General Nonfiction

Brand new, perfect copy. A first printing. Lessons to be learned from historical women of the Bible. Hardcover, First Edition. ISBN 007140290x. McG...

Decline and fall of network television by notable business author. Fine book in a fine jacket, this is the first printing of the first edition. Ver...

Later printing of respected medical author's reflections on the nature of dying and the range of experiences surrounding the death process. Very go...

First printing, a fine copy in fine jacket. The trials and tribulations of building a house. Very light bump to upper spine end, small tear to lowe...

The true story of bank heists, ice hockey, Transylvanian pelt smuggling, moonlighting detectives, and broken hearts. An Advance Reader's Copy, in n...

Collection of non-fiction pieces from the 50's through 1985 by the Nobel-winning South African novelist. Fine in a fine jacket, First U.S. Edition,...

Fine unread Advance Reader's copy. From author of the extremly popular "Writing Down the Bones". Trade Paperbackback. ISBN 0060733993. Harper Colli...

First edition, fine/fine in mylar. Signed by author on the title page, jacket protected in Brodart. Hardcover, First Edition Signed by Author(s). I...

First edition, first printing. A Fine copy in like jacket--only a tiny bump to upper spine--light shelfwear rear only. Hardcover, First Edition. IS...

A wonderful companion to Victorian literature, sheds light on the private lives of Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, and others. This is a first printing ...

A very fine copy, as new in like jacket. First printing of Kincaid's emotional account of her brother's struggle with AIDS. Hardcover, First Editio...

Account of L'Engle's marriage to Hugh Franklin. Slightly faded dj, still a nice copy. Hardcover. ISBN 0374280207. Farrar Straus Giroux 1988. 000106

How everyday objects - from forks and pins to paper clips and zippers came to be as they are. Wonderfully engaging work of popular science. Hardcov...

A popular exploration of the capabilities of modern technology, in the form of a how to manual. Also includes "how to build a robotic servant", "ho...

Wonderful miniatures--"Short takes on lLife and Culture". First printing, jacket slightly shelfworn, book fine. Hardcover, First Edition. ISBN 0393...

Unread, fine and clean copy of trade paperback. Includes catalog of other Buddha's Light publications. Trade Paperbackback. ISBN 1932293000. Buddha...

Tight copy of book in good+ jacket. Crease to spine, closed tear to top rear edge, some yellowing to jacket and page edges. First printing. Hardcov...

A collection of essays on wide ranging topics (the final essay in the book gives it its title). A near fine copy with a likely remainder stamp to t...

First printing of a collection of columns from beloved Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko. Near fine (remainder mark) in a fine jacket, protect...

A classic of modern product design theory, jacket has blurbs from Douglas Hofstadter and Isaac Asimov. This is a fine copy of the first printing, n...

Used at school, previous owner's name inside cover. Wear at spine ends, some pages torn, some stray pencil marks, one illustration heavily pencille...

First printing of this biography of Dickey, the author of Deliverance. Book is fine in a near fine jacket (very light rubbing to jacket). A nice co...

Wear and creasing to wraps, a little staining to top edge not affecting pages. Previous two owner's names on title page. Binding remains sound, and...

A thorough look at the archival restoration of leather book bindings. Very good, with nearly no wear to corners and just a touch of soil to the fro...

Very nice unread copy of Ashbery's experiences reading writers that inspire him: John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwri...

Revised edition of this 1981 book on early hominids and eventually homo sapiens. A nice copy, although pages are somewhat browned with age. Clean a...

VG with just a little wear, and internally clean and unmarked, with a sound binding. The book describes research done in two French caves, Combe-Gr...

Yes, the book is from 1982, but hey, these ancient sites aren't going anywhere, right? A nice clean copy, tight binding, unmarked, full of pencil d...

A dramatic reconstruction of the daily lives of the earliest tool-making humans, two leading anthropologists reveal how the first technologies-- st...

Uncommon monograph detailing research into Native American sites in Illinois. VG with no internal notes or markings save for previous author's name...

Very clean, unmarked, likely unread copy of this title. While a newer edition is available, it seems largely unchanged from this version. Contains ...

A detailed appreciation of American Carousels, their history, the creators and carvers, the mechanisms, decoration, the dwindling carousels on whic...

A very nicely photographed book detailing the collection of toy boats assembled by Forbes magazine. First printing, fine in a VG, price-clipped jac...

A fine copy in a like jacket, appears unread. Does have, strangely, a Tiffany postage stamp, and the cover to the stamp book, pasted to the front f...

The story of the 4th man in the Cambridge spy ring. Good reading copy, with no marks or notes internally, and a touch of soil to the bottom edge. S...

This is a fine Advanced Reader's Copy of Erik Larson's follow up to Devil in the White City. Signed and dated May 2006 (prior the book's official O...