Chester A. Arthur
Easton Press, 1987. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Unread condition. More
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Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills
Easton Press, 1988. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Unread condition. More
The Presidency of James K. Polk
Easton Press, 1991. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Unread condition. More
Old Tippecanoe
Easton Press, 1986. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Unread condition. More
Martin Van Buren
Easton Press, 1986. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Unread condition. More
Song of Achilles
Ecco Press, August 2012. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller "At once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art....A book I could not put down." --Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of..... More
Norwegian Wood (Vintage International Original)
Vintage, September 2000. Trade Paperback. A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, Norwegian Wood blends the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man's hopeless and heroic first love. Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and..... More
Nightwood
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 1961. Trade Paperback. Originally published in 1936, "Nightwood" is a haunting tale of sexual obsession. Robin Vote -- the woman at the heart of this strange and richly atmospheric novel -- is a woman whose passions are strong enough to destroy. The novel circles and..... More
Ireland in Mind: An Anthology: Three Centuries of Irish, English, and American Writers in Search of the Real Ireland
Vintage, March 2000. Trade Paperback. From Oscar Wilde to James Joyce, from Virginia Woolf to Frank McCourt: three centuries of Irish, English, and American writers in search of the real Ireland. From the editor of the outstandingly popular Italy in Mind comes another superb collection: three centuries of fiction, poems..... More
Dubliners
Oxford University Press, USA, August 2008. Trade Paperback. The publication of James Joyce's Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else. Although only twenty-four when he signed his first publishing contract for the..... More
Conversations with Friends
Hogarth, July 2018. Trade Paperback. NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES - From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . "[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship."--Entertainment Weekly SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE TIME 100 NEXT LIST - WINNER OF..... More
Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Oxford Quick Reference)
Oxford University Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Who or what is liable to jump the shark? Who first tried to nail jelly to the wall? Who was the first to cry Women and children first? The answers to these and many more questions are in this fascinating book. Here in..... More
The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library)
Modern Library, February 1999. Hardcover. The Charterhouse of Parma chronicles the exploits of Fabrizio del Dongo, an ardent young aristocrat who joins Napoleon's army just before the battle of Waterloo. Yet perhaps the novel's most unforgettable characters are the hero's beautiful aunt, the alluring Duchess of Sanseverina, and her lover..... More
Oxford Book of Humorous Prose
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
The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions)
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1996. Trade Paperback. "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, "The Metamorphosis." It is the story of..... More
World of Venice
Harcourt, May 1995. Trade Paperback. A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. "A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a beautiful book to read and to possess" (The Observer)..... More
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)
Harper Perennial, April 2007. Trade Paperback. A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read--and write Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries..... More
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
Vintage, September 1999. Trade Paperback. John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful. Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England..... More
Flaubert: Madame Bovary (Landmarks of World Literature)
Cambridge University Press, May 1992. Trade Paperback. This novel achieved immediate notoriety through its questioning of marriage, sex and the role of women. Stephen Heath shows how this landmark text captures and articulates a fundamental experience of the postromantic, commerical-industrial, democratic period. He explains how Madame Bovary represents Flaubert's intense..... More
Three Tales (Classics S.)
Penguin Classics, May 1961. Trade Paperback. This volume includes A Simple Heart, The legend of St Julian Hospitator and Herodias. These three pieces of fiction by the 19th-century French naturalist are introduced by an essay describing his life, works, and artistic abilities. More
Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
New Directions, January 1968. Trade Paperback. Throughout his life Flaubert made it a game to eavesdrop for the cliché, the platitude, the borrowed and unquestioned idea with which the "right thinking" swaddle their minds. After his death his little treasury of absurdities, of half-truths and social lies, was published as..... More
Renaissance
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1987. Trade Paperback. Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the holy writ of beauty. Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa..... More
The Complete Madison
Easton Press, January 1988. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Unread condition. More
Washington: An abridgement in one volume of the seven-volume George Washington
Easton Press, 1985. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Unread condition. More
