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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: 

Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe [Pan UK TPB 42nd Anniversary Ed.] (G, one corner has a small closed tear, indentations and creases on cover, corners somewhat curled) 

Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless [Pan UK TPB 42nd Anniversary Ed.] (VG, only shelf wear - part of a five book set, of which I only acquired 3-5) 

Douglas Adams - Life, The Universe and Everything [Pan UK TPB 42nd Anniversary Ed.] (VG, only shelf wear - part of a five book set, of which I only acquired 3-5) 

Douglas Adams - So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish [Pan UK TPB 42nd Anniversary Ed.] (VG, only shelf wear - part of a five book set, of which I only acquired 3-5) 

Margery Allingham - Traitor’s Purse [MMP - Berkley Edition, January, 1961] (Fair, shows some reading wear and signs of age: rubbing along edges, bottom edge of spine is split on both sides, glue in binding has become brittle and starting to fall apart - stored in poly sleeve.)

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) 

Maya Angelou - Poems [MMP] (Fair, spine cracked but pages secure, some rubbing along edges, light foxing on inside covers) 

James Baldwin - The Amen Corner (G+) 

Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida (Fair, underlining and marginalia in pen, reading wear, rubbing along edges - reading/studying copy) 

Donald Barthelme - The Dead Father (G, some reading wear, light foxing on page ends, some blemishes on cover, minor edge wear, corners slightly raised) 

Samuel Beckett - Malone Dies (G+, some reading wear, minor edge wear) 

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) 

Saul Bellow - Herzog (G, crease on front cover, rubbing along edges, signs of age)

Gina Berriault - The Lights of Earth: A Novel (VG-, some light scuffs on cover, minor rubbing along edges, remainder mark on bottom page ends) 

Heinrich Böll - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Acceptable - some light highlighting - unobtrusive, edges of cover curled, univ. bookstore sticker) 

Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine [MMP] (G+, some reading wear, small crease on front cover, minor rubbing along edges, some foxing on page ends) 

Richard Brautigan - The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings (VG)

Jimmy Breslin - I Don’t Want to Go to Jail [MMP] (G, some reading wear, spine creased and somewhat slanted, some reading wear and light foxing) 

Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (G+) 

Rita Mae Brown - Six of One [MMP] (G, spine creased and somewhat slanted, some rubbing along edges and corners, light foxing on inside front and rear cover) 

Charles Bukowski - Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (G, reading wear, page ends stained, some pages wrinkled from small amount of moisture, edge wear)

Tim Cahill - A Wolverine is Eating My Leg (G+, light crease on spine, minor edge wear) 

Albert Camus - The Stranger (VG-, mild reading wear, minor edge wear) 

Albert Camus - The Stranger (G+)

Orson Scott Card - Ender’s Game [MMP] (G+, spine creased, rubbing along edges, small crease on front cover) 

Orson Scott Card - Ender’s Shadow [MMP} (G+, spine creased, else mild reading wear) 

Orson Scott Card - Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus [MMP] (G, spine creased, light indentations and scratches on cover, minor rubbing along edges) 

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)

Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (VG)

Raymond Carver - Where I’m Calling From (G, some reading wear, light foxing on page ends, minor rubbing along edges) 

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-)

Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express [MMP - Movie Tie-In with color film stills] (VG-, minor rubbing along edges) 

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me [HC/DJ] (VG/VG, light reading wear) 

Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone (VG) 

Evan S. Connell - Mrs. Bridge (G, some spots on page ends, minor rubbing along edges, spine faded, mild reading wear) 

Noël Coward - Collected Plays: Two (Private Lives, Bitter-Sweet, The Marquise, Post-Mortem) (G+, light foxing on page ends, minor edge wear, one corner bumped) 

Noel Coward - Three Plays: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives (G+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear) 

Emily Dickinson - The Essential Emily Dickinson : Poems, selected with an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates (VG-, a few pages slightly wrinkled, mild reading wear) 

Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking (Hardcover) (VG-/VG-, minor reading wear, dust jacket has mild edge wear.) 

Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (G, rubbing along edges of cover and spine, light foxing on inside of covers, a few dogeared pages) 

Viola Di Grado - 70% Acrylic 30% Wool (G, some page a bit wrinkled along edges, possible moisture exposure, else just minor reading wear) 

Annie Dillard - An American Childhood (Good+, one corner dented) 

J. P. Donleavy - The Ginger Man (VG-, some reading wear, small crease on front cover, minor edge wear) 

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose [MMP] (G, spine creased and somewhat bowed, rubbing along edges)

Jennifer Egan - A Visit From the Goon Squad (VG-) 

Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity (VG) 

Richard M. Elam, Jr. - (Teen-Age) Science Fiction Stories [MMP] (G, mild reading wear and signs of age, light discoloration on page ends) 

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) 

Gabriel García Márquez - Strange Pilgrims (VG-, crease on front cover, minor edge wear, normal reading wear) 

William Golding - Lord of the Flies [MMP} (Fair, small amount of highlighting, reading wear, spine creased) 

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)

Steven Hall - The Raw Shark Texts (G, reading wear, discoloration on page ends, minor rubbing along edges) 

Thomas Hardy - Far From The Maddening Crowd (VG)  

Ernest Hemingway - Green Hills of Africa (G, some reading wear, corners somewhat curled, rubbing along edges) 

Michael Herr - Dispatches (VG-) 

John Hersey - A Bell for Adano [MMP] (G, signs of age, one page has a closed tear, light foxing, glue in binding is somewhat brittle, but still fully secure, minor rubbing along edges) 

Hermann Hesse - Demian (G+, some foxing on page ends and tips of inside front and rear cover, inscription on half-title page, minor edge and cover wear) 

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha [Penguin Deluxe Edition] (VG) 

Hermann Hesse - Narcissus and Goldmund [MMP] (G, light crease on spine, edge wear, light foxing on page ends, minor signs of age, else fine) 

Gerard Manley Hopkins - Selected Poetry [Oxford World’s Classics] (VG, minor edge wear)

L. Ron Hubbard - The Invaders Plan [MMP} (Fair, foxing on insert front and rear cover, which has become brittle and cracked with some piece missing, now repaired with tape, else spine creased and mild reading wear) 

Langston Hughes - Short Stories (G, spine creased, reading wear, rubbing along edges, corners somewhat curled) 

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables [MMP] (G+, spine creased, some rubbing along edges, light reading wear) 

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (Acceptable, some notes on a few pages, rubbing along edges) 

Eugène Ionesco  - Rhinoceros & Other Plays (G) 

John Irving - The World According to Garp [MMP] (G+, light crease on front cover, some foxing on inside front and rear cover) 

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) 

Jack Kerouac - On The Road [Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century] (VG, light reading wear, minor edge wear)

Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place (G+)

Milan Kundera - Immortality (VG-, some reading wear, light discoloration on page ends, minor edge and cover wear) 

Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia (G, reading wear, note on first page) 

Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin (VG)

Fran Lebowitz - The Fran Lebowitz Reader (G, light crease on spine, corners slightly curled, rubbing on cover) 

Andrea Lee - Russian Journal [MMP] (G+, spine sun-faded, minor edge wear) 

Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea (G, reading wear, corners of cover somewhat curled, one corner has small amount of water damage)

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook (G+, some reading wear, minor edge and cover wear from normal use) 

C. S. Lewis - The Great Divorce [2001 Edition with French flaps and deckled page ends] (VG)

C.S. Lewis - Miracles (G+, crease on front cover, some light stains on uncoated cover, minor edge wear, light reading wear) 

Beth Lisick - Everybody into the Pool (Good+, some reading wear to pages)

Ross Macdonald - The Way Some People Die [MMP] (Fair, mostly cover, several creases on front panel, rubbing along edges, some sticker residue, reading wear)

Bernard Malamud - The Fixer [MMP] (G+, minor signs of age, light foxing, minor edge wear. 

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City (VG, minor edge wear from light use) 

Jack McKinney - Robotech #11: Metamorphosis (G, spine creased, rubbing along edges, some pages a little wrinkled) 

John McPhee - The Control of Nature (VG-) 

Czeslaw Milosz - The Captive Mind (G, small amount of underlining, used bookstore stickers, minor edge and cover wear)

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye (VG- minor signs of use) 

Toni Morrison - Jazz (VG) 

Harry Mulisch - The Assault (VG-, minor edge wear)

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita [1997 UK Movie Tie-In Cover] (G, spine creases, rubbing along edges, small closed tear along spine, corners somewhat curled)  

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita [Vintage International] (VG, light reading wear) 

Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil [Penguin Classics] (VG+, sticker on back cover, mild shelf wear)

Anaïs Nin - Delta of Venus [HC] (VG, no dust jacket, else just mild signs of light use)

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)

DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little (G+, reading wear, minor edge and cover wear) 

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) 

Charles Portis - True Grit [Movie Tie-in cover] (G+, light reading wear, minor edge wear) 

Marcel Proust - Within a Budding Grove: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II [Modern Library] (G, spine creased, reading wear, rubbing along edges, corners slightly curled) 

Tom Robbins - Another Roadside Attraction [MMP] (G, spine creased, light stains on front cover, rubbing along edges) 

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) 

J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye [MMP] (VG)

J.D. Salinger - Nine Stories [MMP] (VG)

David Sedaris - Barrel Fever (VG)

Anne Sexton - The Complete Poems (G, spine sun-faded, pages have reading wear, some blemishes on back cover, page ends have some light stains, edges and corners rubbed, spine creased, else fine. Great reading copy.) 

Ntozake Shange - For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (G, some passages underlined in pencils, mild reading wear, minor edge and cover wear) 

Sam Shepard - Seven Plays (G, spine creased, reading wear, rubbing along edges, some foxing on inside front and rear cover) 

Patti Smith - Year of the Monkey (Hardcover) (VG/VG-, dust jacket has some minor edge wear.) 

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle [MMP] (G, sun-fading on spine, edge wear, light foxing on page ends, minor signs of age, else fine) 

Susan Sontag - Illness as a Metaphor [MMP} {G, rubbing along edges, small creases and wrinkles, light foxing)  

John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath (G+) 

John Steinbeck - Cannery Row [MMP] (G, vintage pocket paperback with some rubbing along edges, grease pen mark on front cover, signs of age) 

Wallace Stevens - The Collected Poems (G+, some reading wear, several pages have dogeared corners, mild rubbing along edges, minor cover wear)

Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy [MMP] (VG-, small closed tear on edge of spine repaired with tape, else just minor edge wear) 

Irving Stone - Lust for LIfe (Fair, spine bowed, rubbing along edges of cover, corners slightly curled, pages have reading wear, light foxing on page ends) 

William Styron - Darkness Visible (VG) 

Michelle Tea - Valencia (G, reading wear, spine creased, rubbing along edges) 

Hunter S. Thompson - The Rum Diary (VG-, light reading wear) 

Pramoedya Ananta Toer - This Earth of Mankind (VG)

Leo Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories [MMP] (F, corner back cover missing, rubbing on edges, crease on cover, light foxing on page ends, still good reading copy) 

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina [MMP] (G, some foxing on inside front and rear cover, rubbing and a few small chips along edges, a few closed tears repaired with tape, light crease on spine)

Mark Twain - Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (G+, minor reading wear.)

Kurt Vonnegut - Jailbird (G, spine creased and somewhat slanted, sun-fading, minor edge wear, light foxing on page ends, minor signs of age, else fine) 

Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence (G, rubbing along edges, spine creased, small crease on front cover, reading wear) 

Colson Whitehead - The Colossus of New York (VG-, crease on front cover, else fine) 

Charles Williams - All Hallows’ Eve (G, spine cracked, all pages secure, foxing, edge wear, some signs of age) 

Kevin Wilson - Nothing to See Here (VG) 

Thomas Wolfe - You Can’t Go Home Again [MMP] (G, small chip on top corner of front cover, edge wear, light foxing on inside front and rear cover, minor signs of age, else fine) 

Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward, Angel (G, discoloration on bottom page ends, rubbing along edges, stamp on top page ends, wrinkle on bottom of spine, signs of age but no foxing) 

Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication Of The Rights of Woman (MMP) (VG-) 

Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway (MMP) (G) 

Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own (G+, some light indentations in cover, rubbing along edges, spine discolored) 

Herman Wouk - Don’t Stop the Carnival (G, spine creased and slanted, pages have reading wear, rubbing along edges of cover, corners slightly raised)

Cao Xueqin - The Story of the Stone (Also Known As The Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 1: The Golden Days) (G, creases on spine, rubbing along edges, unfading, light foxing, corners slightly curled) 

William Butler Yeats - Mythologies (G, spine faded, edge wear, corners slightly curled) 

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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