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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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A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages (2 volumes)by: F. J. E. Raby

A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages (2 volumes)
by: F. J. E. Raby

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets, 408 and 388 pages. The secular Latin poetry of the Middle Ages is at once great in bulk and interesting in kind, embracing as it does lyrical, epical, satirical, philosophical, grammatical, and historical verse. The rhetorical tradition of the ancient world can be traced throughout its development, from the fifth to the thirteenth century, when the tradition passes over into the new literary vernaculars. No adequate English survey of this delightful and historically important literature has hitherto been made. These volumes form a sequel to the same author's 'History of Christian-Latin Poetry', and the two works together offer a complete introduction to the whole field of medieval Latin poetry. First published in 1934. Clean copies.

Record # 386604

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Advertisements for Myselfby: Norman Mailer

Advertisements for Myself
by: Norman Mailer

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor wear. 532 pages. An essential guide to the life and work of one of America's most controversial writers, Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of Mailer's key beliefs contains pieces on his war experiences in the Philippines (the basis for his famous first novel The Naked and the Dead), tributes to fellow novelists William Styron, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal and magnificent polemics against pornography, advertising, drugs and politics.

Record # 387012

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Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of Warby: Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War
by: Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 589 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom text block. Tight copy. Light rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 387336

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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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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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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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Eminent Domain: Yeats among Wilde Joyce Pound Eliot and Audenby: Richard Ellmann

Eminent Domain: Yeats among Wilde Joyce Pound Eliot and Auden
by: Richard Ellmann

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and sunned dust jacket, 159 pages. Creative talent is rapacious, and to speak of writers as influencing each other is to make tender what is often harshly acquisitive. Writers do not flow into each other like waves, but expropriate, by the force of youth, or of age, what they require. They do not borrow, they override, exercising the right of eminent domain. Like rival sovereignties, Yeats and the five writers here balanced with him - Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Auden - take each other into account. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397599

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The Lion and the Honeycomb. Essays in Solicitude and Critiqueby: Blackmur, R.P.

The Lion and the Honeycomb. Essays in Solicitude and Critique
by: Blackmur, R.P.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 309 pages. A collection of essays from the famed literary critic. Clean copy.

Record # 397765

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Letters of Nikolai Gogolby: Carl R. Proffer (Ed.)

Letters of Nikolai Gogol
by: Carl R. Proffer (Ed.)

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 247 pages. Selected and edited by Carl R. Proffer. Translated by Carl R. Proffer in collaboration with Vera Krivoshein. From the five volumes of correspondence in Gogol's collected works Carl Proffer, a teacher and translator of Russian, has fashioned this scholarly one-volume edition, adding his own exceptionally informative footnotes and an eight-page bibliography. Clean copy.

Record # 397942

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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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Bibliography of the Italian American Book by: Fred Gardaphe & James Periconi (Ed.)

Bibliography of the Italian American Book
by: Fred Gardaphe & James Periconi (Ed.)

Softcover. Mt. Vernon NY, Italian American Writers Association, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages. INSCRIBED BY PERICONI on the title page. Limited to 1000 copies. A bibliography of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by and about Italian Americans. Mild tanning to wraps, otherwise clean.

Record # 398108

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The Home of the Brontes: A Paper Read Before the Kit-Kat Club on Thursday, December Second, Nineteen Fifteen (SIGNED COPY)by: Meeker, Claude

The Home of the Brontes: A Paper Read Before the Kit-Kat Club on Thursday, December Second, Nineteen Fifteen (SIGNED COPY)
by: Meeker, Claude

Hardcover. Columbus OH, College Printers at The Champlin Press, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First edition, hardcover in wood-grain paper, gilt lettering on cover, 22 pages, b&w frontis. Signed by Meeker and # 92 of 200 on a limitation page. Bottom corner of front cover worn otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 398479

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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Steinem, Gloria

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Steinem, Gloria

Softcover. NY, Henry Holt & Co., reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 406 pages. Second edition of this national best seller, with a personalized inscription signed by the author on the half-title.

Record # 399135

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Sketches in Italyby: Symonds, John Addington

Sketches in Italy
by: Symonds, John Addington

Hardcover. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Copyright Edition, Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1883, 312 pages, illuminated vellum binding, with front-edge flaps, leather stitching, 6.5 x 4.5", beautiful binding reminiscent of Medieval manuscripts with latticed cords and illuminated initial. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 399613

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Conversations With American Writers by: Ruas, Charles

Conversations With American Writers
by: Ruas, Charles

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket with short closed tears. 14 original and thoughtful interviews - Burroughs discusses Paris in the 50s, the Olympia Press and the issue of obscenity, Norman Mailer on the Jack Abbott issue, Paul Theroux on Americans abroad, Scott Spencer on the experience of having a movie made from his book 'Endless Love' and more. Biographical information and photographs of each author. 324 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 399862

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Let Me Finish (SIGNED COPY)by: Angell, Roger

Let Me Finish (SIGNED COPY)
by: Angell, Roger

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 302 pages. Celebrated Author Roger Angell has warmly Inscribed to an friend and signed on the title page ("For Carl - All best, Roger Angell ". The book contains the childhood baseball recollections from America's premier observer of the world of baseball and life. Angell was the long time contributor to The New Yorker. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 399911

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Bibliography of Norman Douglas, Aby: Woolf, Cecil

Bibliography of Norman Douglas, A
by: Woolf, Cecil

Hardcover. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 201 pages, b&w illustrations. Dark red cloth with edgeworn dust jacket, some light pencil notes in preface and rear endpapers. Publisher's review slip laid in.

Record # 405320

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Early Italian Writing-Books: Renaissance to Baroqueby: Morison, Stanley

Early Italian Writing-Books: Renaissance to Baroque
by: Morison, Stanley

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages. Dust jacket spine slightly sunned, else like new. 21 black & white plates (some folding), and facsimiles. Edited by Nicholas Barker, and published posthumously. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. A major work examining the history and development of early Italian writing books from one of the world"s most noted typographic historians.

Record # 450143

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T. E. Lawrence: The Selected Lettersby: Lawrence, T. E. (Malcolm Brown)

T. E. Lawrence: The Selected Letters
by: Lawrence, T. E. (Malcolm Brown)

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 568 pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Profiles the enigmatic soldier, statesman, and man of letters, offering a wealth of never-before-published missives that shed light on his role in the Arab revolt, his sexuality, and his retreat into obscurity.

Record # 457291

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Grand Tour, The : Around the World with the Queen of Mysteryby: Christie, Agatha/Edited By Mathew Prichard

Grand Tour, The : Around the World with the Queen of Mystery
by: Christie, Agatha/Edited By Mathew Prichard

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. Light scratch top rear cover, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463560

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Kipling Birthday Bookby: Bryant, Alice Crandell

Kipling Birthday Book
by: Bryant, Alice Crandell

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Red Cloth Boards. Front endpaper missing. Small black stain at top of front hinge. Foxing on top edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 509756

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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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Ladies' Repository, The : a Monthly Periodical Devoted to Literature and Religion, Volume XXby: Clark, Rev. D. W.  (Ed.)

Ladies' Repository, The : a Monthly Periodical Devoted to Literature and Religion, Volume XX
by: Clark, Rev. D. W. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Poe & Hitchcock, 1st, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 762 pages, b&w illustrations. Cloth and leather covers. Some foxing to pages, edgewear to covers, some pages dog-eared, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 808884

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Shakespeare: Time and Conscienceby: Kozintsev, Grigori

Shakespeare: Time and Conscience
by: Kozintsev, Grigori

Hardcover. New York, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, translated from the Russian by Joyce Vinging. Dust jacket with minor edge wear and bump, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854327

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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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Lost Garden, The - A Memoirby: Yep, Laurence

Lost Garden, The - A Memoir
by: Yep, Laurence

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. A memoir by the Chinese American author of many distinguished children's books. No dust-jacket issued. B&w photos, clean copy.

Record # 70551

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Dickens Student and Collector, Theby: Miller, William

Dickens Student and Collector, The
by: Miller, William

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 351 pages including index. A list of writing relating to Charles Dickens and his works 1836-1944. A very useful bibliographic reference for Dickensiana.

Record # 221035

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Japan: An Attempt at Interpretationby: Hearn, Lafcadio

Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
by: Hearn, Lafcadio

Hardcover. London, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 541 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light fraying on edges of cover boards. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Gilt lettering on spine, light brown covers.

Record # 354171

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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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Wodehouse: A Lifeby: Robert McCrum

Wodehouse: A Life
by: Robert McCrum

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 530 pages. An affectionate portrait of the prolific twentieth-century comic writer discusses his creation of such characters as Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings; describes his contributions to Broadway and the London stage; details his internment in Berlin during World War II; and reveals a following of literary figures who are among his top fans.

Record # 372331

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Big Swingers, The - A Biographyby: Fenton, Robert W.

Big Swingers, The - A Biography
by: Fenton, Robert W.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice Hall, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 258 pages, b&w photographs. The story of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan in the movies.

Record # 372822

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E. E. Cummings: A Life by: Cheever, Susan

E. E. Cummings: A Life
by: Cheever, Susan

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 213 pages, clean copy.

Record # 374193

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Letters from Prison by: Marquis De Sade (Author), Richard Seaver (Translator)

Letters from Prison
by: Marquis De Sade (Author), Richard Seaver (Translator)

Hardcover. NY, Arcade Publishing, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 401pages. The 1990s saw a resurgence of interest in the Marquis de Sade, with several biographies competing to put their version of his life story before the public. But Sadean scholar Richard Seaver takes us directly to the source, translating Sade's prison correspondence. Seaver's translations retain the aristocratic hauteur of Sade's prose, which still possesses a clarity that any reader can appreciate. "When will my horrible situation cease?" he wrote to his wife shortly after his incarceration began in 1777. "When in God's name will I be let out of the tomb where I have been buried alive? There is nothing to equal the horror of my fate!" But he was never reduced to pleading for long, and not always so solicitous of his wife's feelings; a few years later, he would write, "This morning I received a fat letter from you that seemed endless. Please, I beg of you, don't go on at such length: do you believe that I have nothing better to do than to read your endless repetitions?" For those interested in learning about the man responsible for some of the most infamous philosophical fiction in history, Letters from Prison is an indispensable collection. Clean copy.

Record # 374484

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A Thoreau Profileby: Meltzer, Milton And Walter Harding

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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Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse: Framed by Cues for Reading Aloud and Clues for Threading Texts and Themesby: Van Sickle, Jo

Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse: Framed by Cues for Reading Aloud and Clues for Threading Texts and Themes
by: Van Sickle, Jo

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in publisher's cloth backed boards and issued without a jacket. 260 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 378313

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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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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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Countenance of Truth; The United Nations and the Waldheim Case  (SIGNED COPY)by: Shirley Hazzard

Countenance of Truth; The United Nations and the Waldheim Case (SIGNED COPY)
by: Shirley Hazzard

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This copy has been SIGNED by Shirley Hazzard on the title page. The author, who worked at the United Nations for ten years, and who during Waldheim's tenure raised questions about his hidden past, discloses here the secret history of an institution that is supposed to safeguard the world's most cherished principles. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 381334

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Extra Innings: A Memoirby: Doris Grumbach

Extra Innings: A Memoir
by: Doris Grumbach

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1993, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 298 pages. A late-life memoir by the notable fiction writer, biographer and critic. Covers a relatively short period of her life, with deeper reflections on a life spent in reading, writing, and observing the world around her. Clean copy.

Record # 381764

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Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolutionby: Matthiessen, Peter

Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
by: Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a pric-clipped dust jacket that has a bright red cover but fading to spine. 372 pages, clean copy. Describes the influence of Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers. The growth of that influence among Mexican-Americans and many other concerned Americans. The years when Chavez called for boycotts, and the greatest agricultural labor strike in U.S. and the greatest agricultural labor strike in U.S. history, the struggle for justice and a means to reverse the order of the system. A book about the man. Cesar Chavez.

Record # 381954

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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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An Etymological Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language, Containing the Radicals and Definitions of Words Derived From the Greek, and Polite Phrases, Adopted From the French and Latinby:

An Etymological Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language, Containing the Radicals and Definitions of Words Derived From the Greek, and Polite Phrases, Adopted From the French and Latin
by:

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lydia H. Bailey, 1st, 1821, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, worn calf covers, unpaginated. Maroon leather label on spine with gilt lettering. The author (1782 -1852) was an historian and educator, born in Ireland. In 1815 he and his family emigrated to Philadelphia, and he became a noted author of many history textbooks and other works. This is a first edition of his most famous work published in Philadelphia in 1821. Grimshaw's work remains a valuable reference for scholars and students of English language and linguistics. Both covers partially detached, but still holding on. Inside text pages mildly foxed. Front endpapers with previous owner's pencilled comments. Otherwise clean, binding tight.

Record # 383153

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James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts by: Schwab, Arnold T.

James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts
by: Schwab, Arnold T.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. No dust jacket. 384 pages, b&w illustrations. The biography of an influential critic gives a vivid picture of American cultural life from the 1880s to the 1920s. INSCRIBED BY ERIK HUNEKER, SON OF JAMES on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Record # 383345

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High, Wide and Lonesomeby: Borland, Hal

High, Wide and Lonesome
by: Borland, Hal

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 251 pages. Hal Borland writes about his boyhood as part of a homesteading family in Eastern Colorado. A nice copy of the first edition, as stated on the copyright page. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 383753

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Belles Saisons: A Colette Scrapbookby: Phelps, Robert

Belles Saisons: A Colette Scrapbook
by: Phelps, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 302 pages, many b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 384845

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Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoirby: Friedman, Bruce Jay

Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir
by: Friedman, Bruce Jay

Hardcover. NY, Biblioasis, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 290 pages. Bruce Jay Friedman has done it all, charming the glitziest industries of American golden-age culture for more than half a century. Lucky Bruce is his long-awaited memoir, and it's everything we'd expect and more: here is Friedman at his best, waltzing from Madison Avenue to Hollywood and back again, and reilluminating with brilliant clarity the dazzle of post-war American life. Cameos by Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, Mario Puzo, Lillian Hellman, Warren Beatty, Marlene Dietrich, Brian Grazer, Candida Donadio, Crazy Joe Gallo, Joyce Carol Oates, Jack Richardson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Kurt Vonnegut, and the irreplaceable Elaine. Clean copy.

Record # 385374

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The Inward Turn of Narrative (Bollingen Series)by: Erich Kahler

The Inward Turn of Narrative (Bollingen Series)
by: Erich Kahler

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Foreword by Joseph Frank. Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this relationship by studying changes in narrative form from its beginnings in the Gilgamesh Cycle to the end of the eighteenth century. The general direction is tow Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this relationship by studying changes in narrative form from its beginnings in the Gilgamesh Cycle to the end of the eighteenth century. Clean copy.

Record # 385598

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Decameron: The John Payne Translation by: Boccaccio, Giovanni

Decameron: The John Payne Translation
by: Boccaccio, Giovanni

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 947 pages. Complete in one volume. Revised and annotated by Charles S. Singleton. Singleton preserves the genius of Payne's language and style, but removes the Victorianisms that intrude upon the enjoyment of contemporary readers. He adds essential annotation and original interpretation to round out this unexcelled English edition of Boccaccio's great work. Clean copy.

Record # 386270

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Hieroglyphic Tales by: Walpole, Horace

Hieroglyphic Tales
by: Walpole, Horace

Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages, a facsimile reprint of his fantastic tales first published in 1785. Horatio Walpole, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. His literary reputation rests on his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764) and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. "The Hieroglyphic Tales were undoubtedly written a little before the creation of the world, and have ever since been preserved, by oral tradition, in the mountains of Crampcraggiri, an uninhabited island, not yet discovered. Of these few facts we could have the most authentic attestations of several clergymen, who remember to have heard them repeated by old men long before they, the said clergymen, were born." (From Walpole's own ntroduction). Clean copy.

Record # 386963

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