November 21, 2010 ☼ Books
I’m kind of a nut for ephemera like this, and think the best way to make connections between artists is to follow what influenced them.
So when I read in this Newsweek article that around 300 ‘heavily annotated’ personal books were part of the David Foster Wallace archive the University of Texas’ at Austin’s Harry Ransom center bought and recently revealed, I felt inclined to search the index and make a big list, to see if there were any items that seemed interesting and unknown.
So here they are. I’ve added an Abebooks link, in case you care to peruse or pick up a copy of one you haven’t read. Oh how I’d love to spend a few weeks in this archive. Maybe when I finally get that comp lit Master’s this’ll sway me to UT.
| Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Aczel, Amir D. | The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity | Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000 |
| Adams, Hazard | Critical Theory Since Plato | New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., ©1971. |
| Adler, Renata. | Speedboat | New York, N.Y.: Perennial Library, 1988, c1976. |
| American Heritage | The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, ©1976, [1976?] New college edition. |
| Amherst College Faculty | Teaching what we do: essays | Amherst, Mass.: Amherst College Press, 1991. |
| Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941. | Winesburg, Ohio | Harmondsworth, England ; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1982, 1976. |
| Amis, Martin. | Success | New York: Harmony Books, 1987. |
| Baker, Nicholson | Room temperature: a novel | New York, N.Y.: Vintage Contemporaries, 1991. |
| Barnes, Djuna. | Nightwood | New York: New Directions, [1961, c1937] |
| Barth, John, 1930- | End of the road | New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, 1964, 1960. |
| Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. | The fire next time | New York: Dell, 1964, c1963. |
| Baldwin, James | Giovanni’s Room | Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2000 |
| Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009. | War fever | New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1991. |
| Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009. | Crash | London: Triad/Panther, 1985, c1974. |
| Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. | Molloy: A Novel | New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1977, c1955. |
| Beecher, Willard. | Beyond Success and Failure: Ways to Self-Reliance and Maturity | Dallas, Tex.: Willard & Marguerite Beecher Foundation, 1986, 1966. |
| Bendazzi, Giannalberto | Woody Allen | Milano: Fabbri Editori, 1989. Nuova ed. |
| Begley, Louis | About Schmidt | New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine, 1997. |
| Bergman, Billy. | Recombinant Do Re Mi: Frontiers of the Rock Era | New York: Quill, c1985. |
| Berlinski, David, 1942- | A tour of the calculus | New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, ©1995, [1995?] First edition. |
| Berman, Morris, 1944- | Coming to our senses: body and spirit in the hidden history of the West | London, England: Unwin Paperbacks, 1990. |
| Bernays, Anne. | What if?: writing exercises for fiction writers | New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. |
| Bernstein, Peter L. | Against the gods: the remarkable story of risk | New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ©1996. |
| Biskind, Peter | Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties | New York: Pantheon Books, c1983. |
| Bissell, Tom, 1974- | Chasing the sea: being a narrative of a journey through Uzbekistan, including descriptions of life t | New York: Pantheon Books, c2003. |
| Bogen, Nancy, 1932- | How to Write Poetry | Macmillan, ©1998 |
| Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. | Labyrinths: selected stories & other writings | New York: New Directions Pub. Corp., 1964. |
| Boston, Mass. | The American Short Story, 1900-1945: A Critical History | Twayne Publishers, 1984. |
| Boston: Houghton Mifflin | The best American short stories, 1990 | 1990 |
| Bradshaw, John, 1933- | Bradshaw On: The Family: A Revolutionary Way of Self-Discovery | Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, ©1988, [1988?] |
| Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. | Selected poems | New York: Grove Press ; London: Evergreen Books, 1959. |
| Brooks, Peter, 1938- | The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess | New York: Columbia University Press, 1985, 1984. |
| Burgoon, Judee K. | Nonverbal Communication: The Unspoken Dialogue | New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., ©1996, [1996?] |
| Burnham, David, 1933- | The rise of the computer state | New York: Random House, c1983. |
| Burroway, Janet. | Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft | New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, ©1992, [1992?]. Third edition. |
| Cabrera Infante, G. (Guillermo), 1929-2005. | Three Trapped Tigers: Tres Tristes Tigres | New York: Marlowe & Co., [1997?] |
| Cambridge, England | More Dirt: The New American Fiction | Granta, c1986. |
| Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987. | Myths to Live By | Toronto, Canada ; New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1984, c1972. |
| Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987. | The hero with a thousand faces | New York, N.Y.: MJF Books, c1949. |
| Capra, Fritjof. | The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism | Boulder, Colo.: Shambhala, 1975. |
| Charraud, Nathalie. | Infini et inconscient: essai sur Georg Cantor | Paris: Anthropos: Diffusion, Economica, c1994. |
| Clark, Mary Higgins. | Where are the children? | New York: Dell Pub., 1981, c1975. |
| Carey, Peter, 1943- | Bliss | New York: Vintage Books, 1996. |
| Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988. | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories | New York, N.Y.: Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, 1989, c1981. Vintage Books edition, June 1989. |
| Cavell, Stanley, 1926- | In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism | Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. |
| Cavell, Stanley, 1926- | Pursuits of happiness: the Hollywood comedy of remarriage | Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c1981. |
| Chrétien, de Troyes, 12th cent. | Ywain, The Knight of the Lion | New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., c1977. Complete ed. |
| Coetzee, J. M., 1940- | Waiting for the barbarians | Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York: Penguin Books, 1982, c1980. |
| Coetzee, J. M., 1940- | Disgrace | Penguin Books, 2000 |
| Coetzee, J. M., 1940- | In the heart of the country | Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1982, c1977. |
| Cook, Pam | The Cinema Book | New York: Pantheon Books, [1986]. |
| Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. | Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism | New York: W.W. Norton, c1988. 3rd ed. |
| Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. | The secret agent: a simple tale | Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1953. |
| Cortázar, Julio | All Fires the Fire: And Other Stories Todos los fuegos el fuego. | New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1988, ©1973. First American paperback edition. |
| Crabb, Lawrence J. | Inside Out | Colorado Springs, Colo.: NavPress, [1998], ©1988. |
| Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. | The red badge of courage: an episode of the American Civil War | New York: Avon, 1983, c1982. |
| Crews, Frederick C. | Instructor’s manual for the Random House handbook, fourth edition | New York, N.Y.: Random House, ©1984, [1984?] |
| Crumley, James, 1939-2008. | The Last Good Kiss: A Novel | New York: Vintage Books, 1988. |
| Crumbley, D. Larry | The ultimate rip-off: a taxing tale | Sun Lakes, Ariz.: Thomas Horton and Daughters, ©1991, [1991]. |
| Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly | Flow: the psychology of optimal experience | New York: HarperPerennial, 1991, c1990. |
| Current-Garcia, Eugene; Hitchcock, Bert | American short stories | Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education c1990. 5th ed. |
| Dauben, Joseph Warren, 1944- | Georg Cantor: his mathematics and philosophy of the infinite | Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. |
| Davis, Martin | The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing | W.W. Norton & Co., c2001 |
| Davis, Shelley L. | Unbridled Power: Inside the Secret Culture of the IRS | New York, N.Y.: HarperBusiness, ©1997, [1997] |
| Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980. | The long loneliness: the autobiography of Dorothy Day | San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, [1981], ©1952. |
| Dedekind, Richard, 1831-1916. | Essays on the theory of numbers | New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., 1963. |
| DeLillo, Don. | End Zone | New York: Pocket Books, [1973?]. |
| DeLillo, Don. | White Noise | New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1986. |
| DeLillo, Don. | Libra | New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking, 1988. |
| DeLillo, Don. | Great Jones Street | New York: Vintage Books, 1983. |
| DeLillo, Don. | Running dog | New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1989. |
| DeLillo, Don. | Ratner’s star | New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1989. |
| DeLillo, Don. | The Body Artist: A Novel | Scribner, c2001 |
| DeLillo, Don. | Mao II | New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking, 1991. |
| DeLillo, Don. | Players | New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1989. |
| DeLillo, Don. | Pafko at the Wall: A Novella | New York: Scribner, c1997. |
| DeLillo, Don. | Americana | New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1989. |
| De Man, Paul. | Blindness and insight: essays in the rhetoric of contemporary criticism | Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. |
| De Mello, Anthony, 1931-1987. | Awareness: a de Mello spirituality conference in his own words | New York, N.Y.: Image Books/Doubleday, 1992. |
| DePaul, Cleon, 1951- | Amazons: an intimate memoir by the first woman ever to play in the National Hockey League | New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1980. |
| Didion, Joan. | Play it as it lays: a novel | New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990, 1970. |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. | The idiot | London, Eng. ; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1955. |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. | The Idiot | Modern Library, 2003. |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. | The seeds of revolt, 1821-1849 | Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979, c1976. |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. | Dostoevsky. The years of ordeal, 1850-1859 | Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. |
| Dowling, William C. | A reader’s companion to Infinite jest | [United States]: Xlibris, c2005. |
| Doxiadēs, Apostolos K. | Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture | Bloomsbury, c2000 |
| Drury, Tom | The Black Brook | Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. |
| Duras, Marguerite. | The Lover | New York: Perennial Library/Harper & Row, 1986. |
| Eastman, Arthur M. | The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository Prose | W.W. Norton & Company, ©1988, [1998?] Seventh edition, shorter. |
| Eliot, George, 1819-1880. | The Mill on the Floss | New York, N.Y.: New American Library, c1965. |
| Ellroy, James, 1948- | The Big Nowhere | London, England: Mysterious Press, 1989. |
| Erdrich, Louise. | The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse | New York: Perennial, 2002. |
| Evans, Howard Ensign. | Insect Biology: A Textbook of Entomology | Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1984. |
| Faludi, Susan | Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man | Perennial, 2000 |
| Federspiel, Jürg, 1931-2007. | Geographie der Lust. | New York: Fromm International Pub. Corp., c1991. |
| Fiore, Neil A. | The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play | Los Angeles, Calif.: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, ©1989, 1989. First edition. |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. | The great Gatsby | New York, N.Y.: Scribner Paperback Fiction published by Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Scribner paperback fiction edition 1995. |
| Foot, Philippa. | Virtues and vices and other essays in moral philosophy | Berkeley: University of California Press, c1978 (1981 printing). |
| Ford, Richard, 1944- | Rock Springs: Stories | New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1988. |
| Fox, Emmet. | The sermon on the mount: the key to success in life ; and, The Lord’s prayer, an interpretation | San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, 1989, c1938. First Perennial Library edition. |
| Fox, Paula | Desperate Characters | W.W. Norton & Company, 1999 |
| Fox, Paula | Desperate Characters | Boston, Mass.: Nonpareil Books, 1984, 1980. |
| Frank, Joseph, 1918- | Dostoevsky. The miraculous years, 1865-1871 | Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, ©1995, [1995?] |
| Frank, Joseph, 1918- | Dostoyevsky. The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 | Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988, ©1986. First Princeton Paperback printing. |
| Frank, Thomas C., Weiland, Matt | Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler | New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, ©1997, [1997?] |
| Franzen, Jonathan | The twenty-seventh city | New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1991. |
| Franzen, Jonathan. | Strong motion | |
| Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. | Three case histories | New York, N.Y.: Collier Books, 1963. |
| Friedman, Bonnie, 1958- | Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer’s life | New York, N.Y.: HarperPerennial, 1994. First HarperPerennial edition. |
| Friel, John C. and Linda | An adult child’s guide to what is “normal” | Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, Inc., ©1990, [1990?] |
| Frisch, Max, 1911-1991. | I’m not Stiller ; Stiller. | New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, c1958. |
| Fussell, Samuel Wilson. | Muscle: confessions of an unlikely bodybuilder | New York: Avon Books, 1992, c1991. |
| García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928- | Of love and other demons Del amor y otros demonios. | New York: Penguin, c1995. |
| Garner, Bryan A. | A Dictionary of Modern American Usage | Oxford University Press, 1998 |
| Garner, Bryan A. | A Dictionary of Modern American Usage | New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1998 |
| Gardner, John, 1933-1982. | On Moral Fiction | |
| Gardner, Martin | The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems | W.W. Norton & Co., c2001 |
| Gass, William H., 1924- | In the heart of the heart of the country and other stories | Boston, Mass.: David R. Godine, 1985. |
| Gass, William H., 1924- | Habitations of the Word: Essays | New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1986, c1985. |
| Gass, William H., 1924- | Omensetter’s Luck: A Novel | New York, N.Y.: New American Library, 1967, ©1966. |
| Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- | Blink: the power of thinking without thinking | New York, N.Y., Little, Brown and Company, 2005. First edition. |
| Gibson, William, 1948- | Pattern recognition | New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2003. |
| Gilder, George F., 1939- | Life after television | Knoxville, Tenn.: Whittle Direct Books, ©1990, [1990?]. |
| Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- | The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference | New York, N.Y.: Back Bay Books: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. | Faust | Toronto, Canada ; Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1972, ©1970. |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. | Goethe’s Faust | New York, N.Y.: New American Library, 1970, ©1970. |
| Gogol, Nikolaĭ Vasilievich, 1809-1852. | Diary of a madman: and other stories Zapiski sumasshedshego. | Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1983, 1972. |
| Golabuk, Philip. | Recovering from a Broken Heart: A Companion Guide for the Journey from Suffering to Joyful Awareness | New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, ©1989. First edition. |
| Gonzales, Laurence, 1947- | Deep survival: who lives, who dies, and why: true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death | New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, ©2003. |
| Gordon, George N. | Erotic communications: studies in sex, sin, and censorship | New York: Hastings House, c1980. |
| Graetz, Michael J. | The U.S. Income Tax: What It Is, How It Got That Way, and Where We Go From Here | W.W. Norton & Company, 1999 |
| Grossman, Dave | On killing: the psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society | Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, ©1996. |
| Gruen, Arno. | The insanity of normality: realism as sickness: toward understanding human destructiveness Wahnsinn der Normalität. | New York, N.Y.: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992., First English-language edition. |
| Hafen, Brent Q. | Marijuana: facts, figures, and information for the 1980’s | [Center City, MN]: Hazelden, 1981, 1980. |
| Harris, Thomas, 1940- | Black Sunday | New York: Bantam Books, 1976, c1975. |
| Harris, Thomas, 1940- | The silence of the lambs | New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, ©1990, 1988. |
| Harris, Thomas, 1940- | Hannibal | Delacorte Press, c1999 |
| Harris, Thomas, 1940- | Hannibal rising: a novel | New York, Delacorte Press, 2006 |
| Harrison, Colin, 1960- | Bodies electric: a novel | New York: Crown Publishers, 1993. 1st ed. |
| Harrison, Jim, 1937- | Warlock | New York: Delta/Seymour Lawrence, 1989, c1981. New Delta ed. |
| Harrison, Jim, 1937- | Wolf: A False Memoir | New York: Delta/Seymour Lawrence, [1989], c1971. New Delta ed. |
| Harrison, Jim, 1937- | Saving daylight | Port Townsend, Wash., Copper Canyon Press, c2006 |
| Harvey, Matthea | Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form: Poems | Alice James Books, 2001 |
| Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. | In Our Time: Stories | New York: Collier Books/Macmillan Pub. Co., 1986. |
| Higgins, George V., 1939-1999. | Impostors: A Novel | New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1987. |
| Hix, H. L. | Morte d’author: an autopsy | Philadelphia, Penn.: Temple University Press, 1990. |
| Homes, A. M. | The safety of objects: stories | |
| Hyde, Lewis, 1945- | The gift: imagination and the erotic life of property | New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, ©1983, [1983?]. |
| Hoagland, Tony. | What narcissism means to me | Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, c2003. |
| Hoberman, J., Shandler, Jeffrey | Entertaining America: Jews, movies, and broadcasting | New York: Jewish Museum, under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2003. |
| Hollis, James, 1940- | The middle passage: from misery to meaning in midlife | Toronto, Canada: Inner City Books, ©1993. |
| Howard, Gerald | The Sixties: art, politics, and media of our most explosive decade | New York, N.Y.: Paragon House, 1991. |
| Howe, Irving | Classics of Modern Fiction: Twelve Short Novels | San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1986. |
| Hunter, Geoffrey. | Metalogic: An Introduction to the Metatheory of Standard First Order Logic | Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1973, ©1971. |
| Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938. | Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy | New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1965. |
| Irving, John, 1942- | The World According to Garp: A Novel | New York: E. P. Dutton, c1978. |
| Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965. | Poetry and the age | New York: Ecco Press, 1980, c1953. |
| Johnson, B. S. (Bryan Stanley), 1933-1973. | Christie Malry’s own double-entry | New York, N.Y.: New Directions, 1985, c1973. |
| Johnson, Denis, 1949- | The Name of the World | HarperCollins Publishers, c2000 |
| Johnson, Denis, 1949- | Angels | New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, 1984. |
| Joyce, James, 1882-1941. | Stephen hero ; Portrait of the artist as a young man | New York: Published for James Laughlin by New Directions Pub. Corp., c1963. A new ed. / incorporating the additional MS. pages in the Yale University Library and the Cornell University Library, edited by John J. Slocum and Herbert Cahoon. |
| Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. | Complete stories | New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, 1983. |
| Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. | Amerika | [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., ©1946] |
| Kalfus, Ken | Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies | Milkweed Editions, 1999 |
| Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. | Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason | Kritik der reinen Vernunft. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, 1965, ©1929. Unabridged edition. |
| Kennedy, William, 1928- | Ironweed: a novel | New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, 1983. |
| Kennedy, X.J. | Literature: an introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama | New York, NY: HarperCollins, c1991. |
| Kennedy, X.J. | Instructor’s manual to accompany Literature, an introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama, fifth edi | New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, c1990. |
| King, Stephen, 1947- | Carrie | New York, N.Y.: Signet, [1988], c1975. |
| Kline, Morris, 1908-1992. | Mathematical thought from ancient to modern times | New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. |
| Kolln, Martha | Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects | Allyn and Bacon, ©1999 |
| Kundera, Milan. | The joke: definitive version Žert. | New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 1993, c1992. 1st HarperPerennial ed. |
| Kurtz, Ernest. | The spirituality of imperfection: storytelling and the journey to wholeness | New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1994, 1992. Bantam trade paperback edition. |
| Kushner, Harold S. | When bad things happen to good people | New York, N.Y.: Avon, 1983, ©1981. |
| Ladefoged, Peter. | Elements of acoustic phonetics | Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1962. |
| Laing, R. D. (Ronald David), 1927-1989. | The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness | Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books, 1971, 1965. |
| Larkin, Philip. | High windows | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984, c1974. |
| Larkin, Philip. | The Whitsun weddings: poems | [London]: Faber and Faber, 1983, 1971. |
| Lasch, Christopher | The culture of narcissism: American life in an age of diminishing expectations | New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. |
| Lavine, Shaughan | Understanding the Infinite | Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. |
| LeClair, Tom, 1944- | In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel | Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1987. |
| Lentricchia, Frank | Introducing Don DeLillo | Durham, [N.C.]: Duke University Press, c1991. |
| Lessing, Doris May, 1919- | Briefing for a Descent into Hell | New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, c1971. |
| Lessing, Doris May, 1919- | The Golden Notebook: A Novel | Perennial Classics, 1999 |
| Leonard, Linda Schierse | Witness to the Fire: Creativity and the Veil of Addiction | Boston: Shambhala, 1989. First edition. |
| Levitt, Steven D. | Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything | New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, ©2005. First edition. |
| Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. | The lion, the witch and the wardrobe | New York, N.Y.: HarperTrophy, 1994. First Harper Trophy edition. |
| Leyner, Mark. | Et tu, babe | New York: Harmony Books, c1992. |
| Leyner, Mark. | My cousin, my gastroenterologist | New York: Harmony Books, c1990. 1st ed. |
| Longman | An Introduction to Fiction | Longman, ©1999 |
| Lopate, Philip | The Anchor Essay Annual: The Best of 1998 | New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, c1998. |
| Lundmark, Torbjörn. | Quirky qwerty: the story of the keyboard @ your fingertips | UNSW, Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press, 2002. |
| Mackie, J. L. (John Leslie) | Ethics: inventing right and wrong | Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1981, 1977. |
| Mailer, Norman. | The naked and the dead | New York: New American Library c1948. |
| Marcus, Greil | Dead Elvis: a chronicle of a cultural obsession | New York: Doubleday, 1991. |
| Maupin, Armistead | The Life of the Party: Stories | New York, N.Y.: HarperPerennial, 1996. |
| Markson, David. | Going Down | New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, c1970. 1st ed. |
| Markson, David. | Springer’s Progress | New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1977. 1st ed. |
| Martone, Michael | A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest | University of Iowa Press for the Iowa Humanities Board, 1988. 1st ed. |
| Martin, Malachi. | Hostage to the devil: the possession and exorcism of five living Americans | San Francisco, Calif.: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992., HarperSanFrancisco edition. |
| Maxfield, John E. (John Edward), 1927- | Keys to Mathematics | Philadelphia, Penn.: W.B. Saunders Company, 1973. |
| Maxtone-Graham, John. | Crossing & cruising: from the golden era of ocean liners to the luxury cruise ships of today | New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, ©1992, [1992?] |
| McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- | All the pretty horses | New York: Vintage Books, 1993. 1st Vintage International ed. |
| McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- | Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West | New York: Vintage Books, 1992. 1st Vintage International ed. |
| McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- | Sacred violence: a reader’s companion to Cormac McCarthy: selected essays from the first McCarthy C | El Paso: Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, 1995. 1st ed. |
| McGuane, Thomas. | Something to be desired | New York: Vintage Books, 1985, c1984. |
| McPhee, John, 1931- | Levels of the Game | New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984, ©1969. |
| Mellor, P. A. and Shilling, C. | Re-forming the body: religion, community, and modernity | Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Pub., 1991. |
| Meyer, Alfred G. | Marxism: the unity of theory and practice | Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press 1963. |
| Miller, Alice. | The drama of the gifted child / Drama des begabten Kindes. | New York, N.Y.: BasicBooks, ©1990, [1990?] |
| Miller, William Ian, 1946- | The Anatomy of Disgust | Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. |
| Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970. | The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea Gogo no eikō. | New York: Vintage International, 1994. 1st Vintage International ed. |
| Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970. | Of love and other demons | New York: Vintage International, 1994. 1st Vintage International ed. |
| Moody, Rick. | The diviners: a novel | New York: Little, Brown and Co., c2006 [i.e. 2005] 1st ed. |
| Morrison, Toni, 1937- | The Bluest Eye | New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, 1972, c1970. |
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