Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Some slight age yellowing to dust jacket. Clean and bright inside and out. In excellent condition. Record # 30787
Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1987-04-01, Book: Very Good, 377 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462802
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some light bumping to the top edge, but is still in very good condition overall. Blue cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. In this collection of previously published essays, poet and critic Taylor praises the vitality and diversity of contemporary American poetry by examining the development and techniques of 17 recent American poets. Each essay locates the style of a particular poet in his or her earliest works and traces the evolution of that style to later, more definitive poems. Author's signature is present on the title page. Clean copy. Record # 34255
Croton Press, 1st, 1969, 290 Pages, First Edition hard cover. Minor age wear and yellowing to the dust jacket. Has light yellowing to the pages and light foxing. Overall a very tight and clean copy. Record # 2232118
Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 613452
Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1992-03-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463714
Hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright. Record # 53434
Softcover. London, Folio Society, reprint, 1966, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages in black cardboard slipcase. Essays selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance. Engravings by George Cruikshank. Beige covers with brown cartoon on cover and brown and gold lettering on spine. Record # 802842
Hardcover. London, Max Parrish, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. 24 photogravure plates and 40 drawings in line. Facsimiles of authors' signatures on endpapers. Creasing, small tears, edgewear, soiling to dust jacket. Record # 510686
Hardcover. Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 388 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some rubbing and light chipping concentrated towards the bottom of the spine, but it is still in good condition overall. Brown cloth covers with gilt text are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book is an exhaustive compendium of the literature, and an up-to-date manual for the use of early recollections in diagnosis and psychotherapy. Previous owner's name was signed on the front end page, and their light pencil markings are present throughout, with extra notes on the rear end page. Record # 34487
Hardcover. US, Viking, 1st, 2000-10-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Light shelf-wear and scratching to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463550
Hardcover. New York, Barnes & Noble, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 383 pages. Green covers with gold lettering on spine. Residue from tape on endpapers. Markings to covers. Faded spine. Record # 503118
Hardcover. Berlin, Aufbau Verlag, 1st ?, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 366 pages. Text in German. White cloth, gray dust jacket. Jacket with wear to edges and spine, shelf-rubbed, else a nice, tight copy. Record # 606909
Hardcover. Chicago, Scott, Forbesman and Co. , Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages. Work by Beerbohm, Chesterton, Leacock, Virginia Woolf, 38 others. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Record # 302067
Softcover. University Park, PA, The Pennsylvania State University Press , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Nietzsche has the reputation of being a virulent misogynist, so why are feminists interested in his philosophy? The essays in this volume provide answers to this question from a variety of feminist perspectives. Clean copy. Record # 34190
Softcover. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages, soft cover. Covers and interior pages are both clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W illustrations throughout. This essay collection reveals surprising insights into how food shaped Russia's history and culture from Kievan times to the present. Some of the chapters focus on historical topics while others consider images of food in literature and art. Clean copy. Record # 33922
Softcover. Missoula, Montana, Scholars Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages, soft cover. Red paper covers are in good condition, with moderate edge wear and a lightly sunned spine. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is #26 of the American Academy of Religion Dissertation Series. The primary goal of this short book is to interrogate systematically Freud's major essays on religion. Clean copy. Record # 34106
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
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