Harvard University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 124 pages. Lectures that were to be given by Calvino as part of the Charles Eliot Norton series of lectures. He died before being able to give them. First edition (first printing). A fine copy with light foxing to page block; in a......
Atheneum, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 269 pages. Essays. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Small remainder mark on bottom edge.
Scripps College, 1968. First Edition. Unknown. 36 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of the author with students. The text of two lectures given by Rukeyser at Scripps College in 1968. First edition (first printing). Very good with wear to covers in stapled wrappers (paperback).
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 315 pages. A collection of essays. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With a letter laid in from the publisher to Norman Mailer requesting a comment about the book for use in its promotion.
Dell, 1967. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 288 pages. 4-1/4 by 6-1/4. A collection of articles. First edition (first printing). Very good in wappers (paperback). Some edge wear. Pages toned.
Henry Holt and Company, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With the publication of Wormholes, Fowles's legion of readers can feast on another aspect of his literary achievement. While his nonfiction writings are less well known than his novels -.....
Regnery, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 180 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Waring Jones' copy while at Princeton with his signature in pencil on front free endpaper and pencilled notes in text and endpages.
Penguin Classics, June 2018. Trade Paperback. A fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the most gifted chroniclers in the Western World (The Times [London]) A Penguin Classic "Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have." --The.....
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Viking, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 328 pages. A collection of essays. Limited edition of 500 copies signed and numbered; printed on all-rag paper. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy with toning to the spine; no dust jacket. In a original publisher's slipcase with fading and a 2 inch.....
Mariner Books, October 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub." On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape.....
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 203 pages. A collection of essays by the author of Desert Solitair. Published primarily as a trade paperback with a relatively small number of hardcover copies. Scarce in hardcover. First edition hardcover issue (first printing). A margin stain on page 78 and.....
The Dial Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 400 pages. A collection of writings including poems, interviews, essays on U. S. Presidential politics, the war in Vietnam and more. First edition (first printing), with color frontispiece tipped in. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with short closed tears to.....
Andrew Deutsch, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 399 pages. A collection of writings including poems, interviews, essays on U. S. Presidential politics, the war in Vietnam and more. First British edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
North Point Press, May 1987. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "My work has been motivated," Wendell Berry has written, "by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place." In "Home Economics," a collection of fourteen essays, Berry explores.....
Vintage, May 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A New York Times Bestseller This essay collection from the "bitches gotta eat" blogger, writer on Hulu's Shrill, and "one of our country's most fierce and foulmouthed authors" (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry.....
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 303 pages. Text in English; translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Hardcover. 239 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
William Morrow & Co, February 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a very good jacket.
Villard Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 252 pages. Signed by the author on title page. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Slight foxing to page edges. The funniest, sanest man in America--often quoted in Newsweek and Time--is back with a new collection of pieces.....
J.E. Tilton & Co, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. 299 pages. First American edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Spine faded. An ex-library copy, with typical markings.
Friends of the Library North Carolina Wesleyan College, 1981. First Edition. Trade Paperback. [8] pages. From an edition of 500 copies, of which 50 were numbered and signed. An essay first published in the New York Herald Tribune in 1964, with new introduction by the author. First edition (first printing).....
Vintage, November 1994. Trade Paperback. In the vein of Lebowitz's Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City --The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. In elegant, finely honed prose (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary.....
Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 290 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Clifton Fadiman invited some of the most highly respected men and women of our age to compose their last will and testament to mankind, and the results are included in this.....
University Press of Mississippi, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 444 pages. Essays by the Pulitzer Prize winning author. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Atheneum, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 405 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.