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New York: W.W. Norton, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Teaching Language in Open Admissions." "The Antifeminist Woman." "Toward a Woman-Centered University." And many, many others. A fine sampling of the prose works of the consummate essayist and poet, Adrienne Rich. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, dust soiling along top edge, minimal… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Third Printing of the First Edition, another fine featuring the unforgettable protagonist Socrates Fortlow, hero of Always Outnumber, Always Outgunned (both short story and novel). Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated,… Read more about this item

San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but for some slight edge-wear, protected by a plastic coat. Translated from the original Italian by William Weaver… Read more about this item

London: A Lipper / Viking Book, 2000. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. First Edition Thus, Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.… Read more about this item

New York: AMS Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Another fine addition to the series, AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix, 208 pp.Member,… Read more about this item

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, First Printing, bound handsomely in a big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format, two-tone blue and white cloth, silver lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond light edgewear along top edge and a short… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Quite useful condensation of Henry David Thoreau's extensive journals into a one-volume format. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but for crimp to upper inner flap tip, protected by… Read more about this item

Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Green linen weave cloth over boards, "REW" gilt-stamped to front cover, gilt lettering to spine. Chapter titles as… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine frontis facsimile of a page from the father's journal features the outline of two hands overlapping, quite fetching. John Matteson's literary biographical excavation of the relationship between Bronson Alcott, friend to Emerson and Thoreau and his more famous daughter, won him… Read more about this item

New York: A Nan A. Talese Book / Doubleday, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Many, many score fine black-and-white photographs and other illustrations of Truman Capote's life and loves including the illustrated endpapers front… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. His then latest collection of non-fiction works of praise and criticism and he invited his readers to "step across this line" with him in criticism. "Imaginary Homelands" accomplished much for 1980s developments in politics and literature, and Step Across This Line does the… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Long range of sharp and distinct black-and-white photographic plates featuring Ralph Waldo Emerson and his… Read more about this item

New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. A fine detective thriller featuring Ezekiel (Easy) Rawlins, who is talked out of a bank-heist job and into a work of private detection.… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Preface to this fine collection of literary musings by an acknowledged master includes the following: "truth about all writers, male or female. They are professionally, often foolishly and blindly, egocentric. Somewhere, it may be deep down, they all believe that… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company , 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine Samantha Kinkaid novel from the daughter of James Lee Burke. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. 351 [1] pp. including a note about the author, a former district… Read more about this item

New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The first Leonid McGill mystery by the acknowledged master of urban detective thrillers and mystery novels. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. 306 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, tightly bound, clean copy with little discernible wear to exterior beyond remainder mark along top edge. Bright and shiny dust jacket, not price-clipped, a clearly unread copy. Following 130 pp. of literature and literary criticism, a fine memoir of… Read more about this item

New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1999. Third Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Third Printing of the First Edition, another fine featuring the unforgettable protagonist Socrates Fortlow, hero of Always Outnumber, Always Outgunned (both short story and novel). Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine collection of literary critical essays covering a wide variety of topics, including the novels of Rudyard Kipling, critical reactions to Midnight's Children, "Outside the Whale," "'Commonwealth Literature' Does Not Exist," among others. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1"… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Random House. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound set of two hardcover copies, little discernible wear to the two-tone covers, handsomely bound, with silver lettering to covers and spines, with bright interiors, unmarked in both cases. Bright and shiny dust jackets, illustrated, little worn, though one is… Read more about this item