Paul Dry Books, June 2009. Trade Paperback. Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?--Henry Ward Beecher The Book Shopper is a spirited and witty guide to the world of disheveled used bookstores and dusty basements where shelves sag under the burden of so many books. In the..... More

University of California Press, December 1996. Trade Paperback. The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. These essays suggest that it won't be that..... More

Yale University Press, January 1991. Trade Paperback. Discussing a wide range of literary theory in a clear and accessible way, prize-winning author Robert Scholes here continues his ongoing construction of a humane semiotic approach to the problems of reading, writing, and teaching. Taking the view that "all the world's a...... More

St. Martin's Griffin, September 2007. Trade Paperback. "Do we still know how to read a novel?" John Sutherland, Chairman of the 2005 Booker Prize Committee, asks. His answer is an unequivocal, "No." But Sutherland has not given up hope. With acerbic wit and intellect, he traces the history of what..... More

Privately Printed, 1929. Limited. Hardcover. Edition limited to 950 copies. Blue boards with paper cover label in cloth backstrip, also with paper label. Wrapped in glassine, housed in box. Bookplate covering scars of previously removed bookplate; else, near fine condition. More