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 Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Places
New York: Random House, [1973]. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches; 210 x 150 mm), xix, 419 pages, in red cloth, titles to spine, light blue top stain. With a dust jacket. SIGNED by Truman Capote on the front end paper. A collection of Capote's essays, travel..... More
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920. First Edition, First Printing. T.S. Eliot's essays on a variety of topics, including Christopher Marlowe, Hamlet, poetic drama, Dante, Ben Jonson, and on the nature and practice of criticism. 16mo (6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches / 173 x 110 mm), xviii, [2], 155..... 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. 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 Sartre." (Page 61). Actually..... More
Living in Hope and History: Notes From Our Century
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. First American Edition, 1st Printing. SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. In this collection of essays, she writes about various aspects of her life as a public figure, as an anti-apartheid activist, as a member of the African National Congress, and..... More
Writing and Being
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. The author's reflections on the writing life. Octavo, 145 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. SCARCE signed. 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
Home: Social Essays
New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 145 mm), 252 pages, grayish-green boards, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Amiri Baraka (formerly known as LeRoi Jones) on the title page: "For / Day o...... More
The Art of the Novel
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1988. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Czech-born author Milan Kundera writes about novel-writing and includes some conversations he had with the Paris Review. Translated from the French by Linda Asher. 8vo., [10], 164, [1] pages. Near Fine, with bottom outside corners bumped and a couple..... More
The Old Gang and The New Gang
London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1933. First Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo (7 1/2 inches / 192 mm tall), 62, [2] pages in publisher's original red-cloth binding, titles in black to spine. Small bookseller's ticket to front free end paper, contents slightly toned, page edges a bit soiled. The unclipped dust jacket..... More
Guide to Kulchur
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, [1952]. First Edition Thus. Ezra Pound's essays on culture. This is a review copy of the New Directions edition, which includes the material from an edition first published in 1938, along with about 20 pages of new material. 8vo., 379 pages. Corners bumped, especially the lower..... More
Where the Stress Falls
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. First Edition. SIGNED by Susan Sontag on the title page. A collection of 40 essays. Octavo, 351 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. More
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1971. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 203 x 135 mm), 153, [1] pages, in brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, in an illustrated dust jacket. Tom Wolfe in top form with these two essays on radical chic. This is the..... More
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