Search Results: Literature from Exchange Value Books

Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. [LITERATURE]. Bloch, R. Howard. "The Anonymous Marie de France." Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. English. Hardcover in jacket. Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine and scarlet endpapers. 9.25 x 6.25 x 1 in. 24 x 16 x 3 cm. 8 oz. Minor crinkling on bottom of back dust jacket. Text clean. Fine in Near Fine jacket. ISBN: 9780226059686."This book by one of our most admired and influential medievalists offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. The Anonymous Marie de France is the first work to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular Saint Patrick's Purgatory.Evidence about Marie de France's life is so meager that we know next to nothing about her-not where… Read More

Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Sticker residue on back cover. ISBN: 080571040X.

Banipal Publishing; London, UK, 2014. Softcover. Acceptable. Water damage at bottom of copy, tide lines, wavy, text intact, clean. This is Banipal 49 from spring 2014.

Big Big Wednesday, Brown Printing; Portland, OR, 2016. 1st Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Big Big Wednesday's fourth issue features work by the following contributors: Leslie Allison, Andy Nicole Bowers, Jillian Brenner, Tess Brown-Lavoie, Gabe Bump, Francesca Capone, Emily Carr, Trinie Dalton, Andy Day, Catie Hannigan, Phoebe Harris, Erin Howe, Greg Jackson, Maren Jensen, Joseph Johnson, Courtney Knight, Claudia Lars, Ben Lerner, David Madsen, Nick Maione, Sam Michel, Sam Steffen, Haley Rene Thompson, Jennifer Williams. Softcover. Perfect-bound. Color wrappers. Text clean. Insert poster present. 118 pages.

New York: Expat Press, 2021. Softcover. Good Plus. . 0x0x0. [LITERATURE]. Ed. James Nulick. Contributors: Jonathan Lethem, Sean Kilpatrick, Jane Diesel, Jane Judith, Paul Curran, Plasticbagger, et al. "Expat 4." New York: Expat Press, 2021. English language. Softcover. Text with 1 full-color image and 1 black and white image. 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.25 in. 21.5 x 14.5 x 3 cm. 23 oz. pp. 455. Front cover bows out. Crease in front cover. Top right-hand corner of front cover creased. Ink underlining in one story. Rest of text clean. Crease on spine. Good Plus. ISBN: 9781734683264."ExPat Four is 34 pieces of live writing by some familiar luminaries and household names, e-celebs and enfants terribles, cyber writers and dilettantes, misfits and disreputable deviants, ruminating on the times which are aghast, waxing romantic, dishing c/o the status quo, challenging the old norms and forms, leaving it all behind in the hopes of finding a new way. Are we post-writing yet? How much time do we have? Is… Read More

[LITERATURE]. SCHWARTZ, Delmore (1913-1966). Editor: Mary J. J. Wrinn. "The Poets' Pack of George Washington High School by Members of the Poetry Club and the Poetry Class, 1927-1931." New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1932. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in glassine. English language. Orange cloth boards with gilt titling on spine and gilt illustration of a shield on front cover. 12mo. XXII, 300 pp. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. 15 oz. Fore-edge and bottom uncut. Text clean. Price in pencil on free front endpaper. Contains (pp.262-265) the first four poems of Delmore Schwartz's to ever be published: "E. A. P. - A Portrait," "The Saxophone," "Automobile," and "Darkness." Schwartz, whose writing garnered early comparisons to T. S. Eliot, was a major figure in twentieth-century literary circles in New York City and at Harvard, where he taught. His short-story collection "The World is a Wedding" is a classic of the period and social milieu. A long-time editor of the Partisan Review, Schwartz was… Read More

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Softcover. Near Fine. [LITERATURE]. Ed. Glenn Blake. Contributors: Susan de Sola, Lynn Levin, Luc Phinney, Jay Rogoff, Callie Siskel, et al. "The Hopkins Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, Winter 2014." Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Printed by Sheridan Press. English language. Softcover. 10 x 7 x 0.25 in. 25 x 18 x 1.5 cm. 11 oz. 144 pp. Rubbing on spine. Shelfwear. Text clean. Near Fine. No ISBN. No ASIN. ISSN: 1939-6589

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Softcover. Near Fine. [LITERATURE]. Ed. Glenn Blake. Contributors: Bill Coyle, David Ferry, Joshua Mehigan, Michael Slipp, Christian Wiman, et al. "The Hopkins Review, Vol. 7, No. 3, Summer 2014." Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Printed by Sheridan Press. English language. Softcover. Text with black and white images. 10 x 7 x 0.25 in. 25 x 18 x 1 cm. 11 oz. 300-432 pp. Rubbing on spine. Back cover crimped at bottom. Text clean. Very Good Plus. No ISBN. No ASIN. ISSN: 1939-6589.

Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Good. [LITERATURE]. Eds. Beverly Sidoti, James Robinson, Nina Percell, Peter Persson. Contributors: John Edson, Gary Hulbert, Fay Enos, Don Johnson, Becky Shotwell, Gabe Heilig, Judy Banks, et al. "Kapa Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1966." Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii, 1966. English language. Softcover literary magazine with a spine. Text with variously printed black and white illustrations. 10 x 6 x 0.25 in. 25 x 15 x 0.5 cm. 5 oz. pp. 43. Pencil and ink on covers. Covers show light discoloration. Very to of spine torn. Yellowing. Price in pencil on first page. Pages toned. Third to last page cut in half. Good. No ISBN. No ASIN.

Gambier, OH: The Kenyon Review, 2023. Softcover. Very Good. [LITERATURE]. Ed. Nicole Terez Dutton. Contributors: Lindsay Turner, Isabelle Burden, AJ Bermudez, K. Iver, et al. "The Kenyon Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, Spring 2023." Gambier, OH: The Kenyon Review, 2023. English language. Softcover with French flaps. Text with full-color illustrations. 9 x 6 x 0.5 in. 23 x 15 x 1.5 cm. 12 oz. pp. 217. Wear on covers. Small abrasion on back cover. Text clean. Very Good. No ISBN. ISSN: 0163-075X. No ASIN. "The Spring 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review includes a folio of literature in translation guest edited by award-winning translators Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, and Jeremy Tiang. The issue also includes poetry by Kwame Dawes, Timothy Donnelly, K. Iver, and Danusha Laméris; fiction by Sam J. Miller, Michael Tod Powers, J. T. Sutlive, and Lindsay Turner; nonfiction by A. J. Bermudez; and the winner of the 2022 Short Fiction Contest, judged by Karen Russell. The cover art… Read More

American Agora Foundation: New York, 2019. Softcover. Good Plus. 10x7x0. [LITERATURE]. Ed. Lewis Lapham. Contributors: Hilary Mantel, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Francois Rabelais, Alexander Hamilton, et al. "Lapham's Quarterly, Vol. XII, No. 2, Spring 2019, "Trade." New York: American Agora Foundation, 2019. English language. Softcover. Text with full-color illustrations. 10 x 7 x 0.5 in. 26 x 18 x 2 cm. 18 oz. 219 pp. Front cover bows out. Small abrasion on inside front cover and half-title. Business reply mail insert. Text clean. Good. No ISBN. ASIN: B07RPBF18C.

Editorial la Oveja Negra, 1986. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Text in Spanish. Softcover. Wear on cover. Dog-earring. Some pencil marginalia. Pencil on title page. ISBN: 9580615152.

N+1 Foundation, Inc.; Brooklyn, NY, 2020. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [LITERARY MAGAZINE]. Eds. Mark Krotov, Dayna Tortorici. Contributors: Jeremiah Moss, Omari Weekes, Marco Roth, et al. "N+1, Number 36, Winter 2020, 'Get Help'." Brooklyn, NY: N+1 Foundation, Inc., 2020. English language. Softcover. Text and black and white illustrations. 197 pp. 10 x 7 x 0.75 inches. Small stain at top of front cover. Price in pencil on title page. Text clean. Very Good. ISBN: 9781732294158. "Addicted to Instagram? Nationalize publishing! Nausicaa Renner in DC, Jeremiah Moss in his apartment. What to expect when you're expecting climate apocalypse. German sheep, Russian bees. In detention and on the border.

Kahn + Associates / New Magazine: Paris, FR, 2005. Softcover. Very Good. [LITERATURE]. Ed. Paul Kahn. Contributors: Gary Snyder, Olivier Delbard, Nacho Fernandez, Lubos Snizek, Luci Collin, Irina Dyatlovskaya, Shigeyoshi Hara, Chiara D'Ottavi, Francesco Gengoni, Reidar Ekner, Willie Alexander, Hallam Ferguson, Norman Fischer, Carl Caulkins, Eliot Weinberger, J.B. Bryan, Martin Kemp, Antonio Criminisi, Claude Mollard, Ted Nelson, Gregoire Paultre, James Koller, Mirtha Dermisache, Paul Kahn, Carrie Noland, Edgardo Cozarinksy, Florent Fajole, et al. "New Magazine: International Visual and Verbal Communication: Issue 1 (2005): Translating Gary Snyder." Paris, FR: Kahn and Associates, New Magazine, 2005. English language. Softcover. Sticker residue on front cover. Very Good. No ISBN.

Chicago, IL: Stephen Tully Dierks, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Plus. [LITERATURE]. Ed. Stephen Tully Dierks. Contributors: Sara Drake, Aidan Koch, Jordan Castro, Mallory Whitten, Steve Roggenbuck, Ana Carrete, Frank Hinton, Tao Lin, Cassandra Troyan, Lyra Hill, Noah Cicero, Sam Pink, Carrie Lorig, et al. "Pop Serial, No. 2, Winter 2010." Chicago, IL: Stephen Tully Dierks, 2010. English language. Softcover. Text with black and white images. 11 x 8.5 x 0.25 in. 27 x 21 x 1 cm. 14 oz. 127 pp. Front cover bows out. Use. Text clean. Cassandra Troyan's contributor copy. Very Good Plus. No ISBN. No ASIN. No ISSN. "The line-up for Issue Two features a lot of relatively well-known names from the online, "indie," loosely HTMLGIANT-affiliated literary scene, including Tao Lin, Noah Cicero, Sam Pink, Heather Christle, Daniel Bailey, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Ben Brooks, Kendra Grant Malone, Matthew Savoca, Audun Mortensen, Brandi Wells, Prathna Lor, Frank Hinton, Jordan… Read More

Ann Arbor, MI; London, UK: University Microfilms International, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Fair. [LITERATURE]. Glad, John Peter. "Russian Soviet Science Fiction and Related Critical Activity." Ann Arbor, MI; London, UK: University Microfilms International, 1977. English language. Softcover microfilmed facsimile of a 1971 NYU PhD dissertation. 8.5 x 6.5 x 0.5 in. 22 x 17 x 1.5 cm. 14 oz. [14], 177 pp., [3]. Light discoloration on spine and on corners of book. Sun leeching. Wear. Use. Front cover bows out. Back cover creased. Price in pencil on first page. Some pencil marginalia. Slight yellowing. Good to Fair. No ISBN. No ASIN.

Konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke; Tubingen, DE, 2014. Softcover. Good. 0x0x0. [LITERATURE]. Tawada, Yoko. "Wo Europa anfangt und Ein Gast: Erzahlungen und Gedichte." Tubingen, DE: Konkursburch Verlag Claudia Gehrke, 2014. German language. Softcover with French flaps. Text with color illustrations on clear wax paper as well as black and pink illustrations. 8 x 5 x 0.5 inches. 8 oz. 159 pp. Pencil and ink marginalia throughout. Japanese writer writing stores and poems in German. Good Plus. ISBN: 0002218.