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Henry Green – Loving; Living; Party Going
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHenry Green explored class distinctions through the medium of love. This volume brings together three of his novels contrasting the lives of servants and masters (Loving); workers and owners, set [...]
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Natalia Ginzburg – Family Lexicon
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFamily Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the […]
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Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBy the winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, a riveting, stylistically audacious modernist epic about the French cavalry’s bloody face-off against German Panzer tanks during WWII. [...]
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Knut Hamsun – Pan
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsKnut Hamsun’s “Pan” explores themes of nature and isolation in the Norwegian wilderness. Set against the backdrop of the forests of Norway, this classic work of world literature [...]
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John Fante – Ask The Dust
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJohn Fante’s classic California novel details the adventures of his alter ego, Arturo Bandini, a young writer in Great Depression-era Los Angeles. Struggling to succeed, Bandini falls into an [...]
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Peter Matthiessen – Shadow Country
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsKilling Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson on the wild Florida frontier at [...]
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Anais Nin – Delta of Venus
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this story collection, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative [...]
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Theophile Gautier – My Fantoms
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, has found a brilliantly effective new way to bring this great bu too-little-known writer into English. My Fantoms [...]
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Rainer Maria Rilke – The Selected Poetry Of
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe influence and popularity of Rilke’s poetry in America have never been greater than they are today, more than fifty years after his death. Rilke is unquestionably the most significant […]
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George Psychoundakis – The Cretan Runner
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGeorge Psychoundakis was a twenty-one-year-old shepherd from the village of Asi Gonia when the battle of Crete began: “It was in May 1941 that, all of a sudden, high in […]
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Tove Jansson – The Summer Book
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl [...]
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Ursula Parrott – Ex-Wife
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIt’s 1924, and Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very modern marriage. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work, Patricia as a head copywriter at a major department […]
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Mae West – The Constant Sinner
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA story of the life and adventures of a femme fatale set during the Roaring Twenties. Original Babe Gordon. Book is in Very Good condition and shows light general wear. […]
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Katja Hoyer – Beyond the Wall
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the […]
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John Williams – Augustus (Scarce Edition)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJohn Williams’ Augustus – winner of the 1973 National Book Award – tells the story of Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen who, on the death of his […]
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the way we grow our nails to how we think, everything we call human is fundamentally shaped by how our bodies evolved. Whether we are in pain or joy, […]
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA pathbreaking book of literary criticism that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers. Book is in […]
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Deirdre Manifold – Fatima and the Great Conspiracy
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this book, the extraordinary story is told, how the international conspiracy to achieve a materialist world dictatorship is being pursued. The facade of ideologies and parliamentary politics [...]
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Frances Yates – Theatre Of The World (as-is, no dustjacket)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOriginally published in 1969, Theatre of the World is the third book in a series, extending and refining arguments put forth in Frances Yates’s masterworks Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic […]
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Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPeter Plagens experienced firsthand the boom and bust in the art world of L.A. and the Bay Area during the sixties and for years has been recording his impressions and […]
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Edward William Lane – Arab Society in the Time of The Thousand a…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsElaborate, explanatory notes from the author’s 1859 translation of the Arabian Nights comprise a virtual encyclopedia of Middle Eastern life. Intriguing account of Islamic society as it [...]
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Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most popular and influential historians and [...]
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The Origin of Western Mysticism: Selected Writings Of Plotinus
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe mystical revelations of Plotinus, the great Neo-Platonist philosopher who taught in 3rd century Rome, have long been read and appreciated by scholars and theologians; but this new treatment [...]
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St. John Of The Cross – The Dark Night Of The Soul & The Li…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1564, St. John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic, was arrested and banished to a remote Andalusian monastery for his involvement in leading the Carmelite order to reform. During […]
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Barefoot Gen: Volume Four
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBarefoot Gen Volume Four ―”Out of the Ashes” ―resumes nine days after the bomb, as Gen and his mother continue to struggle for food, shelter and water amid chaos and […]
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Barefoot Gen: Volume Three
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBarefoot Gen Volume Three ―”Life After the Bomb” ―picks up the story with Gen, his mother and his baby brother searching for a place to rest in the bomb’s aftermath. […]
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Barefoot Gen: Volume Two
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBarefoot Gen Volume Two ―”The Day After” ―tells the story of the day after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, as seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Gen Nakaoka. […]
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Barefoot Gen: Volume One
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Gen deals with the trauma of the atom bomb without flinching. There are no irradiated Godzillas or super-mutants, only tragic realities.” – Colin Turner Book is in Very Good [...]
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Elkins – Re-Enchantment
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but […]
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Peter Lance – Triple Cross
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the years prior to 2001, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. For almost two decades the former […]
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Andre Kertesz – Birds
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPart of the Images Of America Series Book is in Very Good condition and shows light general wear. There may be slight shelfwear to edges and wraps, however binding will […]
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Art Bell – The Quickening
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWith characteristic accuracy and an insight gained from years of being in tune with the public, Art Bell points out the realities of our world today, never letting us lose […]
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John J. Robinson – Born in Blood (as-is, notes)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIts mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. Once known, Freemasonry spread throughout the world and attracted [...]
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John D. Caputo – The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCaputo’s book is riveting…. A singular achievement of stylistic brio and impeccable scholarship, it breaks new ground in making a powerful case for treating Derrida as homo [...]
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Tony Fitzpatrick – The Apostles of Humboldt Park
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Despite the tragic and Heartbreaking toll Covid -19 has taken on the lives of Americans, there were things that we grasped in order to hold on to hope.In spite of […]
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Charles Simonds – Museum of Contemporary Art (as-is, notes)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPublished in conjunction with the exhibition that was seen in Chicago from November 7, 1981-January 3, 1982; and subsequently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fort Worth Art […]
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Barbara Maria Stafford – Good Looking
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBuilding on the arguments of her previous books, Body Criticism (MIT Press, 1991) and Artful Science (MIT Press, 1994), Good Looking challenges the reflexive identification of images with vice. [...]
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Roberta Smoodin – Inventing Ivanov
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhile compiling a biography of Russian novelist Ivan Ivanov, Michael Ross, an ambitious young scholar, is torn between his admiration for Ivanov and his infatuation with Ivanov’s devoted [...]
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Toby Talbot – The New Yorker Theater
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe nation didn’t know it, but 1960 would change American film forever, and the revolution would occur nowhere near a Hollywood set. With the opening of the New Yorker Theater, […]
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Volkmar Essers – Henri Matisse (Taschen Basic Art Series)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHenri Matisse (1869 1954), a cofounder of Fauvism, understood the expressive power of pure colors and simple forms. As seen here, his color harmonies can be analogous to musical compositions, [...]
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David Smith: Replacing the Shower of Sparks…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGallery exhibition catalog. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light creasing/wear to the pages. […]
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Clarke – Becoming Edvard Munch
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTwo potent myths have traditionally defined our understanding of the artist Edvard Munch (1862–1944): he was mentally unstable, as his iconic work The Scream (1893) suggests, and he was radically [...]
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The Complete Paintings of the Van Eycks
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJan van Eyck, the most famous and innovative Flemish painter of the 15th century, is thought to have been born in the village of Maaseyck in Limbourg around 1390 and […]
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Zafran – Gaugin’s Nirvana
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsShortly before Gauguin made his first Tahitian journey in 1891, he spent nearly two years in the remote Breton fishing village of Le Pouldu. Seeking creative isolation in a “primitive” […]
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Jean-Francois Lyotard – The Postmodern Explained
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA major figure in the contemporary critical world, Jean-Francois Lyotard originally introduced the term ‘postmodern’ into current discussions of philosophy. The Postmodern Explained [...]
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Cynthia Ozick – Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1st ed.)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIntroduces a New York hasidic fund raiser at tether’s end, a small African nation’s Polish-born international mouthpiece, a young scholar enslaved to her ideal, and a charlatan [...]
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Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton – Global Interests
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an [...]
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The Philosophy of W. V. Quine
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor 30 years, Quine, a dominant figure in logical theory and philosophy of logic, has combined insights in methodology, language, epistemology, and ontology, to blur the boundaries of speculative [...]
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Ihab Hassan – Between the Eagle and the Sun
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA fascinating memoir by Egypt-born American literary theorist and writer Ihab Hassan about his life in Japan. Part recollection, part cultural perception, Between the Eagle and the Sun records [...]
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Painting at Northwestern: Conger, Paschke, Valerio
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOverview of Conger, Paschke, Valerio’s work as part of an exhibition catalog for Northwestern. Book is in Very Good condition and shows light general wear. There may be slight shelfwear [...]
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