A Neutral Corner: Boxing Essays
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo., 238 pp. Edited by Fred Warner and James Barbour. Foreword by Fred Warner. A collection of Liebling's boxing essays, many of them never before published.
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A World Unsuspected: Portraits of a Southern Childhood
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo., 237 pp. Illustrated. The Lyndhurst Series on the South. An important anthology of Southern experience with self-portraits of their youth by Sheila Bosworth, Robb Forman Dew, Barry Hannah, Josephine Humphreys, James Alan McPherson, Bobbie Ann Mason, T.R. Pearson, Padgett Powell.....
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
New York: Random House, 1998. Softcover. 8vo., 225 pp. Essays include the author's insights on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change.
Journals Mid-Fifties 1954-1958
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. Hardcover. Thick 8vo., 489 pp.
The Imaginary Library: An Essay on Literature and Society [Princeton Essays in Literature]
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo., 187 pp. Signed by the author. A speculative treatment of literature as a social institution which explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies their values and methods.
The Leroi Jones/Amari Baraka Reader
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, 1991. Softcover. 8vo., 498 pp. Bibliography. Second print [1995] A trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Edited by William J. Harris in collaboration with Baraka. Includes a preface by Baraka, editor's note and a long introduction by Harris and chronology. Contents arranged chronologically by.....
A Perfect Peace
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo., 374 pp.
Baby Cakes
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Softcover. Square 8vo., 220 pp. Later printing. San Francisco Apartment house human drama. Tales of the City.
Significant Others
New York: Harper & Row, Perennial Library, 1987. Softcover. Square 8vo., 274 pp. Buell, Carl Dennis Buell, illustrator. Fifth in the author's celebrated Tales of the City series.
Waqfet Banat: Personal Narrative
Haifa: Aswat - Palestinian Gay Women, 2010. Softcover. Oblong 8vo., 171 pp. Color Illustrations. Waqfet Banat is colloquial for "Women Take a Stand," "Women Stand Together," "Women Rise Up." This collection is a narration of personal stories shared by Arab Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex [LBTQI] women.. Uncommon item.....
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Zami, a New Spelling of My Name [Crossing Press Feminist Series]
Berkeley: Crossing Press, 1982. Softcover. 8vo., Later printing.
In the Stillness You Will Know: Exploring the Paths of Our Ancient Belonging
New York: Crossroad, 2002. Softcover. 8vo. 175 pp. Popular spirituality writer Barbara Fiand is back with a moving book inspired by the death of her dearest friend and soul mate. Shadowed by grief, Fiand uses her friend's untimely passing as the starting point for ponderings about the nature of hope.....
Analytic Philosophy An Historical Introduction
New York: Pegasus, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo., 245 pp. Includes essays G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Logical Positivism and Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others.
The Shape of Content
New York: Vintage/Random House, 1957. Softcover. 12mo., 151 pp. Illustrated with 34 drawings by the author. Eleanor Hazard [illustrator]. First Vintage edition, based on a series of lectures delivered by Ben Shahn. Considered a classic in the field of art, philosophy and history. Illustrations by the author.
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White and the Making of a New World Order
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Hardcover. 8vo, 472 pp. Index. 32 half tones.
The Foundations of Mysticism: Origins to the Fifth Century [The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism, Vol. 1]
New York: Crossroads, 1991. Softcover. 8vo., 494 pp. Documents the spirited dialogue between men and women that made possible the richness of mysticism in the 13th and 14th centuries. This is the third and final volume of The Presence of God A History of Western Christian Mysticism.
Bertrand Russell's America: 1896 - 1945
New York: Viking, 1974. Hardcover. 8vo., 371 pp.
The Will to Doubt
New York: Philosophical Library, 1958. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 165 pp.
Rockers, Jazzbos and Visionaries
New York: Billboard, 1998. Hardcover. 4to., 286 pp. Interviews with 30 of contemporary music's most significant figures. 30 black and white photographic illustrations of interview artists. Interviews With 30 of Contemporary Music's Most Outstanding and Significant Figures.
Einstein and Dostoyevsky: A Study of the Relation of Modern Physics to the Main Ethical and Aesthetic Problems of the Nineteenth Century
London: Hutchinson Educational, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo., 112 pp.
Papers on Acting, by Coquelin, Talma, Boucicault, Sarcey, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, etc.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. 303 pp.
"The Genius of the Place": Essays on History and Continuity in Philadelphia
Philadelphia: Brian Charles Burke, 2024. Hardcover. 8vo., 382 pp. Notes. Black and white photos. Signed by the author.
One Long River of Song
New York: Little Brown, 2019. Hardcover. 8vo., 251 pp. Book of essays from Doyle, who left behind dozens of books -- fiction and nonfiction, as well as hundreds of essays -- and a cult-like following who regarded his writing on spirituality as one of the best-kept secrets of the 21st.....
Freud's Vienna and Other Essays
New York: Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. 8vo., 271 pp. Index.
Theories on Alcoholism
Toronto: Addiction Research Foundation, 1988. Softcover. 8vo., 498 pp.