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Irwin Shaw: A Biographyby: Michael Shnayerson

Irwin Shaw: A Biography
by: Michael Shnayerson

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putman's Sons, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, unclipped dust jacket, 447 pages. B&w photos. Although he aspired to Princeton, Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff (aka Shaw) had to settle for local Brooklyn College, where he seems to have enjoyed football more than his studies. From his mid-20s, however, Shaw (1913-1984) was a highly regarded New Yorker short story writer ("The Girls in Their Summer Dresses") and left-wing playwright ( Bury the Dead ), and later became a successful Hollywood script writer and novelist ( The Young Lions ; Rich Man, Poor Man ). This sympathetic, objective biography, by a Vanity Fair contributing editor, convincingly shows how Shaw's career, character and fiction, influenced more by Hemingway's lifestyle than by his writing, were marked by incongruities. Far from abating with age, his romantic and alcoholic appetites overwhelmed him. Years of high living in Europe, surrounded by adoring friends, softened his self-judgment, and he took to writing "fluffy essays for swells." The New Yorker dropped him, and "serious" critics panned his novels. Shnayerson capably contrasts Shaw's inclinations and personality with his subject matter and literary output, and is especially astute at explaining the complications of being a commercially successful midcentury American writer. Clean copy.

Record # 374526

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Hispanic Balladry Todayby: Webber, Ruth H. (editor)

Hispanic Balladry Today
by: Webber, Ruth H. (editor)

Hardcover. NY, Garland Publishing, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, 327 pages. Clean, bright copy. No dj issued.

Record # 378312

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Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoirby: Akwaeke Emezi

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
by: Akwaeke Emezi

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author, a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self (Esquire)In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji reveals the harrowing yet resolute truths of their own life. Clean copy.

Record # 378923

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Complete New Yorker, The: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazineby: Remnick (Intro.), David

Complete New Yorker, The: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine
by: Remnick (Intro.), David

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover book and 8 DVDs inside a folding case. Every page of every issue of the magazine (4,109 issues, half a million pages) on eight DVD-Roms, with a companion book of highlights.

Record # 353229

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Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-August 1960)by: Debord, Guy

Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-August 1960)
by: Debord, Guy

Softcover. NY, Semiotext(e)/MIT, 1st transl., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages. Letters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement. Debord's letters-published here for the first time in English-provide a fascinating insider's view of just how this seemingly disorganized group drifting around a newly consumerized Paris became one of the most defining cultural movements of the twentieth century. Clean copy.

Record # 372556

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Peeling the Onionby: Grass, Gunter; translated by Michael Henry Heieadi

Peeling the Onion
by: Grass, Gunter; translated by Michael Henry Heieadi

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Inc., 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nobel Prize winning author Gunter Grass' autobiography causing controversy because of his admission of volunteering for the submarine corps at the age of 15 and then being drafted into the Waffen SS, the combat force of the SS, in 1944 when he was 17. Much of the German novelist's work has dealt with the idea of morally dealing with one's past, in this case Germany's collective conscious. Clean copy.

Record # 378381

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The Journalism of Milena Jesenska: A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europeby: Kathleen Hayes (Ed.)

The Journalism of Milena Jesenska: A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe
by: Kathleen Hayes (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY/Oxford UK, Berghahn Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 232 pages, pictorial boards. Milena Jesenska, born in Prague in 1896, is most famous as one of Franz Kafka's great loves. Although their relationship lasted only a short time, it won the attention of the literary world with the 1952 publication of Kafka's letters to Milena. Her own letters did not survive. Later biographies showed her as a fascinating personality in her own right. In the Czech Republic, she is remembered as one of the most prominent journalists of the interwar period and as a brave one: in 1939 she was arrested for her work in the resistance after the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, and died in Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1944. It is estimated that Jesenska wrote well over 1,000 articles but only a handful have been translated into English. In this book her own writings provide a new perspective on her personality, as well as the changes in Central Europe between the two world wars as these were perceived by a woman of letters. The articles in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including her perceptions of Kafka, her understanding of social and cultural changes during this period, the threat of Nazism, and the plight of the Jews in the 1930s. Clean copy.

Record # 382431

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Complex Vision, The by: Powys, John Cowper

Complex Vision, The
by: Powys, John Cowper

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st Edition, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 370 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covers with gilt titles to cover & spine. Fraying, scuffing to edges. Light sunfade to spine. As is, with light pencil marking throughout. Cracked rear hinge.

Record # 750614

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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography by: Roger Shattuck

Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography
by: Roger Shattuck

Softcover. NY, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A landmark exploration of the dark side of human ingenuity and imagination and an analysis of the history of Western culture. 369 pages, indexed, with bibliography.

Record # 381767

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Antigones by: Steiner, George

Antigones
by: Steiner, George

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This book examines the far-reaching legacy of one of the great myths of classical antiquity. According to Greek legend, Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the orders of Creon, king of Thebes. Creon sentenced Antigone to death, but, before the order could be executed, she committed suicide. The theme of the conflict between Antigone and Creon - between the state and the individual, between young and old, between men and women - has captured the Western imagination for more than 2,000 years. Antigone and Creon are as alive in the politics and poetics of our own day as they were in ancient Athens. Here, Steiner examines the treatment of the Antigone theme in Western art, literature and thought, leading us to look again at the unique influence Greek myths exercise on twentieth-century culture.

Record # 382610

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Letters from John Chinaman: A new edition with some other essaysby: Dickinson, G. Lowes

Letters from John Chinaman: A new edition with some other essays
by: Dickinson, G. Lowes

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin LTD, 2nd, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil, tape repair to dust jacket. Light soil on cover boards, tight copy.

Record # 354118

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The Undiscovered Country by: Hay, John

The Undiscovered Country
by: Hay, John

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 192 pages. Through the distillation of a lifetime of experiences, John Hay describes in The Undiscovered Country his quiet, profound search for our place in the natural world. In considering snails, alewives, terns, woodland moths, and other forms of natural life, Hay shares with his readers a discovery that few have experienced and no one has written about so eloquently. Clean copy.

Record # 378101

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French Folktalesby: Bjurstrom/Henri Pourrat, C.G.

French Folktales
by: Bjurstrom/Henri Pourrat, C.G.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 484 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Nice copy.

Record # 4450208

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Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff: 1917-1976by: Charles Reznikoff, Milton Hindus (Editor)

Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff: 1917-1976
by: Charles Reznikoff, Milton Hindus (Editor)

Softcover. Santa Rosa CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st pbk, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 340 pages. The majority of the letters in this collection pertain to Reznikoff's personal life, addressed chiefly to his wife, Marie Syrkin, and his lifelong friend and sometime employer in Hollywood, Albert Lewin.

Record # 387677

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Colours: Faithfully Rendered from the French of Remy De Gourmont by Frederic Reeves Ashfield with Two Supplementary Colours by the Translatorby: De Gourmont, Remy/Fre

Colours: Faithfully Rendered from the French of Remy De Gourmont by Frederic Reeves Ashfield with Two Supplementary Colours by the Translator
by: De Gourmont, Remy/Fre

Hardcover. New York City, Blue Faun Publications, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated pastedown on front cover designed by Mahlon Blaine. Illustrated endpapers by Heinrich Vogeler. "The entire edition of Colours is limited to 1950 copies; 1900 copies numbered and registered, for sale; and 50 copies, lettered A to XX, for review only. Type has been distributed, and Colours will not be reprinted. This copy is No. 386". Some foxing to front cover pastedown, and narrow chip missing from spine label. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614164

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MRS. DE PEYSTER'S PARTIES And Other Lively Studies from the New Yorker by: Hellman, Geoffrey

MRS. DE PEYSTER'S PARTIES And Other Lively Studies from the New Yorker
by: Hellman, Geoffrey

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 421 pages. A selection of vintage Hellman profiles, interspersed with certain shorter masterpieces of humor that have a quality all their own. Brilliant series of studies of extraordinary people: publisher Alfred A. Knopf, the Countess Mara of cravat-creating fame; the architect Le Corbusier, Alexander Calder, designer Norman Bel Geddes, and many more. Dust jacket rubbed, spine faded. Clean copy.

Record # 381476

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Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980by: Iain McIntyre, Andrew Nette , et al.

Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980
by: Iain McIntyre, Andrew Nette , et al.

Softcover. Oakland CA, PM Press;, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behavior, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills. With their lurid covers and wild, action-packed plots, these books reveal as much about society's deepest desires and fears as they do about the subcultures themselves. Featuring approximately 400 full-color covers, many of them never before reprinted, along with 70 in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, and previously unpublished articles, the book goes behind the scenes to look at the authors and publishers, how they worked, where they drew their inspiration and--often overlooked--the actual words they wrote. It is a must read for anyone interested in pulp fiction, lost literary history, retro and subcultural style, and the history of postwar youth culture.

Record # 369869

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Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing by: James Olney

Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing
by: James Olney

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 430 pages. James Olney, one of the most distinguished scholars of autobiography, tells the story of an evolving literary form that originated in the autobiographical writings of St. Augustine, underwent profound changes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life-writing trilogy, and found a momentary conclusion in the work of Samuel Beckett.

Record # 372821

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Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers: Vol. XVIIIby: Hubbard, Elbert

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers: Vol. XVIII
by: Hubbard, Elbert

Hardcover. East Aurora, New York, The Roycrofters, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 164 pages, portraits of the author and subjects in the book with tissue guards. Embossed Half leather binding and decorated pages. Gilt top edge. Author's signature (in plate) on frontispiece portrait. Number 18 in The Little Journeys Series. A very handsome book.

Record # 852770

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Du Bois

Du Bois

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 246 pages. In 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Presence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. "Any Negro-American who travels abroad today must either not discuss race conditions in the United States or say the sort of thing which our State Department wishes the world to believe." Taking seriously Du Bois's allegation, Juliana Spahr breathes new life into age-old questions as she explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics? Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous, or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible? Du Bois's Telegram brings together a wide range of institutional forces implicated in literary production, paying special attention to three eras of writing that sought to defy political orthodoxies by contesting linguistic conventions: avant-garde modernism of the early twentieth century; social-movement writing of the 1960s and 1970s; and, in the twenty-first century, the profusion of English-language works incorporating languages other than English. Spahr shows how these literatures attempted to assert their autonomy, only to be shut down by FBI harassment or coopted by CIA and State Department propagandists. Liberal state allies such as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations made writers complicit by funding multiculturalist works that celebrated diversity and assimilation while starving radical anti-imperial, anti-racist, anti-capitalist efforts. Clean, like new.

Record # 382756

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BERNARD SHAW: THE DIARIES 1885-1897 VOLUME II by: Shaw Bernard; edited and Annotated by Stanley Weintraub

BERNARD SHAW: THE DIARIES 1885-1897 VOLUME II
by: Shaw Bernard; edited and Annotated by Stanley Weintraub

University Park PA, Pennsylvania State University Press , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Weintraub's compilation of Shaw's diaries reveal the day to day life of one of Britain's most famous playwrights. 558 pages. Vol. 1 only of a two volume set. Clean.

Record # 381859

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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Fleshby: Lahr, John

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
by: Lahr, John

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 1st, 2014-09-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 765 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464793

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Rudyard Kipling in Vermontby: Stuart Murray

Rudyard Kipling in Vermont
by: Stuart Murray

Hardcover. Bennington VT, Images from the Past, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Rudyard Kipling in Vermont tells the story of the dynamic years 1892-1896 with Kipling's own letters and memoirs, selected excerpts from his poetry, and the words of those who knew and admired him. More than thirty illustrations illustrate the little-known tale of a time he said "would be blessed to me for all my life." Kipling was born in Bombay, India, and was a prolific writer. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He married an American wife and moved to the village of Brattleboro, VT. He only lived in Vermont for four years. But during that time he wrote his famous "Jungle Book" series. Family troubles forced him to move and the large estate he lived in over looking town fell into disrepair. Clean copy.

Record # 387527

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Travels in Hyperreality: Essaysby: Eco, Umberto

Travels in Hyperreality: Essays
by: Eco, Umberto

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. In a bright dust jacket. Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny. Translated by William Weaver.

Record # 370745

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The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardnerby: Ring Lardner, Ron Rapoport , et al.

The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner
by: Ring Lardner, Ron Rapoport , et al.

Hardcover. University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 592 pages. Ring Lardner's influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country's best-known journalist in the 1920s and early 1930s, when his voice was all but inescapable in American newspapers and magazines. Lardner's trenchant, observant, sly, and cynical writing style, along with a deep understanding of human foibles, made his articles wonderfully readable and his words resonate to this day. Ron Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner's journalism from his earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate, which appeared in 150 newspapers and reached eight million readers. In these columns Lardner not only covered the great sporting events of the era--from Jack Dempsey's fights to the World Series and even an America's Cup--he also wrote about politics, war, and Prohibition, as well as parodies, poems, and penetrating observations on American life.

Record # 371150

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There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendakby: Cott, Jonathan

There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak
by: Cott, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1t, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 363336

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Diaries 1907-1914: Prodigious Youthby: Prokofiev, Sergey

Diaries 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth
by: Prokofiev, Sergey

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 835 pages. Sergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, his diaries were recovered from the family flat in Petrograd and later hidden at considerable personal risk by the composer Nikolai Myaskovsky. Prokofiev himself smuggled them out of the country after his first return to the Soviet Union in 1927. The later diaries, written in the West, were brought back by legal decree after the composer's death in 1953, to be kept in an inaccessible section of the Soviet State Archive. Eventually Prokofiev's son Sviatoslav was allowed to transcribe the voluminous contents. When he and his son Sergei eventually emigrated to Paris, they undertook the gigantic task of reproducing the partially encoded manuscript in an intelligible form.Diaries, 1907-1914, the first of three volumes that extend to 1933, covers Prokofiev's years at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire. Simultaneously attached to and exasperated by the tradition exemplified by composers such as Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, and Tcherepnin, the brash young genius relishes the power of his talent to irritate, challenge, and finally overcome the establishment. Clean copy.

Record # 383300

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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castanedaby: Amy Wallace

The Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda
by: Amy Wallace

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Frog Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Amy Wallace's first meeting with Carlos Castaneda, the infamous anthropologist-turned-shaman, whose books described meetings with Yaqui Indian spiritual teacher Don Juan. Castaneda's rise was meteoric in the late 1960s as he wrote massive bestsellers, inspired many to experiment with psychedelics, and was dubbed "The Godfather of the New Age". The possibility that Castaneda's experiences may have been fabricated did little to compromise his legend. As the daughter of best-selling novelist Irving Wallace, Amy was rarely shy around famous people. When her father insisted she meet Castaneda, she at first demurred. Little did she know that a delightful first meeting would begin a 20-year friendship, followed by her descent into the dramatic and deeply troubled affair chronicled in this book. Wallace reveals the inner workings of the "Cult of Carlos", run by a charismatic authoritarian in his sixties who controlled his young female followers through emotional abuse, mind games, bizarre rituals, dubious teachings, and sexual excess. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 383527

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Stephen Spender: Journals, 1939-1983 (SIGNED COPY)by: Spender, Stephen

Stephen Spender: Journals, 1939-1983 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, Ltd. Ed., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full red leather binding with 3 raised bands on the spine. Gilt stamped boards and page edges. Includes the Franklin Library supplement sheet.

Record # 384030

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Cebuano Sorcery: Malign Magic in the Philippinesby: Lieban, Richard W.

Cebuano Sorcery: Malign Magic in the Philippines
by: Lieban, Richard W.

Hardcover. Berkeley , University of California Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 163 pages, b&w photos. Light pencil marking to 10 pages, otherwise clean. A unique look into the subject area, and the contributory factors of people who engage in early esoteric based practice, in remote rural Philippines. The author is concise, and the book is informative and provides quite a balanced view of development with a view particularly to cultural and socio-economic influences.

Record # 384850

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Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939 by: Leonard Woolf

Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939
by: Leonard Woolf

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 259 pages, photographic frontispiece, 4 leaves of plates; original blue cloth over blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, Autobiography of the English writer and founder of the Hogarth Press with his wife Virginia Woolf. The fourth volume of the autobiography. Remainder line to edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 398081

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The Great Pulp Heroes by: Don Hutchison

The Great Pulp Heroes
by: Don Hutchison

Softcover. Oakville Ontario , Mosaic Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages. B&W illustrations. Here is an affectionate look back at the outsized heroes who once occupied the imagination of millions of loyal readers. The Shadow. Tarzan. Doc Savage. Captain Future. The Spider. Zero. They were the original super guys - godfathers and inpsiration to the likes of Superman, Batman, and James Bond. Fascinating and informative, The Great Pulp Heroes is a lively and entertaining history of those fabulous characters, of them gaudy, glorious magazines that spawned them, and of the amazing wordsmiths who churned out their monthly adventures. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 385520

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Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzanby: Goodman, Lenn Evan

Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
by: Goodman, Lenn Evan

Hardcover. New York, Twayne Publishers, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246 pages. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Light spotting to edges. Very minor rubbing to cover edges. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 851850

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Flaubert by: Henri Troyat

Flaubert
by: Henri Troyat

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 374 pages.Translated by Joan Pinkham, notes, bibliography, index, b/w photo plates, white boards/black cloth. Originally published Librairie Flammarion, Paris, 1988. First American Edition.

Record # 374487

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The Diary of John Evelyn: Volume 1: Introduction and De Vita Propria by: Evelyn, John

The Diary of John Evelyn: Volume 1: Introduction and De Vita Propria
by: Evelyn, John

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 171 pages. Volume 1 ONLY of a six volume set. Name and date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Record # 386771

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Pa Chin and His Writings - Chinese Youth Between the Two Revolutionsby: Lang, Olga

Pa Chin and His Writings - Chinese Youth Between the Two Revolutions
by: Lang, Olga

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press,, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 402 pages. "Miss Lang focuses on the content of Pa Chin novels and short stories, which vividly describe the life of Chinese youth. She also pays great attention to the western, particularly Russian and French, influences on his political philosophy."

Record # 67251

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The Writer and the World: Essays by: Naipaul, V.S.

The Writer and the World: Essays
by: Naipaul, V.S.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 524 pages. The finest shorter pieces of reflection and reportage by V.S. Naipaul - nearly all of them heretofore out of print - are collected in one volume spanning some forty years of travel and sustained meditations on our world. Clean copy.

Record # 387278

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Lewis Carrollby: Hudson, Derek

Lewis Carroll
by: Hudson, Derek

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, blue cloth covers with silver titles. 354 pages. b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 387447

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Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson by: Paul Perry

Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson
by: Paul Perry

Hardcover. NY, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages, with b&w photographs. Very clean and tight copy. Unauthorized biography of Hunter Thompson. Perry takes us on a journey through Thompson's booze and drug fueled rise to fame. From a young yahoo in Louisville, Kentucky-drinking heavily and playing with his rifle, to the first hand secrets of Thompson's inventive and irreverent gonzo jounralism. A look at a man who was a horror to some, a hero to others.

Record # 391428

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The Harlem Renaissance in Black and Whiteby: Hutchinson, George

The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
by: Hutchinson, George

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 541 pages. It wasn't all black or white. It wasn't a vogue. It wasn't a failure. By restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the Harlem Renaissance--or blamed for corrupting it--George Hutchinson transforms our understanding of black (and white) literary modernism, interracial literary relations, and twentieth-century cultural nationalism in the United States. What has been missing from literary histories of the time is a broader sense of the intellectual context of the Harlem Renaissance, and Hutchinson supplies that here: Boas's anthropology, Park's sociology, various strands of pragmatism and cultural nationalism--ideas that shaped the New Negro movement and the literary field, where the movement flourished. Hutchinson tracks the resulting transformation of literary institutions and organizations in the 1920s, offering a detailed account of the journals and presses, black and white, that published the work of the "New Negroes." This cultural excavation discredits bedrock assumptions about the motives of white interest in the renaissance, and about black relationships to white intellectuals of the period. Clean copy.

Record # 397581

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The Last Days of Mankind: A Tragedy in Five Acts by: Kraus, Karl; /Ungar, Frederick(Ed.) /Wright, E Sue (transl.)

The Last Days of Mankind: A Tragedy in Five Acts
by: Kraus, Karl; /Ungar, Frederick(Ed.) /Wright, E Sue (transl.)

Hardcover. NY, Frederick Ungar, 1st thus, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 263 pages. 1st American Edition of this Abridged Translation. This is Kraus's masterpiece, with half of Europe as its stage. It is presented here in English for the first time, in an abridged version that preserves the essence of the 800-page original. Its influence on Brecht, Ionesco, and other playwrights is acknowledged. Mingling actual quotations, news reports, and government orders with Kraus's own satiric dialogue, this immense drama (never meaning to be performed) offers a vast fresco of events at the front and at home during, as it prophesied, the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Indeed, Kraus anticipated the development of atomic warfare and its threat to all mankind. Some of Kraus is untranslatable, but, as Stanley Kauffmann wrote in his New Republic review, "Ungar has done us a benefit at least by bringing us a bit closer to this sharp-eyed, angry, prickly, lover-hater of mankind." INSCRIBED BY FREDERICK UNGAR, the editor and publisher on the half-title page. He also wrote the 14 page introduction. Clean copy.

Record # 397630

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Notes on Aaron's Rod And Other Notes On Lawrence From The Paris Notebooksby: Miller, Henry

Notes on Aaron's Rod And Other Notes On Lawrence From The Paris Notebooks
by: Miller, Henry

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 59 pages. Edition of 750 copies. This is one of the unsigned copies. Quarter black cloth with paper title label. Printed boards. Acetate dust jacket with light soil.

Record # 398039

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Letters of John Ruskin To Charles Eliot Norton [2 Volumes] by: Ruskin, John

Letters of John Ruskin To Charles Eliot Norton [2 Volumes]
by: Ruskin, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd pr., 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Two hardcover volumes in worn, soiled dust jackets. Dark green cloth covers with gilt titles to upper covers and spines. As a result of djs, both volumes are bright and clean, 261. 243 pages. No markings.

Record # 398038

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The Survival of the Bark Canoeby: John McPhee

The Survival of the Bark Canoe
by: John McPhee

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light tanning to edges. 214 pages with a pictorial section in rear. Stated first printing on copyright page. The story of the building of birch-bark canoes and of a 150 mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology.

Record # 398245

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The Letters of Josiah Royceby: Josiah Royce/John Glendenning

The Letters of Josiah Royce
by: Josiah Royce/John Glendenning

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 696 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 398928

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Narrative Comprehension - A Discourse Perspectiveby: Emmott, Catherine

Narrative Comprehension - A Discourse Perspective
by: Emmott, Catherine

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 614477

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Le Roman de L'Hommeby: Simenon, Georges

Le Roman de L'Homme
by: Simenon, Georges

Hardcover. France, Presses De La Oite, 1st Ltd. ed., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, #996 of 1,500 Ltd Ed. of a speech given by the author in 1958. Slipcased. FRENCH TEXT

Record # 58991

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Seven Voices: Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibertby: Guibert, Rita

Seven Voices: Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert
by: Guibert, Rita

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 436 pages. Interviews with: Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Guillermo Cabera Infante. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 379855

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Jane Austen and Animalsby: Seeber, Barbara K.

Jane Austen and Animals
by: Seeber, Barbara K.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470119

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A Sort of Life by: Greene, Graham

A Sort of Life
by: Greene, Graham

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1971, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author tells of his childhood and early life up until the years after the acceptance of his first novel. This time included growing up in an intellectual Edwardian family, his education at Oxford, his involvement with the Secret Service, and his apprenticeship as a journalist. Clean copy.

Record # 382302

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