(Conference book exhibits are a hazard to one's wealth health.)
- E.C.A. [Eleanor C. Agnew], Geraldine: A Tale of Conscience, 14th ed. (Burns & Oates, n.d.). One of the most influential Catholic novels of the nineteenth century (and, therefore, almost completely forgotten now...). Three volumes in one, which means that it's set in what looks like two-point font. (Barter Books)
- John Moore, Zeluco (Valancourt, 2008). Reprint of Moore's 1789 Gothic novel. (Valancourt at NAVSA)
- Lydia Sigourney, Selected Poetry and Prose, ed. Gary Kelly (Broadview, 2008). Anthology of the nineteenth-century American author's work. (Broadview at NAVSA)
- Florence Boos, ed., Victorian Working-Class Women Poets: An Anthology (Broadview, 2008). An anthology of, er, Victorian working-class women poets; for more of which, see here. (Broadview at NAVSA)
- Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (Free Press, 2008). Trials and travails of a cab driver in contemporary India. (free copy)
- Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows (NYRB, 2002). Reprint of West's 1957 novel about a family in comically dire straits. (eBay)
- Shusaku Endo, The Samurai (Aventura, 1984). A seventeenth-century samurai journeys abroad from Japan, converts to Christianity, and discovers that things do not go well. (Book Trader)
- Anthony Holden, The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt, Poet, Revolutionary, and the Last of the Romantics (Little, Brown, 2005). Biography of the poet-journalist who is now best known, unfortunately (and probably unfairly), as the model for Skimpole in Bleak House. (Book Trader)
- Lara Perry, History's Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (Ashgate, 2006). Which women made it in, and why? (Ashgate at NAVSA)
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