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Private History of Awe, A


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. New York, North Point Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, small tears & price-clipped. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751196


Price: $15.00 

 

Private Lives In the Imperial City


Leonard, John

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages, collected essays. Light remainder stamp to top edge.

Record # 2483


Price: $12.00 

 

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters - Second Series.


N/A

Hardcover. Boston, Amer. Academy of Art & Letters, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Numbers 1-5. The annual proceedings for 1951-1955, bound in hardcover. Each with many speeches, addresses by notable American writers. 416 pages.

Record # 57254


Price: $80.00 

 

Prolific & the Devourer, The


Auden, W.H.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 3998


Price: $12.00 

Prose Writings of Dylan Thomas, The Peach, Linden

Prose Writings of Dylan Thomas, The


Peach, Linden

Hardcover. Totowa, N.J., Barnes & Noble Imports, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459119


Price: $14.00 

 

Psyche As Hero - Female Heroism and Fictional Form


Edwards, Lee R.

Paperback. Middletown, CT., Wesleyan University Press, Rep. wraps, 1987 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Paperback.

Record # 302381


Price: $12.00 

 

Purple Decades, The: A Reader


Wolfe, Tom

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 396 pages, b&w drawings by Wolfe.

Record # 405137


Price: $19.00 

 

Reading America: Essays on American Literature


Donoghue, Denis

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover Red boards with gilt titles to black cloth spine. Deckled edge. Small spot to right edge, one page corner folded, otherwise clean. Dust jacket with light wear to edges and faint toning. A nice copy.

Record # 6670092


Price: $13.00 

 

Reading America


Donoghue, Denis

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, September 12, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 320 pages. Slight soiling, edgewear to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457294


Price: $8.00 

 

Readings


Birkerts, Sven

Paperback. Saint Paul, MN, Graywolf, 1st wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Paperback.

Record # 207987


Price: $12.00 

 

Recognition of Robert Frost - Twenty-Fifth Anniversary


Thornton, Richard (Ed.), Illust. by: Illustrated

New York, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 302501


Price: $20.00 

Recollections of Virginia WoolfNoble, Joan Russell

Recollections of Virginia Woolf


Noble, Joan Russell

Hardcover. US, W. Morrow, 1st, 1972-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages. Hardcover. Clean copy, with faded cloth covers on top edge, gilt lettering. Light wear and small tears on top spine to dust jacket.

Record # 466771


Price: $11.00 

 

Reflections at Fifty


Farrell, James T.

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, large chunk gone from top of dust jacket spine, another from middle of front right of dust jacket. Price clipped.

Record # 106494


Price: $15.00 

 

Relationship of Painting & Literature, The


Huddleston , Eugene L.

Hardcover. Detroit Michigan, Gale Research Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, xxiii + 184 pages. Volume 4 of the American Studies Information Guide Series. Red pictorial boards with gilt titles to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light wear to spine still very good.

Record # 605843


Price: $26.00 

 

Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas, The


Kleinman, H.H.

Hard Back . Berkeley, CA, University of California, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf.

Record # 200866


Price: $18.00 

Reluctantly: Autobiographical EssaysCarruth, Hayden

Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays


Carruth, Hayden

Softcover. Port Townsend, WA, Copper Canyon Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to wrappers, dog-ears to a few pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459562


Price: $31.00 

 

Reporter Here and There, A


Kahn, Jr. , E. J.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 364 pages, blue cloth with a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Record # 406065


Price: $10.00 

 

Resistance to Theory, The: Theory and History of Literature Vol. 33


de Man, Paul

Softcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1st ed, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 137 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Small amount of sticker residue on back cover. Some fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855613


Price: $13.00 

 

Retelling Tales - Essays in Honor of Russell Peck


Hahn (Editors), Thomas/Alan Lupack

Hardcover. Rochester, D. S. Brewer, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610279


Price: $38.00 

 

Revolution in European Poetry 1660-1900


Neff, Emery

Hardcover. NY, Columbia Univ. Press, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 57639


Price: $35.00 

 

Richer, The Poorer, The


West, Dorothy

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 1995-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463084


Price: $13.00 

 

Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters - A Study of the Idiosyncratic and Humane of Modern Literature


Gross, John

New York , Macmillan , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w illustrations. 322 pages.

Record # 176741


Price: $15.00 

 

Rusticator's Journal, The : Essays about Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park


Pierson, Duane R. (Introduction)

Softcover. US, Friends of Acadia, 1st, 1993-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460781


Price: $13.00 

 

Salad for the Solitary


Saunders, Frederick

Hardcover. New York, Dewitt and Davenport, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages, plus ads. Previous owner name stamp on inside front cover. Red cloth cover with gilt title on front and spine. Soiling on front cover and faded spine. Light mildew damage internally. Tight binding but cocked spine. Otherwise good.

Record # 501744


Price: $16.00 

 

Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinion s of Herr Teufelsdrockh and Heroes and Hero Worship


Carlyle, Thomas

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Rep. , 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, One Volume in Carlyle's Complete Works. The Parchment Edition. #81 of 375. 2 black & white engravings. 461 pages. Light soil to covers.

Record # 63520


Price: $38.00 

 

Scarlet Professor, The - Newton Arvin: A Literary Life


Werth, Barry

Paperback. NY, Doubleday, Uncorr. proof wraps, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Paperback proof.

Record # 65333


Price: $19.00 

 

Schiler - Poet of Philosophical Idealism


Kaufmann, F.W.

Hardcover. Oberlin, OH, Academy Press, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Light wear, darkening to covers, internally VG.

Record # 109062


Price: $18.00 

 

Scott Bicentenary Essays - Selected Papers read at the Sir Walter Scott Bicentenary Conference


Bell (Editor), Alan

Hardcover. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 344 pages. 14 pages of black & white illustrations. Foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket worn with chipping along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610082


Price: $15.00 

Season of the Body: EssaysMiller, Brenda

Season of the Body: Essays


Miller, Brenda

Softcover. Louisville, Ky., Sarabande Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 454747


Price: $8.00 

 

Seasons of Death & Life - A Wilderness Memoir


Ross, Maggie

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56016


Price: $15.00 

 

Selected Criticism


Bogan, Louise

NY, Noonday Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 404 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Small 1/4" tear to top of spine.

Record # 62347


Price: $20.00 

Selected EssaysCarruth, Hayden

Selected Essays


Carruth, Hayden

Softcover. Copper Canyon Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 page. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459567


Price: $38.00 

Selected EssaysVidal, Gore

Selected Essays


Vidal, Gore

Softcover. 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 451 pages, Minor wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453107


Price: $15.00 

Selected EssaysVidal, Gore

Selected Essays


Vidal, Gore

Softcover. 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 451 pages, Minor wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453109


Price: $15.00 

 

Selected Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson


Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Hardcover. New York, The MacMillan Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light soil to covers.

Record # 603090


Price: $13.00 

 

Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet (2 Vols.)


Benet, Stephen Vincent

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol I: Poetry 487 pages. Vol II: Prose 483 pages. Spine lettering faded.

Record # 60137


Price: $18.00 

 

Selected Writings - Poetry and Criticism


Read, Herbert

London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages.

Record # 305249


Price: $15.00 

 

Selected Writings in British Intellectual History


Stephen, Leslie

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Edited, and introduction by Noel Annan. Includes Series Editor's Preface by John Ciive. Internally clean copy. Normal wear to dust jacket. Overall tight and clean copy.

Record # 809200


Price: $12.00 

 

Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson - (2 Volumes) -Volume I - The New York Age Editorials (1914-1923) + Volume II - Social, Political, and Literary Essays, The


Wilson (Editor), Sondra Kathryn

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume I - 306 pages. Clean, tight copy. Volume II - 457 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609157


Price: $60.00 

 

Selected Writings Of Sydney Smith


Auden, W.H.

NY, Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1st US, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with major edgewear, chipping.

Record # 202590


Price: $25.00 

 

Selected Writings


James, William

Hardcover. NY, BOMC, Book Club, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Intro. by Robert Coles. 549 pages

Record # 56354


Price: $20.00 

 

Selections from Cultural Writings


Gramsci, Antonio (Editor)

Softcover. Harvard University Press, 1st pb, October 1, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages. Small shallow scratch across fore-edge, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458279


Price: $25.00 

 

Self-Interviews


Dickey, James

New York, Doubleday, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY DICKEY on title-page.

Record # 62319


Price: $28.00 

 

Sense of Reality, The - Studies in Ideas and Their History


Berlin, Isaiah

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st U.S. , 1997, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages.

Record # 302334


Price: $20.00 

 

Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures


Ruskin, John

Hardcover. New York, NY, Merrill and Baker, reprint, 1871, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three Lectures: 1. Of Kings' Treasuries; 2. Of Queens' Gardens; 3. Of the Mystery of Life. 179 pages. Red cover with gilt title to front and spine. Top edge gilt. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850594


Price: $15.00 

 

Sex Collectors: The Secret World of Consumers, Connoisseurs, Curators, Creators, Dealers, Bibliographers and Accumulators of Erotica


Nicholson, Geoff

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 403839


Price: $12.00 

 

Shakespeare - The Invention of the Human


Bloom, Harold

hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 7th, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear and torn a bit.

Record # 201759


Price: $28.00 

 

Shakespeare - The Invention of the Human


Bloom, Harold

hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 7th, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like New.

Record # 201760


Price: $28.00 

 

Shakespeare's Wooden O


Hotson, Leslie

Hardcover. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 2nd imp., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 335 pages. Dark top edge. Some markings to covers. Covers slightly warped. No dust jacket.

Record # 503050


Price: $10.00 

 

Shapespeare's Poetics in Relation to King Lear


Fraser, Russell A.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st , 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. Dj chipped. 184 pages

Record # 56347


Price: $20.00 

 

Sherwood Anderson Diaries 1936-1941, The


Campbell (Ed.), Hilbert H.

Hardcover. ASthens, CA, Univ. of Georgia, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR CAMPBELL on front fly leaf. 398 pages.

Record # 69533


Price: $8.00 

 

Shiksa Goddess or, How I Spent my Forties


Wasserstein, Wendy

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607574


Price: $30.00 

Shiksa Goddess: Or, How I Spent My FortiesWasserstein, Wendy

Shiksa Goddess: Or, How I Spent My Forties


Wasserstein, Wendy

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 2001-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages. Light coffee staining to fore- and bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461869


Price: $10.00 

 

Short Work of It: Selected Writing


Harris, Mark

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, slate-gray cloth w/ silver lettering on spine; maroon end papers; 246 pages. 29 articles, essays & stories; black dust jacket with some rubbing leaving a pattern. Flap unclipped with price sticker. Clean, no markings. Essays spanning nearly thirty years. One of his less common books, having been published by a university press that did a small first printing.

Record # 385


Price: $15.00 

 

Side Effects


Allen, Woody

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light wear to dj

Record # 54471


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Sitting in: Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Related Topics


Carruth, Hayden

Hardcover. Iowa City, Univ of Iowa Pr, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Light edgewear and sun-fade to dust jacket with two small closed tears to upper edge. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459597


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Speaking in Hunger - Gender, Discourse, and Consumption in Clarissa


Frega, Donnalee

Hardcover. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Cloth boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511678


Price: $6.00 

 

Spectatorial Essays


Strachey, Lytton

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 217 pages, light dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 855317


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

Spring of the Year and other Nature Essays, The


Jefferies, Richard, Illust. by: Agnes Miller Parker

Hardcover. London, Lutterworth Press, 2nd printing, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering. Dust Jacket has edgewear on top edge and small rip with piece missing on rear bottom. Illustrated with woodcuts by Agnes Miller Parker throughout. Edited with an introduction and notes by Samuel J. Looker.

Record # 408267


Price: $19.00 

 

St Paul Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald


Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Softcover. US, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1st, 2004-09-24, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. INSCRIBED BY BOTH EDITORS. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462977


Price: $19.00 

 

Star Papers - Or. Experiences of Art and Nature


Beecher, Henry Ward

Hardcover. NY, Derby & Jackson, reprint, 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 359 pages, hardcover. A collection of newspaper articles from The New York Independent.

Record # 602685


Price: $15.00 

 

State Papers as Governor and President 1899-1909.


Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 548 pages. Green cloth cover, cloth faded on spine. Some wear to corners and edges. Pages untrimmed on fore edge, top edge gilt. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Volume XV in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt.

Record # 852791


Price: $10.00 

 

Stay Married Abroad


Boothroyd, Basil

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 144 pages, blue cloth covers. Dust jacket edgeworn. Clean.

Record # 406466


Price: $11.00 

 

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 

 

Swift - An Introduction


Quintana, Ricardo

Hardcover. London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 204 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and front panel of dust jacket Dust jacket edgeworn, taped to covers.

Record # 65601


Price: $8.00 

 

Swinburne Ms. Facsimiles


Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Hardcover. Boston, The Bibliophile Society, rep, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue and cream colored cloth folder containing 13 blue sheets of paper (plus cover sheet) with Swinburne's written essay: Mr. Whistler's Lecture on Art. Signs of a ribbon tie which is gone.

Record # 404692


Price: $15.00 

 

Talent Is Not Enough - Mollie Hunter On Writing For Children


Hunter, Mollie

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 59831


Price: $20.00 

 

Tales of War


Lord Dunsany

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Red cloth, no dust jacket. Light sun-fade to spine, rubbing to edges and previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855309


Price: $25.00 

 

Talking Back to Emily Dickinson & Other Essays


Pritchard, William H.

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, University of MA, 1st , 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 53105


Price: $18.00 

 

Talking Back to Emily Dickinson, and Other Essays


Pritchard, William H.

Hardcover. US, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1998-08-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463730


Price: $10.00 

Telling Line, The Martin, Douglas

Telling Line, The


Martin, Douglas

Hardcover. London, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 452227


Price: $25.00 

 

Telling Line, The: Essays on Fifteen Book Illustrators


Martin, Douglas

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st U.S.A, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket spine lightly yellowed from shelf wear. Otherwise very clean inside and out. From the font flap: "The art of book illustration is too often overlooked, rarely getting the attention that it deserves. Art historians, students of children's literature, librarians, teachers, and general readers will be pleased to find that Douglas Martin helps to fill this void. In The Telling Line, he focuses on fifteen significant modern illustrators: their backgrounds, influences, and techniques."

Record # 30480


Price: $15.00 

Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine KuminGrosholz, ed., Emily

Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin


Grosholz, ed., Emily

Hardcover. Hanover, N. H., University Press of New England, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages, review slips laid in, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 800744


Price: $6.00 

Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008Gordimer, Nadine

Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008


Gordimer, Nadine

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 752 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471769


Price: $19.00 

 

Tendencies In Modern America


Lowell, Amy

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages plus ads. Hardcover. Early essays on Frost, Robinson, Masters, H.D., J.G. Fletcher. 6 photographic illustrations. Green cloth covers with rubbing, discoloration to corners, edges, internally VG.

Record # 16092


Price: $25.00 

 

Tennyson - Aspects of His Life, Character and Poetry


Nicolson, Harold

Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Light soil to covers

Record # 200370


Price: $20.00 

 

Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home


Morris, Willie

Oxford, MS, Yoknapatawpha Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 67391


Price: $18.00 

 

That Red Wheelbarrow: Selected Literary Essays


Coles, Robert

Hardcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233615


Price: $19.00 

 

The Elsewhere Community


Kenner, Hugh

Paperback. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint Advance, uncorrected reading copy wraps, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 108789


Price: $15.00 

 

The Novels of Robbe-Grillet


Morrissette, Bruce

Ithaca, Cornell University Press, rep, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 318 pages. Dust jacket has edgewear.

Record # 206628


Price: $15.00 

 

The Poetry Wreck - Selected Essays 1950-1970


Shapiro, Karl

NY, Random House, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 201550


Price: $20.00 

 

THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE: Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English


Kampf, Louis, Paul Lauter

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 429 pages. Edited by Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter. Includes index and biography of contributors. Gray cover. Gilt lettering on cover and spine.

Record # 803559


Price: $8.00 

 

The Saints of Qumr^an: Stories and Essays on Jewish Themes


Kayser, Rudolf

Hardcover. Rutherford, Associated Univ Pr, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages, light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 458082


Price: $25.00 

 

Theatre Chronicles - Sights and Spectacles


McCarthy, Mary

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, rubbed, price clipped.

Record # 107005


Price: $25.00 

Theodore H. White at Large - The Best of His Magazine Writing 1939-1986Thompson, Edward T.

Theodore H. White at Large - The Best of His Magazine Writing 1939-1986


Thompson, Edward T.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 681 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Some soil to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 304768


Price: $20.00 

 

Theodore Roethke's Far Fields - The Evolution of His Poetry


Balakian, Peter

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages.

Record # 62420


Price: $15.00 

 

There Was a Lad - An Essay on Robert Burns


Brown, Hilton

London, Hamish Hamilton, 2nd, 1949, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 305350


Price: $18.00 

 

These Hurrying Years - An Historical Outline 1900-1933


Heard, Gerald

Hardcover. NY, Oxford, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Bumping to corners. Slight staining to rear panel. Rough cut fore edge. Fading to prelim pages. A tight copy.

Record # 53086


Price: $15.00 

 

Things Themselves - Essays and Scenes


Price, Reynolds

New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY PRICE on title page.

Record # 200614


Price: $25.00 

 

Tigers & Ice - Reflections on Nature and Life


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Lyons Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 106163


Price: $10.00 

 

To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays


Milosz, Czeslaw

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2001-10-31, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 462 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465795


Price: $23.00 

 

To Hell With Picasso and Other Essays


Johnson, Paul

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53113


Price: $25.00 

 

To My Embarassment


Boothroyd, J. B.

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 111 pages, yellow boards with black cloth spine. Dust jacket edge worn, chipped. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 406470


Price: $13.00 

 

Too Soon to Tell


Trillin, Calvin

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder line top edge, otherwise VG/VG.

Record # 108654


Price: $18.00 

 

Tough Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood


Yolen, Jane

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with small previous owner's inscription on front, short closed tear otherwise VG.

Record # 12963


Price: $9.00 

 

Tradition in the Making of Modern Poetry - Volume I


Sergeant, Howard

London, Britannicvs Liber Limited, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages.

Record # 65727


Price: $8.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 110 - 1980


Gerber (Ed.), Douglas E.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406512


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 111 - 1981


Gerber (Ed.), Douglas E.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406513


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 114 - 1984


Zetzel, James E.G.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 356 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406509


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 116 - 1986


Zetzel, James E.G.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 391 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406510


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 116 1986


Scodel (Ed.), Ruth

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 394 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406504


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 117 - 1987


Scodel (Ed.), Ruth

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406514


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 117 - 1987


Scodel (Ed.), Ruth

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406511


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 118 - 1988


Scodel (Ed.), Ruth

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406515


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 118 - 1988


Scodel (Ed.), Ruth

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406507


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 119 1989


Scodel (Ed.), Ruth

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 356 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406503


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 120 - 1990


Scodel (Ed.), Ruth

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406508


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 121 - 1991


Scodel (Ed.), Ruth

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 404 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406506


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 122 - 1992


Goldberg (Ed.), Sander M.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 394 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406518


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 123 - 1993


Goldberg (Ed.), Sander M.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 420 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406516


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 124 - 1994


Goldberg (Ed.), Sander M.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406519


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 125 - 1995


Goldberg (Ed.), Sander M.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages, maroon cloth covers. Previous owner's signature otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406520


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 126 - 1996


Skinner (Ed.), Marilyn B

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages, maroon cloth covers. Previous owner's signature otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406521


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 127 - 1997


Skinner (Ed.), Marilyn B

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 393 pages, maroon cloth covers. Previous owner's signature otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406522


Price: $10.00 

 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 128 - 1998


Skinner (Ed.), Marilyn B

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages, maroon cloth covers. Previous owner's signature otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture.

Record # 406524


Price: $10.00 

 

Traveller In Little Things, A


Hudson, W. H.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering, spine fade.

Record # 501726


Price: $30.00 

 

Travels in Hyperreality: Essays


Eco, Umberto

Hardcover. San Diego, 1st, May 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light soiling to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451638


Price: $20.00 

 

Treatment of Nature in Dante's Divina Commedia, The


Kuhns, L. Oscar

Hardcover. London, Edward Arnold, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. This is the original 1897 edition, not a reprint. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 406041


Price: $25.00 

 

Trifles Make Perfection: The Selected Essays of Joseph Wechsberg


Wechsberg, Joseph

Hardcover. Jaffrey NH, David R. Godine, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 289 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Selected and edited by David Morowitz. Fading to dust jacket. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Corners gently bumped. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952604


Price: $16.00 

 

Trollope - Artist and Moralist


apRoberts, Ruth

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 203 pgs.

Record # 108203


Price: $20.00 

 

True Crimes: A Family Album: Essays


Harrison, Kathryn

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pages, remainder mark bottom edge, light bumping on dust cover edges and spine, mild bumping on spine edge, light smudges on dust cover. Clean copy. Kathryn Harrison memoir.

Record # 30047


Price: $19.00 

Tugman's Passage, The Hoagland, Edward

Tugman's Passage, The


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1982-02-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Faint foxing to top edge and light rubbing and sunning to dust jacket.

Record # 461820


Price: $10.00 

 

Tugman's Passage, The


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1982-02-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges.

Record # 464082


Price: $10.00 

 

Tugman's Passage, The


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1982-02-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Light sun-fade to dust jacket spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464081


Price: $10.00 

 

Tugman's Passage, The


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, dust jacket with rubbing, light edgewear.

Record # 106722


Price: $8.00 

 

Tugman's Passage, The


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, dust jacket spine faded

Record # 2464


Price: $15.00 

 

Tugman's Passage, The


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, faint remainder stamp top edge

Record # 7053


Price: $10.00 

 

Tugman's Passage, The


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 4869


Price: $18.00 

 

Turgenev's Literary Reminiscences


Turgenev, Ivan

New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages. Dust jacket in very good condition, with light edgewear to top back inner flap, and minor darkening. Previous owner 's stamp.

Record # 600060


Price: $18.00 

 

Turning Bones


Martin, Lee

Hardcover. Lincoln, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, slight shelf-wear. Yellow remainder mark on top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453126


Price: $18.00 

 

Twentieth Century German Literature


Cross(Ed.), Professor August

NY, Barnes & Noble, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 433 pages, nice dust jacket.

Record # 601702


Price: $8.00 

 

Uncertain Certainty, The - Interviews, Essays and Notes on Poetry


Simic, Charles

Paperback. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1st wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 175151


Price: $30.00 

 

Under Siege - Literary Life in London 1939-1945


Hewison, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with 16 pages of black & white photographs and reproductions. Minor fading to top edge of dust jacket.

Record # 511280


Price: $8.00 

 

Under This Blazing Light


Oz, Amos

Paperback. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press , reprint wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Paperback.

Record # 204126


Price: $12.00 

 

Universalist and Ladies' Repository, The: Volume X.


Bacon, Rev. Henry and Miss S.C. Edgarton (editors)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, A. Tompkins, 1st, 1842, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 issues (Volume X). June 1841 - May 1842. Collection of essays, religious writing, music, poetry. Leather spine with gilt decoration and lettering, and black spine label with gilt lettering. Brown marbled board coverings with leather corners. Foxing to end papers and several pages, including title page. Small "F.H. Marshall, Book Binder" sticker label on top left corner of inside front cover. Cover edges worn. A couple pages have corner creases.

Record # 604065


Price: $40.00 

 

Unsent Letters - Irreverent Notes From a Literary Life


Bradbury, Malcolm

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 1010


Price: $18.00 

 

Uses and Abuses


Busi, Aldo

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st , 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Transl. by Stuart Hood

Record # 55866


Price: $35.00 

 

Various Fragments


Spencer, Herbert

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Light foxing to endpapers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 852000


Price: $18.00 

 

Vision In Spring


Faulkner, William

Austin, Univ. of Texas, 2nd, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 62334


Price: $18.00 

 

Visionary Science


Nuovo, Victor

Hardcover. Detroit, Wayne State Univ Pr, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages. Light wear to textured dust jacket, gift inscription on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453749


Price: $35.00 

 

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov & Other Excursions


Amis, Martin

Hardcover. NY, Harmony, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 5908


Price: $20.00 

 

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions


Amis, Martin

Hardcover. US, Harmony, 1st, 1994-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462507


Price: $10.00 

 

Vladimir's Carrot - Modern Drama and the Modern Imagination


Peter, John

Hardcover. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1st Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with light sunfading. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750389


Price: $13.00 

 

Voice of the Masters, The: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature


Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez

Softcover. Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1st pbk, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 195 pages. Light edgewear.

Record # 504143


Price: $30.00 

 

Walt Whitman's Prose


Shephard, Esther

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st , 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 453 pages. Illustrated with black & white photos. Browning to front and back endpapers. Maroon binding with light spotting to front, spine. Spine fade.

Record # 509457


Price: $25.00 

 

Way The World Works, The


Baker, Nicholson

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Shuster, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 317 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Nicholson Baker's second nonfiction collection. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951742


Price: $19.00 

 

Well-Made Book, The : Lectures by Daniel Berkeley Updike


Updike, Daniel Berkeley

Hardcover. US, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2002-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463803


Price: $23.00 

 

What Am I Doing Here


Chatwin, Bruce

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 1145


Price: $15.00 

 

What Do Women Want?


Jong, Erica

Paperback. NY, Harper Collins, Unc. Proof Wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 54075


Price: $15.00 

 

What the Twilight Says - Essays


Walcott, Derek

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 105833


Price: $20.00 

 

Where Every Prospect Peases


Goldsborough, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Privately Printed, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 106350


Price: $18.00 

 

Where I Live: Selected Essays


Williams, Tennessee

Hardcover. New York , New Directions, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages, edited by Christine R. Day and Bob Woods.very good in a very good, unclipped ($12.50) dust jacket.

Record # 900146


Price: $38.00 

 

Where the Angels Came Toward Us


St John, David

Paperback. Fredonia, NY, White Pine Press, 1st wraps, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 60207


Price: $15.00 

 

Whole Thing's Laughable, The


Boothroyd, Basil

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages, red cloth covers. Dust jacket edgeworn, spine faded. Clean.

Record # 406465


Price: $11.00 

William Faulkner and Southern HistoryWilliamson, Joel

William Faulkner and Southern History


Williamson, Joel

Softcover. 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 509 pages. Light sunning and wear to wrappers, small stain to lower edge. Interior very clean and tight.

Record # 453012


Price: $25.00 

 

William Golding - A Critical Study


Baker, James R.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 1178


Price: $15.00 

Women of Letters - Selected Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell MitfordRaymond, Meredith B. and Mary Rose Sullivan

Women of Letters - Selected Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell Mitford


Raymond, Meredith B. and Mary Rose Sullivan

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 302370


Price: $30.00 

Words & Objections: Essays on the Work of W. V. QuineDavidson, D. & Hintikka, J.

Words & Objections: Essays on the Work of W. V. Quine


Davidson, D. & Hintikka, J.

Hardcover. Dordrecht, Holland, D. Reidel Publishing , reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 373 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Minor shelf wear. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855529


Price: $31.00 

 

World of Carl Sandburg, The - a stage presentation


Corwin, Norman

Hard Back . NY, Harcourt Brace World , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with major edgewear, chipping and rubbing.

Record # 200816


Price: $12.00 

 

World of Jonathan Swift


Vickers, Brian (Ed.)

Hardcover. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise, internally bright and clean copy.

Record # 201018


Price: $6.00 

Wormholes - Essays and Occasional WritingsFowles, John

Wormholes - Essays and Occasional Writings


Fowles, John

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 404 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 53355


Price: $12.00 

 

Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings


Fowles, John

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 1998-05-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 404 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463845


Price: $10.00 

Writer and the World: Essays, The Naipaul, V.S.

Writer and the World: Essays, The


Naipaul, V.S.

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 524 pages. Gilt letters on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 466916


Price: $15.00 

 

Writer's Brush, The : Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers


Friedmn, Donald

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Mid-List Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. With essays by William H. Gass and John Updike. Over 400 reproductions by more than 200 of the world's writers, arranged alphabetically. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Fading to dust jacket front. Light soling to bottom copy edge. Edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Corners lightly bumped. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951287


Price: $63.00 

 

Writer's Eye, A - Collected Book Reviews


Welty, Eudora

Hardcover. Jackson, MS, Univ. Press of Miss., 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Pearl Amelia McHaney. 280 pages

Record # 56402


Price: $25.00 

 

Writer's Reality, A


Llosa, Mario Vargas

Hardcover. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1st, January 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457926


Price: $15.00 

 

Writer's Reality, A


Llosa, Mario Vargas

Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse Univ., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Myron Lichtblau. Based on lectures by Llosa at Syracuse Univ. in 1988.

Record # 54193


Price: $18.00 

 

Writer; A Series of Original Essays, Moral and Amusing - By a Gentleman of Massachusetts, The


Boston Spectator

Hardcover. Boston, Boston Spectator, 1st, 1822, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages. Ex-library copy. Original board covers repaired with library tape along spine. Library bookplates and marking to endpapers and preliminary pages. Front cover spine fragile. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 610522


Price: $44.00 

 

Writing and Being


Gordimer, Nadine

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 60529


Price: $20.00 

Writing HomeBennett, Alan

Writing Home


Bennett, Alan

Softcover. New York, Picador, 1st Thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 634 pages. Softcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked and tight copy.

Record # 750143


Price: $11.00 

Writing in a State of Siege - Essays on Politics and LiteratureBrink, Andre

Writing in a State of Siege - Essays on Politics and Literature


Brink, Andre

Hardcover. NY, Summit, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with light crease to front fly leaf, otherwise very good.

Record # 105968


Price: $20.00 

 

Writing Was Everything


Kazin, Alfred

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pgs.

Record # 106515


Price: $18.00 

Writings of Jonathan Swift, The Greenberg, Robert (Editor)

Writings of Jonathan Swift, The


Greenberg, Robert (Editor)

Softcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, rep., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 721 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458779


Price: $13.00 

 

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit


Silko, Leslie Marmon

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Essays on native American life today

Record # 52909


Price: $18.00 

 

You & Me - The Continuing One-On-One Odyssey of a Literary Gambler


Krim, Seymour

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A collection of essays, reviews and letters by the cultural journalist. Dust jacket with chips, closed tears. Previous price inked out on front fly leaf.

Record # 64264


Price: $23.00 

 

You Can't Be Serious


Boothroyd, Basil

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages, blue cloth covers, bright dust jacket. Clean.

Record # 406469


Price: $19.00 


  

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