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BUILD YOUR OWN LOT LISTING - 3 of 4 -- -- -- + + + -- -- -- The books you want to read! Banned Books | Subversive Books | Cult Novels | Outsider Lit | Existentialism | Mystery Novels | Drama | Eastern Philosophy | Contemporary Classics | European Authors | African American Literature Buy More and Save: 5% when you buy 2 10% when you buy 3 15% when you buy 4 or more ** Check out my other Build Your Own Lots for hundreds more titles to choose from - you can buy from all of them and I will refund the extra shipping charges OR - to make things easier - I can create a custom bundle from any of the books in those lots or anything else I have listed - so if you see some things you’d like, jsut send me the list and I'll build the lot for you with the discount and exact shipping charge. AVAILABLE TITLES: Author - Title - Grading - Price 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 list of titles for details on my grading system) NEWEST ADDITIONS: The Saga of the Volsungs [Penguin Classics] (Fair, some pages wrinkled from a little moisture, some wrinkles on cover, minor reading wear) Ama Ata Aidoo - The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa (Good, a few scattered colored pencil marks, front cover has indentations and some creases) Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tail (VG-, some reading wear, minor rubbing along edges, light crease on front cover) Honoré de Balzac - Old Goriot [1959 Penguin Classics MMP] (G, signs of age, reading wear, foxing, rubbing along edges) Jacques Barzun - Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage [Second Edition - 1981 Univ. of Chicago Press] (G, spine sun-faded, some rubbing along edges, minor cover wear, light foxing on top page ends) Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward - All the President’s Men [40th Anniversary Edition] (VG+, minor edge wear) Ambrose Bierce - The Devil’s Dictionary (VG) Robert Bly - A Little Book on the Human Shadow (G+, some rubbing along edges, light reading wear) Eric Bogosian - Drinking in America (G+) Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson - A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns (VG, minor edge wear) Patricia Bosworth - Diane Arbus: A Biography (G, spine creased and slanted, reading wear, page ends discolored, rubbing along edges, small abrasion on front cover) Jeremy Brecher - Strike! [Revised and Updated Edition] (Fair, ex-library, stain on side page ends, rubbing along edges, creases on cover, corners somewhat curled - reading/studying copy) Bertolt Brecht - Galileo: A Play [1966 Black Cat MMP] (G, spine creased, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear - pages clean and bright) Bertolt Brecht - Mother Courage (MMP) (G+, just some light foxing) (MMP) Brian Broome - Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir ( G+, some reading wear, minor edge wear, corners slightly curled, else fine) Anthony Burgess - The Wanting Seed (VG-, pages show some mild reading wear, some minor edge wear and corners slightly curled, else fine.) Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France (VG-) James M. Cain - Serenade [1978 MMP] (G, spine creased, reading wear, light indentations on cover) Albert Camus - The Fall [MMP] (G, some foxing, reading wear, minor rubbing along edges) Albert Camus - Resistance, Rebellion, and Death [MMP] (G, some reading wear and signs of age, light foxing, spine creased, minor edge and cover wear) Albert Camus - The Stranger (VG, minor edge and cover wear) Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (G+, name written on bottom page ends) Carolyn Cassady - Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac, & Ginsberg (F, reading wear, rubbing along edges, corners curled and frayed) Carlos Castaneda - The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge [MMP - 1973] (G+, some reading wear, signs of age, minor edge wear) Carlos Castaneda - A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan (G+, some reading wear and mild signs of age, minor edge wear, light crease on spine - pages bright) Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely (Good, bit of a wave in book) Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (VG-, some reading wear, minor edge wear) Sandra Cisneros - The House on Mango Street [25th Anniversary Edition] (VG, name written on inside front cover, else just mild reading wear) Arthur C. Clarke - The Fountains of Paradise (G, crease on front cover) J. M. Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians (Good) Joseph Conrad - Nostromo (MMP) (G+) Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories [Penguin Classics] (VG-, small crease on cover, else just minor reading wear) Sloane Crosley - How Did You Get This Number ( G+, some reading wear, minor edge wear, corners slightly curled, else fine) Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (Good, rubbing along edges and spine, small closed tear along edge of spine, some creases, blemishes and indentations on cover, corners somewhat curled) Vine Deloria, Jr. - Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Fair, top page ends wrinkled from some water damage - still a great reading copy) René Descartes - Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings [Penguin Classics] (G, small amount of underlining, reading wear, creases on cover, univ. bookstore stickers on spine and back cover) Kristin Dombek - The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism (VG) Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment [Signet MMP] (VG-, light reading wear, a few dogeared corners, minor edge wear) Stephen Dunn - Different Hours (G, coating wrinkled along edge of cover, a few pencil marks) Edward F. Edinger - Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche [1982 Pelican Books] (G, some scratches on front cover, corners slightly curled, some edge wear, pages have minor reading wear) Harlan Ellison - Angry Candy [Large PB] (Fair, some chips along edges of cover with a few missing bits on side and corners, foxing on page ends and inside wraps, mild reading wear) James Ellroy - Because the Night [MMP] (G, spine creases, rubbing along edges) W.Y. Evans-Wentz- The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Commentary by C.G. Jung) (G, crease on front cover, light foxing, minor edge wear, corners slightly curled) John Fante - The Brotherhood of the Grape [Ecco Press] (Fair, some moisture exposure with wrinkled pages and cover, corners curled - still very readable) Philip José Farmer - The Magic Labyrinth: Riverworld Saga, Book Four (Good, top of some page ends slightly wrinkled, minor edge wear, corners raised. Philip José Farmer - The Dark Design: Riverworld Saga, Book Three ( Good+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear, corners somewhat raised.) William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury [Vintage International] (G+, crease on front cover, some reading wear, minor edge wear) William Faulkner - Sanctuary (Acceptable, some underlining and notes in pencil, some cover creases) John Ford - ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore and Other Plays [Oxford World’s Classics] (G, spine creased, reading wear, some rubbing along edges) Foucault for Beginners (G+, some sticker residue on back cover and spine, else just minor edge wear from normal use) Michel Foucault - Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite (G, foxing on pages and other signs of age, minor rubbing along edges) Max Frisch - Homo Faber (G+, some reading wear, light blemishes on cover, minor edge wear) Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (G+, spine creased, edge wear, corners slightly curled) Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude (VG-) Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera (Fair) John Gardner - Grendel (VG, minor edge wear from shelf life) Roxane Gay - Bad Feminist: Essays (VG) William Golding - Lord of the Flies [MMP] (G, spine creased, minor rubbing along edges, normal reading wear) Antonio Gramsci - The Modern Prince & Other Writings [1983 Printing] (G, some foxing on top page ends, else just minor edge and cover wear) Graham Greene - The Comedians (G+) Ken Grimwood - Replay (VG-, some reading wear, corners slightly curled, minor edge wear) Daniel Guérin - Anarchism: From Theory to Practice (G, reading wear and signs of age, scuffs on cover, corners slightly curled, rubbing along edges) Edith Hamilton - The Greek Way [1983 Norton MMP] (G, minor edge wear and mild signs of age: light foxing on page ends and inside front and rear cover) Dashiell Hammett - The Glass Key (G) Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon (G+) Graham Hancock - Fingerprints of the Gods (Fair, reading wear, corners curled, discoloration on page ends - reading copy only) Frank Herbert - Children of Dune [MMP] (G, closed tear on edge of front cover repaired with tape, reading wear, rubbing along edges) Frank Herbert - The Eyes of Heisenberg [1970 Berkley MMP] (Fair, some rubbing along edges, closed tear along edge of back cover, some foxing, signs of age, reading wear) Michael Herr - Dispatches (UK paperback) (G, spine creased) Patricia Highsmith - The Price of Salt (VG) Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem (G+) Anne Holm - North To Freedom [1990 Odyssey Classic edition] (G, some reading wear, light foxing on page ends, name written on first blank page, minor edge and cover wear) bell hooks - Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (Acceptable, pages have reading wear, rubbing along edges with coating on cover starting to curl) Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston - Farewell to Manzanar (G, spine creased, stamps on side page ends, rubbing along edges) Langston Hughes - The Panther & the Lash (VG, pages have some reading wear, minor edge wear) Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell [1977 MMP] (Fair, some reading wear and signs of age, inscription on inside cover, light foxing on page ends, some rubbing along edges, light creases and small wrinkles on cover) Jess Jackson - Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel (VG) William James - Varieties of Religious Experience [HC] (G, older Modern Library edition, boards have some edge wear, spine sun-faded, top edge a bit frayed - pages look great, some mild signs of age but overall a clean copy) Robert A. Johnson - Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche (G, small closed tear on side of front cover, some reading wear, normal edge and cover wear. Edward P. Jones - The Known World (VG) Erica Jong - Fear of Flying (G+) Carl G. Jung - Man and His Symbols [MMP] (VG-, light reading wear, spine lightly creased, else just minor rubbing along edges of cover, else fine - pages clean and bright.) Wassily Kandinsky - Concerning the Spiritual in Art (G, rubbing along edges, spine sun-faded, reading wear, minor signs of age) Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical) (G, some underling and notes) Michael Kammen - The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History (G, name written on inside front cover, light foxing, minor edge and cover wear) Garrison Keillor - Love Me (G, small stain on side page ends from moisture exposure) Jack Kerouac - On The Road [Movie Tie-In Cover] (G+, some reading wear, corners slightly curled) Gene Kerrigan - Little Criminals (VG) Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (VG-, minor reading wear) Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [2016 MMP] (G, reading wear, discoloration on side page ends, some rubbing along edges, creases on spine, corners slightly curled) Ken Kesey - Sailor Song (VG) Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon [2004 Mariner Books] (VG-, some reading wear and minor signs of use) Krishnamurti - Education & the Significant of Life (G) Krishnamurti - The Flame of Attention (G, some chips on back cover) Elisabeth Kübler-Ross - On Life after Death (G+, some staining on top page ends, minor edge wear) Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting [1999 Perennial Classics] (G+, some reading wear, spine creased, light wrinkling on some pages) Introducing Lacan (VG-, light reading wear, minor edge wear) Nella Larsen - Passing (VG) Ursula K. Le Guin - The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Volume 2 [1980 Granada UK MMP] (Fair, rubbing along edges, spine slanted, creases wrinkles on cover, corners curled) Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea [MMP 2012 Clarion Books] (G+, spine creased, some rubbing along edges, light reading wear) Stephen Levine - Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying (G, spine creased, sticker residue on spine, rubbing along edges, faint indentations on cover) Mikhail Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time (VG-) Jeff Lindsay - Dearly Devoted Dexter (VG) Amanda Lovelace - The Princess Saves Herself in This One (VG) Karl Marx - Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy (G, spine and edges of cover sun-faded, edges curled, light discoloration on page ends) James McBride - Miracle at St. Anna (G+, name written on bottom page ends and inside front cover, else just minor edge wear) Cormac McCarthy - The Road (VG-, minor edge and cover wear) Margaret Mead - Coming of Age in Samoa (VG, minor edge wear) Thomas Merton - Essential Writings (VG-, some reading wear, minor edge wear, corners slightly raised, else fine) Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman (VG+) Toni Morrison - Jazz (Fair) Toni Morrison, ed. - Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality (Acceptable, some underlining and notes, some pages creased, spine creased, rubbing along edges - reading/studying copy only.) Sallie Muirden - A Woman of Seville (VG) Inga Muscio - Cunt: A Declaration of Independence [Expanded and Updated 2nd Ed.) (VG) Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (G) Vladimir Nabokov - The Defense [1964 MMP] (G, some reading wear, signs of age, rubbing along edges, light foxing) R.K. Narayan - The Indian Epics Retold: The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, Gods, Demons, and Others (Acceptable, spine cracked, a few pages loose, but all present, page ends discolored - still very readable.) R. K. Narayan - The Ramayana (VG-, light reading wear) Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (G, reading wear, crease on front cover, light foxing, sticker on spine) Friedrich Nietzsche - On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings [2010 Harper Perennial MMP] (G+, a few blemishes on cover, some reading wear, minor edge wear, small stain on side page ends) Mark O’Donnell - Vertigo Park (VG) Eugene O’Neill - Long Day’s Journey Into Night (VG-) José Ortega y Gasset - The Revolt of the Masses (G+, light foxing, minor edge and cover wear) George Orwell - 1984 (MMP) (G - stains and small hole on back cover) George Orwell - Animal Farm [Signet Classics MMP] (G, pages have reading wear, crease on front cover, rubbing along edges) Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted (Fair) Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance [MMP] (G, spine creased and mildly unfaded, some reading wear, foxing on inside of front and rear cover, minor edge wear) Marcel Proust - Swann’s Way [Penguin 20th Century Classics] (G, reading wear, rubbing along edges, light foxing on page ends) Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged [MMP] (G, some reading wear and signs of age: light foxing on page ends, inscription on inside front cover) Samuel Richardson - Pamela (MMP) (G, spine creases) Luis J. Rodriguez - The Republic of East L.A. (G, some reading wear, number written on bottom page ends, some rubbing along edges, minor cover wear) A.N. Roquelaure - The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (G+, reading wear, edge wear) Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume (G, some black ink on side page ends, looks like a printing defect … ) Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract and Discourses [MMP] (G, some reading wear and signs of age) Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children (G, some pages wrinkled from moisture exposure, minor edge wear) Ferrol Sams - Epiphany (VG-) Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness: The Complete Text [MMP] (G, spine slightly bowed, crease and closed tear on front cover, now repaired with tape, some tape along edges of spine to cover rubbing, stamp on bottom page ends, some signs of age and light foxing) Jean-Paul Sartre - The Age of Reason [1973 MMP] (G+, some reading wear, rubbing along edges, mild signs of age) Jean-Paul Sartre - The Words [MMP - 1968 Fawcett] (G, reading wear and signs of age, foxing, creases on cover) David Sedaris - Naked (VG+) Hannah Senesh - Her Life & Diary (G+, minor edge and cover wear) Ntozake Shange - For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (G+) Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (Fair, some faint underlining and marginalia in pencil) Oz Shelach - Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments (MMP) (VG-) Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji [1985 Vintage Books] (G+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear) Dan Simmons - Hyperion (Fair, spine is heavily creased and slanted, else just minor edge and cover wear, all pages secure) Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Collected Stories (Large PB) (VG) Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture (G) Carol B. Stack - All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community (G, small amount of highlighting, rubbing along edges, univ. bookstore stickers, minor signs of age) John Steinbeck - The Log from the Sea of Cortez [Penguin Classics] (G+, some reading wear, spine slanted, minor rubbing along edges, foxing on inside wraps) Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown [MMP] (G, spine creased and somewhat slanted, minor reading wear) Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey (VG) Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy (MMP) (G+) Robert Stone - Dog Soldiers (G+, small closed tear on front cover at bottom of spine, repaired with tape, else just normal reading and handling wear) Thomas Sugrue - The Story of Edgar Cayce: There is a River [MMP] (G, a few passaged highlighted, spine creased and slanted, small crease on front cover) Sun Tzu - The Art of War (VG, inscription on first page, else fine) Studs Terkel - Working (MMP) (G+, really nice copy with red page ends) Dylan Thomas - The Collected Stories (G) Jim Thompson - The Killer Inside Me (VG-, some rubbing along edges, mild reading wear) Robert Tressell - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (VG-, light crease on edge of front cover) Calvin Trillin - Family Man (VG) Lao Tsu - Tao Te Ching (G+, some reading wear, a few pages lightly creased at corner, small blemish on front page) Mark Twain - Letters from the Earth (G+) Yoshiko Uchida - Samurai of Gold Hill (VG) Sigrid Undset - Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath (G, some rubbing along edges, mild reading wear) Sigrid Undset - Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross (VG+) Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) [1976 Dell MMP] (Fair, chip on side front cover, rubbing along edges, reading wear and signs of age) Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass (G) Elie Wiesel - Night (VG) Rosalind Wiseman - Queen Bees & Wannabes (VG) Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (G, reading wear, scuffs on cover, rubbing along edges, corners at top and bottom of spine split and repaired with tape, corners slightly curled) Richard Wright - Black Boy (MMP) (G, spine creased, a few small creases) Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway (VG+) Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own (Fair, a few pen marks, some rubbing along edges, crease along spine, mild reading wear) Richard Wright - Uncle Tom’s Children (MMP) (G, some chips pieces missing along edge of front cover, repaired with tape, otherwise in great shape.) Richard Wright - Native Son (G+) Elizabeth Wurtzel - Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (VG-, some reading wear, mild rubbing along edges, one corner slightly curled) Howard Zinn - A People’s History of the United States (G+, some edge and cover wear) Howard Zinn - Disobedience and Democracy (G) Gary Zukav - The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics [1980 MMP] (VG-, some reading wear, foxing on inside covers, light blemish on side page ends) - - - 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 … Fair : cover damage, reading wear to pages, covers rubbed, corners curled, blemishes on cover or light water damage - but still good reading copies. Acceptable : any of the above issues plus considerable reading wear and/or cover wear, underlining/highlighting - but still readable - spine creases, cover damage. - - - - I’m constantly adding new titles. SHIPPING: Ships USPS Media Mail, promptly and well protected in bubble mailers or boxes, depending on quantity. I use recycled shipping materials whenever possible. $4.50 for the first book, .50 each additional. - - - Check out my other listings for other titles in this category, as well as literature, graphic novels and other books of note and consequence. Besides individual listings, I have several Build Your Own Book Lots and Author Bundles to choose titles from. I combine shipping for a flat rate. I can also create custom bundles with a discount. So if you see some stuff you like, hit me up. Any questions? Please ask! . . .