The Symbolist Movement: A Critical Appraisal
RANDOM HOUSE, January 1967. Paper Back. 12mo. {4 & 1/4 x 7 & 1/4'} Darkened top textblock edge. Rubbing to cover. In red ink a date is written on first inside page. (208 pages.). More
RANDOM HOUSE, January 1967. Paper Back. 12mo. {4 & 1/4 x 7 & 1/4'} Darkened top textblock edge. Rubbing to cover. In red ink a date is written on first inside page. (208 pages.). More
Beacon Press, May 2021. Hardcover. James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers. Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin's deep..... More
Cambridge University Press, June 2001. First Thus. Paper Back. The Cambridge Companion to Proust provides a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating..... More
St Martins Pr Special, May 1997. Trade Paperback. Collected for the first time, these are the nonfiction writings of one of this century's most important voices. The pieces--more than ninety in all, written between 1963 and 1995--exhibit the same sharp vision and sharper prose that has distinguished all of Ballard's..... More
Seven Stories Press, June 2008. Hardcover. With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He writes with conversational ease and emotional insight, drawing on contemporary politics, literature, film, and his knowledge of American history. Drawing on politics, literature, film..... More
Trinity University Press, March 2011. Trade Paperback. A Kite in the Wind is an anthology of essays by 20 veteran writers and master teachers. While the contributors offer specific, practical advice on such fundamental aspects of craft as characterization, character names, the first person point of view, and unreliable narrators..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First U.S. edition in dustjacket with slight edgewear & darkening also along edges. Not price clipped. Original price of $7.95 on jacket flap. Yellow cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Darkening board edges. Black textblock topstain looks clean and..... More
University of Chicago Press, December 1978. Paper Back. More
Hogarth Press, January 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Paradigm Press, January 1991. Stapled Magazine. More
John Calder, 1965. Cloth. Soiling/darkening to edges of jacket. Also mild rubbing & edgewear with chipping to front panel at fold. Soiling at bottom textblock edge. Otherwise clean sound, without interior markings. More
Dodd, Mead & Company, January 1962. Cloth. In clipped dustjacket with rubbing and darkening to spine & margins. Rust color cloth covered boards with black lettering & silver decorative swirls. Tanning to end pages. Darkened textblock edges. Sound binding. Excerpts from eleven different Beerbohm published titles, including: Mainly on the..... More
Doubleday Books, August 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Beers' powerful memoir recounts his family's world, the world of middle-class suburbia, from Sputnik to the present, and writes of the great institutions--the government, the multinational corporations, the church, the suburban tract home neighborhood--in which his family put their faith, and how that..... More
Columbia University Press, January 1997. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1972. Reprint. Cloth. Well worn, stained dustjacket with scotch tape repaired/reinforcements. Flaps not clipped. Verso heavily darkened. hocolate brown cloth covered boards with worn/faded edges. Gold lettering on spine, beginning to fade. Rubbing along spine. Sapphire blue end pages. Previous owner's name & address and a...... More
Penguin Books, February 2013. Trade Paperback. "Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis." (Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber..... More
Belknap Press, December 1999. Hardcover. To great writers, Walter Benjamin once wrote, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labour their entire lives. Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is..... More
Picador, January 1997. Trade Paperback. This work takes the reader on a literary tour of Russia from the streets of Bulgakov's Moscow to the country estates of Tolstoy which can be read as an overview of Russian literature or used as a guide to a trip around Russia. Beginning with..... More
Dey Street Books, June 2022. Paper Back. The #1 New York Times Bestseller One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980's..... More
University of Washington Press, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in mildly edgeworn dust jacket. Pine green cloth covered boards with silver lettering spine edge. Nice map of Dublin end pages. Binding solid, tight at bottom and a bit pulled at top. Bottom spine edge is slightly bruised. No markings in..... More
Graywolf Press, August 1996. Trade Paperback. When the great Russian writer Tolstoy was first offered the use of a brand new invention called the Dictaphone, he refused it, saying that it was sure to be "too dreadfully exciting" and would distract him from his literary endeavors. For this provocative launch..... More
McSweeney's Books, April 2012. Trade Paperback. In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace; from the..... More
Harcourt, Brace & World/ Harbinger, January 1964. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo in worn, creased cover. Previous owner's name inked half title page. Unmarked interiors. [243 pages]. More
University of Michigan Press, August 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the leading..... More
Random House, March 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part--and a woman's struggle to go forward in the face of loss--that "enriches the reader's life with urgency and gratitude" (The Washington Post) "A..... More