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	1	Allen,Paula Gunn. Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. First edition vg/vg dj Sm 4to, 242 pp. A superlative collection of traditional, contemporary, and biographical writings. Price: 15.00 USD
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	2	Armstrong,Paul B. The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad and Ford. Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1987. First edition vg/vg dj Sm 4to, 276 pp. concentrates on the movement of the novel as a genre and the three authors, one ink marking on the pages' sides. Price: 25.00 USD
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	3	Ashe,Rosalind. Literary Houses: Ten Famous Houses in Ficiton. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1982. vg/vg dj 4to, 139 pp. Paintings, floorplans, and drawings, in both color and b/w, of some of the most famous ficitonal houses ever written Price: 15.00 USD
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	4	Baldry,H. C. Greek Literature for the Modern Reader. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1951. vg/vg dj Sm 8vo, 321 pp. first page creased, dust jacket worn around edges with a 1/2" tear on back, a great overview of Greek lit. Price: 20.00 USD
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	5	Bennett,Paula. My Life A Loaded Gun: Female Creativity and Feminist Poetics. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. First edition vg/vg dj Sm 4to, 300 pp. Emily dickinson, Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich, stresses the importance of anger and reconstructs the poetic development Price: 20.00 USD
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	6	Bernikow,Louise. Among Women. New York: Harmony Books, 1980. First edition vg/vg dj 8vo, 296 pp. A stiring exploration of the diverse relationships formed between women, not only the Author , but literary figures too. Price: 15.00 USD
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	7	Birkett,Jennifer. The Body and the Dream. London: Quartet Books, 1983. vg/vg dj Sm 4to, 211 pp. A collection of short stories and extracts taken from classics of 5 centuries of French erotica. Price: 20.00 USD
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	8	Boardman,Michael M. Narrative Innovation and Incoherence: Ideology in Defoe, Goldsmith, Austen, Eliot and Hemingway. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992. First edition vg/vg dj 8vo, 226 pp. A study if the subversion of perfected techiniques that occurs in the later works of the authors. Price: 17.50 USD
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	9	Brooks,Van Wyck. Opinions of Oliver Allston. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1941. First edition vg/vg dj 8vo, 309 pp. More brilliant literary criticism from pulitzer prize winner Van Wyck Brooks. Previous owner's imprint. Price: 20.00 USD
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	10	Burton,Joan B. Theocritus's Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage. California: University of California, 1995. First edition vg/vg dj Sm 4to, 298 pp. A powerful new reading of the poetry which defines Hellenistic ideals. Price: 25.00 USD
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	11	Cahalan,James M. Great Hatred, Little Room: The Irish Historical Novel. Syracuse U. Press, 1983. Firste edition vg/vg dj Sm 4to, 240 pp. An in-depth study of the Irish historical novel. Price: 20.00 USD
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	12	Carmer,Carl. The Tavern Lamps are Burning: Literary Journeys Through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State. New York: David McKay Comp., 1964. 2nd Printing vg/vg dj Sm 4to, 567 pp. Price clipped d/j with minor scrapes and edge wear, illustrated with over 40 b/w paintings, great writers on a great region Price: 20.00 USD
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	13	Cascardi,Anthony J. The Bounds of Reason: Cervantes, Dostoevesky, Flaubert. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. First edition vg/vg dj 8vo, 284 pp. d/j very clean, pages supple and tight. Price: 20.00 USD
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	14	Cherry,Kelly. Writing the World. Columbia: U. of Missouri Press, 1995. First edition vg/vg dj 8vo, 147 pp. A creative, non-fiction travel novella as well as a pasionate, profound and often humorous exploration of the art of writing Price: 20.00 USD
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	15	Child Study Association of America. Insights: a Selection of Creative Literature About Children. New York: Jason Aronson, 1973. vg/vg dj Sm 4to, 462 pp. The artist's understanding of children, a fascinating look at the child through literature, minor rubbing to d.j fringe Price: 20.00 USD
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	16	Cohen,Michael. Engaging English Art: Enetering the Work in Two Centuries of English Painting and Poetry. Tuscaloosa: U. of Alabama Press, 1987. First edition vg/vg dj Sm 4to, 228 pp. Illustrated with fine b/w reproductions, strategies used to engage the audience in English painting and poetry: 1680-1880 Price: 20.00 USD
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	17	Cornell,Kenneth. The Post-Symbolist Period. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. First edition vg/vg dj Sm 4to, 182 pp. Explores the thread of poetic theory in france from 1900 to 1920, some slight discoloration of d/j Price: 15.00 USD
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	18	Davenport-Hines,Richard. Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin. New York: Noth Point Press, 1998. First NP edition vg/vg dj sm 4to, 438 pp. Traces the history of Gthic sensibility from 17th century to the present, livley and provocative. Illustarted in b/w. Price: 25.00 USD
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	19	De Sanctis,Francesco. History of Italian Literature. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1968. vg 8vo, 971 pp. A 2 volume set bound in brown cloth, both in very good condition, translated by Joan Redfern. Price: 27.50 USD
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	20	Docherty,Thomas. On Modern Authority: The Theory and Condition of Writing-1500 to the Present Day. Sussex: Harvester Press, 1987. vg/vg dj 8vo, 310 pp. An outstanding post-structuralist critique of the condition of authority as a cultural and political phenomenon. Price: 20.00 USD
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