Paul Levy, Out to Lunch (Harper). Food essays which I had been carrying around and not reading since the book was published in 1987. At least it was a review copy.
Terry Tempest Williams, Desert Quartet (Pantheon, 1995). Prose poetry.
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (Cape, 1969). Third printing, no jacket.
Bill Knott, Becos (Random, 1983). Poetry. Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (Weathervane). Illustrated by Rackham. Another childhood treasure departs.
Sartre, Les mots (Folio). Childhood volume.
Roland Barthes, image Music Text (Fontana, 1979). Second fontana printing. Childhood debris.
Lolis Eric Elie, Smokestack Lightning (FSG, 1996). Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country.
Thomas Keller, The French Laundry Cookbook (Artisan, 1999). 18th printing. Gift from an old girlfriend. Never cooked from.
Larry Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe (Doubleday, trade paper). Volumes 1 and 2
Stanley Appelbaum, The Complete 'Masters of the Poster' " (Dover)
James Tiptree Jr., Crown of Stars (Tor, 1988). Secondrate Tiptree. Long past time I kept lugging this around,too.
Cynthia Ozick, Dictation (Houghton, 2008). Flaps glued to boards.
Rejected: Ozick, Levy, Fowles. Others, too, I thought. Net income: $23.