Category: Rare Literature

One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the YearLONGLISTED 2015 - International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home. As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu--beautiful, self-assured--departs for America to study. She ...
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Death in the Family

By: Agee, James

Price: $7.50

Publisher: : November 2015

Seller ID: 304937

ISBN: 5712114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Killing Floor

By: Ai,

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : January 1979

Seller ID: 682059

ISBN-13: 9780395275931

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

full numberline, in acetate
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Chicago: City on the Make

By: Algren, Nelson

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Angel Island Publications [1961, 1968?] : January 1961

Seller ID: 778285

ISBN: B001ZQYMJI

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Cover a bit beaten, text very clean.
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Notes From A Sea Diary: Hemingway All The Way

By: Algren, Nelson

Price: $10.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons : January 1965

Seller ID: 789944

ISBN: B000AN47BA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Mdoerate shelfwear on dj, solid binding, clean text
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The Last Carousel

By: Algren, Nelson

Price: $25.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons : November 1973

Seller ID: 666102

ISBN-13: 9780399111310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Good +
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The Last Carousel

By: Algren, Nelson

Price: $8.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons : November 1973

Seller ID: 708365

ISBN-13: 9780399111310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Often compared in scope to the writings of Norman Mailer, these stories are classic late Algren. Reprinted after 25 years, this collection of streetwise, funny stories from Algren's travels is long overdue. His bracing wit, poetic sensibility, and pathos in describing the dispossessed are fully evident.
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In the Time of the Butterflies

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books : January 1994

Seller ID: 739064

ISBN-13: 9781565120389

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo s dictatorship. It doesn t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas The Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and the survivor, Dede speak acros...
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I want it now

By: Amis, Kingsley

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Cape : January 1968

Seller ID: 802705

ISBN-13: 9780224615334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Euripides Alcestis

By: Arrowsmith), Euripides (translated by William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford Press : January 1974

Seller ID: 604265

ISBN: B002AZRA4W

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

name and school stamp on title page
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Bodily Harm

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : December 2014

Seller ID: 537222

ISBN-13: 9780671441531

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Full number line
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Good Bones and Simple Murders

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : July 2014

Seller ID: 777925

ISBN-13: 9780385471107

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this collection of short works that defy easy categorization, Margaret Atwood displays, in condensed and crystallized form, the trademark wit and viruosity of her best-selling novels, brilliant stories, and insightful poetry. Among the jewels gathered here are Gertrude offering Hamlet a piece of her mind, the real truth about the Little Red Hen, a reincarnated bat explaining how Bram Stoker got "Dracula" all wrong, and the five methods of making a man (such as the "Traditional Method": "Take some dust off the ground. Form. Breathe into the nostrils the breath of life. Simple, but effective ...
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The Robber Bride

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Nan A. Talese : October 1993

Seller ID: 812806

ISBN-13: 9780385260084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This splendid novel, first published in 1993, is an exploration of the paradox of woman as villain. With more than 400,000 copies already in print, this first appearance in trade paperback will allow thousands of new readers to enjoy Atwood's virtuoso wit.Set in contemporary Toronto, the novel revolves around the lives of three fascinating women. Classmates from university, Roz, Charis, and Tony all shared the seductive and destructive experience of a past friendship with the flashy, sensuous, smart, irresistible Zenia. As the novel opens, they are twenty years past their college days and have...
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