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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 

 

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 

 

Paris and the Nineteenth Century


Prendergast, Christopher

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Publishers, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 page. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Gilt lettering to spine, light bumping on corner, light pencil markings. Otherwise, bright, tight copy. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 30041


Price: $44.00 

 

Paris and Vienne: Translated from the French & Printed by William Caxton. Early English Text Society 234 (SIGNED COPY)


Leach, MacEdward

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. brown cloth stamped in gilt, 120 pages. INSCRIBED BY LEACH on the front fly leaf. Originally published by Caxton in 1485, Paris & Vienne marked a change in the style of Literature being written in Europe at the time. Instead of tales of Knightly Romance & Chivalry a move was made towards more realistic down to Earth tales, closer to actual life. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 411549


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Pathway to God in Hindi Literature


Ranade, R. D.

Hardcover. Bombay, Adhyatma Vidya Mandir, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 405 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610992


Price: $63.00 

Peguy and Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine Halevy, Daniel
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Peguy and Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine


Halevy, Daniel

Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 303 pages. Literary criticism by a noted Catholic poet b/w portrait frontispiece, very good+, poor worn torn tape-repaired dj, brown cloth.

Record # 415162


Price: $15.00 

 

Pen and Ink - Papers on Subjects of More or Less Importance


Matthews, Brander

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green, 1st, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages. One of 110 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper - this being hand numbered #42. Covers worn with rubbed edges and bumped corners. Spine label chipped. Front hinge paper cracked. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 608469


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Persistence of Modernism, The: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century


Detloff, Madelyn

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Record # 2233440


Price: $44.00 

 

Personality of Thoreau, The


Sanborn, F.B.

Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Goodspeed, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 71 pages, number 410 of a 500. French hand-made paper, printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with one plate and two facsimiles of Thoreau's journal. Gray-green boards with a beige cloth spine with a paper label. Spine and covers darkening, light shelf wear.

Record # 412416


Price: $75.00 

 

Petite Folie Collective


Corvin, Michel and Copi

Hardcover. Paris, Tchou, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, b&w cartoon drawings by Copi. White cloth covers with black design. A collection of quotes from writers of the Surrealist movement in France. Long preface by Corvin. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR (HIS WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD) to Roger Shattuck, author and chronicler of the period. Publishers complimentary card laid in. Small tan stain to cloth at top of front cover, otherwise very good.

Record # 403415


Price: $80.00 

Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of ImmaturityPosnock, Ross
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Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity


Posnock, Ross

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, September 13, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Front flap of dust jacket slightly bent; sticker residue on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453246


Price: $18.00 

 

Philip Roth


Rodgers Jr., Bernard R.

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages, hardcover. Criticism and interpretations of the works of Philip Roth. Mild age toning to text block top edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951762


Price: $19.00 

 

Piece of My Mind, A


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, reflections at sixty

Record # 6339


Price: $18.00 

 

Piece of My Mind, A


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, reflections at sixty

Record # 2032


Price: $18.00 

 

Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002


Kermode, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 466 pages. light edgewear and scarring to dust jacket, remainder line to bottom edge, light soil to front end paper. Neat, tight copy.

Record # 458556


Price: $13.00 

 

Pied Piper Syndrome and other Essays, The


Hunter, Mollie

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Essays on writing for children, 118 pgs.

Record # 70552


Price: $18.00 

 

Piers the Plowman


Langland, William/Margaret Williams (Translator)

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 366 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Green cloth cover with fading along edges. Dust jacket with wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610681


Price: $15.00 

 

Playwriting Self of Bernard Shaw, The


Bertolini, John A.

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf.

Record # 405124


Price: $15.00 

 

Poe - Man, Poet and Creative Thinker


Cody, Sherwin

Hardcover. NY, Boni and Liveright, 1st , 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 485 pages. Green cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine. No sj as issued. Hinges slightly fragile, previous owner's stamp on front end paper, else a neat, clean.

Record # 59322


Price: $26.00 

 

Poems of Doctor Zhivago, The


Davie, Donald

Hardcover. Manchester UK, Manchester University Press , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages, beige cloth covers. Clean, no dust jacket.

Record # 406250


Price: $19.00 


  
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