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APPLES AND ORANGES: In Praise of Comparisons.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
San Francisco: Four Winds Press, (2015). First edition - A collection of essays which maintains that comparisons can be the highest form of argument, using "examples drawn from classical to contemporary history, art, and literature: Hamlet in Ithaca and Telemachus in Elsinore, the Mediterranean and the North Sea, writing from a prison cell and writing from a room at home, the 'suicide; of Primo Levi and Japanese Kamikaze pilots. . [He] demonstrates how the comparative method can provide insight not only into two subjects simultaneously, but also into fundamental issues they may have in common." Translated from the Dutch by Brian Doyle-Du Breuil. Issued as a trade paperback original. 238 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80365More details Price: $17.50 -
RACECHANGES: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 43015More details Price: $30.00 -
WOMEN WHO LOVE BOOKS TOO MUCH: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings & Prolific Pens from the Algonquin Hotel to the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Berkeley, CA: Conari Press. (2000). SIGNED first edition - Foreword by Vicki Leon. INSCRIBED by Author on the half title page "To --- a true bibliophile." . An extensive resource guide. Part History, part pop-culture, and all bookish. Illustrated, index. 274 pp. ISBN: 1-57324-0249.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 53061More details Price: $20.00 -
THE PRE-RAPHAELITES & THEIR WORLD: A P e r s o n a l V i e w F r o m 'S o m e R e m i n i s c e n c e s ' a n d o t h e r w r i t i n g s o f W i l l i a m M i c h a e l R o s s e t t i .
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine slipcase.
Book ID: 45967More details Price: $35.00 -
THE CULT OF POWER: Essays.
Edition: First printing.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1946.). Hardcover first edition - A series of essays written at the end of World War II on the cult of power in literature, from the classics to modern writings, from Aeschylus to Dostoievsky, Dickens and Yeats. 155 pp.
Condition: Very good in original red cloth (no dust jacket, small strip torn off top of front endpaper, some rubbing to the spine.)
Book ID: 53004More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DARK DOVE; The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature.
Edition: First edition.
Seattle and London University of Washington Press, 1975 dj. Hardcover first edition - Sacred and secular themes in twentieth century literature, focusing on works by Yeats, Mann, Rilke, Stevens, Beckett, Joyce, Nietzsche, Eliot, Auden and Ibsen. Index, bibliography. 280 pages. ISBN: 0-298-953772.
Condition: Ex-library with a missing front endpaper, few markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 17704More details Price: $12.00 -
BINDING CULTURES: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992. A study of the writings of Flora Nwapa, Efua Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall with a focus on the bonds between African women and African American women and the cutural values which they evoke in their writings. Notes, bibliography and index. 141 pages. ISBN: 0-253-207142.
Condition: Fine condition (as new.)
Book ID: 16316More details Price: $13.50