Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 111 pages. A collection of four lectures by R. P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters, Marianne Moore, and Mark Van Doren edited and with an introduction by Don Cameron Allen. A tight close to near fine copy with a bookplate affixed to the front pastedown from a publishing company in a very good plus price clipped dust jacket that has some very minor wear. Item #147258 More
Price: $12.50
London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 333 pages. A collection of Alvarezes' essays, articles, and reviews. A tight very near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some slight wear. Item #150497 More
Price: $20.00
New York: Viking, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of essays including many on some of America's finest writers: Bellow, Vonnegut, Mailer and Updike. A near fine copy with the usual remainder mark to the bottom edge in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Amis on the title page. Item #103238 More
Price: $35.00
New York: Viking, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of essays including many on some of America's finest writers: Bellow, Vonnegut, Mailer and Updike. A fine and tight copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Amis on the title page. Item #114377 More
Price: $40.00
New York: Harmony Books, 1994. First edition. A collection of essays on a wide range of subjects but mostly on literature. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Signed by Amis on the title page. Item #103254 More
Price: $35.00
London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. First British edition. Hardcover. A collection of literary essays. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Amis on the title page. Item #107045 More
Price: $50.00
London: E. Lahr, nd. First edition. Softcover. 15 pages. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some minor wear. Item #140611 More
Price: $15.00
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of essays from the author of the "Foundation" series. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #108513 More
Price: $30.00
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 144 pages. A collection of four of Auden's T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures. A tight near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket that is very lightly soiled. Item #150455 More
Price: $20.00
New York: Antaueus, 1981. First edition. Softcover. A book of aphorisms and reflections from this importan British poet edited by Daniel Halpern. An about very good copy in wrappers with some minor wear. Item #135006 More
Price: $6.50
London: The Menard Press, 1982. First edition. Softcover. The true first edition of this collection of eleven essays on various literary subjects. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. Signed by Auster on the title page. A very nice copy of this uncommon book which preceded the U.S. version by a decade. Item #124502 More
Price: $300.00
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1992. First edition thus. Hardcover. Copy 18 from an edition of 300 numbered and signed copies. The true first edition was put out by a small publisher in England as a paperback. This edition was expanded from the original with a number of new essays and interviews. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Auster on the limitation page. Item #156767 More
Price: $65.00
Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press. Hardcover. A lovely edition of this collection of Bacon's works. Originally published in late 1600s. Includes the some of the following essays: Of Parents and Children, Of Envy, Of Travel, Of Empire, Of Discourse, Of Riches and many others. In near fine condition in an almost near fine jacket with slight wear and a puncture to the jacket on the spine side of the rear panel. Item #102840 More
Price: $8.00
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A collection of biographical essays and thoughts from this well known African American actress and writer. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Bailey on the title page. Item #129331 More
Price: $35.00
New York: Random House, 1996. First edition. The first collection of essays from the author of "The Mezzanine" and "Vox." A fine unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Baker on the title page. Item #103801 More
Price: $35.00
London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. First edition. His first collection of essays. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Baker on the title page. Item #103800 More
Price: $40.00
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of essays from the author of "The Floating Opera." An about near fine copy but for a remainder mark ( letter b) on the top edge in a fine dust jacket. A tight copy. Item #104222 More
Price: $15.00
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Barthelme's first collection of essays. An about near fine copy with some very minor soiing to the page edges in a very good plus dust jacket with a short tear to the top of the front panel and another tear to the top of the back panel. Item #104231 More
Price: $15.00
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1985. Fifth printing. Softcover. 279 pages. A collection of Barthes' essays translated by Richard Howard. A tight very near fine copy in wrappers. Item #137069 More
Price: $15.00
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Bass on the title page. Item #104244 More
Price: $35.00
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1987. First edition. His second book, a collection of essays with drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. A fine unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #104227 More
Price: $100.00
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. A collection of essays on fiction. A fine copy in glossy illustrated wrappers. Signed by Baxter on the title page. Item #104237 More
Price: $40.00
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Advanced reading copy of this debut book, a collection of essays. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. Item #104680 More
Price: $15.00
New York: Grove Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of essays from the author of "Waiting for Godot." A very near fine copy but for a binding error which resulted in the rear endpaper not being bound into the book in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the hardcover. Item #104683 More
Price: $65.00
