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A Year in the Field: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs by: Burroughs, John

A Year in the Field: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
by: Burroughs, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1s, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Light green cloth, lettered and bordered in gilt, top text block edge in gilt. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates by Clifton Johnson. Light shelf wear, bookplate on inside front cover with black marking. Otherwise clean.

Record # 381531

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And Did You Once See Sidney Plain?: A Random Memoir of SJ. Perelman by: Wilk, Max (Al Hirschfeld, illus)

And Did You Once See Sidney Plain?: A Random Memoir of SJ. Perelman
by: Wilk, Max (Al Hirschfeld, illus)

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Al Hirschfeld. Clean copy.

Record # 381814

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Ernest Hemingway A Life Storyby: Carlos Baker

Ernest Hemingway A Life Story
by: Carlos Baker

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st BC Ed., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt titles, 687 pages, b&w photos. Has the A_3.69 (C), small embossed circle at bottom of rear cover indicating a book club printing. Bright, clean copy, missing the dust jacket.

Record # 382055

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The World Is Not Enough: A Biography of Ian Fleming by: Buckton, Oliver

The World Is Not Enough: A Biography of Ian Fleming
by: Buckton, Oliver

Hardcover. Lanham MD, Rowman & Littlefield , 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 374 pages. This new biography of Ian Fleming presents a fresh and illuminating portrayal of the iconic creator of James Bond. Oliver Buckton provides the first in-depth exploration of the entire process of Ian Fleming's writing--from initial conception, through composition, to his involvement in the innovative publication methods of his books. He also investigates the vital impact of Fleming's work in naval intelligence during World War Two on his later writings, especially the wartime operations he planned and executed and how they drove the plots of the James Bond novels. Buckton considers the vital role of wartime deception, disinformation, and propaganda in shaping Fleming's later techniques and imaginative creations. Offering a radically new view of Fleming's relationships with women, Buckton traces the role of strong, independent, and intelligent women such as Maud Russell, Phyllis Bottome, and his wife, Ann, on Fleming's portrayal of female characters. The book concludes with a thorough analysis of the James Bond films from Eon productions, and their influence in promoting, while also distorting, the public's recognition of Fleming's writing. Clean copy.

Record # 382614

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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

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George Sand: Eminent Women Seriesby: Thomas, Bertha

George Sand: Eminent Women Series
by: Thomas, Bertha

Hardcover. London, W. H. Allen & Co., 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt titles and gilt rules to front board. Prefatory note by Bertha Thomas plus 247 pages plus four-page publisher's advertisements for titles in the Eminent Women Series to the rear. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 383420

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An American Procession: The Major American Writers From 1830 To 1930- The Crucial Centuryby: Alfred Kazin

An American Procession: The Major American Writers From 1830 To 1930- The Crucial Century
by: Alfred Kazin

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 408 pages. In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning when Ralph Waldo Emerson left the church and inspired a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending with the triumph of modernism - Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald - and with the revelation after World War I of the "postponed power" of those who had been modern before their time: Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.

Record # 383950

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Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters Speeches Interviews and Autobiographies by: Editor: John W. Blassingame

Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters Speeches Interviews and Autobiographies
by: Editor: John W. Blassingame

Softcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 777 pages. The largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. In them, the slaves of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Henry Clay, and others speak for themselves about their culture, plantation life, the adequacy of their food, clothing, and shelter, the sexual exploitation of black women, and the psychological response to bondage. The views given are those of house servants and field hands, docile slaves and rebels, urban slaves and rural slaves, slaves with kind masters and those with cruel ones. These wide-ranging documents, together with annotations, notes, an index, dozens of illustrations, and an incisive introduction, form a volume of unusual scope and character. Clean copy.

Record # 384856

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Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacyby: John Gross

Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy
by: John Gross

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, A sociological look at the influence of Shakespeare's Shylock on world mythology describes the character's creation and his evolution on the stage, and presents writing about him by Proust, James, T. S. Eliot, and others. Amazingly, Shylock is in only five scenes in the Merchant of Venice. Yet, as pointed out by Gross, the theater critic for the London Sunday Telegraph , his impact and significance transcend his physical presence, so much so that his name and "pound of flesh" idea are almost universally known. In the first part of this character/cultural study, Gross examines the antecedents of Shylock and the play, and his development within the play. The second part considers "interpretations" both theatrical and literary in England and America until World War II; the third part considers Shylock more broadly as a touchstone (e.g., how his "type" is used by the Victorians--Trollope's Lopez, Dickens's Riah, Ruskin's use of him in Munera Pulveris ). Clean copy.

Record # 385503

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A Tale Of Love And Darkness by: Amos Oz

A Tale Of Love And Darkness
by: Amos Oz

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was twelve and a half years old, his mother committed suicide, a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen and joins a kibbutz, changes his name, marries, has children, and finally becomes a writer as well as an active participant in the political life of Israel. Clean copy.

Record # 385915

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Reading Rochester by: Burns, Edward (Ed.)

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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The Complete Works of Henry Kirke White of Nottingham, late of St. John's College, Cambridge. With an account of his life by Robert Southeyby: Henry Kirke White/South

The Complete Works of Henry Kirke White of Nottingham, late of St. John's College, Cambridge. With an account of his life by Robert Southey
by: Henry Kirke White/South

Hardcover. Boston, N.H. Whitaker, reprint, 1831, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, white boards with green cloth spine with a paper spine label. 420 pages. B&w frontis "Genius of Romance", Opposite title page has a drawing of White. Henry Kirke White was an English poet and hymn-writer. He died at the young age of 21. This edition of his complete works includes his poetry, as well as his letters and other writings. The volume also includes an account of his life and a critical evaluation of his work by Robert Southey. Ex-lib with residue, stamping to endpapers, spine extremities worn, light soil to covers. Interior of the book is clean with minimal foxing.

Record # 387215

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Approach to the Purpose. A Study of the Poetry of T. S. Eliot by: Jones, Genesius

Approach to the Purpose. A Study of the Poetry of T. S. Eliot
by: Jones, Genesius

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 351 pages. Green cloth with embossed gilt lettering on spine. With an Introduction by Peter Green and chapters including: The Meaning of Influence / Mr Eliot and the French Symbolist Poets / The Perspective of History / The Perspective of Language / The Perspective of Myth / etc. Short inscription on front fly leaf, darkening to dj, otherwise clean.

Record # 387339

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AIDS and Its Metaphorsby: Susan Sontag

AIDS and Its Metaphors
by: Susan Sontag

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 95 pages. Sontag's classic essay about the sociology of AIDS, published as an extension of her thoughts about the stigma of illness originally expounded in her book Illness as Metaphor. Clean copy.

Record # 387551

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Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure by: Lyon, Peter

Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure
by: Lyon, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket. 433 pages, b&w illustrations. McClure was the father of the muckraking movement and brought about a revolution in American journalism in the days of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. His journalistic contributors included Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, and he introduced authors such as O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane and Jack London to the American public. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387878

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Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop by: Travisano, Thomas

Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
by: Travisano, Thomas

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 422 pages. Poets of the twentieth century Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that 'Elizabeth had more talent for life--and for poetry--than anyone else I've known.' This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose, and letters--a remarkable body of work that would make her one of America's most beloved and celebrated poets. In Love Unknown, Thomas Travisano tells the story of the famous poet and traveler's life. Bishop moved through extraordinary mid-twentieth century worlds with relationships among an extensive international array of literati, visual artists, musicians, scholars, and politicians -- along with a cosmopolitan gay underground that was then nearly invisible to the dominant culture. Drawing on fresh interviews and newly discovered manuscript materials, Travisano illuminates that the 'art of losing' that Bishop celebrated with such poignant irony in her poem 'One Art' --perhaps her most famous-- was linked in equal part to an 'art of finding,' Like new.

Record # 397314

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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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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by: Warner, William W.

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
by: Warner, William W.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 304 pages, b&w illustrations by Consuelo Hanks. Combines a natural history of the Atlantic blue crab with an historical and ecological study of Chesapeake Bay and a chronicle of the commercial crabber's year. Clean copy.

Record # 397809

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The Unpublished Dostoevsky: Diaries and Notebooks, Volume III (1860-81) by: Dostoevsky, Fyodor/Proffer, Carl R. (Editor)

The Unpublished Dostoevsky: Diaries and Notebooks, Volume III (1860-81)
by: Dostoevsky, Fyodor/Proffer, Carl R. (Editor)

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, Ardis, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. VOLUME 3 ONLY. 204 pages. Fading to dj spine, clean copy.

Record # 397945

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Turgenev: His Life and Times by: Leonard Schapiro

Turgenev: His Life and Times
by: Leonard Schapiro

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 382 pages. A biography of Ivan Turgenev, 19th-century Russian writer. The book is not a critical examination of Turgenev's literary output, but, of the man himself - enigmatic and unknown - and the world in which he lived, and the people he knew and associated with. Clean copy.

Record # 398042

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Women of the Shadows: Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy by: Ann Cornelisen

Women of the Shadows: Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy
by: Ann Cornelisen

Softcover. South Royalton VT, Steerforth Press, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 187 pages plus b&w photos. With haunting photographs and piercing descriptions, Women of the Shadows depicts the secluded women of southern Italy and their passionate, painful, heartrending existence. Cornelisen, who lived among these women in the mountainous villages of Lucania after World War II, reveals their struggles during a time when most of their men had to leave for factories in the industrial north. The women remained behind to work the fields. There's Peppina, Ninetta, Teresa, Maria, Pinuccia, and Cettina, all women who "have done things of which they are not proud; they know it in their hearts, as one woman said, that nothing is private, they would also agree with her conclusion: That doesn't mean you get used to it." With an extraordinary understanding of the interior lives of these and other women, Cornelisen brings them out of the shadows to tell their heroic stories in a book which truly merits the label "classic." A new introduction by the author suggests that the more things change, the more, in essence, they remain the same. Wrappers sunned, otherwise tight and clean.

Record # 398111

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Collected Proseby: Olson, Charles / Allen, Donald and Friedlander, Benjamin (Eds.)

Collected Prose
by: Olson, Charles / Allen, Donald and Friedlander, Benjamin (Eds.)

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 472 pages. The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmodern in poetry and form the basis of most postwar free verse. The Collected Prose brings together in one volume the works published for the most part between 1946 and 1969, many of which are now out of print. A valuable companion to editions of Olson's poetry, the book backgrounds the poetics, preoccupations, and fascinations that underpin his great poems. Included are Call Me Ishmael, a classic of American literary criticism; the influential essays "Projective Verse" and "Human Universe"; and essays, book reviews, and Olson's notes on his studies. In these pieces one can trace the development of his new science of man, called "muthologos," a radical mix of myth and phenomenology that Olson offered in opposition to the mechanistic discourse and rationalizing policy he associated with America's recent wars in Europe and Asia. Clean copy.

Record # 398485

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19th & 20th Century Literature with selections from the estate of Stanley Simon/ Sale 2478by: Swann

19th & 20th Century Literature with selections from the estate of Stanley Simon/ Sale 2478
by: Swann

Softcover. NY, Swann Auction Galleries, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 lots illustrated with color photos of rare books, many in dust jackets. Description and comments for each lot, prices realized list laid in. Great reference for the avid collector. Clean copy.

Record # 399273

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The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound by: [Pound, Ezra] Swift, Daniel

The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
by: [Pound, Ezra] Swift, Daniel

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A groundbreaking new biography of Ezra Pound, one of the most controversial poets of the twentieth century, told through the stories of his illustrious visitors at St Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC. An extraordinary book of real passionate research. In 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane. Escaping a potential death sentence he was shipped off to St Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, DC, where he was held for over a decade. At the hospital, Pound was at his most contradictory and most controversial- a genius writer - 'The most important living poet in the English language' according to T. S. Eliot - but also a traitor and now, seemingly, a madman. But he remained a magnetic figure. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and John Berryman all went to visit him at what was perhaps the world's most unorthodox literary salon- convened by a fascist and held in a lunatic asylum. Told through the eyes of his illustrious visitors, The Bughouse captures the essence of Pound - the artistic flair, the profound human flaws - whilst telling the grand story of politics and art in the twentieth century. Clean copy.

Record # 399615

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The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of American Self by: John C. Shields

The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of American Self
by: John C. Shields

Hardcover. Knoxville, University Of Tennessee Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 432 pages. Shields shows how both the myth of Adam and the myth of Aeneas, in crossing over to America from Europe, dynamically intermingled in the thought of the earliest American writers. This rearticulation of the myths of Adam and Aeneas became peculiarly adapted to the demands of the American adventure in freedom. Shields argues that uncovering and acknowledging the classical roots of our culture can allay the American fear of "pastlessness" that the long-standing emphasis on the Adamic myth has generated. The authors probing analysis sheds new light on the works of such seminal figures as Edward Taylor, Cotton Mather, Phillis Wheatley, George Washington, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.

Record # 399846

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The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poeticsby: Lombardi, Marilyn May

The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics
by: Lombardi, Marilyn May

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 267 pages. In this original contribution to Elizabeth Bishop studies, Marilyn May Lombardi uses previously unpublished materials (letters, diaries, notebooks, and unfinished poems) to shed new light on the poet's published work. She explores the ways Bishop's lesbianism, alcoholism, allergic illnesses, and fear of mental instability affected her poetry--the ways she translated her bodily experiences into poetic form. Clean copy.

Record # 399901

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Wilson Harrisby: Maes-Jelinek, Hena

Wilson Harris
by: Maes-Jelinek, Hena

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages, green cloth covers. A scarce study of the Caribbean writer which has been heavily annotated and underlined by Joyce Adler, the previous owner. Adler was a literary scholar and published two books on Harris herself.

Record # 404508

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Thoreau: A Glimpseby: Jones, Samuel Arthur

Thoreau: A Glimpse
by: Jones, Samuel Arthur

Hardcover. Concord MA, Albert Lane/Erudite Press, 2nd Ed., 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray-green boards over green cloth spine, 35 pages, frontis. portrait plus 3 halftone plates. First published in 1890, "It is a pious duty to his memory to correct the errors of fact that were ... reported in the first edition of the Glimpse 1890." Jones was part of the rehabilitation of Thoreau's reputation and appreciation. Previous owner's bookmark on inside front cover, Paper label on spine mostly gone, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 412415

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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction (SIGNED COPY)by: Baxter, Charles

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction (SIGNED COPY)
by: Baxter, Charles

Hardcover. Saint Paul, Minn., Graywolf Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 245 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456238

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Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvementby: Greene, Graham

Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement
by: Greene, Graham

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462602

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Hawthorne's Countryby: Clarke, Helen Archibald

Hawthorne's Country
by: Clarke, Helen Archibald

Hardcover. New York, Baker and Taylor, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 348 pages. Contains some black & white illustrations and color frontispiece with tissue-guard. Green cloth covers with gold lettering and decoration. Color illustration pasted on front cover. Gilt top edge. Light rubbing to front cover, corners, spine. Both hinges starting to crack.

Record # 508977

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Reality Hunger - A Manifesto
by: Shields, David

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 219 pages. Clean, bright copy. "I doubt very much that I'm the only person who's finding it more and more difficult to want to read or write novels," David Shields acknowledges in Reality Hunger, then seeks to understand how the conventional literary novel has become as lifeless a form as the mass market bodice-ripper. Shields provides an ars poetica for writers and other artists who, exhausted by the artificiality of our culture, "obsessed by real events because we experience hardly any," are taking larger and larger pieces of the real world and using them in their work. Reality Hunger is made of 600-odd numbered fragments, many of them quotations from other sources, some from Shields's own books, but none properly sourced--the project being not a treasure hunt or a con but a good-faith presentation of what literature might look like if it caught up to contemporary strategies and devices used in the other arts, and allowed for samples (that is, quotation from art and from the world) to revivify existing forms. Shields challenges the perceived superiority of the imagination and exposes conventional literary pieties as imitation writing, the textual equivalent of artificial flavoring, sleepwalking, and small talk. I can't name a more necessary or a more thrilling book.

Record # 610503

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Mechanism and Mysticism - The Influence of Science on the Thought and Work of Theodore Dreiserby: Zanine, Louis J.

Mechanism and Mysticism - The Influence of Science on the Thought and Work of Theodore Dreiser
by: Zanine, Louis J.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth covered boards with white titles to spine. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear, now protected with a plastic sleeve. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751099

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Under Siege in Kuwait: A Survivor's Storyby: Porter, Jadranka

Under Siege in Kuwait: A Survivor's Story
by: Porter, Jadranka

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st U.S., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Light blue and tan cloth cover, gilt lettering, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852930

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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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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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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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Magic Seeds (SIGNED COPY)by: Naipaul, V. S.

Magic Seeds (SIGNED COPY)
by: Naipaul, V. S.

Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY NAIPAUL. Like new condition in a bright dust jacket. The author's fourteenth and final novel.

Record # 351242

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The Education of Shakespeareby: Plimpton, George A.

The Education of Shakespeare
by: Plimpton, George A.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 140 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 354267

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Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfictionby: Harrison, Jim

Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfiction
by: Harrison, Jim

Hardcover. Livingston, MT, Clack City Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Record # 369035

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Slavery and Freedomby: Berdyaev Nicolas/ French RM. (Trans)/Roger Shattuck

Slavery and Freedom
by: Berdyaev Nicolas/ French RM. (Trans)/Roger Shattuck

Hardcover. London, Geoffrey Bles, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt title on spine, 268 pages. In an edgeworn dust jacket with a crease lengthwise. Copy of literary critic and historian Roger Shattuck with his pencil signature and "Mindoro, Philippines 1945" (presumed where he served in WW2) on the front fly leaf. Some pencil markings and notations in text.

Record # 372391

Price: $60.00 
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Louis-Ferdinand Celineby: Thomas Merlin

Louis-Ferdinand Celine
by: Thomas Merlin

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that's unclipped. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 372847

Price: $18.00 
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London War Notes 1939-1945by: Mollie Panter Downes

London War Notes 1939-1945
by: Mollie Panter Downes

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1971, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 378 pages. From dust jacket notes: "For most Americans, the Second World War started on December 7, 1941, and much of the fighting took place in strange, faraway places. For the British, the war started on September 3, 1939, and much of the action took place in the skies over England. In the spring of 1940, after months of uneasy calm, Germany invaded the Lowlands and conquered France within a few days, leaving England without her only meaningful ally on the Continent. A year would pass before the Soviet Union was drawn into the war, and eighteen months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The United Kingdom, with a land area about the size of Wyoming, was alone, all alone, with only the Straits of Dover separating the island from Hitler's war machine. For six years Mollie Panter-Downes covered the war for The New Yorker magazine from her native England. Even at the height of the air war over London, when 'all that is best in the good life of civilized effort appears to be slowly and painfully keeling over,' she continued to file her fortnightly reports in an understated but dramatic fashion that reflected the fortitude of her fellow countrymen: 'The announcements of the first air-raid deaths are beginning to appear in the obituary columns of the morning papers. No mention is made of the cause of death, but the conventional phrase "very suddenly" is always used.' William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, has assembled Miss Panter-Downes' 'Letter from London' columns into a consecutive, on-the-spot chronicle of the war in England."

Record # 374217

Price: $40.00 
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Flaubert by: Henri Troyat

Flaubert
by: Henri Troyat

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

Record # 374487

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The Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson's Tragic Poetryby: Clark Griffith

The Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson's Tragic Poetry
by: Clark Griffith

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth stamped in blue, 308 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 375179

Price: $20.00 
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Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002by: Salman Rushdie

Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
by: Salman Rushdie

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 416 pages. The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdie's intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writer's psyche. With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong opinions that distinguish his fiction, Rushdie writes about his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, and the state of the novel, among many other topics. Most notably, delving into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with the eponymous "Step Across This Line," a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion.

Record # 378317

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The Several Lives of Joseph Conradby: John Stape

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

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

Price: $25.00 
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My Secret Diary 1943-1945 by: Guareschi, Giovanni

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

Price: $18.00 
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Frederic Remington: Selected Letters by: Remington Frederic and Allen P. Splete and Marilyn D. Splete (Eds.)

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

Price: $12.00 
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