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Pride and Prejudice: The Complete Novel, with Nineteen Letters from the Characters' Correspondence, Written and Folded by Hand (Classic Novels x Chronicle Books)

By: Austen, Jane,Heller, Barbara

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chronicle Books : September 2020

Seller ID: 188636

ISBN-13: 9781452184579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This deluxe edition brings to life the letters exchanged among Jane Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice. Glassine pockets placed throughout the book contain removable replicas of 19 letters from the story. These powerful epistles include Lydia's announcement of her elopement, Mr. Collins's obsequious missives, and of course Darcy's painfully honest letter to Elizabeth. - Nothing captures Jane Austen's vivid emotion and keen wit better than her characters' correspondence.- Each letter is re-created with gorgeous calligraphy.- Letters are hand-folded with painstaking attention to historic...
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The Fountainhead (Student Edition)

By: Ayn Rand

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Signet : January 1993

Seller ID: 179797

ISBN-13: 9780451231000

Binding: Mass

Condition: Used - Good

Another Country

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Vintage : February 1993

Seller ID: 154517

ISBN-13: 9780679744719

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.

Brilliantly and fiercely told. --The New York Times

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
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Evidence of Things Not Seen

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Picador : April 1995

Seller ID: 176881

ISBN-13: 9780805039399

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation. This edition of James Baldwin's classic work offers a new foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell), and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporter's skill and a...
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Giovanni's Room (Vintage International)

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Vintage : September 2013

Seller ID: 179346

ISBN-13: 9780345806567

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, this groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction (The Atlantic). In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni's curtainless room, whi...
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If Beale Street Could Talk

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Vintage : October 2006

Seller ID: 180597

ISBN-13: 9780307275936

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In this honest and stunning novel that inspired the award-winning major motion picture of the same name, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. A major work of Black American fiction. -The New Republic Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain fut...
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Just Above My Head

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Dial Press : January 1979

Seller ID: 191404

ISBN-13: 9780803747777

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Notes of a Native Son

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Beacon Press : October 2012

Seller ID: 163292

ISBN-13: 9780807006238

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

#26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With films like I Am Not Your Negro and the forthcoming If Beale Street Could Talk bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction.Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays coll...
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Nothing Personal

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Beacon Press : May 2021

Seller ID: 169112

ISBN-13: 9780807006429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers. Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin's deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 - which were met with tear gas and rubber bullets the same year white supremacists entered the US Capitol with little resistance, openly toting flags of the Confederacy - Baldwin's documentation of his own troub...
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The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (Vintage International Original)

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Vintage : September 2011

Seller ID: 172669

ISBN-13: 9780307275967

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Baldwin on race is Baldwin on the white American psyche.... The Cross of Redemption becomes an absorbing portrait of Baldwin's time--and of him. --New York Review of Books A revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form. James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common history. In The Cross of Redemption we have Baldwin discoursing on, among other subjects, the possibility...
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks : January 2023

Seller ID: 189617

ISBN-13: 9781250844897

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The Fire Next Time

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $8.37

Publisher: Vintage : December 1992

Seller ID: 194021

ISBN-13: 9780679744726

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An official Oprah Winfrey's "The Books That Help Me Through" selection A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement--and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. Basically the finest essay I've ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyone's hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you." --Ta-Nehisi Coates At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing exam...
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The Fire Next Time

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $8.37

Publisher: Vintage : December 1992

Seller ID: 194571

ISBN-13: 9780679744726

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An official Oprah Winfrey's "The Books That Help Me Through" selection A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement--and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. Basically the finest essay I've ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyone's hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you." --Ta-Nehisi Coates At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing exam...
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The Fire Next Time (Modern Library (Hardcover))

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Modern Library : July 2021

Seller ID: 172638

ISBN-13: 9780679601517

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first published in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington "The finest essay I've ever read."--Ta-Nehisi Coates, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Between the World and Me With clarity, conviction, and passion, James Baldwin delivers a dire warning of the effects of racism that remains urgent nearly sixty years after its original publication. In the first of two essays, "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One ...
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The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948?1985

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Beacon Press : September 2021

Seller ID: 177927

ISBN-13: 9780807006566

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

An essential compendium of James Baldwin's most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us "to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country." Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the 4 decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing, available for the first time in affordable paperback. Along with 46 additional pieces, it includes the full text of d...
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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology

By: Baldwin, James, Brooks, Gwendolyn, Laurence, Paul Dunbar, Ellison, Ralph, Neale, Zora Hurston, Walker, Alice, Wright, Richard, Yerby, Frank, Others, Various

Price: $26.99

Publisher: Back Bay Books : June 1969

Seller ID: 168178

ISBN-13: 9780316380317

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A classic anthology of short stories by Black writers including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright -- edited and with an introduction by Langston Hughes.

Originally published in 1967, The Best Short Stories by Black Writers offers a timeless and unforgettable portrait of the tragedy, comedy, triumph, and suffering that were part of African American life from 1899 to 1967.
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Three Books by Imamu Amiri Baraka

By: Baraka, Imamu Amiri

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Grove Pr : March 1976

Seller ID: 185451

ISBN-13: 9780394179001

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Selected Works of Djuna Barnes

By: Barnes, Djuna

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd : June 1998

Seller ID: 185342

ISBN-13: 9780571193912

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (Penguin Christmas Classics)

By: Baum, L. Frank

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : October 2015

Seller ID: 170479

ISBN-13: 9780143128533

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

One of six beloved Christmas classics in collectible hardcover editions L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus was first published in 1902, two years after his Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Drawing on the attributes of Santa Claus from Clement Moore's 1822 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("The Night Before Christmas"), Baum chronicles Santa's life from his childhood in an enchanted forest--the same forest that is the source of all magic in the land of Oz--to his destiny of sharing gifts and spreading love to his fellow man. Along the way we witness him making his first toys, learn t...
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Interactive (MinaLima Edition): (Illustrated with Interactive Elements) (Minalima Classics)

By: Baum, L. Frank

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Harper Design : September 2021

Seller ID: 188236

ISBN-13: 9780063055735

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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