. William Morrow, 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
A star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates the lasting power of desire and longing, and celebrates our initiation into the euphoria, pain, and mystery that is our first celebrity crush
.....
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.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1949. First Thus. Small Hard Cover.
First thus. Jacket rubbed, jacket base stained. Tape ghost on free endpapers.
vii, 659 pp. The only one-volume edition containing a full selection of poems, critical essays, political writings, letters. Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888).....
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.....
New York: Bramhall House, 1962. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Jacket lightly stained.
336 pp. 8vo. "This volume brings together for the first time every known fact that can be fully authenticated about the life of one of the world's most extraordinary men, and reveals much more.....
Toronto, Ontario: Harbourfront Reading Series, 1997. 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 writings of.....
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: 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.
![Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human [William]. Harold Bloom](/pictures/thumb/2316874.jpg?v=1642018480)
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.....
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."
![The Library of the Old English Prose Writers, Vol. III [Volume 3]: Works of Sir Thomas Browne....](/pictures/thumb/2303027.jpg?v=1642018062)
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, 1980. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Minor general wear.
276 pp. Includes letters from Fitzgerald to Hemingway and Mencken, a short piece by Hemingway, and works on both authors by numerous contributors.
![Mort Artu: An Old French Prose Romance of the XIIIth [13th] Century, Being the Last Division of...](/pictures/thumb/2266474.jpg?v=1642017823)
New York: AMS Press Inc., 1974. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Top corner faintly bumped.
xxxvii, [1], 315, [5] pp. 8vo. 1974 reissue of 1910 edition. French text.
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;.....
Great Britain: Collins & Brown, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor tear along bottom edge of rear jacket panel.
160 pp. "Guiding the reader through the period surrounding the production of Carroll's best-known works, this book contains extracts from his letters to family, friends and colleagues, to Alice.....
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1971. Tenniel, Sir John; Carroll, Lewis. Hard Cover.
Jacket toned.
xxvii, 450 pp. ...a collection of essays (and some poems) about the Alice books written since Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865.--jacket.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Pages toned. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket toned, front jacket flap price-clipped.
xi, 307 pp. "This study is the first complete examination of all the works of Ford Madox Ford... With a thorough familiarity with and knowledge of all.....
New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
119 pp. "The "Overlook Illustrated Lives" series offers visual literary biographies, informatively written by leading experts, accompanied by over a hundred photographs and illustrations, some unpublished and rarely seen, that bring to life the author's world.....
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Rear joint has been repaired.
247 pp. CONTENTS: Emerson; Walt Whitman; A Study of Romeo; Michael Angelo's Sonnets; The Fourth Canto of the Inferno; Robert Browning; Robert Louis Stevenson.
Denton: North Texas State University, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket.
x, [4], 266 pp. 8vo. CONTENTS: Periodization and Self-Understanding in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times; Clio and The Lawyers; History and Prophecy in Medieval Thought; Beowulf As Heroic History; The Trouble with Muscovy; A......
New York: Penguin Books, 1977. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback.
Spine toned, spine and front wrapper lightly creased, ink underlining.
vi, 762 pp. Included comlete: two book-length novels, The Night of the "Narcissus" and Typhoon. Three long tales: Heart of Darkness, Youth, and The Secret Sharer. Six short stories, an anthology.....
Ithaca: Cornell, 1990. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Foxing to page ridge.
In Stanley Corngold’s view, the themes and strategies of Kafka’s fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka’s work in light of "the necessity.....