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Lost in the Funhouse (The Anchor Literary Library)

By: "Barth, John"

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Anchor:

Seller ID: 9780385240871

ISBN: 0385240872

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection. As the characters search, each in his own way, for their purpose and the meaning of their existence, Lost in the Funhouse takes on a hiliarious, often moving significance.
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Winter of the Salamander: The Keeper of Importance

By: "Bear, Ray Young (author & cover art)"

Price: $49.95

Publisher: San Francisco, Harper & Row: 1979

Seller ID: 8-8T008

ISBN: 0064527514

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD+

"Tight, faintest age tanning of pages, clean interior, light age soil to exterior, square. Long corner crease on front cover. Rubbed and lightly chipped cover edges with small chips at spine ends. Front cover illustration by Ray Young Bear. Collection of 80 poems by Ray Young Bear a member of the Sauk and Fox (Mesquaki) tribe. His poems explore themes of man, creature, earth, power, the beauty of the landscape, and the the spirit of the people who survive there.208 pages. 8.25x5.5x1.5"" (21x14x1.7cm)."
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"Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable"

By: "Beckett, Samuel"

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Grove Press:

Seller ID: 9780802144478

ISBN: 0802144470

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett's famous trilogy. Molloy, the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by Malone Dies and two years later by The Unnamable. All three have been rendered into English by the author.
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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

By: "Beckett, Samuel"

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Grove Press:

Seller ID: 9780802130341

ISBN: 0802130348

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

As Vladimir and Estragon await the arrival of Godot, they discuss their lives and consider hanging themselves, but choose to wait for Godot instead, in the hope that he can tell them what their purpose is.
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Rimas

By: "Becquer, Gustavo Adolfo (Rafael Montesinos, ed.)"

Price: $8.95

Publisher: "Madrid, Spain", Letras Hispanica (#31) / Catedra: 1988

Seller ID: 18P016

ISBN: 8437613434

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD-

"As new except for occasional pencil notes in margin. ""El secreto de Becquer esta en habe sabido llegar por igual al pueble, a la burguesia, a los poetas y a los estudiosos de su obra, y el misterio de esas famas paralelas no tiene equivalente en toda la poesia espanola..."" Text in Spanish."
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Behan Complete Plays (Methuen World Classics)

By: "Behan, Brendan"

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama:

Seller ID: 9780413387806

ISBN: 0413387801

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

This volume contains everything Brendan Behan wrote in dramatic form in English

Contains the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison ("In Brendan Behan's tremendous new play language is out on a spree, ribald, dauntless and spoiling for a fight ... with superb dramatic tact, the tragedy is concealed beneath layer after layer of rough comedy" Observer); The Hostage, set in a Dublin lodging-house of doubtful repute where a young English soldier is being kept prisoner, "shouts, sings, thunders and stamps with life...a masterpiece" (The Times); and Ri...
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Dangling Man

By: "Bellow, Saul"

Price: $1.15

Publisher: Avon:

Seller ID: 9780380508495

ISBN: 0380508494

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Los Intereses Creados

By: "Benavente, Jacinto"

Price: $7.95

Publisher: "Buenos Aires, Argentina", Espasa - Calpe / Coleccion Austral #34: 1965

Seller ID: 6-5P007

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD-

"UGLY but solid READING copy. Tight, age tanned pages with underlining and a few notes, tilted spine. The dust jacket is soiled with tattered edges and tape repaired on inside. Spanish drama by Nobel prize winning author. 146 pages. Text in Spanish."
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Los intereses creados

By: "Benavente, Jacinto"

Price: $4.50

Publisher: "Salamanca, Spain", Biblioteca Anaya (#47): 1969

Seller ID: 57P036

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"1907 drama by Nobel prize winning 20th century Spanish author. Spanish text. Tight, bright, some staining and rubbing to covers, interior as new, square."
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Synisbok

By: "Benediktsson, Einer (Johannes Sveinsson Kjarval, illus.)"

Price: $474.95

Publisher: "Rikavik, Iceland", Almenna Bokafelagid: 1957

Seller ID: 2NT006

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Tight, bright, clean interior, a few spots on exterior, square. Tan leather with embossed brown design on cover. Spine has brown title blocks with gilt lettering and trim. Faint wear to spine ends. Slight pressure marks along the glue edge of endpapers. Content: Ur Sögum Og Kvædum - Ur Hafbliki - Ur Hrönnum - Ur Vogum - Ur Hvömmum - Nokkrar Stökur - Ur Petri Gaut - Fjorar Sögur - Athugasemdir. 270 pages. Text in Icelandic."
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Felix LeClerc

By: "Berimont, Luc"

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Editions Pierre Seghers: 1973

Seller ID: 97M0002

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, bright, clean, faint curl. ""Poesie et chansons...Introduction - chansons - Discographie - Illustrations. Text in French."
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The Devil's Dictionary (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: "Bierce, Ambrose"

Price: $1.25

Publisher: Dover Publications:

Seller ID: 9780486275420

ISBN: 0486275426

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Born in Ohio in 1842, journalist, short-story writer and critic Ambrose Bierce developed into one of this country's most celebrated and cynical wits -- a merciless "American Swift" whose literary barbs were aimed at folly, self-delusion, politics, business, religion, literature and the arts. In this splendid "dictionary" of epigrams, essays, verses and vignettes, you'll find over 1,000 pointed definitions, e.g. Congratulation ("The civility of envy"), Coward ("One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs") and Historian ("A broad-gauge gossip"). Anyone who likes to laugh will love The ...
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An Anthology of German Poetry 1730-1830

By: "Bithell, Jethro"

Price: $37.95

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co LTD: 1957

Seller ID: 80P003

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD+/No DJ

"Tight, faint page yellowing, sunned spine, clean, slight tilt. Small spot on front cover. 233 pages. Works of 41 poets(in German). Introduction in English (141 pages)."
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Pays voiles: Existences

By: "Blais, Marie-Claire"

Price: $8.95

Publisher: "Montreal, Canada", Stanke: 1983

Seller ID: 97P020

ISBN: 2760402126

Binding: Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"Tight, yellowed pages, clean,faint curl. Canadian author. Text in French. "
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The Portable William Blake (Portable Library)

By: "Blake, William"

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics:

Seller ID: 9780140150261

ISBN: 0140150269

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"--including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Abion, America, The Book of Urizen, and The Four Zoas--and from other works of poetry and prose, as well as the complete drawings for The Book of Job.
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Autumn Glow: A Collection of Poems

By: "Blanch, Emma J."

Price: $4.95

Publisher: "Milford, CT", Laurel's Press: 1993

Seller ID: 96T008

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new except for fading of cover edges (spine and back). 30 poems of ""Ideas and feelings tumbling through consciousness, teasing the mind, put into selected words."" 41+ pages, staple-bound, 8.5x5.5"" (21.6x14cm)"
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Antologia de la literatura espanola:1. Siglo XI al XVII

By: "Bleiberg, Germain (ed)"

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Bolsillo / Alianza Editorial: 1969

Seller ID: 5-3P006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"Tight, faint age tanning to page edges, clean and square. Reading crease on spine, rubbed covers, a few pages (16th century poetry) with neat margin notes. Anthology of Spanish literature from 6th to 17th Century. 507 pages. Text in Spanish"
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Brian's Song (Screenplay)

By: "Blinn, William"

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553266184

ISBN: 0553266187

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Winner of five Emmy awards

Two men. Once names Gale Sayers, the other Brian Piccolo. They came from different parts of the country. They competed fiercely for the same job. One liked to talk; the other was shy. One was white; the other black. This is the story of how they came to know each other, fight each other, and help each other. . . .
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)

By: "Borroff, Marie"

Price: $1.50

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc:

Seller ID: 9780393097542

ISBN: 0393097544

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

El cielo protector (Coleccion Fin de Siglo)

By: "Bowles, Paul (Aurora , trans.)"

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Mexico, Alfaguara: 1990

Seller ID: 5-5T012

ISBN: 9682928761

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new - gift quality! ""Novela de peregrinacion, viaje o huida, consigue hacernos participes de la embriaguez de un espacio fisico - el norte de Africa, el Sahara - por el que deambulan sus protagonistas."" Text in Spanish."
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