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Free Radical


Benn, Tony

Softcover. Continuum, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 454823


Price: $30.00 

 

Friendship and Literature - Spirit and Form


Sharp, Ronald A.

hardcover. Durham, NC, Duke Univ. Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages.

Record # 64601


Price: $15.00 

From a limestone edge: Some essays and other ruminations about country life in TexasGraves, John, Illust. by: Glenn  Wolff

From a limestone edge: Some essays and other ruminations about country life in Texas


Graves, John, Illust. by: Glenn Wolff

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 228 pages, b&w illustrations by Glenn Wolff. Front panel of dust jacket with a short closed tear. Review slip laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 415297


Price: $50.00 

 

From the Headlands


Blythe, Ronald

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 60513


Price: $20.00 

From the Margin: Writings in Italian AmericanaGiordano, Paolo A.

From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana


Giordano, Paolo A.

Hardcover. West Lafayette, Ind., Purdue Univ Pr, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 468 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460706


Price: $38.00 

 

Frost: Centennial Essays III


Tharpe, Jac L. (Editor)

Hardcover. University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 408 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, very light foxing on top and fore edges, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 456843


Price: $25.00 

 

Frost: Centennial Essays


Tharpe, Jack (Editor)

Hardcover. Jackson, Univ Pr of Mississippi, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 611 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and water stain on back bottom edge. Light spine cock and foxing on top and fore edge, otherwise, internally clean, bright and tight copy.

Record # 456844


Price: $30.00 

Fun Stuff: And Other Essays, TheWood, James

Fun Stuff: And Other Essays, The


Wood, James

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 339 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Some small stains to dust jacket interior, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466856


Price: $13.00 

 

Generation of Swine - Gonzo Papers Vol. 2: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s


Thompson, Hunter S.

Hardcover. New York , Summit Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages, black cloth spine over red board covers. clean, bright copy in a similar, unclipped dust jacket .

Record # 407349


Price: $19.00 

 

Genius of John Ruskin, The - Selections From His Writings


Rosenberg (Ed.), John D.

Hardcover. NY, G. Braziller, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 560 pages. Dj price clipped, light chipping

Record # 59714


Price: $18.00 

 

Girl Sleuth, The - A Feminist Guide


Mason, Bobbie Ann

Paperback. Old Westbury, NY, Feminist Press, 1st wraps, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback

Record # 300218


Price: $80.00 

Giving Good WeightMcPhee, John

Giving Good Weight


McPhee, John

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

Record # 461881


Price: $11.00 

 

Giving Good Weight


McPhee, John

hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64533


Price: $44.00 

 

Glass Eyes By the Bottle - Some Conversations on some Conversation Pieces


Gould, John

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 200600


Price: $18.00 

 

Glimpses of Authors


Ticknor, Caroline

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages, b&w illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt decor and titles. Spine faded and worn with edges fraying and torn. Covers worn. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Pages in front lose but present, else internally nice.

Record # 607667


Price: $20.00 

 

GLIMPSES OF AUTHORS


Ticknor, Caroline

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 220722


Price: $18.00 

 

Glimpses of Authors


Ticknor, Caroline

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 335 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Dust jacket chipping, worn, fair only, but protected in clear brodart covering. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering and decorations to front and spine. Light wear and fading to spine, else a very nice, clean copy.

Record # 607700


Price: $50.00 

 

Gogol from the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays


Maguire, Robert A.

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 415 pages. Pictorial covers. Foxing to edges. Some pen and pencil markings. Faded spine. Tinting to covers. Tight copy.

Record # 855783


Price: $25.00 

Going to the TerritoryEllison, Ralph

Going to the Territory


Ellison, Ralph

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Record # 458847


Price: $25.00 

 

Good Boys and Dead Girls and Other Essays


Gordon, Mary

New York, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Remainder line on bottom book edge.

Record # 205805


Price: $12.00 

 

Government of the Tongue, The


Heaney, Seamus

Hardcover. US, Faber & Faber, reprint, 1988-10-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 172 pages. Binding cracked by title page. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 465569


Price: $38.00 

 

Grave of Alice B. Toklas, The - And Other Reports From the Past


Friedrich, Otto

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 61593


Price: $20.00 

 

Great Railway Journeys of the World


Frayn, Michael, et al

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 7 entertaining essays on memorable train journeys by 7 different writers. Black & white photos.

Record # 57275


Price: $18.00 

 

Grit's Triumph - Essays on the Works of Harry Crews, A


Jeffrey (Editor), David K.

Hardcover. Port Washington, Associated Faculty Press, Inc., 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Hardcover. Ex-Library with usual marking, stamping on endpapers. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613107


Price: $100.00 

Hack: Stories from a Chicago CabSamarov, Dmitry

Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab


Samarov, Dmitry

Hardcover. Chicago ; London, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 124 pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 459097


Price: $15.00 

 

Haunted Heroes of Eugene O'Neill, The


Engel, Edwin A.

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 310 pages. Dust jacket rubbed, edgeworn. Book a bit musty.

Record # 302178


Price: $15.00 

 

Heathen Days 1890-1936


Mencken, H. L.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Cloth boards. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Cover and spine age darkened.

Record # 510646


Price: $10.00 

 

Heinrich Heine and the Occident - Multiple Identities, Multiple Receptions


Hohendahl, Peter Uwe & Sander L. Gilman (Ed.)

Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 235 pages, B&W illustrations.

Record # 305345


Price: $18.00 

Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to RushdieParks, Tim

Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie


Parks, Tim

Hardcover. New York, 1st Am, January 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451895


Price: $15.00 

 

Heloise and Abelard


Gilson, Etienne

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

Record # 603032


Price: $10.00 

 

Henry James - The Major Phase


Matthiessen, F.O.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dj chipped badly

Record # 56357


Price: $18.00 

 

Here At Eagle Pond


Hall, Donald

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, slipcase

Record # 3324


Price: $18.00 

 

Herman Melville's Clarel - A Spiritual Autobiography


Kenny, Vincent

Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A study of Melville's late 18,000 word poem. 272 pages. No dust jacket.

Record # 62409


Price: $20.00 

 

Higher Gossip


Updike, John

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A.Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 501 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Later essays and criticism by John Updike. Light rubbing to dust jacket.Red toning to top text block. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951534


Price: $48.00 

 

Homing of the Winds, The


Sitwell, Sacheverell

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Light foxing/spotting to yellow cloth covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608246


Price: $12.00 

How to Travel with a Salmon & Other EssaysEco, Umberto

How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays


Eco, Umberto

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 406258


Price: $10.00 

 

Humor In Borges


Costa, Rene De

Detroit, Wayne State Univ., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 145 pages.

Record # 61897


Price: $18.00 

 

I Could Tell You Stories - Sojourn in the Land of Memory


Hampl, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY HAMPL on half-title page.

Record # 107978


Price: $32.00 

 

Idea of History, The


Collingwood, R. G.

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, Reprint, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages. Black cloth, gilt. Boards rubbed. Hinge cracked and loose. Underlining and notes in pen throughout. Glued in letter on last page.

Record # 804053


Price: $11.00 

 

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life


Webb, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, NY, Copernicus Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean and unmarked inside. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Record # 2230388


Price: $19.00 

 

Imaginary Homelands


Rushdie, Salman

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder mark bottom edge

Record # 1935


Price: $20.00 

 

Immortal Diamond - Studies in Gerard Manley Hopkins


Weyand (Ed.), Norman

Hardcover. London, Sheed & Ward, 1st , 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 451 pages. Cloth wrinkled over boards, spine lettering faded.

Record # 62395


Price: $18.00 

 

In a Green Shade: Essays in Landscape 1970-1983


Mabey, Richard

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 185 pages. Slight tanning/yellowing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855304


Price: $19.00 

 

In The Face of Presumption


Moser, Barry

hardcover. New York, Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY MOSER on front fly leaf.

Record # 201657


Price: $75.00 

 

Indeterminate World: A Study of the Novels of Joyce Cary


Bloom, Robert

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvana Press, 1st , 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 212 pages. Dust jacket with spine fade, chips to bottom edge.

Record # 501725


Price: $15.00 

 

Indigo Bunting, The - A Memoir of Edna St. Vincent Millay


Sheean, Vincent

Hardcover. New York, Schocken Books, First Thus, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 131 pages. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titles to ivory cloth spine. Original dust jacket with light toning, small tears edges & price-clipped. Blue top edge. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751185


Price: $23.00 

 

Individual and State in Ancient Chine: Essays on Four Chinese Philosophers.


Rubin, Vitaly A.

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

Record # 852942


Price: $10.00 

 

Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005


Coetzee, J. M.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Adult, 1st US, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 304 pages, very minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, bright, clean and tight.

Record # 457301


Price: $8.00 

Inner workings: literary essays, 2000-2005COETZEE, J. M.

Inner workings: literary essays, 2000-2005


COETZEE, J. M.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, Viking, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light creasing to rear dust jacket flap, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 304 pages. Record # 467511

Record # 467511


Price: $13.00 

 

Inside Out - An Introduction to Autobiography


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: $9.00 

 

Introduction to Robert Frost, An


Isaacs, Elizabeth

Denver, Alan Swallow, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear, small chips.

Record # 62373


Price: $18.00 

 

Introduction to Russian Literature, An


Muchnic, Helen

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, G+

Record # 57642


Price: $19.00 

 

Is Polite Society Polite? and Other Essays


Howe, Julia Ward

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Reprint, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Gray edge worn boards. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Previous owner's bookplate front pastedown. Uncut.

Record # 804340


Price: $64.00 

 

Is There an American in the House?


Cort, David

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages, paper is yellowing. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 406090


Price: $13.00 

 

It All Adds Up - From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future


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: $9.00 

 

Jack Kerouac: Statement in Brown


Walsh, Joy

Softcover. Clarence Center, N.Y., Textile Bridge Pr, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Wraps have slight spotting and rubbing. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 452606


Price: $30.00 

 

Jafsie and John Henry - Essays.


Mamet, David

NY, Free Press, Book Club, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 200163


Price: $12.00 

 

James Agee, Selected Journalism


Agee, James

Hardcover. US, University of Tennessee Press, 1st, 1985-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 183 pages, b&w photos. Heavy sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465857


Price: $15.00 

 

James-Hawthorne Relation: Bibliographical Essays, The


Babiiha, Thaddeo K.

Hardcover. Boston , G. K. Hall and Company, reprint, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Boston , G. K. Hall and Company, reprint, 1980, Book: Good, Dust jacket: None, 313 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Burgundy boards. Gilt titles on spine. Light soiling to fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. . Record # 467258

Record # 467258


Price: $15.00 

 

Janet Flanner's World - Uncollected Writings 1932-1975


Drutman (Ed.), Irving

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 2nd, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by William Shawn

Record # 52987


Price: $18.00 

 

Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back


Warren, Robert Penn

Hardcover. KY, Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 56381


Price: $35.00 

 

John Betjeman - A Study


Stanford, Derek

London, Neville Spearman, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages, b&w photos. Nice dust jacket. Printed In Great Britain stamp on front fly leaf.

Record # 600538


Price: $18.00 

 

John Cheever


Coale, Samuel

NY, Ungar Publishing, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, An examination of the author's many works. 130 pages.

Record # 69232


Price: $18.00 

 

John Milton: Poet and Humanist


Hanford, James Holly

Hardcover. Cleveland, Press of Western Reserve University, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 286 pages, with a foreword by John S. Diekhoff. Dust jacket edge wear and chip, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 854982


Price: $15.00 

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Spring 1977 No. 4Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Spring 1977 No. 4


Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

Softcover. Bowling Green OH, Journal of Popular Culture, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages 701-909. Articles include: Philip Gordon on Ayn Rand. Louis F. Helbig on Struwwelpeter: an inquiry into the effects of violence in children's literature. French folksongs. D. L. Ashliman on the American Indian in German Travel Narratives and Literature. Clean.

Record # 411779


Price: $13.00 

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Summer 1976 No. 1Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Summer 1976 No. 1


Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

Softcover. Bowling Green OH, Journal of Popular Culture, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages 1-258. Articles include: The tragedy of Bert Williams, mystery writer John D. MacDonald, Edward R. Murrow's WW2 radio broadcasts, the dance marathon craze, Spider-Man - Superhero in the Liberal Tradition, others. Clean.

Record # 411781


Price: $13.00 

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Winter 1976 No. 3Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Winter 1976 No. 3


Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

Softcover. Bowling Green OH, Journal of Popular Culture, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages 501-683. Articles include: Radio Comedy and the Great Depression, Chicano Street Murals Hadacol - The Last Great Medicine Show, The Comic Art of Lyonel Feininger, others. Clean.

Record # 411782


Price: $13.00 

 

Journals Mid-Fifties 1954-1958


Ginsberg, Allen

Hardcover. New York , Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 489 pages. Light sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463735


Price: $13.00 

 

Joyce Cary - The Developing Style


Wolkenfeld, Jack

NY, New York University Press , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Dust jacket rubbed, edgeworn.

Record # 600081


Price: $12.00 

 

Joyce Cary: A Preface to His Novels


Wright, Andrew

London, Chatto & Windus, 1st UK, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hard cover. 186 pages. Black & white photograph of Joyce Cary opposite title page. Discoloration to end papers. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling.

Record # 502110


Price: $15.00 

 

Kant's Politcal Writings


Reiss, Hans (Ed.)

hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Reprint , 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket with major edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. 210 pages.

Record # 201933


Price: $18.00 

 

Kite-Flying and Other Irrational Acts: Conversations with Twelve Southern Writers


Carr (Ed.), John

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 810121


Price: $12.00 

 

Last Book, The


Pickering, Sam

Knoxville, TN, University of Tennessee Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound, 190 pages. INSCRIBED BY PICKERING on title page. Edgewear, light rubbing and scratches to dust jacket.

Record # 500731


Price: $25.00 

 

Last Essays


Young, G.M.

London, Rupere Hart-Davis, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Previous owner's stamp on front endpaper. Newspaper review pasted to front paste-down. Minor pencil underlining, margin marking.

Record # 502524


Price: $15.00 

 

Last Innocent White Man in America, The : And Other Writings


Leonard, John

Hardcover. US, New Press, The, 1st, 1993-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463746


Price: $10.00 

Latin Translation in the Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti, and ErasmusBotley, Paul

Latin Translation in the Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti, and Erasmus


Botley, Paul

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy.

Record # 471838


Price: $50.00 

 

Laura Riding's Pursuit of Truth


Wexler, Joyce Piell

Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket rubbed

Record # 200089


Price: $18.00 

 

Les Sept Femmes de Gilbert le Mauvais


Butor, Michel

Softcover. Fata Morgana, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages, b&w drawings by Cesare Peverelli. Number 637 of 1,200 copies. Yellow paper wrappers, French text. Some light pencil markings by Roger Shattuck, former owner and literary historian and critic.

Record # 403421


Price: $35.00 

Letters of Bernard DeVoto, TheVoto, Bernard Augustine De

Letters of Bernard DeVoto, The


Voto, Bernard Augustine De

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 393 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Several tears to dust jacket repaired with tape. Stains to bottom edge. Slight rubbing to spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466890


Price: $13.00 

 

Letters of Eric Gill


Gill, Eric/Walter Shewring (Editor)

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, First Edition, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Pink top edge. Light marginal sunfade to spine edge. Front hinge cracked, tender & held in place with light threads of cloth at bottom edge. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751230


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

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 

 

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 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 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 

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 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 

 

Lunacy Boom, The


Zinsser, William

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

Record # 59711


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 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 

 

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 

 

Mania for Magnificence, A


Kronenberger, Louis

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

Record # 304694


Price: $18.00 

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 

 

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. 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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

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 

 

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 

 

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 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 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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 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 

 

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 

 

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

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 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 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 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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

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 

 

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 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 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 

 

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 

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 

 

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 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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Philosophical Biographer, The - Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson's Lives of the Poets


Maner, Martin

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket spine faded. Otherwise a nice clean, tight copy.

Record # 510437


Price: $6.00 

 

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 

 

Poetry & Fiction - Essays by Howard Nemerov


Nemerov, Howard

New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2nd, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 380 pages. Dust jacket with short tears, wear to top of front panel, spine fade.

Record # 62380


Price: $25.00 

 

Poetry and Repression- Revisionism from Blake to Stevens


Bloom, Harold

New Haven, CT., Yale University Press, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Light spotting to end papers, some pages with very light crease, otherwise very good.

Record # 302890


Price: $18.00 

 

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006


Vidal, Gore

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Gore Vidal's memoir. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight tear to dust jacket spine at top edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952599


Price: $13.00 

 

Polished Surface, The - Essays In the Literature of Worldliness


Kronenberger, Louis

hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages.

Record # 64594


Price: $18.00 

 

Polished Surface, The - Essays in the Literature of Worldliness


Kronenberger, Louis

New York, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 289 pages.

Record # 304795


Price: $19.00 

 

Pourquoi la Nouvelle Critique - Critique english translation Objectivite


Doubrovsky, Serge

Paperback. Paris, Mercure de France, unknown wraps, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages. Paperback. French text.

Record # 205540


Price: $15.00 

 

Power in Men


Cary, Joyce

Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover. 274 pages. Corners rubbed. Dust jacket with chipping, light soiling.

Record # 502111


Price: $12.00 

Power Of Delight, The: A Lifetime In Literature: Essays 1962 2002Bayley, John

Power Of Delight, The: A Lifetime In Literature: Essays 1962 2002


Bayley, John

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Tight copy.

Record # 471394


Price: $25.00 

 

Practice of Writing, The


Lodge, David

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

Record # 463927


Price: $10.00 

 

Praises and Dispraises - Poetry and Politics, the 20th Century


Des Pres, Terrence

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

Record # 201622


Price: $6.00 

 

Preserve and Create; Essays in Marxist Literary Criticism.: Essays in Marxist Literary Criticism


Leroy, Gaylord C. (Author, Compiler)

Hardcover. New York, Humanities Pr, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages, dust jacket worn with edge fade and rub, light pencil markings throughout, otherwise, tight and bright copy.

Record # 457171


Price: $12.00 

 

Pretexts - Reflections on Literature and Morality


Gide, Andre

Hardcover. NY, Meridan Books, 1st US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Ed. by Justin O'Brien. Dj with light soil, spine fade. Previous owner's embossed stamp front end paper

Record # 54403


Price: $20.00 

 

Principals of Playmaking, The


Matthews, Brander

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. deckled foredge, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise in good condition.

Record # 176019


Price: $18.00 


  

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