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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 

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 

Irving Babbitt: An Intellectual Study by: Nevin, Thomas R.

Irving Babbitt: An Intellectual Study by: Nevin, Thomas R.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, The University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, red cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book examines the controversial critic's attacks on collegiate educational reform, his literary and aesthetic criticism, his political philosophy, and his fusion of humanism with Buddhism. Clean copy. Record # 34327
Price: $45.00 

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 

Jane Austin and Education by: Devlin, D.D.

Jane Austin and Education by: Devlin, D.D.

Hardcover. New York, Barnes and Noble Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 140 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket shows a small bit of age wear. Inside is clean, top edge dyed. In great shape for age. Record # 30695
Price: $12.00 

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 

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 

Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment: Translated with Seven Introductory Essays, Notes, and Analytical Index by: Meredith, James Creed
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Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment: Translated with Seven Introductory Essays, Notes, and Analytical Index by: Meredith, James CreedKant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment: Translated with Seven Introductory Essays, Notes, and Analytical Index by: Meredith, James Creed

Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment: Translated with Seven Introductory Essays, Notes, and Analytical Index by: Meredith, James Creed

Hardcover. Oxford, England, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth cover boards are in very good condition despite minor bumping at the top and bottom of the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This is a comprehensive book that focuses on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, a philosophical work that explores the nature of aesthetic judgment and its role in human perception. The book includes a complete translation of Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, as well as seven introductory essays that provide context and analysis of Kant's ideas. Clean copy. Record # 34357
Price: $25.00 

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 

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 

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 

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

Long View, The: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic craft by: 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: $12.00 

Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism - First Series by: Arnold, Matthew
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Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism - First Series by: 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: $12.00 

Matthew Josephson Bourgeois Bohemian by: Shi, David E.
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Matthew Josephson Bourgeois Bohemian by: Shi, David E.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Orange cloth, gilt, spine faded. Dust jacket price clipped. 24 pages of b&w photographs. Record # 512579
Price: $12.00 

Max Beerbohn - Selected Prose by: Cecil ( Ed.), David
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Max Beerbohn - Selected Prose by: 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: $12.00 

Method and Imagination in Coleridge's Criticism by: Jackson, J. R. de J.
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Method and Imagination in Coleridge's Criticism by: Jackson, J. R. de J.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 205 pages, dust jacket soil with edge wear and rub, price clipped, foxing on edges, otherwise, internally bright and clean copy. Record # 854873
Price: $12.00 

Modern German Literature 1880-1950 by: Bithell, Jethro
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Modern German Literature 1880-1950 by: Bithell, Jethro

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 584 pages. Fresh, tight and clean copy. Record # 601680
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 

Modern Painters [5 Volumes] by: Ruskin, John
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Modern Painters [5 Volumes] by: Ruskin, JohnModern Painters [5 Volumes] by: Ruskin, John

Modern Painters [5 Volumes] by: Ruskin, John

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Dana Estes & Company, Publishers, Illustrated Cabinet Edition, circa 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 393 pages volume 1, 492 pages volume 2, 425 pages volume 3, 495 pages volume 4, and 467 pages volume 5, hardcovers. Green cloth cover boards with gilt leaf embellishments have some edge wear and rubbing. Interior pages are clean and bright, with deckled outside edges and gilt top edges. Bindings are solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This set of art criticism features Ruskin's arguments on landscape painting, Turner, and nature. Due to the size and weight of the package, this 5-volume set is available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copies. Record # 34514
Price: $100.00 

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 

Mulberry Tree, The by: Bowen, Elizabeth
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Mulberry Tree, The by: Bowen, Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Record # 6824
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 

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 

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 


  
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