Something for nothing*

Preparing to prepare to move entails sifting through our books to weed out things we probably won't read again, that we have multiple copies of, or that we've replaced with a nicer/updated copy, etc. I would love for these to find new homes, so if you'd like them--free! free!--shoot me an email or comment below. First come, first serve, etc. I'll try to mark them as they are taken. (There are more where these came from, so stay tuned.)

Key:

H = hardcover
P = paperback
MM = mass-market paperback (the chunky ones)
G = good shape, almost new
U = used, could be somewhat worn
Ugly = better than it probably looks, but still fine on the inside, where it counts
Blue = donated to Adam's Books--so scoot on over there if you're in Brooklyn, & support our new neighborhood store!

*You pay for book-rate postage. Or we could swap something. I'm always up for that. Book-rate is cheap tho. For instance, I can send 5lbs of books to the West Coast for less than $1 per lb. If you're closer than that, it's even less.


LITERARY FICTION/BIOGRAPHY/ETC.

The Sun Also Rises / Hemingway / MM/U
The Poorhouse Fair / Updike / MM/G
The Awakening & Selected Stories / Chopin / MM/U
Typee / Melville / H/U (mini hardcover textbook, no underlining or highlighting)
Ratner's Star / DeLillo / P/U
Animal Farm / Orwell / MM/G
Steps / Kosinski / MM/U
The Idiot / Dostoyevsky, Carlisle trans. / MM/Ugly
A Moveable Feast / Hemingway / MM/U
The Bell Jar / Plath / MM/Ugly
Catch 22 / Heller / MM/Ugly
Fifth Business / Davies / MM/U
Moby Dick / Melville / P/G (This is a nice paperback copy, even if it was publised by Barnes & Noble)
Snow White / Barthelme / MM/U (textbook, some highlighting and penciled notes, though they're not mine)
Great Expectations / Dickens / P/Ugly (Some highlighting, and the front cover has been taped, but still OK)
Great Short Works of Dostoevsky / Dostoevsky, Various trans. / MM/U (Cover has been ripped and taped. Take it to the beach or read it in the tub--all the good stuff's in here. I took it to Mexico, on a bus. Twice.)

PICK A GENRE, ANY GENRE (Admit it, you love 'em. Us too.)

A Winter Hauting / Dan Simmons / MM/U
The Talisman / King/Straub / MM/U
The Colorado Kid / King / MM/G
Bag of Bones / King / MM/U
Easy Travel to Other Planets / Mooney / MM/U
Summer of Night / Simmons / MM/G
Radix / Attanasio / MM/U
Chasm City / Reynolds / MM/U
361 / Westlake / MM/U (back cover has been ripped and taped, so this verges on ugly)

YOUNG ADULT, but don't let that stop you

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew / Lewis / MM/G
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe / Lewis / MM/G
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe / Lewis / MM/G (Um, yes, again. The rest of the paperbacks are probably around here somewhere. We got a hardcover set.)

DRAMA

Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude & Mourning Becomes Electra / O'Neill / MM/U
The Tempest / Shakespeare / MM/U
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf / Albee / MM/U

PHILOSOPHY/ECONOMICS/RELIGIOUS STUDIES/ETC.

Twilight of the Idols, The Anti-Christ / Nietzche / MM/U
The Varieties of Religious Experience / James / MM/Ugly (textbook, but only two highlighted spots)
Beyond Good & Evil / Nietzche, Kaufman trans. / MM/Ugly (two or three underlined spots, but otherwise clean)
The Communist Manifesto / Marx & Engels / MM/U (some highlighting, but not too awful)

ER0TICA (Sorry for the g00fy sp3lling, but I'd prefer not to be attacked by p0rnb0ts.)

The K@ma Sutr@ / Burton trans. / MM/U (This was a textbook, in case you feel funny about used, um, erotica)
Delta of V3nus / Nin / MM/U (ditto)
The Joy of S3x: S3xu@l F0replay / Comfort / H/G (This is like-new. I was the publicist on it, long ago.)
The Joy of S3x: S3xu@l P0sitions / Comfort / H/G (Ditto. These are excerpted from the classic, so if you have that, they'll be redundant.)

MISC./REFERENCE

The Simon & Schuster Book of Chess / Keene / P/G
Dictionary of Mythology / Evans / MM/Ugly (some tearing/peeling of cover, but still serviceable.)
Harbrace College Handbook, 11th Edition / Whitten/Horner/Webb / H/U (I follow Chicago, & I suspect this is somewhat outdated, but for basic grammar & usage it's a decent reference.)


POETRY (most of these marked G are basically new, and were either review copies, membership premiums, or doubles somehow. Lots of Knopf from when I worked for a Random House imprint.)

Collected Poem / Dylan Thomas / P/G (I have two copies. Dunno how.)
The Laws of Falling Bodies / Kate Light / P/G
One Thousand Years / David Ray / P/G
Dancing in Odessa / Kaminsky / P/G (I bought this twice because I forgot to bring the copy I had with me to Ilya's reading, & I wanted him to sign it for me.)
Bene-Dictions / Rush Rankin / P/G
Miracles & Mortifications / Peter Johnson / P/G
My Shining Archipelago / Talvikki Ansel / P/G
Where She Always Was / Frannie Lindsay / H/G
The Little Space: Poems Selected & New, 1968-1998 / Alicia Ostriker / P/G
Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books / Davis & Manguso, eds. / P/G (HOT! I also have two copies of this; the one I'm keeping is signed by most of the contributors. I guess I did the same thing that night?)
50 Years of American Poetry / Academy of American Poets / MM/G
A Book of Love Poetry / Stallsworthy, ed. / P/G (I borrowed this for a wedding, but she didn't want it back. It's got some good stuff in it, it's just kinda redundant vis a vis my anthology collection.)
The Invisible World / John Canaday / P/G
Notes from the Divided Country / Suji Kwock Kim / P/G
Blessing the Boats: New & Selected Poems, 1988-2000 / Lucille Clifton / H/G (This is a really nice hardcover, with acetate over the jacket cover.)
HIV, Mon Amour / Tory Dent / H/G (ditto)
Except by Nature / Sandra Alcosser / H/G (ditto)
The Long Meadow / Vijay Seshadri / H/G (ditto)
What Are Big Girls Made Of / Marge Piercy / H/G (ditto)
Bitters / Rebecca Seiferle / P/G
Epiphanies of the Soul: Empower Yourself with Therapeutic Poetry, 3rd Ed. / Rena Johnson / P/G (Beats me.)
The Poems of Peter Davison / Peter Davison / P/G
The Master Letters / Lucie Brock-Broido / P/G
Daily Horoscope / Dana Gioia / P/G
Ararat / Louise Gluck / P/G (Relax, I'll keep The Wild Iris)
The Sun at Night / Brooks Haxton / P/G

Journals & Lit Mags (Many of these are great; we just don't have room.)

Elixir / Vol 4, No 1, 2004 / P/G
Crab Orchard Review / Vol 10, No 1, 2005 Prize Issue / P/G
Crab Orchard Review / Vol 9, No 2, 2004 / P/G
Danta / Vol 1, No 1 / P/G
Small Spiral Notebook / Vol 1, No 1, 2004 / P/G (We went to a launch party where $10 donation admission got you in + copy, so we had three!)
The R3c0rder: The J0urnal of the Am3rican Irish Hist0rical Society / Fall 1999 / P/G (with a story by my husband, under one of his various names, but we have a big stack of these, though none of us claim to clearly remember uproariously carting them out to the cab from the party in plain view of some horrified formally dressed guests)