Bloomsbury UK, December 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. John Gledson's translations are smooth and accomplished. For readers who know Machado, this extension of his English repertory is a gift; for those unfamiliar with this neglected master, A......
University Press of Kentucky, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In this wide-ranging study E. Michael Gerli shows how Cervantes and his contemporaries ceaselessly imitated one another--glossing works, dismembering and reconstructing them, writing for and against one another--while playing sophisticated.....
Harper, September 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A model of clarity, grace, and intelligence, François Ricard's book joins the great French tradition of the literary essay as a meditation on the writing of Milan Kundera. Agnès's Final.....
MIT Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 360 pages. First MIT Press edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Georg Lukács was one of the most controversial Marxist philosophers of this century. In this book, however, he appears in another guise: as a literary historian in the.....
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Through their lives and their writings, Erica Wagner explores the destructive relationship between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. She provides a commentary to the poems.....
OUP Oxford, May 2006. Hardcover. Later printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The notion of the everyday is at the heart of modern French cultural and Anglo-American cultural studies. Since the 1960s numerous writers, artists, philosophers, and social theorists have tried to home in on.....
Harcourt, November 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A clean, gently used copy. In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his].....
Harper Perennial, August 1998. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays. "Nine Gates" begins with a close examination.....
University of California Press, 1998. Hardcover. 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. Volume 12 in the Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism series. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Fortunately for us, brothers Heinrich and Thomas Mann remained devoted and eloquent correspondents even while.....
Soft Skull, October 2025. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power. Fictional stories have long held an uncanny power over hearts and.....
Dalkey Archive Press, July 1994. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. This 900-page survey of world literature, "From Confucius' Day to Our Own" (as the subtitle reads), was the last book written by Ford Madox Ford, one of the seminal figures of the modernist period. Written for.....
Wesleyan University Press, July 2012. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. Minor marginalia on a few pages. The long-awaited reissue of a classic work of criticism -- revised and expandedIn Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not.....
W. W. Norton & Company, February 1996. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. This is the first volume of its kind to present a collection of writings by and about Ireland's women. From Queen Maeve of Connaught to President Mary Robinson, this book presents Irish women as.....
Granary Books, November 2004. Trade Paperback. A fine paperback copy still in plastic wrapping. "From codex to document, from performance to self-image, the world of artists' books is made available to student and teacher, collector and connoisseur." -Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, Library JournalNow Back in Print! Johanna.....
The Kent State University Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. Later printing. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Some of the world's greatest literature is devoted to expressing the joys and sorrows humans experience as they grow old. New opportunities and challenges appear: retirement, a special closeness with the family, failing.....
St. Martin's Griffin, May 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The fascinating stories behind what have been rightly called the "hottest books on the planet" The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Through insightful commentary.....
Carles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Hardcover. 127 pages. Illustrated with charcoal drawings by the author. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with a bit of soiling to boards, and rear hinge beginning to crack; no dust jacket.
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1965. Trade Paperback. Nine unbound signatures of the American edition. It was published in London under the title Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader. Gatherings mostly near fine with a few short chips and tears. Slight waviness from.....
The Colorado College, 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 18 pages. Text from the annual William Jovanovich Lecture in Public Affairs at Colorado College, February 6, 1985. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback).
la sixaine, 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 47 pages. Pencil drawing frontispiece of Steinbeck. Text in French. First edition (first printing). Limited edition: #1/21 copies reserved for the collaborators and friends of the editor, Adolphe Buisson. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Glassine wrappers over paper covers. Mild soiling.....
Auburncrest Library. Printed at the Press of John Wesley Clay, 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 19 pages. 'This paper was read by the Author before the Royal Society of Literature, London, England, and appears in print here for the first time by the kind permission of that Society. First edition.....
The Texas Quarterly, 1962. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Reprinted from The Texas Quarterly, Winter 1962, pp. 43-60. With poem 'James Spencer' Instructions to an Ambassador' by Eskin on page 60. Inscribed by the author on fron cover: 'For Henry Nash Smith / with best wishes / Stanley Eskin.' First.....
University of Calfornia Press, 1944. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 21, No. 6, pp. 385-452. Inscribed by the author on half-title page: 'Bertrand H. Bronson, Cordially, Ronald N. Walpole.' with holograph quotation in French from Johannis Turpin, 'Prologue'. First edition (first printing). A......
University of California Press, 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 26, No. 4, pp. 327-440. Inscribed by the author inside the front cover: 'To. B. H. B(ronson), from R. N. W. with cordial greetings'. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in.....
University of California Press, 1950. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 33, No. 4, pp. 263-420. Text in French. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).