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A Gentleman of Broadwayby: Hoyt, Edwin P. - Product Image

A Gentleman of Broadway
by: Hoyt, Edwin P.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co,, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Excellent biography of the famed journalist, playwright, humorist, and legend, Damon Runyon. Publisher's review slip laid-in. Clean copy.

Record # 381808

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A Sort of Life by: Greene, Graham - Product Image

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 Thoreau Profileby: Meltzer, Milton And Walter Harding - Product Image

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 World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45by: Astrid Lindgren - Product Image

A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45
by: Astrid Lindgren

Hardcover. London, Pushkin Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Before she became internationally known for her children's books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of the Second World War. These diaries, until recently stored in a wicker laundry basket in her Dalagatan home, offer a civilian, a mother, and an aspiring writer's unique account of a world devastated by conflict. In these diaries Lindgren emerges as a morally courageous critic of violence and war, as well as a deeply sensitive and astute observer of world affairs. She provides insights into the Soviet invasion of Finland and the ambiguities of Swedish neutrality, and asks questions about the nature of evil, and our capacity, as individuals, to stand against such malevolent forces. Alongside political events, Lindgren includes delightful vignettes of domestic life: shortages of butter, blackouts, dinner menus and children's birthdays, and moving descriptions of her marriage. And these diaries also reveal her emergence as a writer: the bedtime stories she invented for her daughter during this terrible period eventually became Pippi Longstocking, one of the most famous and beloved children's books of the twentieth century. Clean copy.

Record # 378809

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Adrift on an Ice-Pan  (SIGNED COPY)by: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason - Product Image Click for larger image

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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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Lifeby: Laura Thompson  - Product Image

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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Ake: The Years of Childhoodby: Soyinka, Wole - Product Image

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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And Did You Once See Sidney Plain?: A Random Memoir of SJ. Perelman by: Wilk, Max (Al Hirschfeld, illus) - Product Image

And Did You Once See Sidney Plain?: A Random Memoir of SJ. Perelman
by: Wilk, Max (Al Hirschfeld, illus)

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Al Hirschfeld. Clean copy.

Record # 381814

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Anthony Trollopeby: Glendinning, Victoria - Product Image

Anthony Trollope
by: Glendinning, Victoria

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 551 pages, illustrated, notes and sources, Anthony Trollope's works, index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 381865

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Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman (SIGNED COPY)by: O'Faolain, Nuala - Product Image Click for larger image

Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman (SIGNED COPY)
by: O'Faolain, Nuala

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt , 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 1/4 black cloth, 3/4 green paper. Gilt lettering on spine. Color pictorial dj with photograph of author.

Record # 803797

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Autobiography of Du Pont de Nemours, Theby: Du Pont, Pierre Samuel, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (Translator and Introduction) - Product Image

Autobiography of Du Pont de Nemours, The
by: Du Pont, Pierre Samuel, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (Translator and Introduction)

Hardcover. Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources Inc., 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Cover boards bound in blue, gilt title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket has a touch of agewear, A little foxing on top edge. Clean inside, binding tight, in great shape.

Record # 31153

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Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Craneby: Davis, Linda H. - Product Image
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Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane
by: Davis, Linda H.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 414 pages, b&w illustrations. Very good, clean, in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever experienced war first-hand. So true was his portrait of a young man who runs from his first confrontation with battle that Civil War veterans argued about whose regiment Crane had been in. Considered by H.G. Wells as "beyond dispute, the best writer of our generation," Crane was also famous in his time as an unforgettable personality, an Adonis with tawny hair and gray-blue eyes that Willa Cather described as "full of luster and changing lights." A lover of women and truth at any cost, Crane, in his short life, paid dearly for both. He alienated the New York police when he testified against a policeman on behalf of a prostitute falsely accused of soliciting, forcing him to live the rest of his short life as an expatriate in England. Reporting on the Spanish American War, Crane described the Rough Riders blundering into a trap after arriving in Cuba, infuriating Roosevelt. He died tragically young, leaving behind a handful of fine short stories, including The Open Boat and The Blue Hotel, along with war reporting, novels, and poetry.

Record # 359620

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Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addictby: Hilton, Frank - Product Image

Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict
by: Hilton, Frank

Hardcover. London, Peter Owen , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. An acclaimed and most unusual biography of Baudelaire, showing him ensnared by his passions for poetry, prostitutes, and drugs. A crucial link between romanticism and modernism, Charles Baudelaire is a pivotal figure in European literature and thought. His influence on modern poetry is immense. In the English language, where his literary reputation is less well known, it is his link with drug culture that gives him contemporary resonance. It is commonly known that Baudelaire used opium. Many writers have described him as being addicted to the drug, but none of his biographers, Frank Hilton argues, has fully understood the effect of opiate addiction on the personality and, in the case of Baudelaire, the extent to which it damaged his life and work. In this original contribution to Baudelaire studies Hilton contends that the drug is at the root of all Baudelaire's problems and in particular--something that constantly tormented him--his chronic inability to apply himself to any prolonged creative work. Unquestionably, there is significantly more to Baudelaire than his opium addiction. But a proper awareness of what it did to the poet helps to illuminate those puzzling aspects of his life and behavior that were not previously understood. Written with the general reader in mind, Baudelaire in Chains will give those who know little or nothing about him a comprehensive picture of his life. To those who know a great deal it will present him in an unexpected light.

Record # 372405

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Because I Was Fleshby: Dahlberg, Edward - Product Image

Because I Was Flesh
by: Dahlberg, Edward

Hardcover. Norfolk, Ct, New Directions, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 234 pages. Light foxing to end papers, top edge and dust jacket. Light sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856835

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BERNARD SHAW: THE DIARIES 1885-1897 VOLUME II by: Shaw Bernard; edited and Annotated by Stanley Weintraub - Product Image

BERNARD SHAW: THE DIARIES 1885-1897 VOLUME II
by: Shaw Bernard; edited and Annotated by Stanley Weintraub

University Park PA, Pennsylvania State University Press , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Weintraub's compilation of Shaw's diaries reveal the day to day life of one of Britain's most famous playwrights. 558 pages. Vol. 1 only of a two volume set. Clean.

Record # 381859

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Big Swingers, The - A Biographyby: Fenton, Robert W. - Product Image

Big Swingers, The - A Biography
by: Fenton, Robert W.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice Hall, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 258 pages, b&w photographs. The story of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan in the movies.

Record # 372822

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Bill Peet: An Autobiographyby: Peet, Bill - Product Image

Bill Peet: An Autobiography
by: Peet, Bill

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, March 27, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket; small tear on rear cover. Light foxing on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 452923

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Black Sun - The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby (SIGNED COPY)by: Wolff, Geoffrey  - Product Image

Black Sun - The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby (SIGNED COPY)
by: Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn , unclipped dust jacket. A biography of poet Harry Crosby, who inexplicably took the life of another man's bride of six months, and subsequently his own life, in 1929. INSCRIBED BY WOLFF on the blank prelim page: "To the yeoman of Chittenden, and to Steve, from the guy whose fat they pulled from the fire/Geoffrey Wolff/Repayment Day, 1977/Waitsfield, Vt".

Record # 372665

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Born Under Saturn: A Biography of William Hazlittby: MacLean, Catherine MacDonald - Product Image

Born Under Saturn: A Biography of William Hazlitt
by: MacLean, Catherine MacDonald

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st US, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 631 pages. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket slightly worn and soiled with small tears to upper edge of spine, in clear brodart cover.

Record # 606682

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Bound for Gloryby: Guthrie, Woody - Product Image

Bound for Glory
by: Guthrie, Woody

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton, 2nd Printing, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 428 pages, illustrated by the author. Scarce in this edition. Dark gray cloth with gilt titles, no dust jacket. Light fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856301

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Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewisby: Lewis, Walter Hooper (Ed.), C.S. - Product Image

Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis
by: Lewis, Walter Hooper (Ed.), C.S.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages, with b&w illustrations. Very clean and tight copy. Remainder line bottom edge, otherwise unmarked.

Record # 358994

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Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh, The: The Story of A.A. Milne and His Writing for Childrenby: Thwaite, Ann - Product Image

Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh, The: The Story of A.A. Milne and His Writing for Children
by: Thwaite, Ann

Hardcover. London, Metheun, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 406156

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Caroline Gordon: A Biographyby: Makowsky, Veronica A. - Product Image

Caroline Gordon: A Biography
by: Makowsky, Veronica A.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462596

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Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carverby: Carver, Raymond and Bob Adelman - Product Image

Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver
by: Carver, Raymond and Bob Adelman

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, illustrated throughout with b&w photographs by Bob Adelman. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 350054

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Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury (SIGNED COPY)by: Paul Strohm - Product Image

Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury (SIGNED COPY)
by: Paul Strohm

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that he has today--far from it. The middle-aged Chaucer was living in London, working as a midlevel bureaucrat and sometime poet, until a personal and professional crisis set him down the road leading to The Canterbury Tales. Brought expertly to life by Paul Strohm, this is the eye-opening story of the birth one of the most celebrated literary creations of the English language. INSCRIBED BY STROHM on the title page.

Record # 372608

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Childhood Chronicles Before Narnia: Boxenby: Lewis, C. S. - Product Image

Childhood Chronicles Before Narnia: Boxen
by: Lewis, C. S.

Hardcover. New York , HarperChildrens, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. Clean, tight copy. As children, C.S. Lewis and his brother W.H. Lewis created the fantasy world of Boxen. This book collects stories and illustrations, history, geography etc of Boxen. Reproduced original illustrations by the authors. Introduction by Douglas Gresham. The History of Boxen by Walter Hooper.

Record # 350162

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Childhood, A: The Biography of a Place (SIGNED COPY)by: Crews, Harry - Product Image

Childhood, A: The Biography of a Place (SIGNED COPY)
by: Crews, Harry

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 171 pages, in an unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. INSCRIBED BY CREWS on the half title page: "To Ed - Keep it together - Harry Crews".

Record # 412051

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Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf by: Woolf, Virginia - Product Image

Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf
by: Woolf, Virginia

Softcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st pbk, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 472 pages with index. The editor, Joanne Trautmann Banks, previously was co-editor of the six volume 'Letters of Virginia Woolf.' For this volume, Ms. Banks selected 'jewels' from the earlier compilation, and has provided explanatory footnotes throughout. Clean copy.

Record # 381765

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Conversations with Peter Taylorby: McAlexander, Hubert H. (Ed.) - Product Image

Conversations with Peter Taylor
by: McAlexander, Hubert H. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University of Mississippi, 1st, 1987, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 178 pages. Gathers interviews with the Tennessee short story writer in which he discusses his career, writing, character development themes, settings, and growing older. Clean copy.

Record # 381858

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Cristobal De Virues by: John G. Weiger - Product Image

Cristobal De Virues
by: John G. Weiger

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, 166 pages. Virtues's place in Spanish drama is partly as one of the few to attempt tragedy, partly as one of the precursors of the national comedia, but above all as a pivotal figure in an important transitional period of Spain's political and cultural history. Clean copy.

Record # 379853

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Dersu, The Trapperby: Arseniev, V. K. - Product Image

Dersu, The Trapper
by: Arseniev, V. K.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 352 pages. Translated from Russian by Malcolm Burr. Cloth covers, blue stamped titles, 3 b&w illustrated maps, blue top edge stain. Rubbing and light soiling to covers, spine lightly cocked, previous owner's bookplate and signature to front endpapers, light foxing and discoloration to endpapers, discoloration to page block ends; otherwise, a neat, tight copy of a scare book.

Record # 808587

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Dickens Student and Collector, Theby: Miller, William - Product Image

Dickens Student and Collector, The
by: Miller, William

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 351 pages including index. A list of writing relating to Charles Dickens and his works 1836-1944. A very useful bibliographic reference for Dickensiana.

Record # 221035

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Dimensions of Robert Frost, The (INSCRIBED BY ROBERT FROST)by: Frost, Robert/Reginald Cook - Product Image

Dimensions of Robert Frost, The (INSCRIBED BY ROBERT FROST)
by: Frost, Robert/Reginald Cook

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 241 pages. The author Cook was an English professor at Middlebury College for many years, and involved with Bread Loaf Writer's Conference almost from its inception, as Robert Frost was. INSCRIBED by Robert Frost (the subject) to Cook (the author).

Record # 351353

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Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soulby: Barbara Reynolds  - Product Image

Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul
by: Barbara Reynolds

Softcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 398 pages. Mystery writer Dorothy Sayers is loved and remembered, most notably, for the creation of sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. As this biography attests, Sayers was also one of the first women to be awarded a degree from Oxford, a playwright, and an essayist--but also a woman with personal joys and tragedies. Here, Reynolds, a close friend of Sayers, presents a convincing and balanced portrait of one of the 20th century's most brilliant, creative women. 30 b&w photos. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374313

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E. E. Cummings: A Life by: Cheever, Susan  - Product Image

E. E. Cummings: A Life
by: Cheever, Susan

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 213 pages, clean copy.

Record # 374193

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Edith Sitwell: Fire of the Mindby: Salter, Elizabeth & Allanah Harper - Product Image

Edith Sitwell: Fire of the Mind
by: Salter, Elizabeth & Allanah Harper

Hardcover. New York , Vanguard Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. Light edgewear, tanning to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 810174

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Ellen Glasgow: Beyond Conventionby: Wagner, Linda W. - Product Image

Ellen Glasgow: Beyond Convention
by: Wagner, Linda W.

Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. Light edgewear and sunning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Biography of the American Southern novelist which includes study of her later novels, when she was no longer content to imitate fashionable male novelists.

Record # 462597

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Emerson The Mind on Fireby: Richardson Jr. Robert D.  - Product Image

Emerson The Mind on Fire
by: Richardson Jr. Robert D.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 671 pages. Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, including correspondence among the Emerson brothers, Richardson gives us a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man. Clean copy.

Record # 374196

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Emile Zola: A Biographical & Critical Studyby: Sherard, Robert Harborough - Product Image

Emile Zola: A Biographical & Critical Study
by: Sherard, Robert Harborough

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages + ads in rear. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Some fading and soil to boards with small tear to upper edge of spine. Binding is slightly shaken and there is a previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Internally very clean and bright.

Record # 855243

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Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidalby: Jay Parini - Product Image

Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal
by: Jay Parini

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 480 pages. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self digs behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful career to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truths underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well--a virtual Who's Who of the twentieth century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart through the Kennedys, Johnny Carson, Leonard Bernstein, and the creme de la creme of Hollywood. Also a generous helping of feuds with the likes of William F. Buckley, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, and TheNew York Times, among other adversaries. The life of Gore Vidal teemed with notable incidents, famous people, and lasting achievements that call out for careful evocation and examination. Jay Parini crafts Vidal's life into an accessible, entertaining story that puts the experience of one of the great American figures of the postwar era into context, introduces the author and his works to a generation who may not know him, and looks behind the scenes at the man and his work in ways never possible before his death. Provided with unique access to Vidal's life and his papers, Parini excavates many buried skeletons yet never loses sight of his deep respect for Vidal and his astounding gifts. This is the biography Gore Vidal--novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, historian, wit, provocateur, and pioneer of gay rights--has long needed.

Record # 374234

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Ernest Hemingway A Life Storyby: Carlos Baker - Product Image

Ernest Hemingway A Life Story
by: Carlos Baker

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st BC Ed., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt titles, 687 pages, b&w photos. Has the A_3.69 (C), small embossed circle at bottom of rear cover indicating a book club printing. Bright, clean copy, missing the dust jacket.

Record # 382055

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Extra Innings: A Memoirby: Doris Grumbach  - Product Image

Extra Innings: A Memoir
by: Doris Grumbach

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1993, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 298 pages. A late-life memoir by the notable fiction writer, biographer and critic. Covers a relatively short period of her life, with deeper reflections on a life spent in reading, writing, and observing the world around her. Clean copy.

Record # 381764

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Fairy Tale of My Life, The - An Autobiographyby: Andersen, Hans Christian - Product Image

Fairy Tale of My Life, The - An Autobiography
by: Andersen, Hans Christian

NY, Paddington Press, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket, light fading to spine. Black & white illustrations, 569 pages.

Record # 61888

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Father, The: A Life Of Henry James Sr by: Habegger, Alfred - Product Image
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Father, The: A Life Of Henry James Sr
by: Habegger, Alfred

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 578 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Of all the biographies of Henry James, Sr., the father of William, James, Jr. and Alice, this is the first one that attempts to capture the bewildering complexities of the James father's public and private history -- his early engagement with a radically deviant Calvinism, his stunning embrace of both authoritarian and democratic systems of ruling, his rich humanity and comic gifts, and his dealing with the most interesting people of his time.

Record # 359146

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Feed the Mind: A Centenary Celebration of Lewis Carroll's Visit to Alfreton in 1884 (SIGNED)by: Goodacre, Selwyn H. - Product Image Click for larger image

Feed the Mind: A Centenary Celebration of Lewis Carroll's Visit to Alfreton in 1884 (SIGNED)
by: Goodacre, Selwyn H.

Softcover. New York, Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 29 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, number 289 of a limited edition of 350 copies, with photographs. Light edge wear, else, very clean and tight.

Record # 854741

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Frederic Remington: Selected Letters by: Remington Frederic and Allen P. Splete and Marilyn D. Splete (Eds.)  - Product Image

Frederic Remington: Selected Letters
by: Remington Frederic and Allen P. Splete and Marilyn D. Splete (Eds.)

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings. Index. Bibliography. 487 pages. Remington, a prolific letter writer, was also an inveterate doodler. Many of these previously unpublished drawings are a part of this collection. Correspondence includes notes to his family and correspondence with President Theodore Roosevelt, Owen Wister, Poultney Bigelow, Francis Parkman, Elizabeth Custer and others. Clean copy.

Record # 381766

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Fritz Kreisler : Love's Sorrow, Love's Joyby: Biancolli, Amy - Product Image

Fritz Kreisler : Love's Sorrow, Love's Joy
by: Biancolli, Amy

Hardcover. Portland OR, Amedeus Press, 1st, March 1, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 453 pages, b&w photographs and frontispiece, sheet music end paper. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451988

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From the Angle of 88by: Philpotts, Eden - Product Image Click for larger image

From the Angle of 88
by: Philpotts, Eden

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brick cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light foxing to endpapers. Frontis illustration, Eden Phillpotts, in black & white. Toning throughout, tight binding with clean pages throughout.

Record # 372702

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Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Sideby: Ed Sanders - Product Image

Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side
by: Ed Sanders

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Fug You is Ed Sanders's unapologetic and often hilarious account of eight key years of "total assault on the culture," to quote his novelist friend William S. Burroughs. Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishing Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the aboveground's scrutiny, and leading to Sanders's arrest after a raid on his Peace Eye Bookstore. The memoir also traces the career of the Fugs -- formed in 1964 by Sanders and his neighbor, the legendary Tuli Kupferberg (called "the world's oldest living hippie" by Allen Ginsberg) -- as Sanders strives to find a home for this famous postmodern, innovative anarcho-folk-rock band in the world of record labels.

Record # 378610

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Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Lifeby: Wallace, Elizabeth K. - Product Image

Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life
by: Wallace, Elizabeth K.

Hardcover. New York, Beaufort Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352571

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