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PRECIOUS THOUGHTS: Moral and Religious; Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin by: Tuthill Louisa C. /compiler

PRECIOUS THOUGHTS: Moral and Religious; Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin
by: Tuthill Louisa C. /compiler

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley & Son, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design and lettering on spine, beveled cloth boards, later printing (1867), 349 pages, top edge gilt. A compilation of 'hidden treasures' within Ruskin's writings. A must for anyone who appreciates the writings of John Ruskin. Some light stain to top margin of first 30 pages, not affecting text, otherwise clean.

Record # 383258

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Famous Womenby: Giovanni Boccaccio; Virginia Brown (Translator)

Famous Women
by: Giovanni Boccaccio; Virginia Brown (Translator)

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio(1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. The 106 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries. In the hands of a master storyteller, these brief biographies afford a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Famous Women, which Boccaccio continued to revise and expand until the end of his life, became one of the most popular works in the last age of the manuscript book, and had a signal influence on many literary works, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Castiglione's Courtier. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.

Record # 383464

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Cultures of United States Imperialismby: Editors: Amy Kaplan; Donald E. Pease

Cultures of United States Imperialism
by: Editors: Amy Kaplan; Donald E. Pease

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. Cultures of United States Imperialism represents a major paradigm shift that will remap the field of American Studies. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature reveal the "denial of empire" at the heart of American Studies. Challenging traditional definitions and periodizations of imperialism, this volume shows how international relations reciprocally shape a dominant imperial culture at home and how imperial relations are enacted and contested within the United States. Light shelf wear.

Record # 383951

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Storyteller: A Life of Erskine Caldwell by: Stevens, C. J.

Storyteller: A Life of Erskine Caldwell
by: Stevens, C. J.

Hardcover. Phillips ME, John Wade, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 375 pages, b&w illustrations. 'Storyteller' is a full portrait of the writer of 'Tobacco Road' and 'God's Little Acre.' The book tells of Caldwell's unpredictability, harsh mood swings and extramarital affairs; also of his warmth, gentleness and generosity. Clean copy.

Record # 384846

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Reading Green in Early Modern Englandby: Leah Knight

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

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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Rainer Maria Rilke: Creative Anguish of a Modern Poet (SIGNED COPY)by: W.L.Graff

Rainer Maria Rilke: Creative Anguish of a Modern Poet (SIGNED COPY)
by: W.L.Graff

Hardcover. Princeton University Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt and black title on spine, 353 pages. WITH THE AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION pasted to front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Record # 385729

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Thomas Hobbes Translations of Homer: 1. The Iliad & 2. The Odyssey [Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes Vols. XXIV & XXV (24 & 25)by: Thomas Hobbes, Homer

Thomas Hobbes Translations of Homer: 1. The Iliad & 2. The Odyssey [Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes Vols. XXIV & XXV (24 & 25)
by: Thomas Hobbes, Homer

Hardcover. UK, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets. 406, 327 pages. Hobbes translated the Homeric poems into English verse during the course of the 1670s, when he was already well into his eighties. These texts constitute his most extensive single undertaking as well as his last major work. Editor Eric Nelson also offers a detailed analysis of the translations themselves, identifying the numerous instances in which Hobbes rewrites the poems in order to bring them into alignment with his views on politics, rhetoric, aesthetics, and theology. Hobbes's Iliads and Odysses of Homer, Nelson suggests, should be regarded as a continuation of Leviathan by other means. Clean, like-new. DUE TO WEIGHT DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386142

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Charles Williams: Poet of Theologyby: Cavaliero, Glen

Charles Williams: Poet of Theology
by: Cavaliero, Glen

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans Publishing , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages. A brief account of Williams' life and examination of his early poems, the criticism, biographies and plays, the novels, the Arthurian poems and his theological writings. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 387833

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The Thresher's Labour (1736) and The Woman's Labour (1739)by: Duck, Stephen / Collier, Mary

The Thresher's Labour (1736) and The Woman's Labour (1739)
by: Duck, Stephen / Collier, Mary

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,48 pages. The Augustan Reprint Society Number 230. Orig. tan card wrappers, stapled binding. Two 18th century poems dealing with the working class of the time. Clean copy.

Record # 386981

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Adventures With Bernard Shawby: Rider, Dan

Adventures With Bernard Shaw
by: Rider, Dan

London, Morley & Mitchell Kennerley, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 3 black & white plates. 32 pages. Green cloth covers.

Record # 65738

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Chester B. Himes: A Biographyby: Jackson, Lawrence P.

Chester B. Himes: A Biography
by: Jackson, Lawrence P.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 606 pages. In this definitive biography of Chester B. Himes (1909-1984), Lawrence P. Jackson uses exclusive interviews and unrestricted access to Himes's full archives to portray a controversial American writer whose novels unflinchingly confront sex, racism, and black identity. Himes brutally rendered racial politics in the best-selling novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, but he became famous for his Harlem detective series, including Cotton Comes to Harlem. A serious literary tastemaker in his day, Himes had friendships-sometimes uneasy-with such luminaries as Ralph Ellison, Carl Van Vechten, and Richard Wright. Jackson's scholarship and astute commentary illuminates Himes's improbable life-his middle-class origins, his eight years in prison, his painful odyssey as a black World War II-era artist, and his escape to Europe for success. More than ten years in the writing, Jackson's biography restores the legacy of a fascinating maverick caught between his aspirations for commercial success and his disturbing, vivid portraits of the United States. Clean copy.

Record # 387414

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The Case for African Freedom and Other Writings on Africa by: Cary, Joyce

The Case for African Freedom and Other Writings on Africa
by: Cary, Joyce

Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Foreword by George Orwell. Introduction by Christopher Fyfe. 241 pages. Reprints two books by Irish novelist Joyce Cary (1888-1957), "The Case for African Freedom" (1941) and "Britain and West Africa" (1946), and three shorter magazine pieces. Illustrated in black and white, with three maps of Africa. Cary was English novelist who served in the Nigerian political service.

Record # 387817

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The Lost Soul by: Olga Tokarczuk / Joanna Concejo

The Lost Soul
by: Olga Tokarczuk / Joanna Concejo

Hardcover. NY, Seven Stories Press, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, illustrated in color by Joanna Concejo. The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed wash-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time. Here a man has forgotten what makes his heart feel full. He moves to a house away from all that is familiar to him to wait for his soul to return. Originally published in Poland in 2017. Clean copy.

Record # 397237

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Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by: Andrew Wilson

Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
by: Andrew Wilson

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover un a bright dust jacket, 534 pages, b&w photos. Patricia Highsmith - author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley - had more than her fair share of secrets. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, Highsmith left behind a vast archive of personal documents which detail the links between her life and her work. Drawing on these intimate papers, together with material gleaned from her closest friends and lovers, Andrew Wilson has written the first biography of an author described by Graham Greene as the 'poet of apprehension'. Wilson illuminates the dark corners of Highsmith's life, casts light on mysteries of the creative process and reveals the secrets that the writer chose to keep hidden until after her death. Paper tanning slightly, clean copy.

Record # 397610

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The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson (6 Volumes)by: Emerson, Ralph Waldo and Rusk, Ralph L. (Ed.)

The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson (6 Volumes)
by: Emerson, Ralph Waldo and Rusk, Ralph L. (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six matching volumes, red cloth bindings with black/gilt titling on spines, gilt initials on front board. Covers Emerson's letters from 1813 to 1881. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an influential American essayist, philosopher, and poet, known for leading the Transcendentalist movement. His works emphasized individualism, nature, and self-reliance, significantly impacting American literature and thought. NOT ex-lib, clean complete set. Due to weight DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397775

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Frank Norris Revisited (INSCRIBED COPY)by: McElrath, Joseph R.

Frank Norris Revisited (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: McElrath, Joseph R.

Hardcover. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 145 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. The renown Frank Norris attained in his brief lifetime sprang from his compelling--and to many Americans startling--novels about people whose lives have escaped their control and have become grotesquely warped by the confluent forces of hereditary and environment.In "revisiting" Frank Norris, Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. takes as a starting point Warren French's 1962 volume in this series and provides a complementary portrait of the artist. McElrath assesses the spate of relatively recent "historical reconstructions" of Norris's canon and finds a writer who, though at times transcendent in the Naturalistic vein, was pragmatic in his choice of subject matter and "not always grandly serious." It is in part the delight Norris took in parody, McElrath argues, that makes him still so readable. Clean copy.

Record # 398018

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Black Mountain: an Exploration in Community by: Martin Duberman

Black Mountain: an Exploration in Community
by: Martin Duberman

Softcover. NY, Anchor Press/Doubleday, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 578 pages, b&w illustrations. Story of North Carolina's Black Mountain experimental community, tracking its existence from 1933-1956. Includes many black and white period photos. Clean copy.

Record # 398075

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Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviewsby: Cowley, Malcolm (Ed.)

Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
by: Cowley, Malcolm (Ed.)

Softcover. NY, The Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 398194

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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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Lillian Smith - A Southerner Confronting the Southby: Loveland, Anne C.

Lillian Smith - A Southerner Confronting the South
by: Loveland, Anne C.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1st Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a short closed tears. B&w photos, 297 pages. The first comprehensive intellectual biography of the Georgia writer, Lillian Smith, based on an extensive collection of autobiographical writings and correspondence, as well as on Smith's published books and articles. Smith is best known as an early critic of racial segregation and as a civil rights worker.

Record # 203720

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Arnold Bennett: A Biography by: Drabble, Margaret

Arnold Bennett: A Biography
by: Drabble, Margaret

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 396 pages. Illustrated with forty-six photographs. Small name stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 387667

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The Sun Is But a Morning Star: Studies in West Coast Poetry and Poeticsby: Lee Bartlett

The Sun Is But a Morning Star: Studies in West Coast Poetry and Poetics
by: Lee Bartlett

Hardcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages. Includes essays on William Everson, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth, Michael McClure, Nathaniel Tarn, Thom Gunn and more. Notes, bibliography. Clean copy.

Record # 379858

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Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing, A (1729)by: Collins, Anthony, Bloom, Edward A. (Introducation), Lillian D. Bloom (Introduction)

Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing, A (1729)
by: Collins, Anthony, Bloom, Edward A. (Introducation), Lillian D. Bloom (Introduction)

Softcover. Los Angeles, CA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 77 pages. Softcover. Augustan Reprint Society. Pamphlet with staple binding. Light tanning to cover, cover is becoming detached from bound pages. No pages missing or ripped. Very good condition. Previous owner's name written on front cover. Some underlining and brief notes written inside (pencil)."The most satisfactory of Collins' many pamphlets and books..."

Record # 99061

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Freud and Man's Soulby: Bettelheim, Bruno

Freud and Man's Soul
by: Bettelheim, Bruno

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. Tanning to rear endpapers otherwise clean, very good in an unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 374299

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Of Woman Born - Motherhood as Experience and Institution (SIGNED COPY)by: Rich, Adrienne

Of Woman Born - Motherhood as Experience and Institution (SIGNED COPY)
by: Rich, Adrienne

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 2nd pr., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages. SIGNED BY RICH on title page. Light soil to dust-jacket.

Record # 70512

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Narration - Four Lectures by Gertrude Steinby: Stein, Gertrude

Narration - Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein
by: Stein, Gertrude

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Fading to spine and along left edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611684

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African Silences (SIGNED COPY)by: Matthiessen, Peter

African Silences (SIGNED COPY)
by: Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 225 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and spotting on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456235

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The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse A New Version of an Old Story Arranged as a Play for Mummers in One Act Requiring No Theatre or Scenteryby:

The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse A New Version of an Old Story Arranged as a Play for Mummers in One Act Requiring No Theatre or Scentery
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Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design. 77 pages Frontis. and one plate from drawings by Hardy. The story of Tristram and Iseult written as a one act play by Thomas Hardy. Clean copy.

Record # 381759

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Musa Piscatrix [The Bodley Anthologies] by: Buchan, John (Ed.)

Musa Piscatrix [The Bodley Anthologies]
by: Buchan, John (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, John Lane, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished blue calf with ornate gilt rule to edges of both covers, spine with brown calf label with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt, blue and gray pattern endpapers. Decorative gilt design overall on spine. 107 pages, 6 etchings by E. Philip Pimlott. Edited by R.H. Case. A fine anthology of angling poetry, compiled by Buchan and published while he was still a student at Oxford. Sources include William Shakespeare, John Dennys, Phineas Fletcher, WilliamBrowne, Edmund Waller, John Floud, Sir Henry Wotton, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Basse, Izaak Walton, John Donne, John Chalkhill, Charles Cotton, John Bunyan, Alexander Pope, John Gay, James Thomson, John Armstrong, and others. Mild sunning to top edge of covers, ink name and short inscription dated '96 on first blank page. Otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 382686

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Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896)-Anton Dohrn (1840-1909): Briefwechsel. Hrsg. von Christiane Groeben in Zusammenarbeit mit Klaus Hierholzer. Mit einer historischen Einfuhrung von Ernst Floreyby:

Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896)-Anton Dohrn (1840-1909): Briefwechsel. Hrsg. von Christiane Groeben in Zusammenarbeit mit Klaus Hierholzer. Mit einer historischen Einfuhrung von Ernst Florey
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Softcover. Berlin, Springer., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 322 pages. GERMAN TEXT. Like new condition.

Record # 374338

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Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidalby: Jay Parini

Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal
by: Jay Parini

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 480 pages. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self digs behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful career to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truths underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well--a virtual Who's Who of the twentieth century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart through the Kennedys, Johnny Carson, Leonard Bernstein, and the creme de la creme of Hollywood. Also a generous helping of feuds with the likes of William F. Buckley, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, and TheNew York Times, among other adversaries. The life of Gore Vidal teemed with notable incidents, famous people, and lasting achievements that call out for careful evocation and examination. Jay Parini crafts Vidal's life into an accessible, entertaining story that puts the experience of one of the great American figures of the postwar era into context, introduces the author and his works to a generation who may not know him, and looks behind the scenes at the man and his work in ways never possible before his death. Provided with unique access to Vidal's life and his papers, Parini excavates many buried skeletons yet never loses sight of his deep respect for Vidal and his astounding gifts. This is the biography Gore Vidal--novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, historian, wit, provocateur, and pioneer of gay rights--has long needed.

Record # 374234

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Danish Fairy Talesby: Hack, Inge

Danish Fairy Tales
by: Hack, Inge

Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 194 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Illustrated by Harry and Isle Toothill. Light bumping to bottom cover boards, light soiling.

Record # 4450194

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Peterson's Magazine January-December 1864by: N/A

Peterson's Magazine January-December 1864
by: N/A

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Peterson's Magazine, 1st, 1864, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 12 issues bound in half leather, brown calf spine with raised bands, gilt lettering. All edges gilt. 12 monthly issues January - December 1864, 464 pages. With twelve (12) hand colored dress fashion plates, 12 color lithographed plates (some folding), numerous steel engravings and many wood engraved images throughout. Endpapers have tan spotting from aging of glue used in binding. Previous owner's name dated 1864 on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Record # 373501

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Looking Back: A Book of Memoriesby: Lowry, Lois

Looking Back: A Book of Memories
by: Lowry, Lois

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998-10-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. In this moving autobiography, Lois Lowry explores her rich history through personal photographs, memories, and recollections of childhood friends. Lowry's writing often transports readers into other worlds. Now, we have the opportunity to travel into the real world that is her life.

Record # 465875

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Joel Chandler Harris: Folkloristby: Stella Brewer Brookes

Joel Chandler Harris: Folklorist
by: Stella Brewer Brookes

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 182 pages, 5 pages with red underlining. Brookes examines how Harris drew on his extensive knowledge of African American folklore and culture to create the characters in his work. Brookes classifies the Uncle Remus books under seven major categories: trickster tales, other "creeturs," myths, supernatural tales, proverbs, dialect, and songs.

Record # 396665

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The Children's Books of Randall Jarrell by: Griswold, Jerome

The Children's Books of Randall Jarrell
by: Griswold, Jerome

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 354102

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Cradle of God, Theby: Powys, Llewelyn

Cradle of God, The
by: Powys, Llewelyn

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 302 pages. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Light pencil marginalia to last page. Browning to front endpapers. Red cloth binding with black lettering.

Record # 509228

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Crown of Song: Metaphor in Pindarby: Deborah Steiner

Crown of Song: Metaphor in Pindar
by: Deborah Steiner

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 166 pages. Pindar (c. 518-438 B.C.), one of ancient Greece's most famous lyric poets, is perhaps best known for his victory (epinicean) odes, written to honor the winners at various sets of games, such as the Olympiad. In Crown of Song, Deborah Steiner's study of these odes, she writes "If Pindar is remote from us in genre, his style strikes the reader as vivid and immediate. And in my reading of the epinicean odes, it is the poet's use of metaphor that accounts for the dynamic quality of his verse." Steiner begins her analysis by exploring both ancient and modern theories of metaphor, and then turns to specific imagery employed by the poet--plant life, athletics, minerals and numerous others--as a way of understanding how these metaphoric complexes function in the poet's praise of the victor, his assertion of his own place as perpetuator of the victor's immortal fame, and in his vision of human achievement and glory in the context of mortal life and immortal gods. Written in a lively, readable style, Crown of Song opens up the sometimes difficult verse of this celebrated ancient poet to modern readers. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386845

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Adrift on an Ice-Pan  (SIGNED COPY)by: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Adrift on an Ice-Pan (SIGNED COPY)
by: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 68 pages. Blue covers w/ light edge wear/soil. Previous owner's signature on title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850801

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

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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Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Feudby: Van De Water, Frederic F.

Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Feud
by: Van De Water, Frederic F.

Hardcover. NY, John Day/Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1937, Hardcover, red cloth. 119 pages, drawings by Bernadine Custer. Told for the first time, 40 years after author Rudyard Kipling and his family hurriedly left their home in Vermont, this story fills some blank pages in Kipling's life story. Author Fredric Van de Water had heard the true account from Kipling's brother-in-law, Beatty Balestier, which followed smoldering tensions and a public trial. The Kiplings left in 1896, never to return. Several of Kipling's writings were put to paper in the Vermont home. First trade edition after a limited edition of 700. Clean.

Record # 382370

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Buchanan Dying: A Playby: Updike, John

Buchanan Dying: A Play
by: Updike, John

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, In a play meant to be read, Buchanan's political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. A wide-ranging Afterword rounds out the dramatic portrait, Clean copy.

Record # 381966

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

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. Top edge stained red. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 606660

Price: $12.00 
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Some Horses (SIGNED COPY)by: McGuane, Thomas

Some Horses (SIGNED COPY)
by: McGuane, Thomas

Hardcover. New York , Lyons Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Limited to 250 copies SIGNED by McGuane and publisher Nick Lyons. Slipcased. B&w illustrations by Buckeye Blake.

Record # 351352

Price: $120.00 
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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninetyby: Hall, Doald

A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
by: Hall, Doald

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Donald Hall lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the New York Times bestseller Essays After Eighty, a "treasure" of a book in which he "balance[s] frankness about losses with humor and gratitude" (Washington Post). Before his passing in 2018, nearing ninety, Hall delivered this new collection of self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. He intersperses memories of exuberant days--as in Paris, 1951, with a French girl memorably inclined to say, "I couldn't care less"--with writing, visceral and hilarious, on what he has called the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of extreme old age. "Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?" Hall answers his own question by revealing several vivid instances of "the worst thing I ever did," and through equally uncensored tales of literary friendships spanning decades, with James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, and other luminaries. Cementing his place alongside Roger Angell and Joan Didion as a generous and profound chronicler of loss, Hall returns to the death of his beloved wife, Jane Kenyon, in an essay as original and searing as anything he's written in his extraordinary literary lifetime.

Record # 371627

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A Life with the Printed Word (SIGNED COPY)by: Chamberlain, John

A Life with the Printed Word (SIGNED COPY)
by: Chamberlain, John

Hardcover. Chicago, Regnery Gateway, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, faded dust jacket. 191 pages. John Chamberlain, a veteran newspaperman and reviewer for the New York Times and other prestigious publications, shares the story of his career. INSCRIBED BY CHAMBERLAIN on the front fly leaf. Introduction by William F. Buckley.

Record # 383209

Price: $30.00 
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Olive Schreiner: A Selectionby: Schreiner, Olive/ Krige, Uys (editor)

Olive Schreiner: A Selection
by: Schreiner, Olive/ Krige, Uys (editor)

Hardcover. Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Writings from the author best known for "The Story of an African Farm". 214 pages, no markings. Owner's small embossed stamp on front fly leaf.

Record # 383387

Price: $15.00 
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Acceptance Speech: Nobel Prize for Literature 1962by: Steinbeck, John

Acceptance Speech: Nobel Prize for Literature 1962
by: Steinbeck, John

Softcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 page booklet with light tan wrappers, reddish brown type. The text of the author's speech with a b&w photograph of him. Minor discoloration to top of wrapper, probably due to dampness at some time. Still very good.

Record # 403924

Price: $80.00 
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The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeatsby: Henn, T. R.

The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
by: Henn, T. R.

Hardcover. NY, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a mildly soiled dust jacket with tanning to spine,name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 384569

Price: $30.00 
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