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9780822303497 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 1963, cover price $23.95
A collection of short stories based on historical figures whose accomplishments were too early, too late, or against the grain of their time
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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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9780520038233 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1980, cover price $35.00
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9780313227899 | Greenwood Pub Group, March 1, 1981, cover price $267.95
Product Description: All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources Herakleitos' words, 2500 years old, usually appear in English translated by philosophers as makeshift clusters of nouns and verbs which can then be inspected at length...read more
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9780912516363 | Grey Fox Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources Herakleitos' words, 2500 years old, usually appear in English translated by philosophers as makeshift clusters of nouns and verbs which can then be inspected at length.
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9780801828003 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The American comments on the modern age, mechanization, and the division between animate and inanimate in this selection of his fiction
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9780520052239 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1984), cover price $11.00
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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
Product Description: This is a fine hardcover copy of the book with grey boards, and gilt lettering on the spine. Light shelf wear. Tight binding. Clean pages. Jacket is in very good condition, with some chipping near spine head and little sunning. Not an ex-library copy...read more
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9780865472273 | North Point Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This is a fine hardcover copy of the book with grey boards, and gilt lettering on the spine.
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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.
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9780865472969 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Short stories deal with history, biography, botany, geology, philosophy language, and political science
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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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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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9780865472488 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1990, cover price $9.95
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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9780917453229 | Bamberger Books, May 1, 1991, cover price $9.50 | About this edition: long poem, illustrated by the author
Essays discuss classical and contemporary literature, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, The Odyssey, James Joyce, dictionaries, poetry, and other topics
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9781567920802 | Reissue edition (David R Godine Pub, October 1, 1997), cover price $19.95
9780679738596 | Reissue edition (Pantheon Books, March 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss classical and contemporary literature, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, The Odyssey, James Joyce, dictionaries, poetry, and other topics
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9780140186888 | Penguin Classics, June 1, 1993, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories, including selections from 'The Four Million,' 'Roads of Destiny,' and 'Strictly Business.
Product Description: Guy Davenport - regarded by the "New York Times" "one of our most gifted and versatile men of letters" - has produced in this collection of stories a remarkably harmonious synthesis of subjects and forms. Melding history, biography, botany, political theory, geology, and other interests, Davenport creates fictions that are complex but unified, mature, balanced, and resolved...read more
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9780801846809 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Guy Davenport - regarded by the "New York Times" "one of our most gifted and versatile men of letters" - has produced in this collection of stories a remarkably harmonious synthesis of subjects and forms.
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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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9780811212519 | New Directions, December 1, 1993, cover price $24.95
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9780811217712 | Reprint edition (New Directions, November 30, 1993), cover price $16.95
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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
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."âAnne 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)
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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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9781880284131 | Daniel & Daniel Pub, March 1, 1996, cover price $20.00
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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
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