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Adventures With Bernard Shawby: Rider, Dan
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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

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

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

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

The Education of Shakespeareby: Plimpton, George A.
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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

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfictionby: Harrison, Jim
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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

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Slavery and Freedomby: Berdyaev Nicolas/ French RM. (Trans)/Roger Shattuck
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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
Price: $60.00 

Louis-Ferdinand Celineby: Thomas Merlin
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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
Price: $18.00 

London War Notes 1939-1945by: Mollie Panter Downes
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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
Price: $40.00 

Flaubert by: Henri Troyat
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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

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Plain Speaking by: MULOCK, Dinah Maria,
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Plain Speaking
by: MULOCK, Dinah Maria,

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st US, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt stamping. 249 pages plus publisher's ads Candid opinions, in a series of essays on literature, music, fashion and character by the author of "John Halifax Gentleman". 'If I say somewhat hard things, I beg my readers to believe me that it is not out of a hard heart, careless of giving pain, but a sad heart, knowing pain must be given.' (Preliminary.) Uncommon. Mild spotting to covers otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 377810

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos: Best Nonfictionby: Friedman, Bruce Jay
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Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos: Best Nonfiction
by: Friedman, Bruce Jay

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 236 pages. A butler school in Houston, a livestock auction in Little Rock, a home for "frozen guys" in California, JFK's humidor in Manhattan--all are jumping off points for Friedman's baleful and sharply satirical scrutiny of American life and behavior in the second half of the twentieth century. Travel with Friedman from Harlem to Hollywood, from Port-au-Prince to Etta's Eat Shop in Chicago. In these pieces, which were published in literary and mass-circulation magazines from the 1960s to the 1990s, you'll meet such luminaries as Castro and Clinton, Natalie Wood and Clint Eastwood, and even Friedman's friends Irwin Shaw, Nelson Algren, and Mario Puzo. Friedman is a master of the essay, whether the subject is crime reporting ("Lessons of the Street"), Hollywood shenanigans ("My Life among the Stars"), or his outrageous adventures as the editor of pulp magazines (the classic "Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos"). We could sing his praises as a journalist, humorist, and social critic. But, as Buckley tells us, being Bruce Jay Friedman is enough. Clean copy.

Record # 378372

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Stay: threads, conversations, collaborationsby: Nick Flynn
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Stay: threads, conversations, collaborations
by: Nick Flynn

Hardcover. NY, ZE Books, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with white lettering. No dust jacket issued. With Stay, acclaimed poet, artist, and bestselling memoirist Nick Flynn presents a self-portrait via a constellation of topics that have circled his work. Ranging from the impact of suicide and homelessness to addiction, political engagement, and the vital power of artistic friendships, Stay is a mixed-media retrospective that shows nothing is created in isolation. Mirroring Flynn's life, this work of visual and literary memoir is populated by examples of his collaborations since the 1980s with such luminaries as the photographers Amy Arbus and Catherine Opie, composer Guy Barash, actor Robert De Niro, cartoonist Josh Neufeld, author Sarah Sentilles, filmmaker Paul Weitz, and artists John Baldessari, Marilyn Minter, and Bill Shuck. In Flynn's refusal to conform to narrative or the safety of his own perspective, Stay grasps for an essential truth, an answer to what art, in the end, can and cannot reflect. Illustrated in color, b&w.

Record # 379006

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at The End of the World by: Oliphant, Ashley
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Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at The End of the World
by: Oliphant, Ashley

Softcover. Sarasota FL, Pineapple Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages. Follow Ernest Hemingway's exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937, the very moment in time when the International Game Fish Association (under the author's co-leadership) was emerging. Covers Hemingway's role in the formation of the IGFA, his underappreciated seminal writing about competitive saltwater angling when the sport was still in its infancy, the amazing fishing he enjoyed on the island, and the way all of these experiences translated into the composition of his posthumous novel Islands in the Stream. This is the only book on this period in Hemingway's life and reveals unexpected dimensions to the Hemingway portrait that deserve attention, including his surprising humor, his advanced conservationist views several decades before the environmental movement even began, and his egalitarian ideas about his contemporary female counterparts in the big-game fishing world--challenging the usual portrait of Hemingway as a chauvinist with no personal rules, boundaries, or conscience. Includes beautiful vintage photographs of 1930s Bimini that have never been published in book form.

Record # 379975

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Glossy Rats by: David Cort
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The Glossy Rats
by: David Cort

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of essays, most previously appearing in Pageant, The New York Time, The New Republic and other publications in the 1960s. Subjects include Madison Avenue Foreign Policy, The Strange Case of Negro Superiority, Margaret Mead for President, A Solution for Leisure, among many others.

Record # 381507

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Flight to Arrasby: Saint-Exupery, Antoine De
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Flight to Arras
by: Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with silver lettering, price-clipped dust jacket worn with large chunk gone from bottom 2" of spine and rear panel. The recollections of the author of a French photography sortie carried out a 33,000' in defiance of the German fighter planes during May 1940. Illustrated Bernard Lamotte. No indication of printing, illustrated endpapers. No date on title page, Copyright page states 1942. Clean copy.

Record # 381770

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Ernest Hemingway A Life Storyby: Carlos Baker
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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

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

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

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 
 
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The Traveller. With thirty illustrations expressly designed for The Art-Union of Londonby: Goldsmith, Oliver
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The Traveller. With thirty illustrations expressly designed for The Art-Union of London
by: Goldsmith, Oliver

Hardcover. London, The Art Union of London, 1st thus, 1851, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, half-leather, maroon calf over maroon boards with gllt rules, spine with gilt decorated raised bands and lettering. Portrait frontispiece by J[ohn] Gilbert after Sir Joshua Reynolds. 14 pages of Goldsmith's verse followed by 30 plates engraved on wood by J.Thompson, W.T.Green, J.W.Whymper, G.Dalziel, E.Dalziel, &c. after the designs of C.Stanfield, J.Leech, E.H.Corbould, W.L.Leitch, E.M.Ward & others. Some cloth fade to covers, front fly leaf gone, bookplate on inside front cover. Mild foxing.

Record # 383226

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 
 
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The Belles Lettres Series: English Literature: From its Beginning to the Year 1100: Old English Riddles: Volume 1 by: Wyatt, A. J.
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The Belles Lettres Series: English Literature: From its Beginning to the Year 1100: Old English Riddles: Volume 1
by: Wyatt, A. J.

Hardcover. Boston, D.C. Heath & Co., 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 12mo. 193 pages, beige pictorial paper covered boards, maroon cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine, Folding plate in front. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383433

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 
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Cultures of United States Imperialismby: Editors: Amy Kaplan; Donald E. Pease
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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

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 
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The Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the Andesby: Anthony Oliver-Smith
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The Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the Andes
by: Anthony Oliver-Smith

Softcover. Prospect Heights IL, Waveland Press, Revised Ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 280 pages. An account of a massive earthquake in the small city of Yungay, Peru in 1970. The author lived in the area and documents the survivors efforts to rebuild. Clean copy.

Record # 384852

Price: $35.00
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Beginnings: Intentions and Method by: Edward W. Said
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Beginnings: Intentions and Method
by: Edward W. Said

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 414 pages. A work of literary criticism in which Said differentiates between the concept of "origin" and "beginning", also reflecting reflexively on the role of criticism and of the intellectual within a larger culture. Clean copy.

Record # 385432

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Don Quijote de La Mancha: Edicion del Instituto Cervantes 1605 - 2005, dirigida por Francisco Rico. Volumen complementario (2 Volumes)by: Miguel de Cervantes
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Don Quijote de La Mancha: Edicion del Instituto Cervantes 1605 - 2005, dirigida por Francisco Rico. Volumen complementario (2 Volumes)by: Miguel de CervantesDon Quijote de La Mancha: Edicion del Instituto Cervantes 1605 - 2005, dirigida por Francisco Rico. Volumen complementario (2 Volumes)by: Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quijote de La Mancha: Edicion del Instituto Cervantes 1605 - 2005, dirigida por Francisco Rico. Volumen complementario (2 Volumes)
by: Miguel de Cervantes

Hardcover. Barcelona Spain, Galaxia Gutenberg, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets, housed in a cardboard slipcase. ALL TEXT IN SPANISH. 1.368 and 1.454 pages. Clean set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386700

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

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
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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 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

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Inky Way by: Rice, Alice Hegan
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The Inky Way
by: Rice, Alice Hegan

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 282 pages. The author (1870-1942) was born in Shelbyville, Kentucky at the home of her grandfather, but lived in Louisville all of her life. Her first novel "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" was an overnight success, making her immediately famous. It had a remarkable publishing history, remaining on the best seller list for two years, going through more than a hundred printings, was made into a movie four times, and ran on Broadway for seven seasons. THE INKY WAY, her last book, published two years before her death, is her autobiography.

Record # 387345

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Blood, Bone, and Marrow:A Biography of Harry Crewsby: Geltner, Ted
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Blood, Bone, and Marrow:A Biography of Harry Crews
by: Geltner, Ted

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Foreword by Michael Connelly. 414 pages. In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly deteriorating, Crews told Geltner he was on board and would even sit for interviews and tell his stories one last time. Ask me anything you want, bud, Crews said. But you'd better do it quick. The result is Blood, Bone, and Marrow, the first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. With books such as Scar Lover, Body, and Naked in Garden Hills, Crews opened a new window into southern life, focusing his lenson the poor and disenfranchised, the people who skinned the hogs and tended the fields, the grits, as Crews affectionately called his characters and himself. Clean copy.

Record # 387575

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled Historyby: Lee, Susanna
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Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History
by: Lee, Susanna

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. America has had a love affair with the hard-boiled detective since the 1920s, when Prohibition called into question who really stood on the right and wrong side of the law. And nowhere did this hero shine more than in crime fiction. In Detectives in the Shadows, literary and cultural critic Susanna Lee tracks the evolution of this truly American character type from Race Williams to Philip Marlowe and from Mike Hammer to Jessica Jones. Lee explores how this character type morphs to fit an increasingly troubled world, offering compelling interpretations of The Wire, True Detective, and Jessica Jones. 216 pages, clean copy.

Record # 387948

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Perish the Thought: Intellectual Women in Romantic America 1830-1860 by: Susan P. Conrad
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Perish the Thought: Intellectual Women in Romantic America 1830-1860
by: Susan P. Conrad

Softcover. NJ, Citadel Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 292 pages. Studies the distinctive personalities, problems, and cultural contributions of such women as Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, examining the extent to which romanticism encouraged intellectualism among women during the three decades prior to the Civil War. Clean copy.

Record # 397503

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Adventures in Geniusby: Durant, Will
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Adventures in Genius
by: Durant, Will

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with faded gilt title on spine, 426 pages. A collection of profiles on great thinkers and writers through the ages. B&w frontis of Walt Whitman, 9 other b&w portraits. Clean copy.

Record # 397627

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

The Peyote Dance by: Artaud, Antonin
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The Peyote Dance
by: Artaud, Antonin

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 105 pages. Translated by Helen Weaver. Writings by Artaud about his experience with the Tarahumara Indians in 1936, their rituals and ceremonies, and his efforts to find alternatives to what he felt was an increasingly limited European view of the mind and consciousness. Clean copy.

Record # 397861

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865by: Joseph Frank
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Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
by: Joseph Frank

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 395 pages. The third volume in Frank's monumental five part biography of the great Russian writer. This volume begins with the writer's return to Saint Petersburg after a ten-year Siberian exile and traces how his engagement in the cultural and social ferment of Russia in the early 1860s led to his discovery of the themes that would underlie his mature masterpieces. Clean copy.

Record # 397957

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

William Carlos Williams Review a Volume IX Numbers 1 2 Fall 1983: Centennial Issue by: GRAHAM Theodora Rapp and Peter Schmidt edited by
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William Carlos Williams Review a Volume IX Numbers 1 2 Fall 1983: Centennial Issue
by: GRAHAM Theodora Rapp and Peter Schmidt edited by

Softcover. Middletown PA, Pennsylvania State University, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Red perfect bound wrappers, 176 pages. Covers with a few faint creases, spine slightly faded, mild wave to book. Prints Williams' 80-page 1914 little red notebook in exact-size facsimiles with a transcription and two additional essays from his son William Eric Williams; additional contributions by Reed Whittemore, James Laughlin, Cecelia Tichi, Peter Schmidt, Mary Ellen Solt, Henry Sayre, Emily Wallace, Louis Martz and Albert Sonnenfeld. The journal showcases scholarly essays on any aspect of the life and work of William Carlos Williams.

Record # 398059

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Art of Satire by: David Worcester
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The Art of Satire
by: David Worcester

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, red cloth in a worn and chipped dust jacket with closed tears, 191 pages with index. Dr. Worcester presents a theory of satire, surveying the whole field since Dryden's Discourse of the Origin of Satire and drawing illustrations not only from English but from classical, French, German, and American literature. At the same time he makes a penetrating study of irony and its uses. Name on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 398176

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Arthur Quiller-Couch: A Biographical Study of Qby: Brittain, Frederick
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Arthur Quiller-Couch: A Biographical Study of Q
by: Brittain, Frederick

Hardcover. NY, Cambridge University Press /Macmillan, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 174 pages, color frontis. portrait of the author, several b&w plates. Flap price crossed out otherwise clean.

Record # 398674

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

John Fante: A Critical Gathering by: Stephen Cooper, David Fine (Ed.)
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John Fante: A Critical Gathering
by: Stephen Cooper, David Fine (Ed.)

Hardcover. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages. This book offers eleven essays on Fante's career, ranging from close thematic analysis of individual stories and novels to broadly informed assessments of Fante's life and art in the context of his times. Major areas explored in the book include Fante's treatment of the Italian-American experience; his relationship to other American writers of the 1930s and beyond; the deeply Catholic nature of Fante's fiction; his unique and still-seminal vision of Los Angeles; and his lifelong concern to render in fiction both the comedy and the horrors of the writing life. Clean copy.

Record # 399361

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra by: Clayton Koelb [Ed.]
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Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra
by: Clayton Koelb [Ed.]

Softcover. Ithaca NY, State University of New York , 2nd pr., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages. The contributors discuss the current debate about what philosophy is, how it works, and how Nietzsche's thought clarifies or complicates its understanding. They represent a wide range of views and practices, some aggressively postmodern in their approach, some profoundly skeptical about postmodernism. Although the issue of postmodernism is the central focus, the essays also touch on many other areas of interest to readers of Nietzsche. Spine faded, light pencil underlining to a few pages.

Record # 399735

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Annotated Wizard of Oz: Centennial Editionby: Frank L Baum (Author), Patrick Michael Hearn (Author), Martin Gardner (Foreword)
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The Annotated Wizard of Oz: Centennial Edition
by: Frank L Baum (Author), Patrick Michael Hearn (Author), Martin Gardner (Foreword)

Hardcover. NY, Norton, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 396 pages. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the quintessential American fairy tale. Michael Patrick Hearn, the world's leading Oz scholar, now provides a fascinating new annotation that not only reacquaints readers with the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion, but also illuminates the colorful background of this treasured American classic. This edition explores numerous contemporary references, provides character sources, and explains the actual meaning of the word "Oz." A facsimile of the rare 1900 first edition appears with the original drawings by W.W. Denslow, as well as 25 previously unpublished illustrations. There is a bibliography of L. Frank Baum's published work, every notable "Oz" edition, and the stage and cinematic productions from 1939's The Wizard of Oz, to the 1974 Broadway hit, The Wiz. A beautiful, awe-inspiring work, The Annotated Wizard of Oz is an enduring tribute to the timeless joy of The Wizard of Oz, and a classic to rival Baum's own. Clean copy.

Record # 399890

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005by: Atwood, Margaret
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Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005
by: Atwood, Margaret

Hardcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 427 pages. This substantial collection of nonfiction spans over two decades, from 1983 to 2005. It encompasses autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces to significant literary works. Notable inclusions are her reflections on reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at nineteen, discussions on the influence of George Orwell's 1984 on The Handmaid's Tale, and her New York Times Book Review piece that contributed to the success of Orhan Pamuk's Snow. The collection also features a poignant Letter to America written after September 11, 2001, and a retrospective on a family trip to Afghanistan prior to the Soviet invasion. Clean copy.

Record # 399955

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Wallace Stevens' Whole Harmonium by: Blessing, Richard
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Wallace Stevens' Whole Harmonium
by: Blessing, Richard

Hardcover. Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 185 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 400112

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

An Autobiographical Novelby: Kenneth Rexroth
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An Autobiographical Novel
by: Kenneth Rexroth

Softcover. NY, New Directions, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 367 pages. (previously published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1966). Clean copy.

Record # 400186

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Uncertainty & Plenitude: Five Contemporary Poets (SIGNED COPY)by: Stitt, Peter
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Uncertainty & Plenitude: Five Contemporary Poets (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stitt, Peter

Hardcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 200 pages. Critical essays on Charles Simic, John Ashbery, Stephen Dobyns and Charles Wright. SIGNED on title page by Stitts, also INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf by him. Personal letter from author also laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 400229

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Life of the Mind (2 vols. Volume I: Thinking, Volume II: Willingby: Hannah Arendt
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The Life of the Mind (2 vols. Volume I: Thinking, Volume II: Willing
by: Hannah Arendt

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes in a slipcase, light gray and light green jackets over beige cloth. 258, 277 numbered pages. The Life of the Mind is the final work by the political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker. This fascinating book investigates thought itself as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from Arendt's previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this is an exploration of the mind's activities she considered to be the most fundamental. The result is a rich, challenging analysis of human mental activity in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. Stated First Editions with 2 as lowest number. Jacket spines sunned and faded. Light spotting to text block edges. Clean, no markings.

Record # 400365

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

All One Horseby: Breyten Breytenbach
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All One Horse
by: Breyten Breytenbach

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 115 pages, color illustrations. All One Horse is a marvel-filled journey through Breyten Breytenbach's kaleidoscopic imagination. The electrifying colors and penetrating images of his paintings converse with his lyrical and satirical dream-fables. These visions and parables emerge from a melange of cultures and traditions: African and Eastern thought, the spirit world, and the spheres of visual art, philosophy, history and politics. Breytenbach's watercolors communicate in hieroglyphs, where private conversation embraces myth and dream. These reflections and images - clear and complex at once - are cries for human dignity and justice, are truth disguised as play. An outspoken human rights activist, Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, painter, memoirist, essayist and novelist. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited around the world. Born in South Africa, he emigrated to Paris in the late '60s and became deeply involved in the anti-Apartheid movement. Clean Copy.

Record # 401051

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Bibliography of Norman Douglas, Aby: Woolf, Cecil
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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

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

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

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY)by: Offit, Sidney
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Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY)
by: Offit, Sidney

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. B&w photographs, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456447

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Isaiah Berlin: A Celebrationby: Ullmann-Margalit, Edna
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Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration
by: Ullmann-Margalit, Edna

Hardcover. US, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration gathers tributes, reflections, and commentaries on the great thinker and his philosophy, politics, and life-including contributions from Michael Ignatieff, Leon Wieseltier, Ronald Dworkin, Stephen Spender, and many others.

Record # 463308

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Cradle of God, Theby: Powys, Llewelyn
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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

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Saga of Gisli - Son of Sour, Theby: Allen (Translator), Ralph B./Rockwell Kent
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Saga of Gisli - Son of Sour, The
by: Allen (Translator), Ralph B./Rockwell Kent

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages. Black & white illustrations by Rockwell Kent. 1st edition review copy. "Review Copy" with date and price stamped on front endpaper. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Tanning along top edge of pages. Darkening to spine, and top edges of covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610839

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 


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