Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. What motivates us to reread literary works? How is our pleasure, interpretation, involvement, and evaluation different when we read a literary work and when we reread it? This fascinating book by Matei Calinescu is the first to focus on the implications of rereading for critical understanding. Drawing on literary theory, cultural anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and previous theories of reading, Calinescu describes the dynamics of rereading and explores the sometimes complementary, sometimes sharply conflicting relationships between reading and rereading. Calinescu analyzes fictional works by Borges, Nabokov, Proust, Robbe-Grillet, and Henry James, among others, explaining how reading texts is related both to symbolic play or make-believe and to games with rules. He reviews the history of reading in modern times, discussing, for example, how the Reformation led to rereadings of Scripture and how the proliferation of books during the Enlightenment led to a shift from "intensive reading" to "extensive reading." Calinescu looks at the distinctions between reading and rereading from the perspectives of the age, situation, and gender of the individual reader. He discusses the problems raised by secret or oblique languages and codes - devised to evade censors, communicate with a select audience of "secret sharers," or play games of hide-and-seek with the reader - and shows that they naturally lead to rereading a text. Calinescu argues persuasively that an understanding of rereading is useful in formulating both analytic strategies of practical criticism and a poetics of reading. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st pbk, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Bantam, 1st UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket. Wraparound band with blurb by Ian Rankin present, 367 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.

Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, Book: Very Good, Boating view #2. McMullan's painting gives one the sense of experiencing boating and sailing on the bay. A bayside, modern adobe-style resort in the background. Image size: 6" X 7", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.

Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, This painting shows the resort from the bay with sailboats and a catamaran in the foreground. The artist did several variations on this picture. Image size: 6" X 7", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.

Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This painting features a couple dining at a table on the patio with sailing boats on the bay behind them. Executed in b&w tones by the artist for newspaper ad. Image size: 5 1/2* X 5", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Published.

Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, This painting shows the dockside facilities on the property. Image size: 7* X 7", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.

Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, Book: Very Good, This painting shows the entrance to the resort as a couple pass on their way to the tennis courts. Image size: 5 1/2* X 7", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.

Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This painting shows guests enjoying the amenities of the lobby by the huge picture window with the bay as a backdrop. Image size: 9* X 9", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.

Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, Book: Very Good, This painting features guests sitting by the stone fireplace, enjoying drinks while the sun sets on the bay beyond the big picture window. Image size: 8* X 8", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.

Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 Volumes: (SIGNED) In slipcase. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image).1845-1870 The Pioneer Era1871-1895 The Antiseptic Era1896-1920 The X-Ray Era1921-1945 The Serology EraLimited to 2,150 copies including a special cased edition of 1000 copies. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. Black, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 232 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. Illustrated plates of old advertising. Yellow cloth covers w/ red decoration. Worn, chipped, price-clipped dust jacket - now protected by clear plastic cover. Light foxing, soiling to edges; else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 440 pages, SIGNED BY RANKIN on the title page.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, The University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 354 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Light pencil marking to 5 pages, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st thus, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 116 pages, illustrated with 4 color and 12 b&w plates by G.D. Armour. Green cloth covers with brown lettering and design, gilt lettering on spine. The green dust jacket is worn, chipped with a small hole at the edge of the spine. SIGNED & HANDWRITTEN LETTER BY AUTHOR tipped inside cover, also ANOTHER SIGNED NOTE W/ENVELOPE laid in.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Beige boards, 1/4 cloth, gilt. Color pictorial dj in mylar cover.

Softcover. New York, New Directions, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 115 pages. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION on title page. Foreword by author. Very minor wear to cover and spine edges, corners slightly bumped. Previous owner's pencil inscription on page 3. B/W pictorial wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PRELUTSKY on front fly leaf. Color illustrations by Garth Williams. Tight, bright copy.

Hardcover. England, PS Pubishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. Gray cloth, gilt. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Introduction by Gregory Benford. #129 in limited series of 300 signed copies. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and Benford.

Hardcover. Alexandria VA, Orchises Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 80 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 332 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE-PAGE. Minor wear to dust jacket, light foxing to edges, else a lovely copy in clear brodart cover.

Softcover. Colorado, Westview Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Very slight wear to edges and corners. A few pages slightly turned down. Otherwise, a very nice, clean copy.