Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 338 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light sun-fade and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 338 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. A novel about the author Henry James that attracted praise from reviewers nationwide. It's a bold writer indeed who dares to put himself inside the mind of novelist Henry James, but that is what Toibin, highly talented Irish author of The Heather Blazing and The Blackwater Lightship, has ventured here, with a remarkable degree of success. The book is a fictionalized study, based on many biographical materials and family accounts, of the novelist's interior life from the moment in London in 1895 when James's hope to succeed in the theater rather than on the printed page was eclipsed by the towering success of his younger contemporary Oscar Wilde. Thereafter the book ranges seamlessly back and forth over James's life, from his memories of his prominent Brahmin family in the States-including the suicide of his father and the tragic early death of his troubled sister Alice-to his settling in England, in a cherished house of his own choosing in Rye. Along the way it offers hints, no more, of James's troubled sexual identity, including his fascination with a young English manservant, his (apparently platonic) night in bed with Oliver Wendell Holmes and his curious obsession with a dashing Scandinavian sculptor of little talent but huge charisma. Another recurrent motif is James's absorption in the lives of spirited, highly intelligent but unhappy young women who die prematurely, which helped to inform some of his strongest fiction. The subtlety and empathy with which Toibin inhabits James's psyche and captures the fleeting emotional nuances of his world are beyond praise, and even the echoes of the master's style ring true.
New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st illust. thus., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with a pictorial label on front cover.403 pages with color illustrations and numerous pen & ink vignettes by John Rae. Internally and externally very good. Masterman Ready, (1841), was one of the first historical adventures written for young readers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY CUSHMAN on title page. Dust jacket illust. by Trina Schart Hyman. Dust jacket spine faded, otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st US, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Translated from the French by Virginia Vaughan. Ex-lib with markings, reside to front endpapers. Mild dampstain to bottom of last 100 pages. An attractive reading copy despite faults. Mauprat is a novel by the French novelist George Sand about love and education. It was published in serial form in April and May 1837. Like many of Sand's novels, Mauprat borrows from various fictional genres- the Gothic novel, chivalric romance, the Bildungsroman, detective fiction, and the historical novel.
NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 443 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HORGAN on the front fly leaf and dated 1972. Horgan's attempt to remind readers of a great 20th century English writer who lost visibility after his death in 1945. Bibliography of Baring's books.
Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker). A brutally moving work of art--widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written--Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.
Hardcover. New York , Baker & Taylor, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Black & white illustrations by Fletcher Ransom. Light wear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kalman. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Laszlo Acs. In a bright unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago IL, A. C. McClurg & Co, unknown , 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white plate illustrations by Troy and Margaret Kinney. 219 pages. Green cover with white lettering and illustration. "14" written in white pen on spine. Spine slightly cocked. Edgewear, corners bumped. Soiling and rubbing . Previous owner's signature front end paper.
Hardcover. NY, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Covers with light wear. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Black & white illustrations, color label art by Alice Barber Stephens.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , reprint , 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Translated by Elisabeth P. Stock. Color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Cover shows age and some wear. Hardbound, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, BC Ed., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in full color and two-colors by Kurt Werth. Weekly Reader Book Club Ed. Clean, bright copy. When a tornado strips his precious topsoil and leaves behind a menagerie of extraordinary animals, Josh McBroom opens a zoo to raise the money to replace his topsoil.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Robert Weaver. Edgewear. Dust jacket with light soiling.
Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, ARC, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers. An Advanced Reading Copy. B&w illustrations byJon Agee. A National Book Award Finalist. The overweight Hubble family and a pair of newlywed woodchucks have something in common; they are all being terrorized by a tyrannical toddler named Margaret. How it all turns out is the subject of this funny children's novel with witty b&w drawings. Clean.
Hardcover. London, UK, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy. This story collection contains: First Love; The Butcher's Daughter; The Whore Mother; The Garden of Eden; Northern Summers; The Dead; The Enemy; The Man Who Dreamt of Lobsters; and The Meat Eaters.
Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap , Rep., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in orange, 304 pages plus publisher's ads. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Nice copy.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED & DATED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Winner of the Maxwell Perkins Prize. "Meditations in Green is a brilliantly conceived, compellingly told tale of the Vietnam war and its aftermath, a chronicle of the corruption and decay of Spec. 4 James Griffin under the pressures of an unreal war." Clean, bright copy.
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