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Editions of forgotten, out-of-print books. Bookmark this page and check back; new titles are added regularly.

Cover of Intellectual Things

Intellectual Things

Kunitz's first book, published in 1930 when he was 24. Fifty dense, argumentative poems about the body, death, and the limits of reason. Kunitz went on to win the Pulitzer and serve twice as U.S. Poet Laureate.

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Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island

Wells's late, largely forgotten novel from 1928. A comfortable Englishman is shipwrecked among the cannibals of Rampole Island, and nothing there is quite what it seems.

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Beggars of Life

A hobo's memoir of riding the rails across early-1900s America — an unsentimental account by the author who invented the hard-boiled genre.

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