A Book of Days for the Literary Year
Thames & Hudson, September 1991. Hardcover. Glossy patterened boards with a cloth spine. Illustrations and photographs throughout. Very lightly bumped corners. More
Literary Non-Fiction
Edmund Wilson
Princeton University Press, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920s through the mid-'60s. He remains a presence in our literary culture, and his accounts of art and society have influenced a younger generation of readers and thinkers. This vibrant collection emerges from symposiums..... More
Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context
Central European University Press, October 2008. Hardcover. The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. An international group of scholars, from a range of fields including literary theory, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history and theology, philology, and..... More
May Thy Dear Walls Remain Memoirs of a College Minister at the Sisters Chapel Spelman College
Publishing Associates Inc. Hardcover. Signed by author. Front (inner) flap of dust jacket bent back, else very good. More
Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory (Revised)
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1997. Trade Paperback. This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, the essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the New Criticism to..... More
Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More
The Education of Henry Adams (Audubon Library)
Houghton Mifflin Company, June 1973. Trade Paperback. More
Roman Stamp: Frame and Facade in Some Forms of Neo-Classicism
Univ of California Pr, September 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
Houghton Mifflin, January 1971. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd edition. Originally published in 1962 by George Braziller. In edgeworn/chipped dustjacket with darkening/foxing at margins and DJ verso. Brick red cloth with gold lettering in black rectangular field on spine and front board. Tanning/foxing to end pages front and rear. Previous owner's name..... More
Death in the FUNhouse: John Barth and Poststructuralist Aesthetics (Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory)
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, December 1995. Trade Paperback. In contrast to recent attempts to distinguish postmodernism from poststructuralism, "Death in the FUNhouse" finds deep complicity between the two discourses. This book looks comprehensively at the middle and late texts of John Barth to demonstrate the complexity of the..... More
Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity (Literature and Psychoanalysis, 6)
NYU Press, July 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Arthur Miller..... More
Trillion Year Spree: History of Science Fiction
Victor Gollancz Ltd, January 1986. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original British price on flap. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Signed by Brian Aldiss on front free end page. Sound binding: glue is loose between textblock & cloth..... More
Bullies
Picador, March 2017. Trade Paperback. **Vulture's The Best Books of 2016** **Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016** **featured in NPR's Guide to 2016's Great Reads** The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most..... More
Irving HoweSocialist, Critic, Jew (Jewish Literature and Culture)
Indiana University Press, April 1998. First American. Cloth. For over 50 years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a commanding, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Writing with the productivity of a major industry, Howe took on issues ranging from left-wing politics and American writers to..... More
Reading My Father: A Memoir
Scribner, April 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST-- A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron's youngest..... More
Literary Criticism, Pope to Croce
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
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America
Viking, January 1987. First American. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in very good dustjacket. Quarter bound: navy blue cloth spine with silver lettering & grey paper covered boards with sunned edges. Foxing to textblock edges. Unmarked text. Tight binding. Review copy: with (4' x 5&1/2') Viking Review Copy slip laid in. More
Pictures of Ascent in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
Palgrave Macmillan, November 2009. Hardcover. Withan unconventional new perspective, Andersonidentifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as ajourney and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Beginning with Poe s earliest short stories through his last fragment of imaginative prose, this book shows the path that..... More
An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes: (And What Happened Afterwards)
Black Sparrow Press, July 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Multimedia culture critic, novelist, poet, editor of the radical literary journal Exquisite Corpse, Andrei Codrescu proves also a candid, witty, iconoclastic and exuberant commentator on his own colorful life. The self-invented Codrescu was born Andrei Perlmutter in the medieval town of..... More
Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio
Picador, February 1995. Trade Paperback. Short, witty observations by a commentator for National Public Radio's program, All Things Considered, assesses the creeping inanity of American politics and culture and treats the birth of new nations, whales, food, and sundry other topics. Reprint. NYT. More
Heart of a Woman
Bantam Books, December 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. This engaging book chronicles the changes in Maya Angelou's life as she entersthe hub of activity that is New York. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, sherededicates herself to writing, and finds love at an unexpected moment.Reflecting on her many roles--from northern coordinator..... More
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Bantam, August 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the "New York Times" bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage..... More
Wind, Sand and Stars
Harcourt, December 2002. Paper Back. Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, "Wind, Sand and Stars" is unsurprassed in capturing the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure - through the treacherous passes of the Pyrenees, above the Sahara, along the snowy ramparts..... More
Afterlife: A Memoir
Picador USA, May 2007. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the winter of 2000, shortly after his mother's death, Donald Antrim began writing about his family. In pieces that appeared in The New Yorker and were anthologized in Best American Essays, Antrim explored his intense..... More
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman (New York Review Classics)
NYRB Classics, February 2022. Paper Back. A biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals, Hannah Arendt. Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman was Hannah..... More
