Hi, I'm alive and ...

selling my books!

I used to think, "What kind of people sells dirtcheap/gives away books they've owned for years -- read, unread, loved or forgotten?" But here I am doing it. And I can only justify it with the thought that I'm clearing the space for newer books.

Art

Gauguin: Letters from Brittany and the South Seas (hardbound), P100
Antoni Gaudi: Visionary Architect of the Sacred and the Profane by Judith Carmel Arthur (Periplus edition), P100

Feminist writings

Spare Rib Reader: 100 Issues of Women’s Liberation, P40
*Spare Rib, a magazine from the early 70s that put women’s liberation on the news stands. This book is an anthology of articles chosen to “illustrate both the development of ideas in the women’s movement and the development of Spare Rib.”

The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States (a collection of literary texts) edited by Dexter Fisher, P40

Essays/ Theory

Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag, P50
Convergences: Essays on Art and Literature by Octavio Paz, P50
The Film Sense by Sergei Eisenstein, P50

Classics

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Dover Thrift Editions), P20
The Aenid of Virgil, a verse translation by Rolfe Humphries, P20
Strange Tales from the Arabian Nights, P20
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, P20

Fiction

How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto (Hardbound), P50
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett, P50
Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui, P50
G by John Berger, P 100
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, P50
Second Hand (“A novel about knick-knacks, garage sales, and the bonds we form with people and things”) by Michael Zadoorian, P50
Vita Brevis by Jostein Gaarder, P50
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami, P50
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, P50
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, P50
Jacob’s Room and the Waves by Virginia Wolf, P50
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath, P50
Truck Stop Rainbows(“The Unbearable Lightness of Being meets Fear of Flying in this exuberant novel of sex, hitchhiking, and social sabotage written by a young Czech writer of unfettered inventiveness and scalding honesty.”) by Iva Pekarkova, P50
The Godfather by Mario Puzo, P50
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig, P50
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote, P40
A Suitable Boy (part 3) by Vikram Seth, P50
That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis, P50
Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov, P40

Non-Fiction

The Trouble with Nick and other Profiles by Marra PL. Lanot, P50
Man Meets Dog by Konrad Lorentz, P20

Young Adult

Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Blume, P20
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox, P20
(Sweet Dreams) California Girl, P15

Travel

Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle, P70

Children’s books

The Missing Piece meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein (Hardbound), P150
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (Hardbound), P150

*if interested, drop a line and then let's arrange a meetup or shipping (to be shouldered by the buyer).