Hardcover. NY, A. S. Barnes & Co., reprint, 1854, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt decoration to cover, 437 pages, frontis. engraving of author. The first part contains two manuscripts that were sermons or addresses that the Rev. Walter Colton use when preaching in behalf of seamen. The author writes about: The Ocean in its Grandeur and Sublimity; The Sailor's Chivalric Devotion to Woman; Humanity of the Sailor; Navy Chaplains; Genoa and the Genoese; City of Pisa; We are Robbed of our Cigars; etc. The second part contains his writings about travel to France and Italy. Also includes his poetry, editorials, aphorisms, etc. Includes a memoir of the Rev. Walter Colton by Rev. Cheever. Light chip, wear to spine. Circulating library sticker on inside front cover otherwise clean. Covers with minor edgewear. Title page states 1854, copyright page is 1851.
Softcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st thus, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four-volume paperback box set represents Beckett's major works in prose, drama, poetry, and criticism edited by Paul Auster. The cardboard slipcase is Fine. 2047 pages. 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 " tall. Includes "Waiting for Godot," "Endgame," and "Happy Days." Samuel Beckett was one of the most important and influential figures of twentieth-century literature. His radically minimalist language, black humor, and surreal situations unleashed a brilliant vision uniquely Beckett's own and, in the process, forever changed literature. Still in publisher's shrink wrap. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Moffat, Yard and Company , 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 56 pages, illustrated endpapers. Beige linen cloth over boards. Previous owner gift inscription on verso of frontispiece. No bumping or soiling. Bright gold foil titling, and double circle with illustration pasted on front cover. images by Jessie Willcox Smith on each page plus a color frontispiece and six color plates all by Smith.
Softcover. Madison MN, Seventies Press Spring , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 95 pages. Poems translated mostly by Bly (in two cases with James Wright) of Federico Garcia Lorca, Cesar Vallejo, Blas de Otero, Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly, Tomas Transtromer, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, John Wieners, Jerome Rothenberg, Philip Lamantia, et al. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, repriny, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 290 pages. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the Yoruba trickster figure of Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey whose myths help articulate the black tradition's theory of its literature, Gates uncovers a unique system for interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. His critical approach relies heavily on the Signifying Monkey--perhaps the most popular figure in African-American folklore--and signification and Signifyin(g). Exploring signification in black American life and literature by analyzing the transmission and revision of various signifying figures, Gates provides an extended analysis of what he calls the "Talking Book," a central trope in early slave narratives that virtually defines the tradition of black American letters. Gates uses this critical framework to examine several major works of African-American literature--including Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo--revealing how these works signify on the black tradition and on each other. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 430 pages illustrated in b&w and color by Yee. "Customs and rituals, dress and language, poetry and drama, painting and sculpture, kites and carp, trees and flowers, everything is revealed to us in Mr. Yee's inimitable text and delightful drawings. Familiar centers and out-of-the-way corners of Japan all come under the Silent Traveller's scrutiny -- Tokyo's Ginza, a Shinto dance at Ise, Kyoto's Phoenix Hall, cormorant-fishing in Gifu, Mt. Fuji, an Ainu village, the five hundred arhats, the beardless hippies of Tokyo, the perennial towel-bearing bathers at a resort hotel, the phenomenon of the marimos, red-crested cranes -- and much more. Clean copy.
Hardcover. UK, Carcanet Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 41 pages. SIGNED BY LEARY on the title page. Also inscribed by author on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Cady & Burgess, 2nd Ed., 1852, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, small format, dark blue cloth with gilt design, lettering on the spine. 126 pages. This collection brings together the best-known songs and ballads of G.P. Morris, one of the most popular American writers of the 19th century. First edition with "First Complete Edition" stated on title page. Includes 68 "Melodies" (including "woodman, Spare That Tree") and 10 "Songs and Duets, from the Opera of The Maid of Saxony". scattered foxing to the text, endpaper paste-downs worn, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages. Includes essays on William Everson, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth, Michael McClure, Nathaniel Tarn, Thom Gunn and more. Notes, bibliography. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, unclipped, 334 pages. Poet/critic's posthumously published third volume of essays, here mostly writer's he loved, including: Stead, Frost, Stevens, Kipling, Auden, Graves and Chekov and other Russians. Name on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 191 pages, 74 pages illustrated in color by Chobunsai Eishi. Exquisite illustrations in color throughout connecting beautifully with the text which includes one poem in English and Japanese by each poet. Historical background for each poet. Mild sunning to bottom edge of dust jacket. 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.
Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages illustrated in color. J.M.W. Turner was a fascinating and enigmatic figure. Both astonishingly prolific and extraordinarily innovative, he is widely seen as the greatest British landscape painter of them all, anticipating and surpassing the Impressionists in his dramatic interpretations of the effects of light and color. "The Turner Book" goes beyond the usual interpretations of the artist, revealing the extraordinary self-belief and ambition that allowed him to continue steadfastly with his experimentation in the face of hostile critical attack. The book examines in detail key works and the techniques by which Turner realized them and features revealing extracts from his notebooks, travel journals and poetry. Beautifully illustrated with both famous and unknown works and ranging over the entire course of the artist's career, this is the essential guide to Turner's life and work. Clean copy.
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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue publisher's cloth with titles and harp logo in gilt to front and spine, top edge gilt, on laid paper, 112 pages. The Philadelphia-born poet Florence Van Leer Earle Coates (1850-1927) came from a family of abolitionists and philanthropists. This mid-career volume was published in the same period she was regularly contributing to titles such as Atlantic Monthly, The Century Magazine and The Lippincott Magazine. Her family entertained various Roosevelt relatives at their Adirondak summer house. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Hartford, Joel Barlow, 1st, 1787, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Red leather covers with gilt lines along cover edges, and decorations on spine. Covers with light rubbing to edges and at corners. Title on spine in gilt on black. Marbled endpapers. Previous owners name on preliminary page and at top of title page. Includes Dedication to The King of France, and Introduction. All edges gilt.
Softcover. Madison WI, Coda Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Square softcover. Two titles bound in one volume, texts in English and French. The Voice in the Closet by Raymond Federman has text in English. Bound upside down at other end of book is La Voix Dans le Cabinet de Debarras by Federman, now in French, plus Echoes by Maurice Roche, also in French. English cover is white; French cover is black. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 51 pages, illustrated with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Bly's commentary sheds important new light on the intellectual and spiritual development of a major American literary figure. Mild fade to dj spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with closed tears to rear panel. 147 pages. INSCRIBED BY INGALLS on the front fly leaf. Owner's small stamp on same page.
Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 712 pages. John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-80), was a leading member of the group of "court wits" surrounding Charles II and one of the wittiest and most sexually explicit poets in English. In this long-awaited edition, Harold Love, a leading scholar of seventeenth-century manuscript circulation, presents a scholarly text based on detailed examination of Wilmot's manuscripts, with full textual and explanatory notes. This is a reprint of the 1999 first printing. Light notations to about 30 pages, otherwise bright, tight copy.
Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, This is the first volume in the four-volume edition of The Works of Lucy Hutchinson, the first-ever collected edition of the writings of the pioneering author and translator. Hutchinson (1620-81) had a remarkable range of her interests, from Latin poetry to Civil War politics and theology. In two parts, two volumes: 797 total pages. This edition of her translation of Lucretius's De rerum natura offers new biographical material, demonstrating the changes and unexpected continuities in Hutchinson's life between the work's composition in the 1650s and its dedication in 1675. Hers is the first complete surviving English translation of one of the great classical epics, a challenging text at the borderlines of poetry and philosophy. For the first time, the Lucretius translation is made available alongside the Latin text Hutchinson used, which differs in innumerable ways from versions known today. The commentary, the fullest in any edition of a literary translation, provides multiple ways into further understanding of the translation and its contexts. Written at a momentous period in political and literary history, Hutchinson's Lucretius throws light on the complex transition between 'ancient' and 'modern' conceptions of the classical canon and of natural philosophy. It offers a case study in the history of reading, and more specifically of reading by a woman. Name on front fly leaves, pencil notations to front fly leaf, a dozen pages in Part 1. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 299 pages. The author investigate the trauma behind poets Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, and Delmore Schwartz. They formed one of the great constellations of talent in American literature. In the decades after World War II, they changed American poetry forever by putting themselves at risk in their poems in a new and provocative way. Their daring work helped to inspire the popular style of poetry now known as 'confessional.' But partly as a result of their openness, they have become better known for their tumultuous lives-afflicted by mental illness, alcoholism, and suicide-than for their work. This book reclaims their achievement by offering critical 'biographies of the poetry'-tracing the development of each poet's work, exploring their major themes and techniques, and examining how they transformed life into art. Clean copy.
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.
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