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SECOND WORDS: Selected Critical Prose.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Beacon Press, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifty essays, lectures, and reviews written over a 20 year period -including selections on Al Purdy, Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Erica Jong, Nadine Gordimer, E. L. Doctorow, Mordecai Richler, African American women writers, human rights and the woman's movement, Tillie Olsen, Sylvia Plath, Marie-Claire Blais, Northrup Frye, and much more. Index. 444 pp. ISBN: 0-807063584.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (short closed tear.)
Book ID: 35975More details Price: $30.00 -
SECOND WORDS: Selected Critical Prose.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Beacon Press, (1984.). First edition - Fifty essays, lectures, and reviews written over a 20 year period -including selections on Al Purdy, Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Erica Jong, Nadine Gordimer, E. L. Doctorow, Mordecai Richler, African American women writers, human rights and the woman's movement, Tillie Olsen, Sylvia Plath, Marie-Claire Blais, Northrup Frye, and much more. Index. 444 pp. ISBN: 0-807063592.
Condition: Fine condition.
Book ID: 35976More details Price: $15.00 -
SELECTED NON-FICTIONS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: The Viking Press, (1999.). First edition - The third and final volume in Viking's centenary edition of Borges' collected works in English. This includes over 150 selections of his nonfiction prose writings, more than 100 of which had never previously been translated into English. Although the topics are wide-ranging, many of the pieces are about books and authors - ranging from Shakespeare and Dante to Kafka, Walt Whitman, Ray Bradbury and Bret Harte. Translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine and Eliot Weinberger. Notes, 547 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Publisher's letter laid in.
Book ID: 53594More details Price: $30.00 -
POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE: Volume 31, Issue 2. March / April 2003
Edition: First printing.
New York: Poets & Writers Inc., 2003. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the cover, on his portrait, by T. C. Boyle. Feature articles include a look at Boyle's work, writers' retreats, learning to write with Harry Crews and more. Advertisements and a long section of resources for writers. 152 pp.
Condition: Near fine (remnants of mailing label.)
Book ID: 55168More details Price: $25.00 -
RELOCATIONS OF THE SPIRIT:Essays.
Edition: First printing.
Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell - Asphodel Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 27 essays - several dealing with Chicago, others on Billie Holliday, jazz musician Roland Kirk, on Michael Jordan, the black Baptist church, sculptor Richard Hunt - book reviews and more, by this noted African American writer. ISBN: 1-55921-0680.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 79252More details Price: $30.00 -
AN URCHIN IN THE STORM: Essays about Books and Ideas.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Norton, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of reviews which together make provocative and entertaining reading - on Darwin, evolution, contemporary science and more. Illustrated. Index. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-393-02492x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33275More details Price: $10.00 -
THE CREAM CITY REVIEW : Volume 14, Number 1, Spring -Summer 1990.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1990. First edition - Includes short stories by Daniel Wallace, Julie Brown (the powerful story 'Work'); poetry by Margaret Grossman, David Ray, etc; book reviews and photographs. Special symposium on 'Boundaries' - between high/low art, prose/poetry, art/autobiography - featuring Piercy, Baker, Jerome Mazzaro, Robert Altieri, Hassan, Kumin, Ron Silliman and Gordon Weaver. Contributors' notes. 180 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers (a little rubbing to the covers.)
Book ID: 31445More details Price: $16.00 -
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32312More details Price: $30.00 -
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32313More details Price: $24.00 -
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.
Condition: Near fine in very good+ dust jacket (neat prev owner's name, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 32398More details Price: $18.00