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New, Used, and Rare Books
We specialize in new and used literary fiction with a healthy stock of nonfiction, zines, art, and children's books. In keeping with a high-brow, low-brow bookstore, we offer some very affordable books along with what goes as rare and interesting in the book world.

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Featured products
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Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson, 1st ed. Signed
Denis JohnsonRegular price $1,750.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Fragment, signed by Ashbery and Katz. Inscribed by Ashbery to Clayton Eshleman.
John Ashbery, Alex KatzRegular price $950.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
Marguerite YoungRegular price $850.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Ed SandersRegular price $500.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
The Hours After Noon
Paul BowlesRegular price $500.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
The Knockout Artist, with lengthy inscription
Harry CrewsRegular price $375.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
You Bright and Risen Angels
William T. VollmannRegular price $350.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
The Desert Rose, signed
Larry McMurtryRegular price $289.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
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The Stars At Noon, signed 1st ed.
Denis JohnsonRegular price $200.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Seize The Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
Bobby SealeRegular price $195.95Regular priceUnit price / per -
The White Album, first edition
Joan DidionRegular price $195.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
New Books
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Europe Central: National Book Award Winner
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Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
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The Journalist and the Murderer
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Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
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No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies (Carbon Ideologies, 1)
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Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)
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In the Freud Archives (New York Review Books Classics)
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D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
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Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies (Carbon Ideologies, 2)
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Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza (Verso Palestine Pamphlets)
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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price / perSold out

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