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H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: Fourth, Fifth, & Sixth Series LOA N°207

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H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, & Third Series LOA N°206

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The Selected Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson (two volumes)

58.50 i

The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works LOA N°199

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The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now LOA N°192

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Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings LOA N°186

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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau LOA N°182

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American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now (paperback)

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Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, & Letters LOA N°180

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Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 40s LOA N°177

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Edmund Wilson: Literary Reviews and Essays (two volumes)

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Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s LOA N°176

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James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism LOA N°160

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James Weldon Johnson: Writings LOA N°145

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John Dos Passos: Travel Books & Other Writings 1916–1941 LOA N°143

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Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings LOA N°135

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Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays & Poems LOA N°124

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Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoir LOA N°102

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James Baldwin: Collected Essays LOA N°98

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Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose LOA N°96

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Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings LOA N°75

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Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1891–1910 LOA N°61

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William James: Writings 1878–1899 LOA N°58

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Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, & Other Writings LOA N°57

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William James: Writings 1902–1910 LOA N°38

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W. E. B. Du Bois: Writings LOA N°34

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Frank Norris: Novels & Essays LOA N°33

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Henry James: Literary Criticism: French Writers, Other European Writers, Prefaces to the New York Edition LOA N°23

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Henry James: Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers LOA N°22

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Henry James: Collected Literary Criticism (two volumes)

70.00 i

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