Abbott, Lyman,

The Other Room.

NY, Macmillan, 1937. Reprint. VG. "My father was the head of a school in Boston.after opening exercise he would often go out of the school-room, leaving the. hundred girls without teacher or monitor.he would test the girls and see wht kind they were, that he might make true girls out of them. So sometimes God seems to leave us for a little while without the vision of his presence.that he may make out of us children of God who follow righteousness.not because we are watched.but because we are learning to love righteousness and hate evil." Beautiful copy. Dark red binding, gilt lettering & decoration on spine (bright).

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Book number: BOOKS038143I

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Abel, Lionel,

Important Nonsense.

Buffalo, NY, Prometheus Books, (1987). 1st ptg ss. VG in G DJ. Critique of current enthusiasms, literary, critical & intellectual.

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Book number: BOOKS014339I

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Jane Austen Society of North America,

Persuasions: issue no. 18, Dec. 16, 1996.

Monrovia, CA, Jane Austen Society, (1996). VG PB. Includes "The Infamous Flannel Waistcoat" & "Male Whiners in Jane Austen's Novels".

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Book number: BOOKS023854I

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Arvin, Newton, edited by (Nathaniel Hawthorne),

The Heart of Hawthorne's Journals.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1929. G ex-library.

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Book number: BOOKS045480I

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Atkins, G. Douglas,

Estranging the Familiar: toward a revitalized critical writing.

Athens, GA, University of Georgia, (1992). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Index card describing book is taped to fep. Atkins argues to reach a general audience, criticism must move to more personal.

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Book number: BOOKS011647I

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Beach, Joseph Warren,

American Fiction 1920-1940.

NY, Macmillan, 1948. Reprint. VG.

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Book number: BOOKS035872I

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Bell, Quentin,

Virginia Woolf: a biography.

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1972). VG. Owner's bookplate fep. Slight spine and corner wear. Corner bumped.

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Book number: BOOKS005092I

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Bergman, David, edited by,

The Violet Quill Reader: the emergency of gay writing after Stonewall.

NY, St. Martins, (1994). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ.

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Book number: BOOKS043262I

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Bettmann, Otto I., foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin,

The Delights of Reading: quotes, notes & anecdotes.

Boston, MA, Godine, (1987). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. A delicious selection of quotes and anecdotes on the passion for books and reading.

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Book number: BOOKS042669I

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Birch, Cyril, compiled and edited by, Associate Editor Donald Keene,

Anthology of Chinese Literature from early times to the 14th century.

NY, Grove Press, (1967). 9TH Printing. G PB, some tanning to edges. First anthhology of chinese literature to draw together the finest of existing translations, Roughly half first time. published. span two-thousand year period from the Chou Dynasty (1122-221B.C. to the Yuan Dynasty 1280-1367 A.D.).

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Book number: BOOKS056873I

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Birkerts, Sven,

The Gutenberg Elegies: the fate of reading in an electronic age.

NY, Fawcett Columbine, (1995). 4th ptg. VG PB. In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Birkerts says yes.

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Book number: BOOKS023211I

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Bishop, Elizabeth, edited & with introduction by Robert Giroux,

The Collected Prose.

London, Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Prs, (1984). VG in VG DJ. Both fiction & nonfiction.

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Book number: BOOKS028786I

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Boles, Paul Darcy,

Story-crafting: a master storyteller teaches the art and craft of writing fine short stories.

Cincinnati, OH, Writer's Digest Books, (1984). 1st ed ss. VG in G DJ. Boles starts with storytelling inspiration, who to "think Story" and what separates the story from the novel. .

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Book number: BOOKS011010I

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Boyd, Ernest,

Studies from Ten Literatures.

NY, Scribner, 1925. 1st ed. VG. Green binding, gilt letteing on spine (rubbed), owner name ft endpaper.

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Book number: BOOKS035876I

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Bree,

French Novel from Gide to Camus.

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1957. VG PB. Upheavals of two world wars have brought about in France a new kind of fiction. Dissatisfied with traditional values novelists. of this period set out deliberately to create a new image of man and to restate the fundamental problems of existence. The result has been an immensely rich and varied novel lit erature in France. Owner name and date on front endpaper, slight edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS055743I

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