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A collection of stories touches on art, philosophy, and literature, often featuring historical figures and places (view table of contents)

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9781887178440 | Counterpoint, September 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories touches on art, philosophy, and literature, often featuring historical figures and places

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Product Description: "Overall, this volume will afford great pleasure to scholars, teachers, and also those who simply love to watch delightful souls disport themselves in language."―Anne Carson Here is a colorful variety pf works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth to the third centuries BC...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Guy Davenport (trans)

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9780811212885 | New Directions, June 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "Overall, this volume will afford great pleasure to scholars, teachers, and also those who simply love to watch delightful souls disport themselves in language.

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Product Description: Book by Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, Ellis, Elizabeth Garrity, Davenport, Guy

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9781887178136 | Counterpoint, April 1, 1996, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Book by Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, Ellis, Elizabeth Garrity, Davenport, Guy

Product Description: art book

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9781887178297 | Counterpoint, September 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: art book

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Stories explore the experiences and personal relationships of a Dutch philosopher, Franz Kafka, the sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska, and a group of travers in Japan

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9780865471627 | North Point Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Stories explore the experiences and personal relationships of a Dutch philosopher, Franz Kafka, the sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska, and a group of travers in Japan

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Product Description: Book by Castleman, Riva, Davenport, Guy

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9780810960893 | Reissue edition (Museum of Modern Art, July 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Castleman, Riva, Davenport, Guy

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Suggests interpretations of paintings by the controversial modern artist, and discusses the influence of Rilke and Picasso on his work

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9780880012348 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1989, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: Suggests interpretations of paintings by the controversial modern artist, and discusses the influence of Rilke and Picasso on his work

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By Guy Davenport (contributor), Peter Glassgold (editor) and James Laughlin

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9780811216173 | New Directions, May 30, 2005, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: ten new stories

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9780811213356 | Reprint edition (New Directions, October 1, 1996), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: ten new stories

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9780811217705 | New Directions, November 30, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: ten new stories

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Reflects on Burchfield's expressive and unusually large-scale and densely painted watercolors of mystical and enlivened landscapes

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9781566409797 | Pomegranate, August 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reflects on Burchfield's expressive and unusually large-scale and densely painted watercolors of mystical and enlivened landscapes

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Describes McBride's background as an artist, and gathers his portraits and nudes of boys making the transition from child to adult
By Guy Davenport (introduced by) and Will McBride

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9780893818531 | Aperture, May 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Describes McBride's background as an artist, and gathers his portraits and nudes of boys making the transition from child to adult

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Product Description: Rare book: Price in USD

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9789685115469 | Umbral, February 1, 2006, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD

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A collection of short stories based on historical figures whose accomplishments were too early, too late, or against the grain of their time (view table of contents)

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9780811213509 | Reprint edition (New Directions, May 1, 1997), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories based on historical figures whose accomplishments were too early, too late, or against the grain of their time
9780801822209 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 1, 1979, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A suite of ten prose fictions about various historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or against the grain of their time center on the theme that man was created to understand the world

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A collection of twenty-seven essays by the author takes on a wide range of literary topics, including short fiction, essays, poetry, and translation, covering a lifetime of writing. Reprint.

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9781593760021 | Counterpoint, August 1, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of twenty-seven essays and short stories that span the author's entire career, many of which have never appeared in book form.

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9781593760564 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, March 30, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of twenty-seven essays by the author takes on a wide range of literary topics, including short fiction, essays, poetry, and translation, covering a lifetime of writing.

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Presents a large selection of the artist's drawings as well as his preliminary studies for paintings

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9780847811441 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 1, 1989, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Presents a large selection of the artist's drawings as well as his preliminary studies for paintings

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Product Description: Using juxtapositon and collage, Guy Davenport creates brilliant assemblages that adhere into four stories that illuminate how one's elusive sexual nature can be hidden and paradoxically revealed by outer appearances, and one novella that completes his trilogy begun by Apples and Pears and The Hules Verne Steam Balloon...read more

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9780865474475 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Using juxtapositon and collage, Guy Davenport creates brilliant assemblages that adhere into four stories that illuminate how one's elusive sexual nature can be hidden and paradoxically revealed by outer appearances, and one novella that completes his trilogy begun by Apples and Pears and The Hules Verne Steam Balloon.

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Product Description: Mixtures of myth and fable, these tales have their origins in Plutarch, Montaigne, The Acts of the Apostles, Theokritos, and the daily newspaper. Eclogues is a delight, and Guy Davenport proves a companionable and witty guide.

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9780801846953 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Mixtures of myth and fable, these tales have their origins in Plutarch, Montaigne, The Acts of the Apostles, Theokritos, and the daily newspaper.

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Product Description: A collection of twenty essays by this brilliant social critic.

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9780865472471 | North Point Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of twenty essays by this brilliant social critic.

By Guy Davenport (illustrator) and Hugh Kenner

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9781564783806 | Dalkey Archive Pr, January 31, 2005, cover price $12.50

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Product Description: long poem, illustrated by the author

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9780917453229 | Bamberger Books, May 1, 1991, cover price $9.50 | About this edition: long poem, illustrated by the author

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