Boston & New York: Mariner Book/Houghton Mifflin Company, 2020. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
xxxii, 293 pp. “An essay is the child of uncertainty,” André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. “The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true.....
New York: Harmony Books, 1994. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Related article laid in. Faint edge wear.
In a collection of essays, the author of London Fields visits Salman Rushdie, observes the making of Robocop II, ruminates on the death of John Lennon, and covers the 1992.....
Brunswick: Joseph Griffin, 1820. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Binder's copy.
xxxi, 176 pp. Sabin 1802. A collection of addresses by the president of Bowdoin College. CONTENTS: Copies of the Application and Answer; Sketch of the Character of President Appleton; Inaugural Address: Annual Addresses: Commencement 1808: Classical Literature; Commencement.....
Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Hard Cover.
Still in shrink wrap. Jacket lightly faded.
312 pp. Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity and the controversy that his books generated. These collected interviews include what.....
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. Hard Cover.
Spines slightly cocked, boards very lightly rubbed, a couple minor stains, ink name on front paste-down endpaper.
Two volume set. Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of.....
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Both volumes: Boards lightly soiled, page ridge and pages foxed.
xi, 467; 442 pp. Two volume set. Matthew Arnold, (born December 24, 1822, Laleham, Middlesex, England—died April 15, 1888, Liverpool), English Victorian poet and literary and social critic.....
Princeton, New Jersey: Ontario Review Press, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a near fine jacket.
xvii, 251 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Chronology; Dissecting the Way a Writer Works; Magical Forms in Poetry; Preserving Mythologies; Thinking about the Technique of Skiing When You're Halfway Down the.....
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1980. Full-Leather.
Minor loss of gilt from front board.
ix, [3], 190 pp. Tall 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introductions by Christopher Morley and A.S.W. Rosenbach. "Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount of St.....
Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, 1970. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Small tear along top edge of rear jacket panel. Top edge foxed.
228 pp. "The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral" is a collection of essays by Francis Bacon. The essays cover a......
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.....
Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1967. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Spine creased, light edge wear, page ridges lightly soiled.
xiii, 791 pp. Gustave Flaubert, (born December 12, 1821, Rouen, France—died May 8, 1880, Croisset), novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket very faintly toned. Top page ridge very faintly foxed.
xx, 281 pp. The distinguished author speculates on the future of literature and the literature of the future, looks back upon his own novels, and comments upon various.....
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.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly foxed. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
414 pp. A selection of unpublished writings, letters, diaries and journals from the most celebrated humanist and art historian of the early to mid-century 20th century; 1887-1958, Bernard Berenson. Selected.....
New York: Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards lightly bowed, jacket price clipped.
281 pp. Eighteen essays by the late psychoanalyst and child psychologist. The broad topics are grouped into three categories: Freud and psychoanalysis, raising and educating children, and the Jews during and after the Holocaust.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. No jacket. Top corners of boards bumped.
xiii, 464 pp. Includes black-and-white plates. A biography of Emily Dickinson with a collection of her letters and poetry.
New York: The Grolier Club, 1924. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.
One of 300 copies. Boards lightly soiled.
xxvi, Printers' Series Book 6 of 6. Three Essays: Book-Buying; Book-Binding; The Office of Literature. Libraries are not made; they grow. Your first two thousand volumes present no difficulty, and cost astonishingly little.....
Monaco: The Lyrebird Press, 1947. First Edition. Stapled Binding.
First edition. Edge wear, wrappers lightly toned.
41 pp. An excellent and enlightening essay on Sitwell's poetry, the poets who influenced her, and how she made her own unique contribution to modern poetry.
Beverly Hills: The Bards, 1950. Stapled Binding.
Edges lightly rubbed.
92 pp. Stapled binding. Ads precede and follow text. A mid-twentieth century collection of stories, including an early appearance by Ray Bradbury: he published stories in various magazines and journals beginning in 1938; but Fahrenheit 451, his first book not.....
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1987. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Faint edge wear.
520 pp. This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well.....
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."
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.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Cummings, Charles A. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Boards lightly rubbed, pencil initials on front free endpaper.
xiv, 323 pp. Top page ridge gilt. Bulfinch designed many public buildings in Boston, and James Monroe name him Architect of the Capitol.....