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Signed. Similar to the photographer's title "Faces", this features color and b&w photos of everyday objects that appear to the viewer as faces....

An examination of the boundary-stretching use of language by Baudelaire--he argues that he adapts aspects of caricature for use in his poetry. Firs...

Nice clean copy of Hassall's biography of the poet Rupert Brooke. Rust colored cloth with gold lettering to spine. No jacket, first American editio...

Fine unread copy of a look at the experience of expatriate wrters in Paris in the post-war years. Includes anecdotes of Richard Wright, James Baldw...

Auchincloss essays on major literary figures, including Wharton, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Geroge Eliot, Proust, Trollope and Tolstoy. Jacket ve...

Writer and editor Sara Nelson sets out to catalog a year of her reading, and figure out what it all means. This is a first printing, fine in a fine...

Quite nice copy of this slim octavo volume, which contains many reproductions from Tenniel's work, focusing on the Alice in Wonderland pieces. Some...

The letters of poet Rupert Brooke and the schoolgirl with whom he was infatuated, collected by Noel Olivier's granddaughter. This is a very clean c...

The author identified a significant literary event for each day of the year, and chooses an appropriate text to accompany it. With woodcut illustra...

This look at Sartre and Beauvoir's life alleges that many of the key ideas offered by the couple originated with Beauvoir and not Sartre. Very good...

Significant authors contribute essays about favorite overlooked books. Includes pieces from Arthur Danto, Jonathan Lethem, Toni Morrison, Francine ...

Apparent first U.S. Very good, but for oddly creased FFEP--otherwise, just a little yellowed, w/slightly more pronounced discoloration to rear free...

No year, apparent first U.S. Light brown boards w/gilt spine lettering, bright green paper wraps Slight damage to front flap where it partially adh...

Apparent first U.S. printing of this entry in the "English Masters of Black-And-White". Cruikshank illustrated any number of classics, including Di...