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Cary, N.C., USA: Oxford University Press, 1996 Colour and b/w illustrations/plates. Some age and shelf wear. Slight white spotting to lower right corner of back cover. Slight creasing on front cover at spine edge. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Contents - COLUMNS: I Am I-To Myself-And at the Same Time You-To Others by Laszlo F. Foldenyi translated by Michael Blumenthal; After History? by Joan Wallach Scott. ARTICLE : Drugs: In the Care of the Self by Richard J. DeGrandpre and Ed White. SERIATIM SYMPOSIUM Countertransference and the Humanities: Intersubjectivity and Nonverbal Interactive Processes: My Love Affair with Romanesque Art by Alexandra Murray Harrison. LITTLE REVIEWS: Roger Shattuck; Helen Vendler; Joseph Vining; James L. Wescoat; Michael Wilson; Alex de Waal; Margaret C. Jacob; Caroline Walker Bynum; The Editors. SYMPOSIUM Experimental Scholarship: Dialogical Introduction by Hugh Kenner; Greil Marcus; OK; or, Handel with Care by Marc Shell; There by Cole… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Penguin Classics, 2006 Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. As new with very slight age and shelf wear to cover edges, otherwise tight copy with no internal markings. The Los Angeles Times considered this volume as "The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from 'the greatest twentieth-century writer ..'." Pessoa was the equal of Yeats, Rilke, Valery, Lorca, Pasternak or Hart Crane. This is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa's genius.

Eire: Bayleaf Publications, 2006 Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Slight wear to the edges. This is Power's fourth collection of poems. The first nine poems in this collection were written between 1962 and 1970. This is his final collection of poems; he died a year after its publication. Brian Power was a retired priest.

London, United Kingdom: Michael Joseph, 1982 First Edition. 578pp. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Slight shelf and age wear especially to jacket. Paper has tanned with age especially around edges. Initial and date of previous owner on first endpaper on the top right hand corner. Otherwise no internal markings - clean text pages. Contents: Prologue; Part One: The Forties - Original Sin, The Act of Obedience, A Most Deadly Illusion, The Atomic Archipelago, The Poor Relation, The One-Eyed Kings; Part Two: The Fifties - The Fates and the Furies, The Power of Les X, A Separate World, The Admiral, The Perennial Fountain, What Are You Doing, The Uncertified Possibility, The First Ice Age, The Outcasts; Part Three: The Sixties - Like Butter in the Sun, Foolish Dreams, Transitory, Dangerous and Degrading, Listen World; Part Four: The Seventies - The Boom Years, A Shell of the Atom, A Tale of Two Dynasties, A Certain Event, The Buddha is Smiling, Pride and Prejudice, The Second Ice Age, In the… Read More

London, U.K.: Chatto & Windus, 1935 Age and shelf wear - no dustjacket. Orange boards. Corners and edges of boards rubbed & bumped - spine top and tail rubbed - spine sun faded. One inch whitish mark on spine below title. Otherwise tight binding, no pages missing, no markings to pages, clean text pages.
This was Pritchett's third novel about a provincial tannery and people whose lives are centered around it - the main character: Mathew Burkle. It was based on his own work experience in the leather trade. One of last century's masters of the short story. He was knighted in 1975 and died in 1997 at age 96. The novel is divided into four sections: Book 1: The Innocence of Mathew Burkle; Book 2: The Temptation of Mathew Burkle; Book 3: The Fall of Mathew Burkle; Book 4: The Rise of the Women.