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The Bamboo Broom: An Introduction to Japanese Haikuby: Harold Gould Henderson

The Bamboo Broom: An Introduction to Japanese Haiku
by: Harold Gould Henderson

Hardcover. NY/Boston, Japan Society/Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with white design of broom on front cover, white lettering on spine, 124 pages. Clean copy of a scarce title.

Record # 378486

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The Prose Works of William Byrd of Westover: Narratives of a Colonial Virginianby: Wright, Louis B {Edited by}

The Prose Works of William Byrd of Westover: Narratives of a Colonial Virginian
by: Wright, Louis B {Edited by}

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap/Harvard University,, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, wrinkled dust jacket. 438 pages, appendices, index. Clean copy.

Record # 372899

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Dear Mr. McLaverty --: The Literary Correspondence of John McGahern and Michael McLaverty, 1959-1980by: John Killen (Ed.)

Dear Mr. McLaverty --: The Literary Correspondence of John McGahern and Michael McLaverty, 1959-1980
by: John Killen (Ed.)

Softcover. US, Linen Hall Library, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. SIGNED BY EDITOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. A very pleasing collection of letters between two fine Irish writers.

Record # 464854

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Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, Theby: Hemingway, Ernest

Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, The
by: Hemingway, Ernest

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd printing, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 597 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Faded spine. Tight copy.

Record # 368265

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King and the Corpse, The: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evilby: Zimmer, Heinrich

King and the Corpse, The: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
by: Zimmer, Heinrich

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Fading overall to red cover boards, spine heavily faded. Light pencil markings throughout, otherwise, tight copy.

Record # 4450237

Price: $18.00 
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Rural Essaysby: Downing, A..

Rural Essays
by: Downing, A..

Hardcover. New York, Leavitt & Allen, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 557 pages. Hardcover with blind stamped decoration on front and rear covers. Light rubbing and wear to edges. Internal pages clean and bright with light tanning.

Record # 354195

Price: $75.00 
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Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams by: Lyle Leverich

Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams
by: Lyle Leverich

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 644 pages, b&w illustrations. After a protracted squabble over private papers with the playwright's estate, Leverich delivers this hefty first volume of a projected two-volume life of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983). In it, Leverich, who produced several of Williams's plays and calls himself Williams's "chosen biographer", covers the years through 1945, when The Glass Menagerie opened on Broadway. Treated are Williams's youth in Mississippi and St. Louis; the college years at the universities of Missouri and Iowa; bumming around (but always writing) in New Orleans and Greenwich Village; the disaster of his first Broadway play (it closed in Boston); script writing, or avoiding it, at MGM's Hollywood mill; and, finally, the evolution of Menagerie, a wonderfully detailed and dramatic case history in itself. Leverich's overworked conceit, which he restates at intervals, is that this is the life of Tom Williams, a "repressed puritan" poet, who in time created a more flamboyant public persona called Tennessee. A few matters are set straight. Leverich maintains his subject's active homosexual life started in his late 20s, later than Williams stated in his memoirs, and that his sister's infamous lobotomy came later than his mother claimed. Although the accumulation of information is impressive, the lower Leverich keeps his own profile and editorial commentary the better his book is, which means it is at its best when it simply reproduces Williams's sporadically kept journal. If you believe that all the details of a life are but preparation for a single event, in this case, the opening of a remarkable play, this is an impressively argued biography.

Record # 378817

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Hesiod and the Language of Poetryby: Pietro Pucci

Hesiod and the Language of Poetry
by: Pietro Pucci

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press , 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, silver lettering, 152 pages. Light pencil marking in text.

Record # 381685

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Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novelsby: Grossman, Anne Chotzinoff

Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels
by: Grossman, Anne Chotzinoff

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some soiling to top page block, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Adhesive residue on rear dust jacket.

Record # 470215

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Mysteries of Time and Spirit - The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei.by: Joshi (Ed.), S. T. and David E. Schultz

Mysteries of Time and Spirit - The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei.
by: Joshi (Ed.), S. T. and David E. Schultz

Hardcover. Night Shade Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 439 pages. Hardcover with facsimile copy of handwritten letters to endpapers. Black cloth covered boards with iridescent titles to cover & spine. Frontispiece illustration of H. P. Lovecraft & Donald Wandrei in black & white. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages.

Record # 353608

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Anais Nin: A Bibliographyby: Franklin V, Benjamin

Anais Nin: A Bibliography
by: Franklin V, Benjamin

Hardcover. Ohio, Kent State University Press , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,115 pages, cream cloth with black lettering on spine.

Record # 405322

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The Enchanted Places: A Memoir of the Real Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Poohby: Christopher Milne

The Enchanted Places: A Memoir of the Real Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh
by: Christopher Milne

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket. A memoir of the real Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. An attractive copy of Christopher Milne's book about the origins of the Pooh stories, his childhood, and his family. Previous owner's inscription, sticker on front fly leaf.

Record # 380256

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Kipling Birthday Bookby: Bryant, Alice Crandell

Kipling Birthday Book
by: Bryant, Alice Crandell

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Red Cloth Boards. Front endpaper missing. Small black stain at top of front hinge. Foxing on top edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 509756

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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism by: Gates Jr, Henry Louis

The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
by: Gates Jr, Henry Louis

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, repriny, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 290 pages. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the Yoruba trickster figure of Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey whose myths help articulate the black tradition's theory of its literature, Gates uncovers a unique system for interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. His critical approach relies heavily on the Signifying Monkey--perhaps the most popular figure in African-American folklore--and signification and Signifyin(g). Exploring signification in black American life and literature by analyzing the transmission and revision of various signifying figures, Gates provides an extended analysis of what he calls the "Talking Book," a central trope in early slave narratives that virtually defines the tradition of black American letters. Gates uses this critical framework to examine several major works of African-American literature--including Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo--revealing how these works signify on the black tradition and on each other. Clean copy.

Record # 381565

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Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Sideby: Ed Sanders

Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side
by: Ed Sanders

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Fug You is Ed Sanders's unapologetic and often hilarious account of eight key years of "total assault on the culture," to quote his novelist friend William S. Burroughs. Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishing Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the aboveground's scrutiny, and leading to Sanders's arrest after a raid on his Peace Eye Bookstore. The memoir also traces the career of the Fugs -- formed in 1964 by Sanders and his neighbor, the legendary Tuli Kupferberg (called "the world's oldest living hippie" by Allen Ginsberg) -- as Sanders strives to find a home for this famous postmodern, innovative anarcho-folk-rock band in the world of record labels.

Record # 378610

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The Underground Stream: The Life And Art Of Caroline Gordon by: Jonza, Nancylee Novell

The Underground Stream: The Life And Art Of Caroline Gordon
by: Jonza, Nancylee Novell

Athens GA, University Of Georgia Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 464 pages. Caroline Ferguson Gordon (1895-1981) was a notable American novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, was the recipient of two prestigious literary awards, a 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 1934 O. Henry Award . Offers the most complete and accurate portrait to date of the writer. Clean copy.

Record # 381345

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Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeckby: Souder, William

Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
by: Souder, William

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 2nd pr., 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. His most poignant and evocative writing emerged in his sympathy for the Okies fleeing the dust storms of the Midwest, the migrant workers toiling in California's fields and the labourers on Cannery Row, reflecting a social engagement-paradoxical for all of his natural misanthropy-radically different from the writers of the so-called Lost Generation. 446 pages, remainder dot on top edge otherwise clean.

Record # 380936

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Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885-1949by: Knut Hamsun/ Richard Nelson Current

Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885-1949
by: Knut Hamsun/ Richard Nelson Current

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When Americans remember him at all, they no doubt think of Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) as the author of Hunger or as the Norwegian who, along with Vidkun Quisling, betrayed his country by supporting the Nazis during World War II. Yet Hamsun, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1920 for his novel The Growth of the Soil, was and remains one of the most important and influential novelists of his time. Knut Hamsun Remembers America is a collection of thirteen essays and stories based largely on Hamsun's experiences during the four years he spent in the United States when he was a young man. Most of these pieces have never been published before in an English translation, and none are readily available. Hamsun's feelings about America and American ways were complex. For the most part, they were more negative than positive, and they found expression in many of his writings--directly in his reminiscences and indirectly in his fiction. In On the Cultural Life of Modern America, his first major book, he portrayed the United States as a land of gross and greedy materialism, populated by illiterates who were utterly lacking in artistic originality or refinement. Although the pieces in this collection are not all anti-American, most of them emphasize the strangeness and unpleasantness, as the author saw it, of life in what he called Yankeeland.

Record # 378793

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Stepping away from tradition : children's books of the twenties and thirties : papers from a symposiumby: Jagusch, Sybille A.

Stepping away from tradition : children's books of the twenties and thirties : papers from a symposium
by: Jagusch, Sybille A.

Softcover. Washington, Library of Congress, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 139 pages, illustrations in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 460528

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A Piece of My Mind; Reflections at Sixty by: Wilson, Edmund

A Piece of My Mind; Reflections at Sixty
by: Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Small chip to bottom of spine. Clean copy.

Record # 381868

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Personality of Thoreau, Theby: Sanborn, F.B.

Personality of Thoreau, The
by: Sanborn, F.B.

Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Goodspeed, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 71 pages, number 410 of a 500. French hand-made paper, printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with one plate and two facsimiles of Thoreau's journal. Gray-green boards with a beige cloth spine with a paper label. Spine and covers darkening, light shelf wear.

Record # 412416

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Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvementby: Greene, Graham

Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement
by: Greene, Graham

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462602

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Carolina Humorby: Harden E. Taliaferro

Carolina Humor
by: Harden E. Taliaferro

Hardcover. Richmond VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 87 pages. Frontispiece of author, foreword by Davd Jackson.

Record # 370869

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Willa Cather in Europe; Her Own Story of the First Journeyby: Cather, Willa

Willa Cather in Europe; Her Own Story of the First Journey
by: Cather, Willa

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 178 pages. Dust jacket slightly worn and with short tears. Some foxing on endpages, top edge stained red.

Record # 511050

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Underground Stream, The: The Life and Art of Caroline Gordonby: Jonza, Nancylee Novell

Underground Stream, The: The Life and Art of Caroline Gordon
by: Jonza, Nancylee Novell

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 464 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy. This biography offers the most complete and accurate portrait to date of the writer Caroline Gordon (1895-1981). Viewing Gordon's life in the context of female literary tradition, Nancylee Novell Jonza reclaims Gordon's integrity, individuality, and artistic vision from beneath a self-effacing, sometimes detractive, public image carefully fostered by the artist herself. Gordon's nine novels and three short-story collections are a major contribution in their own right to the southern literary renaissance. Despite an enduring readership, however, she still remains in the shadow of her husband, Allen Tate, the Fugitive Poet and Agrarian critic, partially due to her contrived persona of a traditional southern lady turned artist under the tutelage of a gifted, benevolent male writer. Drawing on manuscript drafts, unpublished works, letters, and a significant body of her journalistic writing, Jonza investigates fully the causes and effects of Gordon's self-mythologizing and covers substantially more ground than the thirty years during which she was closest to Tate.

Record # 57643

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James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts by: Schwab, Arnold T.

James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts
by: Schwab, Arnold T.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. No dust jacket. 384 pages, b&w illustrations. The biography of an influential critic gives a vivid picture of American cultural life from the 1880s to the 1920s. INSCRIBED BY ERIK HUNEKER, SON OF JAMES on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Record # 383345

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Essays from the London Times: A collection of personal and historical sketches- Second Seriesby: N/A

Essays from the London Times: A collection of personal and historical sketches- Second Series
by: N/A

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Company, 1st, 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black title to front board and to spine. 261 pages, publisher's ads. Contains of an early review of Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as accounts of travels to the Nubian Desert and Arctic, a history of Spanish literature, and literary essays and reviews of works by Dickens, Tennyson, Thackeray, and Hawthorne. Mild foxing, some light chipping and wear to spine.

Record # 383589

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Letters of Nikolai Gogolby: Carl R. Proffer (Ed.)

Letters of Nikolai Gogol
by: Carl R. Proffer (Ed.)

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 247 pages. Selected and edited by Carl R. Proffer. Translated by Carl R. Proffer in collaboration with Vera Krivoshein. From the five volumes of correspondence in Gogol's collected works Carl Proffer, a teacher and translator of Russian, has fashioned this scholarly one-volume edition, adding his own exceptionally informative footnotes and an eight-page bibliography. Clean copy.

Record # 397942

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Perceval's Narrative: A Patient's Account of His Psychosis, 1830-1832by: John Perceval; Gregory Bateson

Perceval's Narrative: A Patient's Account of His Psychosis, 1830-1832
by: John Perceval; Gregory Bateson

Softcover. NY, Morrow, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 331 pages. A remarkable pre-Freudian account of schizophrenia written by the son of a prime minister of England. Certifiably insane from 1830 to 1831, he wrote the autobiography of his illness and recovery with vigor and insight. Clean copy.

Record # 384854

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Revolution and the Historical Novelby: John McWilliams

Revolution and the Historical Novel
by: John McWilliams

Hardcover. Lexington Books , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glazed boards, 299 pages. John McWilliams has written the first, much needed account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution have informed masterpieces of the historical novel. McWilliams provides close readings of some twenty historical novels, from Scott and Cooper through Tolstoy, Zola and Hugo, to Pasternak and Lampedusa, and ultimately to Marquez and Hilary Mantel, but with continuing regard to historical contexts past and present. He traces the transformation of the literary conventions established by Scott's Waverley novels, showing both the continuities and the changes needed to meet contemporary times and perspectives. Although the progressive hopes imbedded in Scott's narrative form proved no longer adaptable to twentieth century carnage and the rise of totalitarianism, the meaning of any single novel emerges through comparison to the tradition of its predecessors. A foreword and epilogue explore the indebtedness of McWilliams's perspective to the Marxist scholarly tradition of Georg Lukacs and Frederic Jameson, while defining his differences from them. This is a scholarly work of no small ambition and achievement. Clean copy.

Record # 385373

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The Trials of Radclyffe Hallby: Souhami, Diana

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall
by: Souhami, Diana

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 480 pages. A fascinating figure of English literary and political history, Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth, England. Hall suffered through an exceedingly unhappy childhood until her father's death. With her inheritance, Hall leased a house in Kensington and began to live the way she pleased. She started dressing in chappish clothes, called herself Peter, then John, and wrote her first collection of verse. She was a political reactionary, a reformed Catholic, a member of the Society for Psychical Research, fussy about food and obsessive about work. She got her pipes from Dunhill's, wore brocade smoking jackets, spats in winter, and had her hair cropped off at the barber's. Hall is most famous today for her book, The Well of Loneliness, which she wrote in 1928. A novel about lesbian love, the book caused an enormous scandal on its publication and it was suppressed both in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, where Hall was put on trial under the Obscene Publications Act.

Record # 385535

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Dialogues of Plato, The: Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions - Third Edition (5 Vols.)by: Jowett, B.

Dialogues of Plato, The: Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions - Third Edition (5 Vols.)
by: Jowett, B.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 3rd Ed., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five volumes complete, 594, 576, 543. 645 and 593 pages. Olive cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt.Couple hinges tender. Bright, clean set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 403353

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Decameron: The John Payne Translation by: Boccaccio, Giovanni

Decameron: The John Payne Translation
by: Boccaccio, Giovanni

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 947 pages. Complete in one volume. Revised and annotated by Charles S. Singleton. Singleton preserves the genius of Payne's language and style, but removes the Victorianisms that intrude upon the enjoyment of contemporary readers. He adds essential annotation and original interpretation to round out this unexcelled English edition of Boccaccio's great work. Clean copy.

Record # 386270

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A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance by: Ascoli, Albert Russell

A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance
by: Ascoli, Albert Russell

Softcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 387 pages. Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, A Local Habitation and a Name examines the unstable dialectic of "reality" and "imagination," as well as of "history" and "literature." Albert Ascoli identifies and interprets the ways in which literary texts are shaped by and serve the purposes of multiple, intertwined historical discourses and circumstances, and he equally probes the function of such texts in constructing, interpreting, critiquing, and effacing the histories in which they are embedded. Throughout, he poses the theoretical and methodological question of how formal analysis and literary forms can at once resist and further the historicist enterprise. Mild damp wrinkle to bottom corner of first 10 pages, otherwise very good, clean.

Record # 386877

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Pa Chin and His Writings - Chinese Youth Between the Two Revolutionsby: Lang, Olga

Pa Chin and His Writings - Chinese Youth Between the Two Revolutions
by: Lang, Olga

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press,, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 402 pages. "Miss Lang focuses on the content of Pa Chin novels and short stories, which vividly describe the life of Chinese youth. She also pays great attention to the western, particularly Russian and French, influences on his political philosophy."

Record # 67251

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The Writer and the World: Essays by: Naipaul, V.S.

The Writer and the World: Essays
by: Naipaul, V.S.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 524 pages. The finest shorter pieces of reflection and reportage by V.S. Naipaul - nearly all of them heretofore out of print - are collected in one volume spanning some forty years of travel and sustained meditations on our world. Clean copy.

Record # 387278

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Lewis Carrollby: Hudson, Derek

Lewis Carroll
by: Hudson, Derek

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, blue cloth covers with silver titles. 354 pages. b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 387447

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Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson by: Paul Perry

Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson
by: Paul Perry

Hardcover. NY, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages, with b&w photographs. Very clean and tight copy. Unauthorized biography of Hunter Thompson. Perry takes us on a journey through Thompson's booze and drug fueled rise to fame. From a young yahoo in Louisville, Kentucky-drinking heavily and playing with his rifle, to the first hand secrets of Thompson's inventive and irreverent gonzo jounralism. A look at a man who was a horror to some, a hero to others.

Record # 391428

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The Harlem Renaissance in Black and Whiteby: Hutchinson, George

The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
by: Hutchinson, George

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 541 pages. It wasn't all black or white. It wasn't a vogue. It wasn't a failure. By restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the Harlem Renaissance--or blamed for corrupting it--George Hutchinson transforms our understanding of black (and white) literary modernism, interracial literary relations, and twentieth-century cultural nationalism in the United States. What has been missing from literary histories of the time is a broader sense of the intellectual context of the Harlem Renaissance, and Hutchinson supplies that here: Boas's anthropology, Park's sociology, various strands of pragmatism and cultural nationalism--ideas that shaped the New Negro movement and the literary field, where the movement flourished. Hutchinson tracks the resulting transformation of literary institutions and organizations in the 1920s, offering a detailed account of the journals and presses, black and white, that published the work of the "New Negroes." This cultural excavation discredits bedrock assumptions about the motives of white interest in the renaissance, and about black relationships to white intellectuals of the period. Clean copy.

Record # 397581

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The Last Days of Mankind: A Tragedy in Five Acts by: Kraus, Karl; /Ungar, Frederick(Ed.) /Wright, E Sue (transl.)

The Last Days of Mankind: A Tragedy in Five Acts
by: Kraus, Karl; /Ungar, Frederick(Ed.) /Wright, E Sue (transl.)

Hardcover. NY, Frederick Ungar, 1st thus, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 263 pages. 1st American Edition of this Abridged Translation. This is Kraus's masterpiece, with half of Europe as its stage. It is presented here in English for the first time, in an abridged version that preserves the essence of the 800-page original. Its influence on Brecht, Ionesco, and other playwrights is acknowledged. Mingling actual quotations, news reports, and government orders with Kraus's own satiric dialogue, this immense drama (never meaning to be performed) offers a vast fresco of events at the front and at home during, as it prophesied, the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Indeed, Kraus anticipated the development of atomic warfare and its threat to all mankind. Some of Kraus is untranslatable, but, as Stanley Kauffmann wrote in his New Republic review, "Ungar has done us a benefit at least by bringing us a bit closer to this sharp-eyed, angry, prickly, lover-hater of mankind." INSCRIBED BY FREDERICK UNGAR, the editor and publisher on the half-title page. He also wrote the 14 page introduction. Clean copy.

Record # 397630

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Notes on Aaron's Rod And Other Notes On Lawrence From The Paris Notebooksby: Miller, Henry

Notes on Aaron's Rod And Other Notes On Lawrence From The Paris Notebooks
by: Miller, Henry

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 59 pages. Edition of 750 copies. This is one of the unsigned copies. Quarter black cloth with paper title label. Printed boards. Acetate dust jacket with light soil.

Record # 398039

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Letters of John Ruskin To Charles Eliot Norton [2 Volumes] by: Ruskin, John

Letters of John Ruskin To Charles Eliot Norton [2 Volumes]
by: Ruskin, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd pr., 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Two hardcover volumes in worn, soiled dust jackets. Dark green cloth covers with gilt titles to upper covers and spines. As a result of djs, both volumes are bright and clean, 261. 243 pages. No markings.

Record # 398038

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The Survival of the Bark Canoeby: John McPhee

The Survival of the Bark Canoe
by: John McPhee

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light tanning to edges. 214 pages with a pictorial section in rear. Stated first printing on copyright page. The story of the building of birch-bark canoes and of a 150 mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology.

Record # 398245

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Lillian Smith - A Southerner Confronting the Southby: Loveland, Anne C.

Lillian Smith - A Southerner Confronting the South
by: Loveland, Anne C.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1st Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a short closed tears. B&w photos, 297 pages. The first comprehensive intellectual biography of the Georgia writer, Lillian Smith, based on an extensive collection of autobiographical writings and correspondence, as well as on Smith's published books and articles. Smith is best known as an early critic of racial segregation and as a civil rights worker.

Record # 203720

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Excursionsby: Thoreau, Henry D.

Excursions
by: Thoreau, Henry D.

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 319 pages. Portrait of Thoreau on frontispiece with tissue guard. First edition, one of 1,558 copies printed. Original publisher's blue-green pebbled cloth with blind-stamped borders and center wreath. Spine lettered in gilt. Brown-coated end papers. Ten essays including a 33 page biographical sketch by Emerson of Thoreau and nine essays by Thoreau, among them the famous "Walking."

Record # 412209

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Letters of Ayn Randby: Rand, Ayn (edited by Michael S. Berliner)

Letters of Ayn Rand
by: Rand, Ayn (edited by Michael S. Berliner)

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of the letters by the influential writer of Atlas Shrugged and other acclaimed works offers a unique view of her world, in both the personal and the professional spheres. 681 pages, clean copy.

Record # 379956

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The Books in My Lifeby: Miller, Henry

The Books in My Life
by: Miller, Henry

Softcover. NY, New Directions, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, second printing, 316 pages plus index, sewn paperback cover price $2.45, very good lightly used copy.

Record # 378053

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The Crazy Wisdom: Memoir of a Friendship (SIGNED COPY)by: Christopher Shaw

The Crazy Wisdom: Memoir of a Friendship (SIGNED COPY)
by: Christopher Shaw

Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, Outskirts Press , 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 216 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SHAW. like new. Shaw's memoir and account of his friendship with Jon Cody, an older one-armed dope dealer and leather craftsman in the Adirondack backcountry.

Record # 373737

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Cristobal De Virues by: John G. Weiger

Cristobal De Virues
by: John G. Weiger

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, 166 pages. Virtues's place in Spanish drama is partly as one of the few to attempt tragedy, partly as one of the precursors of the national comedia, but above all as a pivotal figure in an important transitional period of Spain's political and cultural history. Clean copy.

Record # 379853

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Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfictionby: Harrison, Jim

Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfiction
by: Harrison, Jim

Hardcover. Livingston, MT, Clack City Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Record # 369035

Price: $30.00 
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