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Letters of Ernest Hemingway, The: Volume 5, 1932-1934


Spanier, Sandra (Ed.), Miriam B. Mandel

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 699 pages. Hardcover. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. Like new. Hemingway's personal correspondence is a look into his intimate life.

Record # 31929


Price: $50.00 

 

Letters of James Gibbons Huneker


Huneker, Josephine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, James Gibbon Huneker, in sepia tones protected with tissue guard. Green cloth covered boards with gilt cameo to cover, gilt titles to spine. Deckled side edge, green dyed top edge. Tight binding, previous owner's signature to front fly leaf, else clean.

Record # 6670157


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters on Various Interesting and Important Subjects


Freneau, Philip

Hardcover. New York , Scholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 142 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket fair only with heavy chipping to spine and edges. Slight discoloration to endpaper, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 809664


Price: $20.00 

Letters To A TeacherPickering, Samuel F.

Letters To A Teacher


Pickering, Samuel F.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 242 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Some edgewear and creasing to upper edge of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453130


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope - Vol. II


Chesterfield, Lord

Hardcover. London, J. Dodsley, 3rd, 1774, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 2 only of 4 volumes. Leather covers worn, spine lettering faded. Internally Very Good.

Record # 303306


Price: $40.00 

 

Library Essays About Books, Bibliophiles, Writers and Kindred Subjects


Harper, Henry Howard

Hardcover. Boston, The Torch Press, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. In slipcase. Printed on textured paper with rough cut edges. Foxing to top edge. Light spotting to endpapers. Soiling to spine. Wear and fading to slipcase. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 851731


Price: $20.00 

 

Life and Letters of Washington Allston


Flagg, Jared B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805227


Price: $19.00 

 

Life and Times of John Sloan, The


The Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts

Softcover. Wilmington, DE, The Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, 1st, 1961, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with blue covers, minor creases. Staple wrappers tight, pages clean and crisp. 39 b/w plates of artist's paintings, drawings, and prints over the course of his lifetime. 151 items listed. Two essays on artist's life at front. 48 pages.

Record # 808508


Price: $13.00 

 

Life and Work of Theodore Roosevelt - Memorial Edition


Russell, Thomas H.

n.p., L. H. Walter, 1st , 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 512 pages. Many tributes, essays about Roosevelt upon his passing. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 66485


Price: $125.00 

Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889Bartley, Theodore D.

Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889


Bartley, Theodore D.

softcover. Fleischmanns, New York, Purple Mountain Press, Ltd., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470013


Price: $25.00 

Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the CrossroadsMarcus, Greil

Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads


Marcus, Greil

Hardcover. New York, PublicAffairs, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight shelfwear and price sticker to dust jacket back. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy with only only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 471320


Price: $31.00 

 

Lilies


Moore, N. Hudson

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st Thus, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Separation at signatures between pages 3 & 4. Corners bumped with rubbing along edges. Clean text.

Record # 607732


Price: $28.00 

 

Lincoln on Democracy


Lincoln, Abraham

Hardcover. US, Harpercollins, rep, 1990-11-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 416 pages. Removed bookplate inside front cover has caused the dust jacket flap to stick to the board. Light sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 466163


Price: $10.00 

 

Literary Criticism and Romantic Theory in the Work of Achim Von Arnim


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: $11.00 

 

Literary History of America, A


Wendell, Barrett

New York , Scribners, Rep., 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. A bit shaken,dusty. Still, a good reading copy.

Record # 302099


Price: $12.00 

Literary Merit of the English Bible, TheQuiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, Arthur Machen, Sir A. Conan Doyle and others

Literary Merit of the English Bible, The


Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, Arthur Machen, Sir A. Conan Doyle and others

Hardcover. London, Francis Griffiths, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. A collection of articles by English men of letters on their favorite literary passages from the Bible. The essays originally ran in the Morning Post newspaper during 1930. Front and rear panel of dust jacket laid in.

Record # 402035


Price: $80.00 

 

Literary Scene in East Pakistan, The


Husain, et. al., DR. S.S.

Paperback. E. Pakistan, P.E.N., 1st wraps, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY HUSAIN, one of the contributors. An introduction to the language and literature of East Pakistan. 88 pages.

Record # 58250


Price: $25.00 

 

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century


Paston, George

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton and Co., 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering and decor to spine and front. Minor wear to covers, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 810076


Price: $15.00 

 

Little More About Me, A


Houston, Pam

New York, Norton, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 302625


Price: $18.00 

 

Little Rivers - A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness


Van Dyke, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, Rep., 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 241 pages. Front hinge starting.

Record # 60522


Price: $15.00 

Liturgy and Tradition - Theological Reflections of Alexander SchmemannFisch (editor), Thomas

Liturgy and Tradition - Theological Reflections of Alexander Schmemann


Fisch (editor), Thomas

Softcover. New York, St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages. Softcover with only minor wear to cover. Overall, clean tight copy.

Record # 750109


Price: $19.00 

Lives of the Modern PoetsPritchard, William H.

Lives of the Modern Poets


Pritchard, William H.

Softcover. Hanover, NH, UPNE, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 454657


Price: $8.00 

 

Living in Ireland


Stoeltie, Rene (Photographer)

Hardcover. Germany, Taschen, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with some minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 471247


Price: $31.00 

 

Living Mirror, The: Five Poets From Leningrad


Massie (Ed.), Suzanne

London, Gollancz, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 344 pages in a lightly worn dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp on title page, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 405578


Price: $25.00 

 

London Films


Howells, W. D.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st , 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust., photos. Turquois cloth with gilt design.

Record # 64272


Price: $23.00 

 

Long View, The: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic craft


Pack, Robert

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Slight fading to dust jacket and a touch of foxing to top edge. Otherwise, clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Record # 30788


Price: $11.00 

 

Louise Bogan - A Woman's Words


Smith, William Jay

Paperback. Washington, DC, Library of Congress, 1st wraps, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A lecture delivered in 1970 at the Library of Congress together with a detailed bibliography of Bogan's work. 81 pages. Paperback edition.

Record # 62511


Price: $25.00 

Lucchesi and The WhaleLentricchia, Frank

Lucchesi and The Whale


Lentricchia, Frank

Hardcover. Durham, [N.C.], 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Edge wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453117


Price: $8.00 

 

Lunacy Boom, The


Zinsser, William

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 59711


Price: $12.00 

 

Macmillan Atlas of Rugs & Carpets, The: A Comprehensive guide for the Buyer and Collector


Black (Editor), David

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Vibrant color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket has a touch of yellowing due to age. Slight foxing to endpapers and edges, otherwise clean inside and out. In great shape.

Record # 30642


Price: $25.00 

 

Madwoman's Underclothes, The - Essays and Occasional Writings


Greer, Germaine

hard back. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 202241


Price: $15.00 

 

Maimonides


Buijs, Joseph A.

Softcover. US, University of Notre Dame Press, 1st, 1990-02-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 317 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463076


Price: $13.00 

 

Mainly on the Air


Beerbohn, Max

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Patterned boards, faded spine. Two ink star stamps front fly leaf. Contains 6 essays and 6 broadcasts, first published chiefly in the Listener.

Record # 604531


Price: $8.00 

 

Make-Believe Town: Essays & Remembrances


Mamet, David

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Remainder mark on top edge. Else very good.

Record # 11768


Price: $8.00 

 

Make-Believe Town: Essays & Remembrances


Mamet, David

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder mark

Record # 11767


Price: $9.00 

 

Make-Believe Town: Essays and Rememberances


Mamet, David

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder mark top edge

Record # 11930


Price: $9.00 

 

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age


Paret (EDITOR), Peter

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 941 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Spine cracked in center, from paper wrapper. Faded front wrapper. Clean.

Record # 2233794


Price: $23.00 

 

Making It New - Essays, Interviews, and Talks


Geldzahler, Henry

Softcover. New York, NY, Harcourt Brace & Company, First Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Softcover. Forward facsimile handwriting by David Hockney. Bright cover with faint marginal wear to edges. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751492


Price: $19.00 

 

Making Waves


Llosa, Mario Vargas

Paperback. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, proof wraps, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. & transl. from Spanish by John King. Cover creased, curled

Record # 52981


Price: $15.00 

 

Malevich and Film


Tupitsyn, Margarita

hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages illustrated in color, b&w. An catalog for the Russian artist's exhibition which opened in Portugal in 2002 and traveled to Spain. Essays by Kazimir Malevich and Victor Tupitsyn.

Record # 601893


Price: $26.00 

 

Man and the State


Maritain, Jacques

Hardcover. London, Hollis and Carter, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 197 pages. Dust jacket shows wear with closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607600


Price: $40.00 

 

Man in the Flying Lawn Chair, The: And Other Excursions and Observations


Plimpton, George

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st ed, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Edited by Sarah Dudley Plimpton. Heavy fading to dust jacket spine. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952587


Price: $13.00 

 

Man of Letters, A - Selected Essays


Pritchett, V.S.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 60936


Price: $18.00 

 

Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets


Rubin, James

Softcover. US, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1995-08-11, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear and scuffing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463168


Price: $15.00 

 

Mania for Magnificence, A


Kronenberger, Louis

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 236 pages

Record # 304694


Price: $18.00 

 

Manual of The Fine Arts


Huntington, D.

Hardcover. New York, A.S Barnes and Burr, reprint, 1862, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 472 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Blind stamp on front and back cover. Gilt titles on spine. Rubbing to bottom and top edge. Some stains to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857492


Price: $19.00 

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the BorderlandsChabon, Michael

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands


Chabon, Michael

Hardcover. US, McSweeney's, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469834


Price: $63.00 

Marc Scialom. Impasse du cinema: Esilio, memoria, utopia / Exil, memoire, utopie (Italian Edition)Tarquini, Silvia

Marc Scialom. Impasse du cinema: Esilio, memoria, utopia / Exil, memoire, utopie (Italian Edition)


Tarquini, Silvia

Softcover. Ireland, Artdigiland.com, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. ITALIAN TEXT.

Record # 471799


Price: $25.00 

 

Marcel Duchamp: In Perspective


Mascheck, Joseph (Editor)

Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Da Capo Press, 2nd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent, binding tight. Clean inside and out. Looks new. Clean copy. "Writings on Duchamp by Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Clement Greenberg, John Cage, Octavio Paz, & Others"

Record # 31525


Price: $15.00 

 

Marking The Sparrow's Fall - Wallace Stegner's American West


Stegner, Page (Ed)

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 178074


Price: $9.00 

 

Marks in the Fields, The : Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts


Dennis, Rodney G.

Softcover. US, Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library, 1st, 2005-04-30, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages, b&w illustrations. Faint foxing to edges and light damp-creasing to rear cover.

Record # 464661


Price: $15.00 

 

Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962


McCarthy, Mary

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning. Browning to book edges and edges of pages, doesn't affect text. Binding tight, spine straight. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, still very bright, gilt title stamped on spine. Boards very good. Brings together McCarthy's lively controversial essays on the theatre from the 1930's to the mid 20th century.

Record # 31678


Price: $23.00 

 

Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937-1962


McCarthy, Mary

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Strauss, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light rubbing.

Record # 107003


Price: $25.00 

 

Maske at Ludlow, A


Diekhoff (Editor), John S.

Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, The Press of Case Reserve University, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essays on Milton's Comus. Edgewear along dust jacket edges, most pronounced at fore edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951119


Price: $13.00 

Master Breasts: Objectified, Aestheticized, Fantasized, Eroticized, FeminizedProse (Introduction), Francine

Master Breasts: Objectified, Aestheticized, Fantasized, Eroticized, Feminized


Prose (Introduction), Francine

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages, color and b&w pictures by various photographers. In a bright dust jacket, clean. Essays by Karen Finley, Dario Fo, Charles Simic.

Record # 405057


Price: $38.00 

 

Mathematical Sciences, The: A Collection of Essays


Boehm, George A. W.

Hardcover. Cambridge, The M.I.T. Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Previous owner

Price: $12.00 

 

Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism - First Series


Arnold, Matthew

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Edited by Sister Thomas Marion Hoctor. 367 pages. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 65590


Price: $8.00 

 

Max Beerbohn - Selected Prose


Cecil ( Ed.), David

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Little Brown, 1st US, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub. in Eng. in 1970

Record # 53414


Price: $9.00 

 

Me Again: Uncollected Writings of Stevie Smith


Smith, Stevie , Illust. by: Stevie Smith

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages, yellow and black cloth cover. Illustrated throughout with B&W drawings. Price clipped and tanning to edges of jacket. Foxing on top edge and fading to top edge of cover. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401632


Price: $12.00 

 

Meaning of Courtly Love, The


Newman, F. X. (Ed.)

Albany, State University of New York, 2nd, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. 5 scholarly essays and bibliography. Previous owner's bookplate.

Record # 303893


Price: $23.00 

 

Meditations on a Hobby Horse - And Other Essays on the Theory of Art


Gombrich, E. H.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Publishers Inc., 1st UK, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Foxing to endpapers. Price clipped dust jacket with foxing to rear cover, edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612465


Price: $19.00 

 

Melodious Guile - Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language


Hollander, John

New Haven, CT, Yale University Press , 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 262 pages. Dust jacket with closed tears, wear to corners.

Record # 502602


Price: $20.00 

 

Memorials of Alfred Marshall


Pigou (ed.), A. C.

Softcover. New York, Kelley & Millman, Inc., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 518 pages. Three parts, including memorial essays by various authors, selections from Marshall's writings, and selected letters by Marshall. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, 7 b&w plates of Marshall's portraits including frontispiece. Faded spine, previous owner's signature to top right corner of front endpaper, slight rubbing to covers, small 1" spine to inside of front hinge, light pencil markings to a few page, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, clean boards; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401195


Price: $100.00 

 

Memory observed: remembering in natural contexts


N/A

Softcover. San Francisco, W.H. Freeman, reprint, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, San Francisco, W.H. Freeman, reprint, 1982, Book: Good, Dust jacket: None, Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Slight edge wear to front cover. Front hinge cracked. Previous owner's stamp. Otherwise clean, tight copy. . 433 pages. Record # 467682

Record # 467682


Price: $13.00 

 

Merry Heart, The - Reflections on Reading, Writing and the World of Books


Davies, Robertson

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 3rd, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 53008


Price: $20.00 

 

MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History - Spring 1989, Vol. 1, No. 3


N/A

Hardcover. NY, MHQ Inc, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Articles, essays on military history. A Special Section on the Horse in War. Hardback. 128 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 300262


Price: $8.00 

 

MHQ; Quarterly Journal of Military History - Autumn, 1988 - Vol. 1, No. 1


N/A

Hardcover. NY, MHQ, Inc, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Articles, essays on military history. Premier issue. Color, B&w illust. 128 pages. hardcover

Record # 300264


Price: $15.00 

Michael Bell: Space Replaces Us--Essays and Projects on the CityBELL, MICHAEL

Michael Bell: Space Replaces Us--Essays and Projects on the City


BELL, MICHAEL

Softcover. US, Monacelli, na, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, As new, in shrinkwrap.

Record # 450126


Price: $30.00 

Michel TournierWorton, Michael (Editor)

Michel Tournier


Worton, Michael (Editor)

Hardcover. London ; New York, Longman Pub Group, 1st UK, March 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454539


Price: $40.00 

 

Middle Eastern Capitalism - Nine Essays


Meyer, A. J.

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ., 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 161 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 66000


Price: $19.00 

 

Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics


Morson, Gary Saul

Softcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 554 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelfwear. Previous owner's inscription within.

Record # 471412


Price: $13.00 

Mill and Religion: Contemporary Responses to 3 Essays on ReligionSell, Alan P. F. (Editor, Introduction)

Mill and Religion: Contemporary Responses to 3 Essays on Religion


Sell, Alan P. F. (Editor, Introduction)

Softcover. Bristol, England ; Dulles, Va., St. Augustine's Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. light sun-fade and creasing to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459375


Price: $19.00 

 

Millennium Film Journal - Interviews/Rediscoveries/Third World - Nos. 7/8/9 - Fall/Winter 1980-1981


Millennium Film Journal

Softcover. New York, Millennium Film Workshop, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations. Light wear.

Record # 611464


Price: $13.00 

 

Mind and Language: Wolfson College Lectures 1974


Guttenplan, Samuel (Editor)

Softcover. Oxford University Press, USA, rep, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper and front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459086


Price: $9.00 

 

Mindscapes, 104 Drawings, John Randolph Carter


Carter, John Randolph

Softcover. New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. White stapled covers with full-color illustration to front, 9 large full-page color illustrations, short essays by various authors including artist, exhibition checklist. A very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 806633


Price: $19.00 

 

Miscellany: Consisting of Essays, Biographical Sketches, and Notes of Travel


Morris, Reverend T. A.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, L. Swormstedt & J. H. Power, 1st, 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. Library inscription in front endpaper. Foxing throughout. Title in gilt on spine. Cloth covers with rubbing/chipping along edges. Binding tight.

Record # 610456


Price: $125.00 

 

Misleadings


Eco, Umberto

Paperback. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, uncor. proof wraps, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Transl. from Italian by William Weaver

Record # 57653


Price: $38.00 

 

Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy


Bloch (Editors), R. Howard and Frances Ferguson

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages, paperback. Essays exploring the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms. Minor rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Unmarked. A clean and tight

Record # 952119


Price: $13.00 

 

Missing Persons and Other Essays


Boll, Heinrich

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 281 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609366


Price: $12.00 

 

Modern American Culture: An Introduction.


Gidley, Mick (ed)

Paperback. London, Longman, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages.

Record # 40029


Price: $11.00 

 

Modern Art and America - Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries


Greenough, Sarah , Illust. by: Charles E. Brock, C.E. Brock

Hardcover. Boston, National Gallery of Art/Bulfinch, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Foreword by Earl A. Powell III. Essays by William C. Agee, Charles Brock, etc.

Record # 64002


Price: $51.00 

Modern Art of the Print, The: Selections from the Collection of Lois and Michael TorfAckley, Clifford S., Thomas Krens, and Deborah Menaker

Modern Art of the Print, The: Selections from the Collection of Lois and Michael Torf


Ackley, Clifford S., Thomas Krens, and Deborah Menaker

Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of the Torf collection of twentieth-century graphic art. 160 pages; both color and black & white plates; cover in color. Essays by Clifford S. Ackley, Thomas Krens, and Deborah Menaker. In near fine condition.

Record # 806849


Price: $30.00 

Modern Art of the Print, The: Selections from the Collection of Lois and Michael TorfAckley, Clifford S., Thomas Krens, and Deborah Menaker

Modern Art of the Print, The: Selections from the Collection of Lois and Michael Torf


Ackley, Clifford S., Thomas Krens, and Deborah Menaker

Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of the Torf collection of twentieth-century graphic art. 160 pages; both color and black & white plates; cover in color. Essays by Clifford S. Ackley, Thomas Krens, and Deborah Menaker. In very good condition.

Record # 806848


Price: $25.00 

 

Modern Essays (Second Series)


Morley (Editor), Christopher

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, First Thus, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 457 pages. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards, bright with light, marginal soiling & black printed titles to cover & spine. Light toning to edges throughout. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean & unmarked.

Record # 6670056


Price: $44.00 

 

Modern German Literature 1880-1950


Bithell, Jethro

London, Methuen & Co., reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 584 pages. Fresh, tight and clean copy.

Record # 601680


Price: $6.00 

 

Modern India and the Indians - Being a Series of Impressions, Notes and Essays


Williams, Monier

Hardcover. London, Trubner & Co., 3rd, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W illustrated, 365 pages & ads. Ex-lib with light markings otherwise clean internally

Record # 175249


Price: $35.00 

Modern Language Quarterly March 1941Heffner (Ed.), Ray

Modern Language Quarterly March 1941


Heffner (Ed.), Ray

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages, literary journal with articles on language in early literary work. Essays on Hoffman as a Lyric Writer, Edmund Spenser, Cooper's "The Prairie", Moutesquieu and Hume, others. Vol. 2, No. 1. Clean.

Record # 411520


Price: $25.00 

 

Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918


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: $10.00 

 

Moliere - A New Criticism


Moore, W. G.

London, Oxford University Press , rep, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages.

Record # 205541


Price: $15.00 

 

Montaigne's Politics: Authority and Governance in the Essais


Fontana, Biancamaria

Hardcover. US, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2008-01-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463065


Price: $19.00 

 

Moral System of Shakespeare, The - A Popular Illustration of Fiction as the Experimental Side of Philosophy


Moulton, Richard G.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages + ads. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Maroon binding with gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Light edgewear to bottom of spine .

Record # 502898


Price: $20.00 

Morning After, The - American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986Will, Geroge F.

Morning After, The - American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986


Will, Geroge F.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. A collection of his columns & essays from the 80's. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 58145


Price: $12.00 

 

Morris Louis, Major Themes & Variations


Carmean, Jr., E. A.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Stapled wrappers with color illustration to front,17 large color plates including frontispiece, 6 smaller b&w figures, short essays accompany most plates. Light rubbing to wrappers, catalog slightly curved at spine; otherwise, a very neat, tight catalog.

Record # 807500


Price: $10.00 

 

Mortgaged Heart, The


McCullers, Carson

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, tearing to spine, faded.

Record # 107009


Price: $35.00 

 

Mourning, Gender, and Creativity in the Art of Herman Melville


Tolchin, Neal L.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages.

Record # 63897


Price: $25.00 

 

Mr. Eliot Among the Nightingales


Grudin, Louis

Hardcover. Paris, Lawrence Drake, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pages unopened, dust jacket worn, closed tears, chipped.

Record # 16093


Price: $20.00 

 

Mulberry Tree, The


Bowen, Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 6824


Price: $8.00 

 

Muscovy: Russia through foreign eyes, 1553-1900,


Wilson, Francesca M

Hardcover. London, Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 328 pages, b&w plates. Red top edge. Yellowing, light edge wear to dust jacket. Small stamp on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453352


Price: $10.00 

 

Musical Life, The


Kolodin, Irving

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 266 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, light wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856023


Price: $13.00 

 

My Ears Are Bent


Mitchell, Joseph

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, Rep., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A revised edition of the original "impossible-to-find" 1938 edition

Record # 61594


Price: $30.00 

 

My Farm of Edgewood/ A Country Book


Mitchell, Donald G.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner Armstrong, rep, 1872, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st pub in 1863. Spine extremities frayed, otherwise

Record # 16113


Price: $20.00 

 

My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell


Wilkinson, Alec

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Hardcover. Very clean inside and out. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped.

Record # 30638


Price: $15.00 

 

My Place in the Bazaar


Waugh, Alec

Hardcover. London, Cassell, 1st Eng, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's signature front end paper, former bookdealer's stamp front end paper. Some foxing at edges. Dust jacket shows minor wear.

Record # 109357


Price: $18.00 

 

Myths of Matriarchy Reconsidered (Oceania Monograph 33)


Gewertz, Deborah (Editor)

Softcover. Sydney, Australia, University of Sydney, 1st Edition, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, still glossy. Pages clean and bright. Binding good. Oceania Monographs are treatises or collections of essays on anthropological topics within the ethnographic region of Oceania.

Record # 33452


Price: $31.00 

 

Nathan Oliveira: A Survey Exhibition 1957-1983


Oliveira, Nathan

Softcover. San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Exhibition catalog. Color illustrated covers with black titles, perfect binding, foreword by Henry T. Hopkins, essays by Thomas H. Garver and George W. Neubert, b&w figures throughout text, dozens of full color plates, checklist of exhibition, chronology. Very slight rubbing to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 806511


Price: $35.00 

 

Nathan Oliveira: A Survey Exhibition 1957-1983


Oliveira, Nathan

Softcover. San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Exhibition catalog. Color illustrated covers with black titles, perfect binding, foreword by Henry T. Hopkins, essays by Thomas H. Garver and George W. Neubert, b&w figures throughout text, dozens of full color plates, checklist of exhibition, chronology. Very slight rubbing to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 806510


Price: $35.00 

 

Nationalism in Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry


Loftus, Richard J.

Madison, WI, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1st , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages.

Record # 62751


Price: $10.00 

 

Native Muse, The - Theories of American Literature, Vol. 1


Ruland, Richard (Ed.)

New York, Dutton, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 465 pages.

Record # 302032


Price: $20.00 

 

Nature of a Crime, The


Conrad, Joseph, Ford Madox Hueffer

Hardcover. London, Duckworth & Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Dust jacket edge wear, half inch chunk missing from top spine edge, pencil mark on rear cover, otherwise, internally clean and tight.

Record # 853433


Price: $40.00 

 

Nature of Space, The: A Metaphysical and Aesthetic Inquiry


Pereira, I. Rice

Softcover. Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, reprint, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprint of the 1956 edition. 62 pages. White stiff wrappers with light wear and staining to spine and cover. Overall a nice, tight copy.

Record # 605774


Price: $16.00 

 

Nemesis


Asimov, Isaac

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket . Previous owner's embossed stamp on front fly leaf.

Record # 800340


Price: $8.00 

 

NER/BLQ - New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly - Summer 1984


Christopher Buckley, David Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, Janey McCafferty, Lynn McFall, Jay Parini, Michael Ryan

Paperback. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College, 1st wraps, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Poetry by Christopher Buckley, David Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa. Fiction by Janey McCafferty, Lynn McFall. Essays by Jay Parini, Michael Ryan

Record # 600422


Price: $12.00 

 

NER/BLQ - New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly - Winter 1984


Leonard Nathan, Rodney Jones, Philip Booth, Eleanor Clark, Paula Sharp, David Huddle, Robert Pack, Michael Ryan

Paperback. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College, 1st wraps, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Poetry by Leonard Nathan, Rodney Jones, Philip Booth. Fiction by Eleanor Clark, Paula Sharp, David Huddle. Essays by Robert Pack, Michael Ryan.

Record # 600461


Price: $12.00 

 

New Critical Essays


Barthes, Roland

New York , Hill and Wang, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 121 pages. Translated by Richard Howard. Dust jacket with light fading.

Record # 176648


Price: $15.00 

 

New Critical Essays


Barthes, Roland

NY, Hill and Wang, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light soil to dust jacket.

Record # 202580


Price: $15.00 

 

New Essays by Oliver Goldsmoth


Crane, Ronald S. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages, bound in gilt-decorated calf covers. 18 essays first collected here with introduction and notes by Crane. All edges gilt, in cardboard slipcase.

Record # 512130


Price: $26.00 

 

New German Critique, Number 53 (Spring/Summer 1991)


Various

Softcover. New York , Telos Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover journal, 192 pages. Essays on Heidegger, Herbert Marcuse, Max Weber, others. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 410615


Price: $19.00 

 

New Immigrants in New York


Foner, Nancy (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. A collection of essays on the various immigrant communities of New York City. Ex-lib with stamping, bookplate.

Record # 303250


Price: $12.00 

 

New Light on Dr. Johnson: Essays on the Occasion of his 250th Birthday


Hilles (Editor), Frederick W.

Hardcover. Archon Books, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 348 pages, dust jacket edge wear with chipping, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 854891


Price: $13.00 

 

New Orpheus - Essays on Kurt Weill, A


Kowalke, Kim H.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604306


Price: $13.00 

 

New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale: A 250th Anniversary Celebration


Miller, Lillian B. (Ed.), David C. Ward (Ed.)

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st Edition, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 317 pages. Hardcover. Color frontispiece, over 100 illustrations in b/w throughout. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright, unmarked. This book is fresh out of its shrink wrap, immaculate. In beautiful condition. Several essays by various scholars all celebrating his life and work.

Record # 32240


Price: $19.00 

 

New Solar System, The


Beatty, J. Kelly and others (Ed)

Cambridge, MA, Sky Publishing, Unknown, 1981, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Color, B&W illustrations. Introduction by Carl Sagan. A collection of essays on various aspects of space exploration and our solar system. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 303112


Price: $18.00 

 

Newtonian Revolution


Cohen, Bernard

Softcover. Norwalk, CT, Burndy Library, reprint, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages. Essay with B/W reproductions pages from Newton's "Principia" and "Optiks". Immaculate condition.

Record # 802120


Price: $16.00 

 

Newtonian Revolution


Cohen, Bernard

Softcover. Norwalk, CT, Burndy Library, reprint, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages. Essay with B/W reproductions pages from Newton's "Principia" and "Optiks". Immaculate condition.

Record # 802121


Price: $16.00 

 

Nineteenth-century literary perspectives: Essays in honor of Lionel Stevenson


N/A

Hardcover. Durham, N.C., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 294 pages, dust jacket with edge wear and light water damage, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 457733


Price: $15.00 

 

No Other Book - Selected Essays


Jarrell, Randall

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Edited by Brad Leithauser. Light wear to dj edge.

Record # 54197


Price: $20.00 

 

No Other Book: Selected Essays


Jarrell, Randall

Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 1999-06-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 376 pages. Slight creasing to a handful pages, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463726


Price: $13.00 

 

No Richer Gift


Triumpho, Richard

Hardcover. Ft. Atkinson, WI, W.D. Hoard & Sons, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A series of essays collected from Hoard's Dairyman magazine 1973-79

Record # 7721


Price: $15.00 

Nomic Probability and the Foundations of InductionPollock, John L.

Nomic Probability and the Foundations of Induction


Pollock, John L.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages. Minor foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459121


Price: $25.00 

 

Norman Mailer - The Man and His Work


Lucid ( Ed.), David F.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Light wear, rubbing to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 53015


Price: $8.00 

 

Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People


Hennessey, Maureen Hart, Anne Knutson

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages, illustrated throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, in very good condition.

Record # 852666


Price: $25.00 

 

Northrop Frye in Modern Criticism - Selected Papers From the English Institute


Krieger, Murry (Ed.)

NY, Columbia University Press , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light soil and edgewear.

Record # 201034


Price: $12.00 

 

Notebook, The


Saramago, Jose

Hardcover. US, Verso, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy.

Record # 2230254


Price: $15.00 

 

Notes on Religion


Chapman, John Jay

Hardcover. New York, Laurence J. Gomme, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages, gray cardboard covers, spine label. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 402546


Price: $30.00 

 

Notes on Religion


Chapman, John Jay

Hardcover. New York, self-published, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages, gray boards with spine label. Top edges have a small chunk missing, otherwise near fine, worn, torn glassine wrapper laid in.

Record # 402584


Price: $20.00 

 

Notorious Literary Attacks


Mordell (Ed.), Albert

Hardcover. New York, NY, Boni & Liveright, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Black cover with gilt lettering and decoration on front. Faded gilt lettering on spine. Spine slightly faded, and bottom of cover is worn. Corners scuffed. Title page in red and black ink.

Record # 604050


Price: $10.00 

 

Novel in English


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: $6.00 

 

Novel Now, The - A Guide to Contemporary Fiction


Burgess, Anthony

hardcover. NY, Norton, 3rd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with large chip to front & rear panel.

Record # 64599


Price: $18.00 

 

Novelist of Three Worlds: Ford Madox Ford


Wiley, Paul L.

Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 510830


Price: $9.00 

 

Obbligati: Essays in Criticism


Hecht, Anthony

Hardcover. US, Atheneum, 1st, 1986-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 330 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464516


Price: $25.00 

 

Object of Performance


Sayre, Henry

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 308 pages. Color and B/W photographs. Like New.

Record # 801864


Price: $19.00 

 

Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork (History of Anthropology)


Jr., George W. Stocking

Softcover. US, University of Wisconsin Press, 2nd, 1985-11-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 463027


Price: $10.00 

 

October 34 Magazine - Fall 1985


Krauss (Ed.), Rosalind and Annette Michelson

Softcover. Cambridge MA , MIT Press, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages plus ads, softcover, b&w illustrations. A quarterly journal of art criticism. Essays include Viktor Shklovsky on poetry and trans-sense language, Hal Foster on the primitive in modern art, Christian Metz on photography and fetish, an interview with video artist Bill Viola, other articles. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 406989


Price: $25.00 

 

October 4 Magazine - Fall 1977


Krauss (Ed.), Rosalind

Softcover. New York , The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages plus ads, softcover, b&w illustrations. A quarterly journal of art criticism. Essays by Dolf Sternberger, Craig Owens, Amy Taubin, Richard Sennett, others.

Record # 406955


Price: $31.00 

Odd Jobs: Essays and CriticismUpdike, John

Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism


Updike, John

Hardcover. US, Alfred a Knopf, 1st, 1991-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 919 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket and small stain to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461391


Price: $25.00 

 

Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery


na

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service/Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages. 75 b&w and color plates from gallery collection, over 29 b&w figures throughout text, essays by Edward J. Nygren and Peter C. Marzio. Light wear to cover edges; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605452


Price: $8.00 

 

Offensive Traveller, The


Pritchett, V.S.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of travel essays.

Record # 108658


Price: $15.00 

 

Old and New Architecture: Design Relationship


N/A

Washington DC, Preservation Press: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 280 pages. Contains black & white photography and illustrations of architecture. Dust jacket with edgewear.

Record # 508193


Price: $20.00 

 

Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews


Bell, Marvin

Softcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, rep, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. Light wear and rubbing to wrappers. Dog-ears to ca 10 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459594


Price: $19.00 

 

On All Sides Nowhere - Building a Life in Rural Idaho


Gruber, William

Paperback. Boston, Mariner/ Houghton Mifflin , 1st wraps , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY GRUBER on dedication page. Paperback.original.

Record # 301690


Price: $15.00 

 

On Emerson And Other Essays


Maeterlinck, Maurice

NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light edgewear and soil to covers. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Rear hinge cracked

Record # 203542


Price: $12.00 

 

On Frost - The Best From American Literature


Cady, Edwin & Louis J. Budd

Durham, NC, Duke University, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. A collection of critical essays on the poet.

Record # 302033


Price: $20.00 

 

On Modern American Art: Selected Essays


Rosenblum, Robert

Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous owner

Price: $15.00 

On Modern American ArtRosenblum, Robert

On Modern American Art


Rosenblum, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468313


Price: $15.00 

 

On the Beach: Cape Ann People and Places


N/A

Softcover. Gloucester, MA, Cape Ann Historical Association, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 23 pages. Illustrated profusely in b&w, paintings of the Cape Ann area of Massachusetts. Includes foreword and introduction, along with biographical essays about each artists showcased. In very good condition. White staple covers with full color illustration on front cover. Crease to front cover, tear to spine, and some edge-wear to the covers, otherwise a near catalog.

Record # 807977


Price: $16.00 

 

On the Witness Stand


Munsterberg, Hugo

Hardcover. New York, Clark Boardman Co , 1927, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Title sticker on cover and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 857478


Price: $31.00 

 

On Universals: An Essay in Ontology


Wolterstorff, Nicholas

Hardcover. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essay regarding ontology; the study of the general structure of properties, actions, and things. Light fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight bumping to spine and corners. Yellow toning to top text block. Heavy and scattered age spotting/toning to text block edge, as well as to the front endpapers, flyleaf, half and title page. Otherwise unmarked. Slight bow to front boards, barely perceptible. A tight and clean copy.

Record # 951493


Price: $31.00 

 

On Writing and the Novel - Essays by Paul Scott


Scott, Paul

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Shelley C. Reece

Record # 60520


Price: $18.00 

 

On Writing and the Novel


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: $10.00 

 

One Half of Robertson Davies: Stories, Lectures, Jeux D'esprit, and advice on writing and writers, books and literature from the Author of Fifth Business


Davies, Robertson

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, with a touch of chipping. A little foxing and remainder mark on top edge, otherwise in good condition, clean inside.

Record # 30798


Price: $13.00 

Only in AmericaFrei, Matt

Only in America


Frei, Matt

Hardcover. 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 330 pages. Slight scratch across lower edge of front cover, light wear to edges and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453137


Price: $25.00 

 

Ordinary Universe, The - Soundings in Modern Literature


Donoghue, Denis

Paperback. NY, ECCO, Rep. wraps, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Essays on modern writers by Donoghue. 320 pages. Paperback edition.

Record # 62325


Price: $12.00 

 

Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs (Poets on Poetry)


Simic, Charles

Softcover. US, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1998-01-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 115 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 465594


Price: $10.00 

 

Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, The - Third Series


Kerr, Orpheus C.

Hardcover. New York, Carleton, 1st, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. A collection of satirical essays, most concerning the Civil War. Original embossed cloth with light wear. Tears to blank preliminary pages

Record # 302918


Price: $30.00 

 

Orwell's Fiction


Lee, Robert A.

Indiana, University of Notre Dame Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light soil and edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 200736


Price: $12.00 

 

Oscar Wilde


Gide, Andre

New York, Philosophical Library, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 50 pages. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. Light rubbing to spine. Dust jacket with edgewear, faded spine, light soiling.

Record # 508993


Price: $9.00 

 

Other Provinces


Van Doren, Carl

NY, Knopf, 1st , 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Some pages opened roughly. Covers with light discoloration.

Record # 65100


Price: $15.00 

 

Otto Ping 1900-1940 - Photographer of Brown County, Indiana


Hartley, W. Douglas, Illust. by: Ping

Softcover. Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, 1st wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Many duotone photos by Ping. Essays by Anne E. Peterson and Stephen J. Fletcher. Paperback.

Record # 66884


Price: $10.00 

Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy NovelHull, Christopher

Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel


Hull, Christopher

Hardcover. New York, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Record # 2230405


Price: $19.00 

Out in CultureDoty, William G.

Out in Culture


Doty, William G.

softcover. London, Continuum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 544 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Light fading to spine.

Record # 470022


Price: $15.00 

 

Outermost Dream, The - Literary Sketches


Maxwell, William

Paperback. St. Paul, MN, Graywolf, 1st wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages

Record # 55502


Price: $12.00 

Outermost Dream, The : Literary SketchesMaxwell, William

Outermost Dream, The : Literary Sketches


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: $10.00 

 

Outermost Dream, The: Essays and Reviews


Maxwell, William

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essays and criticism from noted writer. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Rough-cut fore edge. bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 4450009


Price: $13.00 

 

Owl Creek Letters and Other Correspondence


W. (William Cowper Prime)

Hardcover. New York , Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1848, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Hardcover. Embossed brown cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Light fraying to bottom of spine. Foxing to preliminary pages, light foxing to some pages. 2 page sections loose from binding - pages 83-102 and 107-126. previous owner's signature on blank prelim page. Author's first book.

Record # 406595


Price: $113.00 

 

Oxford History of English literature: English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century


Sutherland, James

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 589 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Edges of spine slightly bumped, otherwise no visible wear to cover. Some foxing on dust jacket, spine at front and rear endpage, and edges of pages. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Edited by Bonamy Dobree and Norman Davis.

Record # 852594


Price: $18.00 

 

Paintings on the Move: Heinrich Heine and the Visual Arts


Zantop, Susannen(Editor

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages plus plates. Color and b/w illustrations at back of book. Previous owner's inscription on half title page. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of shelf wear (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. In excellent condition. Heine's role as art critic and innovator of art criticism has gone largely unexamined until this book.

Record # 32451


Price: $15.00 

 

Palm Sunday


Vonnegut, Kurt

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder spray, bottom edge

Record # 56365


Price: $18.00 

 

Paper Trail


Dorris, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 889


Price: $18.00 

Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About MarriageDexter, Pete

Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage


Dexter, Pete

Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471805


Price: $19.00 

Paranoia and Contentment: A Personal Essay on Western ThoughtHampsey, John C.

Paranoia and Contentment: A Personal Essay on Western Thought


Hampsey, John C.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very slight wear to jacket, small crease front jacket alongside spine, old price sticker to back of jacket. Otherwise very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230995


Price: $25.00 

 

Paris Review, The - Summer, 1984


Plimpton (Editor), George/Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine

Softcover. Flushing, NY, Deborah S. Pease/The Paris Review, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations throughout, including an ads section. Features writers & interviews, Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine. Previous owner's signature lightly erased to preliminary page. Else, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751380


Price: $19.00 

 

Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939


Flanner, Janet, Irving Drutman (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Viking, Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket shows a touch of age wear, but still in excellent condition. Boards immaculate, clean inside and out.

Record # 30697


Price: $10.00 

 

Park-Street Papers


Perry, Bliss

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Perry was editor of the Atlantic Monthly at 4 Park Street in Boston. Thus the title of these collected literary pieces. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue, still an attractive gilt-dec. cover.

Record # 62750


Price: $20.00 

 

Partial Recall: With Essays on Photographs of Native North Americans


Lippard, Lucy R.

Softcover. US, New Press, The, 1st, 1993-01-01, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Damp stain near bottom gutter between pages 129 and 199. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466131


Price: $13.00 

 

Parting from Phantoms: Selected Writings, 1990-1994


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. Chicago, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 315 pages. Slight bump to upper edge of spine, else a clean unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 456742


Price: $15.00 

Parts of a LifetimeDjilas, Milovan

Parts of a Lifetime


Djilas, Milovan

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 442 pages, clean copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Edited by Michael and Deborah Milenkovitch.

Record # 415248


Price: $19.00 

 

Passage through India


Snyder, Gary

Softcover. San Francisco, Grey Fox Press, 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages, with some black & white photographs. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 457445


Price: $15.00 

 

Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World


Piermont, Claudia Roth

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A, Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Illustrated with b/w photo plates. Small red smudge near fore edge on bottom edge of text block. White boards, blue cloth spine with with silver lettering. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Color pictorial dust jacket, near fine except for small tear at bottom of spine.

Record # 803598


Price: $8.00 

 

Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion


Plantinga, Carl (Editor), Greg M. Smith (Editor)

Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st paperback, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 301 pages. Softcover. Vibrant, glossy wrapper, very good. Light (erasable) penciling throughout. Binding tight. In great shape. "...thirteen internationally recognized scholars of film studies, philosophy, and psychology explore the emotional appeal of the cinema."

Record # 31547


Price: $19.00 

 

Passions of the Mind - Selected Essays


Byatt, A.S.

NJ, Turtle Bay, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 62422


Price: $15.00 

 

Patriarch; or Family Library Magazine - Volume 1 - 1841, The


Bailey (Editor), Rev. R. W.

Hardcover. New York, George A. Peters, 1st, 1841, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover. Missing 3 (at pages: 30, 217, 241) of the 13 black & white illustrations. Varying degrees of foxing to pages throughout. Rubbing, chipping to cover edges. Separation of cloth along front cover hinge. Text is clean, unmarked. Good reading copy.

Record # 613410


Price: $35.00 

 

Patronage in the Renaissance


Lytle, Guy Fith and Stephen Orgel

Softcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, January 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 389 pages, several b&w illustrations. Edgewear to wrappers. Foxing to edges. Sticker residue on front fly leaf. Else clean and tight.

Record # 454047


Price: $70.00 

 

Paul Strand: Essays on His Life and Work


Stange, Maren

Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Light soil on page block.

Record # 2233330


Price: $19.00 

 

Penchants & Places: Essays and Criticisms


Leithauser, Brad

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Deckled fore edge. Very clean book, bright inside. In excellent condition.

Record # 30784


Price: $15.00 

 

Penchants and Places: Essays and Criticism


Leithauser, Brad

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1995-02-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463931


Price: $10.00 

 

Performances


Dening, Greg

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st paperback edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding good. Spine is slightly faded (shelfwear, see image). Pages clean. "With elegance and candor, (the author) offers a panoramic collection of rich and densely textured essays that demonstrate how we can only understand our present through our consciousness of the past..."

Record # 33497


Price: $35.00 

 

Persistence of Vision (The Journal of the Film Faculty of the City University of New York)


Simon, Wiiliam G./James Naremore/Michael Denning/Douglas Gomery/Paul Arthur

Softcover. New York, NY, The City University of New York, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Softcover, special issue on Orson Welles from the Journal of the Film Faculty of the City University of New York. Light creasing on spine. Minimal pencil markings throughout. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Black and white photographs throughout. Minor chips & creasing to spine edge.

Record # 751625


Price: $25.00 

 

Personality of Jonathan Swift, The


Ehrenpreis, Irvin

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Cover boards have a touch of fading at edges, otherwise very good. Pages and edges slightly tanned from age. In beautiful condition. Book not only looks at the Irish satirist's life, but his strong points of view.

Record # 32037


Price: $15.00 

 

Peter Milton: Complete Etchings, 1960-1976


McNulty, Kneeland (Ed.), Peter Milton (Essays)

Softcover. Boston, MA, Impressions Workshop, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 137 pages. 97 B&W plates. Pictorial covers with slight wear. Covers slightly bent, also on corners on pages 51-54. Otherwise, a nice, clean copy.

Record # 850249


Price: $20.00 

 

Peter Milton: Complete Etchings, 1960-1976


McNulty, Kneeland (Ed.), Peter Milton (Essays)

Softcover. Boston, MA, Impressions Workshop, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 137 pages. 97 B&W plates. Pictorial cover. Covers show slight wear. Otherwise, a nice, clean copy.

Record # 850250


Price: $20.00 


  

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