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20,000 Leagues under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0812550927 (0-8125-5092-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Abolition Of White Democracyby Joel OlsonISBN 0816642788 (0-8166-4278-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Centuryby Jean H. BakerISBN 0823218643 (0-8232-1864-3)
Hardcover, Fordham Univ Pr
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Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siecle Radicalism, And the Politics of Friendshipby Leela GandhiISBN 0822337150 (0-8223-3715-0)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Agnes Grey: Library Editionby Anne Bronte, Barbara Ann SuessISBN 0812967135 (0-8129-6713-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agnes Grey: Library Edition'Book summary:Concerned for her familys financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await her in the brutish Bloomfield and haughty Murray households. Drawn from Anne Brontës own experiences, Agnes Grey depicts the harsh conditions and class snobbery that governesses were often forced to endure. As Barbara A. Suess writes in her Introduction, Brontë provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting. [via]
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America, New Mexicoby Robert Leonard ReidISBN 0816518769 (0-8165-1876-9)
Softcover, Univ of Arizona Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America, New Mexico'Book summary:New Mexico is a land with two faces. It is a land of enchantment, legendary for its natural beauty and rich cultural heritage. But it is also a land of paradox. In America, New Mexico, Robert Leonard Reid explores deep inside New Mexico's landscape to find the real New Mexicowith all of its gifts and challengeswithin. Having traveled and hiked countless miles throughout the state, Reid knows New Mexico's breathtaking landscape intimately. But he knows the human landscape as well: its artists and poets, medicine men and businessmen, preachers and politicians, Hispanics and Anglos. He knows that amid the glittering mansions of Santa Fe there are homeless shelters, that the Indians of myth and legend combat alcoholism and poverty, and that toxic waste lurks beneath a land of almost surreal beauty. America, New Mexico is a book about land, sky, and hope by a writer whose passion and inspiring prose invite us to see the promise and possibilities of reconnecting with the natural world. It is unflinching in its depiction of the adversities facing New Mexicans and indeed all Americans. But above all, it searches behind and beyond these troubling issues to find, standing staunchly against them, a quiet and unshakable confidence rooted in New Mexico's natural world. For anyone who has ever been moved by the incomparable beauty of New Mexico, for anyone concerned with the landscape in which all Americans live, America, New Mexico is an unforgettable book. [via]
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American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Designby Leslie Greene BowmanISBN 0821219200 (0-8212-1920-0)
Softcover, Bulfinch Pr
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The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914by George M. FredricksonISBN 0819561886 (0-8195-6188-6)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Bostoniansby Henry James, Pierre A. Walker, A. S. ByattISBN 0812969960 (0-8129-6996-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bostonians'Book summary:From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women." She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, a veteran of the Civil War who holds rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil.The exploitation of Verena's unregenerate innocence reflects a society whose moral and cultural values are failing to survive the new dawn of liberalism and democracy. When it was first published in 1886, The Bostonians was not welcomed by Henry James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit. But over a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction and perhaps his comic masterpiece.[via]
Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermasby John P. McCormickISBN 0822327880 (0-8223-2788-0)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, And National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Boisby Caroline Field LevanderISBN 0822338726 (0-8223-3872-6)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890-1933by Fritz K. RingerISBN 0819562351 (0-8195-6235-1)
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Deforming American Political Thought: Ethnicity, Facticity, And Genreby Michael J. ShapiroISBN 0813124123 (0-8131-2412-3)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Desolation Islandby Patrick O'BrianISBN 081282590X (0-8128-2590-X)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desolation Island'Book summary:Captain Bligh (yes, the guy from the Bounty) needs to be rescued, and the Royal Navy has the perfect man for the job: Captain Jack Aubrey. With his friend and cloak-and-dagger expert Stephen Maturin in tow, Aubrey sets off for Australia. Several factors, including an attractive spy and a small-scale epidemic, conspire to change his plans, and before long his frigate is being pursued into Antarctic waters by a Dutch man-of-war. Five installments into the series, the Aubrey-Maturin story remains (to quote The Observer) "the best thing afloat since Horatio Hornblower." [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0812504488 (0-8125-0448-8)
Softcover, Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self. [via]
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The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debatesby Michael Ruse, Edward O. WilsonISBN 0813530369 (0-8135-3036-9)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Fire from the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brownby Louis A. DecaroISBN 0814719228 (0-8147-1922-8)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Freedom & Necessityby Emma Bull, Steven BrustISBN 0812562615 (0-8125-6261-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom & Necessity'Book summary:The early 19th century was a heady time of repeated challenges to the assumption that the social order as it stood was supernaturally (divinely) ordained. A particularly sticky web of politics and romance traps Susan Voight and James Cobham in a dense, thrillingly suspenseful plot connecting a reforming democratic labor movement, Chartism, to a secret society, the Trotters Club, whose corrupt members intend to exploit a magical ritual for their personal, complicated purposes of vengeance and power. Layers of truths and falsehoods mislead and confound the protagonists in their dealings with each other and the conspiracies; they come to understand that only honesty can save them. Although the perversion of the natural power of sorcery fails because it is unnatural, the social order, unnatural or not, is more resistant to justice. The swift pace, surprising developments, and appealing characters make it nearly impossible to put this book down. Though the women's rights movement is glancingly acknowledged, the conventionally romantic fulfillment is a little disappointing. Is there no other end for intelligent, financially independent women than maternity and love-partnership (as binding, or more, as legal marriage) with a man? [via]
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From Locke to Saussure: Essays on the Study of Language and Intellectual Historyby Hans AarsleffISBN 0816609675 (0-8166-0967-5)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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The Gamblerby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gary Saul Morson, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0812966937 (0-8129-6693-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Gilded Ageby Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Joseph Csicsila, Augustus Hoppin, True Williams, Henry Louis Stephens, Ron PowersISBN 0812973569 (0-8129-7356-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gilded Age'Book summary:Introduction by Ron Powers
Includes Newly Commissioned Endnotes
Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. Co-written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, this rollicking novel is rife with unscrupulous politicians, colorful plutocrats, and blindly optimistic speculators caught up in a frenzy of romance, murder, and surefire deals gone bust. First published in 1873 and filled with unforgettable characters such as the vainglorious Colonel Sellers and the ruthless Senator Dilsworthy, The Gilded Age is a hilarious and instructive lesson in American history. [via]More editions of The Gilded Age:
The Government Inspectorby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0822204665 (0-8222-0466-5)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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Hadji Muradby Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Azar NafisiISBN 0812967119 (0-8129-6711-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hadji Murad'Book summary:In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamils prison, Hadji Murád was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle of his life, was killed.
Tolstoy, witness to many of the events leading to Hadji Muráds death, set down this story with painstaking accuracy to preserve for future generations the horror, nobility, and destruction inherent in war. [via]More editions of Hadji Murad:
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Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American Historyby Ann Laura StolerISBN 082233724X (0-8223-3724-X)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History'Book summary:A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of domains of the intimate in the consolidation of colonial power. They demonstrate how the categories of difference underlying colonialismthe distinctions advanced as the justification for the colonizers rule of the colonizedwere enacted and reinforced in intimate realms from the bedroom to the classroom to the medical examining room. Together the essays focus attention on the politics of comparisonon how colonizers differentiated one group or set of behaviors from anotherand on the circulation of knowledge and ideologies within and between imperial projects. Ultimately, this collection forces a rethinking of what historians choose to compare and of the epistemological grounds on which those choices are based.[via]Haunted by Empire includes Ann Laura Stolers seminal essay Tense and Tender Ties as well as her bold introduction, which carves out the exciting new analytic and methodological ground animated by this comparative venture. The contributors engage in a lively cross-disciplinary conversation, drawing on history, anthropology, literature, philosophy, and public health. They address such topics as the regulation of Hindu marriages and gay sexuality in the early-twentieth-century United States; the framing of multiple-choice intelligence tests; the deeply entangled histories of Asian, African, and native peoples in the Americas; the racial categorizations used in the 1890 U.S. census; and the politics of race and space in French colonial New Orleans. Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, and Nancy F. Cott each provide a concluding essay reflecting on the innovations and implications of the arguments advanced in Haunted by Empire.
Contributors. Warwick Anderson, Laura Briggs, Kathleen Brown, Nancy F. Cott, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, Martha Hodes, Paul A. Kramer, Lisa Lowe, Tiya Miles, Gwenn A. Miller, Emily S. Rosenberg, Damon Salesa, Nayan Shah, Alexandra Minna Stern, Ann Laura Stoler, Laura Wexler
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Hegel and the Human Spiritby Leo RauchISBN 0814317391 (0-8143-1739-1)
Hardcover, Wayne State Univ Pr
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Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negativeby Jean-Luc NancyISBN 0816632219 (0-8166-3221-9)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Hegel, Marx, and the English Stateby David MacGregorISBN 0813312213 (0-8133-1221-3)
Hardcover, Perseus Books
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His Soul Goes Marching on: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raidby Paul FinkelmanISBN 0813915376 (0-8139-1537-6)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0812504593 (0-8125-0459-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCRd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor HugoISBN 0812563123 (0-8125-6312-3)
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This edition of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Elizabeth Massie.
He was Quasimodo--the bell ringer of Notre Dame. For most of his life he has been forced to live in lonely isolation in the bell tower of the famous catheral--hidden away like a beast, banished from sight, shunned and despised by all. For though he was gentle and kind, it was Quasimodo's crime to have been born hideously deformed. But one day his heart would prove to be a thing of rare beauty.
She was the dazzling Esmerelda. A dark-eyed gypsy girl who, the victim of a coward's jealous rage, is unjustly convicted of a crime she did not commit. Her sentence is death by hanging.
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I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaudby Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt MasonISBN 0812970152 (0-8129-7015-2)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud'Book summary:One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbauds life depend on one main source for informationhis own correspondencea complete edition of these remarkable letters has never been published in English. Until now.
A moving document of decline, Rimbauds letters begin with the enthusiastic artistic pronouncements of a fifteen-year-old genius, and end with the bitter what-ifs of a man whose life has slipped disastrously away. But whether soapboxing on the essence of art, or struggling under the yoke of self-imposed exile in the desert of his later years, Rimbaud was incapable of writing an uninteresting sentence. As translator and editor Wyatt Mason makes clear in his engaging Introduction, the letters reveal a Rimbaud very different from our expectations. Rimbaudpresented by many biographers as a bohemian wild manis unveiled as diligent in his pursuit of his goals . . . wildly, soberly ambitious, in poetry, in everything.
I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud is the second and final volume in Masons authoritative presentation of Rimbauds writings. Called by Edward Hirsch the definitive translation for our time, Masons first volume, Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library, 2002), brought Rimbauds poetry and prose into vivid focus. In I Promise to Be Good, Mason adds the missing epistolary pieces to our picture of Rimbaud. These letters, he writes, are proofs in all their varietyof impudence and precocity, of tenderness and ragefor the existence of Arthur Rimbaud. I Promise to Be Good allows English-language readers to see with new eyes one of the most extraordinary poets in history.
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The Imperial Imagination: Magic and Myth in Kipling's Indiaby Lewis D. WurgaftISBN 0819550825 (0-8195-5082-5)
Hardcover, Wesleyan University Press
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde, Terrence McNallyISBN 0812967143 (0-8129-6714-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This book includes "Lady Windermere's Fan", "Salome", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "A Florentine Tragedy" and "The Importance of Being Earnest", which appears in full with the 'Grigsby' scene which originally made up the fourth act. [via]
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Jefferson And His Timeby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923549 (0-8139-2354-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Jefferson the Virginianby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923557 (0-8139-2355-7)
Hardcover, University of Virginia Press
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John Brown: The Legend Revisitedby Merrill D. PetersonISBN 0813923085 (0-8139-2308-5)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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A Journey to the Center of the Earthby Jules VerneISBN 0812504712 (0-8125-0471-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth'Book summary:The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earths very core. In his quest to penetrate the planets primordial secrets, the geologisttogether with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hansdiscovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Vernes imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction adventure and a reflection on the perfectibility of human understanding and the psychology of the questor. As David Brin notes in his Introduction, though Verne never knew the term science fiction, Journey to the Centre of the Earth is inarguably one of the wellsprings from which it all began. [via]
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Sculley BradleyISBN 0814710247 (0-8147-1024-7)
Hardcover, New York University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.
Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman, however, downplayed Emerson's influence, stating, "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil".
On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, instead offering an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting the poet in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few but Whitman was not discouraged.
The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air. "About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover. The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia. The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself," "A Song For Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer," "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths."
The title Leaves of Grass was a pun. "Grass" was a term given by publishers to works of minor value and "leaves" is another name for the pages on which they were printed.
Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation. In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." He went on, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass & Transatlantic Reformby Martin Crawford, Alan J. RiceISBN 082032129X (0-8203-2129-X)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0812523334 (0-8125-2333-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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This edition of Little Women includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.
Living in poverty, their father gone to war, the March girls have only their mother--and themselves...
Meg's romantic, energetic, ready to start a family of her own; Beth's introspective, peaceful, afraid of everything except her dolls and music; Amy's beautiful, artistic, determined to live among the rich and famous; Jo's arrogant, hot-tempered, funny, a writer who keeps pet rats and detests being a girl.
They love each other, hate each other, fight with, scold, nag, tease, and protect each other, through days of joyous triumph and dark tragedy. For each girl, in her heart, knows she has something more precious than money: Sisters. 
The Mauritius Commandby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0812824768 (0-8128-2476-8)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub
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Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolutionby Sibylle FischerISBN 0822332906 (0-8223-3290-6)
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Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United Statesby Russ CastronovoISBN 0822327724 (0-8223-2772-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States'Book summary:In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound toand even dependent ondeath. Deploying an impressive range of literary and cultural texts, Castronovo interrogates an American public sphere that fetishized death as a crucial point of political identification. This morbid politics idealized disembodiment over embodiment, spiritual conditions over material ones, amnesia over history, and passivity over engagement.[via]
Moving from medical engravings, séances, and clairvoyant communication to Supreme Court decisions, popular literature, and physiological tracts, Necro Citizenship explores how rituals of inclusion and belonging have generated alienation and dispossession. Castronovo contends that citizenship does violence to bodies, especially those of blacks, women, and workers. Necro ideology, he argues, supplied citizens with the means to think about slavery, economic powerlessness, or social injustice as eternal questions, beyond the scope of politics or critique. By obsessing on sleepwalkers, drowned women, and other corpses, necro ideology fostered a collective demand for an abstract even antidemocratic sense of freedom. Examining issues involving the occult, white sexuality, ghosts, and suicide in conjunction with readings of Harriet Jacobs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Frances Harper, Necro Citizenship successfully demonstrates why Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me death has resonated so strongly in the American imagination.
Those working in the fields of American studies, literature, history, and political theory will be interested in the social revelations and cultural connections found in Necro Citizenship.More editions of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States:
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Nietzsche and the Feminineby Peter J. BurgardISBN 0813914957 (0-8139-1495-7)
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The Origins of African American Literature: 1680-1865by Dickson D. BruceISBN 0813920671 (0-8139-2067-1)
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Dickson D. Bruce argues that contrary to prevailing perceptions of African American voices as silenced and excluded from American history, those voices were loud and clear. Within the context of the wider culture, these writers offered powerful, widely read, and widely appreciated commentaries on American ideals and ambitions. The Origins of African American Literature provides strong evidence to demonstrate just how much writers engaged in a surprising number of dialogues with society as a whole.
Along with an extensive discussion of major authors and texts, including Phillis Wheatley's poetry, Frederick Douglass's Narrative, Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Martin Delany's Blake, Bruce explores less-prominent works and writers as well, thereby grounding African American writing in its changing historical settings. The Origins of African American Literature is an invaluable revelation of the emergence and sources of the specifically African American literary tradition and the forces that helped shape it.
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Origins of the Modern Jew Jewish Identity and Europeby Michael A. MeyerISBN 0814314708 (0-8143-1470-8)
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Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870by Jacob KatzISBN 0815605323 (0-8156-0532-3)
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The Parisian Prowlerby Charles Baudelaire, Edward K. KaplanISBN 0820318795 (0-8203-1879-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Parisian Prowler'Book summary:From Edouard Manet to T. S. Eliot to Jim Morrison, the reach of Charles Baudelaire's influence is beyond estimation. In this prize-winning translation of his no-longer-neglected masterpiece, Baudelaire offers a singular view of 1850s Paris. Evoking a mélange of reactions, these fifty "fables of modern life" take us on various tours led by a flâneur, an incognito stroller.[via]Through day and night, in gleaming cafés and filthy side streets, this alienated yet compassionate esthete muses on the bizarre in the commonplace, the sublime in the mundane. As the work reveals a teeming metropolis on the eve of great change, we see a Paris as contradictory, surprising, and ultimately unknowable as our guide himself. Superbly complemented by twenty-one period illustrations by Delacroix, Callot, Manet, Whistler, Baudelaire himself, and others, The Parisian Prowler is an essential companion to Les Fleurs du Mal and other works by the father of modern poetry. In the preface to this edition, translator Edward K. Kaplan explains how the volume's illustrations act as a graphic subtext to the narrator's observations.
The Parisian Prowler/Le Spleen De Paris, Petits Poemes En Proseby Charles Baudelaire, Edward K. KaplanISBN 0820311626 (0-8203-1162-6)
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Past and Presentby Thomas Carlyle, Richard D. AltickISBN 0814705626 (0-8147-0562-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Past and Present'Book summary:"African American Literary Theory is an extraordinary gift to literary studies. It is necessary, authoritative and thorough. The timing of this book is superb!"
--Karla F.C. Holloway, Duke University"The influence of African American literature can be attributed, in no small part, to the literary theorists gathered in this collection. This is a superb anthology that represents a diversity of voices and points of view, and a much needed historical retrospective of how African American literary theory has developed."
--Marlon B. Ross, University of Michigan"A volume of great conceptual significance and originality in its focus on the development of African American literary theory."
--Farah Jasmine Griffin, University of PennsylvaniaAfrican American Literary Theory: A Reader is the first volume to document the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. As the volume progresses chronologically from the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Blacks Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the rise of queer theory, it focuses on the key arguments, themes, and debates in each period.
By constantly bringing attention to the larger political and cultural issues at stake in the interpretation of literary texts, the critics gathered here have contributed mightily to the prominence and popularity of African American literature in this country and abroad. African American Literary Theory provides a unique historical analysis of how these thinkers have shaped literary theory, and literature at large, and will be a indispensable text for the study of African American intellectual culture.
Contributors include Sandra Adell, Michael Awkward, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Hazel V. Carby, Barbara Christian, W.E.B. DuBois, Ann duCille, Ralph Ellison, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Addison Gayle Jr., Carolyn F. Gerald, Evelynn Hammonds, Phillip Brian Harper, Mae Gwendolyn Henderson, Stephen E. Henderson, Karla F.C. Holloway, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Joyce A. Joyce, Alain Locke, Wahneema Lubiano, Deborah E. McDowell, Harryette Mullen, Larry Neal, Charles I. Nero, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Marlon B. Ross, George S. Schuyler, Barbara Smith, Valerie Smith, Hortense J. Spillers, Sherley Anne Williams, and Richard Wright. [via]
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The Poemsby John Millington SyngeISBN 081320562X (0-8132-0562-X)
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The Political Economy of Marxby J.E. King, M.C. HowardISBN 0814734537 (0-8147-3453-7)
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Prefaces: Light Reading for Certain Classes As the Occasion May Require, by Nicolaus Notabeneby Soren Kierkegaard, William McDonaldISBN 0813009189 (0-8130-0918-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Preludeby William WordsworthISBN 0822010755 (0-8220-1075-5)
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The Princess Casamassimaby Henry JamesISBN 0815203950 (0-8152-0395-0)
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The Proseby John Millington SyngeISBN 0813205646 (0-8132-0564-6)
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A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spiritby Quentin LauerISBN 0823213552 (0-8232-1355-2)
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Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representationby Jay GrossmanISBN 0822331160 (0-8223-3116-0)
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Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experimentby Willie L. RoseISBN 0820320617 (0-8203-2061-7)
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Response to Modernity : A History of the Reform Movement in Judaismby Michael A. MeyerISBN 0814325556 (0-8143-2555-6)
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The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slavesby Stanley HarroldISBN 0813122902 (0-8131-2290-2)
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Secret Agentby Joseph Conrad, Robert D. Kaplan, Peter Lancelot MalliosISBN 0812973054 (0-8129-7305-4)
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Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan
In reexamining The Secret Agent in a post-9/11 world, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrads surgical insight into the mechanics of terrorism, calling the book a fine example of how a savvy novelist may detect the future long before a social scientist does.
This intense 1907 thrillera precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carréconcerns a British double agent who infiltrates a cabal of anarchists. Conrad explores political and criminal intrigue in a modern society, building to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis deemed one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction. [via]More editions of Secret Agent:
Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reformby Lorien FooteISBN 0821414992 (0-8214-1499-2)
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Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers 1833-39by Charles Dickens, Michael Slater, George CruikshankISBN 0814206298 (0-8142-0629-8)
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Social Theory: A Historical Introductionby Alex CallinicosISBN 081471594X (0-8147-1594-X)
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The Sorrows of Young Wertherby Burton Pike, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0812969901 (0-8129-6990-1)
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Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925by John HighamISBN 0813531233 (0-8135-3123-3)
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Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy Of John Brownby Peggy A. Russo, Paul FinkelmanISBN 0821416316 (0-8214-1631-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy Of John Brown'Book summary:More than two centuries after his birth and almost a century and a half after his death, the legendary life and legacy of John Brown go marching on. Variously deemed martyr, madman, monster, terrorist, and saint, he remains one of the most controversial figures in America's history. Brown's actions in Kansas and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, provided major catalysts for the American Civil War, actions that continue today to evoke commendation or provoke condemnation. Through the prisms of history, literature, psychology, criminal justice, oral history, African American studies, political science, film studies, and anthropology, Terrible Swift Sword offers insights not only into John Brown's controversial character and motives, but also into the nature of a troubled society before, during, and after the Civil War. The discussions include reasons why Brown's contemporaries supported him, attempts to define Brown using different criteria, analyses of Brown's behavior, his depiction in literature, and examinations of the iconography surrounding him.The interdisciplinary focus marshalled by editor Peggy A. Russo makes Terrible Swift Sword unique, and this, together with the popular mythology surrounding the legend of John Brown, will appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in this turbulent moment in American history.Paul Finkelman is Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law. He is the author of many articles and books, including His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid and the Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference Peggy Russo is an assistant professor of English at the Mont Alto Campus of Pennsylvania State University. She has published in Shakespeare Bulletin, The Southern Literary Journal, Journal of American Culture, Shakespeare and the Classroom, and Civil War Book Review.[via]More editions of Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy Of John Brown:
Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swampsby William DusinberreISBN 0820322105 (0-8203-2210-5)
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Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche's Materialismby Peter Sloterdijk, Jamie Owen DanielISBN 0816617651 (0-8166-1765-1)
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0812533410 (0-8125-3341-0)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules Verne, Raymond James, Wayne GeehanISBN 0816718792 (0-8167-1879-2)
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The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republicby Jeffrey L. PasleyISBN 0813921775 (0-8139-2177-5)
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Up from Slavery : An Authoritative Text, Contexts and Composition History, Criticismby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0821601849 (0-8216-0184-9)
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The Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracyby Linda DowlingISBN 0813916348 (0-8139-1634-8)
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 081520115X (0-8152-0115-X)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Amy BloomISBN 0812967194 (0-8129-6719-4)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Thomas L. ErskineISBN 0813519942 (0-8135-1994-2)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Editionby Shawn St. JeanISBN 0821416545 (0-8214-1654-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition'Book summary:Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's much-anthologized story The Yellow Wall-Paper. Most editions have been based on the1892 New England Magazine publication rather than the handwritten manuscript at Radcliffe College. Publication of the unedited manuscript in 1994 sparked controversy over which of the two was definitive. Since then, scholars have discovered half a dozen parent texts for later twentieth-century printings, including William Dean Howells' version from 1920 and the 1933 Golden Book version. While traditional critical editions gather evidence and make an argument for adopting one text as preferable to others, "This volume offers both Gilman scholars and scholars of textual studies a unique and helpful means of engaging with a work that exists in multiple forms, and includes some insightful new readings of this much-analyzed story," saus Charlotte Rich, editor of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter. Shawn St. Jean's The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition offers instead both manuscript and magazine, critically edited and printed in parallel for the first time. When viewed as part of a process beginning with writing and ending with bibliographic coding, new significance appears in such facets as the magazine's accompanying illustrations, its lineation and paragraphing, Gilman's choice of minor pronouns, and her original handwritten ending. This critical edition of The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman includes a full and nontraditional apparatus for ease of use by students and scholars to study the more than 400 variants between the two. Four new essays, written especially for this volume, explore the implications of this multitext model. Shawn St.Jean, an independent scholar in Brockport, New York, has previously published on Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Studies in Bibliography, Feminist Studies, and Studies in Short Fiction. He is the author of Pagan Dreiser: Songs from American Mythology. [via]
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