Rare & Out-of-Print Literature Books - pg. 17 including Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! Collected Essays 1934-1998by: Arthur C. Clarke

Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 558 pages. Edited by Ian T. Macauley. An anthology of futuristic nonfiction essays by the best-selling author of 2001: A Space Odyssey spans more than sixty years of work in a collection, organized chronologically, that includes his prophetic predictions about geosynchronous satellites, space travel, and the Internet. Light sunning to spine, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, 763 pages. Ex-lib with minimal markings. Arranged and edited by her husband. Frontis portrait, b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 333 pages. Reporting Always collects a wide range of Lillian Ross's New Yorker articles and "Talk of the Town" pieces spanning sixty years, bringing readers into Robin Williams's living room; Harry Winston's office; the afterschool hangouts of Manhattan private-school children; the hotel rooms of Ernest Hemingway, John Huston, and Charlie Chaplin; onto the tennis court with John McEnroe; and into the lives of many other famous and not-so-famous characters. Ross's portraits are filled with rich details that reveal her subjects in amusing and perceptive ways. Remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise clean.

Softcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st pbk, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 261 pages. This edition contains diaries of 1948 and 1949. Country houses, some grand and some by no means as grand as their owners think they are, form the backdrop to an endlessly entertaining procession of people, even more varied than the houses. A clean copy of the fourth volume of JLM's diaries.

Softcover. London, Faber & Faber, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages. This work is a sequel to the author's wartime diaries - "Ancestral voices" and "Prophesying peace", and takes the story on into 1946-47 around England on behalf of the National Trust. James Lees-Milne is known as much for his work shaping the National Trust's collection of significant English country houses as for his diaries detailing upper and upper-middle class life in the mid-twentieth century. For a pupil who showed little promise he defied scholarly estimation to publish some 34 books. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Faber & Faber, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 253 pages. The second volume of James Lees-Milne's provocative and highly-acclaimed diaries spanning the years 1944-1945. Gives a picture of the author's work in the country and in London, where he lived during the height of the bombing, and also of the convivialities of leisure. Like Ancestral Voices, it offers sparkling entertainment as well as shrewd insights into the social and cultural life of the period.Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 171 pages. The author relates her experiences growing up in the Derbyshire countryside of central England during the late nineteenth century. Her `country' books, beginning with The Country Child and continuing with series of essays on country themes, such as Country Hoard were extremely popular, due to her uncanny ability to remember the smallest details of her Derbyshire childhood and express them with beautiful poeticism. This volume collects a number of her best essays. B&w illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Previous owner's notation on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge/UK, Harvard/Heinemann, reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 409 pages. In Greek and English. The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament times. Volume 1 only. Loeb Classical Library. Edgewear to rear cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, William Heinemann/GP Putnam's, reprint, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt stamping, 438 pages. Top edge gilt. Latin text with the English translation on the facing pages. Volume 4 only. The translations by Paul Nixon capture the wit, humor, and bawdiness of the original Latin, while remaining faithful to the spirit and structure of the plays. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, William Heinemann/GP Putnam's, reprint, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt stamping, 578 pages including index. Top edge gilt. Latin text with the English translation on the facing pages. Philosophical dialogues of a grieving statesman. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Tusculan Disputations is a series of five books written by Cicero, around 45 BC,[1] attempting to popularize Greek philosophy in ancient Rome, including Stoicism.[2] It is so called as it was reportedly written at his villa in Tusculum. His daughter had recently died and in mourning Cicero devoted himself to philosophical studies. The Tusculan Disputations consist of five books, each on a particular theme: On the contempt of death; On pain; On grief; On emotional disturbances; and whether Virtue alone is sufficient for a happy life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 204 pages. A collection of offbeat essays covering subjects like Santa Claus, Frankenstein's monster, Lot's wife, Albert Schweitzer and Herman Melville. Introduction by Buckminster Fuller. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 318 pages. Included here are everyday dishes of every meal from the simplest to the most esoteric: tidbits, appetizers, breads, pastries, fish and fowl, meats, soups, vegetables, desserts and a chapter on the casserole. Dust jacket with light stain to front cover, large chip at base of spine. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. UK, Liverpool University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 328 pages. Focusing on a wide range of poetry written between 1941 and 1945, this work explores Soviet poets' response to World War II. It also traces the influence of Stalinist culture, and departures from literary norms. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 344 pages. "Agricola" is Tacitus's biography of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, a Roman general who was governor of the province of Britain from 77 to 85 AD. This text is thus a key source of information on the Roman conquest and occupation of Britain in the first century AD. In the "Agricola", Tacitus is also keen to describe and commend the policies that Roman governors like Agricola employed to break the resistance of the ancient Britons and subjugate them to the Empire, but at the same time Tacitus presents the reader with a number of biting critiques of Rome's approach to imperial conquest. Some pencil notes in margins of about 20 pages. Name on front fly leaf.

Softcover. London, The Hogarth Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover pamphlet, pink covers faded slightly at spine edge, 44 pages. Day to Day Pamphlet No. 29 with 1500 copies printed. Previous owner's name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 204 pages. Analyzes the nature and power of poetry and the different responses of Yeats, Dickinson, Keats, and Rimbaud to the world. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 266 pages. Stanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper. He was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, the same childhood influences, and had the same literary instinct, but in Stanislaus it was channeled into sober academic pursuit, while in James it evolved into gaiety, wild whimsy, and at times sodden despair. Covering the first twenty-two years of James Joyce's life in Dublin and Trieste, My Brother's Keeper is a window onto the drama that was his youth. Thanks to Stanislaus's superb memory and sure hand, here we find the Dublin of the streets, neighbors, churches, and unforgettable eccentrics.

Hardcover. Le Trou du Lezard, Ltd. Ed., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover green cloth cover, oatmeal colored spine with a 3-color label. #8 of an unknown quantity printed, SIGNED BY MCARTHUR on the colophon page. Handmade endpapers, ribbon marker. A lovely production.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 679 pages. Gathered for the first time in a single volume and completing the definitive Library of America edition of his works, here is the essential prose of our "poet laureate of deep ecology": philosophical essays, travel journals, poetic notebooks, reflections on Buddhism, environmental polemics, memoirs, speeches, interviews, letters, and other writings spanning the entire arc of Snyder's lauded, seventy-year career. All of Snyder's published prose collections are represented, omitting only items he feels are repetitious or merely occasional, followed by a selection of from his private journals. Remainder dot to botom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth, 269 pages, frontis of author. First Printing; "Published September 1903" and 1903 date On title page. In this volume Mr. Chesterton presents nearly twenty of the ingenious and brilliant papers which delighted and puzzled the readers of the London Daily News and Speaker. The profiles are all biographical, ranging from Alfred the Great to Bret Harte. Chesterton delves into a range of subjects, including notable authors such as Charlotte Bronte, William Morris, and Byron, providing insightful commentary on their contributions to literature and thought. The opening of "Varied Types" sets the stage by discussing the complexities of biography, particularly focusing on Charlotte Bronte. Chesterton argues that external details about a person's life often overshadow the profound truths expressed in their work. Covers shelfworn, Private library bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1835, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound, gilt lettering on spine, 262 pages. VOL. 2 ONLY. The first original work by Washington Irving (after a collaboration with Howard Payne). A whimsical collection of essays poking fun at the tastes, activities, and political trends of New York, and reflecting the aristocratic, Federalist sympathies of the authors. The "Whim-Whams and Opinions" include contributions by Irving, James Kirke Paulding, and Irving's younger brother William Irving Jr. During his lifetime, Irving refused to permit Salmagundi to be reprinted in his collected works. Originally printed in 20 periodical pamphlets (1807-1808). Clean copy of the second volume. Top of spine chipped.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 261 pages. The day after his mother's death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society's dismissal of grief. These 330 cards, published here for the first time, prove a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his work. Behind the unflagging mind, "the most consistently intelligent, important, and useful literary critic to have emerged anywhere" (Susan Sontag), lay a deeply sensitive man who cherished his mother with a devotion unknown even to his closest friends. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London , Macmillan, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 268 pages, illustrated with facsimile drawings and 8 collotype plates. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Blue cloth spine faded.

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 188 pages. SIGNED BY OFFUTT on title-page.

Hardcover. London , B. Blake, 1st Thus, 1837, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 848 pages. Hardcover. Marbled edges and endpapers. Raised bands on spine. Clipping of a silhouette of Edward Gibbon pasted on to front end paper. Previous owners notes in pencil on front endpapers. Wear to covers, especially corners. Rubbing. Chipping at spine. Clean, unmarked text.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, John Grant, Revised/Reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 301 pages. Cloth boards. Previous owners bookplate on front inside cover. No dust jacket.

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

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages. Cloth boards in a bright dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M. Coetzee and Arundhati Roy. In a central section, 'Messages from the Plague Years', Rushdie focuses on the fight against the Iranian fatwa, presenting texts both personal and political, which show for the first time how it was to live through those days. Rushdie's columns for the New York Times confront current issues - Kashmir, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Islam and the West - as well as lighter topics such as reality TV, sport and sleaze. The book ends with the lectures that give it its title - Rushdie's exploration of the theme of frontiers: crossing them, breaking taboos, and - in the light of September 11 - the world of permeable frontiers in which we all live.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 178 pages. Dust jacket slightly worn and with short tears. Some foxing on endpages, top edge stained red.

Softcover. Mancheser, U.K., Manchester University, Reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 221 pages. Foreword by George Melly. Highlighting on two pages. B&W photos and illustrations. Street Noises combines the diverse materials of mass culture with literary and archival sources, to produce an innovative and critical re-reading of twentieth-century Paris as the city of the people and of cultural modernity. It concentrates on popular song and opera, cultural theory and records of police surveillance (such as the unpublished archives concerning the sexual mores of sailors in Toulon), sensational weekly magazines (including the weekly Detective Magazine with its remarkable photomontage) and writers of the Academie Goncourt. The author picks out their common realisation of the experience of the city, also showing how the faits divers and the entertainment industries frame the writing of a Benjamin, a Colette or a Genet. Rifkin reworks modern critical theory through these sources, reflecting on its relation to the production of mass cultures.

Hardcover. New York, Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages. Remainder-mark to bottom edge. Very nice in brodart cover.

Hardcover. London, UK, Frederick Warne , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red leatherette, silver lettering to spine, top edge with red cosmetic stain. Pictorial, price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, light scratching to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages. Top edge stained red. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 217 pages. Previous owners inscription at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, Reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 350 pages. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hogarth Press, Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket. 206 pages. Ex-library copy with minimal marking. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st US, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 200 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. This copy previously owned by author Roger Shattuck and includes his underlining and editing of text in various colors of ink. Upper right corner of front cover bumped. Foxing to endpapers and edges. Dust jacket quite worn.

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.

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.

Hardcover. London, The Grolier Society, 1st Thus, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover Volumes. Edition de Luxe - Limited to One Thousand Copies for England and America - this being No. 746. Gray cloth covers. Top edges gilt. Fading to spine labels. Full color and black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copies.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Features: Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Norman Mailer, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Cocteau, Harold Pinter, and more. Price clipped dust jacket with short closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

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

Hardcover. Berkeley, California University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 164 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Brussels, B. Le Francq, 1st Thus, 1798, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 volumes. Leather bound hardcovers. Text in ENGLISH & FRENCH Books measure: 3.75"W by 5.75"L. Volume 1 - Front cover loose from book. Crack in leather length of spine - text block still firm. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. 2 black & white illustrations. Moderate rubbing to leather covers. Volume 2 - Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Half of front endpaper removed. 2 black & white illustrations. Moderate rubbing to leather covers. Volume 3 - Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. 1 black & white illustration. Moderate rubbing to leather covers. Volume 4 - Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. 1 black & white illustration. Moderate rubbing to leather covers.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 638 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor rubbing to surface of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.