Quality secondhand books since 1975

New Arrivals

New Arrivals
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - First British edition
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - First British edition
$500.00
Why we can't wait by Martin Luther King Jr. - First edition
Why we can't wait by Martin Luther King Jr. - First edition
$150.00
Monk Poems by Amiri Baraka
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Monk Poems by Amiri Baraka
$100.00
Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston
Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston
$100.00
The Unvanquished by William Faulkner
The Unvanquished by William Faulkner
$750.00
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Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
$100.00
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The Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
$100.00
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The Poems of William Wordsworth
$100.00

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