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Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: 1841-1843	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Gilman, William H. Parsons, J. E.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1970	$161.50
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume X: 1847–1848	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Sealts, Merton M.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1973	$161.50
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XI: 1848-1851	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Plumstead, A. W. Gilman, William H. Bennett, Ruth H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1975	$161.50
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835–1862	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Allardt, Linda	HARDCOVER	01/01/1976	$161.50
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XIII: 1852-1855	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Orth, Ralph H. Ferguson, Alfred R.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1977	$161.50
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XIV: 1854-1861	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Sutton Smith, Susan Hayford, Harrison	HARDCOVER	05/15/1978	$161.50
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XV: 1860–1866	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Allardt, Linda Hill, David W. Bennett, Ruth H.	HARDCOVER	07/02/1982	$161.50
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XVI: 1866–1882	Emerson, Ralph Waldo Bosco, Ronald A. Johnson, Glen M.	HARDCOVER	12/08/1982	$161.50
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 »
The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II	Dawes, James	PAPERBACK	02/01/2005	$34.50
Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970	Dickstein, Morris	PAPERBACK	04/30/2002	$33.00
Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays	Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de Moore, Dennis D.	HARDCOVER	01/14/2013	$41.00
Letters of Emily Dickinson	Dickinson, Emily Johnson, Thomas H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1997	$176.00
The Letters of Henry James, Volume I: 1843–1875	James, Henry Edel, Leon	HARDCOVER	01/01/1974	$96.50	Currently unavailable
The Letters of Henry James, Volume II: 1875–1883	James, Henry Edel, Leon	HARDCOVER	01/01/1975	$116.50
The Letters of Henry James, Volume III: 1883–1895	James, Henry Edel, Leon	HARDCOVER	01/01/1980	$116.50
The Letters of Henry James, Volume IV: 1895–1916	James, Henry Edel, Leon	HARDCOVER	01/01/1984	$116.50
The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier: Vols. 1, 2, and 3	Whittier, John Greenleaf	HARDCOVER	01/01/1975	$255.00	Currently unavailable
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3: 1929–1936	Frost, Robert Richardson, Mark Sheehy, Donald Hass, Robert Bernard Atmore, Henry	HARDCOVER	04/30/2021	$39.95
The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America	Warner, Michael	PAPERBACK	01/01/1992	$37.50
The Life of Emily Dickinson	Sewall, Richard B.	PAPERBACK	07/15/1998	$43.50
The Line’s Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight	New, Elisa	PAPERBACK	05/15/1999	$50.00
Little Women: An Annotated Edition	Alcott, Louisa May Shealy, Daniel	HARDCOVER	05/13/2013	$35.00
The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987	Cowley, Malcolm Bak, Hans	HARDCOVER	01/06/2014	$48.00
Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy	Luhmann, Niklas Gaines, Jeremy Jones, Doris L.	HARDCOVER	01/15/1987	$89.50
The Lunar Light of Whitman’s Poetry	Thomas, M. Wynn	HARDCOVER	02/12/1987	$69.50
Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry	White, Gillian	HARDCOVER	10/13/2014	$52.50
The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson: A Facsimile Edition	Dickinson, Emily Franklin, R. W.	HARDCOVER	12/22/1981	$294.00
Manuscript Essays and Notes	James, William	HARDCOVER	05/31/1988	$169.50
Manuscript Lectures	James, William	HARDCOVER	12/01/1988	$169.50
Marquesan Encounters: Melville and the Meaning of Civilization	Herbert, T. Walter	E-DITION	11/28/1980	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economics of Play	Brown, William	PAPERBACK	02/01/1997	$50.00
Meaning in Henry James	Bell, Millicent	PAPERBACK	01/01/1993	$41.00
Melville’s Israel Potter: Reflections on the American Dream	Keyssar, Alexander	PAPERBACK	01/01/1969	$2.70	Currently unavailable
Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings	Whiting, Bartlett Jere	E-DITION	07/01/1989	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
A New Literary History of America	Marcus, Greil Sollors, Werner	HARDCOVER	09/23/2009	$51.50
A New Literary History of America	Marcus, Greil Sollors, Werner	PAPERBACK	05/07/2012	$30.00
A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination	Fletcher, Angus	PAPERBACK	03/15/2006	$30.50
The Notebooks of Robert Frost	Frost, Robert Faggen, Robert	PAPERBACK	03/30/2010	$40.00
The Novel of Human Rights	Dawes, James	HARDCOVER	09/12/2018	$43.00
Off Center: Power and Culture Relations Between Japan and the United States	Miyoshi, Masao	PAPERBACK	08/19/1998	$38.00
On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems	Vendler, Helen	PAPERBACK	01/01/1969	$39.00
On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson	Arsić, Branka	HARDCOVER	04/15/2010	$63.50
On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery’s Poetry	Shoptaw, John	PAPERBACK	01/26/1995	$45.00
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 »
The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War	Smith, Caleb	HARDCOVER	04/30/2013	$41.00
Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature	Greeson, Jennifer Rae	HARDCOVER	10/15/2010	$51.50
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets	Vendler, Helen	PAPERBACK	01/01/1980	$50.00
The Passion of Emily Dickinson	Farr, Judith	PAPERBACK	07/15/1998	$33.50

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