Rymyng craftily: Meaning in Chaucer's poetry
Humanities Press, January 1976. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo without dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards and stamped gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name written in ink on ffep. [247 pages]. More
Humanities Press, January 1976. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo without dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards and stamped gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name written in ink on ffep. [247 pages]. More
Praeger, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Grey cloth binding a bit sunned; jacket chipped along edges but wrapped for future preservation. More
Copper Canyon Press, October 2000. Trade Paperback. With this, his first collection of poetry, Stephen Kuusisto (author of the memoir Planet of the Blind) explores blindness and curiosity, loneliness and the found instruments of continuation. Exploiting the seeming contradiction of poetry's reliance upon visual imagery with Kuusisto's own sightlessness, these..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1995. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. More
Silver Salamander Press, 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Octavo. This was issued in an edition of 850. 500 of these, the 'Trade edition' copies were unnumbered. Signed by Stephen Laws on the limitation page. [263 pages]. More
Ten Speed Press, June 2014. Hardcover. This guide from the founder of Kombucha Wonder Drink demystifies the process of brewing kombucha at home and offers recipes for using it in infusions, smoothies, cocktails, and more. The Wonder Drink Kombucha--a fizzy, fermented tea-based beverage packed with probiotics, vitamins, and enzymes--has home..... More
Process Media / RKS Library Editions, March 2014. Limited. Hardcover. Here is a lost illustrated masterpiece, a book so rare and sought-after that only two copies can be found in world libraries. For the first time this classic work on a forgotten Arabian legend has been translated into English.This illustrated..... More
Biblioasis, February 2023. Paper Back. Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 2023. Paper Back. A New York Times Notable Book "This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting." --Stephen King From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse..... More
Arcadia Publishing, October 2005. Trade Paperback. By the first quarter of the 20th century, Manhattan had well over 400 miles of streetcar trackage, an investment of several million dollars. Less than 50 years later, the rail system had completely vanished. Manhattan's Lost Streetcars chronicles the finance, political pressures, and advancing..... More
Students for a Democratic Society, March 1969. Newspaper. Eleven & 1/2-inch x Seventeen-inches; darkened at margins; some foxing/stains; a few tiny tears at paper edges. Folded newspaper. 12 oversized pages. Contents include: N.C. Resolutions; Letters on Middle East; Support the guerrilla struggle in Southern Africa. More
Henry Holt & Company, June 1994. First American. Hardcover. In 1560, Lope de Aguirre joined the search for El Dorado, the expedition that would cross a continent--and which experienced a mutiny led by Aguirre himself. Now, sifting through source materials, Stephen Minta offers his own adventurous re-creation of Aguirre's legendary..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, November 1989. Hardcover. Printed in two colors throughout, this superb collection of poetry chosen from the world's religious and literary traditions is the perfect companion to Mitchell's bestselling Tao Te Ching. More
Harper Perennial, May 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Dc Comics, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Written by Alan Moore; Art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben Created out of the Swamp by a freak accident, Swamp Thing is an elemental creature who uses the forces of nature and wisdom of the plant kingdom to fight the polluted world's self-destruction..... More
Walker & Company, May 2007. Paper Back. From the sixth through the sixteenth centuries, the faiths of Islam and Christianity contended for primacy in the Mediterranean world. At times acrimonious, at other times harmonious, the encounter between the two creeds in the Middle Ages provides a backdrop to much of..... More
University of South Carolina Press, August 1987. Trade Paperback. Understanding Contemporary American Literature was planned as a series of guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers. The word understanding in the series titles was deliberately chosen. Many willing readers lack an adequate understanding of how contemporary..... More
Appleton-Century-Crofts, January 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy gray cloth-covered boards w/ red/silver lettering, mildly edge-worn; Previous owner initials present at front free end-page; Text free of markings; No dust jacket present; An excellent copy. More
Typecraft Wood & Jones, January 2003. Paper Back. More
Penguin Group, May 1980. Mass Market PaperBack. bottom front cover missing, about 3/4-inch long at the longest part. More
Pearson, January 2013. Soft Cover. Crisp and clean. No markings whatsoever. More
Beacon Press, May 2011. Trade Paperback. A lively history of Boston's emergence as a world-class city--home to the likes of Frederick Douglass and Alexander Graham Bell--by a beloved Bostonian historian "It's been quite a while since I've read anything--fiction or nonfiction--so enthralling."--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island..... More
Beacon Press, September 2004. Trade Paperback. Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another..... More
St. Martin's Press, April 2024. Hardcover. The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero. In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart-when the very future of the nation hung in the balance-Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest, bravest, and..... More
Soft Skull Press, January 2013. Paper Back. Here is the complete inside story on the making of Psycho, the forerunner of all psychothrillers. Rebello takes us behind the scenes at the creation of one of cinema's boldest and most influential films. From Hitchcock's private files and from new in-depth interviews..... More