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Boston: Partisan Review, 1983. 154 pp. 486-640. Writers in Exile: Politics and Ideology--Boris Schragin, Stanislaw Baranczak, Erazim Kohak, Leszek Kolakowski; Encounters with the West--Sergei Dovlatov, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Vladimir Voinovich, Andrei Siniaski. Fiction: Italo Calvino--Park Bench Vacation, Saturday of Sun, Sand, and Sleep. Articles: William Phillips--Four Portraits; Pico Iyer--The World According to Beattie; Marjorie Welish--Flesh and the Devil in Figure Painting;… Read more about this item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 687-716. TOPICS OF THE DAY: A new trial for Dreyfus, Inhumanity of our soldiers denied, Slavery in San Francisco; etc. LETTERS AND ART: Ibsen's 'Ghosts' in New York, Mother Goose according to Whitman, etc., SCIENCE AND INVENTION: Has the germ of cancer been found? How to make colored people… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1999. 247 pp. First Printing, April 1999. Not a remainder. 'William Warner's adventures have taken him from the southernmost point of South America to North America's northenmost permanent Eskimo community. He's been mobbed by howler monkeys in the Guatemalan rain forest, cruised the Florida Keys in the company of hardcore birders, and experienced the solitude… Read more about this item

London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1970. 312 pp. Price-clipped dj w/ 3-inch tear and other wear at top. Sticker ghosts on FEP of otherwise fine volume. Medieval Authors Series. Three photographic plates of illustrations from manuscripts in the British Museum. Contents: General Preface; Author's Note; John Lydgate: The Critical Approach; The Monastic Background; Chaucer and Literary Background; The Courtly… Read more about this item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 239-268. TOPICS OF THE DAY: The warring Filipinos, Lord Beresford on the 'Open Door' for China; etc. LETTERS AND ART: More about 'The American rejection of Poe', Was Wagner crazy?, etc., SCIENCE AND INVENTION: Compressed air for horseless vehicles, What are X-rays, A new submarine boat, Ancient glass mirrors,… Read more about this item

Munich: Bruckmann 104. pp. Soiling to white wraps and bump/crease to bottom outside corner. Articles, poems in Spanish and sometimes German. Richly illustrated. Includes: Romualdo Brughetti--Alumbramiento; Ernesto Sabato--Hombre e Mujer, Consideraciones y re-consideraciones; Moderne argentinische Dichtung: Eduardo Romano, Raul Yurkievich, Miguel Angel Bustos, Horacio Salas; Dieter Janig--Arte y realidad; Hans Paul Bahrdt--Posibilidades de la educacion estetica en nuestro tiempo;… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1960. 262 pp. Very Good in good dust jacket. DJ has some sticker damage and a stain. Contents: Preface; Le Prison Nouveau; Different Kinds of Failure; George, Rilke, Valery; To the Remote Hesperides; The Vision of the Apocalypse; In the Waste Land; New Violence Breaks In; The Poetry of Resistance; Virgin Soil; Where We Stand Now;… Read more about this item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 597-626. TOPICS OF THE DAY: The disarmament conference, Missouri's blow at the Trusts, etc. LETTERS AND ART: A defense of Tolstor's new novel, Poetry, war, and Mr. Howells, A child-author of the ghetto, SCIENCE AND INVENTION: Death in the flowers, Physiological abnormalities in works of art; THE RELIGIOUS WORLD:… Read more about this item

New York: Noonday Press, 1958. 183 pp. Hardly a sign of wear or use. A small 'x' on the half title. Collectible. Includes William Earle--Notes on the Death of Culture; John Moffitt--The Apple; Louis Townsend Nicholl--Tempo; Isaac Bashevis Singer--A Tale of Two Liars; Helen Neville--Evenings at Carquethuit; Karl Jaspers--The Individual and the Collectivity; Robert Cassell--The Bird; Ernst Juenger, Three Pieces--The… Read more about this item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 209-238. TOPICS OF THE DAY: President Faure and his successor in France; etc. LETTERS AND ART: Scotland's fertility in genius, The white man's versus the brown man's burden, Thackeray in America, etc., SCIENCE AND INVENTION: The climate of cities, The color of the human skin, Electric light from the… Read more about this item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 31-60. TOPICS OF THE DAY: Recent experiments with alcohol, Pingree and Alger in alliance, Curing tenement-house blight, etc. LETTERS AND ART: Sarah Bernhardt's Hamlet, Zola's new novel--'Fecundité', Some memories of Tennyson, Browning, and George Eliot, SCIENCE AND INVENTION: What is old age?, Music study and nervous disease, Red light… Read more about this item

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. 199 pp. The bookplate of writer Helen Barolini on FFEP. Priced-clipped dj w/ short tears and rubbing. Treats the Background of the Modern Italian Novel; Alessandro Manzoni: The Historical Novel; Ippolito Nievo: History as Confessions; Emilio De Marchi: The Pathos of Existence; History as Novel: Federico De Roberto; The Tragic World of… Read more about this item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 61-90. TOPICS OF THE DAY: Governors on current problems: Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, John Tanner, of Illinois, D. H. Hastings, of Pennsylvania, W. A. Poynter, of Nebraska, John Lind, of Minnesota, W. H. Ellerbee, of South Carolina, James A. Mount, of Indiana, W. E. Stanley, of Kansas;… Read more about this item

New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1948. iv, 161 pp. Good, no dust jacket, a red crayon mark on the back board. Contents: Preface; Courteous Reader; The Great Diarist, and Some Others; Samuel Johnson: 1. Literary Monarch, 2. The Unaccountable Companion; Joel Barlow's Vision of Columbus; Shelley Once More; The Poetry of the Brontes; William Morris as Poet; The Amusing… Read more about this item