Collected Nonfiction Volume 1: Selections from the Autobiography, Letters, Essays, and Speeches
New York: Everyman's Library, 2016. Hardcover. No. 375 of the Everyman's Library series. With an introduction by Adam Hochschild. More
Literary Criticims/Essays
Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches and Essays 1852-1890
New York: The Library of America, 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. This Library of America book, with its companion volume, is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain’s short writings — the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America’s greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically..... More
Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays 1891-1910
New York: The Library of America, 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. This Library of America book, with its companion volume, is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain’s short writings — the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America’s greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically..... More
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump - Essays and Reportage, 1994 - 2017
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2018. First Edition Stated. Hardcover. As a journalist, critic, and novelist, Martin Amis has always turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics—politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course, literature. Collected here is some of his best nonfiction..... More
Frankenstein
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
Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide
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
Rabelais and His World
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
Mekong Review (August - October 2019)
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
Poetic Presence and Illusion: Essays in Critical History and Theory
Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1979. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Hardcover. Poetic Presence and Illusion brings together Krieger's speculation on literature and its effect on the reader. The poem, Krieger argues, is an illusionary presence and an ever-present illusion. It exists for the reader, like a drama before..... More
Writing and Being (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1994)
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
Crazy Salad & Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women & Notes on the Media
New York: Vintage Books, 2012. Abby Weintraub (cover design). First Vintage Books Edition. Third Printing. Paperback. More
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
New York: Vintage Books, 2008. Abby Weintraub (cover design). First Vintage Open-Market Edition. First Printing. Paperback. More
漫讀香港書店十年 - 我城閲讀風景 (Hong Kong's Book Shop 10 Years)
Hong Kong: Manuscript Publishing, 2019. First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Signed by author on title page. 在香港，書店可能是你我的生活日常，是偶爾消閒的去處。我們喜歡討論城市和世代的閱讀風氣褪色；討論書店的生存空間如何被受層出不窮的娛樂以及各種經濟以至外間條件所影響。作為一個取得國際觸目成就的經濟城市，香港總是重視效益和財富。然而，看似繁榮的物質條件以至紙醉金迷背後，香港亦有她的文化脈絡和讀書傳統。 這本書是一份個人閱讀史及足跡的紀錄，但不少人的喜好、理想和行動貫穿其中，構成了城市風貌的腳註。在書中記錄書店，但場境又不限於書店，廣義而言有書的地方亦有故事發生，是作者待過的生活。. More
Destructive Poetics: Heidegger and Modern American Poetry
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. J.S. Roberts (jacket design). Reprint. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Black cloth boards with green lettering to spine. Slightly toned and foxed. Prior owner's name on FFEP and top edge. A small stamp on lower right corner of FFEP. Clean and unmarked textbox. Binding..... More
The Confucian's Progress: Autobiographical Writings in Traditional China
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
The Pursuit of Happiness
London: Constable and Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Never In Doubt: Critical Essays on American Books, 1972 - 1985
New York: Arbor House, 1986. Hardcover. More
Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
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
Surfiction: Fiction Now...and Tomorrow
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
Leaves From the Notebooks of a Tamed Cynic
New York: Living Age Books / Meridian Books, 1959. First Living Age Books Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. Rare edition. More
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1988. First Johns Hopkins Paperback Edition. Fourth Printing. Paperback. More
Theory of Literature
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
Woman and Chinese Modernity
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
Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1963. Paperback. More
Ten Bad Dates with De Niro: A Book of Alternative Movie Lists
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
