Various Authors

Timothy Mcsweeney's Sometimes Not Believing How Great This All Is

Gurnee, IL, McSweeney's, 2000. Hard Cover. 288 pages. With a few illustrations. A collection of articles, essays, and literature published in McSweeney's, reflecting that journal's unique view of the modern world. With a full color cover depicting Ted Koppel. GOOD jacket on a VERY GOOD book. Heavy scuffing, moderate soiling and a dampstain present on the jacket, with a few minor tears present along the jacket extremities. Dampstain is present along the jacket spine and rear cover near the spine. Minor soiling, fading and edgwear to the book. Interior clean and solid. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 002621

Catalogue: Essays/ Non Fiction

Keywords: Literature Criticism

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Representative Men. Seven Lectures

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1850. Half-Leather. Perhaps the first UK edition, although as the preface by the publisher states, another publisher published an edition almost simultaneously with this, but without the author's final corrections. 143 pages. A collection of essays on men such as Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, etc. In half leather with faux marbled green paper on the boards. Title in gilt on the spine. In VERY GOOD condition. Moderate scuffing to the covers and extremities. Minor soiling and dusting. Minor fading. Text clean and solid with moderate darkening to the pages. Former price in ink on the first endpaper. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002382

Catalogue: Essays/ Non Fiction

Keywords: Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Swedenborg

Grumbach, Doris

Life in a Day

Boston, Beacon Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition with a 1 in the number line. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with a brief inscription on the ffep. No provenance can be given for this signature but it does match that which is given in the Ahearn author bibliography for Doris Grumbach. A memoir of a day in the life of the author. In NEAR FINE condition with no visible wear to the jacket or book. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 001227

Catalogue: Essays/ Non Fiction

Lawrence, D.H.

Pornography and Obscenity. Criterion Miscellany No. 5

London, Faber and Faber, 1929. Wraps. Printed orange wraps. 32 pp. An essay by D.H. Lawrence discussing what is considered clean and dirty in society, and how art and literature is thus influenced. He describes "phallic sex," as 'a creative flow,' while defining pornography as an 'attempt to insult sex and the human spirit.' GOOD condition. Some scuffing and chipping along the extremities, with loss of wrapper at the upper left corner. Some soiling and toning to the wrappers, rendering them somewhat grubby in appearance. Minor toning to the text block. Good .

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Book number: 016862

Catalogue: Essays/ Non Fiction

Keywords: Noisbn Literary Criticism

McCormick, Malachi

How to Make a Decent Cup of Tea

No Place, Stone Street Press, Publisher, 1988. Wraps. Stated special Boston Tea Party edition, published on the 215th anniversary of the event. Initialed by the author on the color phone page. Wraps, small handmade booklet. 14 pages. A humorous, but somewhat serious, short essay on the art of making a cup of tea. NEAR FINE condition. Very light edgewear. Near Fine .