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Dear Mr. McLaverty --: The Literary Correspondence of John McGahern and Michael McLaverty, 1959-1980by: John Killen (Ed.)
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Dear Mr. McLaverty --: The Literary Correspondence of John McGahern and Michael McLaverty, 1959-1980by: John Killen (Ed.)Dear Mr. McLaverty --: The Literary Correspondence of John McGahern and Michael McLaverty, 1959-1980by: John Killen (Ed.)

Dear Mr. McLaverty --: The Literary Correspondence of John McGahern and Michael McLaverty, 1959-1980
by: John Killen (Ed.)

Softcover. US, Linen Hall Library, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. SIGNED BY EDITOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. A very pleasing collection of letters between two fine Irish writers.

Record # 464854

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In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost Warby: Wolf, Tobias
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In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War
by: Wolf, Tobias

Hardcover. New York, Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages. Remainder-mark to bottom edge. Very nice in brodart cover.

Record # 606465

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Kenneth Tynan - Lettersby: Tynan, Kenneth/Kathleen Tynan (Editor)
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Kenneth Tynan - Letters
by: Tynan, Kenneth/Kathleen Tynan (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 638 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor rubbing to surface of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612216

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Bibliography of Christopher Morley, Aby: Lee, Alfred P.
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Bibliography of Christopher Morley, A
by: Lee, Alfred P.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 277 pages. Dust jacket with extensive ripping and wear. Covered in mylar for protection. Dark red boards with gilt title to spine. Red staining to top edge. Soiling to ell edges. Overall, a tight copy.

Record # 850409

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Shakespeare Allusion Book, The: A Collection of Allusions to Shakespeare from 1591 to 1700 by: Munro (Editor), John
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Shakespeare Allusion Book, The: A Collection of Allusions to Shakespeare from 1591 to 1700
by: Munro (Editor), John

Hardcover. New York, Duffield & Company, reprint, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 557 pages, originally compiled by C. M. Ingleby, L. Toulmin Smith and Dr. F. F. Furnivall. Gilt top edge and title on green cloth board. Minor foxing on fore edge, light edge wear and slight spine cock, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 855326

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Fairy Tale of My Life, The - An Autobiographyby: Andersen, Hans Christian
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Fairy Tale of My Life, The - An Autobiography
by: Andersen, Hans Christian

NY, Paddington Press, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket, light fading to spine. Black & white illustrations, 569 pages.

Record # 61888

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In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing - A Geography of Grief (SIGNED COPY)by: Noel, Christopher
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In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing - A Geography of Grief (SIGNED COPY)by: Noel, ChristopherIn the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing - A Geography of Grief (SIGNED COPY)by: Noel, Christopher

In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing - A Geography of Grief (SIGNED COPY)
by: Noel, Christopher

Hardcover. New York , Times Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NOEL on title-page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 175408

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Nothing hardly ever happens in Colbyville, Vermont : and other stories and essays (SIGNED COPY)by: Miller, Peter

Nothing hardly ever happens in Colbyville, Vermont : and other stories and essays (SIGNED COPY)
by: Miller, Peter

Hardcover. Colbyville, Vt., Silver Print Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. B&w photography throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 350931

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Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterlyby: Adler (editor), Elmor; Et Al.
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Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly
by: Adler (editor), Elmor; Et Al.

Hardcover. New York, Colophon Press, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with lightly tanned pages. Cover boards show light soil. Articles include: Colophons by Ruth S. Granniss; Firsts, Issues and Points by George H. Sargent; On Breaking Type by H.L. Mencken; Whitman and the War's Finale by Emory Holloway; Illustrating "Huckleberry Finn" by E.W. Kemble; Irving's Washington and an Episode in Courtesy by George S. Hellman; On Being Published by Sherwood Anderson; Chartreuse by A.R. Stavenitz; An Unrecorded "Pilgram's Progress" by Gilbert McCoy Troxell; The Bookplates of Bruce Rogers by William A. Kittredge; Getting Into Print by William McFee.

Record # 354141

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The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Readerby: Roger Caillois; Editor Claudine Frank; Translator Camille Naish
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The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader
by: Roger Caillois; Editor Claudine Frank; Translator Camille Naish

Hardcover. Duke University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 440 pages. Black cloth, no dust jacket. The Edge of Surrealism is an essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois. Caillois was part of the Surrealist avant-garde and in the 1930s founded the College of Sociology with Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris. He spent his life exploring issues raised by this famous group and by Surrealism itself. Though his subjects were diverse, Caillois focused on concerns crucial to modern intellectual life, and his essays offer a unique perspective on many of twentieth-century France's most significant intellectual movements and figures. Including a masterful introductory essay by Claudine Frank situating his work in the context of his life and intellectual milieu, this anthology is the first comprehensive introduction to Caillois's work to appear in any language. These thirty-two essays with commentaries strike a balance between Caillois's political and theoretical writings and between his better known works, such as the popular essays on the praying mantis, myth, and mimicry, and his lesser-known pieces. Presenting several new pieces and drawing on interviews and unpublished correspondence, this book reveals Caillois's consistent effort to reconcile intellectual rigor and imaginative adventure. Perhaps most importantly, The Edge of Surrealism provides an overdue look at how Caillois's intellectual project intersected with the work of Georges Bataille and others including Breton, Bachelard, Benjamin, Lacan, and Levi-Strauss.

Record # 362519

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Godstone and the Blackymor, Theby: White/Edward Ardizzone, T.H.
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Godstone and the Blackymor, The
by: White/Edward Ardizzone, T.H.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 226 pages, illustrated in b&w by Edward Ardizzone. Blue cloth with an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. The book is a very good, clean, tight copy. White's account of life on the west coast of Ireland. The author comments on the front flap: "God knows what this book is about. I suppose it's a bit of autobiography really. But it's about living on the West Coast of Ireland, in 'the parish nearest to America' -- they all are, I mean the parishes -- and it is about the people and things there, more than about me."

Record # 371825

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Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing by: James Olney
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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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Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurierby: Tatiana de Rosnay
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Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier
by: Tatiana de Rosnay

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 352 pages. Translated by Sam Taylor. As a bilingual bestselling novelist with a mixed Franco-British bloodline and a host of eminent forebears, Tatiana de Rosnay is the perfect candidate to write a biography of Daphne du Maurier. As an eleven-year-old de Rosnay read and reread Rebecca, becoming a lifelong devotee of Du Maurier's fiction. Now de Rosnay pays homage to the writer who influenced her so deeply, following Du Maurier from a shy seven-year-old, a rebellious sixteen-year-old, a twenty-something newlywed, and finally a cantankerous old lady. With a rhythm and intimacy to its prose characteristic of all de Rosnay's works, Manderley Forever is a vividly compelling portrait and celebration of an intriguing, hugely popular and (at the time) critically underrated writer.

Record # 374057

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The Cows (Quarternote Chapbook Series)by: Davis, Lydia
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The Cows (Quarternote Chapbook Series)
by: Davis, Lydia

Softcover. Louisville KY, Sarabande Books, 4th pr., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages, b&w photos. Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as well as she, few perceive with such charged intelligence. The Cows is a close study of the three much-loved cows that live across the road from her. The piece, written with understated humor and empathy, is a series of detailed observations of the cows on different days and in different positions, moods, and times of the day. Clean copy.

Record # 374483

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A Thoreau Profileby: Meltzer, Milton And Walter Harding
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A Thoreau Profile
by: Meltzer, Milton And Walter Harding

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 310 pages, 250 b&w illustrations. The life of one of America's major literary artists, Henry David Thoreau: , born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts: a schoolmaster, tutor, surveyor, mason, gardener, farmer, house painter, carpenter, day-laborer, abolitionist, pencil-maker. lecturer, naturtalist, writer. Small name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 374997

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The Bird that Swallowed Its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparteby: Walter Murch (Translator), Lawrence Weschler (Foreword)
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The Bird that Swallowed Its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte
by: Walter Murch (Translator), Lawrence Weschler (Foreword)

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Counterpoint, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. Walter Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte's writings in a chance encounter in a French book about cosmology, where one of Malaparte's stories was retold to illustrate a point about conditions shortly after the creation of the universe. Murch was so taken by the strange, utterly captivating imagery he went to find the book from which the story was taken. The book was Kaputt, Malaparte's autobiographical novel about the frontlines of World War II. Curzio Malaparte, an Italian born with a German heritage, was a journalist, dramatic, novelist and diplomat. When he wrote a book attacking totalitarianism and Hitler's reign, Mussolini, in no position to support such a body of work, stripped him of his National Fascist Party membership and sent him to internal exile on the island of Lipari. In 1941, he was sent to cover the Eastern Front as a correspondent for Corriere della Sera, the Milano daily newspaper. His dispatches from the next three years would be largely suppressed by the Italian government, but reverberated among readers as painfully real depictions of a landscape at war.

Record # 378316

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The Several Lives of Joseph Conradby: John Stape
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The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
by: John Stape

Hardcover. Canada, Bond Street Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 378 pages. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is a brilliant and highly readable biography of a literary figure of world-wide reputation. Conrad's impact has been so profound and far-reaching that, eighty years after his death, he remains an essential cultural reference point. Such phrases as "heart of darkness" and "The horror! The horror!" have entered the language, often cited without an awareness of their original contexts. His popular legacy extends to Latin American fiction, to the spy novel, to the terrorist and anarchist character, and to film. The writers he has influenced range from T. S. Eliot to William Faulkner to V. S. Naipaul and John Le Carre. For a writer of "difficult" fiction he has enjoyed a remarkably wide impact, yet as Marlow proclaims in Lord Jim of the figure whose story he tells,"he was one of us," and so Conrad remains in fascinating ways.

Record # 378958

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The Wisdom Of The Heart by: Henry Miller
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The Wisdom Of The Heart
by: Henry Miller

Hardcover. NY, New Directions Books, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black title on spine. Collected stories and essays "not for readers who hate to think," Mild shelf wear, clean.

Record # 379903

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My Secret Diary 1943-1945 by: Guareschi, Giovanni
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My Secret Diary 1943-1945
by: Guareschi, Giovanni

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. The author, a German prisoner during WW2, using his prison camp diary tells of his experiences. Clean copy.

Record # 381421

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Frederic Remington: Selected Letters by: Remington Frederic and Allen P. Splete and Marilyn D. Splete (Eds.)
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Frederic Remington: Selected Letters
by: Remington Frederic and Allen P. Splete and Marilyn D. Splete (Eds.)

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings. Index. Bibliography. 487 pages. Remington, a prolific letter writer, was also an inveterate doodler. Many of these previously unpublished drawings are a part of this collection. Correspondence includes notes to his family and correspondence with President Theodore Roosevelt, Owen Wister, Poultney Bigelow, Francis Parkman, Elizabeth Custer and others. Clean copy.

Record # 381766

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In Search of Frankensteinby: Florescu, Radu
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In Search of Frankenstein
by: Florescu, Radu

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, BC Ed,, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, black cloth covers, red title and author lettering to the spine. 239 pages, 100 b&w illustrations. With Contributions by Alan Barbour & Matei Cazacu. Book club edition in very nice condition.

Record # 382004

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Antigones by: Steiner, George
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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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The Collected Letters of Oliver Goldsmithby: Goldsmith, Oliver ; Balderston, Katharine C. (ed.), BBP
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The Collected Letters of Oliver Goldsmithby: Goldsmith, Oliver ; Balderston, Katharine C. (ed.), BBPThe Collected Letters of Oliver Goldsmithby: Goldsmith, Oliver ; Balderston, Katharine C. (ed.), BBP

The Collected Letters of Oliver Goldsmith
by: Goldsmith, Oliver ; Balderston, Katharine C. (ed.), BBP

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1928, Hardcover, 190 pages, text clean and sound, marbled boards and green quarter-cloth. Contains a collection of letters by the playwright and author Oliver Goldmith, author of She Stoops to Conquer and The Vicar of Wakefield, written between 1752 and 1774. Balderston includes letters which only exist in a fragmentary form, as well as doubtful and forged letters.

Record # 383178

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Life of Voltaire: 2 Volume Setby: James Parton
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Life of Voltaire: 2 Volume Set
by: James Parton

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, two-volume set complete. Matching dark brown cloth covers stamped in black and gilt, top edge gilt. 639; vi, 653 pages; index, bibliography, frontispiece portrait in each volume - one a quite formal portrait of Voltaire in his prime, the other a sketch of him in old age. Covers show light wear, name on title pages. This is the second printing, the first published a year earlier. A comprehensive life of the great Enlightenment writer. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 383406

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The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Centuryby: Michaels, Walter Benn

The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century
by: Michaels, Walter Benn

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages. Name on front fly leaf whited out, otherwise clean.

Record # 383944

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Perceval's Narrative: A Patient's Account of His Psychosis, 1830-1832by: John Perceval; Gregory Bateson
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Perceval's Narrative: A Patient's Account of His Psychosis, 1830-1832
by: John Perceval; Gregory Bateson

Softcover. NY, Morrow, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 331 pages. A remarkable pre-Freudian account of schizophrenia written by the son of a prime minister of England. Certifiably insane from 1830 to 1831, he wrote the autobiography of his illness and recovery with vigor and insight. Clean copy.

Record # 384854

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V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading by: Cudjoe, Selwyn R.
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V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading
by: Cudjoe, Selwyn R.

Softcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages. Because Naipaul's work occupies such an important place in English literature today, it is necessary to understand the forces that shape his work and the issues with which he is concerned. If this study raises some of the more important questions about Naipaul's work and demonstrates that is cannot be seen as an unproblematic guide to post colonial "reality," then it would have gone a long way toward opening up the terrain in which the most meaningful discussion of his work can take place. Like it or not, Naipaul's work represents an important postcolonial impulse/response that begs to be understood and interpreted. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 385499

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Journey to America by: de Tocqueville, Alexis; Edited by J. P. Mayer
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Journey to America
by: de Tocqueville, Alexis; Edited by J. P. Mayer

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 334 pages. The editor has chosen excerpts from de Tocquville's 14 notebooks he kept on his visit to America 1831-32. The detailed notes were the raw material that became his classic Democracy In America. Many of these observations never made into the final work. Clean copy.

Record # 385794

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Reading Rochester by: Burns, Edward (Ed.)
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Reading Rochester
by: Burns, Edward (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a violet dust jacket with light fading to spine, 232 pages. A collection of essays exploring all aspects on a controversial English poet, the 17th century libertine, The Earl of Rochester. Different sections focus on sexual politics, on the poetry of intellect, and on Rochester and his contemporaries. Name, date and light pencil notations on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386732

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Reading Green in Early Modern Englandby: Leah Knight
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Reading Green in Early Modern England
by: Leah Knight

Hardcover. Surrey UK, Ashgate Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 165 pages. Author Leah Knight explores the physical and figurative potentials of green as they were understood in Renaissance England, including some that foreshadow our paradoxical dependence on and sacrifice of the green world. Ranging across contexts from early modern optics and olfaction to horticulture and herbal health care, this study explores a host of human encounters with the green world: both the impressions we make upon it and those it leaves with us. B&w, color illustrations.

Record # 387225

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The Prose Works of Rev R S Hawker, Vicar of Morwenstow Including Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by: Hawker, R. S. (Rev.) View larger image
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The Prose Works of Rev R S Hawker, Vicar of Morwenstow Including Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall
by: Hawker, R. S. (Rev.)

Hardcover. Edinburgh/London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1st thus, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 187 pages plus publisher's catalog in rear. "Carefully Re-Edited, with Sketches never before published." Mainly a reprint of Hawker's contributions to "Notes and Queries", "Household Words", "All the Year Round". Frontis. photo of Morwenstow Church, protected by tissue guard. Also pasted to inside front cover a clipping of two photos: Hawker and his second wife, taken about the time of their marriage.

Record # 387348

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The Village Book (SIGNED COPY)by: Williamson, Henry View larger image
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The Village Book (SIGNED COPY)
by: Williamson, Henry

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Limited to 504 signed copies, this being no 265. Bound in original publishers quarter vellum, with green cloth boards, vellum dusty, cloth faded. An anthology of the author's writings from 1921 to 1930. The work concerns the history of an unnamed fictional village, and is divided into alternating chapters with different headings. Vellum-backed cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with Williamson's familiar owl logo gold-stamped to the upper board. With a portrait frontispiece and two brief sketches by the author. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some uneven fading to the cloth and a little darkening to the vellum backstrip, as is common with this production.

Record # 387583

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Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind by: Robert D. Richardson Jr.
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
by: Robert D. Richardson Jr.

Hardcover. Berkeley , University of California Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 455 pages. This biography of Henry Thoreau offers insight into his social activism, his interest in fine arts, William Gilpin and John Ruskin's influence on his nature writing, and his involvement in, and influence by, the Agassiz-Darwin debate over "The Origin of Species." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387954

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The Failure of Modernism: Symptoms of American Poetry by: Ross, Andrew

The Failure of Modernism: Symptoms of American Poetry
by: Ross, Andrew

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 248 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 397576

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A Book of Common Praiseby: Boyers, Robert

A Book of Common Praise
by: Boyers, Robert

Hardcover. Keene NY, Ausable Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 264 pages. Miniature critical essays on contemporary poets and fiction writers. Originally written as introductions to public readings, these essays are unabashedly celebratory, a welcome relief from the usual critical fare. As a critic, Boyers has been praised by such literary giants as Harold Bloom and John Bayley. Authors covered: Joseph Brodsky, Carl Dennis, Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, Howard Nemerov, Robert Pinsky, Saul Bellow, Nicholas Delbanco, Bernard Malamud, Jay McInerney, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Sontag, and many others. Clean copy.

Record # 397629

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On the Rezby: Frazier, Ian

On the Rez
by: Frazier, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages. A perceptive visitor's report of life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, one of the poorest places in the United States. Profiles the Oglala Sioux living there and along the way a female basketball star. Clean copy.

Record # 397881

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Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871by: Joseph Frank

Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871
by: Joseph Frank

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 521 pages. The fourth volume in Frank's monumental five part biography of the great Russian writer. Covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels--Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Devils--and two of his best novellas, The Gambler and The Eternal Husband. All these masterpieces were written in the midst of harrowing practical and economic circumstances, as Dostoevsky moved from place to place, frequently giving way to his passion for roulette. Having remarried and fled from Russia to escape importuning creditors and grasping dependents, he could not return for fear of being thrown into debtor's prison. He and his young bride, who twice made him a father, lived obscurely and penuriously in Switzerland, Germany, and Italy, as he toiled away at his writing, their only source of income. Clean copy.

Record # 397958

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Answerable to None: Berrigan, Bronk, and the American Real:Essays and Reviews by: Edward Foster

Answerable to None: Berrigan, Bronk, and the American Real:Essays and Reviews
by: Edward Foster

Softcover. NY, Spuyten Duyvil, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 187 pages, Essays on contemporary American literature. Small bump to edge causing a slight wave to top edge, Clean copy.

Record # 398068

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Living in Bloomsbury by: Burke, Thomas
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Living in Bloomsbury
by: Burke, Thomas

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 2nd pr., 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light tan cloth with red lettering to the spine, 361 pages. Although the life of London runs like a thread through the whole fabric of this book, it is not essentially a book about London. Life in Bloomsbury is but the center of a large circle, the point around which the rest of the book revolves, the origin of a disarming commentary on an infinite variety of topics - on Bloomsbury's squares, on the picturesqueness of London a generation ago, on what is true Cockney, on the differences of English and American humor, on the decay of English wit, on books and authors and publishers and the Press, on the literary lions of the past, on the religion of speed, on the charm of Americans, on how the Victorian age was neither so repressed nor so hidebound as most people today like to believe - and so on, one thing leading to another, like good conversation at a good luncheon overlooking the mellow squares of Bloomsbury. The book is full, too, of good stories and reminiscences, both humorous and pathetic, but there is shrewd comment besides on the deficiencies of contemporary society, not the less effective because the author knows how to soften the blow. Mild soil, sunning to covers, clean copy.

Record # 398182

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Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Artby: Adrienne Auslander Munich

Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art
by: Adrienne Auslander Munich

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 222 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Applying feminist theory to some lesser-known works by well known authors and painters, Munich (English, SUNY, Stony Brook) explores the psychological and cultural implications of the Victorian (male) treatment of the Perseus and Andromeda myth and its medieval analog, the legend of St. George and the dragon. With 31 photographs of the works discussed. A mild musty odor.

Record # 398681

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Redemption: The Life of Henry Rothby: Steven G. Kellman
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Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth
by: Steven G. Kellman

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 371 pages, b&w photos. Irving Howe?s 1964 description of Roth?s Call It Sleep as "one of the few genuinely distinguished novels written by a 20th-century American" catapulted Roth to fame. Yet the author?s decades-long silence became legendary. In following Roth's tortured life from his childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side to his twilight years in New Mexico, literary critic Steven Kellman has uncovered FBI files, spoken with family members and friends, and gained access to the tape in which Roth discussed the long-buried incest of his youth. Redemption is the Shakespearean saga of a great writer doomed to a life of psychological torment, but saved in the end by his search for deliverance. Clean copy.

Record # 399362

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A Vision. An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and Upon Certain Doctrines attributed to Kusta Ben Luka (SIGNED COPY)by: Yeats, William Butler
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A Vision. An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and Upon Certain Doctrines attributed to Kusta Ben Luka (SIGNED COPY)
by: Yeats, William Butler

Hardcover. London, T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1st Ltd. Ed., 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a olive green dust jacket with title label on the spine. With three woodcut illustrations printed on brown paper (one pasted at the foot of p. 8). Publisher's 4-page flyer laid in, with "1,000" copies hand-corrected to 600. No. 510 of 600 copies SIGNED BY YEATS on the limitation page. A Vision is an ambitious work composed by Yeats that maps out an original and complex cosmology. The book received crucial contributions from his wife at the time, Georgie-Hyde Lees, through her employment of automatic writing, a process where the writer enters a trance-like state and channels spiritual forces. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 399756

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The Annotated Classic Fairy Talesby: Maria Tatar (Editor)

The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
by: Maria Tatar (Editor)

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 445 pages. Through the woods with Hansel and Gretel, out to the ball with Cinderella and into the ocean with the Little Mermaid, this volume takes us down the familiar paths of our folklore heritage. Maria Tatar's Annotated Classic Fairy Tales celebrates the powerful cultural legacy of fairy tales and provides an invaluable storytelling archive for children and adults alike. The volume includes twenty-six stories, along with annotations and sumptuous images. Among them are: Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, Master Cat or Puss in Boots, The Story of the Three Bears, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Match Girl, The Princess and the Pea, The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid. With over 300 paintings and drawings in full colour throughout by Ivan Bilibin, Edward Burne-Jones, Walter Crane, George Cruikshank, Gustave Dore, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Maxfield Parrish and Arthur Rackham. Clean copy.

Record # 399892

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A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiographyby: Fadwa Tuqan; Translated from the Arabic by Olive Kenny; Poetry Translated from the Arabic by Naomi Shihab Nye

A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography
by: Fadwa Tuqan; Translated from the Arabic by Olive Kenny; Poetry Translated from the Arabic by Naomi Shihab Nye

Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 242 pages. The Arab poet's story, from her childhood in Nablus, on the West Bank of the Jordan, between the world wars to the occupation by the Israelis in 1967. A rare glimpse of Arab culture from a woman's perspective. Includes a selection of her poetry. Clean copy.

Record # 399957

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H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism by: William H. Nolte (Ed.) H.L. Mencken.

H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism
by: William H. Nolte (Ed.) H.L. Mencken.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 349 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 400113

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The Fruits of the MLAby: Edmund Wilson

The Fruits of the MLA
by: Edmund Wilson

Softcover. NY, New York Review Book, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light blue glossy wrappers, stapled. Covers with light soil, no markings.

Record # 400191

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Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectoriesby: Wilson, Robert Anton

Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories
by: Wilson, Robert Anton

Softcover. San Jose CA, Permanent Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, glossy green paper wrappers, 272 pages plus ads in rear. Wilson and Michael Shea published a quarterly journal in the late eighties called TRAJECTORIES. It was a "newsletter of mind-blowing iconoclasm." This is a collection of the best articles from the first few issues. Contributors include Arlen Wilson, Scott Apel, Timothy Leary, Linus Pauling, George Carlin and Ed McMahon. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 400255

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Emily Dickinsonby: Wolff, Cynthia Griffin

Emily Dickinson
by: Wolff, Cynthia Griffin

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 638 pages. Dark gray covers, color illustrated dust jacket. Traces the life of the nineteenth-century American poet and analyzes all of her major poems. Light edge wear to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, previous owner's signature to front end paper corner; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 400793

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Greene on Capri: A Memoirby: Hazzard, Shirley
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Greene on Capri: A Memoir
by: Hazzard, Shirley

Softcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 137 pages, light blue wrappers. An uncorrected proof. The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man and a legendary island. When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him-not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well-on an island that was "not his kind of place," but where he came season after season, year after year; and where he, too, will be subsumed into the capacious story.

Record # 401088

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Bibliography of James T. Farrell's Writings 1921-1957by: Branch, Edgar
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Bibliography of James T. Farrell's Writings 1921-1957
by: Branch, Edgar

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 142 pages, Preface by Farrell. Green cloth binding with gilt on spine. Some light pencil marks in margins, on rear end papers.

Record # 405321

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