Anne Eekhout

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arizona

A Novel

A novel of innocence, young love, and gothic mystery that is a sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's life, and a wonderfully imaginative exploration of the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein. Europe, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the continent in ash and clouds. Amid the gloom of this "year without summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley, her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley, their baby boy William, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron and his companion John Polidori at Lake Geneva. The friends spend rainy wine-soaked evenings around the fireplace, exchanging ghost stories. One night, Byron issues a challenge to determine which of them can write the best horror story of their own. Musing over her tale, Mary is reminded of another summer, when she was fourteen. A guest of the Baxter family, Mary arrives in Dundee, Scotland, and quickly falls into a warm friendship with young Isabella Baxter. The girls spend hours together wandering through fields and forests, conjuring stories about mythical Scottish creatures, ghosts, and monsters which roam the lowlands. One day, while deep in the woods, they come upon a real monster, an encounter that leaves them questioning whether the fabulous creatures of their stories are more than just figments of the imagination. As their bond deepens from their secret experience, Mary and Isabella's feelings for each other intensify. But the girls do not know that someone has been watching them--the charismatic and vaguely sinister Mr. Booth, Isabella's older brother-in-law, another kind of monster who wears the face of a man. That memory inspires Mary's tale--a story that will become one of the most original, thrilling, and influential works of literature ever written. In this beautiful blend of fact and fiction, wonderfully atmospheric and pulsing with emotion, Anne Eekhout brings the legendary writer to life with verve and great imagination. Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson

Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein

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Harold Bloom

Very good clean tight copy, a mark on the bottom. Very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing . Light toning.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

A Gathering of Last Poems

From Harold Bloom, the foremost literary critic of our time, comes a delightful anthology of the final works of great poets. In Till I End My Song, Bloom has meticulously curated the last poems of one hundred influential poets. These poems, sometimes the literal end and other times the imagined conclusion to a poetic career, offer a lens through which to contemplate the enduring nature of art and the inevitability of death. Bloom's selections highlight the work of the canonized poets T. S. Eliot, Alexander Pope, W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Shakespeare, but also revive interest in distinguished but long-neglected poets, such as Conrad Aiken, William Cowper, Edwin Arlington Robinson, George Meredith, and Louis MacNeice. An authoritative collection of last poems, Till I End My Song will reverberate long into the coming silence.

1st ed. * Till I End My Song

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J. M. Coetzee

Very good dust jacket, very good clean and tight copy. First edition, first printing. Nobel prize winner.

This brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" and "Diary of a Bad Year" allows Coetzee to imagine his own life, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being.

1st US ed./1st* Summertime

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Diane W. Middlebrook

A Biography

A biography of Anne Sexton explores the work and the tormented emotional life of the powerful American poet, a woman who struggled with mental illness throughout her career, finally taking her own life in 1974

Award winner * Anne Sexton

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

English

Buiding Strategic Learners

The goal of this text is to introduce the basic concepts of social science research methods to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in programs that study families and children. Methods of Family Research differs from other research methods texts in a significant way. While traditional texts focus on teaching students how to produce research, this text teaches how to consume research. It equips students to critically read, understand, and evaluate research without getting bogged down in technical details.

Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner

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Creating a Thinking Environment

This beautifully illustrated book takes the reader on a tour through the medieval towns of Yorkshire. The author explores the ways in which architecture and the use of space in the medieval town were the expression of an urban culture which was evolving between the tenth and fourteenth centuries and given pronounced expression by the fifteenth century. He goes on to show that this was also the expression of authority and conflict and that this process created a separate and markedly urban architectural development which took shape in the medieval period. The reader is introduced to Yorkshire's medieval urban heritage through encounters with the nature of urban society, the symbolic and dominating presence of the church in the medieval townscape, and housing, trade and public health. In conclusion the author looks at what significance the Yorkshire medieval town holds for us today.

Strategic Reading in the Content Areas

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Set Of 4 William Shakespeare Books; Horowitz/Rae Book Manufacturers.

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Set Of 4 William Shakespeare Books; Horowitz/Rae Book Manufacturers

Ray Notgrass

Charlene Notgrass

John Notgrass

Original documents, poetry, stories, and hymns from world history. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Original Documents, Poetry, Stories, and Hymns from World History

In Their Words

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Amazing condition. Super scarce. Very few around. Don’t skip. #paperback #fiction #novel #literature #literary #bestbooks #classic #booktok #rare

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Monsieur Levert

Homer

Emily Wilson

Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative. Its characters are unforgettable, none more so than the "complicated" hero himself, a man of many disguises, many tricks, and many moods, who emerges in this version as a more fully rounded human being than ever before.Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, Emily Wilson's Odyssey sings with a voice that echoes Homer's music; matching the number of lines in the Greek original, the poem sails along at Homer's swift, smooth pace.A fascinating, informative introduction explores the Bronze Age milieu that produced the epic, the poem's major themes, the controversies about its origins, and the unparalleled scope of its impact and influence. Maps drawn especially for this volume, a pronunciation glossary, and extensive notes and summaries of each book make this is an Odyssey that will be treasured by a new generation of readers.

The Odyssey

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Ernest Hemingway

In fair condition. Covers and spine have fair amount of ware. 

California

Ernest Hemingway's classic exploration of the history and pageantry of bullfighting, and the deeper themes of cowardice, bravery, sport and tragedy that it inspires. Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual, and "the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick." Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning. A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and literature.

Death in the Afternoon

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Oregon

Long respected as the number one book in the field, Literature for Today's Young Adults gives teachers, librarians, parents, counselors, and other group leaders--as well as instructors and students in college courses in Adolescent/Young Adult Literature--a comprehensive look at YA literature framed within a literary, historical, and social context as a means to motivating teens to become life-long readers. Included is helpful information on evaluating YA books of all genres, using YA literature effectively with English Language Learners, incorporating digital and other new literacies into classroom teaching, and dealing with today's increasingly diverse and challenging censorship issues.

Literature for Today's Young Adults

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Biography of Virginia Woolf 
Looks brand new. 

Cover is a painting of Virginia Woolf 
Written by his nephew

A Virginia Woolf: A biography 

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Decorated cloth; small book with 306 pages including 12 pages of publisher advertisements, "Spring, 1882". A collection of eighteen stories. A good copy with brown boards chipped, faded and soiled, the back strip separated at the front cover, corners worn, hinges separated at half title page which is loose. All other pages intact. Bookstore bookplate inside back cover. The interior has some soiling but very good. The book’s spine has been rebound with original boards intact. See photos for condition.  
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Texas

The Stolen White Elephant

The Book is a companion to the European Scrapbook, also available by this seller. Published in 1928 by WM. H. Wise & Company. This volume stated second printing, September 1928, 24,000 copies. 400 numbered pages including index and list of publishers. A beautiful and fascinating historical oversized book in very good condition. Measures 8”x10-3/4” 

Th book captures distinguished works which might have otherwise been lost in the annals of history.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Year’s Golden Harvest of Thought and Achievement 

The American Scrapbook 

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Connecticut

Revised Prose Translation

The ten year's adventures of Ulysses during his return journey from Troy.

This is the student textbook. It has highlighting on two pages - one is pictured…Underlining on one page that I noticed, also pictured. It’s in obvious used condition on the outside, but the inside is great. #abeka #literature #classics #poetry #suspense #shortstory #robertfrost #poe #tennyson


Reading & Language Arts

Abeka

World Literature Fourth Edition 

New Mexico

A New English Version

An English-language rendering of the world's oldest epic follows the journey of conquest and self-discovery by the king of Uruk, in an edition that includes an introduction that places the story in its historical and cultural context.

Gilgamesh

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Percival Everett

Massachusetts

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. * From the "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.

James (Signed First Edition)

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*Hebrew Language Edition* - Modan Publishing

New Jersey

Kinshu: Autumn Brocade (*Hebrew Edition*) 

#paperback #nonfiction #vintage #french #literature #books #1950s #school #poetry #essays 

A Guide to Contemporary French Literature from Valery to Sartre (1st Printing, 1957)

Victoria Chang

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In excellent condition with no extreme signs of wear. Back cover has a slight imperfection but nothing too extreme. See last image. 

Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief

A Kirkus Best Book of October 2021

From poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.

For Victoria Chang, memory "isn't something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally." It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and the silences of her father, who first would not and then could not share more. They are whittled and sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license, a letter, a visa petition, a photograph. And, just as often, they are built on the questions that can no longer be answered.

Dear Memory is not a transcription but a process of simultaneously shaping and being shaped, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history, what emerges is poetry. In carefully crafted collages and missives on trauma, loss, and Americanness, Victoria Chang grasps on to a sense of self that grief threatens to dissipate.

In letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets, as the imagination, Dear Memory offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories.  

Other Honors for Dear Memory: 

An Electric Literature Favorite Nonfiction Book of 2021

A TIME Magazine Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021

A Los Angeles Times Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021

A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021An NPR Most Anticipated Book of October 2021

Dear Memory

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Alan Kaufman

Cover has wear (edges are bent)
Quality book.

Like its highly acclaimed companions, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, this edition is a prime for generational revolt and an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in American lives and letters. A raucous eruption of language and a showcase for the best essayists of our time, The Outlaw Bible of American Essays chronicles American history and measures the boundlessness of dissident thought.

The Outlaw Bible of American Literature will serve as a primer for generational revolt and an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in literature. This exuberant manifesto includes lives of the writers, on-the-scene testimony, seminal underground articles never before collected, photographs, cartoons, drawings, interviews, and, above all, the writings. Beat, Punk, Noir, Prison, Porn, Cyber, Queer, Anarchist, Blue Collar, Pulp, Sci-Fi, Utopian, Mobster, Political—all are represented. The Bible includes fiction, essays, letters, memoirs, journalism, lyrics, diaries, manifestoes, and selections from seminal film scripts, including Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, and Taxi Driver. The editors have brought together an extravagant, eclectic, searing, and unforgettable body of work, showcasing Hustlers, Mavericks, Contrarians, Rockers, Barbarians, Gangsters, Hedonists, Provocateurs, Hipsters, and Revolutionaries—all in one raucous cauldron of rebellion and otherness. This prose companion to the best-selling award-winning Outlaw Bible of American Poetry features selections from Hunter S. Thompson, Exene Cervenka, Patti Smith, Dennis Cooper, Malcolm X, Sonny Barger, Maggie Estep, Lenny Bruce, Henry Miller, R. Crumb, Philip K. Dick, Iceberg Slim, Gil Scott-Heron, Kathy Acker, Jim Carroll, Charles Mingus, Norman Mailer, and many others.

The Outlaw Bible of American Literature

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Super valuable to guide your high school homeschool journey! My Father’s World is our favorite homeschool resource and standard. Gives daily lesson plans to help students begin to self manage their schedule and learning experience. This book is written in extensively but so much of the experience should be customized, it is a wonderful guide to get started with this set of lessons. 

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Anne Eekhout

Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein

Harold Bloom

1st ed. * Till I End My Song

J. M. Coetzee

1st US ed./1st* Summertime

Diane W. Middlebrook

Award winner * Anne Sexton

Rachel Billmeyer; Robert J. Garmston (Foreword by)

Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner

Rachel Billmeyer; Arthur L. Costa (Foreword by)

Strategic Reading in the Content Areas

William Shakespeare

Set Of 4 William Shakespeare Books; Horowitz/Rae Book Manufacturers

Ray Notgrass; Charlene Notgrass; John Notgrass

In Their Words

Richard Pinget

Monsieur Levert

Homer; Emily Wilson

The Odyssey

Ernest Hemingway

Death in the Afternoon

James Blasingame; Kenneth Donelson; Don Nilsen; Alleen Nilsen

Literature for Today's Young Adults

Quentin Bell

A Virginia Woolf: A biography

Mark Twain

The Stolen White Elephant

W.M. Wise & Company-Editors

The American Scrapbook

Homer; D. C. H. Rieu (Revised by, Translator); E. V. Rieu (Translator); Peter Jones (Introduction by)

The Odyssey

Abeka ; Jan Anderson

World Literature Fourth Edition

Stephen Mitchell

Gilgamesh

Percival Everett

James (Signed First Edition)

Teru Miyamoto

Kinshu: Autumn Brocade (*Hebrew Edition*)

Wallace Fowlie

A Guide to Contemporary French Literature from Valery to Sartre (1st Printing, 1957)

Victoria Chang

Dear Memory

Alan Kaufman

The Outlaw Bible of American Literature

Marie Hazell

Ancient History and Literature curriculum guide

Kinshu: Autumn Brocade (Hebrew Edition)