Figures of capable imagination (A Continuum book)
Seabury Press, January 1976. Hardcover. Modest cover wear and aging; faint pencil notes and marks scattered throughout. More
Seabury Press, January 1976. Hardcover. Modest cover wear and aging; faint pencil notes and marks scattered throughout. More
Chelsea House Pub, March 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of critical essays discuss the works of the French writer. {5' x 9 & 1/2'} Pictorial boards issued without dustjacket. Like new. Tightly bound. Complete number string. [295 pp.]. More
Cornell University Press, June 1971. Trade Paperback. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism. The perceptive..... More
Columbia Univ Pr, March 1991. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn dj with marginal darkening. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Foxing to end pages. Darkening top textblock edge. Complete number line. First/first. [225 pp.]. More
McGraw Hill, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition (U.S.) ; Octavo; In heavily edgeworn/chipped dustjacket with foxing/tanning to verso. Jacket flap is not clipped. Quarter bound: navy blue cloth with gold lettering. Blue paper covered boards worn at edges. Plain end pages. Previous owner's name , location and a...... More
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, January 1993. First Edition. Cloth. Bradbury argues that almost a century since the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. It is clear that the first 50 years - from Henry James, Wilde and Stevenson, through James Joyce..... More
Penguin Classics, September 1994. Paper Back. Well worn with tape re-enforced spine. Edgewear. Soiling. Side notes & underlining. [661 pages]. More
The Viking Press, November 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn dustjacket with small tears and chipped top & bottom edges. Flap is not clipped. Two inch closed tear top of rear panel. Creasing to flap. Two-thirds bound. Black cloth covered on spine side with gold & purple lettering. Remaining..... More
Penguin Group (Canada), January 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Algonquin Books, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, award-winning novelist Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, Fire Department. With three published books to his credit and a fourth nearly finished, he made the risky decision to try life as a full-time..... More
Algonquin Books, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, award-winning novelist Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, Fire Department. With three published books to his credit and a fourth nearly finished, he made the risky decision to try life as a full-time..... More
Yorick Books, November 1989. Cloth. Revised 1990 UK edition in jacket with mild moisture curling & and two half inch closed tears top edge front panel. A few scattered rubbig marks & sticker residue back panel. Overall bright, tight near fine copy. Brown boards with gilt lettering. More
A Harvest/HBJ Books, March 1975. First Thus. Trade Paperback. More
University College Dublin Press, December 2008. Hardcover. This volume contains all of the extant letters written to each other by the renowned Joyce scholars, Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen, between 1954 and 1984. The letters have been annotated so that we can follow how their ideas are absorbed into their..... More
St. Martin's Press, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to..... More
Tudor, 1951 ( MCMLI ). Cloth. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In slightly edgeworn dustjacket. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering in black rectangular fields uopn spine. Lightly tanned end pages. Red rose stained top textblock edge. Tight binding. One-quarter inch chip at bottom of front cover panel. [1036..... More
H.C. Peck & Theo Bliss, January 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. In marginally worn brown cloth with glit decorations & lettering. Gold edges. Non-authorial inscription in fountain pen on front free end page. Unfortunatel dark spots (burn marks) in a few splashes near gutter first frew pages. Pulled at top of..... More
Random House Trade, December 2006. Trade Paperback. In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in..... More
Warner Books, April 1994. Trade Paperback. In the 1950s, Denny Hanson was the golden boy, a clean-cut, Rhodes Scholar whose bright future and million-dollar smile made him the subject of a Life magazine feature. The bestselling author of Uncivil Liberties chronicles this life that once held limitless possibilities, but ended..... More
Michigan State University Press, June 1973. Cloth. Green cloth with black lettering in good+ dust jacket with edgewear & rubbing plus one half-inch tear bottome edge front panel. Original price of $8.50 on front flap. Clean & solid without markings. More
Pantheon Books, July 1982. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Stated, 'First American Edition.' though 'a larger collection of letters and editorial text was first published by Oxford University Press in 1978.' Very mild shelf wear. Previous owner's name, location & a date inked verso front cover top left corner. Clean, sound..... More
Ungar Pub. Co., June 1987. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Light soiling. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [205 page]. More
Shoemaker & Hoard, November 2005. Hardcover. Edmund Wilson, 20th century America's most direct and readable critic of literature and society, was a man of many loves. In his half century as a major force in American letters he had an outsize romantic career that reflected the complex depths of his..... More
Law Book Co of Australasia, October 1981. Hardcover. More
Synaesthesia Press, January 1999. Stapled Soft Cover. Softcover chapbook with dust jacket. Folded & stapled. One-half inch tear to top edge of front panel of jacket. Else pristine, fine all around. No markings. More