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Matches 1-20 of 1937
New York: Kodansha, 1990.
A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. more information
Price: 45.00 USD
New York: Farar, Straus, & Giroux, 1974.
A Very Good copy in a Very Good dust jacket with small scuff to to the fold of the front flap. more information
Price: 50.00 USD
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1979.
A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with one tiny closed edgetear. The author provides a detailed study of all the major works of Tanizaki, Kawabata and Mishima and guides the reader through the symbolism, the vagaries of translation and the cultural contexts of their works. more information
Price: 65.00 USD
London: Peter Owen, 1988.
First Printing of the First U.K. Edition. A Fine unread copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. more information
Price: 45.00 USD
Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1995.
A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine bright dust jacket with a crease to one corner of the rear flap. more information
Price: 50.00 USD
Austin : University of Texas, 1964.
A Fine copy in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket with a touch of age darkening to the spine. In this collection of Borges' essays he addresses the Chinese Emperor Shih Huang Ti, the British airplane designer John Williams Dunne, the Ancient Persia of Omar Khayyam, Bertrand Russell, Dr. Americo Castro and the Avatars of the Tortise as well as the works of authors like Coleridge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. more information
Price: 400.00 USD
Austin : University of Texas, 1964.
A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket with a slightly age darkened spine and two short closed edge tears to the rear panel. This collection of thirty-eight essays includes Borges's writings on various concepts of time as well as find a justification for suicide, a proposed universal language, the development of language from oral to written communication, the cult of books, and personal discussion on Cervantes, Whitman, Valery, Oscar Wilde and others. more information
Price: 385.00 USD
New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
A Near Fine copy with just a hint of rubbing to the extremities in a Near Fine, bright, unclipped second issue dj (with period) that has a touch of edge wear with a supplied green cloth slipcase. more information
Price: 1500.00 USD
Chapel Hill: : University of North Carolina, 1989.
A Fine copy in a Near Fine dj with two creases to the front flap. Meral examines the appearance of Paris in American fiction, drama and poetry in the works of Henry James, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Henry Miller and other lesser-known writers. more information
Price: 75.00 USD
London : Secker & Warburg, 1975.
First UK Printing. A Near Fine copy in Good only dust jacket with deep edgewear. more information
Price: 50.00 USD
New York: Basic Books, 1978.
First Printing. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. John Gardner, the best-selling novelist, here asked the question: Why have literary nihilists, absurdists, game-players and novelty hunters become so academically fashionable? His response in these pages caused an uproar among the literati when the book was first published and still stands as a probing look at the "cheap messages" that he found masquerading as literature. more information
Price: 100.00 USD
Jackson: University of Mississippi, 1986.
First Printing of the First Hardcover Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. This collection of twenty-one interviews, conducted from 1942 to 1985, sheds a bright light on the mind and aesthetics of one of this country's most prominent literary critics. Cowley was a member of the expatriate generation that originally took root in Paris in the 20s and went on to contribute some of the most important literature this country has ever produced. Four of these interviews have never been published before. more information
Price: 75.00 USD
New York: Knopf, 1994.
A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. more information
Price: 60.00 USD
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1969.
A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine, price clipped dust jacket. This fine reference book provides a scholarly listing of the most notable documents related to surrealist literature. more information
Price: 75.00 USD
New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
A Near Fine copy in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a long crease to the rear panel and front flap. more information
Price: 125.00 USD
San Francisco: North Point, 1988.
A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This volume collects for the first time in English over seventy of the Nobel Prize winner's "palm-sized" stories which, he believed, contained the essence of his art. more information
Price: 95.00 USD
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1970.
A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with just a hint of rubbing to the extremities. Review copy with review slip & author photo laid in. This collection brings together 14 of Cowley's critical essays on the major and a few minor American writers whose impact on American literature Cowley celebrates. more information
Price: 175.00 USD
Washington D.C.: Counterpoint Press, 2001.
A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with fading to the spine. This is the first ever collection of the letters of the man who invented the modern American crime novel. Hammett's letters offer a picture of a famously complex and often contradictory man. He wrote five mystery masterpieces, served in World War II and defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings in the late 1940s. Hammett along with Raymond Chandler and James Cain took the noir mystery novel to the level of literature. more information
Price: 65.00 USD
New York: Noonday, 1955.
A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with a tiny edge tear to the spine and a hint of soiling to extremities. This collection brings together much of Ms. Bogan's critical work that she wrote for The New Yorker including her thoughts on the modern movement in literature, popular and unpopular art, articles on Goethe, Eluard, and Yeats, reviews of works by writers from Flaubert to Dinesen, and reviews of prominent contemporary poets. more information
Price: 95.00 USD
