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
New York: HarperOne, 1992. James Melvin Washington (ed.). First Edition. Reprint. Paperback. "His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet." - from the Citation of the posthumous award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., July 4, 1977 Martin Luther King's twenty..... 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
London: Chatto & Windus, 1998. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. From Foreign Affairs (June 1999): The immensely gifted Ignatieff has written a biography of Berlin that is clearly a work of love as well as scholarship. Ten years of interviews and access to private correspondence..... 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
Sydney: Mekong Review, 2020. Don Mak (cover illustration). Volume 5, Number 4. Loose-bound. For a look at this issue's content: https://mekongreview.com/category/issue-20/ Mekong Review is a quarterly English-language magazine of arts, literature, culture, politics, the environment and society in Asia, written by people from the region or those who..... More
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
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: Avon Books, 1991. First Avon Books Trade Printing. Paperback. More
Orlando: A Harvest Book, 1995. Trade Paperback. In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2008. YES (cover design). Reissued Penguin Modern Classics Edition. Reprint. Paperback. Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere..... More
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
London: Continuum, 2004. First Edition (presumed). Trade Paperback. Jean Baudrillard's work on how contemporary society is dominated by the mass media has become extraordinarily influential. He is notorious for arguing that there is no real world, only simulations which have altered what events mean, and that only violent symbolic exchange..... 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: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2017. Trade Paperback. In his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy. Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences..... 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
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
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1963. Paperback. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Biographical sketches of six Japanese writers and public figures: Nogi Maresuke Mori Ogai Nakae Chomin Kawakami Hajime Masamune Hakucho Mishima Yukio. 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
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