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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

Price: $30.00 
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Bonnard - Sketches of a Journey, Travels in an Early Motorcarby: Mirbeau, Octave

Bonnard - Sketches of a Journey, Travels in an Early Motorcar
by: Mirbeau, Octave

Hardcover. London, Philip Wilson and Richard Natanson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard. 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom.

Record # 201086

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Dickens' Londonby: Francis Miltoun

Dickens' London
by: Francis Miltoun

Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Page & Company, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gilt-stamped light gray cloth with Dickens' escutcheon in red & gold on cover, top edge gilt, frontispiece photographic profile of Dickens & 18 B&W photographic illustrations. Nice retrospective of London in reference to Charles Dickens life, book provides a brief look at Dickens' literary life, manner and customs, history of the area and more. 300 pages including index,

Record # 387258

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English Hoursby: Henry James/Joseph Pennell

English Hours
by: Henry James/Joseph Pennell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, 3 colors. Beautiful gilt and sihouette vignette of the London skyline. 80 black and white drawings by Joseph Pennell. Top edge gilt. A collection of periodical pieces written over a span of thirty years by James, all about his travels in England. Name and date on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 383751

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Godstone and the Blackymor, Theby: White/Edward Ardizzone, T.H.

Godstone and the Blackymor, The
by: White/Edward Ardizzone, T.H.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 226 pages, illustrated in b&w by Edward Ardizzone. Blue cloth with an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. The book is a very good, clean, tight copy. White's account of life on the west coast of Ireland. The author comments on the front flap: "God knows what this book is about. I suppose it's a bit of autobiography really. But it's about living on the West Coast of Ireland, in 'the parish nearest to America' -- they all are, I mean the parishes -- and it is about the people and things there, more than about me."

Record # 371825

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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

Price: $300.00 
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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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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (SIGNED COPY)by: Kooser, Ted

Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (SIGNED COPY)
by: Kooser, Ted

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 153 pages. SIGNED BY KOOSER on title page. Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the Bohemian Alps of southeastern Nebraska.

Record # 356334

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On the Rezby: Frazier, Ian

On the Rez
by: Frazier, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages. A perceptive visitor's report of life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, one of the poorest places in the United States. Profiles the Oglala Sioux living there and along the way a female basketball star. Clean copy.

Record # 397881

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Quebec and the Stars, Toby: Lovecraft, H. P. / L. Sprague de Camp (Editor)

Quebec and the Stars, To
by: Lovecraft, H. P. / L. Sprague de Camp (Editor)

Hardcover. West Kingston RI, Donald M. Grant, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth covers. Collection of Lovecraft's nonfiction writings covering: Science, Literature and Esthetics, Philosophy, Travel, and History. Light wear. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 614038

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Return of Eva Peron with The Killings in Trinidadby: Naipaul, V. S.

Return of Eva Peron with The Killings in Trinidad
by: Naipaul, V. S.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 227 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a clean, tight copy. Naipaul presents here four essays about the "half-made" societies, those still suffering from the profound deprivations of colonialism and prey to corruption." He examines the role of Eva Peron as the catalyst for violence in Argentina, with its yearning for a European culture and the physical, historical, cultural reality of the land in which the native Indians were wiped out and the colonialists took over. He writes of the infamous Michael X in Trinidad whose pretensions to power and destiny led to the man's insanity and execution following two pointless murders. Shorter essays address nihilism in the Congo and Naipaul's take on Joseph Conrad and the Heart of Darkness.

Record # 461492

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Road to Volgograd by: Sillitoe, Alan

Road to Volgograd
by: Sillitoe, Alan

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. A young English novelist's journey through the Soviet Union in the early sixties (author also wrote "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner', "The General", and others. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean copy.

Record # 397583

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Southerner Discovers New England, Aby: Daniels, Jonathan

Southerner Discovers New England, A
by: Daniels, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 398 pages. Previous owners inscription on dedication page. Light fading to cloth covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608901

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Spillville (SIGNED COPY)by: Hampl, Patricia

Spillville (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hampl, Patricia

Softcover. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 107 pages, b&w engravings by Steven Sorman. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401932

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Torregreca: Life, Death, Miracles in a Southern Italian Villageby: Ann Cornelisen

Torregreca: Life, Death, Miracles in a Southern Italian Village
by: Ann Cornelisen

Softcover. South Royalton VT, Steerforth Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 295 pages. Foreword by Frances Mayes. In 1959 Ann Cornelisen came to the impoverished region of Basilicata. A young, unmarried Protestant woman, she found herself in a tradition-bound, male-dominated Catholic world. She smoked, drove a car, occasionally drank at the village bar, and quickly became the object of disapproving gossip. With aplomb and tough-minded determination, Cornelisen established a school and gained the acceptance, if not always the approval, of the community. In this absorbing memoir, she renders the people, landscape, and vexing social ills of her adopted home with candor and compassion. Wrappers sunned, otherwise tight and clean.

Record # 398110

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Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwinby: Elizabeth Chatwin, Nicholas Shakespeare (Editor)

Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
by: Elizabeth Chatwin, Nicholas Shakespeare (Editor)

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 554 pages. This compilation of correspondence is aptly titled. British travel writer and novelist Chatwin traveled widely, constantly, and obsessively--everywhere under the sun, in other words. He possessed a restless soul, to be sure. And to a large degree, he was secretive; information about his homosexuality and his affliction with the AIDS virus was closely guarded. He cast a personal spell with his charm and a lasting one through his works, which are so imaginative they are pure excitement to read; at the same time, however, it can be confusing to determine whether to see them as fiction or nonfiction. Nevertheless, beginning with his first published book, In Patagonia (1977), Chatwin maintained a reputation among discerning readers for his riveting characters--invented or not is unimportant, even in his travel books--and his rigorously precise writing style. Chatwin's wife and his biographer (Bruce Chatwin, 2000) combined efforts over a two-decade period to retrieve more than 90 percent of Chatwin's correspondence from childhood to immediately before his untimely death at 48. Chatwin's many appreciators will see the compilation in its overall significance as a personal visit with one of their literary heroes, as much as that is possible now. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise like new.

Record # 374485

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Willa Cather in Europe; Her Own Story of the First Journeyby: Cather, Willa

Willa Cather in Europe; Her Own Story of the First Journey
by: Cather, Willa

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 178 pages. Dust jacket slightly worn and with short tears. Some foxing on endpages, top edge stained red.

Record # 511050

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Your Amiable Uncle: Letters to This Nephews by: Booth Tarkington

Your Amiable Uncle: Letters to This Nephews
by: Booth Tarkington

Hardcover. NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt. 192 pages, illustrated endpapers. Tarkington's letters written and illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches in 1903 and 1904 from Europe addressed to his three nephews. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 371142

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