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HARP ON THE SHORE: Thoreau & the Sea
by Willard H. Bonner
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- NEW
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- n/a
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- First Edition
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- 1985
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- Hardcover with laminated covers, issued without dust jacket
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Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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A$38.59
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NEW copy. Hardcover with laminated, illustrated covers (issued without dust jacket. Illustrated, notes, index, 129 pages. OUT OF PRINT. ---
Allusions to the sea permeate Thoreau's writings, enriching many of his basic ideas. Harp on the Shore examines Thoreau's use of maritime metaphor. It shows how he, a writer ordinarily perceived as quintessentially landlocked, came to view the terrestrial world in… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE LAND ITSELF
by Jared Carter
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- NEW
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- n/a
- Published
- 2019
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- Trade paperback
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Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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A$23.15
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NEW copy, trade paperback. Introductory essay by BJ Omanson, photographs by Jared Carter, 57 pages. ~~~ "Jared Carter's poetry -- in its fidelity both to the letter and the spirit of the land -- does something that art should never lose sight of: it adheres so scrupulously to the world as it is, to the 'local habitation' in all its… Read more about this item Item Price
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WILD FRUITS: Thoreau's Rediscovered Lost Manuscript
by Henry Davd Thoreau (edited by Bradley P. Dean)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover with dust jacket
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Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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A$61.74
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NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition ~~~ Illustrated end pages (map), introduction, related passages, a Thoreau chronology, glossary of botanical terms, a note on the provenance of the manuscript, manuscript facsimile, 90-odd pages of notes, works cited, index, 409 pages. ~~~ Thoreau's Walden (1854) is regarded both as a masterpiece of American prose and as a forerunner… Read more about this item Item Price
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NATURE AND THE AMERICAN: Three Centuries of Changing Attitudes
by Hans Huth
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- Used - Near Fine
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- n/a
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- New Edition (originally published in 1957
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- 1990
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- Trade paperback
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Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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A$27.01
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Trade paperback in Near Fine condition. ~~~ Illustrated, introduction by Douglas H. Strong, notes, bibliography, index, 250 pages. ~~~ Hans Huth was for many years Curator of Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago and a consultant for the U.S. National Park Service. --- For this new Bison Book edition, Douglas H. Strong has written an introduction discussing recent… Read more about this item Item Price
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HENRY THOREAU: A Life of the Mind
by Robert D. Richardson Jr.
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- Used - Very Good
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- n/a
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- Sixth Paperback Printing
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- 1998
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- Trade paperback
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Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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VG. Remainder mark on bottom edge of book, otherwise a clean, tight copy. ~~~ Illustrations, Chronology, Principal sources, Notes, Index, 455 pages. ~~~ The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE ESSAYS OF HENRY D. THOREAU
by Lewis Hyde (editor)
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- Used - Very Good
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- 2002
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- Trade paperback
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Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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A$25.47
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Trade paperback, NF condition. ~~~ Introduction, essays, annotations, bibliography, index, 390 pages. ~~~ With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their composition. This definitive edition includes Thoreau's most famous essays, "Civil Disobedience"… Read more about this item Item Price
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THREE YEARS ON THE NOWHERE ROAD: The Awakening of a Poetic Sensibility
by BJ Omanson
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- NEW
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 2018
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- Miracle Binding (glued)
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Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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In his memoir, Three Years on the Nowhere Road, BJ Omanson recounts the strange and haphazard road that led him to a life of poetry-- a life of inadequate means, manual labor, wilderness solitude and-- as he was a high-school dropout-- nothing whatever to do with writing programs or academia. ---- In November of 1972, married scarcely a year and… Read more about this item Item Price
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STARK COUNTY POEMS
by BJ Omanson
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- NEW
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- n/a
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- Enlarged illustrated edition
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- 2018
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- Miracle Binding (glued)
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Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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Consisting of over fifty poems, from short lyrics in a variety of forms to lengthy blank verse and free verse narratives, "Stark County Poems" portrays the history of a small rural county in central Illinois, along the upper Spoon River valley. ~~ Chronologically arranged, and incorporating letters, newspaper articles, obituaries, family stories, early county histories and diaries, the poems cover… Read more about this item Item Price
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