| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
› Find signed collectible books: '84, Charing Cross Road'
84, Charing Cross Road is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carried on an increasingly touching correspondence. In her first letter to Marks & Co., Helene Hanff encloses a wish list, but warns, "The phrase 'antiquarian booksellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive." Twenty days later, on October 25, 1949, a correspondent identified only as FPD let Hanff know that works by Hazlitt and Robert Louis Stevenson would be coming under separate cover. When they arrive, Hanff is ecstatic--but unsure she'll ever conquer "bilingual arithmetic." By early December 1949, Hanff is suddenly worried that the six-pound ham she's sent off to augment British rations will arrive in a kosher office. But only when FPD turns out to have an actual name, Frank Doel, does the real fun begin.
Two years later, Hanff is outraged that Marks & Co. has dared to send an abridged Pepys diary. "i enclose two limp singles, i will make do with this thing till you find me a real Pepys. THEN i will rip up this ersatz book, page by page, AND WRAP THINGS IN IT." Nonetheless, her postscript asks whether they want fresh or powdered eggs for Christmas. Soon they're sharing news of Frank's family and Hanff's career. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969, the firm's secretary informed her that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, "If you happen to pass by 84, Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much." [via]
More editions of 84, Charing Cross Road:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Actor and the Text'
(Applause Acting Series). These words of Cicely Berry, the voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speak to anyone who needs to speak his or her piece in any arena, at sales meetings or religious revivals. Berry's book will insure that the speaker and the text gets heard accurately and with true emotional range. Never again will one be accused of simply "reading a prepared statement." Berry's exercises to develop relaxation, breathing and muscular control will literally help everyone breathe easier when confronting the printed page. [via]
More editions of The Actor and the Text:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adding Machine: Selected Essays'
More editions of The Adding Machine: Selected Essays:
› Find signed collectible books: 'All's Well That Ends Well'
If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]
More editions of All's Well That Ends Well:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Alternating Current'
More editions of Alternating Current:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Anarchy and Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism'
More editions of Anarchy and Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Anathemas and Admirations'
Instead of accumulating wisdom, he has shed certainties. Instead of reaching out to touch someone, he has fastidiously cultivated his exemplary solitude. If he is an aphorist, he's one who resembles Nietzsche, not Kahlil Gibran.Edmund White, The New York Times
In this collection of essays and epigrams, E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluationswhich he calls "admirations"of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul Valery, and Mircea Eliade, among others. In alternating sections of aphorismshis "anathemas"he delivers insights on such topics as solitude, flattery, vanity, friendship, insomnia, music, mortality, God, and the lure of disillusion.
[via]More editions of Anathemas and Admirations:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'
Partial Contents: Definition of Melancholy; Causes of Melancholy; Bad Diet; Passions and Perturbations of the Mind; Symptoms or Signs of Melancholy in the body; Prognosticks of Melancholy; Unlawful Cures Rejected; Lawful Cures; Diet Rectified; Deformity of Body, Sickness, Baseness of Birth; Against Poverty and Want and other Adversities; Against: Servitude, Loss of Liberty, Imprisonment, Sorrow for death of Friends, Vain Fear, Envy, Emulation, Hatred, Ambition, Self-love, and all other Affections; Against: Repulse, Abuses, Injuries, Disgraces, Slanders; Cure of Melancholy all over the Body; Love-Melancholy; Symptoms or Signs of Love-Melancholy; Symptoms of Jealously, fear, sorrow, suspicion; Cure of Jealously; Religious Melancholy. An outstanding analysis of what melancholy is, its kinds, causes, symptoms, prognosticks, and several cures for it; Philosophically, Medicinally, and Historically. [via]
More editions of The Anatomy of Melancholy:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Architecture for Education: New School Designs from the Chicago Competition'
More editions of Architecture for Education: New School Designs from the Chicago Competition:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords'
More editions of Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Augustine's Love of Wisdom : An Introspective Philosophy'
More editions of Augustine's Love of Wisdom : An Introspective Philosophy:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Bacon, Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians'
More editions of Bacon, Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Be a People Person'
More editions of Be a People Person:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power'
Originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym "A. M. Barnard." Louisa May Alcott's novel of romance and sexual intrigue is one of her lesser-known gems. Its tone and characterizations strike a markedly different chord from her best-known works, such as "Little Women" and "Little Men," and it remains a popular addition to her oeuvre. [via]
More editions of Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Belief or Nonbelief: A Dialogue'
Umberto Eco is a famous scholar-novelist, and Cardinal Martini is a famous scholar-bishop. Eco is an urbane ex-Catholic. Cardinal Martini is an urbane prince of the Church. Belief or Nonbelief?, a little book of eight chapters, is a dialogue between them, first published by an Italian newspaper. Each author writes four alternating chapters addressing the hopes of humanity at the dawn of a new millennium, the question of the beginning of human life, the role of the Church, and how we can know Truth.
Belief or Non Belief? is a good idea, but it suffers from a couple of problems. The format and content are too obviously recycled newspaper articles. While the engaging, popular style is welcome, the necessary brevity of each chapter means arguments cannot be developed, and the reader is left vaguely dissatisfied. It would have been better if the authors had expanded the project. Both men write well in a sophisticated and polite Italian style that is entertaining at first, but it soon sounds artificial to the English reader. Finally, there are some difficulties in translation: for example, "illumination" is used instead of "enlightenment" and "layman" is consistently used where "non-Catholic" is probably intended. Despite these criticisms, Belief or Nonbelief? is a sharp little book giving a fresh perspective on age-old questions. --Dwight Longenecker [via]
More editions of Belief or Nonbelief: A Dialogue:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Belief or Nonbelief?: A Confrontation'
More editions of Belief or Nonbelief?: A Confrontation:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Biblical Authority or Biblical Tyranny? : Scripture and the Christian Pilgrimage'
More editions of Biblical Authority or Biblical Tyranny?: Scripture and the Christian Pilgrimage:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship'
More editions of Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book As World'
More editions of The Book As World:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story'
This book follows Bruce Springsteen from the Jersey shore to the simultaneous covers of Time and Newsweek and beyond, tracing the artist's New Jersey upbringing, early bands, signing to Columbia Records, the creation of the E Street Band, and more. Marsh also provides an authoritative annotated discography and touring chronology that are sure to satisfy the most ardent of fans and collectors. 20 photos. [via]
More editions of Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World'
A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.
"Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."[via]
--Saturday Review of Literature"A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay."
--Forum"It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art...This is surely Huxley's best book."
--Martin Green
More editions of Brave New World:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bush Junta: 25 Cartoonists on the Mayberry Machiavelli and the Abuse of Power'
More editions of The Bush Junta: 25 Cartoonists on the Mayberry Machiavelli and the Abuse of Power:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Catholicism and Jungian Psychology'
More editions of Catholicism and Jungian Psychology:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Cinema Nation: The Best Writing on Film from the Nation 1913-2000'
More editions of Cinema Nation: The Best Writing on Film from the Nation 1913-2000:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Comic Strips and Consumer Culture 1890-1945'
More editions of Comic Strips and Consumer Culture 1890-1945:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of a Rational Mystic: Anselm's Early Writings'
More editions of Confessions of a Rational Mystic: Anselm's Early Writings:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Contexts for Criticism'
› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'
Reproduced from the original 1886 English-language edition, this classic work follows the foibles of Raskolnikov, who believes that remarkable men like himself are above the laws of society. [via]
More editions of Crime and Punishment:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Culture and Commerce of Texts: Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England'
More editions of The Culture and Commerce of Texts: Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology'
More editions of Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Stephen King: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels, Short Stories, Movies, and Other Creations of the World's Most Popular Writer'
Spignesi selects and ranks the top 101 works out of the more than 550 created by Stephen King during his prolific career. Each chosen work is synopsized and reviewed by the writer who Entertainment Weekly has called "the world's leading expert on Stephen King." [via]
More editions of The Essential Stephen King: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels, Short Stories, Movies, and Other Creations of the World's Most Popular Writer:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1966'
First published in 1970, this provocative and comprehensive collection of writing combines erotic elements and true creative writing. [via]
More editions of Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1966:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display'
Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributorsmuseum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropologyrepresent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers. [via]
More editions of Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales'
Collected in these two volumes are roe's legendary tales of terror that attest to his stylistic brilliance in evoking an atmosphere of gloom and obsession. Creatures, eyes, coffins, walls-all are symbols in roe's efforts to create an aura of evil. What reader would not share the anxiety of the traveler in The Fall of the House of Usher, who upon his first glimpse of the house, finds an "insufferable gloom pervading my spirit... an utter depression of the soul... an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart"? In volume 2 his nightmarish visions take us down untraveled paths revealing the dark side of the human experience.
[via]More editions of Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism'
More editions of The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Glory Days: The Bruce Springsteen Story'
More editions of Glory Days: The Bruce Springsteen Story:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Comic Book Heroes: Jules Feiffer'
More editions of The Great Comic Book Heroes: Jules Feiffer:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'
Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726; and, although it was by no means intended for them, the book was soon appropriated by the children, who have ever since continued to regard it as one of the most delightful of their story books. They cannot comprehend the occasion which provoked the book nor appreciate the satire which underlies the narrative, but they delight in the wonderful adventures, and wander full of open-eyed astonishment into the new worlds through which the vivid and logically accurate imagination of the author so personally conducts them. And there is a meaning and a moral in the stories of the Voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag which is entirely apart from the political satire they are intended to convey, a meaning and a moral which the youngest child who can read it will not fail to seize, and upon which it is scarcely necessary for the teacher to comment. For young children the book combines in a measure the interest of Robinson Crusoe and that of the fairy tale; its style is objective, the narrative is simple, and the matter appeals strongly to the childish imagination. For more mature boys and girls and for adults the interest is found chiefly in the keen satire which underlies the narrative. It appeals, therefore, to a very wide range of intelligence and taste, and can be read with profit by the child of ten and by the young man or woman of mature years.
This edition is practically a reprint of the original (1726-27). The punctuation and capitalization have been modernized, some archaisms changed, and the paragraphs have been made more frequent. A few passages have been omitted which would offend modern ears and are unsuitable for children's reading, and some foot-notes have been added explaining obsolete words and obscure expressions. [via]
More editions of Gulliver's Travels:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hanging Out With The Dream King: Conversations With Neil Gaiman And His Collaborators'
The most intimate look yet into the life and mind of the bestselling author and creator of The Sandman.
Neil Gaiman is one of the most successful and versatile writers working today. He has become renowned not only for the consistently high quality of his writing but for his mastery of many media. He is an award-winning comic book writer (Sandman), novelist (American Gods), children's book author (The Wolves in the Walls), and television screenwriter (Neverwhere). Yet with all the fans hungry to know more about his work, there has not yet been a single major nonfiction book covering Gaiman's entire creative output. Until now.
Hanging Out With the Dream King: Conversations With Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators presents a thorough look at Gaiman's work not only through his eyes, but through the eyes of his many collaborators. Artists, writers, editors, musiciansover two-dozen creators share their thoughts on working with Gaiman and present a unique mosaic portrait of the writer whose name has become synonymous with modern fantasy.
Although the book's scope is not limited to Gaiman's best-selling comic book creation The Sandman, Hanging Out With the Dream King features comprehensive interviews with all of the major Sandman artists, including Charles Vess, P. Craig Russell, Bryan Talbot, and Jill Thompson, as well as well as rare and exclusive interviews with Sandman co-creators Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg.
And, much as Gaiman has done throughout his career, Hanging Out With the Dream King breaks down the walls of media and genre, presenting those who may have discovered the writer's work through one storytelling medium with doors through which they may find his other prodigious creations. Thus, admirers of Gaiman's children's books with Dave McKean will discover his adult work with Gene Wolfe and Terry Pratchett; fans of his novels will discover his comics; and everyone will have the chance to meet Gaiman's folk-rock bandsthe Flash Girls and Folk Underground. Musicians Alice Cooper and Tori Amos are also interviewed.
Illustrated with many unpublished photos and comic pages, this is the book Gaiman's fans have been waiting for. B/w illustrated (with 16 pp. in color). [via]
More editions of Hanging Out With The Dream King: Conversations With Neil Gaiman And His Collaborators:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit'
More editions of The Hobbit:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Holy Grail: The Galahad Quest in Arthurian Literature'
More editions of The Holy Grail: The Galahad Quest in Arthurian Literature:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hornblower Companion'
More editions of The Hornblower Companion:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Hunting the Snark'
More editions of Hunting the Snark:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader'
More editions of Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader:

› Find signed collectible books: 'John Simon On Music: Criticism, 1979-2005'
More editions of John Simon On Music: Criticism, 1979-2005:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics: A Study of the Fiction'
More editions of Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics: A Study of the Fiction:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Law Is for All'
More editions of Law Is for All:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Law Is for All: The Authorized Popular Commentary of Liber Al Vel Legis Sub Figura Ccxx, the Book of the Law'
Aleister Crowley's life and thought are inexorably linked with The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis, sub figura CCXX). He was not the author of this short, prophetic text. He received this visionary work by direct-voice dictation from a preterhuman, possibly discarnate intelligence in Cairo in 1904.
Crowley was an intelligent sceptic, and at first found this improbable means of communication as difficult to accept as most intelligent readers will today. Yet he could not ignore it or its message, and eventually concluded that it stood as conclusive proof of the underlying assumption of all religion - that intelligences superior to mankind not only exist, but take an active role in our welfare. He found that The Book of the Law holds the keys to the Next Step in human evolution, and sets forth the spiritual principles of a New Aeon.
He worked for decades to interpret its meaning for initiates and the general public, but rejected commentary after commentary as inadequate. He eventually concluded that he was too close to his subject to judge the value of his own commentaries, and entrusted the task to his best friend, Louis Wilkinson. Wilkinson (who wrote under the pen-name Louis Marlow) possessed impressive literary qualifications and had the advantages of knowing Crowley well and being a layman in esoteric matters. The result of his work is this long-awaited authorized popular edition of Crowley's new commentary on The Book of the Law, and its first appearance as Crowley wished it. Louis Wilkinson's editorial work was posthumously completed and augmented by Frater Superior Hymenaeus Beta of the O.T.O. This new edition features annotations, reading lists and indexes, as well as an insightful introduction by Louis Wilkinson. [via]
More editions of The Law Is for All: The Authorized Popular Commentary of Liber Al Vel Legis Sub Figura Ccxx, the Book of the Law:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography'
More editions of The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'N' Roll Song; Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at T'
More editions of Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'N' Roll Song; Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at T:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Love and Hisses: The National Society of Film Critics Sound Off on the Hottest Movie Controversies'
More editions of Love and Hisses: The National Society of Film Critics Sound Off on the Hottest Movie Controversies:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos'
More editions of Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos The Background of a Myth That Has Captured a Generation'
More editions of Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos The Background of a Myth That Has Captured a Generation:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power'
More editions of Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Measure for Measure'
If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]
More editions of Measure for Measure:
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
If there has ever been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be THE APPLAUSE FOLIO TEXTS. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. Prepared and annotated by Neil Freeman, Head, Graduate Directing Program, University of British Columbia. [via]

› Find signed collectible books: 'Missing Measures'

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village'
More editions of The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible'
More editions of The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible:

› Find signed collectible books: 'New Olympia Reader, 1957-1966: The Best from the First Ten Years of America's Most Provocative, Most Controversial, Most Important Literary Magazine'
More editions of New Olympia Reader, 1957-1966: The Best from the First Ten Years of America's Most Provocative, Most Controversial, Most Important Literary Magazine:

› Find signed collectible books: 'New Tales for Old : Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults'
More editions of New Tales for Old : Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'
More editions of Oliver Twist:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Pandemonium'
More editions of Pandemonium:

› Find signed collectible books: 'R.E.M. Inside Out: The Stories Behind Every Song'
More editions of R.E.M. Inside Out: The Stories Behind Every Song:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading the Funnies'
More editions of Reading the Funnies:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Literature'
A thought-provoking look at the Bible!Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture explores the territory between gay/lesbian studies, literary criticism, and religious studies. This book examines the appropriation and/or subversion of the authority of the Judeo-Christian bible by gay and lesbian writers. Two prevalent trends in gay and lesbian literature are highlighted--a transgressive approach that challenges the authority of the Bible when used as an instrument of oppression, and an appropriative technique that explores how the Bible contributes to defining gay and lesbian spirituality. Reclaiming the Sacred is unique in its exploration of the area between literary criticism and religious studies. Whereas contemporary literary-critical theory has been slow to integrate religion and religious history into queer theory, this pioneering journal addresses the issue with a collection of thoughtful and thought-provoking articles.Academics and lay readers interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and religious studies will gain new insights from topics such as:
More editions of Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Revolution For The Hell Of It'
More editions of Revolution For The Hell Of It:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
More editions of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sandman Papers: An Exploration of the Sandman Mythology'
More editions of The Sandman Papers: An Exploration of the Sandman Mythology:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market'
More editions of Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Science, Language and the Human Condition'
More editions of Science, Language and the Human Condition:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Shaw on Music'
More editions of Shaw on Music:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Shaw on Shakespeare: An Anthology of Bernard Shaw's Writings on the Plays and Production of Shakespeare'
More editions of Shaw on Shakespeare: An Anthology of Bernard Shaw's Writings on the Plays and Production of Shakespeare:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior'
More editions of Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Strands of System: The Philosophy of Charles Peirce'
More editions of Strands of System: The Philosophy of Charles Peirce:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales, Then and Now'
More editions of Tales, Then and Now:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'
One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
More editions of The Taming of the Shrew:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'
(Applause Books). If there has ever been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be THE APPLAUSE FOLIO TEXTS. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. Prepared and annotated by Neil Freeman, Head, Graduate Directing Program, University of British Columbia. [via]

› Find signed collectible books: 'Theater/Theory/Theatre: The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel'
More editions of Theater/Theory/Theatre: The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama'
(Applause Books). Including Antoin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Luigi Pirandello, Konstantin Stanislavsky, W. B. Yeats, and Emile Zolaing. [via]
More editions of The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel'
More editions of The Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel:
› Find signed collectible books: 'William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible'
Summarizes the life of the acclaimed author of Naked Lunch, including his open homosexuality, his drug addiction, and his career as a novelist. By the author of Allen Ginsberg: A Biography. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. [via]
More editions of William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Wittgenstein's Tractatus'
More editions of Wittgenstein's Tractatus:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The World's Best Books: Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library'
More editions of The World's Best Books: Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Youthful Writings'
More editions of Youthful Writings:
Results page: PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101-146 NEXT
