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Making of an Immortal, The (SIGNED COPY) by: Moore, George
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Making of an Immortal, The (SIGNED COPY) by: Moore, GeorgeMaking of an Immortal, The (SIGNED COPY) by: Moore, George

Making of an Immortal, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Moore, George

Hardcover. New York, Bowling Green Press, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 59 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED and NUMBERED #824 of 1240. Pages darkening on edges, only light wear to cover boards.

Record # 353992

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Essays After Eighty by: Hall, Donald
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Essays After Eighty by: Hall, DonaldEssays After Eighty by: Hall, Donald

Essays After Eighty
by: Hall, Donald

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 134 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HALL ON BOOKPLATE ON FRONT END PAPER. Gutter crack on page 132, otherwise tight copy. Newspaper clipping laid in.

Record # 354057

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

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

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

Record # 354102

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Letters from John Chinaman: A new edition with some other essays by: Dickinson, G. Lowes
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Letters from John Chinaman: A new edition with some other essays
by: Dickinson, G. Lowes

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin LTD, 2nd, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil, tape repair to dust jacket. Light soil on cover boards, tight copy.

Record # 354118

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Staging Steinbeck: Dramatizing the Grapes of Wrath by: Whitebrook, Peter
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Staging Steinbeck: Dramatizing the Grapes of Wrath
by: Whitebrook, Peter

Hardcover. London, Cassell, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 157 pages Hardcover with dust jacket. clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures in center. Dust jacket has light rubbing on fore edge.

Record # 354133

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

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

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

Record # 354141

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation by: Hearn, Lafcadio
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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

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Miscellaneous Literary Political and Social Writings of Joel Chandler Harris (SIGNED/INSCRIBED) by: Collier Harris (EDITOR), Julia
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Miscellaneous Literary Political and Social Writings of Joel Chandler Harris (SIGNED/INSCRIBED) by: Collier Harris (EDITOR), JuliaMiscellaneous Literary Political and Social Writings of Joel Chandler Harris (SIGNED/INSCRIBED) by: Collier Harris (EDITOR), Julia

Miscellaneous Literary Political and Social Writings of Joel Chandler Harris (SIGNED/INSCRIBED)
by: Collier Harris (EDITOR), Julia

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 429 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR, JULIA COLLIER HARRIS. Light edge wear to covers, dust jacket. Inscribed on front fly leaf to Dr. Small from the Harrises. Tight copy.

Record # 354197

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

The Education of Shakespeare by: 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 

Writings of Carrie Williams Clifford and Carrie Law Morgan Figgs by: Clifford, Carrie Williams and Carrie Law Morgan Figgs
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Writings of Carrie Williams Clifford and Carrie Law Morgan Figgs
by: Clifford, Carrie Williams and Carrie Law Morgan Figgs

Hardcover. NY, G.K.Hall, rep, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Reproduced from works originally published in the early 1900s, Intro. by P. Jane Splawn. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 354805

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Tragedies of Life - George Sampson Brite - Case 999 A Christmas Story by: Pitts, Gertrude and Anne Scott
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Tragedies of Life - George Sampson Brite - Case 999 A Christmas Story
by: Pitts, Gertrude and Anne Scott

Hardcover. NY, G.K.Hall, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Reproduced from their work pub. in the 1930s. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 354806

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Carl Van Vechten and the Twenties (WITH INSCRIPTION AND OTHER SIGNED EPHEMERA BY VAN VECHTEN) by: Van Vechten, Carl and Edward Lueders
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Carl Van Vechten and the Twenties (WITH INSCRIPTION AND OTHER SIGNED EPHEMERA BY VAN VECHTEN) by: Van Vechten, Carl and Edward LuedersCarl Van Vechten and the Twenties (WITH INSCRIPTION AND OTHER SIGNED EPHEMERA BY VAN VECHTEN) by: Van Vechten, Carl and Edward Lueders

Carl Van Vechten and the Twenties (WITH INSCRIPTION AND OTHER SIGNED EPHEMERA BY VAN VECHTEN)
by: Van Vechten, Carl and Edward Lueders

Hardcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 150 pages, b&w photo illustrations. Dust jacket present but badly worn, chipped. Book condition is very good. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Also INSCRIBED BY VAN VECHTEN on front fly leaf: "For Dannie with fond affection from Carlo/April 6 1955/New York". Laid-in: an original b&w photo/postcard embossed "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten", dark exposure with 3 unidentified individuals. With verso handwritten note signed Carlo with a mailing date of 12/30/1958. Also: 4-page mimeographed memorial (speech) by George S. Schuyler dated December 23 1964 and a similar one (5-page) by Lincoln Kirstein. Several clippings. obituaries on his passing at age 84.

Record # 354814

Price: $400.00
Price: $400.00 

Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (SIGNED COPY) by: Kooser, Ted
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (SIGNED COPY)
by: Kooser, Ted

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 153 pages. SIGNED BY KOOSER on title page. Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the Bohemian Alps of southeastern Nebraska.

Record # 356334

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Apricots from Chernobyl (SIGNED COPY) by: Novakovich, Josip
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Apricots from Chernobyl (SIGNED COPY)
by: Novakovich, Josip

Softcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st wraps, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, SIGNED BY NOVAKOVICH on title-page.

Record # 358849

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis by: Lewis, Walter Hooper (Ed.), C.S.
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Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis
by: Lewis, Walter Hooper (Ed.), C.S.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages, with b&w illustrations. Very clean and tight copy. Remainder line bottom edge, otherwise unmarked.

Record # 358994

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination by: Siegel, Lee
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Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination
by: Siegel, Lee

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 337 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Essays by the New York City cultural critic; examines the work of artists, filmmakers and writers ranging from Anton Chekov to J. K. Rowling, including Stanley Kubrick, The Sopranos, Sex in the City, John Updike, Norman Mailer, and Barbara Kingsolver. Clean copy.

Record # 359175

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane by: Davis, Linda H.
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Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane
by: Davis, Linda H.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 414 pages, b&w illustrations. Very good, clean, in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever experienced war first-hand. So true was his portrait of a young man who runs from his first confrontation with battle that Civil War veterans argued about whose regiment Crane had been in. Considered by H.G. Wells as "beyond dispute, the best writer of our generation," Crane was also famous in his time as an unforgettable personality, an Adonis with tawny hair and gray-blue eyes that Willa Cather described as "full of luster and changing lights." A lover of women and truth at any cost, Crane, in his short life, paid dearly for both. He alienated the New York police when he testified against a policeman on behalf of a prostitute falsely accused of soliciting, forcing him to live the rest of his short life as an expatriate in England. Reporting on the Spanish American War, Crane described the Rough Riders blundering into a trap after arriving in Cuba, infuriating Roosevelt. He died tragically young, leaving behind a handful of fine short stories, including The Open Boat and The Blue Hotel, along with war reporting, novels, and poetry.

Record # 359620

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008 by: Gordimer, Nadine
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Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008
by: Gordimer, Nadine

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 752 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Never before has Gordimer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, published such a comprehensive collection of her nonfiction. Telling Times represents the full span of her works in that field-from the twilight of white rule in South Africa to the fight to overthrow the apartheid regime, and most recently, her role over the past seven years in confronting the contemporary phenomena of violence and the dangers of HIV. The range of this book is staggering, and the work in totality celebrates the lively perseverance of the life-loving individual in the face of political tumult, then the onslaught of a globalized world. The abiding passionate spirit that informs "A South African Childhood," a youthful autobiographical piece published in The New Yorker in 1954, can be found in each of the book's ninety-one pieces that span a period of fifty-five years.

Record # 359621

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

John Burroughs: In Remembrance by: (Burroughs, John)
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John Burroughs: In Remembrance
by: (Burroughs, John)

Softcover. privately printed, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, program for the Memorial services held for the writer/naturalist at the Nest in Riverby, April 2, 1921. A selection of Bible passages, poetry and Burrough's own writings. Two tipped b&w plates. Folded gray wrappers with a string tie, 24 pages printed on gray charcoal paper. Very good, clean.

Record # 359806

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Stepping Stones - Interviews with Seamus Heaney (SIGNED COPY) by: O'Driscoll, Dennis; Heaney, Seamus
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Stepping Stones - Interviews with Seamus Heaney (SIGNED COPY) by: O'Driscoll, Dennis; Heaney, SeamusStepping Stones - Interviews with Seamus Heaney (SIGNED COPY) by: O'Driscoll, Dennis; Heaney, Seamus

Stepping Stones - Interviews with Seamus Heaney (SIGNED COPY)
by: O'Driscoll, Dennis; Heaney, Seamus

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2008, Hardcover, 524 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY BOTH HEANEY & O'DRISCOLL on title page. Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a large number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time.

Record # 360556

Price: $300.00
Price: $300.00 

William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis by: Thirwell, Angela
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William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis
by: Thirwell, Angela

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The marriage of William Michael Rossetti and Lucy Madox Brown united two of the most resonant Pre-Raphaelite family names. Their passionate and ultimately tragic relationship provides a fresh perspective on 19th-century marriage and on the private lives of eminent Victorians.

Record # 360718

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Works of Sir Thomas Browne, The (3 Volume Set) by: Sayle (Ed.), Charles
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Works of Sir Thomas Browne, The (3 Volume Set)
by: Sayle (Ed.), Charles

Hardcover. Edinburgh, John Grant, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 hardcover volumes: 351 pages, 400 pages, 600 pages. Brown boards with tan cloth spine. Leather spine labels with gilt lettering. Frontispiece in Vols 1 & 2. Previous owner's sticker front paste-down. Foxing on front paste-down. Previous owner's signature and bookplate in each book.

Record # 361194

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

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

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

Record # 362519

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak by: Cott, Jonathan
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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

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Works of Maurice Sendak 1947-1994 by: Hanrahan, Joyce Y.
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Works of Maurice Sendak 1947-1994
by: Hanrahan, Joyce Y.

Hardcover. Portsmouth, NH, Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 93 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. With illustrations. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 363691

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, The by: Hemingway, Ernest
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Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, The
by: Hemingway, Ernest

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd printing, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 597 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Faded spine. Tight copy.

Record # 368265

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Works of Maurice Sendak 1947-1994 by: Hanrahan, Joyce Y.
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Works of Maurice Sendak 1947-1994
by: Hanrahan, Joyce Y.

Hardcover. Portsmouth, NH, Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 93 pages, with illustrations. Spotless and tight copy. Light foxing to top edge.

Record # 368676

Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00 

Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography by: Latimore, Sarah Briggs; Haskell, Grace Clark
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Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography
by: Latimore, Sarah Briggs; Haskell, Grace Clark

Hardcover. Jackson, FL, San Marco Bookstore, rep., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 98 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Dist jacket faded and sunned on spine and partly rear.

Record # 368682

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfiction by: 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 

Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 by: Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre
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Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980
by: Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre

Softcover. Oakland CA, PM Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. Sticking It to the Man tracks the ways in which the changing politics and culture of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s were reflected in pulp and popular fiction in the United States, the UK, and Australia. Featuring more than three hundred full-color covers, the book includes in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, articles, and reviews from more than two dozen popular culture critics and scholars. Among the works explored, celebrated, and analyzed are books by street-level hustlers turned best-selling black writers Iceberg Slim, Nathan Heard, and Donald Goines; crime heavyweights Chester Himes, Ernest Tidyman, and Brian Garfield; Yippies Anita Hoffman and Ed Sanders; best-selling authors such as Alice Walker, Patricia Nell Warren, and Rita Mae Brown; and a myriad of lesser-known novelists ripe for rediscovery.

Record # 369868

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980 by: Iain McIntyre, Andrew Nette , et al.
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Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980 by: Iain McIntyre, Andrew Nette , et al.Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980 by: Iain McIntyre, Andrew Nette , et al.

Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980
by: Iain McIntyre, Andrew Nette , et al.

Softcover. Oakland CA, PM Press;, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behavior, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills. With their lurid covers and wild, action-packed plots, these books reveal as much about society's deepest desires and fears as they do about the subcultures themselves. Featuring approximately 400 full-color covers, many of them never before reprinted, along with 70 in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, and previously unpublished articles, the book goes behind the scenes to look at the authors and publishers, how they worked, where they drew their inspiration and--often overlooked--the actual words they wrote. It is a must read for anyone interested in pulp fiction, lost literary history, retro and subcultural style, and the history of postwar youth culture.

Record # 369869

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Travels in Hyperreality: Essays by: Eco, Umberto
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Travels in Hyperreality: Essays
by: Eco, Umberto

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. In a bright dust jacket. Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny. Translated by William Weaver.

Record # 370745

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Carolina Humor by: Harden E. Taliaferro
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Carolina Humor
by: Harden E. Taliaferro

Hardcover. Richmond VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 87 pages. Frontispiece of author, foreword by Davd Jackson.

Record # 370869

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Your Amiable Uncle: Letters to This Nephews by: Booth Tarkington
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Your Amiable Uncle: Letters to This Nephews
by: Booth Tarkington

Hardcover. NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt. 192 pages, illustrated endpapers. Tarkington's letters written and illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches in 1903 and 1904 from Europe addressed to his three nephews. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 371142

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner by: Ring Lardner, Ron Rapoport , et al.
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The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner
by: Ring Lardner, Ron Rapoport , et al.

Hardcover. University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 592 pages. Ring Lardner's influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country's best-known journalist in the 1920s and early 1930s, when his voice was all but inescapable in American newspapers and magazines. Lardner's trenchant, observant, sly, and cynical writing style, along with a deep understanding of human foibles, made his articles wonderfully readable and his words resonate to this day. Ron Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner's journalism from his earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate, which appeared in 150 newspapers and reached eight million readers. In these columns Lardner not only covered the great sporting events of the era--from Jack Dempsey's fights to the World Series and even an America's Cup--he also wrote about politics, war, and Prohibition, as well as parodies, poems, and penetrating observations on American life.

Record # 371150

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

The House of Quiet: An Autobiography by: Benson, Arthur Christopher
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The House of Quiet: An Autobiography
by: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated frontispiece etching of Blenheim. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles and decoration, top edge gilt. The memoirs of the author of "Land of Hope and Glory." Clean, bright copy.

Record # 371171

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

The Mint by: Lawrence, T. E.
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The Mint
by: Lawrence, T. E.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st thus, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages. With a portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, some spotting to dustwrapper. A 1973 reprint of the unexpurgated edition of T. E Lawrence's The Mint. Two editions were published simultaneously in 1955; an unexpurgated text in a limited edition, and an expurgated version (reprinted once in the same year); the present publication is a reissue of the former. The memoir records his service in the ranks of the R.A.F. Lawrence enlisted in 1922; in an effort to escape public and media attention he assumed the name John Hulme Ross. Upon the discovery of his identity he was discharged, but two and a half years later was permitted to re-enlist, this time using the name of Shaw, under which he had meanwhile served in the Tank Corps.

Record # 371215

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Landmarks In Rhetoric And Public Address) by: Blair, Hugh
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Landmarks In Rhetoric And Public Address) by: Blair, HughLectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Landmarks In Rhetoric And Public Address) by: Blair, Hugh

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Landmarks In Rhetoric And Public Address)
by: Blair, Hugh

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcovers in dust jackets, two volume set reproducing the 1783 first edition. Edited and introduced by Harold F. Harding. "The Lectures went through at least 130 editions between 1783 and 1911. Because of its size and cost, the two-volume work invariably was abridged or issued as cheap one-volume reprints. No other edition available today combines the readability and beauty of the first Edinburgh edition, which is here faithfully and completely reproduced, so that scholars may have access to it again." (dust jacket copy). 496, 550 pages plus index. Clean set, some toning to dust jackets.

Record # 371293

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins by: Clarke, William M.
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The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins
by: Clarke, William M.

Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. 239 pages including index. Author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins is widely regarded as "the father of the detective story." How curious that his own life has puzzled investigators despite numerous attempts to unravel it. Collins lived a publicly Victorian existence as a contemporary of Dickens, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Blake in mid-19th-century England. Yet upon his death he left a will dividing his estate equally -- between two mistresses.

Record # 371442

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

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

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

Record # 371627

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

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

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

Record # 371825

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Wodehouse: A Life by: Robert McCrum
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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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Origen on First Principles. Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated Into English, Together With an Introduction and Notes by: De Lubac Henri; Butterwort
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Origen on First Principles. Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated Into English, Together With an Introduction and Notes
by: De Lubac Henri; Butterwort

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith , reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 342 pages. Beige cloth with black lettering on spine. Light underlining to about 10 pages, otherwise clean.

Record # 372388

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Slavery and Freedom by: 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 

Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict by: Hilton, Frank
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Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict
by: Hilton, Frank

Hardcover. London, Peter Owen , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. An acclaimed and most unusual biography of Baudelaire, showing him ensnared by his passions for poetry, prostitutes, and drugs. A crucial link between romanticism and modernism, Charles Baudelaire is a pivotal figure in European literature and thought. His influence on modern poetry is immense. In the English language, where his literary reputation is less well known, it is his link with drug culture that gives him contemporary resonance. It is commonly known that Baudelaire used opium. Many writers have described him as being addicted to the drug, but none of his biographers, Frank Hilton argues, has fully understood the effect of opiate addiction on the personality and, in the case of Baudelaire, the extent to which it damaged his life and work. In this original contribution to Baudelaire studies Hilton contends that the drug is at the root of all Baudelaire's problems and in particular--something that constantly tormented him--his chronic inability to apply himself to any prolonged creative work. Unquestionably, there is significantly more to Baudelaire than his opium addiction. But a proper awareness of what it did to the poet helps to illuminate those puzzling aspects of his life and behavior that were not previously understood. Written with the general reader in mind, Baudelaire in Chains will give those who know little or nothing about him a comprehensive picture of his life. To those who know a great deal it will present him in an unexpected light.

Record # 372405

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Thomas Berry: A Biography by: Tucker, Mary Evelyn; Grim, John; Angyal, Andrew
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Thomas Berry: A Biography
by: Tucker, Mary Evelyn; Grim, John; Angyal, Andrew

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 339 pages.

Record # 372520

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-August 1960) by: Debord, Guy
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Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-August 1960)
by: Debord, Guy

Softcover. NY, Semiotext(e)/MIT, 1st transl., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages. Letters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement. Debord's letters-published here for the first time in English-provide a fascinating insider's view of just how this seemingly disorganized group drifting around a newly consumerized Paris became one of the most defining cultural movements of the twentieth century. Clean copy.

Record # 372556

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury (SIGNED COPY) by: Paul Strohm
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Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury (SIGNED COPY)
by: Paul Strohm

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that he has today--far from it. The middle-aged Chaucer was living in London, working as a midlevel bureaucrat and sometime poet, until a personal and professional crisis set him down the road leading to The Canterbury Tales. Brought expertly to life by Paul Strohm, this is the eye-opening story of the birth one of the most celebrated literary creations of the English language. INSCRIBED BY STROHM on the title page.

Record # 372608

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by: Laura Thompson
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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life
by: Laura Thompson

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Crime, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 544 pages. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year--more than thirty years after her death--and it shows no signs of slowing. But who was the woman behind these mystifying, yet eternally pleasing, puzzlers? Thompson reveals the Edwardian world in which Christie grew up, explores her relationships, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the many mysteries still surrounding Christie's life, most notably, her eleven-day disappearance in 1926.

Record # 372611

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Robert Graves: Life on the Edge by: Miranda Seymour
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Robert Graves: Life on the Edge
by: Miranda Seymour

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 524 pages. Robert Graves was astonishingly prolific and worked in many genres. He wrote lyric poetry, scholarly studies of mythology, drama, criticism, and journalism, he translated from Latin, and is probably best known for his potboilers "I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God," works that he considered purely commercial and took little interest in. And, as Miranda Seymour makes clear, he was as odd a duck as ever walked. His life was defined by the women to whom he devoted himself. "Abased himself" would perhaps be the better term. The first and most influential was the American Laura Riding, a second-rate poet who fancied herself some sort of prophetess who would save the world from war and turned Graves into her adoring puppy. Later in life Graves devoted himself to a series of young women, each of whom he claimed embodied "the goddess" in whose service he thought he dwelled. Seymour (a novelist herself) writes beautifully, and with the cooperation of key members of the Graves family she has produced what will surely be the definitive biography of Graves for years to come.

Record # 372614

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 


  

Rare & Antiquarian Literature

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Collectors will find substantial sets and antiquarian printings, such as Thomas Moore's seventeen-volume The Works of Lord Byron and works in the original language like Georges Simenon's Le Roman de l'Homme. Editions range from later reprints to scarce cloth-bound hardcovers, and each is described down to its edition and binding.

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