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Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Cornell University Press, 1991T. paperback. Very Good. 0.7874 in x 8.8976 in x 5.9843 in.

Tin House Books. Used - Very Good. 2007. Paperback. Very Good.

Macmillan of Canada. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Introduction by LARRY MCMURTRY.

Cornell University Press, 1991-04. Paperback. Good.

London: Pandora / HarperCollins, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/fine. ix, [1], 240 p., 16 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 24 cm. Blue textured paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author reexamines the life of Frieda Lawrence (1879-1956), wife of D.H. Lawrence, partially through Frieda Lawrence's own words. Book and dust jacket are in Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Co, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/very good -. [10], 175 p.; 22 cm. Beige cloth with gilt and black spine title. Green endpapers. Dust jacket design by Martha Lehtola. Book club edition. Contents: Canadian Spring -- Walking: Its Cause, Duration and Effect -- The Peaceful Pursuit -- Confessions of a Noisemaker -- Time Out of Mind -- Inclinations to Fish -- Tom -- With Claud Beneath the Bough . . . -- Pas Devant de Chien -- William. Essays about the out-of-doors in Britain and Canada by the author of The Incredible Journey. Two essays are about pets, one funny reflection on her experience as custodian of her daughter's canary during the summer, and one dog story--a sad and well-observed portrait of the last days of the family's bull terrier. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; chipping at ends of spine; minor loss at tail end over back joint; 1-cm. tear over front board fore-edge, without loss.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1916. Hardcover. Good. Letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City, covering the dramatic period between October 8th, 1913, and the breaking off of diplomatic relations on April 23rd, 1914, together with an account of the occupation of Vera Cruz." [12], 355, [1] p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece, 11 leaves of plates; 21 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine and front-cover titles and illustration. No dust jacket. Top page edges gilt. The author's letters were written to her mother. "In spite of necessary omissions they may throw some light on the difficulties of the Mexican situation, which we have made our own, and which every American wishes to see solved in a way that will testify to the persistence of those qualities that made us great." [from the Foreword] The author, Edith O'Shaughnessy (1876-1939), was a journalist, screenwriters, and biographer. Her husband, Nelson O'Shaughnessy (1876-1932), was the Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at the… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. [6], 344 p., [16] p. of photographs; 24 cm. Purple and blue cover with silver spine title; blind-stamped publisher's emblem on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Steve Snider. Includes a list of Colette's works and an index. Book is in Near Fine Conditin: top page edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. xxii, 490 p., 16 unpaginated pages of illustration; 24 cm. Light brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; "H.D." gilt-stamped on front board. Illustrated dust jacket designed by G.G. Laurens. First edition. American poet Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), known as H.D., moved to London in 1911 and became one of the avant-garde poets known as the Imagists. She was a prolific writer of both poetry and prose throughout her life. This biography includes previously unpublished material by H.D. and previously unpublished letters by Ezra Pound. Book is in Fine Condition. Dust jacket is in Very Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; clean and intact.

Boston: Bedford Books, 1997. Paperback. Fine. xiii, [3], 252 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Part of The Bedford Series in History and Culture. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1993. Paperback. Near Fine. xix, [1], 378 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. The author "provides a blueprint for a revitalised, positive and inclusive brand of feminism, unafraid of success." -- cover. In Near Fine Condition: pages are browning; clean and tight.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Universty Press, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. [10], 90 p.; 24 cm. Purple cloth spine with red paper over boards; yellow-stamped spine title. Grey endpapers. Dust jacket cover illustration is the painting Afternoon Fixing by Ken Sofer. Winner of the 1998 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Book is in Near Fine Condition: faint indentation along upper page edges; otherwise clean and crisp. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition.

London: Penguin Books, 1992. Paperback. Fine. Reprinted with new notes 1992." [6], 331, [15] p.; 20 cm. Paperback. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

New York: Viking Studio Books, 1990. Paperback. Fine. ix, [1], 102 p.: color photographs; 18 x 20 cm. Paperback with color illustrated cover. Contents: The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield -- A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty -- The Chrysanthemums by John Steinback -- Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Occasional Garden by Saki. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xiv, 202 p., 8 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 22 cm. Black and beige cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Evelyn Scott (1893-1963) was an American author who was very active in the 1920s and 1930s but largely forgotten before her death in 1963. She wrote 12 novles, 2 volumes of poetry, 4 children's books, and 2 autobiographical works from 1921 to 1941. In this praised biography, D. A. Callard draws on a variet of sources to present a full picture of this interesting and rebellious American writer. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and bright.

Menasha, WI: American Anthropological Association, 1962. Paperback. Good. ix, [1], 113 p.: tables, map, chart; 24 cm. Beige wrappers printed in dark brown. The author studied Menomini Indian living in a reservation in Wisconsin. In Good Condition: faint dampstain at lower page edges; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: Viking, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/fine. x, 253 p.; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth spine with copper stamped spine title and beige paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Remainder mark on lower page edges. In the title essay, Gordon examines novels by Dreiser, Faulkners, and Updike, where she finds "an abundance of female corpses and a certain heroism attributed to the men responsible; she finds an ideology which suggests that men are active, eager, gold creasures--except when women slow them down."--dust jacket. Remainder mark on lower page edges; otherwise in Fine/Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Seattle: Seal Press, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 269, [3] p.; 22 cm. Paperback; cover illustration and design by Deborah Brown. Originally published in Norway as Egalias Dotre in 1977. Part of the publisher's Women in Translation series. Publisher's advertisement for other titles in the series follows text. Although her works had been translated into other languages, this was the first translation into English of one of Brantenberg's books. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly soiled; minor soiling inside front cover and on half title; otherwise, clean and tight.