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1) Simulacres et Simulation
Baudrillard, Jean

France: Editions Galilee, 1981. First edition. Softcover. G+/-. 8vo. 234pp. Baudrillard's now famous work in the original French. Soiling, creasing and edge-wear to wraps. Highlighting and underlining throughout. (more information)

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2) Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism & Hermeneutics
Dreyfus, Hubert L., Paul Rabinow, eds

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1983. 2nd Edition, 6th printing. Softcover. VG+/-. 8vo. 269pp. Black wraps, barely scuffed. Corners lightly bumped. A very small amount of underlining and tick marks in pencil. (more information)

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3) Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D. (Midland Book)
Friedman, Susan S

Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D. (Midland Book)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. Softcover. VG/-. 8vo: 332 pp. Covers scuffed. Bottom rear corner creased. Interior is tight and unmarked. "...the first book-length study to approach H.D. from a feminist perspective..." -Cheryl Walker, Signs. (more information)

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4) Rorty i Lyotard W labiryntach postmoderny
Keik, Marek

Poznan: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Instytutu Filozofi Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 1994. Softcover. VG/-. 8vo. 199pp. Cream wraps. Scuffing, general soiling to wraps. Binding is tight, text is unmarked. (more information)

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5) Black Sun: Depression and Meloncholia
Kristeva, Julia, Leon S. Roudiez, trans

New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. 1st ed. thus. Hardcover. Fine/VG+. 8vo. 300pp. Red jacket over red cloth. Gilt to spine. One of Kristeva's most important works and a major contribution to literary criticism. (more information)

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6) The Creation of Patriarchy
Lerner, Gerda

NY: Oxford University Press, 1986. 3rd ptg. Hardcover. NF/NF. 4to. 318pp. Tan Dj over tan boards backed in black cloth. Ed. info in gilt on spine. "The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical re-conceptualization of Western Civilization that makes gender central to it's analysis." Slight wear to edges, else fine. (more information)

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7) The Phoenix Paradox: A Study of Renewal Through Change in the Collected Poems and Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence
Mandell, Gail Porter/ Sandra Gilbert, intro

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984. 1st ed. Hardcover. VG/No dustjacket. 4to. 261pp. Taupe cloth. Slight bumping to corners and spine. Light scratches to upper cover. (more information)

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8) Black Professional Women in Recent American Fiction
Marshall, Carmen Rose

Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., Inc, 2004. 1st ed., 1st ptg. Softcover. VG+/-. 8vo. 219pp. Pict. wraps., slightly curled. An examination of the failure of contemporary fiction to accurately portray and keep pace with rising number of successful black women and their cultural milieu. (more information)

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9) Enter Isabel: The Herman Melville Correspondance of Clare Spark and Paul Metcalf
Metcalf, Paul

Univ. of New Mexico, 1991. Stated, 1st. ed. Hardcover. Fine/VG plus. 8vo: 99pp. Pict. DW over red cloth. Fading to spine. Slight bumping to corners. (more information)

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10) The Hero and The Sea: Patterns of Chaos in Ancient Myth
Mills, Donald H

Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci Publ, 2003. First edition. Softcover. VG+/-. 8vo. 200pp. Black pict. wraps. An investigation into the recurrence of mythical patterns of chaos, chiefly symbolized by water. Slight edgewear. (more information)

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11) A Recent Imagining; Interviews with Harold Bloom, Goeffrey Harman, J. Hillis Miller, Paul De Man
Moynihan, Robert

Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1986. 1st ed., 1st ptg. Hardcover. VG+/VG-. 8vo. 168pp. 2 tones of grey dj. over grey cloth. Creasing and wear to edges; 1cm chip at top edge near spine; wear at dj. joints; slight bow. INterior is tight and clean. Moynihan interviews "the Yale Mafia" in order to give the reader a better understanding of their individual critical perspectives on literature, theory and praxis. (more information)

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12) The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading
Muller, John P./ William J. Richardson, eds

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1988. 5th ptg. Softcover. VG/-. A series of responses to a Lacanian reading of Poe's story, which is included. Slight wear to edges, else fine. (more information)

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13) The Literary Women of England
Williams, Jane

London: Saunders, Otley, & Co, 1861. 1st ed., 1st ptg. Hardcover. Good+/No dustjacket. 4to: A4 B-N8 O2. Blue cloth, blind-stamped panel , stippled, w/ floral dec. in the corners. Edit. info in gilt on spine. Chipping and bumping to heads of spine. Heavy bumping to corners. Soiling to boards and edges. Small tear over title on spine. A fascinating survey of early women writers by a female scholar. Truly scarce, heavily referenced, an invaluable and beautiful resource. I'm assuming this binding is the publisher's cloth. If anyone knows differently please contact us. (more information)

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