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Title - Author - Grading
All books are trade paperbacks (sized approx. 5 in. x 8 in.) except those marked MMP, which are mass market paperbacks (4 in. x 7 in.) or Large PB which are generally 6 in. 9 in.
(See below for details on my grading)
LATEST ADDITIONS:
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (VG)
Sherwood Anderson - Poor White (G+)
Maya Angelou - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (MMP) (G+ Ex-Library, but really nice laminated cover, barely read)
James Baldwin - The Amen Corner (G+)
Samuel Beckett - Molloy (VG-)
Samuel Beckett - Murphy (Acceptable, some underlining and marginalia in pencil, univ. bookstore sticker residue on back cover, spine creased)
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backward (G+)
Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King (VG)
Heinrich Böll - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Acceptable - some light highlighting - unobtrusive, edges of cover curled, univ. bookstore sticker)
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (G+)
Albert Camus - The Stranger (G+)
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber (VG)
Raymond Carver - Cathedral (Good, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear, univ. stickers on back cover and spine)
Michael Chabon - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Good+)
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep (Acceptable - some underlining and notes)
Stephen Chobsky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (VG-)
Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking (Hardcover) (VG-/VG-, minor reading wear, dust jacket has mild edge wear.)
Annie Dillard - An American Childhood (Good+, one corner dented)
Jennifer Egan - A Visit From the Goon Squad (VG-)
Dave Eggers - The Museum in the Rain (HC) (VG)
Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity (VG)
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (Acceptable, notes written on three pages, else just reading wear)
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (MMP) (G)
William Faulkner - Light in August (G)
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury (Good+ reading wear, light foxing)
Sigmund Freud - Beyond the Pleasure Principle (MMP) (Good, some foxing, univ. bookstore sticker)
Jostein Gaarder - Sophie’s World (VG)
Nadine Gordimer - July’s People (G+)
Nadine Gordimer - The Pickup (VG)
Günter Grass - Headbirths Or The Germans Are Dying Out (MMP) (VG- mild foxing)
Günter Grass - My Century (Good+, creases on spine)
Thomas Hardy - Far From The Maddening Crowd (VG)
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms (VG-)
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls (VG)
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea (VG)
Frank Herbert - Dune [MMP] (G, spine creased, some wrinkles on cover, a few chipped areas on edges, normal reading wear)
Michael Herr - Dispatches (VG-)
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (Acceptable, some notes on a few pages, rubbing along edges)
Aldous Huxley - Brave Never World (MMP) (G)
Aldous Huxley - Point Counter Point [MMP] (G, spine crease, one pages has a passage underlined, normal reading wear to pages and cover, mild discoloration on page ends)
Eugène Ionesco - Rhinoceros & Other Plays (G)
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Good, some rubbing along edges, corners slightly curled, mild discoloration on page ends
Donald Keene - Modern Japanese Literature (G, spine faded, rubbing along edges, mild signs of age)
Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place (G+)
Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia (G, reading wear, note on first page)
Beth Lisick - Everybody into the Pool (Good+, some reading wear to pages)
C. S. Lewis - The Great Divorce [2001 Edition with French flaps and deckled page ends] (VG)
John McPhee - The Control of Nature (VG-)
Herman Melville - Billy Budd and Other Stories (VG)
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (G+)
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (VG-, very small spot of moisture exposure on bottom edge of back cover)
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita [1997 UK Movie Tie-In Cover] (G, spine creases, rubbing along edges, small closed tear along spine, corners somewhat curled)
Anaïs Nin - Henry and June (Large PB) (G+)
John O’Brien - Leaving Las Vegas (G - one page has a corner tore off - doesn’t interfere with text)
George Orwell - 1984 [MMP] (VG+)
Chuck Palahniuk - Choke (G, spine creased, reading wear, page ends discolored, edge wear)
David Peace - Occupied City (VG)
Daniel Pinkwater - 4 Fantastic Novels: Borgel, Yobgorgle, The Worms of Kukumlima, The Snarkout Boys & the Baconburg Horror (G, some reading wear, small closed tear along top edge of spine, corners slightly curled.)
Sylvia Plath - The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Acceptable, crease on front cover, light foxing, bottom page ends wrinkled and a bit stiff from some moisture exposure, corners somewhat curled)
Adrienne Rich - Poems, Selected and New, 1950-1974 (G)
Henry Roth - Call It Sleep (VG)
Salman Rushdie - Midnights Children (G)
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye [MMP] (G+, minor cover wear, light crease on spine, pages have mild reading wear)
David Sedaris - Barrel Fever (VG)
Patti Smith - Year of the Monkey (Hardcover) (VG/VG-, dust jacket has some minor edge wear.)
Gary Snyder - Turtle Island (VG)
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath (G+)
William Styron - Darkness Visible (VG)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer - This Earth of Mankind (VG)
Mark Twain - Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (G+, minor reading wear.)
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence (G, rubbing along edges, spine creased, small crease on front cover, reading wear)
Kevin Wilson - Nothing to See Here (VG)
Jacqueline Winspear - Maisie Dobbs (VG-, minor reading wear.)
Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication Of The Rights of Woman (MMP) (VG-)
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway (MMP) (G)
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We (G+, light foxing on inside cover, edge wear)
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Gradings:
Very Good+ : almost like new, just a few issues to cover, usually unread pages
Very Good : pages show some mild reading wear, the cover will have some edge wear or a few other flaws
Very Good- : somewhere between Very Good and Good+ - a few issues short of being Very Good, like creases on cover, light discoloration or foxing - nothing too distracting.
Good+ : close to being Very Good with a few small but significant blemishes like curled corners, a few small pen marks, some slight moisture wrinkling, cover creases, spine creases … these are your reading/studying copies …
Good : cover damage, reading wear to pages, covers rubbed, corners curled, blemishes on cover or light water damage - but still good reading copies.
Poor/Acceptable : any of the above issues plus considerable reading wear and/or cover wear, underlining/highlighting - but still readable - spine creases, cover damage.
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$4.00 for the first book, .50 each additional.
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