DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), March 2014. Oversized Hardcover. "[A] book that mankind has been hungering for, a book that is--now and forever--a shining beacon of wonder, a titanic tribute to talent unleashed" --Stan Lee Featuring an introduction by Marvel Comics supremo Stan Lee, the new, updated edition of this bestselling..... More
Picador. Trade Paperback. More
Pantheon Books, November 2022. Hardcover. Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman's Maus ("the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" --The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics--including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik--on the radical..... More
Publishing Associates Inc. Hardcover. Signed by author. Front (inner) flap of dust jacket bent back, else very good. More
Oxford University Press, February 1995. Trade Paperback. This classic anthology, first published in 1921, has been instrumental in reviving interest in the seventeenth-century metaphysical poets and in securing for them the high reputation they now enjoy. This new edition includes the same poems as the original--love poems, divine poems, elegies..... More
Indiana University Press, May 1971. Paper Back. Octavo with sun lightened spine and margins. Scuff marks. Previous owner's name written on first inside page. Sticker scar rear cover. [280 pages]. More
Drawn and Quarterly, November 2022. Hardcover. An ambitious feminist anthology chronicling Indigenous rebellions around the world In 1930s Bolivia, self-described Anarchist Cholas form a libertarian trade union. In the Northern Highlands of Vietnam, the songs of one girl's youth lead her to a life of activism. In the Philippines, female..... More
Grove Press, January 1960. Trade Paperback. A bit of toning & regular shelf wear; else, very good. More
Crown Publishers, January 1977. Hardcover. Jacket chipped and with several closed tears. More
Princeton University Press, May 1993. Hardcover. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough lucidity to..... More
Algonquin Books, January 1994. Trade Paperback. In this ninth volume of "New Stories from the South, " you'll find characters you wish you knew, along with others you'll be glad you don't: a boy who wears his mother's shoes as his father lies dying, a young mother dying of cancer..... More
Modern Library, June 1955. Hardcover. Pages toned; remainder mark on bottom edge; jacket clipped. More
Southern Illinois University Press, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Poetry today holds mainstream attention as never before. From community workshops to reading groups, from coffee house poetry slams to small press lit mags, from universities to web 'zines, the world of poetry has become part of our everyday lives. Demonstrating the..... More
University Press of Florida, May 1990. Hardcover. "A collection of tales boiling with real estate dealers, egret poachers, rumrunners, mango growers, sportsmen, land grubbers, murderers, and mosquitoes. First printed in The Saturday Evening Post during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, these stories constitute a rip-snorting glimpse back to a South..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Signed by Prasifka on tipped in page. More
David R. Godine, Publisher, August 2022. Hardcover. A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader's breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula McLain, and Russell..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1996. Paper Back. Comic verse, writes editor John Gross, is verse that is designed to amuse--and perhaps that is as far as any attempt at a definition ought to go. In The Oxford Book of Comic Verse, Gross has combed the annals of literature in English..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, June 1992. Trade Paperback. If puritanism is, as H.L. Mencken once said, the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy, then this glorious, monumental collection by one of England's most popular humorists is a puritan's nightmare. Focusing primarily on the 19th and 20th century, but..... More
Clarendon Press, April 1994. Hardcover. This Companion is both an alphabetically arranged reference work and, in its sum, a history, a map of modern poetry in English. From the last decade of the century, it offers a survey of the terrain, from 1900 to the present, and from Britain and..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, September 1997. Trade Paperback. The essays in this volume abandon the tired cliches of an older critical consensus and offer a lively, provocative response to such issues as sexual politics, national identity and postcolonialism in the work of Philip Larkin, a writer widely regarded as the best Poet..... More
University Press of Mississippi, August 1997. Trade Paperback. An anthology of readings that reveal the mind and the character of the Magnolia State Filled with serendipitous connections and contrasts, this volume of Mississippiana covers four hundred years. It begins with a selection from "A Gentleman from Elvas," written in 1541..... More
Columbia University Press, March 2000. Trade Paperback. In this collection of critical responses to Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's poetry, Elmer Andrews presents the debates surrounding the poet's work and popular appeal. The writings gathered in this Columbia Critical Guide clarify and explore issues of cultural identity and nationality, as..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, April 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. This collection is a testament to Dante's continuing, uncanny presence in twentieth-century poetry; a presence that appears, as Robert Lowell observed, "in the way most gratifying to a poet -- in the works of his fellow poets who write long after, in..... More
Pushcart Press, December 2021. Paper Back. Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from ?dozens of small presses, ?as selected from 900 presses worldwide by ?more than ?200 distinguished staff contributing editors. Series Honors: The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Pushcart its 2020 recognition for "Distinguished Service to..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1973. Trade Paperback. More
