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Heathen Days 1890-1936 by: Mencken, H. L.
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Heathen Days 1890-1936 by: 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: $12.00 

Heloise and Abelard by: Gilson, Etienne
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Heloise and Abelard by: 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: $12.00 

How a Game Lives: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller by: Geller, Jacob

How a Game Lives: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller by: Geller, Jacob

Hardcover. NY, Harper Pop (Harper Collins Publishers), 1st thus, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains gorgeous full-color illustrations throughout. This book deftly interweaves video game analysis with the complex narratives of art, politics, and history. It positions video games as vital tools for understanding each other and ourselves. Clean copy. Record # 34302
Price: $28.00 

How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by: Eco, Umberto
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by: Eco, Umberto

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Record # 406258
Price: $12.00 

Hunting Moments of Truth by: Peper, Eric, Illust. by: Milton C. Weiler
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Hunting Moments of Truth by: Peper, Eric, Illust. by: Milton C. Weiler

Hardcover. Winchester Press, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages, with drawings by Milton C. Weiler throughout. Light dust jacket edge wear and foxing on top edge, otherwise, very clean and bright copy. Superbly written essays on hunting, the natural world and life in general from an acknowledged master of outdoor literature. In vivid detail Peter Ryan takes readers along with him on his adventures - from the jagged peaks of New Zealand's Southern Alps to the scorching deserts and steaming jungles of Africa. Record # 457795
Price: $30.00 

Individual and State in Ancient Chine: Essays on Four Chinese Philosophers. by: Rubin, Vitaly A.
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Individual and State in Ancient Chine: Essays on Four Chinese Philosophers. by: 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: $12.00 

Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by: Coetzee, J. M.
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Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by: 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: $12.00 

Inside Out - An Introduction to Autobiography by: Bates, E. Stuart
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Inside Out - An Introduction to Autobiography by: Bates, E. Stuart

Hardcover. New York, Sheridan House, 1st US, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 693 pages. Cloth boards. Previous owners stamp at bottom of front endpaper. Dust jacket spine worn/faded with small tears and rubbing at corners. Clean, tight copy. Record # 510653
Price: $12.00 

Ironing Board, The by: Morley, Christopher
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Ironing Board, The by: Morley, Christopher

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Spine faded. Light wear to cover and corners. Clean, tight copy. Record # 604074
Price: $12.00 

It All Adds Up - From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by: Bellow, Saul
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It All Adds Up - From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by: Bellow, Saul

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Cover shows light wear and fore-edge shows light soiling, but otherwise clean. hardbound, 327 pgs. Collection of non-fiction essays by Bellow. Record # 108776
Price: $12.00 

Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co.: Middle-Generation Poets in Context by: Ferguson, Suzanne
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Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co.: Middle-Generation Poets in Context by: Ferguson, Suzanne

Hardcover. Knoxville, TN, University of Tennessee Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, yellow cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. In this book, editor Suzanne Ferguson collects eighteen essays that explore the literary, personal, and political affiliations of Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell, influential literary figures who flourished in the periods between modernism and postmodernism. Clean copy. Record # 34246
Price: $25.00 

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

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

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

Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews by: Foucault, Michel Editor: Bouchard, Donald F.
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Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews by: Foucault, Michel Editor: Bouchard, Donald F.

Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most important published essays, translated from the French, with an introductory essay and notes by Donald F. Bouchard. Also included are a summary of a course given by Foucault at College de France, the transcript of a conversation between Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, and an interview with Foucault that appeared in the journal Actuel. Clean copy. Record # 34187
Price: $12.00 

Last Innocent White Man in America, The : And Other Writings by: Leonard, John
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Last Innocent White Man in America, The : And Other Writings by: 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: $12.00 

Literary Criticism and Romantic Theory in the Work of Achim Von Arnim by: Liedke, Herbert R.
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Literary Criticism and Romantic Theory in the Work of Achim Von Arnim by: Liedke, Herbert R.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages. Cover has light edgewear. Record # 207714
Price: $12.00 

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

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

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Slight fading to dust jacket and a touch of foxing to top edge. Otherwise, clean inside and out. In very good condition. Record # 30788
Price: $12.00 

Make Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances by: Mamet, David
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Make Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances by: Mamet, David

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder mark top edge Record # 11930
Price: $18.00 

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

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Edited by Sister Thomas Marion Hoctor. 367 pages. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 65590
Price: $12.00 

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

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Little Brown, 1st US, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub. in Eng. in 1970 Record # 53414
Price: $12.00 

Memories Grave and Gay by: Hall, Florence Howe
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Memories Grave and Gay by: Hall, Florence Howe

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's bookplate, related newspaper clippings from 1920-1930 pasted to rear endpapers. Very bright copy with only light wear. Collection of personal essays and anecdotes by a writer and philanthropist who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Record # 177909
Price: $40.00 

Modern American Culture: An Introduction.  by: Gidley, Mick (ed)
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Modern American Culture: An Introduction. by: Gidley, Mick (ed)

Paperback. London, Longman, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. Record # 40029
Price: $12.00 

Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918 by: Downs, Brian W.
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Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918 by: Downs, Brian W.

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 276 pages. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling, library label on spine. Record # 508601
Price: $12.00 

Mystery & Manners by: O'Connor, Flannery
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Mystery & Manners by: O'Connor, FlanneryMystery & Manners by: O'Connor, Flannery

Mystery & Manners by: O'Connor, Flannery

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages, hardcover. Exterior of covers and spine have significant aesthetic staining and marking, but the interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicity of the author's style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and profound faith. Clean copy. Record # 33739
Price: $28.00 

Nationalism in Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry by: Loftus, Richard J.
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Nationalism in Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry by: Loftus, Richard J.

Madison, WI, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1st , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages. Record # 62751
Price: $12.00 


  
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