fiction poetry

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardover in a worn dust jacket. Illustrated black & white "Hoosier Pictures" by Will Vawter. 188 pages. Previous owner's signature front end-paper. Dust jacket with chunk gone from top edge. Chips to bottom edges. Scarce in dust jacket,

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. Honesdale PA, Boyds Mills Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages, b&w illustrations by Edward Gorey. A reissue of a 1970 edition with a new preface by Paula Danziger.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 71 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jim McMullan, his first book. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Creases, large tears, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1835, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, two volume set. Maroon cloth covers faded, gilt titles on spine bright. Vol. I - engraved frontis portrait with tissue guard, illustrated title page, 563 pages, Vol. II- 587 pages. Text mostly double column. Previous owner's inscription in Vol I otherwise clean. Tanning to prelim pages but text fairly free of foxing. The covers along the spine edge have loss of cloth, but binding is firm and tight. More was an English religious writer and philanthropist, remembered as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist.. She became involved with the London literary elite and a leading Bluestocking member. Her later plays and poetry became more evangelical; she joined a group campaigning against the slave trade. In the 1790s she wrote several Cheap Repository Tracts on moral, religious, and political topics for distribution to the literate poor (as a riposte to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man).. More has received both praise and criticism for her political conservatism and been variously described as an anti-feminist, a 'counter-revolutionary' feminist, or a conservative feminist.

Hardcover. NY, Sheed and Ward, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with faded spine, 480 pages. Richard Kostelanetz's monumental evisceration of the American book world circa 1974--the self-appointed backslapping elites, the perpetual disdain for the unconventional, the laziness in book reviewing and fear of losing one's status when criticising the wrong thing--remains, as a final sadness, itself a rare out of print tome. Kostelanetz has written perhaps the most fearless exploration of literary politics in print, taking on and naming the titans at the top of the heap, dissecting the power structures that emerged in the 1950s and 60s, and the emergence of the plutocratic hierarchies that continue to dominate publishing. Outing the various cliques as mobs, and using apt and amusing mafia parallels, Kostelanetz is unrelenting in his meticulousness, and counteracts the status quo with a passionate defence of the avant-garde, using the second half of the book to bring light to the various emerging authors of experimental poetry, fiction, and mixed media works around the time. At times a touch long-winded and overfed with quotes, this nevertheless is an essential read for those requiring a hard slap as to the inherent evil of the corporate book world and why indie is the only way forward. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages. Translated from Spanish by Toby Talbot. Unclipped dust jacket with small crease on front flap, rubbing. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. A small gem of a novel, THE GODS, THE LITTLE GUYS AND THE POLICE won the Premio Casa de las Americas, the most prestigious literary prize offered for Latin American fiction, when it was originally published in Mexico. In this funny yet mordant satire of political terrorism in Argentina in the mid-1970s, a paramilitary death squad places the members of a poetry circle under surveillance. They include a bank clerk, a businessman and a pretty schoolteacher, as well as a cripple, a blind man and a former police informer, people as innocuous and apolitical as their verse. But having been denounced by a jealous wife of one of their members and betrayed by the informer, they have fallen prey to the violence and repression of Buenos Aires.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 246 pages. Nice copy of this fairly scarce novel, by the writer Nemerov, far more well known for his poetry. This, this third novel, was the basis for the hit Broadway play, "Tall Story", and for the movie of the same name. The movie had Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda as co-stars. Dust jacket faded, chipped at top, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Lanham MD, Lexington Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 143 pages. American nature writing characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But often, too, green-disposed authors have been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental health. John Gatta freshly reveals how this dark yet graced and hopeful strain of environmental literature enlarges upon a jeremiad tradition of prophecy inherited from Puritan New England. Across successive historical periods, such expression has assumed a rich variety of American form--as creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, or film documentary. In the spirit of ancient Hebrew prophecy, jeremiads--unlike diatribes--reach beyond effusions of doom and gloom toward the prospect of change through a conversion of heart. Accordingly, the new climate fiction and much other writing steeped in what Gatta terms this "Green Jeremiad" tradition not only warn of material threats to life's flourishing, but may also look to stir spiritual understanding and renewal. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Allen Lane, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989. Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service, he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of 'political sabotage'. He was arrested in 1989, but went on to study medicine in Liepzig, Dresden and New York, later becoming a surgeon. He has won numerous regional prizes for poetry, as well as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he won the German Book Prize for The Tower. Two lines underlined in Preface, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, C.S. Francis & Co., 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth with the publisher's Little Library motif on the cover, 160 pages, two illustrated title pages, several b&w line drawings throughout, not credited. Title page dated 1850. Inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean with only mild foxing.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Enright is author of seven novels, most recently Actress. She has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and a Lifetime A.hievement Award . An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel's orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a poetical life. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and transcendence, in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather's poetry seems to guide her home. The Wren, the Wren brings to life three generations of McDaragh women who must contend with inheritances-of poetic wonder and of abandonment by a man who is lauded in public and carelessly selfish at home. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Taipei, Bookman Books, Ltd., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 81 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slipcased.

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 253 pages. Black & white drawings by Margery Gill. Foreword by Leonard Clark. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Binding tight. In great shape, clean inside and out.

Softcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 43 pages. A book-length poem, Wampanoag Traveler, is told from the point of view of one Loranzo Newcomb, a fictional eighteenth - century natural historian, gardener, lone wanderer, fabulist, and failed lover. The poem is arranged in fourteen sections that deal variously with such subjects as gardening, the mystical delirium that follows a poisonous snakebite, failed love, hummingbirds and skunks, and the young Newcomb's apprenticeship to a "birdmaster" who bears a close resemblance to Audubon. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 95 pages. Two-tone illustrations by Daugherty. Dust jacket with small tears, rubbing.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 100 pages, b&w drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dark blue cloth with gilt image to front board of three characters after Shepard's drawings and gilt image to back cover of girl peeking through curtain. Also gilt edge rulings, gilt titles to spine & gilt to top leaf edge. Tight binding with only minimal wear to edges. Blank endpapers, front & back, with light tanning and ripples from publisher's glue. Dust jacket has darkening to spine and chipping to corners, larger chip to top of spine. Front and rear panels with Shepard's drawings, two spots of soil to front around type of title. This is the first of the four Pooh books and scarcest with a print run of about 4,000. Second state of the true first with ix on contents page.