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1907. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. F. Graham Cootes. Publisher: A. L. Burt Company, 1907. Hard Back Reprint in Fair Condition. Out-of-Print Book. Four Illustrations by F. Graham Cootes. Burgundy cloth binding, clean, scuffed and rubbed on all corners and edges; paste down oval photograph on front partially rubbed off.… Read more about this item

Gale / Cengage Learning, 1966. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Republished by Gale /Cengage Learning, Detroit, 1966. First Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1893. Hardcover Book without Dust Jacket. Retired School Library Book in Good Condition. Blue cloth binding, black title panel on spine with gilt titles.Clean with two very small whitish lines, corners… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Viking Compass/Viking Press, Inc, 1974. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7. Viking Compass/Viking Press, Inc., 1974. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Viking Compass Edition first issued in 1960, reissued in 1974 with the author's corrections incorporated in the text by The Viking Press, Inc. Orange wraps clean with vague impressions on front, light… Read more about this item

Picador, 1996. First Thus. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. First Picador USA Edition, 1996. Retired library book. Trade Paperback Book in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked gently used book with minor cover wear, library tag to spine, lib stamp to endpaper. Set in the Midwest of the 1920s, A Woman Of Means is… Read more about this item

Picador, 1995. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. First Picador USA Edition, 1995. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked orange/yellow/green wraps, minor edge wear; solid and tight binding; internals as new. "--it moves at the unruffled pace of a lazy summer's evening front-porch storytelling--each sentence seems to lead to deeper… Read more about this item

Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Louisiana State University Press First Printing, 1994. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright, clean wraps with minor wear, gently used book, internals as new. The eight stories and one short play were first collected in… Read more about this item

Vintage, 1992. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7. Vintage, 1992. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Translated from the German by Denver Lindley. Thomas Mann received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Clean, solid, unmarked, gently used book; light wear to cover edges. An entertaining tale in the tradition of Cervantes and Stendhal and one of the… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005. The Original Novel of The Classic Film Deliverance. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Remainder mark on all three text block edges, else Fine. A group of middle-aged friends in search of the wilderness experience that has been missing from their big-city lives go… Read more about this item

The New York Review of Books, Inc (NYRB), 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. The New York Review of Books, Inc (NYRB), 1999, Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Introduction by Brad Leithauser. Clean and unmarked gently used book with minor wear. The first volume of Joyce Cary's first Trilogy introduces Sara Monday, a… Read more about this item

Scribner Paperback/Simon & Schuster, 1997. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Gently used clean and unmarked book; tight and solid binding; page edges and pages quite clean and unmarked. The story of one woman's journey back to her childhood through layers of memory and longing.… Read more about this item

Scribner Paperback, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently used clean and unmarked book with light wear to cover corners, light crease to upper front corner. Solid and square binding. Internals in Fine condition. A funny, original novel within a novel to explore the… Read more about this item

Ballantine Books, 2007. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 5x0x8. Ballantine Books, 2007. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked, solid book with minor wear to cover edges. An intimate look at middle-class family life, examining family ties, cultural identity and the universal struggle to find one's place in s rapidly changing world. Includes a Reader's Guide and… Read more about this item

Wendy Lamb Books, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Wendy Lamb Books, 2006. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked, solid book with minor wear to cover edges. Thoroughly original, a book for all ages, a sensitive look at the complexities of being young in a world teetering on chaos. A story… Read more about this item

Pocket Books. Inc, 1974. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. Pocket Books, 1974. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. A Moses Wine Thriller. Illustrated cover has small red marks to front spine edges and to upper corner, otherwise clean, slight spine creasing. Pages toned, completely unmarked, clean. If Sam Spade were reincarnated today he would look… Read more about this item

Dover Publications, 1999. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Dover Publications, 1999. Paperback in Fine Condition. This Dover Edition, first published in 1999, is a new selection of ten short stories reprinted from standard texts. A new introductory Note has been specially prepared for this edition. A collection of sensitively written stories, regional sketches… Read more about this item