Browsing Non-Fiction  :  104 Books

• Carol J Adams  :  Neither Man Nor Beast   Continuum, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. The author of The Sexual Politics of Meat goes one step further here. This volume represents her collected reflections on animal rights, vegetarianism, and ecofeminism. F/F. $10.00.

• Jon Lee Anderson  :  Che   Grove Press, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. The first and most extensively researched biography of one of the most fascinating, controversial, and charismatic figures of the Twentieth Century. F/F. $20.00.

• Susan Antilla  :  Tales From the Boom-Boom Room   Bloomberg Press, Princeton, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. At the height of the bull market in the late 1990s, America's second-largest brokerage house, Salomon Smith Barney, was hit with a lawsuit. Three women employees from Garden City, New York, were alleging a pattern of extreme sexual harassment and sex discrimination. F/F. $10.00.

• Lucie Aubrac  :  Outwitting The Gestapo   University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1993. Hardcover. First English Translation. Lucie Aubrac, newly married, was teaching history in Lyons when World War II broke out. She and her husband soon joined the Resistance movement. This is her account of the months when, pregnant with her second child, she planned and took part in raids to free captive comrades - including her husband. F/F. $10.00.

• Ken Auletta  :  The Highwaymen   Random House, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Expose of the communications industry and the men who run it. Much information is so outdated now that this is almost a historical document. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $5.00.

• John Bayley  :  Elegy For Iris   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. Baley's story of Iris Murdoch's battle with Alzheimer's disease. The basis for the movie starring Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent. . F/F. $5.00.

• John Berendt  :  City of Falling Angels   Penguin Press, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Kathleen M. Blee  :  Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement   University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. A nuanced view of the organized racist underground in the United States focusing on the often ignored voices of women in the movement. F/F. $20.00.

• Jan Bondeson  :  Buried Alive   W.W. Norton, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Author discusses one of humankind's most primal fears. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jan Bondeson  :  The London Monster   University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania., 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. A century before Jack the Ripper stalked the city monster mania gripped London. A young Welshman was tried and convicted, but there is some doubt as to whether there was a monster at all. F/F. $5.00.

• Anthony Bourdain  :  Typhoid Mary   Bloomsbury, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Author and chef Bourdain writes about one of the most notorious women in history who was, as Bourdain reminds us, a cook. F/F. $5.00.

• John Boyne  :  The Thief of Time   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. top front edge is badly crimped. In fine dust jacket. NF/NF. $50.00.

• Lorraine Bracco  :  On the Couch   Putnam, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Candid autobiography of "Dr. Melfi" from The Sopranos. F/F. $45.00.

• Susan Brownmiller  :  In Our Time   Dial Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A memoir of the second wave of feminism by the author of Against Our Will. NF/NF. $10.00.

• David Cannadine  :  Ornamentalism   Oxford University Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. With the return of Hong Kong to the Chinese government in 1997, the empire that had lasted three hundred years loosened its hold on the world and slipped into history. This book takes a look at the British Empire through the eyes of those who created and ruled it. F/F. $20.00.

• David Cannadine  :  The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain   Columbia University Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. This study shows that Brits really are class-obsessed, but ways that are ignorant and confused. F/F. $20.00.

• Michael Capuzzo  :  Close to Shore   Broadway Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. In July 1916 a lone great white was pulled by a current of the Gulf Stream and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage. A historical thriller. F/F. $10.00.

• Miranda Carter  :  Anthony Blunt: His Lives   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. The first full biography of one of the most notorious spies of the twentieth century. For years Sir Anthony Blunt was a leading light in high society and the art world until Margaret Thatcher exposed him as a spy in 1979. . F/F. $30.00.

• Bill Clinton  :  My Life   Knopf, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. The former President tells of his life so far. F/F. $40.00.

• Paul Collins  :  Sixpence House   Bloomsbury, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. Author reminisces about his life in Haye-On-Wye, the book town in Wales. F/F. $5.00.

• John Cornwell  :  Hitler's Pope   John Cornwell, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. The previously untold story of Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, Pontiff from 1939 to 1958 and known as the Pope who failed to speak out against Hitler's final solution. Here is the full story of how Pacelli in fact prompted events in the 1920s and '30s which helped sweep the Nazis to unhindered power. F/F. $20.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Portrait of a Killer   Putnam, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Cornwell's Jack the Ripper theory. F/F. $25.00.

• Robert Dallek  :  An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963   Little Brown, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. The definitive biography which discloses just how sick Kennedy was and discusses his numerous love affairs. F/F. $20.00.

• Norman Davies  :  The Isles   Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. Written by one of the most brilliant historians at work today, this is a revolutionary narrative history which takes a new look at the development of Britain and Ireland, not as self-contained islands, but as a crucial part of Europe. F/F. $20.00.

• Der Spiegel  :  Inside 9-11   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First English Translation. Reporters from Der Spiegel Magazine were the first to put together the events of 9/11 in this country and around the world. This is probably the most comprehensive overview of the attack to date. F/F. $5.00.

• Ivan Doig  :  Heart Earth   Atheneum, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. Doig continues his memoir. Against the backdrop of WWII, this is the saga of the Doigs and their journey from a defense housing project in boomtime Arizona to the high country of Montana. Remainder Mark. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Stephen Dorril  :  MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service   Free Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. A comprehensive history of the British "Company.". F/F. $20.00.

• William J. Duiker  :  Ho Chi Minh: A Life   Hyperion, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Monumental biography of Ho Chi Minh by a leading scholar. F/F. $20.00.

• Timothy Dumas  :  Greentown   Arcade, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Story of the killing of Martha Moxley, for which Michael Skakel was later convicted. Edgar nominee. F/F. $5.00.

• Jim Dwyer  :  102 Minutes   Times Books, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Definitive account of the fight to survive 9/11 told by those in the World Trade Center. F/F. $10.00.

• Alice Echols  :  Scars of Sweet Paradise   Metropolitan Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Definitive biography of Janis Joplin. F/F. $20.00.

• Barbara Ehrenreich  :  Nickel and Dimed   Metropolitan Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. In 1998 Ehrenreich left her home and accepted whatever jobs she was offered to see how American men and women survive on six and seven dollars and hour. A rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. F/F. $10.00.

• Susan Faludi  :  Stiffed   William Morrow, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. How American working men have been betrayed. A journey through the contemporary masculine landscape. F/F. $10.00.

• Sebastian Faulks  :  The Fatal Englishman   Hutchinson, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. A triple biography - Christopher Wood who went to Paris to become the greatest painter in the world. Died at 29. Richar Hillary who flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain and died mysteriously at 23. Jeremy Wolfenden who became a reporter for the Daily Telegraph and died at 31. F/F. $25.00.

• Anne Fausto-Sterling  :  Sexing the Body   Basic Books, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Sex difference seems to be fundamental to our conception of human identity. But the author shows it is much more complicated than we realize. F/F. $20.00.

• Niall Ferguson  :  The Pity of War   Basic Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. A history of World War I bound to transform the way we think about that conflict. F/F. $10.00.

• Martin Fido  :  A History of British Serial Killing   Carlton Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. An exploration of British killers, from Jack the Ripper to Fred and Rosemary West. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $5.00.

• Judith Freeman  :  The Long Embrace   Pantheon, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Raymond Chandler and the role his wife played in his life and work. $30.00.

• Jeremy Gaskell  :  Who Killeld the Great Auk?   Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. The author discusses the causes that made this bird extinct. F/F. $35.00.

• Wendy Gimbel  :  Havana Dreams   Knopf, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's account of her family - four generations of Cuban women. F/F. $5.00.

• Malcolm Gladwell  :  Blink   Little Brown, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. The mysteries of intuition and non-rational thought. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $20.00.

• Mona Golabek  :  The Children of Willesden Lane   Warner Books, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. A remarkable memoir of concern pianist Mona Golabek who was part of the Kindertransport from Vienna. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $5.00.

• Jan Goodwin  :  Price of Honor   Little Brown, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Muslim women lift the veil of silence on the Islamic world. F/F. $5.00.

• Elliot J. Gorn  :  Mother Jones   Hill & Wang, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Biography of "the most dangerous woman in America.". F/F. $5.00.

• Pete Goss  :  Close to the Wind   Carroll & Graf, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Story of the author's first transatlantic race. F/F. $5.00.

• Gordon Grice  :  The Red Hourglass   Delacorte, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. The author discusses some of the predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home. F/F. $20.00.

• Peter Guralnick  :  Careless Love   Little Brown, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Second volume of the biography of Elvis Presley. F/F. $10.00.

• David Halberstam  :  Firehouse   Hyperion, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. On the morning of September 11, 2001, thirteen men of Engine 40, Ladder 35, located on the West Side of Manhattan, left for the World Trade Center. Only one returned. F/F. $10.00.

• Dashiell Hammett  :  Dashiell Hammett: A Bibliography   Un. of Pittsburgh Press, Pa., 1979. Hardcover. First Edition. A comprehensive bibliography of Hammett's work. Indispensible for the collector. In boards as issued. Fine. $85.00.

• Jonathan Harr  :  A Civil Action   Random House, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. One of the best real-life thrillers ever written. Winner of the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS' AWARD. Book is fine in later state dustjacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Jonathan Harr  :  The Lost Painting   Random House, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. The quest for a missing Caravaggio masterpiece. One Best Books of the Year lists. F/F. $25.00.

• Ronald Hayman  :  Hitler & Geli   Bloomsbury, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. An account of the affair Hitler had with his niece, Geli Raubal. It started in 1927 and lasted until 1931 when Geli was found dead in the Munich flat she shared with Hitler. F/F. $5.00.

• bell hooks  :  Killing Rage   Henry Holt, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Ending racism. NF/NF. $5.00.

• bell hooks  :  Remembered Rapture   Henry Holt, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Essays about reading and writing. F/F. $5.00.

• bell hooks  :  Wounds of Passion   Henry Holt, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. The writing life. F/F. $5.00.

• Roy Jenkins  :  Churchill   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Monumental biography of England's hero by late MP Jenkins. F/F. $10.00.

• Eric A. Johnson  :  Nazi Terror   Basic Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The role of ordinary Germans in implementing racial and political oppression. F/F. $20.00.

• Haynes Johnson  :  The Best of Times   Harcourt, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. America during the Clinton years. F/F. $5.00.

• Michael Johnson  :  Masters of Crime   Scorpion Press, Gladesty, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Examines the work of Dick Francis and Lionel Davidson. Signed by Francis and Davidson. Number 44 of 250 numbered copies. Fine in glassine. Fine. $150.00.

• Sebastian Junger  :  Fire   W.W. Norton, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Our fascination with fire. Top of spine is buckled although book is unread. $5.00.

• Sebastian Junger  :  The Perfect Storm   W.W. Norton, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Gripping true story of fishing boat in a storm off the Grand Banks. Made into a movie starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg. F/F. $50.00.

• Ian Kershaw  :  Hitler: 1936-1945   W.W. Norton, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. Second volume of monumental biography of Adolph Hitler. F/F. $20.00.

• Gary Kinder  :  Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea   Atlantic Monthly, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. The search for the SS Central America which sank in 1857 with 21 tons of gold on board. F/F. $10.00.

• Gina Kolata  :  Flu   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The great influenza Pandemic of 1918. F/F. $20.00.

• A.J. Langguth  :  Our Vietnam   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Definitive history of the war in Vietnam 1954-1975. F/F. $20.00.

• Erik Larson  :  Thunderstruck   Crown, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Peter Laufer  :  A Question of Consent   Mercury House, San Francisco, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. In 1993 four boys from Glen Ridge, New Jersey raped a mentally retarded young woman. This is an account of the trial and troubling questions it raised. F/F. $10.00.

• Derek Leebaert  :  The Fifty-Year Wound   Little Brown, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. A sweeping account of the Cold War from start to finish. The author draws on both US and Russian sources to show what we lost, what we gained, and what we can expect from the future. F/F. $20.00.

• Jonathan Lethem  :  This Shape We're In   McSweeney's Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $20.00.

• John Lukacs  :  Five Days in London: May 1940   Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The Blitz. Mayor Rudolph Guliani said he was inspired by this story during the attacks on the World Trade Center. F/F. $20.00.

• J. Anthony Lukas  :  Big Trouble   Simon & Schuster, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. True story of the murder of Frank Steunenberg, former governor of Idaho, who was blown up by a bomb nailed to his gatepost. F/F. $10.00.

• Andrew Lycett  :  Ian Fleming   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Remarkable biography of the man who gave us James Bond. His life and work were infinitely more interesting than his fictional hero. F/F. $20.00.

• Ben MacIntyre  :  The Englishman's Daughter   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. True story of love and betrayal in World War 1. When a handful of British soldiers are trapped behind enemy lines on the Western front, they hid in the French countryside. A love affair between a villager and a British soldier produced a young child which tears the community apart. F/F. $25.00.

• Ian Macmillan  :  Village of a Million Spirits   Steerforth Press, Vermont, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. On August 2, 1943, prisoners of the Treblinka "secret camp" armed with stolen guns and grenades, attacked their guards, set fire to the camp, and fled into the neighboring forest. Forty of the six hundred prisoners who escaped, lived. F/F. $30.00.

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez  :  News of A Kidnapping   Knopf, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First US Edition. Chronicles the 1990 kidnapping of ten Colombian men and women, most of them journalists, by the drug boss Pablo Escobar. F/F. $20.00.

• Peter Matthiessen  :  Sand Rivers   Viking, New York, 1981. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A safari into the Selous Game Preserve of Southern Tanzania. Text by Matthiessen, photographs by Hugo van Lawick. JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL WINNER. F/F. $125.00.

• Peter Matthiessen  :  The Birds of Heaven   North Point Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Travels with cranes. F/F. $35.00.

• Peter Matthiessen  :  The Cloud Forest   Viking, New York, 1961. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Matthiessen heads to Peru in search of the last wilderness. Slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $200.00.

• Peter Matthiessen  :  Wildlife in America   Viking, New York, 1959. Hardcover. First Edition. A classic in conservation literature. Slight shelfwear. Price clipped dustjacket. NF/NF. $125.00.

• Mary McCarthy  :  Memories of a Catholic Girlhood   Harcourt Brace, New York, 1957. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Autobiography of McCarthy told in eight connected episodes. The original pieces were first published in The New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. Slight shelfwear top and bottom of spine. NF/NF. $50.00.

• Diane McWhorter  :  Carry Me Home   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. A major work of investigative journalism which gives a dramatic account of the civil rights era's climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. PULITZER PRIZE. F/F. $40.00.

• Judith Miller  :  Germs   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Biological weapons. F/F. $30.00.

• Judith Miller  :  God Has Ninety Nine Names   Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Miller takes the reader deep within the militant Islamic movement in ten Middle-Eastern countries. A classic. . F/F. $30.00.

• Seamus Milne  :  The Enemy Within   Verso, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First US Edition. The war waged by successive Tory governments against Britain's miners came to a head during the 1984-985 miner's strike. MI5 and the Scargill affair. F/F. $25.00.

• Anchee Min  :  Red Azalea   Pantheon, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Author tells of her experiences in the Little Red guard in Mao's China. F/F. $25.00.

• Francis M. Nevins, Jr.  :  Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die   Mysterious Press, New York, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. The definitive biography of Woolrich. A fine tight copy of this classic. Pen mark (not remainder mark) on bottom edges. . NF/NF. $55.00.

• Stewart O'Nan  :  The Circus Fire   Doubleday, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Story of the deadly fire in Hartford, Connecticut in 1944. F/F. $30.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  Best American Essays of the Century   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The best of the best, from Mark Twain to Saul Bellow. Signed by Oates, who edited the collection. F/F. $40.00.

• Ian Ousby  :  Occupation   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. History of occupied France 1940-1944. F/F. $30.00.

• Ian Ousby  :  The Road to Verdun   Doubleday, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Account of one of the longest engagements of World War I. F/F. $30.00.

• Richard Parry  :  Trial By Ice   Ballantine Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. True story of murder and survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition. F/F. $25.00.

• Jeremy Paxman  :  The English   Overlook Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. A look at the character of the English and how it has changed. F/F. $12.00.

• Nathaniel Philbrick  :  In the Heart of the Sea   HarperCollins, London, 2000. Hardcover. First UK Edition. The true story of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale which inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. NF/NF. $35.00.

• Richard Rayner  :  Drake's Fortune   Doubleday, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. The story of Oscar Hartzell who conned millions of dollars from innocent people. F/F. $25.00.

• Joel Rose  :  New York Sawed in Half   Bloomsbury, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. True story of hoax of 1824. F/F. $10.00.

• James Ruddick  :  Death at the Priory   Atlantic Monthly, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. True crime. Nominated for Edgar Award. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $20.00.

• Ann Rule  :  ...And Never Let Her Go   Simon & Schuster, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Anne Marie Fahey, Thomas Capano, and their deadly relationship. True crime. F/F. $20.00.

• Ann Rule  :  The Stranger Beside Me   W.W. Norton, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Twentieth Anniversay Edition. Rule's classic story of serial killer Ted Bundy. F/F. $30.00.

• Eric Schlosser  :  Fast Food Nation   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. The history of fast food in post-war America. Fascinating. F/F. $35.00.

• David Sedaris  :  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim   Little Brown, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Witty essays by one of our most original writers. F/F. $25.00.

• John Taylor  :  The Count and The Confession   Random House, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. True story of the murder of Roger de la Burde in 1992. Edgar Award Nominee. F/F. $25.00.

• Joseph Wambaugh  :  Fire Lover   Wm. Morrow, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. True story of firefighter who set fires. Edgar Award Winner. F/F. $25.00.

• Barry Werth  :  31 Days   Doubleday, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. The period immediately following Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974 is described here. F/F. $30.00.

• Tom Wolfe  :  Hooking Up   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Wolfe's take on the sexual mores of the 1990s. F/F. $25.00.