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"Most Women..."


Waugh, Alec

Hardcover. London, Cassell, 1st , 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cover shows some wear, internally there is some foxing and there are few small stains. Black & white woodcuts by Lynd Ward. former bookdealer's stamp front paste-down, previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Record # 109355


Price: $25.00 

 

(Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities


Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 402 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has some age yellowing and agewear. Clean inside, in good condition.

Record # 30775


Price: $15.00 

 

3 American Moralists - Mailer Bellow Trilling


Scott, Jr., Nathan A.

Notre Dame, University Press of Notre Dame, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 230 pages. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket spine faded.

Record # 206924


Price: $12.00 

 

A Century of Science and Other Essays


Fiske, John

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 477 pages. Top edge gilt. Cover has light edgewear. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 206800


Price: $20.00 

 

A Common Room - Essays 1954-1987


Price, Reynolds

Paperback. New York, Athenuem, 1st wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 405 pages. Paperback.

Record # 207605


Price: $12.00 

 

A sense of story: Essays on contemporary writers for children


Townsend, John Rowe

Hardcover. London, 1st edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, blue dust jacket. Clean covers, light edgewear to dust jacket, with faded spine, neat ink underlining to pages 193-199, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, tight binding.

Record # 450679


Price: $12.00 

 

Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914


Pachter, Marc

Softcover. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Beige pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Light wear to borders, else like new. Newspaper clippings laid in. Collection of the stories, impressions and observations of 33 illustrious visitors to America, who were subjects of the National Portrait Gallery"s Bicentennial Exhibition. Text augmented by historic paintings, prints and photographs.

Record # 605625


Price: $16.00 

 

Advance of the English Novel, The


Phelps, William Lyon

Hardcover. New York, NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, First Thus, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Hardcover. Publisher's navy cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Light toning throughout. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean & unmarked.

Record # 6670052


Price: $25.00 

 

Affirming Limits - Essays on Morality, Choice, and Poetic Form


Pack, Robert

Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, hardcover. Light dust jacket edgewear, fade to spine.

Record # 602551


Price: $20.00 

 

African Silences


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light rubbing.

Record # 106991


Price: $10.00 

 

African Silences


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. 1st, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462308


Price: $10.00 

 

African Silences


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. 1st, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462309


Price: $10.00 

 

African Treasury, An


Hughes (Editor), Langston

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Stories, poems, articles, and essays on Africa, selected by Langston Hughes. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, mostly to spine. Fading and rubbing to dust jacket as well. Light bumping to spine and corners. Faint age toning to text block top edge. Unmarked. A tight and clean copy.

Record # 951810


Price: $19.00 

 

After the Avant-Garde: Essays in Art and Culture


Boyers, Robert

Hardcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, spine cocked, light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 402759


Price: $15.00 

 

Agee on Film (2 Vols.) - Reviews and Comments - 5 Film Scripts


Agee, James, Illust. by: Tomi Ungerer

Hardcover. NY, McDowell Obolensky, 1st, 1958/1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol I: with black & white photos, drawings by Tomi Ungerer. Vol II: Contains his script of The African Queen. Light soil, edgewear to dust jackets.

Record # 54408


Price: $70.00 

 

Agony and The Triumph, The: Papers on the Use and Abuse of Myth


Weisinger, Herbert

Hardcover. US, Michigan State University Press, 2nd, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Chipped jacket and darkened spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233643


Price: $19.00 

 

AIDs and Its Metaphors


Sontag, Susan

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456671


Price: $15.00 

 

Airing Dirty Laundry


Reed, Ishmael

Hardcover. Reading, MA, Addison Wesley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 6480


Price: $12.00 

All But the Waltz: Essays on a Montana FamilyBlew, Mary Clearman

All But the Waltz: Essays on a Montana Family


Blew, Mary Clearman

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 2nd printing, 1991-09-10, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461852


Price: $10.00 

 

Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women: A New York Review Collection


Dinnage, Rosemary

New York, New York Review of Books, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 296 pages. Book and dust jacket in excellent condition.

Record # 504084


Price: $12.00 

 

Ambigu


Margerit, Robert

Softcover. Paris, Fontaine, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 89 pages, illustrated paper wrappers, paper mostly chipped from spine. Fragile but sound copy, one of 500 copies.

Record # 403411


Price: $25.00 

 

Ambiguous Realities - Women in the Middle Ages & Renaissance


Levin, Carole and Jeanie Watson

Hardcover. Detroit, Wayne State, 1st , 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of essays on women & their role in the literature & history of Europe

Record # 54958


Price: $20.00 

 

American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South


Benfey, Christopher

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 453184


Price: $15.00 

 

American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South


Benfey, Christopher

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 453183


Price: $15.00 

 

American Nights Entertainment


Overton, Grant

NY, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 black & white tipped-in portraits of writers. 414 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Re-inforced binding by library book house. Not ex-lib.

Record # 69066


Price: $12.00 

 

American Novel and the Way We Live Now, The


Aldridge, John W.

hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64522


Price: $31.00 

 

American Poetry - Wildness and Domesticity


Bly, Robert

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages.

Record # 68334


Price: $15.00 

 

American Problems.


Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 465 pages. Green cloth cover, cloth faded on spine. Some wear to corners and edges. Small chunk missing of cover and pages on botton right corner, but no text is missing. Pages untrimmed on fore edge, top edge gilt. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Volume XVI in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt.

Record # 852797


Price: $10.00 

 

American Procession, An - The Major American Writers from 1830 to 1930 - The Crucial Century


Kazin, Alfred

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 100976


Price: $25.00 

 

American Stories


Trillin, Calvin

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of essays

Record # 54730


Price: $20.00 

 

American Studies


Menand, Louis

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Like new in a dust jacket.

Record # 602393


Price: $18.00 

 

American Writers Supplement X - Madison Smartt Bell to John Edgar Wideman


Parini (Ed.), Jay

NY, Scribners, 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Profiles, critiques & bibliographies on 18 more American Writers. 593 pages. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 65316


Price: $40.00 

 

American Writers Supplement X - Madison Smartt Bell to John Edgar Wideman


Parini (Ed.), Jay

NY, Scribners, 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Profiles, critiques & bibliographies on 18 more American Writers. 593 pages. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 65315


Price: $40.00 

Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989Chatwin, Bruce

Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989


Chatwin, Bruce

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 1996-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461801


Price: $10.00 

 

Andr

Softcover. New York, Willis Locker & Owens, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages, paperback. Collection of essays that focus on Breton's prose and poetic texts. Mild rubbing to wraps. Light underlining throughout. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952057


Price: $19.00 

 

Anthology of West Indian Literature


Thieme (Ed.), John, Annette Warren and George Cave

Softcover. Guyana, University of Guyana, 1st thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages, a collection of excerpts, poems and essays by writers like Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, others. Appears to be text for study course. Softcover in green wrappers. Date is approximate.

Record # 404526


Price: $18.00 

 

Anthony Burgess


Coale, Samuel

Hardcover. New York, Ungar, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, One in the Modern Literature Series, 223 pages, dust jacket with rubbing, closed tear, 2 copies

Record # 177823


Price: $15.00 

 

Anthony Trollope - A Critical Study


Cockshut, A.O.J.

Hardcover. NY, NY University Press, 1st U.S., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pgs. dust jacket w/ light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 108201


Price: $15.00 

 

Apocalypse of the Word - The Life and Message of George Fox (1624 - 1691) (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Gwyn, Douglas

Softcover. Richmond, Friends United Press, Reprint, 1991 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 241 pages bound in wine colored wraps. Inscribed by the author to title page. Light creases to spine & a touch of faint foxing to top edge. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751197


Price: $15.00 

 

Apricots from Chernobyl


Novakovich, Josip

Paperback. St. Paul, MN, Graywolf Prress, 1st wraps, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY NOVAKOVICH on title-page.

Record # 301689


Price: $15.00 

 

Areopgifica and Other Prose Writings


Milton, John

Hardcover. N Y, Macmillan Co., 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 170 pages. Dust jacket worn, soiled, spine darkened. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 60203


Price: $15.00 

Arizona Quarterly - Spring 1972Melville, Herman

Arizona Quarterly - Spring 1972


Melville, Herman

Softcover. Tucson AZ, University of Arizona, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover journal, pastel green wrappers, 96 pages. Issue devoted to Herman Melville with 6 essays by various writers. Volume 28, No. 1. Cover with creases at corner, otherwise very good, clean

Record # 411519


Price: $19.00 

 

Art of Fiction, The


Besant, Walter and Henry James

Boston, DeWolfe & Fiske, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 85 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on cover, spine blank. There is a water-stain on the top outside corner of the pages which shrinks in size toward the rear. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 601973


Price: $28.00 

 

Art of Isaac Babel, The


Carden, Patricia

Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essays on famed author. Chipping to dust jacket spine, top edge. Edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951250


Price: $25.00 

 

Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays


Haycraft, Howard

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 545 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title stamped on spine and front cover. A touch of fraying to top and bottom of spine and corners of covers. Top edge dyed red. Some light age tanning to pages and edges. Binding tight, spine straight. Ogden Nash, Earl Stanley Gardner, Ben Hecht, Anthony Bouche and many others.

Record # 31648


Price: $38.00 

 

Articles and Pamphlets


Gorky, Maxim

Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House, Unknown, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 408 pages

Record # 67656


Price: $15.00 

 

Artificial Wilderness, An - Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature


Birkerts, Sven

Paperback. Boston, Godine, Rep. wraps , 1990, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 430 pages.

Record # 301631


Price: $25.00 

 

As They Appear


Brown, John Mason

NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, price clipped.

Record # 62370


Price: $12.00 

 

At Home - Essays 1982-1988


Vidal, Gore

NY, Random House, 1ST, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages

Record # 61901


Price: $20.00 

 

Author's Dimension The : Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1993-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461783


Price: $10.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The - Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 336 pages.

Record # 56355


Price: $20.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The - Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus Young, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by Grace Paley

Record # 60533


Price: $20.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The : Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1993-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463794


Price: $10.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The : Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1993-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages, Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462502


Price: $13.00 

 

Babel to Byzantium - Poets & Poetry Now


Dickey, James

Paperback. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st wraps, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages.

Record # 60233


Price: $12.00 

Balancing ActsHoagland, Edward

Balancing Acts


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1992-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461796


Price: $10.00 

 

Bash in the Tunnel, A - James Joyce by the Irish


Ryan (Ed.), John

Hardcover. London, Clifton Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, A collection of essays on Joyce by notable Irish writers: Edna O'Brien, Monk Gibbon, Benedict Kiely, others. 259 pages. Hardcover with torn dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with tape repair to dust jacket.

Record # 601084


Price: $18.00 

 

Baudelaire and Caricature: From the Comic to an Art of Modernity


Hannoosh, Michele

Hardcover. University Park, Pa., Penn State University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages, Baudelaire's illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean, bright and tight copy.

Record # 457439


Price: $60.00 

 

Beauties


de Quincey, Thomas

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1862, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight crack to front gutter. Heavy foxing to frontis piece and tissue guard. Light edgewear and fraying to spine.

Record # 857111


Price: $38.00 

 

Beginnings: Intention and Method


Said, Professor Edward W.

Softcover. The Johns Hopkins University Press, rep., 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 414 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers with heavy sun-fade and some rubbing to spine. Light soil to edges. internally very good.

Record # 459243


Price: $13.00 

 

Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews


Shaw, Bernard

Hardcover. University Park and London, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Collection of book reviews written by George Bernard Shaw. Edited and with an intro by Brian Tyson. Really nice, beautifully new-looking copy. Dust jacket, hardbound, 511 pgs.

Record # 109134


Price: $19.00 

 

Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film


Warren, Charles (Editor)

Softcover. Hanover, NH, Wesleyan, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 454828


Price: $15.00 

 

Billy Watson's Croker Sack (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Burroughs, Franklin

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to front flyleaf. Dust jacket with light wear & price-clipped. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751157


Price: $50.00 

 

Birth of Reason & Other Essays by George Santayana


Cory (Editor), Daniel

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610062


Price: $15.00 

Blake's Sublime Allegory: Essays on the Four Zoas, Milton, JerusalemCurran, Stuart

Blake's Sublime Allegory: Essays on the Four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem


Curran, Stuart

Hardcover. Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Dust jacket is price clipped with light sunning to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458866


Price: $23.00 

Bolet'n de la Instituci-n Fern

Bolet'n de la Instituci-n Fern

Hardcover. Dallas TS, Institucion Fernan Gonzalez, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages, decorated boards, red spine label with gilt lettering. A collection of papers from a symposium on the Brothers Machado held at the University of Dallas in 1983. INSCRIBED BY NICOLAS TOSCANO LINA who organized the event. Stain to endpapers caused by glue used on endpapers. Otherwise clean.

Record # 415235


Price: $25.00 

 

Book of Common Praise, The


Boyers, Robert

Keene, NY , Ausable Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Short essays on contemporary writers. Actually introductions to their public readings and appearances at Skidmore College.

Record # 302632


Price: $18.00 

 

Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell


Targ, William (ed.)

Hardcover. Ward Ritchie Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851773


Price: $20.00 

 

Boothroyd at Bay: Some Radio Talks


Boothroyd, Basil

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 187 pages, glazed board covers. No dust jacket issued. Clean.

Record # 406468


Price: $15.00 

 

Brendan Behan's New York


Behan, Brendan

Hardcover. NY, Bernard Geis, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 3036


Price: $18.00 

 

Brief Chronicles


Atkinson, Brooks

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCain, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, dj chipped

Record # 11104


Price: $15.00 

 

British Letters Illustrative of Character and Social Life


Mason (Ed.), Edward T.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 297 pages. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Brown cloth binding with gold lettering on spine. Spine soil. Edgewear to spine edges. Corners lightly bumped.

Record # 509413


Price: $13.00 

 

Browning Studies: Studies in English Literature


Harrington, Vernon C.

Hardcover. Boston, Richard G. Badger, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, With a handwritten note laid-into front end paper by the author, dated 1915, then a professor at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT

Record # 106178


Price: $15.00 

 

Browning Studies


Harrington, Vernon C.

Hardcover. Boston, Richard Badger, 1st., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY HARRINGTON. (was prof. of English at Middlebury College)

Record # 177884


Price: $9.00 

 

Burdens of Formality, The : Essays on the Poetry of Anthony Hecht


Lea, Sydney

Hardcover. US, Univ of Georgia Pr, 1st, 1989-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464515


Price: $13.00 

Burning Down the House: Essays on FictionBaxter, Charles

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction


Baxter, Charles

Hardcover. Saint Paul, Minn., Graywolf Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456238


Price: $40.00 

 

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction


Baxter, Charles

Hardcover. US, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1997-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463888


Price: $25.00 

 

Burning Library, The


White, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, edited by David Bergman

Record # 5337


Price: $20.00 

 

Cabin, The


Mamet, David

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st Ed, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Reminiscence & Diversions

Record # 745


Price: $15.00 

 

Cambridge Sketches


Stearns, Frank Preston

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 374 pages. Illustrated with 7 black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608312


Price: $30.00 

 

Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts - A Book of Essays and Excursions


Van Dyke, Henry

Hardcover. New York, Scribner's, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Cover features beautiful gilt stamped design with color highlights. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609060


Price: $40.00 

 

Campaigns and Controversies.


Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 403 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 XIV in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt.

Record # 852792


Price: $10.00 

 

Candor & Perversion - Literature, Education, and the Arts


Shattuck, Roger

Paperback. NY, Norton, uncorrected proof wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Slightly bent but otherwise good, clean condition. paperback, 389 pgs.

Record # 108823


Price: $12.00 

 

Candor & Perversion - Literature, Education, and the Arts


Shattuck, Roger

Paperback. NY, Norton, Uncorrected Proof, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 415 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 220916


Price: $26.00 

 

Cannibals and Christians


Mailer, Norman

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Tipped-in color frontis. dj with short tear, edgewear price clipped

Record # 53120


Price: $30.00 

 

Carnal Myth, The - A Search into Classical Sensuality


Dahlberg, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Weybright and Talley, 2nd, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Lt tape residue on end papers otherwise VG/VG

Record # 58246


Price: $18.00 

 

Castles In Spain & Other Screeds


Galsworthy, John

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 2nd, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.

Record # 68330


Price: $10.00 

 

Catbird's Song, The: Prose Pieces 1969-1995


Wilbur, Richard

Paperback. NY, Harcourt Brace , uncor proof wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 13568


Price: $25.00 

 

Century of Revolution, A


Lilly, William Samuel

Hardcover. London, Chapman and Hall, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, xxiv+235 pages, red embossed cloth, bright and clean. A collection of political and philosophical essays. Previous owner's signature on half title page.

Record # 402936


Price: $20.00 

 

Charles Dickens and Other Victorians


Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams Sons, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, a collection of essays originally given as lectures at Cambridge University. Blue boards have a stripe along top with light fading otherwise excellent condition, tight and clean.

Record # 601304


Price: $21.00 

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 1: 1992: A Journal of Late Medieval StudiesJean E. Jost (Editor), Salda, Michael N. (Editor)

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 1: 1992: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies


Jean E. Jost (Editor), Salda, Michael N. (Editor)

Softcover. Lewiston, NY, Edwin Mellen Press, 1st paperback edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. Softcover. White wrapper, has some tanning from age, top corner bumped. Pages clean, with a few dog-eared. Clean copy, very good condition.

Record # 33546


Price: $31.00 

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 2: 1995: A Journal of Late Medieval StudiesSalda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 2: 1995: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies


Salda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, NY, D.S. Brewer, 1st Edition, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Hardcover. Mauve cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, past down on front cover. Pages clean, binding excellent. Spine straight.

Record # 33545


Price: $31.00 

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 3: 1996: A Journal of Late Medieval StudiesSalda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 3: 1996: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies


Salda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, NY, D.S. Brewer, 1st Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages. Hardcover. Mauve cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, past down on front cover. Pages clean, binding excellent. Spine straight.

Record # 33544


Price: $31.00 

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 4: 1997: A Journal of Late Medieval StudiesSalda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 4: 1997: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies


Salda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, NY, D.S. Brewer, 1st Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Hardcover. Mauve cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, past down on front cover. Pages clean, binding excellent. Spine straight.

Record # 33543


Price: $31.00 

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 5: 1998: A Journal of Late Medieval StudiesSalda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)

Chaucer Yearbook, Vol. 5: 1998: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies


Salda, Michael N. (Editor), Jean E. Jost (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, NY, D.S. Brewer, 1st Edition, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Hardcover. Mauve cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, past down on front cover. Pages clean, binding excellent. Spine straight.

Record # 33542


Price: $31.00 

 

Chelsea 79


de Palchi (Editor), Alfredo

Softcover. New York, Chelsea Associates, Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Softcover. INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY WRITER AL CLEMENTE FEATURED IN THIS COLLECTION. includes: "A Photographic Retrospective - 34 Portraits by Gerard Malanga". Light wear - narrow wrinkle along edge of page 229/230. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611412


Price: $15.00 

 

Chomsky: Language, Mind, and Politics


McGilvray, James

Softcover. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA, Polity, reprint, November 1, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Cover has minor wear to edges, faint smudges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Some marking in faint pencil. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean.

Record # 455314


Price: $10.00 

 

Circus Animals, The - Essays on W.B. Yeats


Jeffares, A. Norman

Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light soil and rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 200713


Price: $20.00 

 

City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy, and Film


Caws (Editor), Mary Ann

Softcover. New York, Gordon and Breach, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages, paperback. Historical and concrete perspectives of New York, Paris, London, and Chicago to the abstract city of the mind. Slight crease to upper fore edge corner on page 179. Price sticker residue on front flyleaf fore edge corner. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Slight fading to spine. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952095


Price: $25.00 

 

Clearing the Ground


Harris, Sydney J.

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


Price: $10.00 

 

Collected Prose, The


Lowell, Robert

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


Price: $11.00 

 

Comanche Midnight


Harrigan, Stephen

Paperback. Austin, University of Texas, 1st wraps, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 53130


Price: $15.00 

 

Coming Into the End Zone - A Memoir


Grumbach, Doris

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 2nd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 100603


Price: $12.00 

 

Commencement Address, A


Cooke, Alistair

Softcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages, cardboard covers with dust jacket.

Record # 402390


Price: $10.00 

 

Complete Notebooks of Henry James, The: The Authoritative and Definitive Edition


James, Henry (Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers, editors)

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 633 pages. Hardcover. Edited with introductions and notes by Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers. Illustrated with 8 pages of b/w plates. Light blue-green endpapers. pages 283 - 291 have small bump on top edge near right corner. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Black cloth with gilt decoration on front and gilt lettering on spine. Corners lightly bumped. B/W pictorial dust jacket with green lettering, light shelfwear. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 40073


Price: $16.00 

Complete Prose of Woody AllenAllen, Woody

Complete Prose of Woody Allen


Allen, Woody

Hardcover. New York, Reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 473 pages. Light wear and rubbing, small closed tear, to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 452234


Price: $35.00 

 

Conjunctions and Disjunctions


Paz, Octavio

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages, black cloth covers, dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 405768


Price: $19.00 

 

Conor - A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien


Kenson, A. & Donald Harman

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Really an anthology of his work with bibliographical notes

Record # 53091


Price: $18.00 

 

Contexts of Poetry: Interviews 1961-1971


Creeley, Robert

Softcover. Bolinas, Four Seasons Foundation, 1st, 1973, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, includes letter SIGNED BY AUTHOR collection of 10 interviews, edited by Donald Allen. Light wear to cover, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 512418


Price: $32.00 

 

Conversations With Peter Taylor (Literary Conversations Series)


McAlexander, Hubert Horton

Hardcover. US, Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1987-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 463738


Price: $10.00 

 

Conversations With Reynolds Price (Literary Conversations Series)


Price, Reynolds

Hardcover. US, Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1991-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 463713


Price: $10.00 

 

Country Talk: A Miscellany


Robertson-Glasgow, R.C.

Hardcover. London, Anthony Blond, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856814


Price: $19.00 

 

Critic's Notebook, The


Stallman, Robert Wooster

Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 303 pages.

Record # 302059


Price: $15.00 

Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great NovelsLocke, Richard

Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels


Locke, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458552


Price: $25.00 

 

Critical, Historical & Miscellaneious Essays (6 Vols.)


Macaulay, Lord

Hardcover. NY, Sheldon & Co., rep., 1861, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol 4 with tear of cloth over board at spine - partial only otherwise VG, previous owner's signature 1st blank pages

Record # 53068


Price: $70.00 

 

Criticism of Literature, The


Nitchie, Elizabeth

New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small production flaw to page 183. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Minor pencil marking.

Record # 302070


Price: $15.00 

 

Crosscurrents of Criticism: Horn Book Essays, 1968-1977


Heins, Paul (Ed.)

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 359 pages. Light sunning and edgewear to dust jacket with slight tear to front cover. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460472


Price: $13.00 


 

Cruel Radiance, The - Notes of a Prosewriter in a Visual Age


Powers, Ron

Hardcover. Hanover, Middlebury College Press, 1st, 1994 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Cloth boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511692


Price: $6.00 

 

Cult of Power, the


Warner, Rex

Hardcover. Philadelphia and New York, Lippincott , 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket shows some wear and chipping, some foxing at edges, but otherwise and internally clean. Hardbound.

Record # 109342


Price: $18.00 

Curiosities: Poets on Poetry SeriesMatthews, William

Curiosities: Poets on Poetry Series


Matthews, William

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 172 pages, gray cloth covers. No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 408126


Price: $38.00 

Curious World - A New Yorker at LargeHamburger, Philip

Curious World - A New Yorker at Large


Hamburger, Philip

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


Price: $10.00 

 

D.H. Lawrence's "Lady" - A New Look at Lady Chatterley's Lover


Squires, Michael/ Dennis Jackson

Athens, University of Georgia, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Cloth boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 509863


Price: $10.00 

 

Dante and Other Essays


Church, R. W.

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages and publisher's ads. Red cloth, gilt lettering dulled on spine.

Record # 301753


Price: $21.00 

 

Dark Descent - Social Change & Moral Responsibility in the Novels of Joyce Cary


Larsen, Golden L.

NY, Roy Publishers, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 202 pages. Dust jacket worn, chipped.

Record # 600082


Price: $12.00 

 

Dating Your Mom


Frazier, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, dj price clipped

Record # 52967


Price: $18.00 

 

Day at the Beach, A : Recollections


Wolff, Geoffrey

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


Price: $10.00 

 

Day I Met a Lion, The


Kantor, MacKinlay

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of his essays and articles. 341 pages

Record # 124906


Price: $18.00 

 

Day of the Dead, The - And Other Mortal Reflections


Gonzalez-Crussi, F.

NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 201055


Price: $12.00 

Dearest Chums and Partners - Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children - A Domestic BiographyHarris, Joel Chandler/Hugh T. Keenan (Editor)

Dearest Chums and Partners - Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children - A Domestic Biography


Harris, Joel Chandler/Hugh T. Keenan (Editor)

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750131


Price: $25.00 

 

DEARLY BELOVED. A Theme and Variations


Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. White and blue cloth, gilt. White speckled cloth boards and blue cloth spine. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Spine slightly faded. Blue endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper along with 1962 gift inscription. Pictorial dust jacket, age toned, some edgewear.

Record # 219920


Price: $13.00 

 

DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT, THE. A COLLECTIONS OF AMERICAN WRITINGS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY


Smith, Bernard, editor

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean.

Record # 219831


Price: $16.00 

 

Destructive Element, The


Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Printed from English sheets, dj w/ edge chipped, spine fad, soil & stain to rear panel

Record # 16088


Price: $35.00 

 

Dialogue with Nature: Landscape and Literature in Nineteenth Century America


Asleson, Robyn and Barbara Moore

Softcover. Washington. D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of 19th century American landscape painting; color plate front cover, white back, minor marking and rubbing. Paper wrappers. 19 plates, 13 in color. Three essays relating to landscape painting in addition to textual commentary on the plates. 48 pages. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 808504


Price: $15.00 

 

Diary of Tolstoy's Wife 1860-1891, The


Werth, tr., Alexander

Hardcover. New York, Payson and Clarke, 1st, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st edition. Badly faded covers. Edgewear. Light browning to pages.

Record # 511142


Price: $10.00 

 

Dickens' London


Vallance, ed., Rosalind

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


Price: $8.00 

Die ErzahlungenRoth, Joseph

Die Erzahlungen


Roth, Joseph

Hardcover. Koln, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, German text. 288 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451884


Price: $20.00 

 

Discoveries & Considerations - Essays on Early American Literature & Aesthetics Presented to Harold Jantz


Israel (Editor), Calvin

Hardcover. Albany, SUNY, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609073


Price: $12.00 

 

Discussions on Philosophy and Literature


Bart, Sir William Hamilton

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros , unk, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st pub in UK 1852, intro essays by Robert Turnbull, previous owner's bookplate front pastedown, spine faded, internally VG

Record # 16104


Price: $55.00 

 

Diversion: Twenty-two Authors on the Lively Arts


Sutro, ed. , John

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


Price: $8.00 

Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: Subversive Children's LiteratureLurie, Alison

Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: Subversive Children's Literature


Lurie, Alison

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460474


Price: $13.00 

 

Donne's Poetry and Modern Criticism


Unger, Leonard

Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with major edgewear, chipping. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 201049


Price: $12.00 

 

Down Along the Mother Volga: An Anthology of Russian Folk Lyrics


Reeder (Ed), Robert

Philadelphia PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 246 pages. Translated and edited by Reeder. Introductory essay by V. Ja. Propp. Foxing, faded spine, small closed tears to dust jacket.

Record # 504127


Price: $15.00 

Dubious HonorsFisher, M. F. K.

Dubious Honors


Fisher, M. F. K.

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1st, 1988-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466440


Price: $13.00 

Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. MeseroleDerounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle (Editor)

Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole


Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle (Editor)

Hardcover. Newark, Del., University of Delaware Press, 1st, April 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454614


Price: $28.00 

 

Earth-Hunger and Other Essays


Sumner, William Graham

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages. Top edge gilt. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607595


Price: $15.00 

 

Earth-Hunger and other essays


Sumner, William Graham

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages, b&w frontispiece. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners, several small dents to edges. Front hinge starting to crack. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851416


Price: $12.00 

 

Earthly Delights, Unearthly Adornments - American Writers as Image-Makers


Morris, Wright

New York, Harper Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Dust jacket has small tear on front. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 206208


Price: $12.00 

 

Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000


Miller, Arthur

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


Price: $11.00 

 

Edgeworks: Volume Three, The Collected Ellison


Ellison, Harlan

Hardcover. Clarkston GA, White Wolf Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 537 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Featuring two complete Ellison titles, one a rare screenplay. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light age toning to top and fore edge text blocks. Unmarked. Bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 952429


Price: $31.00 

Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and ReviewsCarruth, Hayden

Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews


Carruth, Hayden

Softcover. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, Reprint, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO FELLOW POET JOHN ENGELS. Covers somewhat worn, especially around corners and edges. Light creasing on front cover. Some chipping on rear cover. Minor soiling on covers. A little staining on fore edge. Slight pen marks on all edges. About 10 pages previously dog-eared. Top corners of pages slightly creased. Occasional small stains on pages. 5-10 pages with pen markings. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856283


Price: $31.00 

 

Eiffel Tower, The - and Other Mythologies


Barthes, Roland

New York , Hill and Wang, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. Translated by Richard Howard.

Record # 176647


Price: $18.00 

 

Ellen Glasgow - Beyond Convention


Wagner, Linda W.

Austin, TX, Univ. of Texas, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages.

Record # 62355


Price: $20.00 

Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group PortraitMellow, James R. (Epilogue, Introduction)

Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait


Mellow, James R. (Epilogue, Introduction)

Hardcover. New York, Viking Adult, 1st, April 1, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 608 pages, photos in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458514


Price: $15.00 

 

Emerson at Middlebury College - Including the Commencement Address... on July 22, 1845


Middlebury College, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paperback. Middlebury, VT, Friends of the Library/Middlebury College, 1st wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Essays by John McWilliams and Sylvia Robison. Intro. by Robert Buckeye. Lts. to 1,000 copies. 56 pages.

Record # 60677


Price: $38.00 

Ends of the Earth, The: EssaysMerwin, W.S.

Ends of the Earth, The: Essays


Merwin, W.S.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Tight copy.

Record # 470690


Price: $19.00 

 

English Hours


James, Henry

New York, Orion, rep, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 250 pages. Black & white illustrations. Cover has light wear. Dust jacket has edgewear, missing chunk from front.

Record # 206611


Price: $15.00 

 

English Literary Criticism: 17th and 18th Centuries


Atkins, J. W. H.

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


Price: $6.00 

 

English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century 1600-1660 - Second Edition


Bush, Douglas

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, Second edition , 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 680 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, revised. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613631


Price: $15.00 

 

Enough About You - Adventures in Autobiography


Shields, David

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages.

Record # 205157


Price: $15.00 

 

Escape Into Aesthetics - The Art of Vladimir Nabokov


Stegner, Page

hardcover. London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1st UK, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A critical analysis of Nabokov's work. 141 pages.

Record # 64504


Price: $19.00 

 

Essai sur L'Amerique


Solo, Robert

Softcover. Paris, Les Editions de la Diaspora, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 61pages, INSCRIBED BY GEORGES AGADJANIAN WHO DID THE FRENCH TRANSLATION on the front fly leaf. Pages uncut.

Record # 404755


Price: $25.00 

 

Essay on Rime With Trial of a Poet


Shapiro, Karl

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A reprint of two brilliant verse essays by an American Master

Record # 304631


Price: $20.00 

 

Essays - Colours of Good and Evil & Advancement of Learning, The


Bacon, Francis

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages. Leather bound with gilt title and decorations between raised bands on spine. Leather rubbed along edges, with chipping and cracks to title label on spine. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Unmarked text.

Record # 609679


Price: $25.00 

Essays and Explorations: Studies in Ideas, Language and LiteratureBloomfield, Morton W.

Essays and Explorations: Studies in Ideas, Language and Literature


Bloomfield, Morton W.

Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1ST, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 321 pages, white cloth covers, black lettering on spine. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.

Record # 406839


Price: $25.00 

 

Essays of Elia, The


Lamb, Charles E., Illust. by: Charles E. Brock

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Burgundy cloth cover gilt design and titles. All edges gilt. Many b&w illustrations.

Record # 803397


Price: $18.00 

 

Essays of Our Times


Brown, Sharon (Ed.)

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


Price: $6.00 

 

Essays of Richard Steele


Steele (Ed.), L.E.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., reprint, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages, b&w frontispiece portrait. Bound in three-quarter red leather with gilt rules, raised spine bands with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt, Golden Treasury Series. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Record # 402716


Price: $28.00 

Essays of Virginia Woolf: Volume One 19041912McNeillie (Ed.), Andrew

Essays of Virginia Woolf: Volume One 19041912


McNeillie (Ed.), Andrew

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 411 pages, blue cloth spine over cream boards. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.

Record # 405786


Price: $15.00 

 

Essays of Virginia Woolf: Volume One 19041912


McNeillie (Ed.), Andrew

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 411 pages, blue cloth spine over cream boards. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.

Record # 224411


Price: $15.00 

 

Essays on Amherst's History


NA

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, The Vista Trust, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 452 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and small closed tear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855283


Price: $19.00 

 

Essays on Russian Liberalism


Timberlake, Charles E.

Hardcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Dust jacket has rubbing and crinkling to edges. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855485


Price: $15.00 

 

Essential Gesture, The


Gordimer, Nadine

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 4286


Price: $18.00 

 

Eugene O'Neill - A Critical Study


Winther, Sophus Keith

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 55788


Price: $12.00 

EuropeansKramer, Jane

Europeans


Kramer, Jane

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 2nd, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 561 pages. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 304874


Price: $15.00 

 

Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos - Best Non-fiction


Friedman, Bruce Jay

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64036


Price: $23.00 

 

Everyman His Own Poet - Romantic Gospels In American Literature


Van Nostrand, A.D.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 202093


Price: $15.00 

 

Existential Errands


Mailer, Norman

Boston, Little Brown, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 365 pages. Dust jacket worn, light soil, price clipped.

Record # 302639


Price: $15.00 

 

Exploring the Palace of the Peacock: Essays on Wilson Harris


Adler, Joyce

Softcover. US, University of the West Indies Press, 1st, 2003-09-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 106 pages. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR on front end paper. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462743


Price: $25.00 

 

Expressing Abstraction: Writings on Art for The Nation


Faison, Jr., S. Lane

Softcover. Williamstown, Mass, Williams College, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855761


Price: $15.00 

 

Eye of the Story - Selected Essays & Reviews, The


Welty, Eudora

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 2nd, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages. Previous owners bookplate on inside cover. Minor spot of soiling on top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609345


Price: $18.00 

 

Eye of the Story, The: Selected Essays and Reviews (SIGNED COPY)


Welty, Eudora

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages, green boards and green cloth spine in a very good, unclipped dust jacket, with mild fade to spine. SIGNED BY WELTY on first blank page.

Record # 408883


Price: $188.00 

 

Face of England in a Series of Occasional Sketches, The


Blunden, Edmund

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 178 pages. Light wear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight chipping to edges of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856822


Price: $25.00 

 

Fair Play & Daylight


Ibbitson, John (Editor)

Softcover. The Ottawa Citizen, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 454089


Price: $15.00 

 

Fallen God, The


Kennard, Joseph Spencer

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, George W. Jacobs & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Three-quarter suede spine, with gilt lettering on front and label on spine. Limited to 1200 #263. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Balck and white plates throughout.

Record # 2233637


Price: $19.00 

 

Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick


Ozick, Cynthia

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Deckled fore edge. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped. Very clean inside and out. In excellent condition. Dust jacket in protective brodart.

Record # 30785


Price: $13.00 

 

Faulkner & Popular Culture


Fowler, Doreen and Ann J. Abadie

Hardcover. Jackson, MS, University of Mississippi, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Collected essays on Faulkner by various writers

Record # 53045


Price: $18.00 

 

Faulkner - International Perspectives


Fowler, Doreen and Ann J. Abadie ( Ed.)

Hardcover. Jackson, MS, University of Mississippi, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Collected essays on Faulkner by various writers

Record # 53044


Price: $18.00 

Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One OwnsWeinstein, Philip M.

Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns


Weinstein, Philip M.

Cambridge [England] ; New York, Reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Slight sunfading to blue covers, no dust jacket. Clean, sharp copy.

Record # 453009


Price: $40.00 

 

Fiber


Bass, Rick

Hardcover. Athens GA, Univ. of Georgia, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, b&w Illustrations by Elizabeth Hughes Bass

Record # 70527


Price: $20.00 

Finding a Form: EssaysGass, William H.

Finding a Form: Essays


Gass, William H.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, August 27, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451643


Price: $20.00 

Finding the Top of the SkyGrabill, James

Finding the Top of the Sky


Grabill, James

Softcover. Sandpoint, Idaho, Lost Horse Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages. Clean tight copy.

Record # 454735


Price: $8.00 

 

Fine Art of Reading and Other Literary Studies, The


Cecil, David

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 16099


Price: $15.00 

 

Five Shades of Shadow


Daugherty, Tracy

Hardcover. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, review slips laid in, River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 511645


Price: $8.00 

 

Fletcher, Beaumont and Company: Entertainers of the Jacobean Gentry


Wallis, Lawrence B.

Hardcover. New York, Octagon Books, rep, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 315 pages. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Red cover with gold lettering. Markings to covers. No dust jacket.

Record # 503063


Price: $12.00 

 

Foe of Compromise and Other Essays, The


Brown, William Garrott

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages, frontispece portrait of author tipped-in. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Fraying and fading to cover edges. Page 161 has residue, there is light foxing throughout. Gutter-cracked in several places.

Record # 602485


Price: $18.00 

 

Force of Spirit, The


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages, minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, clean and bright copy.

Record # 75173


Price: $8.00 

 

Foreground of American Fiction, The


Hartwick, Harry

Hardcover. New York, American Book Co., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 447 pages.

Record # 302060


Price: $8.00 

Forties, TheWilson, Edmund and Leon Edel (Ed.)

Forties, The


Wilson, Edmund and Leon Edel (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 369 pages, maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with minor soil, edgewear, closed tear to rear panel.

Record # 406009


Price: $19.00 

 

Forward From Liberalism


Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st US, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, dj w/ edgewear, chipping, previous owner's bookplate front pastedown

Record # 16105


Price: $40.00 

 

Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)


Sundquist, Eric J.

Softcover. US, Cambridge University Press, rep, 1993-02-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Light spotting to wrappers and fore edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462648


Price: $15.00