General Nonfiction

Useful introduction to the use of hand tools. Boards have some soil, pages browned, but overall VG, with no jacket. Hardcover. The New Home Librar...

Wonderful copy of this book detailling a family's experiences with their daughter, who struggles with a rare neurological disorder that prevents he...

Fine copy in like jacket. Collection of essays from Washington Post book reviewer, first printing. Hardcover, First Edition. ISBN 0394589106. Villa...

Instruction in the construction of business letters for the secondary school student. Previous owner practiced his signature three or four times (f...

Fine unread copy of a look at the experience of expatriate wrters in Paris in the post-war years. Includes anecdotes of Richard Wright, James Baldw...

Volume 2 in the International Library of Negro Life and History series, concerning the theatrical arts. Ex library, but with minimal distractions. ...

Auchincloss essays on major literary figures, including Wharton, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Geroge Eliot, Proust, Trollope and Tolstoy. Jacket ve...

Writer and editor Sara Nelson sets out to catalog a year of her reading, and figure out what it all means. This is a first printing, fine in a fine...

An intriguing collection of gypsy tales, many published for the first time in English. First printing, fine in a VG jacket (small nick to front pan...

Quite nice copy of this slim octavo volume, which contains many reproductions from Tenniel's work, focusing on the Alice in Wonderland pieces. Some...

Quindlen's well liked collection of essays. Fine in a fine jacket, first printing. Not price clipped or remainder marked. Hardcover, First Edition....

The letters of poet Rupert Brooke and the schoolgirl with whom he was infatuated, collected by Noel Olivier's granddaughter. This is a very clean c...

Fine copy of scarce collection of essays, prefaces, and interviews from novelist Auster. Appears to be second printing of first edition. Fine in a ...

The author identified a significant literary event for each day of the year, and chooses an appropriate text to accompany it. With woodcut illustra...

Nice copy of a book of widely varied essays, offered 25 years after A Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek. Near fine in a VG jacket--Very minor lean to book,...

As new, in original shrink-wrap. A brief overvew of Van Der Rohe's life and work, quite nicely photographed. A slim volume, but would serve as an i...

Essays from author of Vox. Fine copy, jacket has small crease near upper rear corner. First edition, first printing, no remainder mark. Hardcover, ...

More than just a "food writer", Fisher offers her thoughts on aging in this remarkable volume. Very good trade paperback. Trade Paperbackback. ISBN...

Collection of Trillin's longer non-fiction pieces from the New Yorker. First printing, fine in a NF jacket (tiny scuff to rear at bend in flap, pri...

Ex-library, but with minimal markings. stamp to top and bottom edges, title page, pocket at rear. Some wear at spine ends and corners, otherwise a ...

First edition, third printing. VG - (light soil to all 3 edges) in fine, mylar-covered jacket. Mrs. Wilson's selection provides an engrossing biog...

This look at Sartre and Beauvoir's life alleges that many of the key ideas offered by the couple originated with Beauvoir and not Sartre. Very good...

Significant authors contribute essays about favorite overlooked books. Includes pieces from Arthur Danto, Jonathan Lethem, Toni Morrison, Francine ...

Monster Garage tie-in book, first edition in new condition. A very nice copy. Includes wide variety of extraordinary cars, w/free bumper stickers. ...