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Infants of the Spring: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by: Anthony Powell

Infants of the Spring: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell
by: Anthony Powell

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a shelfworn dust jacket. 214 pages includes index, b&w photographs and illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 381762

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Innocents Abroad, The: or the New Pilgrims' Progressby: Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)

Innocents Abroad, The: or the New Pilgrims' Progress
by: Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)

Hardcover. Hartford, CT, American Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 651 pages plus publisher's ads. Hardcover. Front and back hinges cracked, binding tight otherwise. Frontispieces with tissue guard. Tanning to edges. Pages clean with just a touch of tanning. Spine straight. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Borders and decoration blind-stamped to front and back cover boards. Some agewear to boards: fraying/chipping at top and bottom of spine and corners, rubbing. "Being some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as they appeared to the author." Perfect for any collector's bookshelf.

Record # 367824

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Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metaliousby: Emily Toth

Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious
by: Emily Toth

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. A thoughtful biography of the too-short life of the woman who wrote one of the most controversial American novels of the 20th century.

Record # 378909

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Inventing the Enemyby: Eco, Umberto

Inventing the Enemy
by: Eco, Umberto

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233159

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Iris Murdoch: A Life by: Conradi, Peter J.

Iris Murdoch: A Life
by: Conradi, Peter J.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, letters, and diaries, an authorized biography of the critically acclaimed philosopher and novelist traces her personal life and literary and philosophical career, from her student days at Oxford, through her marriage to John Bayley, to Murdoch's remarkable influence on literary England, from 1940 to the present day.

Record # 383831

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Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d'Orcia by: Moorehead, Caroline

Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d'Orcia
by: Moorehead, Caroline

Softcover. Boston, David R. Godine, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 368 pages. Eagerly exchanging an existence of idle privilege and social intrigue for one of hard work and literary distinction, Origo led a life characterized by vitality and commitment. Born in 1902 into a wealthy American family, she and her British mother permanently left the U.S. after the untimely death of her father in 1910. Traveling extensively throughout Europe, they eventually settled outside of Florence, becoming prominent members of the stuffy Anglo-Florentine community of expatriates. Asserting her trademark independence, she married Antonio Origo, the illegitimate son of a cavalry officer-sculptor. Together Antonio and Iris purchased and totally revitalized an arid Tuscan valley and renovated a crumbling estate. With virtually no experience and few practical skills, they transformed themselves into agrarian pioneers and their extensive acreage into a prosperous working community supporting more than 200 people. During the war years, they quietly supported the Allies, offering refuge to countless numbers of partisans and prisoners of war. In addition to these accomplishments, Iris also buried one child and raised two more, conducted several heart-wrenching extramarital affairs, and distinguished herself as both a biographer and a literary critic. Clean copy.

Record # 385916

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Irwin Shaw: A Biographyby: Michael Shnayerson

Irwin Shaw: A Biography
by: Michael Shnayerson

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putman's Sons, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, unclipped dust jacket, 447 pages. B&w photos. Although he aspired to Princeton, Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff (aka Shaw) had to settle for local Brooklyn College, where he seems to have enjoyed football more than his studies. From his mid-20s, however, Shaw (1913-1984) was a highly regarded New Yorker short story writer ("The Girls in Their Summer Dresses") and left-wing playwright ( Bury the Dead ), and later became a successful Hollywood script writer and novelist ( The Young Lions ; Rich Man, Poor Man ). This sympathetic, objective biography, by a Vanity Fair contributing editor, convincingly shows how Shaw's career, character and fiction, influenced more by Hemingway's lifestyle than by his writing, were marked by incongruities. Far from abating with age, his romantic and alcoholic appetites overwhelmed him. Years of high living in Europe, surrounded by adoring friends, softened his self-judgment, and he took to writing "fluffy essays for swells." The New Yorker dropped him, and "serious" critics panned his novels. Shnayerson capably contrasts Shaw's inclinations and personality with his subject matter and literary output, and is especially astute at explaining the complications of being a commercially successful midcentury American writer. Clean copy.

Record # 374526

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Isaiah Berlin: A Celebrationby: Ullmann-Margalit, Edna

Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration
by: Ullmann-Margalit, Edna

Hardcover. US, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration gathers tributes, reflections, and commentaries on the great thinker and his philosophy, politics, and life-including contributions from Michael Ignatieff, Leon Wieseltier, Ronald Dworkin, Stephen Spender, and many others.

Record # 463308

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It's All One Case: The Illustrated Ross Macdonald Archivesby: Kevin Avery , Paul Nelson, et al.

It's All One Case: The Illustrated Ross Macdonald Archives
by: Kevin Avery , Paul Nelson, et al.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages. In 1976, the critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing his literary hero, legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald. Beginning in the late 1940s with his shadowy creation, ruminating private eye Lew Archer, Macdonald had followed in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but ultimately elevated the form to a new level. "We talked about everything imaginable," Nelson wrote-including Macdonald's often meager beginnings; his dual citizenship; writers, painters, music, books, and movies he admired; how he used symbolism to change detective writing; his own novels and why Archer was not the most important character-"my God, everything." It's All One Case provides an open door to Macdonald at his most unguarded. The book is far more than a collection of never-before-published interviews, though. Published in a handsome, oversized format, it is a visual history of Macdonald's professional career, illustrated with rare and select items from one of the world's largest private archives of Macdonald collectibles. Featuring in full color the covers of the various editions of Macdonald's more than two dozen books, facsimile reproductions of pages from his manuscripts, magazine spreads, and many never before seen photos of Macdonald and his friends (such as Kurt Vonnegut), including those by celebrated photojournalist Jill Krementz. It's All One Case is an intellectual delight and a visual feast, a fitting tribute to Macdonald's distinguished career. Full-color illustrations throughout

Record # 374233

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It's Hard to Talk about Yourself by: Ginzburg, Natalia, Translator: Quirke, Louise

It's Hard to Talk about Yourself
by: Ginzburg, Natalia, Translator: Quirke, Louise

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 202 pages. Natalia Ginzburg, arguably the most important woman writer of postwar Italy, always spoke of herself with irrepressible modesty. Yet the woman who claimed she "never managed to climb up mountains" in fact wrote the history of twentieth-century Italy with her sparse and captivating prose, chronicling Fascism, war, and the Nazi occupation as well as the intimacies of family life. Intensely reserved, Ginzburg said that she "crept toward autobiography stealthily like a wolf." But she did openly discuss her life and her work in an extraordinary series of interviews for Italian radio in 1990. Never before published in English, It's Hard to Talk about Yourself presents a vivid portrait of Ginzburg in her own words on the forces that shaped her remarkable life-politics, publishing, literature, and family. This fluid translation will join Ginzburg's autobiography, Family Sayings, as one of the most important records of her life and, as the editors write in their preface, "the last, unexpected, original book by Natalia Ginzburg."

Record # 398115

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Ivan Franko, The Poet of Western Ukraine: Selected Poems by: Ivan Franko, Editor: Clarence A. Manning, Translator: Percival Cundy

Ivan Franko, The Poet of Western Ukraine: Selected Poems
by: Ivan Franko, Editor: Clarence A. Manning, Translator: Percival Cundy

Hardcover. NY, Philosophical Library, 1st US, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 265 pages. B&w frontis. portrait. Previous owner's long inscription on front fly-leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 381604

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J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artistby: Beller, Thomas

J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist
by: Beller, Thomas

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 4450231

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Jack Kerouac, King of the Beats: A Portraitby: Miles, Barry

Jack Kerouac, King of the Beats: A Portrait
by: Miles, Barry

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt & Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 332 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with slight crease to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460574

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James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts by: Schwab, Arnold T.

James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts
by: Schwab, Arnold T.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. No dust jacket. 384 pages, b&w illustrations. The biography of an influential critic gives a vivid picture of American cultural life from the 1880s to the 1920s. INSCRIBED BY ERIK HUNEKER, SON OF JAMES on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Record # 383345

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James Wright: A Profileby: Graziano, Frank and Stitt, Peter (eds)

James Wright: A Profile
by: Graziano, Frank and Stitt, Peter (eds)

Softcover. Durango CO, Logbridge-Rhodes, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 150 pages, b&w illustrations. Poems by Wright, with letters, interviews, memoirs, elegies, a chronology, and bibliography. Light fade to spine, otherwise clean copy.

Record # 374472

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Jane Austen and Animalsby: Seeber, Barbara K.

Jane Austen and Animals
by: Seeber, Barbara K.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470119

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Janet Frame: An Autobiography; Volume One : To the Is-Land, Volume Two : An Angel at My Table, Volume Three : The Envoy from Mirror City/ 3 Volumes in One Bookby: Jan

Janet Frame: An Autobiography; Volume One : To the Is-Land, Volume Two : An Angel at My Table, Volume Three : The Envoy from Mirror City/ 3 Volumes in One Book
by: Jan

Softcover. NY, George Braziller, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 437 pages. New Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student, and years of incarceration in mental hospitals, eventually followed by her entry into the saving world of writers and the "Mirror City" that sustains them, we are given not only a record of the events of a life, but also "the transformation of ordinary facts and ideas into a shining palace of mirrors." Frame's journey of self-discovery, from New Zealand to London, to Paris and Barcelona, and then home again, is a heartfelt and courageous account of a writer's beginnings as well as one woman's personal struggle to survive. Small patch of tanning to bottom corner of last 80 pages. Otherwise clean.

Record # 374488

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Japan: An Attempt at Interpretationby: Hearn, Lafcadio

Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
by: Hearn, Lafcadio

Hardcover. London, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 541 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light fraying on edges of cover boards. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Gilt lettering on spine, light brown covers.

Record # 354171

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Jean Jacques the Early Life and Work of Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1754 by: Cranston, Maurice

Jean Jacques the Early Life and Work of Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1754
by: Cranston, Maurice

Hardcover. NY, WW Norton , 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 382 pages.

Record # 378323

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Joel Chandler Harris: Folkloristby: Stella Brewer Brookes

Joel Chandler Harris: Folklorist
by: Stella Brewer Brookes

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 182 pages, 5 pages with red underlining. Brookes examines how Harris drew on his extensive knowledge of African American folklore and culture to create the characters in his work. Brookes classifies the Uncle Remus books under seven major categories: trickster tales, other "creeturs," myths, supernatural tales, proverbs, dialect, and songs.

Record # 396665

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John Burroughs: In Remembranceby: (Burroughs, John)

John Burroughs: In Remembrance
by: (Burroughs, John)

Softcover. privately printed, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, program for the Memorial services held for the writer/naturalist at the Nest in Riverby, April 2, 1921. A selection of Bible passages, poetry and Burrough's own writings. Two tipped b&w plates. Folded gray wrappers with a string tie, 24 pages printed on gray charcoal paper. Very good, clean.

Record # 359806

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John Steinbeck, the Errant Knight: An Intimate Biography of His California Years by: Valjean, Nelson

John Steinbeck, the Errant Knight: An Intimate Biography of His California Years
by: Valjean, Nelson

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in very good dust jacket with mild fading to spine. 184 pages plus index, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, protected by mylar cover. A very clean, tight copy. Written from personal recollection and years of research by the friend and writer Steinbeck knew would one day be his biographer. Emphasizes Steinbeck's formative years: boyhood in Salinas, farmhand, seaman, road-gang flunkie, hod carrier, dam builder and pursuit of wine, women and song.

Record # 387633

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Johnsonian Gleanings, Part II: Francis Barber The Doctor's Negro Servant by: Reade, Aleyn Lyell

Johnsonian Gleanings, Part II: Francis Barber The Doctor's Negro Servant
by: Reade, Aleyn Lyell

Privately Printed for the Author by the Arden Press, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, ochre cloth covers with gilt title on spine, 132 pages, 3 b&w plates. A biographical study of Samuel Johnson's Jamaican servant. Mild shelf wear. Clean copy.

Record # 383158

Price: $35.00 
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Joseph Conrad: A Biographyby: Meyers, Jeffrey

Joseph Conrad: A Biography
by: Meyers, Jeffrey

Hardcover. New York, Scribner's, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 428 pages. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. The author probes the complex life and work of Joseph Conrad, a Polish exile in England, his friendships with Ford, Crane, James, and Galsworthy, his varied works, and his affair with American journalist Jane Anderson.

Record # 450201

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JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Spring 1977 No. 4by: Ray B. Browne (Ed.)

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Spring 1977 No. 4
by: Ray B. Browne (Ed.)

Softcover. Bowling Green OH, Journal of Popular Culture, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages 701-909. Articles include: Philip Gordon on Ayn Rand. Louis F. Helbig on Struwwelpeter: an inquiry into the effects of violence in children's literature. French folk songs. D. L. Ashliman on the American Indian in German Travel Narratives and Literature. Clean.

Record # 397900

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JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE: Volume X Summer 1976 No. 1 by: Ray B. Browne (Ed.)

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE: Volume X Summer 1976 No. 1
by: Ray B. Browne (Ed.)

Softcover. Bowling Green OH, Journal of Popular Culture, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages 1-258. Articles include: The tragedy of Bert Williams, mystery writer John D. MacDonald, Edward R. Murrow's WW2 radio broadcasts, the dance marathon craze, Spider-Man - Superhero in the Liberal Tradition, others. Clean.

Record # 397901

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Journals and Letters of Stephen Mackennaby: Stephen Mackenna / E. R. Dodds /Padraic Colum (Editor)

Journals and Letters of Stephen Mackenna
by: Stephen Mackenna / E. R. Dodds /Padraic Colum (Editor)

Softcover. San Rafael CA, Coracle Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 330 pages, b&w frontis. A new printing of the journal and letters of Stephen Mackenna (1872-1934), a vivid and representative thinker whose life intersected with many of the leading figures of his day, and especially those of the Irish literary renaissance. The editor, E. R. Dodds, writes: Stephen MacKenna's working life was divided among three countries, and was further broken by two complete changes of occupation and by continual changes of residence. When he died, he left behind him no wife, child or lifelong friend; . . . and with the exception of the 1907-9 Journal no papers of any considerable biographical value. He left instead a legend. In the Memoir which follows I have endeavored to recover and present the facts underlying the legend. Best known for what AE (George William Russell) called his 'noble translation of Plotinus', MacKenna nonetheless harbored views that collided with those of Plotinus, and so speaks to us as an authentic forerunner of the 'modern' human being, by which is meant those who, once their individual inner light is lit-and no matter how it may gutter in the wind of uncertain freedoms-must, even while hallowing earlier and magisterial records of paths of spiritual ascent, accept the need for a complete 'descent' (without which the whole engine of creation will have had no final purpose), with all the provisional darkness this may entail, so that the final ascent may be made in personal love and freedom. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386125

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Journey To A Warby: Auden, W.H. & Christopher Isherwood

Journey To A War
by: Auden, W.H. & Christopher Isherwood

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured beige cloth, moderately soiled. No edition or printing stated on copyright page. Illustrated with 32 pages of b/w photographs, as well as endpaper maps, red and black frontispiece illustration. The story of the trip Auden and Isherwood made to China during its war with Japan, prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Includes 32 pages of photographs, as well as several sonnets and one long poem by Auden. Narrative written by Isherwood. There is a tan stain that goes across pages 68-69, that looks like a rorschach test. Otherwise clean.

Record # 372686

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Journey to America by: de Tocqueville, Alexis; Edited by J. P. Mayer

Journey to America
by: de Tocqueville, Alexis; Edited by J. P. Mayer

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 334 pages. The editor has chosen excerpts from de Tocquville's 14 notebooks he kept on his visit to America 1831-32. The detailed notes were the raw material that became his classic Democracy In America. Many of these observations never made into the final work. Clean copy.

Record # 385794

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Joyce Cary: The Developing Style by: Wolkenfeld, Jack

Joyce Cary: The Developing Style
by: Wolkenfeld, Jack

Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 200 pages. Joyce Cary long a popular author among discriminating readers, is gaining a wider audience for his novels every year. This critical study of his work considers the developing relationship between his matter and his manner. It especially emphasizes his growth as artist and thinker. Looking closely at the language and structure of Cary's books, the author examines all the novels- the African ones, the historical ones, and the two trilogies most of them in detail. To gain an overall view he also considers Cary's nonfiction and some as yet unpublished material. While this study is essentially non-biographical, it does analyze Cary's interpretations of history, sociology and politics as they are gathered from the actions and words of his colorful characters. One of the most intriguing features of Dr. Wolkenfeld's book is the dialogue between characters of the various novels, where likenesses as well as dissimilarities, which reveal so much about Cary as a writer, become evident. Clean copy.

Record # 385713

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Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfictionby: Harrison, Jim

Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfiction
by: Harrison, Jim

Hardcover. Livingston, MT, Clack City Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Record # 369035

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Karl Barth His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Textsby: Eberhard Busch

Karl Barth His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts
by: Eberhard Busch

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly faded dust jacket. 569 pages, b&w photos. An authentic church father of the Post-Reformation era, the Basel professor's contributions to theology, the life of the church, and the world of culture and politics have been frequently noted. This work presents extraordinary new information and insight based on his own correspondence and notes.What one finds in this work is Barth's own running commentary on events and people - from 1886 to 1968. Everything is depicted from his perspective and chiefly in his own words, and this is precisely what makes the volume so fascinating and valuable. The brilliance, wit, and humanity of Barth shine through everywhere as he is seen as son, brother, student, editor, friend, pastor, husband, father, soldier, teacher, theologian, church leader, political critic, polemicist, ecumenist, author, preacher, music lover, senior citizen. Light pencil notes to margins to some pages.

Record # 382059

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Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Selected Letters The Personal Correspondence, 1844-1877by: Raddatz, Fritz J. (editor)

Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Selected Letters The Personal Correspondence, 1844-1877
by: Raddatz, Fritz J. (editor)

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company , 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Translated by Ewald Osers. Clean copy.

Record # 398091

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Keats and Shakespeare: A Study of Keats' Poetic Life from 1816 to 1820 by: John Middleton Murry/Countee Cullen (SIGNED COPY)

Keats and Shakespeare: A Study of Keats' Poetic Life from 1816 to 1820
by: John Middleton Murry/Countee Cullen (SIGNED COPY)

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale orange cloth with title on spine label. Former copy belonging to COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946), with his signature on the front fly leaf. Cullen was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance. 248 pages, b&w frontis. Small paper scars to front endpapers, otherwise clean.

Record # 398476

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Keeping Fires Night and Day; Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher by: Dorothy Canfield Fisher / Mark J. Madigan (Edited)

Keeping Fires Night and Day; Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher
by: Dorothy Canfield Fisher / Mark J. Madigan (Edited)

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 356 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Eleanor Roosevelt called her one of the most influential women in America. Among the earliest and most assertive members of the Book-of-the-Month Club selection committee, Dorothy Canfield Fisher helped define literary taste in America for more than three decades. She helped shape the careers of such great writers as Pearl Buck, Isak Dinesen, and Richard Wright. A best-selling author herself, Fisher was also a deeply committed social activist. In Keeping Fires Night and Day, Mark J. Madigan collects much of Fisher's copious correspondence. With letters to Willa Cather, W.E.B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Margaret Mead, James Thurber, and E.B. White, he documents Fisher's personal and professional life and career in a way that no biography could. Set against the American historical and cultural landscape from 1900 to 1958, these letters offer a firsthand account of one of the twentieth century's most remarkable women.

Record # 387310

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Kenneth Grahame: A Biographyby: Peter Green

Kenneth Grahame: A Biography
by: Peter Green

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, mild soil to rear panel. In-depth biography of the author most well known for 'The Wind In The Willows', which also includes extensive information on the societal changes of the time. 399 pages with Index, Bibliography, and Notes, 6" X 8-3/4", several black and white photos through the text. There is small discard stamp on front fly leaf, no other markings.

Record # 387442

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Kenneth Tynan - Lettersby: Tynan, Kenneth/Kathleen Tynan (Editor)

Kenneth Tynan - Letters
by: Tynan, Kenneth/Kathleen Tynan (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 638 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor rubbing to surface of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612216

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Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879 - Selections from the Diary of The Rev. Francis Kilvertby: Plomer, William

Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879 - Selections from the Diary of The Rev. Francis Kilvert
by: Plomer, William

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, Reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 350 pages. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608414

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King and the Corpse, The: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evilby: Zimmer, Heinrich

King and the Corpse, The: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
by: Zimmer, Heinrich

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Fading overall to red cover boards, spine heavily faded. Light pencil markings throughout, otherwise, tight copy.

Record # 4450237

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Kipling Birthday Bookby: Bryant, Alice Crandell

Kipling Birthday Book
by: Bryant, Alice Crandell

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Red Cloth Boards. Front endpaper missing. Small black stain at top of front hinge. Foxing on top edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 509756

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Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885-1949by: Knut Hamsun/ Richard Nelson Current

Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885-1949
by: Knut Hamsun/ Richard Nelson Current

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When Americans remember him at all, they no doubt think of Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) as the author of Hunger or as the Norwegian who, along with Vidkun Quisling, betrayed his country by supporting the Nazis during World War II. Yet Hamsun, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1920 for his novel The Growth of the Soil, was and remains one of the most important and influential novelists of his time. Knut Hamsun Remembers America is a collection of thirteen essays and stories based largely on Hamsun's experiences during the four years he spent in the United States when he was a young man. Most of these pieces have never been published before in an English translation, and none are readily available. Hamsun's feelings about America and American ways were complex. For the most part, they were more negative than positive, and they found expression in many of his writings--directly in his reminiscences and indirectly in his fiction. In On the Cultural Life of Modern America, his first major book, he portrayed the United States as a land of gross and greedy materialism, populated by illiterates who were utterly lacking in artistic originality or refinement. Although the pieces in this collection are not all anti-American, most of them emphasize the strangeness and unpleasantness, as the author saw it, of life in what he called Yankeeland.

Record # 378793

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La Canne de Balzac (SIGNED COPY)by: Dallenbach, Lucien

La Canne de Balzac (SIGNED COPY)
by: Dallenbach, Lucien

Softcover. Paris, Jose Corti, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. French text. Wraparound red band with light wrinkle, wear. Otherwise very good.

Record # 405401

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La Dame de Monsoreau - Volumes 1 & 2 (Volumes 10 & 11 of Dumas collection)by: Dumas, Alexandre

La Dame de Monsoreau - Volumes 1 & 2 (Volumes 10 & 11 of Dumas collection)
by: Dumas, Alexandre

Hardcover. New York, Fred De Fau & Company, reprints, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, hardcovers. 810 pages total. B/w frontipieces with tissue guards. B/w illustrations throughout. Top edges gilt. Dark green cloth boards, gilt titles on spines, some light shelf wear. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Split at gutter of Introduction page in vol. 1, doesn't affect binding, no pages loose. Bindings good. Pages unmarked. Spines straight. The second of the three Valois romances, a continuation of Marguerite de Valois. Takes up the story three years later with Henry III seated, but not securely, on the throne.

Record # 99075

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La Gauche Divine: Chronique des annees 1977-1984by: Baudrillard, Jean

La Gauche Divine: Chronique des annees 1977-1984
by: Baudrillard , Jean

Softcover. Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 165 pages, French text.

Record # 405400

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Ladies' Repository, The : a Monthly Periodical Devoted to Literature and Religion, Volume XXby: Clark, Rev. D. W.  (Ed.)

Ladies' Repository, The : a Monthly Periodical Devoted to Literature and Religion, Volume XX
by: Clark, Rev. D. W. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Poe & Hitchcock, 1st, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 762 pages, b&w illustrations. Cloth and leather covers. Some foxing to pages, edgewear to covers, some pages dog-eared, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 808884

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Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romanceby: Thomas Moore

Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance
by: Thomas Moore

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st thus, 1890, Hardcover, 3/4 decorated white cloth with gilt stamped decorative pattern. Vignette edition with engraved frontispiece and 100 illustrations by Thos. McIlvaine. An Oriental romance, originally published in 1817, consisting of four narrative poems connected by a prose section. Small blank label on inside front cover, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 387023

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Language and Silenceby: George Steiner

Language and Silence
by: George Steiner

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 426 pages. How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 382315

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Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry by: Kalaidjian, Walter

Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry
by: Kalaidjian, Walter

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 263 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 397590

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Last Englishman, The: The Double Life of Arthur Ransomeby: Chambers, Roland

Last Englishman, The: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome
by: Chambers, Roland

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 389 pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 350040

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Last Stands: Notes from Memoryby: Hilary Masters

Last Stands: Notes from Memory
by: Hilary Masters

Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 210 pages. Hilary Masters' memoir Last Stands exhibits uniqueness in writing with a universal appeal. Whether it be upper class zeal, lower class pride, war stories, grandparents, grandchildren, health, humor, abuse, neglect, tolerance, strength, or even food, there is something in it for everyone. Overall, Last Stands is a patchwork piece--a memoir and indirect autobiography glittered with several familial biographies. Masters constantly switches scenes and elements of focus, but he overlaps his storyline, keeping the reader grounded, despite a sequence of simultaneous events. Thus, history is tied together in a busy but logical manner. Although Masters reveals disturbing events, he adds tidbits of humor to lighten the mood. In addition, he compares and contrasts fictitious characters, such as Odysseus, to events in his own life--a technique that grants him boundless points-of-view. Furthermore, his ingenuity unfolds with his use of secondary sources: letters, poems, epitaphs, and invitations. Finally, his use of dialogue carries the story where it might otherwise seem bland.

Record # 373168

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