Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin's, 2000. Johanna M. Smith (ed.). Second Edition. Softcover. Part of the Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Series. This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley’s English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author. Outspoken, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist Maureen Dowd tackles the hot-button topic of gender politics in this “funny, biting, and incisive take on women's place in American society today” (Library Journal). Are men afraid of..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1968. Joe Foster (cover art). First U.S. Edition (presumed). Softcover. Originally published as Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable, Moscow, Khudozhestvennia literatura, 1965. Translated from the Russian by Helene Iswolsky. More
New South Wales: Minh Bui Jones, 2019. Elsie Herberstein (cover illustrator). Volume 4, Number 4. Loose-bound. Mekong Review is a literary magazine from Southeast Asia. Every quarter, it publishes book reviews, essays, interviews, profiles, poetry and fiction from Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines and beyond..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Rare signed edition. Whether talking about her own writing, interpreting the works of others, or giving us a window on the world that "we in South Africa are attempting to reconstruct," Nadine Gordimer has much to tell us about the..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2012. Abby Weintraub (cover design). First Vintage Books Edition. Third Printing. Paperback. More
New York: Vintage Books, 2008. Abby Weintraub (cover design). First Vintage Open-Market Edition. First Printing. Paperback. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. First Edition (presumed), Second Printing. Softcover. Challenging the widely-held belief that autobiography is a unique product of the West, Pei-yi Wu demonstrates that writing about the self did thrive in one non-Western civilization. The pages of this first full-length treatment of Chinese autobiography teem..... More
London: Constable and Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Arbor House, 1986. Hardcover. More
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1989. Reprint. Paperback. More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories—later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love—are particularly notable in that between the first and the..... More
Chicago: The Swallow Press Inc., 1975. Louis Matis (jacket design). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Collection of 19 essays. Themes include the failings of traditional fiction and a general view of surfiction in America, France and Germany. Essays by John Barth, Ronald Sukenick, Richard Pearce, Philippe Sollers, Italo Calvino..... More
New York: Living Age Books / Meridian Books, 1959. First Living Age Books Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. Rare edition. More
Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1988. First Johns Hopkins Paperback Edition. Fourth Printing. Paperback. More
London: Penguin Books, 1993. Third Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. From Wikipedia: Theory of Literature is a book on literary scholarship by René Wellek, of the structuralist Prague school, and Austin Warren, a self-described "old New Critic". The two met at the University of Iowa in the late 1930s, and..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Volume 75 in the Theory and History of Literature series Examines the relationship of "woman" to issues of non-Western culture: ethnic spectatorship, popular literature, the construction of literary history, and the revolutionary production and emotional reception of national literature. More
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1963. Paperback. More
London: Faber and Faber, 2007. Andrew Rae (illus.). First Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. "It's been a long time since I've come across a set of lists quite so piquant and entertaining as Ten Bad Dates With De Niro."-Louis Bayard, Salon (Critic’s Pick) What are the Top Ten movies for..... More
New York: New Directions Books, 2016. Seosoo (cover painting), Peter Mendelsund (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. NDP 1438. "In late August a baby was born, or, as it seemed to me, a puma moved into my apartment, a near-mute force…. I had imagined that I was..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1996. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien régime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of the 1780s, banned..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The first collection of prose ranging from an essay on The Iliad, to writings on poets ancient and modern to comments on the Gettysburg Address as well as autobiographical pieces. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling..... More
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Series : Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Translated by Ruth Ann Crowley and Kenneth R. Olson. More
Singapore: University of Malaya Press, 1968. Reprinted with a New Foreword. Softcover. Contains a "corrections" insert from publisher, affixed to first page of Foreword. More
New York: Viking, 1994. First U.S. Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. In It All Adds Up, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow takes readers on a brilliantly insightful journey through literary America over a forty-year period. In sentence after sentence, page after page, readers are offered brilliant perceptions and unusual..... More
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