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New York: Farar, Straus, & Giroux, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. "Susan Sontag's now classic essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness as a figure or metaphor in our culture. " [from the jacket]. A clean unmarked copy.
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Aids and Its Metaphors
by Sontag, Susan
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As They Were
by Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First printing. A collection of twenty pieces on food. A clean, unmarked copy.
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At the Same Time : Essays and Speeches
by Sontag, Susan
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 2007. First UK edition. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. A collection of sixteen essays and addresses, written in the last years of Sontag's life, published posthumously. Edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump. Foreword by her son, David Rieff. Wonderful black and white photograph of Sontag on dustjacket that wraps from the rear panel to the front panel. A clean unmarked copy. Ships from USA.
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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New York: Heritage Press, 1955. Slipcased. Very Good +. Reprint of the Limited Editions Club edition. Illustrated with 32 russet photogravure prints by R.J. Holden with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Pictorial paste downs to front and rear cover. Includes Sandglass monthly newsletter. Slight rubbing to spine, else a clean, unmarked copy, in slipcase.
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Baseball: A Literary Anthology
by Dawidoff, Nicholas (Editor)
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New York: Library of America, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. An intelligently selected and diverse collection of the best baseball poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. A clean unmarked copy.
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The Buried Temple
by Maeterlinck, Maurice
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. , 1902. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Translated by Alfred Sutro with an introduction by Edward M. Colie. A collection of philosphical essays by the Nobel Prize winner. Debossed flower design on front, back, and spine of cover, with author and title in gilt. Top-edge gilt wtih title page in red and black. Ex-library with minimal markings, still a very bright, presentable copy.
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Cape Cod: (The Writings of Henry David Thoreau v.4)
by Thoreau, Henry David
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. New Riverside Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Includes introductory note and index. Top edge gilt. Ex-library with minimal markings, not affecting text.
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Collected Travel Writings : The Continent: (The Library of America 65)
by James, Henry
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New York: Library of America, 1993. First printing. Slipcased. Very Good +. The subscription edition in brown cloth and cream colored slipcase, without dustjacket as issued, distributed prior to the retail edition in black dustjacket. Richard Howard wrote the notes for this volume. Contents: A Little Tour in France -- Italian Hours -- Other Travels. Also includes a chronology, bibliographical references, black & white illustrations, glossary, and attached ribbon marker. The slightest rubbing to spine.
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The Dame School of Experience and Other Papers
by Crothers, Samuel McChord
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. McChord was an American Unitarian minister and a popular essayist. Author title in gilt surrounded by an ornate blind stamped border on front cover panel. Title page contains a border and seal in red type. An ex-library copy with minimal markings, lacking a dustjacket.
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
by Robinson, Marilynne
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Advance Reading Copy/Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good. SIGNED BOLDLY BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. The third book by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Housekeeping." Rubbed along edges of cover, else a clean, unmarked, uncreased copy.
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The Double Garden
by Maeterlinck, Maurice
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. , 1904. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. A collection of essays by the Nobel Prize winner. Debossed flower design on front, back, and spine of cover, with author and title in gilt. Top-edge gilt. Ex-library with minimal markings, still a very bright, presentable copy.
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Essays
by Meynell, Alice
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New York: Scribners, [1914]. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Meynell was an was an English writer, editor, critic, suffragist, and mother of Francis Meynell, co-founder of the Nonesuch Press. Debossed gilt title and author on front cover panel. Printed at Chiswick Press. Illustrated frontis with tissue guard. Ex-library with minimal markings, lacking dustjacket.
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Four Visions of America
by Sanchez Thomas; Jong Erica; Boyle Kay; Miller Henry
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Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. First printing. SIGNED BY THOMAS SANCHEZ on the half title page. Sanchez is the author of "Rabbit Boss" and "Zoot-Suit Murders. Slight shelfwear to cover, else a clean unmarked copy.
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Here at Eagle Pond
by Hall, Donald
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New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. First printing. Illustrations by Thomas W. Nason. A collection of essays on life in rural New Hampshire, by Donald Hall, the fourteenth poet laureate of the United States. A clean, unmarked copy.
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High tide in Tucson : Essays From Now or Never
by Kingsolver, Barbara
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New York: Harper Collins, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page, "Patricia - tide's up! Barbara Kingsolver." Illustrations by Paul Mirocha. Also includes a publisher's postcard. A clean, unmarked copy.
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Humanly Speaking
by Crothers, Samuel McChord
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. McChord was an American Unitarian minister and a popular essayist. Book designed by Bruce Rogers. Author title in gilt surrounded by an ornate blind stamped border and seal on front cover panel. Title page has a seal in red type. An ex-library copy, lacking a dustjacket.
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Keep It Simple: A Defense of the Earth
by Nichols, John
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New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. Nichols is the author of "Sterile Cuckoo" and "The Milagro Beanfield War." He has written an autobiographical appreciation of the simple life illustrated with color photographs by the author.
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The Little Man at Chehaw Station: (The American Scholar v.47:no.1; Winter, 1977/78)
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Washington DC: United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 1977/78:Winter. First printing. Periodical. Very Good +. First print appearance of Ellison's most famous essay, later republished in the book, "Going to the Territory." A complete issue of the periodical, The American Scholar v.47:no.1; Winter, 1977/78. A clean unmarked copy.
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The Measure of the Hours
by Maeterlinck, Maurice
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. , 1907. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. A collection of essays by the Nobel Prize winner. Debossed flower design on front, back, and spine of cover, with author and title in gilt. Top-edge gilt. Ex-library with minimal markings, still a very bright, presentable copy.
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Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays by Andre Dubus
by Dubus, Andre
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. First printing. A collection of 25 essays, a continuation of Dubus's candid, intensely personal exploration into matters of morality, religion, and creativity, the last book published during his lifetime. Also includes two newspaper clippings, Dubus's obituary and a review of his book. A clean, unmarked copy with slight rubbing with dustjacket.
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