Paris Modern: The Swedish Ballet 1920-1925
University of Washington Press, October 1995. Oversize Softcover. More
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Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix (Revised)
Cambridge University Press, March 1987. Soft Cover. In this highly original book Norman Bryson applied 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' approaches to French Romantic Painting. He considers the work of David, Ingres and Delacroix as artists who found themselves within an artistic tradition that had nothing creative to offer them. More
Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era
Harper Perennial, May 2005. Paper Back. More
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Beacon Press (MA), January 2008. Hardcover. A trailblazing memoir about one familys quest to face its slave-trading past, Inheriting the Trade is DeWolfs powerful and disarmingly honest story of their journey. More
Selected and New Poems
W W Norton & Co Inc. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First edition paperback. Complete number string. Clean, bright & sound. [146 pages]. More
James Joyce -- EP19 (An Evergreen Pilot Book)
Evergreen / Grove Press, January 1962. First Thus. Paper Back. Mass market paperback with soiling/dust staining. Considerable wear. Spine is heavily worn with one-quarter inch torn piece flapping at the botom. Two previous owners' names on half title page (one rubber stamped; the other handwritten in ink pen). Trickle of..... More
Soon to be a major motion picture
Perigee Book, January 1980. Reprint. Paper Back. 2nd printing. Octavo. Mild wear. Curl to cover. [304 pp.]. More
Shakespearean Imagination a Critical Introduction -- MB-114
Indiana University Press / Midland Books, 1975. Paper Back. More
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Bedford books, October 1969. Trade Paperback. Following the text of the second edition (1877), with departures from that edition indicated in the notes, this text offers a straightforward English translation that does not sacrifice Kant's all-important meaning. More
Feast Day of the Cannibals
Bellevue Literary Press, July 2019. Paper Back. A bankrupt merchant encounters Herman Melville and is pursued through the depths of Gilded Age Manhattan by a brutal antagonist In the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873-79, is hired as..... More
Port-Wine Stain
Bellevue Literary Press, June 2016. Paper Back. A young surgical assistant faces his doppelgänger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a "lost" Poe story. In his third stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Norman Lock recounts the story of a young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, in..... More
River Runs Through It and Other Stories
University of Chicago Press, May 2017. Paper Back. When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it." Forty years later, the title..... More
A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
University Of Chicago Press, October 2001. Paper Back. Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean..... More
A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories
University Of Chicago Press, September 1992. Trade Paperback. From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," to the last, "I am haunted by waters," "A River Runs Through It" is an American classic. Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, the..... More
Young Men and Fire
University Of Chicago Press, November 1993. Paper Back. On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these..... More
Naked and the Dead
St Martins Pr, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since become part of the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new..... More
An American Dream
The Dial Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards - mild edge-wear/toning present; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped jacket moderatelty edge-worn/rubbed w/ some chipping/creasing present; Jacket housed in protective mylar to enusre further preservation; A Good copy overall; Quite presentable, despite cosmetic flaws. More
The Castle in the Forest
Random House, January 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march..... More
The Gospel According to the Son: A Novel
Random House Trade Paperbacks, September 1999. Trade Paperback. Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western..... More
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer
Dell Publishing, Co. Inc., 1967. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. First printing; Sound binding; Mild wear to covers and spine from previous use; Pages free of markings; A Good Plus copy. More
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2004. Trade Paperback. "Writing is spooky," according to Norman Mailer. "There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words." In The Spooky Art, Mailer..... More
It's Even Worse Than It Looks
Basic Books, April 2016. Trade Paperback. Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America's two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one..... More
Breakfast for Anarchists
No Bar Code, January 2007. Paper Back. More
Forgive Me, Sire
Fore Publications Limited, January 1950. Stapled Soft Cover. 16mo. Tanning/discoloration. Non-authorial inscription. More
Secret warfare;: The battle of codes and ciphers
David & Charles. Hardcover. Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket moderately sunned at spine, else VG; An excellent copy. More
