London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Rear board lightly soiled, some pencil marginalia and underlining.
viii, 389 pp. Edited, with a memoir, by his literary executor. CONTENTS: Memoir; The Mind of a Dog; Dr. Johnson as a Philosopher; The Art of Jane.....
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
In 1807, a small rural New York press published the first edition of P. D. Manville’s Lucinda; or the Mountain Mourner. Over the next five decades now fewer than ten printings of the novel appeared.....
Stuttgart / Bonn / Berlin / Gotha. / Hamburg: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag / Adolph Marcus / Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung / C.F. Thienemann / Agentur des Kauhen Hauses. 1861. Half-Leather.
Former library copy (College of St. Scholastica), and likely bound together by them, with just a few marks on new end.....
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987. Trade Paperback.
Light general wear, faint ink stamp on half-title page.
x, 243 pp. This is one of the most important studies of Eisenstein to have appeared in any language. Acclaimed as the "greatest filmmaker of all time," Eisenstein is a figure of.....
London and New York: Routledge, 2008. Soft Cover.
Spine creased, light general wear to covers, highlighting.
xii, 452 pp. The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader brings together 29 key pieces from the last century and a half that have shaped the field. Topics include: subjectivity, language, gender, ethnicity, sexuality.....
United Kingdom: Pearson Education, 2010. Second Edition. Trade Paperback.
Second edition. Corners lightly dog-eared, spine base bumped.
xiv, 355 pp. Women's writing in any period remains of critical concern, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Alexandra Barratt's edition offers a wide range of texts from the period 1300-1500, including: Original.....
Toronto, Ontario: Harbourfront Reading Series, 1997. Signed Copy. Stapled Binding.
Signed by author without inscription. #48 of 150 signed, numbered copies, from a total edition of 550. Faint smudge to rear wrapper.
25 pp. Ann Beattie discusses what it is to be a writer, analyzing her own writings and the.....
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback.
1996 sixth printing. Text clean and unmarked. Bottom corner of rear cover lightly bumped, minor smudge.
xiv, 306 pp. When this work was first published in 1960, it immediately filled a void in Kantian scholarship. It was the first.....
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A couple minor tears to jacket edges.
viii, 218 pp. Focusing, framing, scanning―the language of film―and Gombrich's studies in the psychology of perception are used by John Bender to isolate pictorial effects and devices in literature. The theory.....
New York: Mariner, 2019. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing of 2019 reissue. Moderate highlighting throughout.
238 pp. An icon of criticism, Walter Benjamin was renowned for his insights on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his.....
New York: Routledge, 1993. Trade Paperback.
Rear cover corner creased.
viii, 424 pp. The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach, The Rites of Assent traces the meanings and purposes.....
New York: HarperCollins, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned.
xv, 223 pp. "Bestselling, award-winning novelist Elizabeth Berg knows a thing or two about writing, having graced the world with wonderful works of fiction including Talk Before Sleep, The Year of.....
University of California, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front hinge just starting, jacket in near fine condition.
A scholarly examination of Biblical imagery in the poetry of George Herbert.
New York: Warner Books, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Faint edge wear.
From the Bible to Ralph Ellison, America's most prominent and bestselling literary critic takes an enlightening look at the concept of genius through the ages in a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time
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New York: Scribner, 2000. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. An exceptional copy.
283 pp. 8vo. "'Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?' is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well.....
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New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. 7th Printing. Hard Cover.
Seventh printing. Dust jacket lightly bumped. Light green ink stain on top pages, light green stain on page before page 1.
xx, 745 pp. America's uncontested expert on Shakespeare and author of The Western Canon presents a monumental analysis of each.....
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. Faint stain on page ridge.
470 pp. ""Pays an impressive tribute to the new renaissance in African-American literature." --New York Times Book Review "The cultural and literary achievements of black American women are examined and celebrated in some.....
London: Collier, 1969. 4th Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
4th printing. Faint edge wear.
220 pp. An introduction to English poetry and prose dating from the emergence of Dryden and the early satirists of the Stuart restoration to the rise of the leading forerunners of romanticism, Cowper, Burns, and Blake, in.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979. Hard Cover.
Smoke odor, otherwise a very good copy in a very good jacket.
185 pp. "Analyzes Austen's novels in terms of their structure, ironic comedy, satiric realism, and their perception of the cultural significance of marriage."
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Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1831. Half-Leather.
Boards and gilt on spine rubbed, tear on front free endpaper, light stain on first few pages.
xxxii, 304 pp. Half binding with marbled boards, marbled page ridges, and marbled endpapers. "Sir Thomas Browne (/braʊn/; 19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an.....
Ohio / Washington, D.C. National Cash Register / Microcard Editions, 1969. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Ink gift note on front paste-down endpaper.
146 pp. A yearly publication of articles written about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
New York: Random House, 1978. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. One inch tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel.
xv, 168 pp. ...gives the richest account to date of the Fitzgerald/Hemingway relationship. Not only does it set the dates, but it also provides psychological profiles of two of.....
Ohio / Washington, D.C. National Cash Register / Microcard Editions, 1970. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Light general wear.
276 pp. A yearly publication of articles written about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
New York: Atlas Books, 2008. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. A fine copy.
vii, 199 pp. "William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a......
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1988. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
3rd printing.
x, [2], 284 pp. Traces Plath's development as a woman artist, linking her life with her work. CONTENTS: 1. Lady Lazarus and Divine Activity; 2. Perfection is Terrible; 3. The Bell Jar: The Past as Allegory;.....