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Letters of Max Beerbohn 1892-1956 by: Hart-Davis (Ed), Ruper
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Letters of Max Beerbohn 1892-1956 by: Hart-Davis (Ed), Ruper

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 662
Price: $12.00 

Anything Can Happen in Vermont [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Wolf, Marguerite Hurrey
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Anything Can Happen in Vermont [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Wolf, Marguerite HurreyAnything Can Happen in Vermont [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Wolf, Marguerite Hurrey

Anything Can Happen in Vermont [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Wolf, Marguerite Hurrey

Hardcover. Coral Gables, FL, Wake-Brook House, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Handmade book with gorgeous floral decorative cloth cover boards and paper spinal label. Binding is solid. This book is a collection of humorous essays about the secrets of country living, as told by an urban transplant. Author's inscription on the first end page reads: "To Dick, with best wishes, Marguerite Wolf." Clean copy. Record # 33714
Price: $18.00 

Journey with Genius: Recollections and Reflections Concerning the D. H. Lawrences by: Bynner, Witter
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Journey with Genius: Recollections and Reflections Concerning the D. H. Lawrences by: Bynner, Witter

Hardcover. NY, The John Day Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 361 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition due to multiple chips and tears, and has been price clipped on the inside front flap. Cloth covers have some minor discoloration but are still in very good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout, The first night spent in an American home by D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda was spent in that of Witter Bynner. Soon afterward, they went together to Mexico on a memorable visit, which this book records in rich detail. This memoir is not just about the Lawrences, but is about a whole era in the intellectual and artistic life of the American Southwest. Previous owner's paste-down and markings in blue pen are present on the first front and last rear end pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34215
Price: $18.00 

With Shelley In Italy: Being A Selection Of The Poems And Letters Of Percy Bysshe Shelley Which Have To Do With His Life In Italy From 1818 To 1822 by: Shelley, Percy Bysshe McMahan, Anna Benneson

With Shelley In Italy: Being A Selection Of The Poems And Letters Of Percy Bysshe Shelley Which Have To Do With His Life In Italy From 1818 To 1822 by: Shelley, Percy Bysshe McMahan, Anna Benneson

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages, hardcover. Green cloth covers with raised bust and gilt text have minor discoloration, with bumping and rubbing to the corners and edges. Interior pages are clean and bright, with a gilt top edge. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This volume compiles poems and letters from 1818 to 1822, tracing Percy Bysshe Shelley's creative, emotional, and physical journey during his Italian exile. The selection showcases his responses to Italian landscapes and his personal hardships. Clean copy. Record # 34336
Price: $40.00 

Robert Creeley by: Ford, Arthur
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Robert Creeley by: Ford, Arthur

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages, gilt titles on blue board, black & white frontispiece portrait of Creeley. Bright and clean copy. Record # 62390
Price: $12.00 

Wild Ride - Earthquakes, Sneezes and Other Thrills by: Lowe, Bia
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Wild Ride - Earthquakes, Sneezes and Other Thrills by: Lowe, Bia

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Bright, clean copy in unclipped dust jacket. Record # 105977
Price: $12.00 

Split : A Counterculture Childhood by: Michaels, Lisa
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Split : A Counterculture Childhood by: Michaels, Lisa

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Poet and writer Lisa Michaels blends memoir with social commentary to tell a remarkable tale of growing up as a child of political activists during the early seventies. Michaels's upbringing was marked by communes, rallies, and road trips; as a young girl she traveled across the country with her mother and stepfather in a customized mail truck, complete with a wood stove, while her father spent two years in jail for his part in an antiwar protest. Record # 220929
Price: $12.00 

Reflections: Personal Essays by Thirty-Three Distinguished Educators by: Burleson, Derek L.
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Reflections: Personal Essays by Thirty-Three Distinguished Educators by: Burleson, Derek L.

Softcover. Bloomington, Ind., Phi Delta Kappa Intl Inc, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 389 pages. Slight wear to wraps and edges. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Record # 452574
Price: $12.00 

Finding the Top of the Sky by: Grabill, James
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Finding the Top of the Sky by: Grabill, James

Softcover. Sandpoint, Idaho, Lost Horse Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages. Clean tight copy. Record # 454735
Price: $12.00 

Cruel Banquet: The Life and Loves of Frida Strindberg by: Strauss, Monica
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Cruel Banquet: The Life and Loves of Frida Strindberg by: Strauss, Monica

Hardcover. UK, Harcourt Brace International, 1st, 2000-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 461362
Price: $12.00 

Inside memory: Pages from a writer's workbook by: Findley, Timothy
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Inside memory: Pages from a writer's workbook by: Findley, Timothy

Hardcover. US, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1st, 1990-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461803
Price: $12.00 

Home Before Dark by: Cheever, Susan
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Home Before Dark by: Cheever, Susan

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin (T), 2nd printing, 1984-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461873
Price: $12.00 

Charleston Bulletin Supplements, The  by: Woolf, Virginia
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Charleston Bulletin Supplements, The by: Woolf, Virginia

Hardcover. US, British Library, 1st, 2013-06-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 129 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462791
Price: $12.00 

Conversations With Reynolds Price (Literary Conversations Series) by: Price, Reynolds
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Conversations With Reynolds Price (Literary Conversations Series) by: Price, Reynolds

Hardcover. US, Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1991-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Record # 463713
Price: $12.00 

Author's Dimension, The : Selected Essays by: Wolf, Christa
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Author's Dimension, The : Selected Essays by: Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1993-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463794
Price: $12.00 

Underground Stream, The : The Life and Art of Caroline Gordon by: Jonza, Nancylee Novell
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Underground Stream, The : The Life and Art of Caroline Gordon by: Jonza, Nancylee Novell

Hardcover. US, Univ of Georgia Pr, 1st, 1995-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 464068
Price: $12.00 

Andre & Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde by: Fryer, Jonathan
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Andre & Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde by: Fryer, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, St Martins Pr, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 468927
Price: $12.00 

An Unhurried view of Erotica by: Ginzburg, Ralph
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An Unhurried view of Erotica by: Ginzburg, Ralph

London, Secker & Warburg, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover,125 pages. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Introduction by Dr. Theodor Reik and preface by George Jean Nathan. Top edge stained red. Dust jacket has light edgewear and rubbing to covers and spine. There is a small chip out of the top back cover. Record # 511180
Price: $12.00 

Erzahlungen 1926-1944 by: Seghers, Anna
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Erzahlungen 1926-1944 by: Seghers, Anna

Hardcover. Berlin, Aufbau Verlag, 1st ?, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 366 pages. Text in German. White cloth, gray dust jacket. Jacket with wear to edges and spine, shelf-rubbed, else a nice, tight copy. Record # 606909
Price: $12.00 

We Bombed in New Haven: A Play by: Heller, Joseph
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We Bombed in New Haven: A Play by: Heller, Joseph

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages, very clean, tight copy. Record # 800981
Price: $12.00 

Selected Letters of Henry James, The by: Edel, Leon
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Selected Letters of Henry James, The by: Edel, Leon

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Cudahy , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket with faded spine. Record # 803981
Price: $12.00 

Piers Plowman, a Reference GuideDiMarco,Vincent
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Piers Plowman, a Reference Guide


DiMarco,Vincent

Hardcover. Boston, MA, G.K. Hall & Co., 1st Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Hardcover. Maroon cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. excellent condition.

Record # 33547


Price: $63.00 

Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era by: Shell, Marc
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Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era by: Shell, Marc

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages, hardcover. Cover boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. B&W illustrations are all grouped together at the end of the volume. In this book, the author explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. He demonstrates how literature and philosophy have been driven to account self-critically for a "money of the mind" that pervades all discourse, and concludes the book with a discomforting thesis about the cultural and political limits of literature and philosophy in the modern world. Clean copy. Record # 34091
Price: $12.00 

Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay by: Bradley, F. H.

Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay by: Bradley, F. H.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, Reprint, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 570 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is somewhat loose, due to the front hinge being cracked. This book presents an argument that our everyday understanding of the world, full of separate objects, qualities, time, and space, is fundamentally flawed and contradictory. Previous owner's light pencil markings are present throughout, as well as two stamps of their name, one on the inside front cover and another on the title page. Record # 34299
Price: $25.00 

Pen Names and Personalities by: Marble, Annie Russell
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Pen Names and Personalities by: Marble, Annie Russell

Hardcover. NY, D.Appleton, 1st , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Spine cloth faded, pages yellowed, otherwise, nice copy. Record # 53442
Price: $12.00 

Sherwood Anderson Diaries 1936-1941, The by: Campbell (Ed.), Hilbert H.
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Sherwood Anderson Diaries 1936-1941, The by: Campbell (Ed.), Hilbert H.

Hardcover. ASthens, CA, Univ. of Georgia, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR CAMPBELL on front fly leaf. 398 pages. Record # 69533
Price: $12.00 

Russian Literature Since the Revolution by: Kunitz (ed), Joshua
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Russian Literature Since the Revolution by: Kunitz (ed), Joshua

New York, Boni Gaer, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 932 pages. Front hinge cracked. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Record # 207264
Price: $12.00 

Whole Thing's Laughable, The by: Boothroyd, Basil
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Whole Thing's Laughable, The by: Boothroyd, Basil

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages, red cloth covers. Dust jacket edgeworn, spine faded. Clean. Record # 406465
Price: $12.00 

American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices by: Pack, Robert (Editor)
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American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices by: Pack, Robert (Editor)

Hardcover. Hanover, Middlebury, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 373 pages. Clean unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket. Record # 454104
Price: $12.00 

Mays of Ventadorn, The  by: Merwin, W.S.
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Mays of Ventadorn, The by: Merwin, W.S.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., National Geographic, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 159 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight. Record # 457303
Price: $12.00 

What Am I Doing Here? by: Chatwin, Bruce
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What Am I Doing Here? by: Chatwin, Bruce

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 1989-09-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. Light edgewear and sun-fade to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461788
Price: $12.00 

D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by: Maddox, Brenda
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D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by: Maddox, Brenda

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1994-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages, b&w photos. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461830
Price: $12.00 

John Cheever: A Biography by: Donaldson, Scott
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John Cheever: A Biography by: Donaldson, Scott

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1988-06-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Light edgewear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462505
Price: $12.00 

Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Art by: Marsh, Jan
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Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Art by: Marsh, Jan

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt & Co, 1st, 1996-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463258
Price: $12.00 

Letters to a Young Novelist by: Llosa, Mario Vargas
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Letters to a Young Novelist by: Llosa, Mario Vargas

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002-06-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 136 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463750
Price: $12.00 

Bernard Shaw, Vol. 1: 1856-1898 - The Search for Love by: Holroyd, Michael
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Bernard Shaw, Vol. 1: 1856-1898 - The Search for Love by: Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st US, 1988-09-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 486 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463893
Price: $12.00 

Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by: Green, Jonathon
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Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by: Green, Jonathon

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt & Co, 1st, 1996-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 510 pages. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 465939
Price: $12.00 

Inside Out - An Introduction to Autobiography by: Bates, E. Stuart
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Inside Out - An Introduction to Autobiography by: Bates, E. Stuart

Hardcover. New York, Sheridan House, 1st US, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 693 pages. Cloth boards. Previous owners stamp at bottom of front endpaper. Dust jacket spine worn/faded with small tears and rubbing at corners. Clean, tight copy. Record # 510653
Price: $12.00 

Ironing Board, The by: Morley, Christopher
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Ironing Board, The by: Morley, Christopher

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Spine faded. Light wear to cover and corners. Clean, tight copy. Record # 604074
Price: $12.00 

Briar Patch with Harry Crews (1935-2012) - A Memoir, In the by: Nagel, Edward
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Briar Patch with Harry Crews (1935-2012) - A Memoir, In the by: Nagel, Edward

Softcover. New York, Quantum, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 613109
Price: $12.00 

English Literature 1815 - 1832 by: Jack, Ian
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English Literature 1815 - 1832 by: Jack, Ian

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 643 pages. Blue cloth, gilt titled spine. Mildew back cover. Record # 803428
Price: $12.00 

Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorn, The: French Italian Notebooks by: Lathrop, George Parsons
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Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorn, The: French Italian Notebooks by: Lathrop, George Parsons

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. , reprint, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 574 pages. Previous owner's name plate on front end paper. Gilt top edge. Uncut pages. Clean, tight copy. Record # 855445
Price: $12.00 

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 5: 1998: A Journal of Late Medieval StudiesSalda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)
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Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 5: 1998: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies


Salda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, NY, D.S. Brewer, 1st Edition, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Hardcover. Mauve cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, past down on front cover. Pages clean, binding excellent. Spine straight.

Record # 33542


Price: $31.00 

The Naked Year by: Pilnyak, BorisTransl. Tulloch, Alexander R.

The Naked Year by: Pilnyak, Boris Transl. Tulloch, Alexander R.

Softcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Ardis, reprint, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages, soft cover. Covers have some discoloration but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Includes B&W frontispiece. This novel brought Pilnyak immediate fame. It contains a panoramic description of the first full year of the Russian Revolution (1919) in the context of a large rural town, Ordinin. Clean copy. Record # 33921
Price: $22.00 

Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Taylor, Henry
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Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Taylor, Henry

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some light bumping to the top edge, but is still in very good condition overall. Blue cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. In this collection of previously published essays, poet and critic Taylor praises the vitality and diversity of contemporary American poetry by examining the development and techniques of 17 recent American poets. Each essay locates the style of a particular poet in his or her earliest works and traces the evolution of that style to later, more definitive poems. Author's signature is present on the title page. Clean copy. Record # 34255
Price: $18.00 

Paradise of Bombs, The by: Sanders, Scott Russell
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Paradise of Bombs, The by: Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages, minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, very clean and bright. Record # 53109
Price: $12.00 

Henry James and the Jacobites by: Geismar, Maxwell
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Henry James and the Jacobites by: Geismar, Maxwell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 463 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Internally very good. Record # 65602
Price: $12.00 

World of Jonathan Swift by: Vickers, Brian (Ed.)
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World of Jonathan Swift by: Vickers, Brian (Ed.)

Hardcover. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise, internally bright and clean copy. Record # 201018
Price: $12.00 

Tsvetaeva by: Schweitzer, Viktoria
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Tsvetaeva by: Schweitzer, Viktoria

Softcover. New York, Noonday Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 413 pages, bright, clean paperback edition. Record # 405016
Price: $12.00 

1920 Diary by: Babel, Isaac
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1920 Diary by: Babel, Isaac

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2nd printing, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages. Light wear, scuffing to dust jacket. Nice, tight copy. Record # 453649
Price: $12.00 

An American Original: The Life of J. Frank Dobie by: Tinkle, Lon
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An American Original: The Life of J. Frank Dobie by: Tinkle, Lon

Hardcover. Boston, 2nd Printing, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, small chunk missing from back bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 456773
Price: $12.00 

Chicago Days/ Hoboken Nights by: Pinkwater, Daniel
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Chicago Days/ Hoboken Nights by: Pinkwater, Daniel

Hardcover. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 461679
Price: $12.00 

Pact, The : My friendship with Isak Dinesen by: Bj?rnvig, Thorkild
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Pact, The : My friendship with Isak Dinesen by: Bj?rnvig, Thorkild

Hardcover. US, Louisiana State University Press, 2nd printing, 1983-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 169 pages. Light sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461814
Price: $12.00 

Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed Through Their Diaries by: Keene, Donald
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Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed Through Their Diaries by: Keene, Donald

Softcover. US, Henry Holt & Co (P), 1st, 1996-04-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 534 pages. Light shelf-wear to wrapper and light tanning to pages, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462338
Price: $12.00 

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by: Thurman, Judith
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by: Thurman, Judith

Hardcover. US, Knopf, Bc ed, 1999-10-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 529 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462930
Price: $12.00 

Young Betjeman by: Hillier, Bevis
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Young Betjeman by: Hillier, Bevis

Hardcover. US, John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1st, 1988-07-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 479 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463737
Price: $12.00 

Speaking with Strangers: A Memoir by: Cantwell, Mary
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Speaking with Strangers: A Memoir by: Cantwell, Mary

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998-04-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463846
Price: $12.00 

Running to the Mountain: A Journey of Faith and Change by: Katz, Jon
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Running to the Mountain: A Journey of Faith and Change by: Katz, Jon

Hardcover. US, Villard, 2nd printing, 1999-02-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 464616
Price: $12.00 

Illustrated English Social History, vol. II: Shakespeare and Stuarts by: Trevelyan, G.M.
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Illustrated English Social History, vol. II: Shakespeare and Stuarts by: Trevelyan, G.M.

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 206 pages. Dust jacket with soiling and edgewear. Record # 507807
Price: $12.00 

Twentieth Century German Literature by: Cross(Ed.), Professor August
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Twentieth Century German Literature by: Cross(Ed.), Professor August

NY, Barnes & Noble, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 433 pages, nice dust jacket. Record # 601702
Price: $12.00 

Memoirs by: Amis, Kingsley
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Memoirs by: Amis, Kingsley

Hardcover. New York, Summit, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 609335
Price: $12.00 

Literary Criticism in England 1660-1800 by: Chapman, Gerald Wester
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Literary Criticism in England 1660-1800 by: Chapman, Gerald Wester

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 618 pages. Dust jacket slightly faded. Record # 803350
Price: $12.00 

Campaigns and Controversies. by: Roosevelt, Theodore
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Campaigns and Controversies. by: Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 403 pages. Green cloth cover, cloth faded on spine. Some wear to corners and edges. Pages untrimmed on fore edge, top edge gilt. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Volume XIV in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. Record # 852792
Price: $12.00 

Tugman's Passage, The by: Hoagland, Edward
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Tugman's Passage, The by: Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, faint remainder stamp top edge Record # 7053
Price: $12.00 

Mystery & Manners by: O'Connor, Flannery
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Mystery & Manners by: O'Connor, FlanneryMystery & Manners by: O'Connor, Flannery

Mystery & Manners by: O'Connor, Flannery

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages, hardcover. Exterior of covers and spine have significant aesthetic staining and marking, but the interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicity of the author's style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and profound faith. Clean copy. Record # 33739
Price: $28.00 

Problems of Literary Evaluation: Yearbook of Comparative Criticism (Volume II) by: Editor: Strelka, Joseph
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Problems of Literary Evaluation: Yearbook of Comparative Criticism (Volume II) by: Editor: Strelka, JosephProblems of Literary Evaluation: Yearbook of Comparative Criticism (Volume II) by: Editor: Strelka, Joseph

Problems of Literary Evaluation: Yearbook of Comparative Criticism (Volume II) by: Editor: Strelka, Joseph

Hardcover. University Park, PA, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages, hardcover. Cover boards have some discoloration, particularly on the rear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Some black ink on the spine has been rubbed off, but gilt text is still legible. This series is devoted to the study of literature based on two assumptions: that literature is an expression of the culture in which it is written, and that the study of literature involves value-judgments. Previous owner's signature is present on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34242
Price: $16.00 

Sartre & Flaubert by: Barnes, Hazel E.

Sartre & Flaubert by: Barnes, Hazel E.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 449 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has several chips, small holes, and closed tears. Gray cloth covers have some brown staining, but are generally in good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright, despite foxing along top edge. Binding is solid. This book explores the extent to which "The Family Idiot" is all of a biography, a novel, an autobiography, a philosophical work, and literature rolled into one. Clean copy. Record # 34342
Price: $18.00 

Autobiographical Myth of Robert Lowell, The by: Cooper, Phillip
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Autobiographical Myth of Robert Lowell, The by: Cooper, Phillip

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Univ. of North Carolina, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 170 pages. Dust jacket with 2 closed tears otherwise very clean and bright. Record # 62404
Price: $12.00 

Tigers & Ice - Reflections on Nature and Life by: Hoagland, Edward
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Tigers & Ice - Reflections on Nature and Life by: Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Lyons Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Record # 106163
Price: $12.00 

Essays of Our Times by: Brown, Sharon (Ed.)
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Essays of Our Times by: Brown, Sharon (Ed.)

Hardcover. Chicago, Scott, Forbesman and Co. , Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages. Work by Beerbohm, Chesterton, Leacock, Virginia Woolf, 38 others. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Record # 302067
Price: $12.00 

Angela's Ashes by: McCourt, Frank
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Angela's Ashes by: McCourt, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 363 pages. Edgewear to price clipped dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. Record # 452961
Price: $12.00 

Season of the Body: Essays by: Miller, Brenda
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Season of the Body: Essays by: Miller, Brenda

Softcover. Louisville, Ky., Sarabande Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 454747
Price: $12.00 

Conversations With Peter Taylor (Literary Conversations Series) by: McAlexander, Hubert Horton
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Conversations With Peter Taylor (Literary Conversations Series) by: McAlexander, Hubert Horton

Hardcover. US, Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1st, 1987-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Light scratching to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461470
Price: $12.00 

Outermost Dream, The : Literary Sketches by: Maxwell, William
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Outermost Dream, The : Literary Sketches by: Maxwell, William

Softcover. US, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1997-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 461805
Price: $12.00 

Giving Good Weight by: McPhee, John
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Giving Good Weight by: McPhee, John

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1979-11-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, and faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461881
Price: $12.00 

Collected Prose, The  by: Lowell, Robert
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Collected Prose, The by: Lowell, Robert

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1987-04-01, Book: Very Good, 377 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462802
Price: $12.00 

Day at the Beach, A : Recollections by: Wolff, Geoffrey
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Day at the Beach, A : Recollections by: Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1992-03-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463714
Price: $12.00 

People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber by: Thurber, James
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People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber by: Thurber, James

Hardcover. US, Harcourt, 1st, 1994-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 169 pages, b&w drawings. Clean, tight copy. Record # 463802
Price: $12.00 

Tugman's Passage, The  by: Hoagland, Edward
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Tugman's Passage, The by: Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1982-02-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Light sun-fade to dust jacket spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 464081
Price: $12.00 

Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales, The by: Maxwell, William
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Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales, The by: Maxwell, William

Softcover. Boston, David R Godine, 2nd, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Ligth foxing on page block and UPC sticker on rear wrapper. Record # 470208
Price: $12.00 

Under Siege - Literary Life in London 1939-1945 by: Hewison, Robert
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Under Siege - Literary Life in London 1939-1945 by: Hewison, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with 16 pages of black & white photographs and reproductions. Minor fading to top edge of dust jacket. Record # 511280
Price: $12.00 

Wiedereinfuhrung der Sklaverei in Guadeloupe by: Seghers, Anna
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Wiedereinfuhrung der Sklaverei in Guadeloupe by: Seghers, Anna

Hardcover. Germany, Suhrkamp Verlag, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 107 pages. Text in German. Light wear to edges of dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. Record # 606915
Price: $12.00 

Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow, The by: Raymond, John
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Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow, The by: Raymond, John

Hardcover. London, England/U.K., The Bodley Head, 2nd, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, b&w illustrations, portrait of Gronow at frontispiece, dust jacket protected with Mylar, previous owner's book plates, clean, tight copy. Record # 801639
Price: $12.00 

Il Romanzo di Scampolo by: Niccodemi, Dario
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Il Romanzo di Scampolo by: Niccodemi, Dario

Softcover. Milano, Fratelli Treves, Reprint, 1926, Book: Poor, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Front cover and spine missing. Signatures falling apart. Pages browned, especially around the edges. Edgewear. Record # 804000
Price: $12.00 

Zero (Volume 5) by: Editors: Jorge Luis Borges, John Cage, Leonard Cohen, Gary Snyder, et al.

Zero (Volume 5) by: Editors: Jorge Luis Borges, John Cage, Leonard Cohen, Gary Snyder, et al.

Softcover. Los Angeles CA, Zero Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages, soft cover. Book-format literary magazine from 1980 LA, no dust jacket as issued. Yellow printed wrappers in decent condition, spine mildly faded and scuffed. B&W photography and some full color artwork throughout. Clean copy. Record # 33602
Price: $20.00 

The Divine Comedy [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Alighieri, Dante Transl. Palma, Michael
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The Divine Comedy [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Alighieri, Dante Transl. Palma, MichaelThe Divine Comedy [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Alighieri, Dante Transl. Palma, Michael

The Divine Comedy [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Alighieri, Dante Transl. Palma, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Liveright Publishing Company, 1st thus, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 585 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This copy has been inscribed by the translator, addressed to Vermont writer Jay Parini. Inscription dated November 30th, 2024 reads: "With Admiration for your Gifts, and Gratitude for your Gift to Me. -Michael Palma" This book describes Dante's descent into Hell, with Virgil as his guide. It examines questions of faith, desire and enlightenment. The poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. Clean copy. Record # 34146
Price: $30.00 

How a Game Lives: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller by: Geller, Jacob

How a Game Lives: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller by: Geller, Jacob

Hardcover. NY, Harper Pop (Harper Collins Publishers), 1st thus, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains gorgeous full-color illustrations throughout. This book deftly interweaves video game analysis with the complex narratives of art, politics, and history. It positions video games as vital tools for understanding each other and ourselves. Clean copy. Record # 34302
Price: $28.00 

Sayings of the Ancestors - The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians by: McDowell, John Holmes
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Sayings of the Ancestors - The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians by: McDowell, John Holmes

Hardcover. Lexington, Kentucky Univ., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Folklore of a unique Indian tribe of Columbia. Black & white photos Record # 54865
Price: $12.00 

Elizabethan Verse and Prose (non-dramatic) by: Potter, George Reuben (Ed)
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Elizabethan Verse and Prose (non-dramatic) by: Potter, George Reuben (Ed)

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , rep, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light water stain to covers. Internally VG. 613 pgs. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf Record # 70574
Price: $12.00 

Literary Criticism and Romantic Theory in the Work of Achim Von Arnim by: Liedke, Herbert R.
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Literary Criticism and Romantic Theory in the Work of Achim Von Arnim by: Liedke, Herbert R.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages. Cover has light edgewear. Record # 207714
Price: $12.00 

Stay Married Abroad by: Boothroyd, Basil
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Stay Married Abroad by: Boothroyd, Basil

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 144 pages, blue cloth covers. Dust jacket edgeworn. Clean. Record # 406466
Price: $12.00 

Passions and Impressions by: Neruda, Pablo
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Passions and Impressions by: Neruda, Pablo

Softcover. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st thus, January 15, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 396 pages. Creases to spine. Else very good. Record # 454276
Price: $12.00 

New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics, The  by: Thomas, Brook
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New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics, The by: Thomas, Brook

Softcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2nd printing, March 8, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 458343
Price: $12.00 

Happiest Man Alive, The : A Biography of Henry Miller by: Dearborn, Mary V.
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Happiest Man Alive, The : A Biography of Henry Miller by: Dearborn, Mary V.

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461789
Price: $12.00 

John Cheever: A Biography by: Donaldson, Scott
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John Cheever: A Biography by: Donaldson, Scott

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1988-06-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 461831
Price: $12.00 

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions by: Amis, Martin
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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions by: Amis, Martin

Hardcover. US, Harmony, 1st, 1994-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462507
Price: $12.00 

Robertson Davies Discoveries : Early Letters 1938-1975 by: Davies, Robertson
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Robertson Davies Discoveries : Early Letters 1938-1975 by: Davies, Robertson

Hardcover. US, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 2002-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 413 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463546
Price: $12.00 

Simone Weil (Radcliffe biography series) by: Coles, Robert
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Simone Weil (Radcliffe biography series) by: Coles, Robert

Hardcover. US, Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co, 1st, 1987-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463759
Price: $12.00 

Practice of Writing, The  by: Lodge, David
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Practice of Writing, The by: Lodge, David

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 1997-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 463927
Price: $12.00 

Quotable Lewis, The by: Root, Jerry (Editor)
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Quotable Lewis, The by: Root, Jerry (Editor)

Hardcover. Carol Stream, IL, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., reprint , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 651 pages. Gilt titles and decoration on spine. Slight tear to top corner of dust jacket, else clean, tight copy. Record # 466622
Price: $12.00 

Diversion: Twenty-two Authors on the Lively Arts by: Sutro, ed. , John
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Diversion: Twenty-two Authors on the Lively Arts by: Sutro, ed. , John

Hardcover. London, Max Parrish, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. 24 photogravure plates and 40 drawings in line. Facsimiles of authors' signatures on endpapers. Creasing, small tears, edgewear, soiling to dust jacket. Record # 510686
Price: $12.00 

Literary Memoirs by: Lastarria, Jose Victorino
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Literary Memoirs by: Lastarria, Jose Victorino

Paperback. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages. Inscribed by Translator on title page. Clean, tight copy. Record # 604328
Price: $12.00 

Curious World - A New Yorker at Large by: Hamburger, Philip
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Curious World - A New Yorker at Large by: Hamburger, Philip

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 613452
Price: $12.00 

More Stories from the Operas by: Davidson, Gladys
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More Stories from the Operas by: Davidson, Gladys

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company , 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Red cloth, black titles. Frontis illustration. Illustrated plates. Previous owner's signature, Previous owner's inscription. Record # 803431
Price: $12.00 

Mind and Art of Henry Miller, The by: Gordon, William A.
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Mind and Art of Henry Miller, The by: Gordon, William A.

Hardcover. LA, Louisiana State University Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 857093
Price: $12.00 

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 4: 1997: A Journal of Late Medieval StudiesSalda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)
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Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 4: 1997: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies


Salda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, NY, D.S. Brewer, 1st Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Hardcover. Mauve cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, past down on front cover. Pages clean, binding excellent. Spine straight.

Record # 33543


Price: $31.00 

Fables de la Fontaine [2 Volumes] by: La Fontaine, Jean de
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Fables de la Fontaine [2 Volumes] by: La Fontaine, Jean deFables de la Fontaine [2 Volumes] by: La Fontaine, Jean de

Fables de la Fontaine [2 Volumes] by: La Fontaine, Jean de

Hardcover. Paris, L. de Bure, Reprint, 1823, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages volume 1, 338 pages volume 2. Covers of volume 1 show significant wear, and the spine has nearly separated from the binding. Exterior of volume 2 is in much better condition, with just some minor bumping to the corners. Interior pages of both volumes have significant foxing and staining, and some rips, but all text blocks are still legible. These small-form volumes in French are classics of French literature. Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. Clean copies. Record # 33931
Price: $100.00 

Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism by: Editor Warhol, Robyn R. Editor: Herndl, Diane P.

Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism by: Editor Warhol, Robyn R. Editor: Herndl, Diane P.

Hardcover. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1118 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some minor edge wear, but is still in very good condition. Black cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid, the spine has gilt text. This is the most comprehensive collection of American and British feminist literary criticism ever published. In this revised edition, Warhol and Herndl have established the measure for representing the latest developments in the field of feminist literary theory. Clean copy. Record # 34270
Price: $12.00 

Middle English Literature by: Brandl, A. and O. Zippel
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Middle English Literature by: Brandl, A. and O. Zippel

Hardcover. NY, Chelsea, 2nd, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, An anthology with a Middle English Dictionary. Glossary with page tabs. Some marking, previous owner's signature front end paper. Record # 53150
Price: $12.00 

Poems From the Virginia Quarterly Review 1925-67 by: Poetry
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Poems From the Virginia Quarterly Review 1925-67 by: Poetry

Charlottesville, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Record # 65724
Price: $12.00 

Praises and Dispraises - Poetry and Politics, the 20th Century by: Des Pres, Terrence
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Praises and Dispraises - Poetry and Politics, the 20th Century by: Des Pres, Terrence

hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 265 pages. Slight sunning to rear cover of dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 201622
Price: $12.00 

Reporter Here and There, A by: Kahn, Jr., E. J.
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Reporter Here and There, A by: Kahn, Jr. , E. J.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 364 pages, blue cloth with a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Record # 406065
Price: $12.00 

Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of Sorai Sensei Tomonsho by: Yamashita, Samuel Hideo
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Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of Sorai Sensei Tomonsho by: Yamashita, Samuel Hideo

Hardcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages, Cocked spine, old price-sticker to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453733
Price: $12.00 

Twentieth Century French fiction: Essays for Germaine Bree by: N/A
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Twentieth Century French fiction: Essays for Germaine Bree by: N/A

New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Lacks dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 457251
Price: $12.00 

Creating Colette: Vol. 2, from Baroness to Woman of Letters 1912-1954 by: Francis, Claude
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Creating Colette: Vol. 2, from Baroness to Woman of Letters 1912-1954 by: Francis, Claude

Hardcover. US, Steerforth Press, 1st, 1999-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 2 only. 298 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461781
Price: $12.00 

Tugman's Passage, The  by: Hoagland, Edward
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Tugman's Passage, The by: Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1982-02-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Faint foxing to top edge and light rubbing and sunning to dust jacket. Record # 461820
Price: $12.00 

Hawthorne's Secret: An Untold Tale by: Young, Philip
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Hawthorne's Secret: An Untold Tale by: Young, Philip

Hardcover. US, David R Godine, 1st, 1984-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462348
Price: $12.00 

Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by: Stevenson, Anne
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Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by: Stevenson, Anne

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin (T), 1st, 1989-08-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 413 pages, illustrations in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462936
Price: $12.00 

Conversations With Peter Taylor (Literary Conversations Series) by: McAlexander, Hubert Horton
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Conversations With Peter Taylor (Literary Conversations Series) by: McAlexander, Hubert Horton

Hardcover. US, Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1987-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Record # 463738
Price: $12.00 

Paradise, Piece by Piece by: Peacock, Molly
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Paradise, Piece by Piece by: Peacock, Molly

Hardcover. US, Riverhead Hardcover, 1st, 1998-05-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463847
Price: $12.00 

D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico: The Time is Different There by: Bachrach, Arthur J.
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D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico: The Time is Different There by: Bachrach, Arthur J.

Softcover. US, University of New Mexico Press, 2nd printing, 2006-09-11, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 464811
Price: $12.00 

Illustrated English Social History, vol. III: Eighteenth Century by: Trevelyan, G.M.
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Illustrated English Social History, vol. III: Eighteenth Century by: Trevelyan, G.M.

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 209 pages. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Record # 507808
Price: $12.00 

Letters of Horace Walpole by: Lucas (Ed.), C. B.
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Letters of Horace Walpole by: Lucas (Ed.), C. B.

Softcover. London, Simpkin Marshall, reprint, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 849 pages, in limp red suede with gilt design, ribbon marker. Gutter cracked at introduction page, previous owner's signature opposite half title page. Top of spine with small tear to spine edge otherwise a nice, handsome volume printed on thin paper. Record # 602496
Price: $12.00 

Solo in Tom-Toms, A by: Fowler, Gene
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Solo in Tom-Toms, A by: Fowler, Gene

Hardcover. New York, Viking, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages. Price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 609337
Price: $12.00 

William Styron: A Life by: West III, James L. W.
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William Styron: A Life by: West III, James L. W.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 506 pages, b&w photographs, dust jacket with light soil. Record # 803400
Price: $12.00 

American Problems by: Roosevelt, Theodore
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American Problems by: Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 465 pages. Green cloth cover, cloth faded on spine. Some wear to corners and edges. Small chunk missing of cover and pages on botton right corner, but no text is missing. Pages untrimmed on fore edge, top edge gilt. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Volume XVI in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. Record # 852797
Price: $12.00 

Make Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances by: Mamet, David
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Make Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances by: Mamet, David

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder mark top edge Record # 11930
Price: $18.00 

The Philosophy of Nietzsche: Modern Library Giant #34 by: Nietzsche, FriedrichTransl. by Fadiman, Clifton P.
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The Philosophy of Nietzsche: Modern Library Giant #34 by: Nietzsche, FriedrichTransl. by Fadiman, Clifton P.The Philosophy of Nietzsche: Modern Library Giant #34 by: Nietzsche, FriedrichTransl. by Fadiman, Clifton P.

The Philosophy of Nietzsche: Modern Library Giant #34 by: Nietzsche, Friedrich Transl. by Fadiman, Clifton P.

Hardcover. NY, The Modern Library, 1st Giant Edition, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 1140 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition, with multiple chips and closed tears. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Red dye top edge. Condition is generally good considering the age of the volume. This book contains English translations of German philosopher and scholar Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's five most influential works. Contents: Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good & Evil, The Genealogy of Morals, Ecce Homo, and The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music. Clean copy. Record # 33763
Price: $19.00 

Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co.: Middle-Generation Poets in Context by: Ferguson, Suzanne
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Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co.: Middle-Generation Poets in Context by: Ferguson, Suzanne

Hardcover. Knoxville, TN, University of Tennessee Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, yellow cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. In this book, editor Suzanne Ferguson collects eighteen essays that explore the literary, personal, and political affiliations of Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell, influential literary figures who flourished in the periods between modernism and postmodernism. Clean copy. Record # 34246
Price: $25.00 

Blake's Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument by: Bloom, Harold

Blake's Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument by: Bloom, Harold

Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st thus., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages, soft cover. Paper covers have some minor edge wear, but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is a simple, straightforward, chronologically organized examination. It may be particularly helpful to students, as an introduction to the study of Blake's poetry and ideas. Clean copy. Record # 34343
Price: $25.00 

Nationalism in Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry by: Loftus, Richard J.
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Nationalism in Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry by: Loftus, Richard J.

Madison, WI, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1st , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages. Record # 62751
Price: $12.00 

Shoemaker's Son, The - The Life of Hans Christian Anderson by: Burnett, Constance Buel
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Shoemaker's Son, The - The Life of Hans Christian Anderson by: Burnett, Constance Buel

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, black & white plates, decoration by Fritz Kredel, 313 pgs. Slight fading to spine, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 108528
Price: $12.00 

Novel in English by: Knight, Grant C.
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Novel in English by: Knight, Grant C.

Hardcover. New York, Richard R. Smith, 2nd, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 395 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light stain to rear cover. Record # 302068
Price: $12.00 

Russian writers and Soviet society, 1917-1978 by: Hingley, Ronald
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Russian writers and Soviet society, 1917-1978 by: Hingley, Ronald

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 296 pages. Remainder-stamp to top edge, light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453330
Price: $12.00 

Book of Irish Legends, The  by: Zaczek, Iain
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Book of Irish Legends, The by: Zaczek, Iain

Hardcover. CICO Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, illustrated throughout. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 456058
Price: $12.00 

Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, The  by: Hochman, Barbara
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Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, The by: Hochman, Barbara

Hardcover. US, Univ of Missouri Pr, 1st, 1988-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 461473
Price: $12.00 

Linotte: The Early Diary of Anais Nin 1914-1920 by: Nin, Anais
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Linotte: The Early Diary of Anais Nin 1914-1920 by: Nin, Anais

Hardcover. US, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1978-07-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 518 pages. Foxing to all edges, light wear, rubbing and sunning to dust jacket. Record # 461810
Price: $12.00 

D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by: Maddox, Brenda
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D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by: Maddox, Brenda

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Shuster, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket and remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462248
Price: $12.00 

Mary Berenson: A Self-Portrait from Her Letters and Diaries by: Strachey, Barbara
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Mary Berenson: A Self-Portrait from Her Letters and Diaries by: Strachey, Barbara

Hardcover. US, WW Norton & Co, 1st, 1984-08-29, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 319 pages. Light edgewear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462864
Price: $12.00 

Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by: Treglown, Jeremy
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Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by: Treglown, Jeremy

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st US, 2001-03-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 331 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463719
Price: $12.00 

On Writing and the Novel by: Scott, Paul
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On Writing and the Novel by: Scott, Paul

Hardcover. US, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1987-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463842
Price: $12.00 

Tugman's Passage, The  by: Hoagland, Edward
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Tugman's Passage, The by: Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1982-02-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges. Record # 464082
Price: $12.00 

Shakespeare's Wooden O by: Hotson, Leslie
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Shakespeare's Wooden O by: Hotson, Leslie

Hardcover. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 2nd imp., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 335 pages. Dark top edge. Some markings to covers. Covers slightly warped. No dust jacket. Record # 503050
Price: $12.00 

Five Shades of Shadow by: Daugherty, Tracy
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Five Shades of Shadow by: Daugherty, Tracy

Hardcover. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, review slips laid in, River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, very clean, tight copy, like new. Record # 511645
Price: $12.00 

Name and Tears & Other Stories: Forty Years of Italian Fiction  by: Jason, Editor, Kathrine
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Name and Tears & Other Stories: Forty Years of Italian Fiction by: Jason, Editor, Kathrine

Hardcover. Saint Paul, MI, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Orange cloth, gilt title to spine. Light edge wear to pictorial dust jacket. Very nice, tight copy. Record # 607646
Price: $12.00 

Romance of English Literature by: Turner, ed., W. J.
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Romance of English Literature by: Turner, ed., W. J.

Hardcover. New York, Hastings House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. 125 B/W and 48 color illustrations. Introduction by Kate O'Brien. Previous owner's bookplate on front end pages. Soiled gold colored cloth covers. Pages very clean. Record # 802643
Price: $12.00 

In Exile from the Land of Snows: The First Full Account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese Conquest by: Avedon, John F.
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In Exile from the Land of Snows: The First Full Account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese Conquest by: Avedon, John F.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 383 pages w/ index. 1/4 gray cloth, dark gray boards. Pictorial dust jacket shows edgewear and chipping. Large tear on dust jacket along fold of back flap. Map end papers. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Brown spotting on top edge. Record # 804036
Price: $12.00 

Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present by: Editor: Gates, Henry Louis Jr.Editor: Appiah, K. A.

Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present by: Editor: Gates, Henry Louis Jr. Editor: Appiah, K. A.

Softcover. NY, Amistad, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages, soft cover. Exterior and interior are in very good condition. This is one of six volumes of literary criticism launching the Amistad literary series, which is devoted to literary fiction and criticism by and about African Americans. Clean copy. Record # 33605
Price: $15.00 

Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews by: Foucault, Michel Editor: Bouchard, Donald F.
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Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews by: Foucault, Michel Editor: Bouchard, Donald F.

Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most important published essays, translated from the French, with an introductory essay and notes by Donald F. Bouchard. Also included are a summary of a course given by Foucault at College de France, the transcript of a conversation between Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, and an interview with Foucault that appeared in the journal Actuel. Clean copy. Record # 34187
Price: $12.00 

Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" by: Editor: Schacht, Richard

Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" by: Editor: Schacht, Richard

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages, soft cover. Covers have some minor edge wear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is a part of the Philosophical Traditions series, being volume 5. In this unique collection, 25 notable philosophers offer diverse discussions of Nietzsche's book's central themes and concepts. It presents a cross section of contemporary Nietzsche scholarship and philosophical investigation that is certain to interest philosophers, intellectual and cultural historians, and anyone concerned with this master thinker of the modern age. Clean copy. Record # 34323
Price: $15.00 

Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 1994-1995 by: Henderson ( Ed.), Bill
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Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 1994-1995 by: Henderson ( Ed.), Bill

Hardcover. Wainscott, NY, Pushcart Press, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover edition. Record # 60227
Price: $12.00 

Force of Spirit, The by: Sanders, Scott Russell
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Force of Spirit, The by: Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages, minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, clean and bright copy. Record # 75173
Price: $12.00 

FOUR PLAYS. The Women Have Their Way. A Hundred Years Old. Fortunate. The Lady From Alfaqueque. English Versions by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker. by: Quintero, Serafin and Joaquin A.
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FOUR PLAYS. The Women Have Their Way. A Hundred Years Old. Fortunate. The Lady From Alfaqueque. English Versions by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker. by: Quintero, Serafin and Joaquin A.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. 12mo. Black cloth. White title labels. Good, edge worn dj. Front free end page inscribed by previous owner. Record # 220768
Price: $12.00 

Leslie Stephen: His Thought and Character in Relation to his Time by: Annan, Noel
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Leslie Stephen: His Thought and Character in Relation to his Time by: Annan, Noel

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd US pr., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 342 pages, b&w illustrations. Black and rust cloth, dust jacket is worn, chipped. Record # 406786
Price: $12.00 

Thousand Pieces of Gold, A  by: Mah, Adeline Yen
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Thousand Pieces of Gold, A by: Mah, Adeline Yen

Hardcover. Harper Collins, New York, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Record # 454384
Price: $12.00 

To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman by: Lane, Ann J.
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To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman by: Lane, Ann J.

Softcover. Plume, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to wrappers and slight tanning to pages, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 458671
Price: $12.00 

Balancing Acts by: Hoagland, Edward
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Balancing Acts by: Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1992-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461796
Price: $12.00 

Invisible Spectator, An : A Biography of Paul Bowles by: Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher
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Invisible Spectator, An : A Biography of Paul Bowles by: Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher

Hardcover. US, Grove Pr, 1st, 1989-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 501 pages. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461838
Price: $12.00 

Roommates: My Grandfather's Story by: Apple, Max
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Roommates: My Grandfather's Story by: Apple, Max

Hardcover. US, Warner Books, 1st, 1994-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462508
Price: $12.00 

Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000 by: Miller, Arthur
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Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000 by: Miller, Arthur

Hardcover. US, Viking, 1st, 2000-10-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Light shelf-wear and scratching to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463550
Price: $12.00 

Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness, The  (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute) by: Soyinka, Wole
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Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness, The (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute) by: Soyinka, Wole

Hardcover. US, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1998-12-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463761
Price: $12.00 

Kitchen Privileges : A Memoir by: Clark, Mary Higgins
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Kitchen Privileges : A Memoir by: Clark, Mary Higgins

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2002-11-19, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463928
Price: $12.00 

Recollections of Virginia Woolf by: Noble, Joan Russell
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Recollections of Virginia Woolf by: Noble, Joan Russell

Hardcover. US, W. Morrow, 1st, 1972-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages. Hardcover. Clean copy, with faded cloth covers on top edge, gilt lettering. Light wear and small tears on top spine to dust jacket. Record # 466771
Price: $12.00 

Local Habitations: Regionalism in the Early Novels of George Eliot by: Auster, Henry
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Local Habitations: Regionalism in the Early Novels of George Eliot by: Auster, Henry

Hardcover. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Foxing on top edge. Record # 510775
Price: $12.00 

Language of Thackeray, The by: Phillipps, K.C.
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Language of Thackeray, The by: Phillipps, K.C.

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Previous owners name at top of half title page. Light foxing to top edge. Rear top corner bumped. Record # 604464
Price: $12.00 

Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by: Gresham, Douglas H.
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by: Gresham, Douglas H.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, b & w photos, clean, tight copy, like new. Record # 800573
Price: $12.00 

The Politics of Literature:Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English by: Kampf, Louis, Paul Lauter
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The Politics of Literature:Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English by: Kampf, Louis, Paul Lauter

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 429 pages. Edited by Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter. Includes index and biography of contributors. Gray cover. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Record # 803559
Price: $12.00 

Covering Ground: Essays for Now by: Phelps, Donald
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Covering Ground: Essays for Now by: Phelps, Donald

Croton Press, 1st, 1969, 290 Pages, First Edition hard cover. Minor age wear and yellowing to the dust jacket. Has light yellowing to the pages and light foxing. Overall a very tight and clean copy. Record # 2232118
Price: $20.00 

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 3: 1996: A Journal of Late Medieval StudiesSalda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)
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Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 3: 1996: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies


Salda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, NY, D.S. Brewer, 1st Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages. Hardcover. Mauve cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, past down on front cover. Pages clean, binding excellent. Spine straight.

Record # 33544


Price: $31.00 

Briseis by: Black, William, Illust. by: Smedley, W. T.
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Briseis by: Black, William, Illust. by: Smedley, W. T.Briseis by: Black, William, Illust. by: Smedley, W. T.

Briseis by: Black, William, Illust. by: Smedley, W. T.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , 1st American Illustrated, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages, hardcover. Green decorative covers are in good condition, with some discoloration. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W illustrations throughout. William Black (1841-1898) was a Scottish novelist whose novels were immensely popular during his lifetime, and he is often compared favorably with Trollope. Briseis is a half-Greek, half-Scotch heroine, who plays a Cinderella figure to her London aunt. Clean copy. Record # 33939
Price: $20.00 

Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions by: Hart, Henry

Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions by: Hart, Henry

Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, gray cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. In this book, Hart discusses Heaney's poetry, his creative and personal situations, and his assimilation of contemporary literary theory. Clean copy. Record # 34275
Price: $24.00 

History of German Literature, A. by: Robertson, John G.
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History of German Literature, A. by: Robertson, John G.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam, rep., 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 635 pages, olive cloth. Printed from English sheets. previous owner's signature front end paper. Record # 53383
Price: $12.00 

Tradition in the Making of Modern Poetry - Volume I by: Sergeant, Howard
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Tradition in the Making of Modern Poetry - Volume I by: Sergeant, Howard

London, Britannicvs Liber Limited, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Record # 65727
Price: $12.00 

What Am I Doing Here by: Chatwin, Bruce
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What Am I Doing Here by: Chatwin, Bruce

hard back. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom. Record # 202236
Price: $12.00 

How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by: Eco, Umberto
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by: Eco, Umberto

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Record # 406258
Price: $12.00 

Dinghies to Divas by: Caplat, Moran
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Dinghies to Divas by: Caplat, Moran

Hardcover. London, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1st, June 3, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 281 pages, several b&w photographs. Light edgewear, two small tears to dust jacket; sticker residue and hole on front cover. Light foxing to top edge. Else clean and tight. Record # 454037
Price: $12.00 

Rudyard Kipling: A Life by: Ricketts, Harry
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Rudyard Kipling: A Life by: Ricketts, Harry

Hardcover. Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1st thus, March 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 434 pages, B&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 457285
Price: $12.00 

Author's Dimension The : Selected Essays by: Wolf, Christa
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Author's Dimension The : Selected Essays by: Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1993-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461783
Price: $12.00 

Early Career of Malcolm Cowley: A Humanist Among the Moderns by: Kempf, James M.
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Early Career of Malcolm Cowley: A Humanist Among the Moderns by: Kempf, James M.

Hardcover. US, Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1985-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Record # 461822
Price: $12.00 

Captain's Best Mate, The : The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860 by: Lawrence, Mary Chipman.
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Captain's Best Mate, The : The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860 by: Lawrence, Mary Chipman.

Softcover. US, Brown University Press, rep, 1986-04-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 462385
Price: $12.00 

My Sister Life : The Story of My Sister's Disappearance by: Flook, Maria
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My Sister Life : The Story of My Sister's Disappearance by: Flook, Maria

Hardcover. US, Pantheon, 1st, 1998-01-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 353 pages. Faint musty smell, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462980
Price: $12.00 

Gore Vidal by: Parini, Jay
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Gore Vidal by: Parini, Jay

Hardcover. US, Columbia University Press, 2nd printing, 1992-10-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463745
Price: $12.00 

Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions by: Levertov, Denise
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Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions by: Levertov, Denise

Hardcover. US, New Directions, 1st, 1995-04-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463849
Price: $12.00 

Frank O'Connor by: Wohlgelernter, Maurice
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Frank O'Connor by: Wohlgelernter, Maurice

Hardcover. US, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1977-10-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 464822
Price: $12.00 

Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918 by: Downs, Brian W.
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Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918 by: Downs, Brian W.

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 276 pages. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling, library label on spine. Record # 508601
Price: $12.00 

Heloise and Abelard by: Gilson, Etienne
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Heloise and Abelard by: Gilson, Etienne

Softcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A study of the medieval classic by a French Catholic scholar. Paperback, 194 pages. Record # 603032
Price: $12.00 

Elinor Wylie - A Biography by: Olson, Stanley
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Elinor Wylie - A Biography by: Olson, Stanley

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press/James Wade, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 376 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Ex-library copy with minimal stamping, etc. Clean, unmarked text. Record # 609342
Price: $12.00 

English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages by: Chambers, E. K.
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English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages by: Chambers, E. K.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, Reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Blue cloth, gilt titled spine. Record # 803424
Price: $12.00 

Individual and State in Ancient Chine: Essays on Four Chinese Philosophers. by: Rubin, Vitaly A.
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Individual and State in Ancient Chine: Essays on Four Chinese Philosophers. by: Rubin, Vitaly A.

Hardcover. New York , Columbia University Press, 1st U.S., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 149 pages. Red cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket is price clipped and has some wear to edges. Essays on Confucius, Mo Tzu, Shang Yang and Chuang Tzu. Translated by Steven I Levine. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Record # 852942
Price: $12.00 

Clearing the Ground by: Harris, Sydney J.
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Clearing the Ground by: Harris, Sydney J.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Some slight age yellowing to dust jacket. Clean and bright inside and out. In excellent condition. Record # 30787
Price: $12.00 

The Champion from Far Away by: Hecht, Ben
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The Champion from Far Away by: Hecht, BenThe Champion from Far Away by: Hecht, Ben

The Champion from Far Away by: Hecht, Ben

Hardcover. NY, Covici-Freide, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 323 pages, hardcover. Chipped dust jacket with several open tears has been preserved by a brodart plastic book wrap. Black cloth covers underneath are clean and bright, as are the interior pages. Binding is solid. This volume marks the highest level of Hecht's artistic stature, through a collection of his best work. This is a very uncommon anthology, especially in good condition. Clean copy. Record # 33764
Price: $35.00 

Approaching Prayer: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A. R. Ammons and James Dickey by: Kirschten, Robert
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Approaching Prayer: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A. R. Ammons and James Dickey by: Kirschten, Robert

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 177 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with folds to the front and rear flaps. Yellow cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a critical study in a mythopoeic mode of two of the most distinguished southern poets of the second half of the 20th century. Previous owner's light underlining and notes are present throughout in black pen. Record # 34248
Price: $12.00 

Beginnings: Intention and Method by: Said, Edward W.

Beginnings: Intention and Method by: Said, Edward W.

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 414 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has been price clipped and has some mild edge wear, in good condition overall. Tan cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a major event for literary criticism and for humanistic study in general. This work proposes brilliant interpretations of various philosophical works. Clean copy. Record # 34374
Price: $24.00 

Macaulay's Essay on Addison by: Macaulay, Thomas B.
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Macaulay's Essay on Addison by: Macaulay, Thomas B.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green &Co., Rep., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Edited by James Greenleaf Croswell. Longmans' English Classics. 122 pages. Record # 63522
Price: $12.00 

It All Adds Up - From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by: Bellow, Saul
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It All Adds Up - From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by: Bellow, Saul

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Cover shows light wear and fore-edge shows light soiling, but otherwise clean. hardbound, 327 pgs. Collection of non-fiction essays by Bellow. Record # 108776
Price: $12.00 

Commencement Address, A by: Cooke, Alistair
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Commencement Address, A by: Cooke, Alistair

Softcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages, cardboard covers with dust jacket. Record # 402390
Price: $12.00 

William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance by: Watson, James G.
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William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance by: Watson, James G.

Softcover. University of Texas Press, 1st pb, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages, b&w photos. Dog-ear on page 187, minor wear to pictorial wrappers. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453572
Price: $12.00 

Ploughshares Fall 1999 : Fiction Issue by: Baxter, Charles
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Ploughshares Fall 1999 : Fiction Issue by: Baxter, Charles

Softcover. Ploughshares Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages, minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 456253
Price: $12.00 

Reckless Disregard by: Adler, Renata
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Reckless Disregard by: Adler, Renata

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1986-10-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 243 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, and light tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461481
Price: $12.00 

Conversations with Erskine Caldwell by: Arnold, Edwin T.
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Conversations with Erskine Caldwell by: Arnold, Edwin T.

Softcover. US, University Press of Mississippi, 1988-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Record # 461811
Price: $12.00 


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