Tarcher, September 1987. Trade Paperback. The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study...a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament.--Philip Toynbee. More
Farrar Straus Giroux, September 1977. Paper Back. {5 & 3/4' x 8 & 3/4'} Moderate shelfwear. Small tears and light chipping base of spine. Creased front lower right corner. Red decorative rubber stamp textblock bottom edge. Two previous owner's names in ink first inside page top right corner. Dust stains..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 1984. Reprint. Trade Paperback. From one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century, this installment of Edmund Wilson's private notebooks covers the years of the 1940s, providing a rich lens into the writer's life and the world at large. Wilson turned forty-five in..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), October 1986. First Edition. Cloth. {4 & 1/2 x 7 & 1/2'} In DJ with moderate use wear. Sun-tanned jacket spine. Soiling & foxing jacket cover. Front flap is not clipped. Fern green cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine., Tightly bound at bottom..... More
Wayne State University Press, January 1962. Trade Paperback. This volume attempts to represent European theories of poetry from Plato's time to the year 1700. Editor Allan H. Gilbert has selected writers who in their own day spoke for the future rather than the past, and those whose conceptions are of..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Shelf worn mass market paperback edition. Heavy darkening of spine. Hole punched overlapping holes upper right corner of front cover. Worn & torn at one bottom corner of spine. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [442 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 1994. Trade Paperback. Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era in American..... More
Grove Pr, October 1989. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Doubleday, January 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild edgewear and toning to cover. 508 pages plus eight page list of available Dolphin and Anchor titles available. More
Doubleday Anchor, 1954. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Tanning/darkening to spine and margins. Worn edges of covers. Deep vertical crease down middle of front cover. Previous owner's name and a date inked half title page. Otherwise clean, sound, with no markings, underlinings, side-notes, etc. (238 pages and two page list..... More
DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND CO., INC., January 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Nice book; jacket in tatters, but wrapped in Brodart. More
Routledge, January 2010. Trade Paperback. Rerouting the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture. Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals, this volume charts and challenges..... More
