Category: LITERATURE

Opening poem: Color of cinnamon, clove's sweet smell, I've come a long way to see Gabrielle [song of the Cacao Region]. Originally published in Portuguese in 1958, with several printings in foreign languages. Setting is in Brazil. DJ chipped and torn, in mylar, ffep clipped. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 425 pages; 31908
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Responding To Literature World Literature

By: Applebee, Arthur N. , Judith A. Langer, Mary Hynes-Berry, Basia C. Miller

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Evanston, IL, Mcdougal, Littell & Company : 1998

Seller ID: 19759

ISBN-13: 9780812370744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no Dust Jacket

Never used, clean, tight and bright. ; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 768 pages; 19759
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Masterpieces Of Drama

By: Aristophanes; Euripides; Moliere; Ibsen; Checkhov; Shaw;

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, PA, Franklin Library : 1984

Seller ID: 25519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no Dust Jacket

Leather-bound, all edges gilt, raised band spine with gilt decorations, ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers. Dark gray boards. The Franklin Library was a division of The Franklin Mint that produced fine collector edition books. "From the library of" bookplate not filled in. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 385 pages; 25519
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On Man In The Universe

By: Aristotle & Louise Ropes Loomis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Walter J. Black : 1943

Seller ID: 32049

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

Providing translations of selections from Aristotle's most important works, five lectures including metaphysics, parts of animals, nicomachean ethics, politics, and poetics. Spine sunned. ; Classic Clubs Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 443 pages; 32049
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Sense and Sensibility

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics : 2004

Seller ID: 31650

ISBN-13: 9781593083366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Barnes & Noble Classics Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 325 pages; 31650
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The Middle Classes [les Petits Bourgeois]

By: Balzac, Honore De

Price: $30.00

Publisher: NY, President Publishing Co. : circa 1900

Seller ID: 31740

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

Introduction by George Saintsbury. Edgewear, spine sunned with faded titling on blue cloth embossed boards. Binding tight, some tanning of pages. The 'supposed' interest for this book arises from the fact that it was the last published of Balzac's works. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 364 pages; 31740
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James Shore's Daughter

By: Benet, Stephen Vincent

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Doubleday Doran : 1935

Seller ID: 32638

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pages; 32638
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Models of Representation in Czech Literary History

By: Bílek, Petr A. & Vladimir Papousek

Price: $45.00

Publisher: East European Monographs : 2010

Seller ID: 33270

ISBN-13: 9780880336802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New with no Dust Jacket

In the first part of this book theoretical approaches to concepts of representations are discussed especially in relationship with a practical work of a literary historian. The second part of the book provides variety of case studies in which the various modes of historical and ideological representations in literary texts are considered. The general frame of these interpretations is built on the polarity between great canonical exile figures such as Milan Kundera, and exile or immigrant Czech writers who stayed in shadow and have almost been forgotten. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 209 pages; 33270
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Life Of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

By: Boswell, James

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Encyclopedia Britannica : 1952

Seller ID: 25257

ISBN: Blue cloth, blue an

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Great Books of the Western World Series; Vol. 44; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 25257
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Verses I Like

By: Bowes, Major Edward (Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt)

Price: $16.50

Publisher: NY, Garden City : 1937

Seller ID: 20991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Fair Dust Jacket

Major Bowes' own selection from the heart-warming poems that he has read over the air to his millions of radio friends--verses of enduring beauty that have done much to make his broadcasts for years the most famous in the world. DJ edgeworn, sunned, chipped. Previous owner's bookplate, top edge dusty, deckled edges ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 191 pages; 20991
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Wuthering Heights

By: Bronte, Emily

Price: $12.00

Publisher: NY, Modern Library (Random House) : 1978

Seller ID: 27214

ISBN-13: 9780394604589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- Dust Jacket

Introduction by Royal A. Gettmann. Jacket clipped, couple of small closed tears. ; Wood engraving; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 400 pages; 27214
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Wuthering Heights

By: Bronte, Emily

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library : 1979

Seller ID: 29605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Dark blue boards, all edges gilt, raised bands, gilt decorations. The Franklin Library was a division of The Franklin Mint that produced fine collector edition books. The Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, in order to preserve secrecy and to avoid the special treatment they believed reviewers accorded to women, assumed the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. 1 page dogeared. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 29605
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A Short Guide to Modern British Drama

By: Brown, John Russell

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann : 1982

Seller ID: 32230

ISBN-13: 9780435183721

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Tiny curl to book front upper corner. Otherwise in new condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 101 pages; 32230
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The Brownings

By: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Doubleday : 1970

Seller ID: 17313

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

17313
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The Journal Of Narrative Technique

By: Bruss, Paul (General editor)

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Ypsilanti, MI, Eastern Michigan University : 1997

Seller ID: 12816

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stain bottom edge, not affecting covers or interior. Winter edition. Theorizing modern hispanic fiction. The six essays that constitute this special issue deal with fiction produced in Spain and Latin America, and represent a variety of citical and thematic interests. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 148 pages; 12816
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Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature 3-Volume Set, Revised and Enlarged

By: Buchanan-Brown, John

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Cassell : 1973

Seller ID: 32257

ISBN-13: 9780304290949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with No Dust Jacket as issued

Volume one: histories and general articles; volume two: biographies A-K; volume three: L-Z. Black boards with gilt titling and decorations. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 32257
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