1. HOW TO READ AND WHY - Rare Fine Autographed Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Harold Bloom
by Bloom, Harold 
Price: USD 110.00
Dealer: Abebooks, ModernRare
Description: ISBN10: 0684859068, ISBN13: 9780684859064, [publisher: New York City, NY: Scribner, 2000] Hardcover First Edition 1st Printing. Signed. 283 pages. Published in 2000. Collection of critical essays on subject. His single most accessible book. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Publisher's big, bold "Autographed Copy" blue sticker pasted in front. Presents Harold Bloom's "How To Read And Why". His passionate plea for great literature as the focus of serious reading. As such, it is, by design, his most readable - and most endearing - book: Essays that answer the "how" and "why" of the title by providing definitive examples of the "what". Harold Bloom has the simplest recipe for reading: Read the great books. Life is too short to waste on worthless bestsellers, pulp fiction, and mediocre authors. The only way one really learns how to read is by tackling head-on the most challenging works of literature. In our toxic Social Media Age, some people still read for two reasons: Because it offers deep, cathartic pleasure, and because it compels inwardness, the necessarily isolated, private examination and reflection about oneself. Some Modern philosophers called it the inner life. The Ancient Greeks called it the examined life, and deemed it the only life worth living. Other great art will give immediate and even greater pleasure (such as music; hence its popularity). But NO other art, not even music, makes inwardness possible as reading does. Bloom takes on the great books as if he were reviewing them for the next day's paper. He makes his case as a freelance intellectual, dismissive and disdainful of all theory-based academic criticism. His skepticism about academic theory is nothing less than reassuring: When one reads a feminist, post-structuralist, post-colonialist, or deconstructionist interpretation of literature, one learns more about feminism, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, or deconstruction, not literature. The self-referential aspect of ALL such post-modernist, ideologically based criticism is not just self-indulgent, it is downright stupid. As with every great critic, Bloom's particular enthusiasms have had an enormous impact. In particular, his definitive essay on Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" cemented McCarthy's first-rank stature in contemporary literature. An absolute "must-have" title for Harold Bloom collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the publisher's tipped-in page by Harold Bloom. This title is a great collection. This is one of few such pre-signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. The greatest literary critic of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HAROLD BLOOM TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0684859068. [CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]  

2. HOW TO READ AND WHY
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 50.00
Dealer: ABAA, Ed Smith Books
Description: New York: Scribner's, Date: 2000. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good plus jacket (price-clipped). Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threatens to eclipse the practice of reading, Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom. Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book. 2000. Scribner's ISBN 0684859068 US 

3. HOW TO READ AND WHY
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 50.00
Dealer: Biblio, Ed Smith Books
Description: New York: Scribner's, Date: 2000. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good plus jacket (price-clipped). Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threatens to eclipse the practice of reading, Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom. Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book. 2000. Scribner's ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

4. HOW TO READ AND WHY
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 110.00
Dealer: Biblio, Modern Rare
Description: New York City, NY: Scribner, Date: 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Scribner, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 283 pages. Collection of critical essays on subject. His single most accessible book. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Publisher's big, bold "Autographed Copy" blue sticker pasted in front. Presents Harold Bloom's "How To Read And Why". His passionate plea for great literature as the focus of serious reading. As such, it is, by design, his most readable - and most endearing - book: Essays that answer the "how" and "why" of the title by providing definitive examples of the "what". Harold Bloom has the simplest recipe for reading: Read the great books. Life is too short to waste on worthless bestsellers, pulp fiction, and mediocre authors. The only way one really learns how to read is by tackling head-on the most challenging works of literature. In our toxic Social Media Age, some people still read for two reasons: Because it offers deep, cathartic pleasure, and because it compels inwardness, the necessarily isolated, private examination and reflection about oneself. Some Modern philosophers called it the inner life. The Ancient Greeks called it the examined life, and deemed it the only life worth living. Other great art will give immediate and even greater pleasure (such as music; hence its popularity). But NO other art, not even music, makes inwardness possible as reading does. Bloom takes on the great books as if he were reviewing them for the next day's paper. He makes his case as a freelance intellectual, dismissive and disdainful of all theory-based academic criticism. His skepticism about academic theory is nothing less than reassuring: When one reads a feminist, post-structuralist, post-colonialist, or deconstructionist interpretation of literature, one learns more about feminism, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, or deconstruction, not literature. The self-referential aspect of ALL such post-modernist, ideologically based criticism is not just self-indulgent, it is downright stupid. As with every great critic, Bloom's particular enthusiasms have had an enormous impact. In particular, his definitive essay on Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" cemented McCarthy's first-rank stature in contemporary literature. An absolute "must-have" title for Harold Bloom collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the publisher's tipped-in page by Harold Bloom. This title is a great collection. This is one of few such pre-signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. The greatest literary critic of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HAROLD BLOOM TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0684859068. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

5. HOW TO READ AND WHY
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 30.00
Dealer: Biblio, Northshire Bookstore
Description: H. Fair. ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

6. HOW TO READ AND WHY
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 38.71
Dealer: Biblio, Rare Book Cellar
Description: New York: Scribner. Date: 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684859068 . Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is slightly cocked. ; 8.58 X 5.83 X 1.10 inches; 288 pages . 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

7. How To Read And Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 15.00
Dealer: Biblio, The Novel Shoppe
Description: Scribner. Near Fine in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. Date: 2000. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 0684859068 . Probing discussions of the works of beloved writers such as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway ... Charles Dickens and William Faulkner and others highlight the varied challenges and delights found in short stories, poems, novels, and plays. Bloom not only provides illuminating guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring -- aesthetic pleasure, increased individuality and self-knowledge. , and the lifetime companionship of the most engaging and complex literary characters. DJ is lightly edgeworn. Otherwise like new. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages; 27045 . 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

8. How To Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 15.00
Dealer: Biblio, Abstract Books
Description: New York: Scribner, Date: 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 283 pp, 8vo, yellow/black boards. Foremost literary critic discusses art of reading with examples from noted Russians, English, Spanish, American, more with poetry, short stories, novels, drama. Cover bumped, ends, very good-; contents fine; priced dust jacket near fine in Brodart.. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

9. How To Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 36.00
Dealer: Biblio, All-Ways Fiction
Description: New York: Scribner, Date: 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. With corresponding number line. Book is in Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Book is covered by Mylar Brodart. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

10. How To Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 5.66
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Description: Scribner. First Edition. Acceptable. Acceptable. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

11. How To Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 60.90
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Description: Scribner, Date: 2000-06-05. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

12. How To Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 19.99
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Description: Good. Standard used condition May have some wear, highlighting, notes, creasing, previous owner's name, different cover images, etc (the dust cover may be missing) Might be ex-library book May or may not include supplements such as infotrac or other web access codes Fast & reliable delivery Exceptional customer service May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability X036 ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [CA] 

13. How To Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 13.17
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Description: New. Spend Less, Read More. ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

14. How To Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 4.34
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Description: Scribner. Used - Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

15. How To Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 11.97
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Description: Scribner, Date: 2000-06-05. hardcover. Ships same or next business day . 5x0x8. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

16. How To Read and Why
by HAROLD BLOOM 
Price: USD 44.95
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Description: Date: 2000 hardcover 1st edition 1st printing with full number line flatsigned by the author on the front flyleaf. Inevitable light sunning on edge of cover, curling/corner folds on some pages, else fine . 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

17. How To Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 7.57
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Description: Scribner, Date: 2000-06-05. Hardcover. Used: Good. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

18. How To Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 8.96
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Description: Scribner, June Date: 2000. Hardcover. VG. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

19. How To Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 11.07
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Description: Scribner, June Date: 2000. Hardcover. Used - Good. Worn copy, clean and intact. May have markings that do not obscure the text. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

20. How To Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 12.50
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Description: Scribner, June Date: 2000. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Hardcover 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

21. How To Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 16.00
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Description: New York: Scribner & Co., Date: 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 283, ""This aesthetic self-help manual is a reliably idiosyncratic guide to what Yale literary critic Bloom calls ""the most healing of pleasures""A reading well. In chapters that focus on short stories, poems, novels and plays, Bloom takes readers on a swift but satisfying joyride through the West's most outrageous, original and exuberant textsAclassics by… 2000. Scribner & Co. ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [CA] 

22. How To Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 7.00
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Description: American's wisest, most prolific reader--and the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human"--draws upon his more than 40 years as a college professor and critic to help readers attain a truly profound engagement with great literature. Date: 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

23. How to Read and Why
by BLOOM Harold 
Price: USD 45.00
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Description: New York: Scribner, Date: 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with faint sunning on spine. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 US 

24. How to Read and Why
by BLOOM Harold 
Price: USD 45.00
Dealer: Biblio, Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Description: New York: Scribner, Date: 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with faint sunning on spine. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

25. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 6.66
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Description: Scribner. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

26. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 6.66
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Description: Scribner. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

27. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 6.74
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Description: Scribner. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

28. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 6.66
Dealer: Biblio, Better World Books
Description: Scribner. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

29. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 10.00
Dealer: Biblio, Bibliomania Book Store
Description: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribner, Date: 2000. Head, heel of spine lightly bumped; dust jacket is scuffed and rubbed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

30. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 17.50
Dealer: Biblio, Bruce Davidson Books
Description: NY: Scribner, Date: 2000. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing. Fine in a fine dustjacket. No flaws. Appears unread. Bloom instructs on how to read the classics; you'll have to fend for yourself, I guess, with Henry Potter. (box 38) 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

31. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 99.99
Dealer: Biblio, Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
Description: Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Scribner, Date: 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition (Number Line With The One Present). Inscribed "For Lillian With Best Regards" And Signed By The Author On The Title Page. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

32. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 175.00
Dealer: Biblio, Ground Zero Books
Description: New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Date: 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Katherine Newbegin (Author Photograph). 283, [5] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes Preface and Prologue: Why Read? Contains sections on Short Stories; Poems; Novels, Part 1; Plays; and Novels Part 2. Also contains an Epilogue: Completing the Work. Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 - October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is often cited as the most influential English-language critic of the late 20th century. Following the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including 20 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and a novel. During his lifetime, he edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literary departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, neoconservatives, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University. Bloom was a member of the Yale English Department from 1955 to 2019, teaching his final class four days before his death. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1985. From 1988 to 2004, Bloom was Berg Professor of English at New York University while maintaining his position at Yale. In 2010, he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, which focuses on primary texts. "Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. Always dazzling in his ability to draw connections between texts across continents and centuries, Bloom instructs readers in how to immerse themselves in the different literary forms. Probing discussions of the works of beloved writers such as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, and William Faulkner highlight the varied challenges and delights found in short stories, poems, novels, and plays. Bloom not only provides illuminating guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring--aesthic pleasure, increased individuality and self-knowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most engaging and complex literary characters. Derived from a Kirkus review: The prolific critic Bloom has courted controversy in the last few years with his denunciations of the politically correct "School of Resentment" that now dominates most universities-and he has not been discreet in his attacks on many of the writers that this school holds in highest esteem. Here, he carries his arguments to an even more fundamental level, demanding that we consider what the point and purpose of literature can be in an age where information has gone far beyond the verbal forms in which literature subsides. "Information is endlessly available to us," he points out, "where shall wisdom be found?" Naturally, Bloom finds it in the great writers of the Western tradition, and he proceeds to tell us just how great they are-and why. Bloom's insights into just about anything can be worth all of his postures. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

33. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 13.01
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Description: Simon & Schuster. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages. hardcover Simon & Schuster ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

34. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 20.00
Dealer: Biblio, The Typographeum Bookshop
Description: Scribner Book Company, Date: 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 288. A book about the pleasures and benefits of reading. The author also discusses his love for the works of Shakespeare, Austen, Whitman, Dickens and Hemingway. 2000. Scribner Book Company ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

35. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Prof. Harold 
Price: USD 21.83
Dealer: Biblio, World of Books Ltd
Description: Paperback. Acceptable. ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [GB] 

36. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Prof. Harold 
Price: USD 21.83
Dealer: Biblio, World of Books Ltd
Description: Paperback. Very Good. ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [GB] 

37. How to Read and Why
by Bloom Harold 
Price: USD 19.05
Dealer: Biblio, Bytown Bookery
Description: New York: Scribner. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Date: 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0684859068 . First Edition. Tan hard boards with black spine covering. DJ is unclipped. Harold Bloom writes about reading in an electronic age, making distinctions between information and knowledge (not to mention wisdom) and pointing out the indispensable virtues of such literary icons as Shakespeare, Austen, and Chekhov. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 283 pages . 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [CA] 

38. How to Read and Why
by Bloom, Prof. Harold  
Price: USD 28.82
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39. How to Read and Why
by Bloom, Prof. Harold  
Price: USD 9.83
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Description: Used - isbn: 0684859068 - isbn13: 9780684859064 Scribner  

40. How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 4.48
Dealer: Biblio, Mulberry Books
Description: New York: Scribner, Date: 2000. Mustard boards to the black binding the titles in bright gilt to the spine.An as new copy.Unread. A small black dot 1?8 " dia. is on the bottom edge near the spine. . First Edition First Printing. 1/4 Back Cloth Hard Cover. As New In a Like Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [CA] 

41. How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 6.88
Dealer: Biblio, ThriftBooks
Description: Scribner, Date: 2000. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

42. How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 6.88
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Description: Scribner, Date: 2000. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

43. How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 6.88
Dealer: Biblio, ThriftBooks
Description: Scribner, Date: 2000. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

44. How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 6.88
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Description: Scribner, Date: 2000. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

45. How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 6.88
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Description: Scribner, Date: 2000. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2000. Scribner ISBN 0684859068 9780684859064 [US] 

46. How To Read and Why [Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof]
by Harold Bloom 
Price: USD 26.00
Dealer: Abebooks, Remarks Used Books
Description: ISBN10: 0684859068, ISBN13: 9780684859064, [publisher: Scribner] Softcover First Edition Advance Reader's Copy of Uncorrected Proof in paperback of the June 2000 1st printing. Clean & tight copy, unread in Very Good condition; generic proof cover in robin's-egg blue; no creases in spine, no age toning on pages. No jacket as issued. "At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, Harold Bloom explores in direct terms how to read and why. Equal parts inspiration, self-help, and brilliant analysis of seminal works of literature, this empowering and practical book is geared not toward academics but toward the general reading public. It is Bloom's goal to teach readers how to immerse themselves in great literature to find what so many are searching for: a stronger conception of the self. With sections on short stories, poems, novels and plays, HOW TO READ AND WHY examines the works of such authors as Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens and William Faulkner." Pristine ARC copy, quite presentable & collectible. [Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]  

47. How To Read and Why [Hardcover] Bloom, Harold
by Bloom, Harold 
Price: USD 24.99
Dealer: Abebooks, Paper Dragon
Description: ISBN10: 0684859068, ISBN13: 9780684859064, [publisher: Scribner] Hardcover First Edition Clean, no marks, First Edition/Second Printing, 2000, from an attorney's private collection. As shown, dust jacket is nearly flawless, and book comes with a protective Mylar cover to prevent any future wear. Gold and black cover is also like new with gold lettering on spine. Corners are sharp. No marked, creased, or torn pages. No remainder marks. An excellent copy. Book will be carefully packaged for safe delivery. Paper Dragon is a 5-Star seller of popular books and does not solicit buyer ratings. LRBC #4 GA1120 [Tampa, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]  

48. How To Read and Why [Hardcover] Bloom, Harold
by Bloom, Harold 
Price: USD 49.81
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Description: ISBN10: 0684859068, ISBN13: 9780684859064, [publisher: Scribner] Hardcover First Edition Signed First Edition First printing. Inscribed. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good condition.Price unclipped clean text. inscribed to somebody with note. Contain minor stocking crease or shelf wear. [west hills, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]  

49. HOW TO READ AND WHY
by Bloom, Harold. 
Price: USD 24.00
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Description: ISBN10: 0684859068, ISBN13: 9780684859064, [publisher: Scribner., NY:] Hardcover First Edition HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. [Winter Park, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]  

50. HOW TO READ AND WHY
by Bloom, Harold 
Price: USD 58.00
Dealer: Abebooks, BennettBooksLtd
Description: ISBN10: 0684859068, ISBN13: 9780684859064, [publisher: Scribner] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.97 [North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]