AN AGE LIKE THIS 1920 - 1940. Volume I in The Collected Essays, Journalism and L
Harcourt Brace and World, New York, January 1968. First American. Hardcover. Shelfwear; previous owner's name; jacket sunned, torn and chipped. More
Harcourt Brace and World, New York, January 1968. First American. Hardcover. Shelfwear; previous owner's name; jacket sunned, torn and chipped. More
Everyman Paperbacks / J.M. Dent, September 1990. Paper Back. 12mo. Previous owner's name in ink first page. [175 pp.]. More
Thomas B. Mosher, 1898. Hardcover. 2nd edition in heavily tanned/darkened dust jacket. Original paper covered boards with title plate affixed to spine. Mild darkening to boards, otherwise very good+. Rough cut textblock edges. Sound binding. Previous owner's name in fountain pen front free end page. Clean interiors. Overall remarkably well..... More
Everthemore Books, December 2014. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, January 1959. Reprint. Cloth. 3rd printing (US) in DJ with chipping & edgewear. Front flap is clipped. Navy blue cloth with white & red lettering. Previous owner's name inked FFEP & another old owner with their location inked and marked over top right corner. [363 pp.]. More
Little Brown & Co., January 1960. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto in dust jacket with tanned spine and large (three inch tear bottom of spine. Some bow to boards. Stated 'first printing'. More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 1997. Trade Paperback. "Criticism" collects seven important interpretations of the literary and historical aspects of Christine's work, by Jacqueline Cerquiglini, Beatrice Gottlieb, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Sheila Delany, Patricia A. Phillippy, Joel Blanchard, and Kevin Brownlee. A Selected Bibliography is included. More
Random House, October 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. For more than fifty years, his friends made a circle whose circumference was vast and whose center was a fashionable tenement on New York's East Seventy-second street. Taxi drivers, hearing..... More
Random House, September 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Celebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. "Learning to Drive" is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection of stories drawn from the author's own life. With deep feeling and sharp insight..... More
Wolfhound Press, January 1979. Paper Back. Octavo. Moderate user wear. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [304 pages]. More
A New Directions Book, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US) in very good dustjacket. Not price clipped. Darkening to jacket edges/spine. Indian red cloth boards with gold lettering spine edge. Wear to edges of cloth top & bottom of spine. Light tanning to end pages & fore-edge/top-edge. Tight binding. Clean..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 1973. Paper Back. Here, in his own translations and in original English versions of his own, Professor Praz has gathered many important essays central to his life's work, in a continuous study of the vital currents which have flowed between two cultures, the English..... More
Scribner Book Company, June 2003. Trade Paperback. Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters -- the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In A Whole New Life, however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present..... More
University Press of Mississippi, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers. More
HarperCollins Publishers, 1989. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Tightly bound spine with some slight leaning. Previous owner's name inked front free end pages [482 pages]. More
Penguin Classics, May 2003. Trade Paperback. The first literary addiction memoir, featuring the autobiographical Suspiria de Profundis, the inspiration for the 2018 horror film Suspiria, starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton and directed by Luca Guadagnino In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory..... More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, April 1991. First Edition. Cloth. "The extraordinary virtue of this exceptional study is that it authorizes the reader through Rabat's complex negotiations with Joyce conceived as reader of texts."--Talia Schaffer, James Joyce Literary Supplement. In very good dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gold lettering..... More
Liverpool University Press, March 1969. Stapled Soft Cover. This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has been credited with..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, October 2001. Trade Paperback. There is a superstition that if an emptied theater is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and..... More
Viking Adult, March 1990. Hardcover. 2nd printing in dust jacket with darkened edgewear. Small closed tear (1/4 inch) midway along spine. Tan end pages. Black cloth spine with gold lettering & grey paper covered boards. Remainder mark bottom edge. More
Hill and Wang, January 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Edge wear and light chipping on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. A thin line of fading on the top edge of the cloth boards. More
University of Virginia Press, March 2007. Hardcover. Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary..... More
University of Illinois Press, January 1961. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with darkened spine and margins. Mild edgewear. Flap is not clipped. DJ verso tanned/darkened. Rough-hewn half inch tear to jacket top of front fold. Boards covered by cedar colored brown with silver lettering on spine and front panel..... More
The Modern Library, February 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of letters by the editor of the New Yorker details the birth of the magazine and its early days. {6&1/2' x 8&1/2'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Previous owner's name inked ffep. Stated, First Edition with this number line '2 4..... More
Little, Brown, 1900. Cloth. Grey cloth with gold lettering spine & front panel, stamped black decorative illustrations within black rectangular frames. Likewise decorative black horizontal bars top and bottom of front panel & spine. Edgeworn top and bottom of boards, especially at spines. End pages chocolate brown front and back..... More