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The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson	Howe, Irving	E-DITION	03/21/1986	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Beyond the Land Itself: Views of Nature in Canada and the United States	Kline, Marcia B.	E-DITION	01/01/1970	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Communities of Honor and Love in Henry James	Mackenzie, Manfred	E-DITION	01/01/1975	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Cotton Mather: The Young Life of the Lord’s Remembrancer, 1663–1703	Levin, David	E-DITION	10/18/1978	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Guide to American Literature and Its Backgrounds since 1890: Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition	Jones, Howard Mumford Ludwig, Richard M.	E-DITION	01/01/1972	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing	Hoffman, Daniel	E-DITION	01/01/1979	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Henry James: Selected Letters	James, Henry Edel, Leon	E-DITION	10/28/1987	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont	Sieburth, Richard	E-DITION	10/03/1978	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Land of the Millrats	Dorson, Richard M.	E-DITION	11/17/1981	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England from the Puritans to the Transcendentalists	Lowance, Mason I.	E-DITION	11/20/1980	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Marquesan Encounters: Melville and the Meaning of Civilization	Herbert, T. Walter	E-DITION	11/28/1980	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings	Whiting, Bartlett Jere	E-DITION	07/01/1989	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
One First Love: The Letters of Ellen Louisa Tucker to Ralph Waldo Emerson	Tucker, Ellen Louisa (Emerson) Gregg, Edith W.	E-DITION	01/01/1962	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Real and Imagined Worlds: The Novel and Social Science	Berger, Morroe	E-DITION	01/01/1977	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Thoreau: A Naturalist's Liberty	Hildebidle, John	E-DITION	05/04/1983	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry	Grey, Thomas	E-DITION	08/01/1991	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
William Ellery Channing: An Essay on the Liberal Spirit in America	Delbanco, Andrew	E-DITION	04/06/1981	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Writing New England: An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present	Delbanco, Andrew	E-DITION	10/19/2001	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism	Thrailkill, Jane F.	HARDCOVER	06/30/2007	$69.00
Alone in America: The Stories That Matter	Ferguson, Robert A.	HARDCOVER	01/14/2013	$40.00
American Niceness: A Cultural History	Bramen, Carrie Tirado	HARDCOVER	08/14/2017	$48.00
The Annotated Emerson	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Mikics, David	HARDCOVER	02/07/2012	$35.00
The Annotated Poe	Poe, Edgar Allan Hayes, Kevin J.	HARDCOVER	10/26/2015	$39.95
Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World	Gould, Philip	HARDCOVER	11/27/2003	$80.50
Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics	Wilson, Rob	HARDCOVER	06/01/2009	$60.50
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man	Bennett, Joshua	HARDCOVER	05/12/2020	$36.00
Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau	Arsić, Branka	HARDCOVER	01/04/2016	$56.00
Blows Like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture	Whaley, Preston	HARDCOVER	07/27/2004	$40.00
Charles Olson: The Scholar’s Art	Von Hallberg, Robert	HARDCOVER	12/08/1978	$72.50
A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost	Bromwich, David	HARDCOVER	09/25/1989	$77.50
Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship	Hyde, Carrie	HARDCOVER	01/11/2018	$48.00
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Spiller, Robert E. Ferguson, Alfred R.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1971	$139.50
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: Essays: First Series	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Slater, Joseph Ferguson, Alfred R. Carr, Jean Ferguson	HARDCOVER	03/03/1980	$139.50
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III: Essays: Second Series	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Slater, Joseph Ferguson, Alfred R. Carr, Jean Ferguson	HARDCOVER	01/11/1984	$139.50
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume IV: Representative Men	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Williams, Wallace E. Wilson, Douglas Emory	HARDCOVER	09/11/1987	$139.50
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: English Traits	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Nicoloff, Philip Burkholder, Robert E. Wilson, Douglas Emory	HARDCOVER	11/11/1994	$139.50
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VI: The Conduct of Life	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Packer, Barbara L. Slater, Joseph Wilson, Douglas Emory	HARDCOVER	02/27/2004	$133.00
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: Society and Solitude	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Bosco, Ronald A. Wilson, Douglas Emory	HARDCOVER	01/15/2008	$121.50
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume X: Uncollected Prose Writings	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Bosco, Ronald A. Myerson, Joel	HARDCOVER	01/08/2013	$109.00
The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill	Yenser, Stephen	HARDCOVER	01/01/1987	$87.00
Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction	Konstantinou, Lee	HARDCOVER	03/07/2016	$43.50
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas	Gruesz, Kirsten Silva	HARDCOVER	07/05/2022	$35.00
Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation	Chu, Seo-Young	HARDCOVER	01/15/2011	$51.50
Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment	Spahr, Juliana	HARDCOVER	10/23/2018	$29.95
Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases	Whiting, Bartlett Jere	HARDCOVER	02/09/1978	$83.50	Currently unavailable
Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I: 1833–1836	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Whicher, Stephen E. Spiller, Robert E.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1959	$161.50
Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1836–1838	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Whicher, Stephen E. Spiller, Robert E. Williams, Wallace E.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1964	$161.50
Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III: 1838–1842	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Spiller, Robert E. Williams, Wallace E.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1972	$161.50
Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Letters to Edith Brower	Robinson, Edwin Arlington Cary, Richard	HARDCOVER	01/01/1968	$68.00
Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory	Holzer, Harold	HARDCOVER	02/27/2012	$40.00

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