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Destructive Element, The


Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Printed from English sheets, dj w/ edge chipped, spine fad, soil & stain to rear panel

Record # 16088


Price: $35.00 

 

Mr. Eliot Among the Nightingales


Grudin, Louis

Hardcover. Paris, Lawrence Drake, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pages unopened, dust jacket worn, closed tears, chipped.

Record # 16093


Price: $20.00 

 

Fine Art of Reading and Other Literary Studies, The


Cecil, David

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 16099


Price: $15.00 

 

Letter of Emerson, A


Reed, Willard

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The reply of Emerson to Solomon Corner of Baltimore in 1842. Analysis & notes by Reed

Record # 16102


Price: $18.00 

 

Life and Letters of Joel Chandler Harris, The


Harris, Julia Collier

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , unk, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, ex-lib copy w/ usual markings, b&w Illustrations.

Record # 16266


Price: $13.00 

 

Gender on the Divide: The Dandy in Modernist Literature


Feldman, Jessica

Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Otherwise tight, tight clean copy.

Record # 30017


Price: $13.00 

 

Hamlet in Purgatory


Greenblatt, Stephen

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages. Softcover with very light wear on paper wrappers. Both color and black and white illustrations throughout. Page 117 has folded corner.

Record # 30018


Price: $13.00 

 

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings


Keynes (ed.), Sir Geoffrey

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 416 pages. Gilt title on spine, b/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Slight yellowing on edges, dust jacket is slightly age-worn with a couple water spots on spine. Clean inside.

Record # 30119


Price: $19.00 

 

Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street


Clarke, Norma

Hardcover. Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the back cover: "With its broad tableau and vividly drawn cast of characters, this book is a genuinely accessible and enlightening account of the working lives of Grub Street authors."

Record # 30312


Price: $23.00 

 

Senecan Amble, The: A Study i Prose Form From Bacon to Collier


Williamson, George

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 377 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Previous owners inscription on front flyleaf. Red fabric covered boards are in great shape. Pages and edges are lightly yellow from age. dust jacket shows some age wear, yellowing, fraying at top and bottom of spine, otherwise intact and in good shape and covered with protected plastic book cover. From the front flap: "This study is concerned with the vicissitudes of Senecan imitation and Senecan prose theory between the Renaissance and the age of Pope. It defines the course of English prose style in the period by an analysis of two rival schools of imitations, the Ciceronian and the Senecan."

Record # 30487


Price: $23.00 

 

Virginia Woolf


King, James

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 699 pages. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled edges. Dust jacket unclipped. In great shape, clean inside and out.

Record # 30627


Price: $23.00 

 

Life Torn by History, A: Franz Werfel 1890-1945


Jungk, Peter Stephan

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Boards and pages very clean, some light foxing on edges. Dust jacket has just a touch of age wear, but in great shape and completely intact. Gilt title on spine.

Record # 30632


Price: $19.00 

 

Prose of William Carlos Williams, The


Wagner, Linda Welshimer

Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. Covered in green fabric, boards clean. Gilt title on spine. In very good shape considering age. Just a little foxing on edges and endpapers, and a touch of age wear to dust jacket. Clean inside.

Record # 30633


Price: $13.00 

 

My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell


Wilkinson, Alec

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Hardcover. Very clean inside and out. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped.

Record # 30638


Price: $15.00 

 

Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume One


Smith, Harriet Elinor

Hardcover. California, University of California Press, 3rd, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 736 pages. Volume one. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. Very clean inside and out.

Record # 30639


Price: $23.00 

 

Cain: The Biography of James M. Cain


Hoopes, Roy

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 684 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Still in good condition. Some light foxing to edges and boards, but pages clean and bright. Dust jacket unclipped and whole, but just a bit of yellowing due to age.

Record # 30700


Price: $19.00 

 

With All My Might: An Autobiography


Caldwell, Erskine

Hardcover. Atlanta, GA, Peachtree Publishers, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine and decoration on cover. In excellent condition, clean inside and out. Dust jacket unclipped.

Record # 30701


Price: $13.00 

 

Truman Capote: in Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career


Plimpton, George

Hardcover. New York, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 498 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Boards in good shape. Pages clean and bright. Clean inside and out. Dust jacket unclipped, just slightly yellow with age. In excellent condition. Deckled edges.

Record # 30702


Price: $15.00 

 

Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler


MacShane, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, Reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 501 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Some age wear to dust jacket but still whole and in good condition. Board bound in black, gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out.

Record # 30703


Price: $15.00 

 

(Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities


Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 402 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has some age yellowing and agewear. Clean inside, in good condition.

Record # 30775


Price: $15.00 

 

Penchants & Places: Essays and Criticisms


Leithauser, Brad

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Deckled fore edge. Very clean book, bright inside. In excellent condition.

Record # 30784


Price: $15.00 

 

Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick


Ozick, Cynthia

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Deckled fore edge. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped. Very clean inside and out. In excellent condition. Dust jacket in protective brodart.

Record # 30785


Price: $13.00 

 

Don't Tread On Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman


Crowther (Editor), Prudence

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Inscribed by former owner on front flyleaf. Just a touch of foxing to tope edge, otherwise in good condition. Pages clean inside.

Record # 30793


Price: $13.00 

 

One Half of Robertson Davies: Stories, Lectures, Jeux D'esprit, and advice on writing and writers, books and literature from the Author of Fifth Business


Davies, Robertson

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, with a touch of chipping. A little foxing and remainder mark on top edge, otherwise in good condition, clean inside.

Record # 30798


Price: $13.00 

 

Letters to Georgian Friends


Pasternak, Boris

Hardcover. London, Marin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 190 pages. Hardcover. Covers bound in tan with gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped with some chipping (agewear). In decent shape. Some foxing to dust jacket and edges. Otherwise clean inside.

Record # 30799


Price: $13.00 

 

Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1922-1928


Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Slight yellowing to dust jacket and edges, otherwise clean inside and out.

Record # 30800


Price: $13.00 

 

Robber Rocks: Letters and Memories of Hart Crane 1923-1932


Brown, Susan Jenkins

Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket show some agewear. Some foxing to edges, but doesn't affect text. Clean inside. In good condition.

Record # 30813


Price: $15.00 

 

Robert Frost & Edward Thomas: Elected Friends to One Another


Spencer (Editor), Matthew

Hardcover. New York, Handsel Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket shows just a touch of agewear at top of spine and front top right corner. Very clean and bright inside, in excellent condition.

Record # 30815


Price: $50.00 

 

Victorian Best-seller: The World of Charlotte M. Yonge


Mare, Margaret, Alicia C. Percival

Hardcover. London, GeorgeG. Harrap & Co, Ltd., Reprint, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Bound in tan with red title on spine. Former owner's address label on front endpaper. In very good condition. Binding still quite tight. Pages and edges a little age-yellow, otherwise clean inside.

Record # 30841


Price: $13.00 

 

Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, The


Ray, Gordon N. (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 695 pages. Hardcover. Volume 3 of 4. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Boards bound in red, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover. Some age wear, light tanning. Inlaid: Map of the West End from Weale's "London Exhibited in 1852". Correspondence of British novelist, author and illustrator.

Record # 31221


Price: $38.00 

 

Essential Articles for the Study of John Donne's Poetry (The Essential Articles Series)


Roberts, John R. (Editor)

Hardcover. Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 558 pages. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine (excellent). Some pencil marking inside, but light. Binding still quite tight and clean inside. A touch of foxing to endpapers. In great shape for its age.

Record # 31405


Price: $31.00 

 

Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict


Hilton, Frank

Hardcover. London, Peter Owen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black covers, gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. In great condition. Frank Hilton discusses the effect opium addiction had on Baudelaire's career as a poet and artist.

Record # 31422


Price: $19.00 

 

Starting Out in the Thirties


Kazin, Alfred

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages. Hardcover. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Dust jacket unclipped, has a little agewear, very good. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Some slight tanning from age/shelfwear to edges and pages. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Tells of Kazin's coming of age in the decade that began with the depression and ended with the outbreak of WWII.

Record # 31774


Price: $15.00 

 

Wilfred Owen: A Biography


Stallworthy, Jon

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press/Chatto and Windus, Reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean, binding tight. Spine straight. Decorated endpapers. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Remainder line on bottom edge. In great shape.

Record # 31779


Price: $23.00 

 

My Life with John Steinbeck: The Story of John Steinbeck's Forgotten Wife


Brown, Douglas

Softcover. UK, Lawson Publishing, 1st paperback, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean. Binding tight. In great shape, looks barely read. Based on interviews between Gwyn Steinbeck and Douglas Brown. A look at the mysterious author, John Steinbeck.

Record # 31886


Price: $23.00 

 

Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath


Stevenson, Anne

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 413 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, has just a touch of tanning to flaps.

Record # 31998


Price: $19.00 

 

Reading Andreas Gryphius: Critical Trends 1664-1993


Metzger, Erika, Michael M. Metzger

Hardcover. Columbia, SC, Camden House. Inc., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 155 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in buff cloth, black title on spine and front cover board. A touch of foxing to fop edge. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. This book traces the widely varying critical reception of Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664), the greatest German poet of the seventeenth century.

Record # 32034


Price: $25.00 

 

Personality of Jonathan Swift, The


Ehrenpreis, Irvin

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Cover boards have a touch of fading at edges, otherwise very good. Pages and edges slightly tanned from age. In beautiful condition. Book not only looks at the Irish satirist's life, but his strong points of view.

Record # 32037


Price: $15.00 

 

Dostoevski's Image in Russia Today


Seduro, Vladimir

Hardcover. Belmont, MA, Nordland Publishing Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 508 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning, otherwise excellent and wrapped in protective plastic cover. In great condition. Including Appendix.

Record # 32038


Price: $31.00 

 

Jane Austen: the Secret Radical


Kelly, Helena

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped. Some slight moisture staining to bottom left corner of back cover and dust jacket. Does not affect pages. In great condition. Binding tight, spine straight. An illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and how she intended her books to be read.

Record # 32125


Price: $19.00 

 

Works of Thomas Campion, The


Davis, Walter R. (Ed.)

Softcover. New York, NY, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1st`, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 521 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations (music) Norton Library Seventeenth-Century Series. Wrapper good, has some tanning from age. Some tanning to edges and pages, but doesn't affect text or illustrations.

Record # 32147


Price: $19.00 

 

Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life


Griffin, William

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 507 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in maroon cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. Imaginative biography that recreates C.S. Lewis's life with striking impact

Price: $13.00 

 

Sylvia Plath: A Biography


Wagner-Martin, Linda W.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cover boards, pink quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped, very good. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In this biography, only the second ever published, and the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, the author examines the ironies and contradictions of Sylvia Platt's life, as well as her achievements.

Record # 32191


Price: $25.00 

 

With All My Might: A Autobiography


Caldwell, Erskine

Hardcover. Atlanta, GA, Peachtree Publishers, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Slight foxing to top edge. Pages clean and unmarked. Black endpapers. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of agewear, but very good.

Record # 32203


Price: $15.00 

 

Letter of Virginia Woolf, The: Volume Four 1929-1931


Nicolson, Nigel (Editor), Joanne Trautmann (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st American Edition, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 442 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tanning on spine and a touch of wear about the edges, in good condition. Tan cover boards, blue quarter cloth (some fading) on spine, gilt title on spine. Pages clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In very good shape. Volume four focuses mostly on Woolf's relationship with composer Ethel Smyth. It is to her that Virginia writes the most intimate letters of this period

Price: $23.00 

 

Letters of Virginia Woolf, The: Volume 2 1912-1922


Nicolson, Nigel (Editor), Joanne Trautmann (Asst. Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st American edition, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 627 pages. Hardcover. Volume II only. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, purple quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tanning from age on spine, otherwise in good shape (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Page clean. In very good condition. Even richer than it's predecessor, Vol. II of Virginia Woolf's letters covers the first decade of her marriage; the publication of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, and Jacob's Room; the founding of the Hogwarth Press; and the years of World War I.

Record # 32340


Price: $23.00 

 

Encountering Choran Community: Literary Modernism, Visual Culture, and Political Aesthetics in the Interwar Years


Hinnov, Emily M.

Hardcover. Cranbury, NJ, Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1st Edition, 2009, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 246 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Like new. Identifies and describes modernist "choran community" as a previously understudied key counternarrative to Modernism's engagement with early twentieth century master narrative.

Record # 32449


Price: $25.00 

 

Robert Lowell: A Biography


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 527 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled foreedge. Cover boards bound in burgundy cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, very good, wrapped in protective clear plastic brodart. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. This definitive biography is the first extended study of the life and works of the poet Robert Lowell.

Record # 32455


Price: $23.00 

 

Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy 1918-1950 Volume III


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 544 pages. Hardcover. Volume III. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue textured cover boards, navy blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. In this, the final volume of Halroyd's mammoth Shaw biography, the story opens with G.B.S. campaigning in the general election of 1918 and gradually unveils him in his various roles as conjurer, fabulist, and seer.

Record # 32456


Price: $25.00 

 

Journey to My Father: Isaac Bashevis Singer


Zamir, Israel

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, 1st Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Green cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. A personal and moving portrait of one of this century's major writers, and an honest exploration of the often charged and complex relationship between father and son, and son and father.

Record # 32457


Price: $15.00 

 

Modern American Culture: An Introduction. by: Gidley, Mick (ed)

Paperback. London, Longman, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. Record # 40029
Price: $12.00 

 

Complete Notebooks of Henry James, The: The Authoritative and Definitive Edition


James, Henry (Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers, editors)

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 633 pages. Hardcover. Edited with introductions and notes by Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers. Illustrated with 8 pages of b/w plates. Light blue-green endpapers. pages 283 - 291 have small bump on top edge near right corner. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Black cloth with gilt decoration on front and gilt lettering on spine. Corners lightly bumped. B/W pictorial dust jacket with green lettering, light shelfwear. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 40073


Price: $16.00 

 

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - A Century in His Life


Thomas, D.M.

Paperback. NY, St. Martins, Unc. proof wraps, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 52904


Price: $20.00 

 

Erskine Caldwell - The Journey from Tabacco Road


Miller, Dan B.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 52922


Price: $25.00 

 

Saroyan - A Biography


Lee, Lawrence and Barry Gifford

Hardcover. NY, Harper & row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 52926


Price: $18.00 

 

Graham Greene - An Intimate Portrait by His Clost Friend & Confidant


Duran, Leopoldo

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white photos

Record # 52931


Price: $18.00 

 

Graham Greene - An Intimate Portrait by His Clost Friend & Confidant


Duran, Leopoldo

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white photos

Record # 52932


Price: $18.00 

 

Graham Greene - An Intimate Portrait by His Closest Friend & Confident


Duran, Leopoldo

Hardcover. San Francisco, Harper , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 52934


Price: $18.00 

 

Through the Mine Field - An Autobiography


FitzGibbon, Constantine

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 267 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket chipped, worn, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 52940


Price: $15.00 

 

Trollope - Living With Character


Wall, Stephen

Hardcover. NY, H.Holt, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 52957


Price: $28.00 

 

Anton Chekhov - A Life


Rayfield, Donald

Hardcover. NY, H.Holt, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 674 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 52958


Price: $30.00 

 

Making Waves


Llosa, Mario Vargas

Paperback. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, proof wraps, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. & transl. from Spanish by John King. Cover creased, curled

Record # 52981


Price: $15.00 

 

Janet Flanner's World - Uncollected Writings 1932-1975


Drutman (Ed.), Irving

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 2nd, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by William Shawn

Record # 52987


Price: $18.00 

 

Letters of Virginia Woolf, The - Vol. IV: 1929-1931.


Woolf, Virginia

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 2nd, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 442 pages. Ed. by Nigel Nicolson & Joanne Trautmann. Illustrated with Black & white photographs. Bottom right corner of back cover bumped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 52994


Price: $30.00 

 

Robert Burns - The Man and the Poet


Fitzhugh, Robert T.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. color frontis. light wear, soil to dj

Record # 52997


Price: $20.00 

 

Edmund Wildon - A Biography


Meyers, Jeffrey

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 53004


Price: $25.00 

 

Merry Heart, The - Reflections on Reading, Writing and the World of Books


Davies, Robertson

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 3rd, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 53008


Price: $20.00 

 

Wallace Stegner - His Life and Work


Benson, Jackson J.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 472 pages, b&w photos. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else very good.

Record # 53010


Price: $10.00 

 

Norman Mailer - The Man and His Work by: Lucid ( Ed.), David F.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Light wear, rubbing to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy. Record # 53015
Price: $12.00 

 

Shabunin Affair, The - An Episode in the Life of Leo Tolstoy


Kerr, Walter

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53041


Price: $18.00 

 

Faulkner - A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection IV


Brodsky, Louis Daniel and Robert W. Flamblin (Ed.)

Hardcover. Jackson, MS, University of Mississippi, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Vol 4: Battle Cry - A Screenplay by William Faulkner

Record # 53043


Price: $30.00 

 

Faulkner - International Perspectives


Fowler, Doreen and Ann J. Abadie ( Ed.)

Hardcover. Jackson, MS, University of Mississippi, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Collected essays on Faulkner by various writers

Record # 53044


Price: $18.00 

 

Faulkner & Popular Culture


Fowler, Doreen and Ann J. Abadie

Hardcover. Jackson, MS, University of Mississippi, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Collected essays on Faulkner by various writers

Record # 53045


Price: $18.00 

 

Faulkner - A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection Vol III: The DeGalle Story


Brodsky, Louis daniel and Robert W. Hamblin ( Ed.)

Hardcover. Jackson, MS, University of Mississippi, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Faulkner's successive scripts of 1942 for the DeGalle Story which he re-wrote a number of times.

Record # 53046


Price: $30.00 

 

Inventions of Mark Twain, The - A Biography


Lauber, John

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53048


Price: $18.00 

 

With All My Might - An Autobiography


Caldwell, Erskine

Hardcover. Atlanta, Peachtree, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white Illustrations

Record # 53050


Price: $15.00 

 

My Father's Voice - MacKinlay Kantor long Remembered


Kantor, Tim

Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53051


Price: $15.00 

 

Very Private Eye, A - An Autobiography


Pym, Barbara

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Ed. by Hazel Holt & Hilary Pym. dj with short tears, edgewear

Record # 53056


Price: $15.00 

 

Critical, Historical & Miscellaneious Essays (6 Vols.)


Macaulay, Lord

Hardcover. NY, Sheldon & Co., rep., 1861, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol 4 with tear of cloth over board at spine - partial only otherwise VG, previous owner's signature 1st blank pages

Record # 53068


Price: $70.00 

 

Marguerite Yourcenar - Inventing a Life


Savigneau, Josyane

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53069


Price: $20.00 

 

Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, The


Hochman, Barbara

Hardcover. Columbia, University of Mo., 1st., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53078


Price: $15.00 

 

Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, The


Hochman, Barbara

Hardcover. Columbia, University of Mo., 1st., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53079


Price: $15.00 

 

Ben Hecht - A Biography


MacAdams, William

Paperback. NY, Barricade, 1st pbk, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 53088


Price: $15.00 

 

Conor - A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien


Kenson, A. & Donald Harman

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Really an anthology of his work with bibliographical notes

Record # 53091


Price: $18.00 

 

Spectra Hoax, The


Smith, William Jay

Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan Univ., 1st , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED TO EDITIOR BEN SONNENBERG BY SMITH on half-title page. Dust jacket with light chipping, edgewear

Record # 53093


Price: $30.00 

 

Talking Back to Emily Dickinson & Other Essays


Pritchard, William H.

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, University of MA, 1st , 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 53105


Price: $18.00 

 

Genet - A Biography of Janet Flanner


Wineapple, Brenda

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st , 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 53110


Price: $18.00 

 

To Hell With Picasso and Other Essays


Johnson, Paul

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53113


Price: $25.00 

 

Cannibals and Christians


Mailer, Norman

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Tipped-in color frontis. dj with short tear, edgewear price clipped

Record # 53120


Price: $30.00 

 

Middle English Literature by: Brandl, A. and O. Zippel

Hardcover. NY, Chelsea, 2nd, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, An anthology with a Middle English Dictionary. Glossary with page tabs. Some marking, previous owner's signature front end paper. Record # 53150
Price: $12.00 

 

Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language (2 Vols)


Craik, George L.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, unk., 1863, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's bookplate front paste downs, light fading to spines, else a neat, tight set.

Record # 53284


Price: $26.00 

 

History of German Literature, A. by: Robertson, John G.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam, rep., 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 635 pages, olive cloth. Printed from English sheets. previous owner's signature front end paper. Record # 53383
Price: $12.00 

 

Letters on Literature


Lang, Andrew

Hardcover. London, Longmans Green, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Beveled blue boards with gilt titles. Minor edge wear, front hinge slightly cracked on top, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 53400


Price: $13.00 

 

Max Beerbohn - Selected Prose by: Cecil ( Ed.), David

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Little Brown, 1st US, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub. in Eng. in 1970 Record # 53414
Price: $12.00 

 

Depth Takes a Holiday - Essays From Lesser Los Angeles by: Loh, Sandra Tsing

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright. Record # 53434
Price: $12.00 

 

Pen Names and Personalities by: Marble, Annie Russell

Hardcover. NY, D.Appleton, 1st , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Spine cloth faded, pages yellowed, otherwise, nice copy. Record # 53442
Price: $12.00 

 

My Life as Author and Editor


Mencken, H.L.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Ed. by Jonathan Yardley

Record # 54049


Price: $25.00 

 

George Eliot - Voice of a Century


Karl, Frederick R.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Several pages with corner fold otherwise

Record # 54062


Price: $18.00 

 

Some Write to the Future - Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction


Dorfman, Ariel

Paperback. Durham, N.C., Duke Univ., 1st wraps, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 54066


Price: $18.00 

 

Invisible Writer - A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates


Johnson, Greg

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 54091


Price: $28.00 

 

Story Begins, The - Essays on Literature


Oz, Amos

Paperback. NY, Harcourt Brace, uncor. proof wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 54183


Price: $12.00 

 

Sketches for Autobiography


Bennett, Arnold

Hardcover. London, G.Allen & Unwin, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Edited by James Hepburn

Record # 54188


Price: $18.00 

 

Auden - An American Friendship


Miller, Charles H.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Dust jacket price clipped

Record # 54189


Price: $20.00 

 

Writer's Reality, A


Llosa, Mario Vargas

Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse Univ., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Myron Lichtblau. Based on lectures by Llosa at Syracuse Univ. in 1988.

Record # 54193


Price: $18.00 

 

Screaming With Joy - The Life of Allen Ginsberg


Caveney, Graham

Hardcover. NY, Broadway Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white photos

Record # 54196


Price: $20.00 

 

No Other Book - Selected Essays


Jarrell, Randall

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Edited by Brad Leithauser. Light wear to dj edge.

Record # 54197


Price: $20.00 

 

Remembeing Randall - A Memoir of Poet, Critic and Teacher Randall Jarrell


Jarrell, Mary von Schrader

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54198


Price: $18.00 

 

Edwin Arlington Robinson


Neff, Emery

Hardcover. NY, William Sloane, 1st , 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 54200


Price: $15.00 

 

Italo Svevo - The Man and the Writer


Furbank, P. N.

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif., 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. Dj blurb taped to front fly leaf. Previous owner's signature front end paper, otherwise

Record # 54202


Price: $25.00 

 

Pretexts - Reflections on Literature and Morality


Gide, Andre

Hardcover. NY, Meridan Books, 1st US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Ed. by Justin O'Brien. Dj with light soil, spine fade. Previous owner's embossed stamp front end paper

Record # 54403


Price: $20.00 

 

VN - The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov


Field, Andrew

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 3rd, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's inscription of front fly leaf. Dj price clipped otherwise

Record # 54407


Price: $15.00 

 

Shaw - An Autobiography 1856 -1898 - Selected from His Writings


Weintraub (Ed.), Stanley

Hardcover. NY, Weybright and Talley, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illus. Some fade to edges of covers otherwise

Record # 54415


Price: $25.00 

 

Interviews with Robert Frost


Lathem, Edward Connery

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54418


Price: $25.00 

 

Sayings of the Ancestors - The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians by: McDowell, John Holmes

Hardcover. Lexington, Kentucky Univ., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Folklore of a unique Indian tribe of Columbia. Black & white photos Record # 54865
Price: $12.00 

 

Alexandre Dumas - The King of Romance


Hemmings, F. W. J.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 55236


Price: $18.00 

 

Politics of Irish Literature, The - From Thomas Davis to W.B. Yeats


Brown, Malcolm

Hardcover. London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 55237


Price: $28.00 

 

Aspects of E.M. Forster - Essays and Recollections Written for His 90th Birthday


Stallybrass (Ed.), Oliver

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Contributions by E. Bowen, Plomer, D. Garnett, others. Dust jacket price clipped, chipped, short tears

Record # 55238


Price: $15.00 

 

Joyce Cary - A Biography


Foster, Malcolm

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 555 pages

Record # 55248


Price: $28.00 

 

R.L.S. - Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter


Ferguson, Delancey and Marshall Waingrow

Hardcover. New Haven, Yal Univ. Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 385 pages, dust jacket with edgewear and closed tears, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 55464


Price: $16.00 

 

Author and Agent - Eudora Welty & Diarmuid Russell


Kreyling, Michael

Hardcover. NY, FSG, 3rd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 55481


Price: $18.00 

 

Outermost Dream, The - Literary Sketches


Maxwell, William

Paperback. St. Paul, MN, Graywolf, 1st wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages

Record # 55502


Price: $12.00 

 

Commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales


Bowden, Muriel

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 3rd, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 55734


Price: $18.00 

 

Russian Novel, The


Reeve, F.D.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 55739


Price: $18.00 

 

Byron - The Flawed Angel


Grosskurth, Phyllia

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust.

Record # 55746


Price: $30.00 

 

W. Somerset Maugham - A Candid Portrait


Pfeiffer, Karl G.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj edgeworn, spine sunned

Record # 55750


Price: $18.00 

 

Happiest Man Alive, The - A Biography of Henry Miller


Dearborn, Mary V.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 55751


Price: $18.00 

 

H.L. Mencken - Iconoclast From Baltimore


Steverson, Douglas C.

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos

Record # 55752


Price: $18.00 

 

Robert Frost - A Life


Parini, Jay

Paperback. New York, Henry Holt, Unc. proof wraps, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Wraps with soil, light creases.SIGNED BY PARINI on title page.

Record # 55753


Price: $30.00 

 

Aleksandr Blok: A Life


Berberova, Nina

Hardcover. Boston, G. Braziller, 1st US, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Transl. from French by Robyn Marsack

Record # 55758


Price: $20.00 

 

Still Rebels Still Yankees and Other Essays


Davidson, Donald, Illust. by: Theresa Sherrer Davidson

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana St. Univ., 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Wood engravings by Theresa Sherrer Davidson. Dj price clipped.

Record # 55772


Price: $28.00 

 

Writing a Woman's Life


Heilbrun, Carolyn G.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 55778


Price: $12.00 

 

Eugene O'Neill - A Critical Study


Winther, Sophus Keith

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 55788


Price: $12.00 

 

Mirror of Chaucer's World, A


Loomis, Roger Sherman

Paperback. NJ, Princeton Univ. Press, rep wraps, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A pictorial companion to Chaucer's work. 179 pages. Many black & white illust. depicting the period from manuscripts, tapestries, & other sources.

Record # 56342


Price: $18.00 

 

Shapespeare's Poetics in Relation to King Lear


Fraser, Russell A.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st , 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. Dj chipped. 184 pages

Record # 56347


Price: $20.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The - Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 336 pages.

Record # 56355


Price: $20.00 

 

Henry James - The Major Phase


Matthiessen, F.O.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dj chipped badly

Record # 56357


Price: $18.00 

 

Arthur Ransome


Hunt, Peter

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Twayne's English Author Series. Ed. by Lois R. Kuznets with bibliography

Record # 56382


Price: $25.00 

 

Writer's Eye, A - Collected Book Reviews


Welty, Eudora

Hardcover. Jackson, MS, Univ. Press of Miss., 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Pearl Amelia McHaney. 280 pages

Record # 56402


Price: $25.00 

 

On the Teaching of Creative Writing - Responses to a Series of Questions


Stegner, Wallace

Hardcover. Hanover, Dartmouth College, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A commentary from a tape recorded discussion at Dartmouth College in 1980. 72 pages. Edited by Edward C. Lathem. No dj issued. Scarce

Record # 57033


Price: $26.00 

 

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters - Second Series.


N/A

Hardcover. Boston, Amer. Academy of Art & Letters, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Numbers 1-5. The annual proceedings for 1951-1955, bound in hardcover. Each with many speeches, addresses by notable American writers. 416 pages.

Record # 57254


Price: $80.00 

 

Life of William Shakespeare, A


Lee, Sidney

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, rep., 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paper at hinges torn. Previous owner's bookplate, previous owner's signature

Record # 57635


Price: $19.00 

 

Revolution in European Poetry 1660-1900


Neff, Emery

Hardcover. NY, Columbia Univ. Press, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 57639


Price: $35.00 

 

Introduction to Russian Literature, An


Muchnic, Helen

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, G+

Record # 57642


Price: $19.00 

 

Mark Twain's Letters Vol I - 1853-1866


Branch, Edgar Marquess, Michael B. Frank and Kenneth M. Sanderson

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif., Unk, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust.

Record # 57650


Price: $44.00 

 

Hostage to Fortune - The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon


Jardine, Lisa and Alan Stewart

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st US, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white illust.

Record # 57654


Price: $24.00 

 

San Francisco's Literary Frontier


Walker, Franklin

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust.

Record # 57655


Price: $25.00 

 

Max Brand - The Big "Westerner"


Easton, Robert

Hardcover. Norman, Unif. of Okla., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A biography of Frederick Faust who pub. over 30 million words as Max Brand. Black & white photos. Very slightly warped boards otherwise

Record # 57656


Price: $38.00 

 

Talking Horse - Bernard Malamud on Life and Work


Cheuse, Alan and Nicholas Delbanco (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Columbia Univ. Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Press release laid-in

Record # 57661


Price: $25.00 

 

Papa Hemingway


Hotchner, A.E.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Dj price clipped

Record # 58227


Price: $12.00 

 

Henry Fielding


Thomas, Donald

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 436 pages.

Record # 58228


Price: $20.00 

 

Bridge of Childhood, A - Truman Capote's Southern Years


Moates, Marianne

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 240 pages

Record # 58229


Price: $25.00 

 

Across Spoon River - An Autobiography


Masters, Edgar Lee

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 426 pages. Spine faded otherwise VG

Record # 58231


Price: $18.00 

 

Southern Daughter - The Life of Margaret Mitchell


Pyron, Darden Asbury

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 533 pages

Record # 58232


Price: $25.00 

 

Maugham - A Biography


Morgan, Ted

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, 711 pages

Record # 58234


Price: $13.00 

 

Tennessee Williams' Letters to Donald Windham 1940-1965


Windham (ed.), Donald

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Review slip laid-in

Record # 58239


Price: $20.00 

 

Reviewer's ABC. A - Collected Criticism of Conrad Aiken from 1916 to the Present.


Aiken, Conrad

Hardcover. NY, Greenwich - Meridian, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 414 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Library. Light wear to price clipped dust jacket. End papers stamped by Lib., but otherwise clean.

Record # 58257


Price: $30.00 

 

Tennessee Williams - A Portrait in Laughter and Lamentation


Rasky, Harry

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 148 pages. Several pages with corner creases otherwise VG

Record # 58383


Price: $18.00 

 

Story of a Wonder Man, The - Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner


Lardner, Ring

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st , 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. by Margaret Freeman.

Record # 58994


Price: $35.00 

 

Curse of the Misbegotten, The: A Tale of the House of O'Neill


Bowen, Croswell

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Written with Shane O'Neill, the playwright's son. Black & white photos. 384 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. A few pages with pencil lines in margins otherwise very good.

Record # 59056


Price: $12.00 

 

Poe - Man, Poet and Creative Thinker


Cody, Sherwin

Hardcover. NY, Boni and Liveright, 1st , 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 485 pages. Green cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine. No sj as issued. Hinges slightly fragile, previous owner's stamp on front end paper, else a neat, clean.

Record # 59322


Price: $26.00 

 

Stormy Petrel - The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky


Levin, Dan

Hardcover. NY, Apeleton & Century, 1st , 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small red remainder star on front fly leaf . 332 pages.

Record # 59323


Price: $20.00 

 

Medieval Women Writers


Wilson (Ed.), Katharina M.

Softcover. Athens, GA, U:niv. of Georgia, 2nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. paperback. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf otherwise VG

Record # 59481


Price: $18.00 

 

Showman of Vanity Fair, The - The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray


Stevenson, Lionel

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, Unknown, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white drawings by Thackeray. 405 pages.

Record # 59708


Price: $15.00 

 

Secrets of a Woman's Heart - The Later Life of I. Compton-Burnett 1920-1969


Spurling, Hilary

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 336 pages. Previous owner's stamp, initial on front fly leaf otherwise VG

Record # 59710


Price: $18.00 

 

Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor


Conwell, Russell H.

Hardcover. Boston, B.B.Russell, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white frontis portrait, other plates. 358 pages. Green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf

Record # 59712


Price: $19.00 

 

Genius of John Ruskin, The - Selections From His Writings


Rosenberg (Ed.), John D.

Hardcover. NY, G. Braziller, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 560 pages. Dj price clipped, light chipping

Record # 59714


Price: $18.00 

 

You Are Not I - A Portrait of Paul Bowles


Dillon, Millicent

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Univ. of Calif., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 340 pages.

Record # 59908


Price: $14.00 

 

Areopgifica and Other Prose Writings


Milton, John

Hardcover. N Y, Macmillan Co., 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 170 pages. Dust jacket worn, soiled, spine darkened. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 60203


Price: $15.00 

 

Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 1994-1995 by: Henderson ( Ed.), Bill

Hardcover. Wainscott, NY, Pushcart Press, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover edition. Record # 60227
Price: $12.00 

 

Babel to Byzantium - Poets & Poetry Now


Dickey, James

Paperback. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st wraps, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages.

Record # 60233


Price: $12.00 

 

Literary Politics in America - The End of Intelligent Writing


Kostelanete, Richard

Paperback. NY, Sheed & Ward, 1st wraps, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages.

Record # 60239


Price: $12.00 

 

Susy and Mark Twain - Family Dialogue


Salsbury, Edith Colgate

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 444 pages. Dj with chipping, wer, chunk gone from bottom spine.

Record # 60243


Price: $18.00 

 

Hooded, Hawk, The - Or the Case of Mr. Boswell


Lewis, D.B. Wyndham

Hardcover. NY, Longman S. Green & Co., 1st US, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows wear, chipping and tears. Covered with brodart. Spine faded. Cover boards are faded, rubbed and lightly frayed. Gilt lettering. Pages lightly darkened.

Record # 60247


Price: $18.00 

 

Life and Times of Jane Austen, The


Wilks, Brian

Hardcover. London, Chancellor Press, Rep., 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, A photographic history of the period. Black & white illust. 144 pages.

Record # 60516


Price: $30.00 

 

On Writing and the Novel - Essays by Paul Scott


Scott, Paul

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Shelley C. Reece

Record # 60520


Price: $18.00 

 

Little Rivers - A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness


Van Dyke, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, Rep., 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 241 pages. Front hinge starting.

Record # 60522


Price: $15.00 

 

Writing and Being


Gordimer, Nadine

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 60529


Price: $20.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The - Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus Young, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by Grace Paley

Record # 60533


Price: $20.00 

 

Robert Graves - The Assault Heroic 1895-1926


Graves, Richard Perceval

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 387 pages. Remainder line top edge otherwise VG/VG

Record # 60536


Price: $13.00 

 

Man of Letters, A - Selected Essays


Pritchett, V.S.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 60936


Price: $18.00 

 

Creating Colette (2 vols.)


Francis, Claude and Fernande Gontier

Hardcover. S.Royal, Steerforth Press, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 367 pages.

Record # 61584


Price: $40.00 

 

Creating Colette (2 vols.)


Francis, Claude and Fernande Gontier

Hardcover. S.Royal, Steerforth Press, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 367 pages.

Record # 61585


Price: $40.00 

 

J. M. Barrie - The Man Behind the Image


Dunbar, Janet

London, Collins, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 318 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 61895


Price: $14.00 

 

Humor In Borges


Costa, Rene De

Detroit, Wayne State Univ., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 145 pages.

Record # 61897


Price: $18.00 

 

At Home - Essays 1982-1988


Vidal, Gore

NY, Random House, 1ST, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages

Record # 61901


Price: $20.00 

 

Last Modern, The - A Life of Herbert Read


King, James

Hardcover. New York , St. Martin's Press, BC Ed., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations, 364 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 61911


Price: $20.00 

 

Lady Gregory - A Literary Portrait


Coxhead, Elizaeth

London, Secker & Warburg, 2nd, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Revised edition. Black & white ilust. 227 pages.

Record # 62296


Price: $18.00 

 

Ordinary Universe, The - Soundings in Modern Literature


Donoghue, Denis

Paperback. NY, ECCO, Rep. wraps, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Essays on modern writers by Donoghue. 320 pages. Paperback edition.

Record # 62325


Price: $12.00 

 

John Cheever - A Biography


Donaldson, Scott

NY, Random House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 416 pages. Previous owner's signature, dust jacket spine with light fade.

Record # 62326


Price: $15.00 

 

Sean O'Casey - The Man I Knew


Fallon, Gabriel

Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 213 pages. Previous owner's stamp front fly leaf.

Record # 62328


Price: $20.00 

 

Our Friend James Joyce


Colum, Mary and Padraic

NY, Doubleday, 1st , 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.

Record # 62330


Price: $20.00 

 

Hardy of Wessex - His Life and Literary Career by: Weber, Carl J.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia Univ., 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with chips, tears to edges and small piece gone from front panel Record # 62336
Price: $12.00 

 

At the Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscences


Lewis, C.S.

NY, Macmillan Co., 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by James T.Como. 299 pages. Light fade to dust jacket spine. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 62343


Price: $25.00 

 

Jesting Apostle - The Private Life of Bernard Shaw


Winsten, Stephen

NY, Dutton, 1st US, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 231 pages. Light wear, soil to dust jacket.

Record # 62344


Price: $20.00 

 

John Steinbeck - The Voice of the Land


Ferrell, Keith

NY, M. Evans & Co., 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 62345


Price: $15.00 

 

Selected Criticism


Bogan, Louise

NY, Noonday Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 404 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Small 1/4" tear to top of spine.

Record # 62347


Price: $20.00 

 

Ellen Glasgow - Beyond Convention


Wagner, Linda W.

Austin, TX, Univ. of Texas, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages.

Record # 62355


Price: $20.00 

 

Poet Auden, The - A Personal Memoir


Rowse, A.L.

NY, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 62369


Price: $15.00 

 

As They Appear


Brown, John Mason

NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, price clipped.

Record # 62370


Price: $12.00 

 

Oscar Wilde


Hyde, H. Montgomery

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, Book Club, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 466 pages.

Record # 62371


Price: $12.00