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"Golden" Twenties, The: Art and Literature in the Weimar Republicby: Schrader, Barbel and Jurgen Schebera

"Golden" Twenties, The: Art and Literature in the Weimar Republic
by: Schrader, Barbel and Jurgen Schebera

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, paperback. Cultural criticism regarding the Weimar Republic. With many color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Examines intellectual life in the Weimar Republic, looks at paintings, caricatures, dance, architecture, and films, and discusses the Nazi rise to power.

Record # 951709

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10 Years of Trace by Claude Grunitzky by: Grunitzky, Claude

10 Years of Trace by Claude Grunitzky
by: Grunitzky, Claude

Softcover. Booth-Clibborn Editions , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Softcover, pages. A collection of essays, photographs and behind the scenes commentary from TRACE magazine. TRACE is a forward thinking global magazine that always leaves you craving more of what you just read/saw. Many of the early and current TRACE contributors are now some of the biggest more influential creative writers, designers and photographers in the world today. It is great to see all of these amazing artist in one collection and follow how they have evolved over the past ten years. As TRACE has matured so have they. This book is a great snap shot of fashion, music and art from around the world through the eyes of TRACE.

Record # 361849

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A Book of Common Praiseby: Boyers, Robert

A Book of Common Praise
by: Boyers, Robert

Hardcover. Keene NY, Ausable Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 264 pages. Miniature critical essays on contemporary poets and fiction writers. Originally written as introductions to public readings, these essays are unabashedly celebratory, a welcome relief from the usual critical fare. As a critic, Boyers has been praised by such literary giants as Harold Bloom and John Bayley. Authors covered: Joseph Brodsky, Carl Dennis, Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, Howard Nemerov, Robert Pinsky, Saul Bellow, Nicholas Delbanco, Bernard Malamud, Jay McInerney, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Sontag, and many others. Clean copy.

Record # 397629

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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninetyby: Hall, Doald

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

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A Cloak of Light: Writing My Lifeby: Morris, Wright

A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life
by: Morris, Wright

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Previous price sticker on front fly leaf. In this memoir, Morris chronicles the development of his craft, allowing the reader to look inside the man as the creative process takes place. Never forgetting his Midwestern roots, Morris traveled extensively in this country and around the world photographing as he went. This volume is illustrated with many of those photographs and serves as a travelogue that takes us to places like the plains of Nebraska, sultry Mexico, and romantic Venice; Covers slightly bowed. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 397904

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A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910 - 1950 by: Gelpi, Albert

A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910 - 1950
by: Gelpi, Albert

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 482 pages. In this book Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the remarkable generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the First World War and whose works constitute the principal body of poetic Modernism in English. This large historical argument is developed through monographic chapters on the poets which include close readings of their major poems. Clean copy.

Record # 397591

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A Collection of Miscellanies, Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses, and Lettersby: John Norris

A Collection of Miscellanies, Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses, and Letters
by: John Norris

Hardcover. NY, Garland Publishing, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering on spine, 467 pages. Facsimile of the original 1687 edition. From the 'British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th and 18th Century' series, edited by Rene Wellek. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 386833

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A George P. Elliott Reader: Selected Poetry and Proseby: George P. Elliott

A George P. Elliott Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose
by: George P. Elliott

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury College Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 355 pages. Edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini. "Collecting short stories, essays, and the long narrativ poem "Fever and Chills," this Reader reveals the range of Elliott's talents and his seemingly effortless command of the written word. The smooth, realistic style of his short stories enhances the emotional resonance of such pieces as "Hymn of Angels," or contrasts with the caustic satire of others, such as the darkly Orwellian "The N.R.A.C.P." Clean copy.

Record # 383887

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A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages (2 volumes)by: F. J. E. Raby

A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages (2 volumes)
by: F. J. E. Raby

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets, 408 and 388 pages. The secular Latin poetry of the Middle Ages is at once great in bulk and interesting in kind, embracing as it does lyrical, epical, satirical, philosophical, grammatical, and historical verse. The rhetorical tradition of the ancient world can be traced throughout its development, from the fifth to the thirteenth century, when the tradition passes over into the new literary vernaculars. No adequate English survey of this delightful and historically important literature has hitherto been made. These volumes form a sequel to the same author's 'History of Christian-Latin Poetry', and the two works together offer a complete introduction to the whole field of medieval Latin poetry. First published in 1934. Clean copies.

Record # 386604

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A Life with the Printed Word (SIGNED COPY)by: Chamberlain, John

A Life with the Printed Word (SIGNED COPY)
by: Chamberlain, John

Hardcover. Chicago, Regnery Gateway, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, faded dust jacket. 191 pages. John Chamberlain, a veteran newspaperman and reviewer for the New York Times and other prestigious publications, shares the story of his career. INSCRIBED BY CHAMBERLAIN on the front fly leaf. Introduction by William F. Buckley.

Record # 383209

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A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance by: Ascoli, Albert Russell

A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance
by: Ascoli, Albert Russell

Softcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 387 pages. Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, A Local Habitation and a Name examines the unstable dialectic of "reality" and "imagination," as well as of "history" and "literature." Albert Ascoli identifies and interprets the ways in which literary texts are shaped by and serve the purposes of multiple, intertwined historical discourses and circumstances, and he equally probes the function of such texts in constructing, interpreting, critiquing, and effacing the histories in which they are embedded. Throughout, he poses the theoretical and methodological question of how formal analysis and literary forms can at once resist and further the historicist enterprise. Mild damp wrinkle to bottom corner of first 10 pages, otherwise very good, clean.

Record # 386877

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A Packet for Ezra Pound by: Yeats, William Butler

A Packet for Ezra Pound
by: Yeats, William Butler

Hardcover. Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, one of 425 copies, publisher's device vignette by T. Sturge Moore on title page, minor offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally, publisher's cloth-backed blue boards, paper label on spine is chipped, black lettering to upper cover, blue endpapers, spine and extremities slightly toned, else very good. One of 425 copies, printed at the Cuala Press, with the date misprinted as 'MCMXXVIV' on the title page (as noted by Wade). The Cuala Press originally started out as the Dun Emer Press in 1903, founded by Evelyn Gleeson. Influenced by the Gaelic revival occurring in Ireland, it promoted Ireland's cultural heritage, while at the same time training women to work in a useful trade. Eventually the two sisters of W.B. Yeats took over the press, continuing Gleeson's work, and renaming it The Cuala Press in 1908. No dust wrapper, as issued. There is some tanning/foxing to last 8 pages including colophon.

Record # 398057

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A Piece of My Mind; Reflections at Sixty by: Wilson, Edmund

A Piece of My Mind; Reflections at Sixty
by: Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Small chip to bottom of spine. Clean copy.

Record # 381868

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A Poet's Alphabet: Reflection on the Literary Art and Vocation by: Bogan, Louise

A Poet's Alphabet: Reflection on the Literary Art and Vocation
by: Bogan, Louise

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 474 pages. This wonderful collection contains all of Bogan's criticism, most of it written during her many years as poetry critic for The New Yorker magazine. "One does not easily recall another writer of such stature who served her fellow writers, and the reading public, for so long, or with such pertinence and distinction." She lived from 1897-1970. Flap price crossed out with smaller price in ink. Otherwise like new condition.

Record # 387284

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A Practical New Grammar with Exercises of Bad English or an Easy Guide to Speaking and Writing The English Language Properly and Correctlyby: A. Fisher

A Practical New Grammar with Exercises of Bad English or an Easy Guide to Speaking and Writing The English Language Properly and Correctly
by: A. Fisher

Hardcover. London/Gainsbourgh, Osborne and Griffin & H. Mozley, reprint, 1788, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with brown calf spine. 240 pages. Spine shows no title. With a Curious and Useful Appendix. Title page states: A New Edition, Enlarged, Improved, and Corrected. Very nice condition, solid binding with normal edgewear to corners and edges of spine. Names on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 397611

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A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life by: Harrison, Jim

A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
by: Harrison, Jim

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jim Harrison was one of America's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as 'the poet laureate of appetite' (Dallas Morning News). A Really Big Lunch collects many of his food pieces for the first time - and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve. Clean copy.

Record # 380758

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A Republic if You Can keep Itby: Earl Warren

A Republic if You Can keep It
by: Earl Warren

Hardcover. NY, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 201 pages. Stated first edition, 1972, but actually a book club edition with the telltale little indentation at the bottom right of the rear cover, no price on dj flap. Warren served as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969 and is generally considered to be one of the most influential Supreme Court justices and political leaders in the history of the United States. This is a great book on the foundations of our republic and on how to preserve it. Chief Justice Warren explains history and Constitutional law in common terms that are easy to digest. This book stresses the importance of civic engagement, the Bill of Rights, and the need for ethics and respect in a republic. Clean copy.

Record # 397694

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A Season in Hell (SIGNED COPY)by: Arthur Rimbaud; Paul Schmidt (trans.); Robert Mapplethorpe (photogravures)

A Season in Hell (SIGNED COPY)
by: Arthur Rimbaud; Paul Schmidt (trans.); Robert Mapplethorpe (photogravures)

Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions Club, Ltd. Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") handsewn and handbound in full crimson Oasis goatskin leather stamped in black. The original French with the acclaimed English translation by Paul Schmidt on facing pages. Copy #794 of 1000 numbered copies illustrated with 8 hand-pulled dust-grain photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe printed in two colors on handmade paper and SIGNED by the photographer and the translator. "Of the arresting photographs used to illustrate the book, several of the images rank among the photographer's most famous".

Record # 363310

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A Sort of Life by: Greene, Graham

A Sort of Life
by: Greene, Graham

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1971, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author tells of his childhood and early life up until the years after the acceptance of his first novel. This time included growing up in an intellectual Edwardian family, his education at Oxford, his involvement with the Secret Service, and his apprenticeship as a journalist. Clean copy.

Record # 382302

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A STUDY IN THE WARWICKSHIRE DIALECT: with a glossary and notes touching the Edward the Sixth grammar schools and the Elizabethan pronunciation as deduced from the puns in Shakespeare's plays by:

A STUDY IN THE WARWICKSHIRE DIALECT: with a glossary and notes touching the Edward the Sixth grammar schools and the Elizabethan pronunciation as deduced from the puns in Shakespeare's plays
by:

Hardcover. NY, The Shakespeare Press, 4th Ed., 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper-covered boards with cloth spine, 485 pages. Fourth Edition (revised and augmented). Paste-on spine label gone. Ex-lib, residue to endpapers, library spine label. Interior clean and bright.

Record # 382316

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A Tale Of Love And Darkness by: Amos Oz

A Tale Of Love And Darkness
by: Amos Oz

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was twelve and a half years old, his mother committed suicide, a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen and joins a kibbutz, changes his name, marries, has children, and finally becomes a writer as well as an active participant in the political life of Israel. Clean copy.

Record # 385915

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A Thoreau Profileby: Meltzer, Milton And Walter Harding

A Thoreau Profile
by: Meltzer, Milton And Walter Harding

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 310 pages, 250 b&w illustrations. The life of one of America's major literary artists, Henry David Thoreau: , born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts: a schoolmaster, tutor, surveyor, mason, gardener, farmer, house painter, carpenter, day-laborer, abolitionist, pencil-maker. lecturer, naturtalist, writer. Small name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 374997

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A Visit to Three Fronts: Glimpses of the British, Italian and French Linesby: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Visit to Three Fronts: Glimpses of the British, Italian and French Lines
by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran Co., 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Small octavo, tan boards with paper labels on top cover and spine. 93 pages. Doyle's account of visiting the military fronts during World War I. Clean, some scraping to paper covered board on rear otherwise very good.

Record # 373364

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A Year in the Field: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs by: Burroughs, John

A Year in the Field: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
by: Burroughs, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1s, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Light green cloth, lettered and bordered in gilt, top text block edge in gilt. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates by Clifton Johnson. Light shelf wear, bookplate on inside front cover with black marking. Otherwise clean.

Record # 381531

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Abelard (SIGNED COPY)by: Whitman, Cedric

Abelard (SIGNED COPY)
by: Whitman, Cedric

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA , Harvard University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED TO LOUIS UNTEMEYER BY WHITMAN on half-title. Title-page engraving by Michael McCurdy (repeated on dust jacket ). Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 300798

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Acceptance Speech: Nobel Prize for Literature 1962by: Steinbeck, John

Acceptance Speech: Nobel Prize for Literature 1962
by: Steinbeck, John

Softcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 page booklet with light tan wrappers, reddish brown type. The text of the author's speech with a b&w photograph of him. Minor discoloration to top of wrapper, probably due to dampness at some time. Still very good.

Record # 403924

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Additional Volume to the Works of Samual Johnson, LL.Dby: N/A

Additional Volume to the Works of Samual Johnson, LL.D
by: N/A

Hardcover. London, S. Highley, Fleet-Street, 1st, 1792, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, half-leather over marbled boards, 556 pages. A collection of essays, letters, dedications, poems and other pieces purported to be the work of Johnson in the editor's Preface. The anonymous compiler makes the case that the pieces should have been included in the Dr. Johnson's Works lately published. Their authenticity may be questionable in some cases. A penciled note inside the front cover suggests this is Vol. 14 of his works with a new title page and "without Stockdale adds(?)..." Curious edition not found elsewhere. Front cover and first page detached, a solid binding, two bookplates, otherwise clean.

Record # 383185

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Adrift on an Ice-Pan  (SIGNED COPY)by: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Adrift on an Ice-Pan (SIGNED COPY)
by: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 68 pages. Blue covers w/ light edge wear/soil. Previous owner's signature on title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850801

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Adventures in Geniusby: Durant, Will

Adventures in Genius
by: Durant, Will

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with faded gilt title on spine, 426 pages. A collection of profiles on great thinkers and writers through the ages. B&w frontis of Walt Whitman, 9 other b&w portraits. Clean copy.

Record # 397627

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Adventures of Telemachus, The Son of Ulysses, The (4 Volumes)by: De Salignac de la Motte Fenelon, Mr. FR./Mr. Des Maiseaux

Adventures of Telemachus, The Son of Ulysses, The (4 Volumes)
by: De Salignac de la Motte Fenelon, Mr. FR./Mr. Des Maiseaux

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.

Record # 611758

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Adventures With Bernard Shawby: Rider, Dan

Adventures With Bernard Shaw
by: Rider, Dan

London, Morley & Mitchell Kennerley, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 3 black & white plates. 32 pages. Green cloth covers.

Record # 65738

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Advertisements for Myselfby: Norman Mailer

Advertisements for Myself
by: Norman Mailer

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor wear. 532 pages. An essential guide to the life and work of one of America's most controversial writers, Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of Mailer's key beliefs contains pieces on his war experiences in the Philippines (the basis for his famous first novel The Naked and the Dead), tributes to fellow novelists William Styron, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal and magnificent polemics against pornography, advertising, drugs and politics.

Record # 387012

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Aesthetic Experience and Its Presuppositionsby: Nahm, Milton C.

Aesthetic Experience and Its Presuppositions
by: Nahm, Milton C.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket that is taped to covers, 554 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 380153

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African Silences (SIGNED COPY)by: Matthiessen, Peter

African Silences (SIGNED COPY)
by: Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 225 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and spotting on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456235

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After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars by: Aldridge, John W.

After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars
by: Aldridge, John W.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine, 263 pages. Discusses the works of postwar writers of the Forties, such as Norman Mailer, John Horne Burns, Truman Capote, Paul Bowles, Alfred Hayes and others; along with three writers of the Twenties: Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Clean copy.

Record # 381513

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After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars by: Aldridge, John W.

After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars
by: Aldridge, John W.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine, 263 pages. Pencil underlining to first 20 pages, otherwise clean. Discusses the works of postwar writers of the Forties, such as Norman Mailer, John Horne Burns, Truman Capote, Paul Bowles, Alfred Hayes and others; along with three writers of the Twenties: Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Record # 374523

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Afternoon of an Author - A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essaysby: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Afternoon of an Author - A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essays
by: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, Reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 226 pages. Cover cloth slightly faded with rubbing at corners. Dust jacket worn with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607797

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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Lifeby: Laura Thompson

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

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AIDS and Its Metaphorsby: Susan Sontag

AIDS and Its Metaphors
by: Susan Sontag

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 95 pages. Sontag's classic essay about the sociology of AIDS, published as an extension of her thoughts about the stigma of illness originally expounded in her book Illness as Metaphor. Clean copy.

Record # 387551

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Ake: The Years of Childhoodby: Soyinka, Wole

Ake: The Years of Childhood
by: Soyinka, Wole

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. An autobiography covering the first eleven years of the famed Nigerian poet and dramatist.

Record # 412127

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Aldous Huxley: A Biography (SIGNED COPY)by: Bedford, Sybille

Aldous Huxley: A Biography (SIGNED COPY)
by: Bedford, Sybille

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, first American edition. SIGNED BY BEDFORD on the half-title page. 769 pages plus index, b&w illustrations. Light damp-wrinkling to pages in last third of book. Lacks dust jacket.

Record # 383350

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby: Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by: Carroll, Lewis

Hardcover. New York, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Deckled fore-edge. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Blue cloth bound cover boards, two-color illustration on front cover board, a good deal of paint has chipped off (see image), white title on spine, slightly faded. Some soil/wear to covers. A bump to front right bottom corner of cover board (see image). In beautiful condition inside, no pages missing, page 84 is partially disconnected. Illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutman) quite vivid.

Record # 370901

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Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry Politics Consciousness by: Allen Ginsberg; Gordon Ball (edited by)

Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry Politics Consciousness
by: Allen Ginsberg; Gordon Ball (edited by)

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 269 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 398071

Price: $18.00 
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Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Meby: Calhoun, Ada

Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
by: Calhoun, Ada

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 259 pages. When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. Also a Poet explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us; when we seek their approval, yet mistrust it.

Record # 382733

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Amazing Adventures of Gargantua & His Son Pantagruel, The - Edited for Boysby: Rabelais, Francis

Amazing Adventures of Gargantua & His Son Pantagruel, The - Edited for Boys
by: Rabelais, Francis

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers decorated in gilt, 251 pages. Edited by Tiffany Thayer. Black & white drawings by Robert Ball. Excellent condition.

Record # 59005

Price: $12.00 
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Ambiguous Angels: Gender in the Novels of Galdosby: Jagoe, Catherine

Ambiguous Angels: Gender in the Novels of Galdos
by: Jagoe, Catherine

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 236 pages. The contradictory nature of the work of Benito Perez Galdos, Spain's greatest modern novelist, is brought to the fore in Catherine Jagoe's innovative and rigorous study. Revising commonly held views of his feminism, she explores the relation of Galdos's novels to the "woman question" in Spain, arguing that after 1892 the muted feminist discourse of his early work largely disappears. While his later novels have been interpreted as celebrations of the emancipated new woman, Jagoe contends that they actually reinforce the conservative, bourgeois model of frugal, virtuous womanhood-the angel of the house.

Record # 387227

Price: $18.00 
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American Magazine, The: A Compact Historyby: Tebbel, John

American Magazine, The: A Compact History
by: Tebbel, John

Hardcover. NY, Hawthorn Books, 3rd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 372841

Price: $12.00 
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American Originality: Essays on Poetryby: Gluck, Louise

American Originality: Essays on Poetry
by: Gluck, Louise

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A luminous collection of essays from Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets. Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gluck is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Gluck's second book of essays-her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Gluck's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. Clean copy.

Record # 397607

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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amielby: Ward, Mrs. Humphrey (translator)

Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel
by: Ward, Mrs. Humphrey (translator)

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1891 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 318 pages, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, handwritten poem on front end paper. Foxing, soiling to end papers and first few pages. Else pages clean and crisp. Mrs. Ward has inserted many new passages taken from the last French edition. Amiel was a Swiss poet & philosopher, professor of aesthetics and moral philosophy at Geneva Academy, author of this introspective diary.

Record # 387625

Price: $18.00 
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Among My Books: Second Series by: Lowell, James Russell

Among My Books: Second Series
by: Lowell, James Russell

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth on boards with bright gilt titling and gilt publisher's device to spine. Beveled edges and blind stamped border ruling, the book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings inside and out. A collection of prose pieces on Dante, Spenser, Wordsworth, Milton and Keats. Clean copy.

Record # 398051

Price: $25.00 
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