Tennessee Williams: New Selected Essays: Where I Live
New York: New Directions, 2009. Later printing. Octavo, 313 pages, paperback. Fine. Slight bump at bottom of spine. More
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Tennessee Williams
New York: Chelsea House, 2007. Later printing. Octavo, 211 pages. A compilation of essays on Tennessee Williams's work. From the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series on famous writers, this one being an "updated edition" of the book on Williams. Hardcover, issued without a dust jacket. Near Fine, with some minor..... More
Tennessee Williams' s The Glass Menagerie
New York: Chelsea House, 2007. Octavo, 178 pages. A compilation of essays on Tennessee Williams and The Glass Menagerie, Williams's first popular success. From the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series on famous writers and their works, this one being an "updated edition" of the book on The Glass Menagerie. Hardcover..... More
The Theatre--Advancing
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1919. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 211 x 144 mm), vii, 298 pages, in black cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in the scarce, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of articles about the theatre by Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966)..... More
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920. First Edition, First Printing. 16mo (6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 173 x 110 mm), xviii, [2], 155, [1] pages, in publisher's original blue cloth, with gilt lettering on the spine and lacking the rare dust jacket. T.S. Eliot's essays on a...... More
Shadow and Act
New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. A collection of essays written between 1945 and 1964, focusing on literature and folklore, especially the African-American experience. 8vo, xxiii, 317, [2] pages. Small tear in cloth near bottom of front board where it meets the spine, a bit of rubbing..... More
Literature of the Graveyard
New York: International Publishers, 1948. First Edition. Octavo, 64 pages. This slim volume features blunt, disparaging assessments of Sartre, Mauriac, Malraux, and Koestler from a Communist perspective. Example: "The big bourgeoisie in decay delights in the erotic obsessions of a Henry Miller or the intellectual fornications of a Jean-Paul..... More
Living in Hope and History: Notes From Our Century
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 inches; 235 x 155 mm), 244 pages, quarter cloth over boards, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. In this collection of essays..... More
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[SIGNED] Writing and Being
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 233 x 157 mm), 145, [1] pages, in quarter-cloth and boards, titles to spine, in an illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. The author's reflections..... More
Tennessee Williams: A Casebook
New York: Routledge, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Twelve essays on Tennessee Williams's career, with a look at not only his most famous plays but also his lesser-known works. Octavo, 214 pages, hard cover, issued without a dust jacket. A surprisingly scarce volume. More
Supernation at Peace and War: Being Certain Observations, Depositions, Testimonies, and Graffiti Gathered on a One-Man Fact-Finding Tour of the Most Powerful Nation in the World
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 252, [6] pages, in blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title: "To Virginia Elliott..... More
Guide to Kulchur
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, [1952]. First Edition Thus. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), 379, [1] pages, black cloth, titles in silver to spine, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. Ezra Pound's essays on culture. This is a review copy of the New..... More
Situations
New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1965. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 145 mm), 371, [1] pages, in gray cloth, titles to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket. Essays by the French philosopher on André Gide, Albert Camus, Paul Nizan..... More
The Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Places
New York: Random House, [1973]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 inches; 210 x 150 mm), xix, 419 pages, in red cloth, titles to spine, light blue top stain, in a price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Truman Capote on the front end paper. A collection..... More
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