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Sinful Self, Saintly Self: The Puritan Experience of PoetryHammonds, JeffreyA.
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Sinful Self, Saintly Self: The Puritan Experience of Poetry


Hammonds, JeffreyA.

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, dust jacket with small scar to front panel otherwise very good. "[A] comprehensive study of early New England verse in light of Puritan notions regarding the nature and uses of poetry. Through a new historical reading of three major Puritan poets--Michael Wigglesworth, Anne Bradstreet, and Edward Taylor--Hammond reconstructs this aesthetic framework using Puritan theology and assumptions about the psychology of the saved soul."

Record # 411441


Price: $19.00 

 

Singular Country, A


Donleavy, J.P.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, dj price clipped

Record # 52946


Price: $18.00 

 

Six Tennyson Essays


Tennyson, Sir Charles

Hardcover. London, Cassell & Co. Ltd. , 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 197 pages Hardcover. AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE PASTED BENEATH TITLE ON TITLE PAGE. Moderate rubbing to green cloth covers. Dust jacket with a degree of darkening along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612217


Price: $31.00 

 

Sixteen Self Sketches


Shaw, Bernard

London, Constable & Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Photos. 134 pages.

Record # 68331


Price: $18.00 

 

Size of Thoughts, The: Essays and Other Lumber


Baker, Nicholson

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A decades worth of essays and journalism by distinctive writer. Light rubbing to dust jacket, faint remainder mark to top copy edge. Bright and clean, a tight copy.

Record # 951253


Price: $19.00 

 

Snobbery - The American Version


Epstein, Joseph

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages.

Record # 304526


Price: $18.00 

 

So Be It - The Chips are Down


Gide, Andre

New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 165 pages. Introduction by Justin O'Brien. Gift inscripiton on front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket torn at spine.

Record # 204375


Price: $18.00 

 

Some Write to the Future - Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction


Dorfman, Ariel

Paperback. Durham, N.C., Duke Univ., 1st wraps, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 54066


Price: $18.00 

 

Something Happened Yesterday


Bainbridge, Beryl

Hardcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of her columns for the London Evening Standard. Remainder mark bottom edge

Record # 54048


Price: $18.00 

 

Something to Declare


Alvarez, Julia

Paperback. Chapel Hill, Algonquin, Unc. proof wraps, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY ALVAREZ on title page. Front wraps worn, internally VG.

Record # 52953


Price: $18.00 

 

Sons Come & Go, Mothers Hang in Forever


Saroyan, William

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st trade, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with edgewear.

Record # 106446


Price: $18.00 

 

Soundings - Encounters With Contemporary Books


Prescott, Peter S.

NY, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 331 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 65728


Price: $15.00 

 

Soundings


Brookner, Anita

Hardcover. London, Harvil, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 105834


Price: $20.00 

 

Spell of the Open Air, The


Various Writers, Illust. by: Harry Rountree

Hardcover. London, T. N. Foulis, 1st, ND, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages plus 2 pages of publishers ads. Covers are decorative blue silk cloth over stiff wraps. Title in gilt on front cover. Features 4 full color illustrations by Harry Rountree. Spine with some fading, light chipping. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614157


Price: $44.00 

 

Still Rebels Still Yankees and Other Essays


Davidson, Donald, Illust. by: Theresa Sherrer Davidson

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana St. Univ., 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Wood engravings by Theresa Sherrer Davidson. Dj price clipped.

Record # 55772


Price: $28.00 

 

Stormy Petrel - The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky


Levin, Dan

Hardcover. NY, Apeleton & Century, 1st , 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small red remainder star on front fly leaf . 332 pages.

Record # 59323


Price: $20.00 

 

Story Begins, The - Essays on Literature


Oz, Amos

Paperback. NY, Harcourt Brace, uncor. proof wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 54183


Price: $12.00 

 

Story of American Literature, The


Lewisohn, Ludwig

Hardcover. NY, Modern Library, 1st thus, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Orig. pub. in 1932. This is the first Modern Library Giant Edition. 562 pages.

Record # 62752


Price: $13.00 

 

Storyteller and a City, A - Sherwood Anderson's Chicago


Williams, Kenny J.

KeKalb, IL, Northern Illinois Univ., 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 314 pages. Dust jacket edgewear, rubbing. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title-page.

Record # 69534


Price: $28.00 

 

Strangers Neighborhood, A


Morrill, Donald

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, Duquesne Univ. Press, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 58253


Price: $18.00 

 

Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity


Parsons, Deborah L.

Softcover. Oxford, UK , Oxford University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A very clean copy. Previous owners inscription in red pen on title page.

Record # 2230421


Price: $31.00 

 

Structure of Allegory in The Faerie Queene, The


Hamilton, A.C.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 227 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Poetry criticism. Fading, edgewear, light spotting to dust jacket. Light foxing to top text block. Light pencil marking throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 951362


Price: $24.00 

 

Substantial Proofs of Being: Osip Mandelstam's Literary Prose


Isenberg, Charles

Softcover. Columbus, Ohio, 1st, September 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Light foxing to top and fore-edge. Light soiling to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451853


Price: $20.00 

Subterfuge of Art - Language and the Romantic Tradition, TheRagussis, Michael
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Subterfuge of Art - Language and the Romantic Tradition, The


Ragussis, Michael

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613831


Price: $23.00 


  
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