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Letters of Nunnally Johnson, The


Johnson, Nunnally

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 281 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458681


Price: $13.00 

Letters of Rudyard Kipling, The: Volume 1: 1872-89Kipling, Rudyard

Letters of Rudyard Kipling, The: Volume 1: 1872-89


Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. This is a review copy. Volume 1 of 2. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A tight copy.

Record # 471782


Price: $31.00 

 

Letters of T. S. Eliot - Volume I - 1898-1922


Eliot (Editor), Valerie

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 639 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609372


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters of T.E. Lawrence, The


Garnett, David (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran & Co., Inc., 1st Edition, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 896 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout with fold-out maps. Dust jacket has some agewear (see images), price clipped. Binding good. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, design blind-stamped on front cover. Some tanning from age throughout, doesn't affect text, illustration, or maps. These letters form the intimate personal record of the life of the most discussed, most puzzling, and least understood figure of the post-war era.

Record # 33496


Price: $25.00 

Letters of Ted HughesHughes, Ted

Letters of Ted Hughes


Hughes, Ted

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 758 pages. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 453151


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Which contain, among other curious relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks - Drawn from Sources that hav

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Aurora Book Stores, 1st Thus, 1801, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1 only. 147 pages plus 2 pages of ads. Brown leather covers. Red spine label with title in gilt - chip missing from bottom third of label. Pages tanned. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Missing half of rear endpaper. 2 1/4" X 1/2" piece missing at top of title page. Narrow separation at very top of rear cover hinge - approximately 3/4". Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610542


Price: $100.00 

 

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 

Letters of Virginia Woolf, The : Vol. 3Nicolson, Nigel

Letters of Virginia Woolf, The : Vol. 3


Nicolson, Nigel

Hardcover. US, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1978-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 3. 600 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461412


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Letters on Literature and Politics 1912-1970


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus Young, 2nd, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Elena Wilson. Foreward by Leon Edel. Black & white illust.

Record # 54089


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Letters on Various Interesting and Important Subjects


Freneau, Philip

Hardcover. New York , Scholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 142 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket fair only with heavy chipping to spine and edges. Slight discoloration to endpaper, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 809664


Price: $20.00 

Letters To A TeacherPickering, Samuel F.

Letters To A Teacher


Pickering, Samuel F.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 242 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Some edgewear and creasing to upper edge of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453130


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters to a Young Novelist


Llosa, Mario Vargas

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002-06-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 136 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463750


Price: $10.00 

 

Letters to Bab - Sherwood Anderson to Marietta D. Finley 1916-33


Sutton, William A.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Illinois, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Note in pen concerning price on front endpaper. Cloth covers slighly bowed at foredge. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609341


Price: $15.00 

Letters to Bab - Sherwood Anderson to Marietta D. Finley, 1916-33Sutton (Ed.), William A.

Letters to Bab - Sherwood Anderson to Marietta D. Finley, 1916-33


Sutton (Ed.), William A.

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Illinois, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Sunning to dust jacket spine. Covered in brodart.

Record # 69535


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters to Dead Authors


Lang, Andrew

Hardcover. 1st, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages. Etched portrait by S. J. Ferris. Green cloth covers with embossed gold and ivory portrait on front and gold lettering on spine. Some rubbing on bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Foxing on some pages but overall condition is excellent for age.

Record # 802587


Price: $16.00 

 

Letters to Dorothy L. Sayers, The - 1899 to 1936: The Making of a Detective


Reynolds (Ed), Barbara

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pgs.

Record # 100934


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters To Freya, 1939-1945


Moltke, Helmuth Von

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 2nd printing, 1990-06-30, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 441 pages. binding cracked at last page. Clean unmarked copy.

Record # 463716


Price: $10.00 

Letters To Freya, 19391945Moltke, Helmuth Von

Letters To Freya, 19391945


Moltke, Helmuth Von

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 441 pages. Minor edgewear, spotting to dust jacket rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457115


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Letters to Molly - John Millington Synge to Marie O'Neill


Saddlemyer (Ed.), Ann

Hardcover. Cambridage, MA, Belknap Press, 1st , 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 330 pages, with black and white photographs. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 62746


Price: $26.00 

 

Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope - Vol. II


Chesterfield, Lord

Hardcover. London, J. Dodsley, 3rd, 1774, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 2 only of 4 volumes. Leather covers worn, spine lettering faded. Internally Very Good.

Record # 303306


Price: $40.00 

 

Lettres a Une Inconnue Par Prosper Merimee de L'Academie Francaise


Taine, H.

Hardcover. Paris, Calmann Levy, na, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, French text. Two volumes. Leather binding. Raised bands. Marbled covers and end papers. Gilt top edges. Light rubbing to extremities.

Record # 803337


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 1


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 503 pages, b&w engraved portrait as frontispiece. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume one only of a six volume set.

Record # 404855


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 2


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 540 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. Small chip to bottom of spine. French text. This is volume two only of a six volume set.

Record # 404856


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 3


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 535 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume three only of a six volume set.

Record # 404857


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 4


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 535 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. Calf is separating from spine, clean and very repairable. French text. This is volume four only of a six volume set.

Record # 404858


Price: $31.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 6


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 520 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume four only of a six volume set.

Record # 404859


Price: $38.00 

Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found ThereCarroll, Lewis, Illust. by: Barry Moser

Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There


Carroll, Lewis, Illust. by: Barry Moser

Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 161 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white, fine wood cuts, by Barry Moser. Spine darkening, edgewear, Front boards lightly warped. Light staining on front boards.

Record # 468450


Price: $63.00 

Lewis Carroll: A BiographyCohen, Morton N.

Lewis Carroll: A Biography


Cohen, Morton N.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 577 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped with light edgewear. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Record # 458722


Price: $19.00 

Lewis Carroll: A CelebrationGuiliano, Edward

Lewis Carroll: A Celebration


Guiliano, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Random House Value Publishing, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with light wear to edges and spine. Nice, bright copy.

Record # 454362


Price: $15.00 

 

Lewis Carroll: An Illustrated Biography


Hudson, Derek

Hardcover. New York, Random House Value Publishing, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 272 pages, illustrated throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457226


Price: $15.00 

 

Liberation: Diaries, Vol. 3: 1970-1983


Isherwood, Christopher

Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 2012-11-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 875 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464157


Price: $25.00 

 

Library Essays About Books, Bibliophiles, Writers and Kindred Subjects


Harper, Henry Howard

Hardcover. Boston, The Torch Press, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. In slipcase. Printed on textured paper with rough cut edges. Foxing to top edge. Light spotting to endpapers. Soiling to spine. Wear and fading to slipcase. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 851731


Price: $20.00 

 

Lies of Art, The - Max Beerbohm's Parody and Caricature


Felstiner, John

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 58 black & white plates, 283 pgs.

Record # 108478


Price: $25.00 

 

Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe


Fields, ed., Annie

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages. B/W photograph of bust of Stowe opposite title page. Green cloth covers with gold lettering on spine and front. Very minor foxing on end papers. Excellent condition for age.

Record # 802580


Price: $26.00 

 

Life and Letters of John Keats, The


Richardson, Joanna

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages, with portraits throughout, marbled covers with gilt title on spine and beige slipcase. Small crease on front cover, otherwise, neat and tight copy.

Record # 854467


Price: $12.00 

 

Life and Letters To-Day - Mediterrean Matters


Thomas)(Dylan

Softcover. London, Brendin Publisning, 1st wraps, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Spring Summer Issue. Old Garbo - a short story by Thomas(pg. 66-80) Other writers include Dorothy Richardson, S.M. Eisenstein. 158 pgs.

Record # 107243


Price: $18.00 

 

Life and Letters To-Day - United Kingdom


Thomas)(Dylan

Paperback. London, Brendin Pub. Co., 1st wraps, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A literary magazine-Vol 22 No. 25. A short story by Thomas (pgs. 415-425) titled Extraordinary Little Cough.

Record # 107251


Price: $20.00 

 

Life and Literature


Hearn, Lafcadio

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 393 pages. Red cloth covers w/ edgewear, rubbing. Top edge gilt. Rough cut pages. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851575


Price: $40.00 

 

Life and Times of Kin Hubbard, Creator of Abe Martin


Kelly, Fred C.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus and Young, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 179 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear, rubbing to pictorial dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front paste down. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 810140


Price: $12.00 

 

Life and Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 2 Volumes


Stahr, Adolf and E.P. Evans (transl.)

Hardcover. Boston, William V. Spencer, 1st, 1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, brown cloth. Ex-lib copies with usual endpaper residue and stamping, marking to spine. Appears that each volume may have had a frontispiece, no longer there. Hinges cracked, light marking to vol. 1, good reading copies.

Record # 404082


Price: $50.00 

Life as we Know it: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional ChildBerube, Michael

Life as we Know it: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child


Berube, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st ed., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Signed by author on half title page. Dust jacket has fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855686


Price: $13.00 

Life in Letters, 1914-1982, A Scholem, Gershom

Life in Letters, 1914-1982, A


Scholem, Gershom

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 547 pages. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453067


Price: $40.00 

Life of a Simple Man, TheGuillaumin, Emile

Life of a Simple Man, The


Guillaumin, Emile

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, University Press of New England , reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 195 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine. Dust jacket his shelf worn with fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855678


Price: $13.00 

 

LIFE OF FICTION


Klinkowitz, Jerome

Hardcover. US, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 156 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Slight crease to the first 15 or o pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket with small closed tears to front. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460738


Price: $19.00 

 

Life of John Keats, The


Erlande, Albert

Hardcover. New York, NY, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Cloth spine, gilt decorated end papers. Top edges of pages stained black. Slight discoloration on a few pages, and a few uneven page edges.

Record # 604037


Price: $11.00 

 

Life of Langston Hughes, The


Rampersad, Arnold

Hardcover. NY, Oxford, 3rd, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 vols

Record # 1773


Price: $45.00 

 

Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, The


Dowden, Edward

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Reprint, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages. Top edges of pages uncut. front hinge weak. Small closed tears at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607771


Price: $12.00 

 

Life of Reason, The: Or The Phases of Human Progress


Santayana, George

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 504 pages, new one-volume edition revised by the author in collaboration with Daniel Cory, relevant article about the letters of Santayana in the Atlantic Monthly laid-in. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge wear and spine fade, cover separated from spine but all pages intact, overall, clean and bright copy.

Record # 854664


Price: $20.00 

Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889Bartley, Theodore D.

Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889


Bartley, Theodore D.

softcover. Fleischmanns, New York, Purple Mountain Press, Ltd., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470013


Price: $25.00 

 

Lifetime Burning In Every Moment, A


Kazin, Alfred

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder mk

Record # 7088


Price: $15.00 

 

Light Of Memory, The - Collected Poems


Fabbri, Marcello

Softcover. Glastonbury, CT, Olive Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback with light edgewear to covers.

Record # 203518


Price: $12.00 

Light Within the Light, TheBraham, Jeane, Illust. by: Barry  Moser

Light Within the Light, The


Braham, Jeane, Illust. by: Barry Moser

Hardcover. New Hampshire, Godine, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 90 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Portraits of Poets Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, and Stanley Kunitz. With engravings by Barry Moser. A clean and bright unmarked copy.,

Record # 951029


Price: $19.00 

 

Like Birds, Likes Fishes and Other Stories


Jhabvala, R. Prawer

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Co, 1st US, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Dust jacket price clipped. Remainder mark on front end paper. Dust jacket with rubbing, edgewear.

Record # 801839


Price: $21.00 

 

Lillian Hellman - The Image; The Woman


Wright, William

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Embossed lib stamp otherwise

Record # 6465


Price: $10.00 

 

Lincoln on Democracy


Lincoln, Abraham

Hardcover. US, Harpercollins, rep, 1990-11-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 416 pages. Removed bookplate inside front cover has caused the dust jacket flap to stick to the board. Light sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 466163


Price: $10.00 

 

Line of Love, The


Cabell, James Branch, Illust. by: Howard Pyle

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st , 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color by Howard Pyle. Decorated green cloth, pictoral label on front. Bumps to corners. Slight wear to spine edges, water spots to back cloth. Otherwise VG

Record # 100350


Price: $60.00 

Linotte: The Early Diary of Anais Nin 1914-1920Nin, Anais

Linotte: The Early Diary of Anais Nin 1914-1920


Nin, Anais

Hardcover. US, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1978-07-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 518 pages. Foxing to all edges, light wear, rubbing and sunning to dust jacket.

Record # 461810


Price: $10.00 

 

Lirica Italiana Antica


Levi, Evgenia

Hardcover. Florence (Firenze), Presso R. Bemporad & F., rep, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. 1/4 red leather, 3/4 marble-like boards. Spine missing, edgewear, corners bumped. Marble end papers. B/W pictures throughout. Text block unmarked and still pretty tight.

Record # 804003


Price: $19.00 

 

Lirica Italiana Nel Cinqvecento e Nel Seicento


Levi, Evgenia

Hardcover. Florence (Firenze), Presso Leo S. Olschki, rep, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 452 pages. 1/2 red leather, 3/4 marble-like design. Spine missing. Boards show edgewear and bumps. Marbled end papers. B/W frontispiece, plus B/W pictures (tipped-in) throughout. Vellum title page bound between prelim pages.

Record # 804002


Price: $19.00 

 

List of the Separate Writings of William Gilmore Simms of South Carolina 1806-1870


Wegelin (Ed.), Oscar

Hardcover. New York, privately printed, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 pages, paper-covered boards with a cover label. Paper is off spine strip otherwise very good.

Record # 402678


Price: $12.00 

 

Literary Biography


Edel, Leon

Hardcover. Bloomington, reprint, March 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457692


Price: $15.00 

 

Literary By-Paths in Old England


Shelley, Henry C.

Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown , 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 400 pages. Black & white illustrations from photographs by Shelley. Frontispiece with tissue-guard. Green cloth covers with gold embossed lettering and decoration. Gilt top edge. Wear to extremities. Corners slightly bumped.

Record # 508824


Price: $15.00 

 

Literary Criticism and Romantic Theory in the Work of Achim Von Arnim


Liedke, Herbert R.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages. Cover has light edgewear.

Record # 207714


Price: $11.00 

 

Literary Criticism in England 1660-1800


Chapman, Gerald Wester

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 618 pages. Dust jacket slightly faded.

Record # 803350


Price: $8.00 

 

Literary History of America, A


Wendell, Barrett

New York , Scribners, Rep., 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. A bit shaken,dusty. Still, a good reading copy.

Record # 302099


Price: $12.00 

 

Literary Knowledge: Humanistic Inquiry and the Philosophy of Science


Livingston, Paisley

Softcover. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell Univ Pr, 1st pbk, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 458092


Price: $13.00 

 

Literary Memoirs


Lastarria, Jose Victorino

Paperback. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages. Inscribed by Translator on title page. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604328


Price: $11.00 

 

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 

 

Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934


Luckyj, George S.N

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 323 pages. Light sunning to spine, no dust jacket present. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 105921


Price: $8.00 

 

Literary Scene in East Pakistan, The


Husain, et. al., DR. S.S.

Paperback. E. Pakistan, P.E.N., 1st wraps, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY HUSAIN, one of the contributors. An introduction to the language and literature of East Pakistan. 88 pages.

Record # 58250


Price: $25.00 

 

Literary Theory


Dawson, David

Softcover. Minneapolis, FORTRESS PRESS, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 150 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 459388


Price: $19.00 

 

Literature and Insubstantiality in Later Eighteenth-Century England


Bogel, Fredric V.

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., 1st, April 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457689


Price: $15.00 

 

Literature of Modern Israel, The


Wallenrod, Reuben

Hardcover. New York, Ram's Horn Books, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, internal edge fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 854144


Price: $12.00 

Literature of Propaganda, The (3 volume set) Riggs, Thomas (Editor)

Literature of Propaganda, The (3 volume set)


Riggs, Thomas (Editor)

Hardcover. US, St James Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 Hardcover Volumes with no dust jackets. Volume 1- 473 pages. Volume 2- 471 pages. Volume 3- 469 pages. All have color images throughout. All clean, unmarked, tight copies.

Record # 470695


Price: $250.00 

 

Literature of the Anglo-Saxons, The


Anderson, George K.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 431 pages, dust jacket with wear, chunks gone from edge. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise book is clean, very good.

Record # 402602


Price: $15.00 

 

Literature of Vermont: A Sampler


Biddle, Arthur W. & Paul A. Eschholz (Ed.)

Hanover, NH, University Press of New England, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages & index.

Record # 304848


Price: $25.00 

 

Literature or Life


Semprun, Jorge

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. from French by Linda Coverdale. 310 pages.

Record # 65589


Price: $13.00 

 

Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing


Kirszner, Laurie G.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Wadsworth Publishing, 7th, January 15, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2078 pages. Light shelf-wear, scuffing to pictorial boards. No dust jacket issued. Spine slightly slanted, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457870


Price: $75.00 

 

Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors: Robert Burns


Hubbard, Elbert

Hardcover. East Aurora NY, Roycrofters Press, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft brown suede covers with gilt lettering, pages with deckle edges, frontispiece portrait, color text and initial decorations by Samuel Warner. Ribbon marker.

Record # 404644


Price: $30.00 

 

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers: Swedenborg


Hubbard, Elbert

Hardcover. East Aurora NY, Roycrofters Press, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft brown suede covers with gilt lettering, pages with deckle edges, frontispiece portrait, color text and initial decorations by the Roycroft artists. Ribbon marker.

Record # 404645


Price: $30.00 

 

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century


Paston, George

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton and Co., 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering and decor to spine and front. Minor wear to covers, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 810076


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Little Tour in France, A


James, Henry

Hardcover. US, Grove Pr, 1st US, 1987-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462901


Price: $10.00 

 

Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott


Bonstelle (Editors), Jessie and Marian deForest

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages, hardcover. Decorated green cloth boards. Frontispiece. Examines the Alcott characters through correspondence and diary entries. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards. Moderate bumping to spine, light bumping to corners. Unmarked. Scarce. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951607


Price: $55.00 

 

Lively Arts, The - Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States


Kammen, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, B&w photos, 495 pgs.

Record # 107300


Price: $28.00 

 

Lives Like Loaded Guns - Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds


Gordon, Lyndall

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Group, First US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 491 pages. Hardcover. Grey boards with gilt titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750981


Price: $19.00 

 

Lives of Margaret Fuller, The : A Biography


Matteson, John

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2012-01-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 510 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464711


Price: $15.00 

Lives of the Modern PoetsPritchard, William H.

Lives of the Modern Poets


Pritchard, William H.

Softcover. Hanover, NH, UPNE, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 454657


Price: $8.00 

Lives of the PoetsSchmidt, Michael

Lives of the Poets


Schmidt, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 975 pages. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, upper edge of spine slightly bumped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453213


Price: $30.00 

 

Lives on the Line -The Testimony of Contemporary Latin American Authors


Meyer (editor), Doris

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613685


Price: $13.00 

 

Living Hand 1


Auster (eds.), Paul and Michael Sisskind, Illust. by: Joan Mitchell

Softcover. England, Compton Press Ltd., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Literary magazine edited by Paul Auster. 85 pages. black & white illustration on cover by Joan Mitchell contributors: Paul Celan, Georges Bataille, Edmond Jabes, Allen Mandelbuam, John Taylor, Lydia Davis, Mitchell Sisskind, Paul Auster. White softcover. Spine wrinkled and crease at spine front and back covers. Good plus condition.

Record # 500125


Price: $50.00 

 

Living in Words: Interviews from the Bloomsbury Review 1981-1988


McNamee (Editor), Gregory

Hardcover. Portland OR, Breitenbush Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The craft of writing, discussed in-depth with many noted authors. Slight bow to front panel. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 4450000


Price: $15.00 

 

Living Mirror, The: Five Poets From Leningrad


Massie (Ed.), Suzanne

London, Gollancz, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 344 pages in a lightly worn dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp on title page, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 405578


Price: $25.00 

Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin NovelsGrossman, Anne Chotzinoff

Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels


Grossman, Anne Chotzinoff

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some soiling to top page block, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Adhesive residue on rear dust jacket.

Record # 470215


Price: $25.00 

 

Local Habitations: Regionalism in the Early Novels of George Eliot


Auster, Henry

Hardcover. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Foxing on top edge.

Record # 510775


Price: $9.00 

 

London Films


Howells, W. D.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st , 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust., photos. Turquois cloth with gilt design.

Record # 64272


Price: $23.00 

 

London Yankees, The : Portraits of American writers and artists in England, 1894-1914


Weintraub, Stanley

Hardcover. US, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1979-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 408 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with light sunning to spine. Faint foxing to top edge.

Record # 462509


Price: $10.00 

 

Long Island Light - Poems & a Memoir


Heyen, William

Paperback. New York, Vanguard Press, 1st wraps, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages.

Record # 302147


Price: $15.00 

 

Long Light of Those Days, The : Recollections of a Vermont Village at Mid-Century


Coffin, Bruce

Hardcover. US, The Elm Tree Press, 1st, 2005-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 465849


Price: $25.00 

 

Long View, The: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic craft


Pack, Robert

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Slight fading to dust jacket and a touch of foxing to top edge. Otherwise, clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Record # 30788


Price: $11.00 

 

Looking For The Klondike Stone


Arthur, Elizabeth

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1993-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462511


Price: $10.00 

 

Lorca: A Dream of Life


Stainton, Leslie

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 579 pages, with black & white photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457959


Price: $13.00 

 

Lord Dragonfly - Five Sequences


Heyen, William

New York , Vanguard Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 302145


Price: $20.00 

 

Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, The


Opie, Iona/Peter Opie

Hardcover. London, Oxford, Reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 417 pages. Previous owners name at top left corner of front endpaper. Spine faded. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607846


Price: $15.00 

 

Lost Childhood: A Memoir


Nir, Yehuda

Hardcover. San Diego, New York, London, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Spotting last few pages and fore edge.

Record # 803352


Price: $10.00 

Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr.Scharnhorst, G

Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr.


Scharnhorst, G

Softcover. United States, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Light sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460539


Price: $13.00 

 

Louis Fourteenth and the Writers of His Age


Astie, Rev. J.F.

Hardcover. Boston, John P. Jewett & Co., 1st, 1855, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 413 pages. Cover detached (but present).

Record # 64032


Price: $25.00 

 

Love and Friendship


Bloom, Allan

New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 590 pages. Spine slightly cocked, otherwise very good.

Record # 305270


Price: $18.00 

 

Love's Apprentice - The Romantic Education of a Modern Woman


Abbott, Shirley

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53003


Price: $18.00 

 

Love-Hate Relations: English and American Sensibilities


Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket. Light soil on bottom spine. Light marking on rear end paper.

Record # 2233379


Price: $31.00 

 

Love-Hate Relations: English and American Sensibilities


Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 318 pages, decorative red top edge stain. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852828


Price: $12.00 

 

Ludwig Bemelmans, a bibliography : with 77 reverently drawn irrelevant drawings by Ludwig Bemelmans


Pomerance, Murray

Hardcover. New York, James H. Heineman, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460549


Price: $15.00 

 

Lunacy Boom, The


Zinsser, William

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 59711


Price: $12.00 

 

Lydia Maria Child


Osborne, William S

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Pencil marking in margins, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458732


Price: $23.00 

 

Lytton Strachey by Himself - A Self Portrait


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. price clipped dust jacket shows wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609344


Price: $10.00 

M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her KitchensHesser, Amanda

M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens


Hesser, Amanda

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2nd, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 460666


Price: $23.00 

 

Macaulay's Essay on Addison


Macaulay, Thomas B.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green &Co., Rep., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Edited by James Greenleaf Croswell. Longmans' English Classics. 122 pages.

Record # 63522


Price: $10.00 

 

Madman of Ch'u - The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent, A


Schneider, Laurence A.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604321


Price: $32.00 

 

Madness Visible: A Memoir of War


Giovanni, Janine Di

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Grey boards, black cloth spine, gilt. Very good pictorial dust jacket.

Record # 40083


Price: $10.00 

 

Madwoman's Underclothes, The - Essays and Occasional Writings


Greer, Germaine

hard back. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 202241


Price: $15.00 

 

Major Barbara - With an Essay as First Aid to Critics


Shaw, Bernard

Softcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st U.S., 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Scarce 1st US edition in green wrappers with a Boston booksellers sticker on front wrap (Baker's Plays). Paper covers with chipping at corners, rear (green paper) cover detached. Interior clean, unmarked.

Record # 300258


Price: $51.00 

 

Major Works of Heinrich von Kleist, The: A Study


Liebling, Robert E.

Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 275 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A look at one of the great innovative forces in the early Romantic movement. Heavy fading to dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952082


Price: $13.00 

 

Make-Believe Town: Essays and Rememberances


Mamet, David

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder mark top edge

Record # 11930


Price: $9.00 

 

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age


Paret (EDITOR), Peter

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 941 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Spine cracked in center, from paper wrapper. Faded front wrapper. Clean.

Record # 2233794


Price: $23.00 

 

Making of Charles Dickens, The: An absorbing Study of a Complex and Striking Character During the Years of His Major Creative Development


Hibbert, Christopher, Illust. by: George Cruikshank

Hardcover. New York, Harper Row Publishers, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout, including those by George Cruikshank from several of Dickens' novels. Dust jacket price clipped. Covers bound in teal, gilt title on spine, covers slightly faded along top edge (shelf wear). Dust jacket in decent shape, clean inside.

Record # 30791


Price: $10.00 

 

Making of the Modern Greek Family, The: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)


Cassia, Paul Sant, Constantina Bada

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 1st Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Light (erasable) pencil throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travelers' accounts memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century.

Record # 32241


Price: $38.00 

 

Making Sense in Life and Literature


Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich

Softcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 455259


Price: $12.00 

Making Things Better: A NovelBrookner, Anita

Making Things Better: A Novel


Brookner, Anita

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 2003-01-07, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466744


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Malraux's Heroes and History


Greenlee, James W.

Hardcover. Dekalb, Northern Illinois University , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 609377


Price: $15.00 

 

Man in the Flying Lawn Chair, The: And Other Excursions and Observations


Plimpton, George

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st ed, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Edited by Sarah Dudley Plimpton. Heavy fading to dust jacket spine. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952587


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 

 

Man Working, 1919 - 1962: William Faulkner - A Catalogue of the William Faulkner Collections at the University of Virginia Library


Faulkner, William/Linton R. Massey (Editor) & John Cook Wyllie (Introduction)

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia/Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered board with black printed titles to canvas ivory cloth spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Related ephemera laid-in. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751235


Price: $94.00 

 

Manhood at Harvard - William James and Others


Townsend, Kim

NY, Norton, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&w Illustrations, 318 pages

Record # 75227


Price: $10.00 

 

Mania for Magnificence, A


Kronenberger, Louis

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 236 pages

Record # 304694


Price: $18.00 

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the BorderlandsChabon, Michael

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands


Chabon, Michael

Hardcover. US, McSweeney's, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469834


Price: $63.00 

 

Marcel Proust and the Creative Encounter


Stambolian, George

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, November 30, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 454514


Price: $12.00 

 

Margret Mead - Some Personal Views


Metraux, Rhoda

NY, Walker, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear and chipping

Record # 201566


Price: $15.00 

 

Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman


Coates, Thomas F. G. and R. S. Warren Bell

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Red cloth covers, gilt titles, tissue-protected b&w frontispiece, b&w plates throughout printed on stiff papers. Cocked spine, light edgewear and soiling to covers, bookplate to paste-down front endpaper, small dark stain to bottom edge of page block, inside of hinges partially cracked; otherwise a neat, tight copy.

Record # 808695


Price: $30.00 

 

Mark Twain in Elmira


Jerome, Robert D. and Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr. (eds)

Hardcover. Elmira, NY, Mark Twain Society, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Clean and tight copy. Includes illustrations.

Record # 2230497


Price: $15.00 

 

Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 Volumes)


Twain, Mark and Albert Bigelow Paine

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 2nd pr., 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, 368 and 365 pages, dark blue cloth covers. K-Y code on copyright page indicating second printing. (H-Y is the first). Sharp set, bright and clean, top edge gilt. Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine

Record # 406375


Price: $75.00 

 

Mark Twain's Four Weeks in England 1907


Lathem (Ed.), Edward Connery

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Mark Twain House & Museum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages, two-tone cloth with illustrated pastedown on front cover. Limited to 1,500 copies, like new condition, no dust jacket issued.

Record # 402845


Price: $35.00 

 

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 

 

Mark Twain: A Bibliography of the Collections of the Mark Twain Memorials and Stowe-Day Foundation


McBride, William

Hardcover. Hartford, Conn., 1st, June 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 487 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451644


Price: $30.00 

 

Mark Twain: A Life


Powers, Ron

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, September 13, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 722 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. B&w photos. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457922


Price: $50.00 

Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final YearsShelden, Michael

Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years


Shelden, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd printing, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature plate on front end paper. Light crinkling to dust jacket top edge and inside front flap.

Record # 470280


Price: $15.00 

 

Marking The Sparrow's Fall - Wallace Stegner's American West


Stegner, Page (Ed)

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 178074


Price: $9.00 

 

Marks in the Fields, The : Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts


Dennis, Rodney G.

Softcover. US, Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library, 1st, 2005-04-30, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages, b&w illustrations. Faint foxing to edges and light damp-creasing to rear cover.

Record # 464661


Price: $15.00 

Marshall Mcluhan: Escape Into Understanding: The Authorized BiographyGordon, W. Terrence

Marshall Mcluhan: Escape Into Understanding: The Authorized Biography


Gordon, W. Terrence

Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471815


Price: $31.00 

Martin Amis Bradford, Richard

Martin Amis


Bradford, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books LTD, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 449 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, slight edgewear. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951101


Price: $16.00 

 

Maruyama Masao and the Fate of Liberalism in Twentieth-Century Japan


Tadashi, Karube

Hardcover. 1st English, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages, several b&w photographs. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452969


Price: $15.00 

Mary Austin - Song of a MaverickStineman, Esther L.

Mary Austin - Song of a Maverick


Stineman, Esther L.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale U. Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and light fading to dust jacket.

Record # 702


Price: $15.00 

 

Mary Baker Eddy and Her Books


Orcutt, William Dana

Hardcover. Boston, Christian Science Pub, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 19825


Price: $9.00 

 

Mary Berenson: A Self-Portrait from Her Letters and Diaries


Strachey, Barbara

Hardcover. US, WW Norton & Co, 1st, 1984-08-29, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 319 pages. Light edgewear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462864


Price: $10.00 

 

Mary Lavin, Quiet Rebel: A Study of Her Short Stories


Kelly, A. A.

Hardcover. US, Rl Innactive Titles, 1st, 1980-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464827


Price: $19.00 

 

Mary Lavin: Irish Writers Series


Bowen, Zack

Hardcover. Lewisbug ME, Bucknell University Press , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 77 pages, dust jacket with light shelf wear. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 407850


Price: $23.00 

 

Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937-1962


McCarthy, Mary

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Strauss, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light rubbing.

Record # 107003


Price: $25.00 

 

Mary Poppins and myth


Bergsten, Staffan

Hardcover. Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell international, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages, b&w illustrations. Green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460530


Price: $38.00 

 

Mascha Kalenko (German Edition)


Rosenkranz, Jutta

Softcover. US, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co., 1st, 2007-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages, b&w illustrations. Text in German. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 464399


Price: $23.00 

 

Maske at Ludlow, A


Diekhoff (Editor), John S.

Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, The Press of Case Reserve University, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essays on Milton's Comus. Edgewear along dust jacket edges, most pronounced at fore edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951119


Price: $13.00 

 

Massachusetts Review - Winter 1973, The


Williams, William Carlos

Paperback. Amherst, MA, Massachusetts Review, 1st wraps, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A garland for William Carlos Williams issue. Edited by Paul Mariani

Record # 65736


Price: $15.00 

 

Master and Man: The Kreutzer Sonata Dramas


Tolstoi, Lyof N.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages, b&w frontispiece. Blue cloth covers w/ light wear to corners. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850653


Price: $15.00 

 

Master Class - Scenes from a Fiction Workshop


West, Paul

hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 75170


Price: $20.00 

 

Master of Sunnybank, The - A Biography of Albert Payson Terhune


Litvag, Irving

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages. B&W photos. Dust jacket has some soil, edgewear fading to spine and edges.

Record # 300993


Price: $65.00 

Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of Sorai Sensei TomonshoYamashita, Samuel Hideo

Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of Sorai Sensei Tomonsho


Yamashita, Samuel Hideo

Hardcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages, Cocked spine, old price-sticker to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453733


Price: $8.00 

 

Masterpiece and the Man, The - Yeats As I Knew Him


Gibbon, Monk

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 226 pages, B&W photos. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 302418


Price: $20.00 

Masterpieces of American Indian LiteratureRegier, Ed

Masterpieces of American Indian Literature


Regier, Ed

Hardcover. New York, MJF Books, 3rd printing, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages. Unfortunate foxing on top edge, else like new.

Record # 453879


Price: $15.00 

Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Six Volume SetMasson, Thomas L. (Editor)

Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Six Volume Set


Masson, Thomas L. (Editor)

Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Doubleday, Page & Co., 2nd, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Six red cloth volumes without dust jackets. Vol 1 (148 pages), Vol. 2 (150 pages), Vol. 3(186 pages), Vol. 3 (186 pages), Vol. 6 (186 pages). Minor wear to cover and spine edges. Gilt text on spines somewhat faded. Slight water staining to front end papers of volumes 1, 2, 6. Some volumes have slight separation to hinge between mid-text block (vols. 1, 2, 5, 6)

Record # 2230762


Price: $35.00 

 

Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism - First Series


Arnold, Matthew

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Edited by Sister Thomas Marion Hoctor. 367 pages. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 65590


Price: $8.00 

 

Matthew Arnold: A Critic of the Victorian Period


Harvey, Charles H.

Hardcover. reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 256 pages, dust jacket with browning and edge wear, foxing on edges, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 457736


Price: $15.00 

 

Matthew Arnold: The Critic and France


Harding, F. J. W.

Softcover. Geneve, , Librairie Droz, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages, edge chip and fade, light foxing on edges, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 855009


Price: $15.00 

 

Matthew Josephson Bourgeois Bohemian


Shi, David E.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Orange cloth, gilt, spine faded. Dust jacket price clipped. 24 pages of b&w photographs.

Record # 512579


Price: $10.00 

 

MATTHIAS AT THE DOOR


Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 99 pages. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Spine title worn. A very nice, tight copy.

Record # 809166


Price: $18.00 

 

Maugham


morgan, Ted

Hardcover. New York, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 711 pages, with photographs. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456775


Price: $12.00 

 

Max Beerbohn - Selected Prose


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: $9.00 

 

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 

 

Max Klinger Als Poet


Avenarius, Ferdinand

Hardcover. Munich, Georg D. W. Callwey, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages. B&W illustrations throughout. German text. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering. Remainder spray, top edge. Tight copy.

Record # 855628


Price: $13.00 

 

May Sarton: Selected Letters, 1916-1954


Sarton, May

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1997-06-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463467


Price: $13.00 

 

Mays of Ventadorn, The


Merwin, W.S.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., National Geographic, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 159 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457303


Price: $10.00 

 

McCully Report: The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905


McCully

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 337 pages. Edited by Richard von Doenhoff. Previous bookseller's bookplate on front flyleaf. Dust jacket soiled.

Record # 802225


Price: $19.00 

 

McLuhan Hot and Cold: A Primer for the Understanding of a Critical Symposium With a Rebuttal by McLuhan


Sontag, Susan; Macdonald, Dwight; Gossage, Howard, et al.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 312 pages. Hardcover with fair dust jacket. Fraying and chipping to dust jacket. Previous owner's marking on rear fly leaf. Tight copy.

Record # 2233712


Price: $19.00 

 

Meaning No Offense


Riddell, John, Illust. by: Covarrubias

Softcover. New York, John Day Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 177 pages. Boards illustrated with duotone illustration, black cloth binding, b&w illustrations by Covarrubias. Spine lightly cocked, light edgewear to covers, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851273


Price: $20.00 

 

Meaning of Courtly Love, The


Newman, F. X. (Ed.)

Albany, State University of New York, 2nd, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. 5 scholarly essays and bibliography. Previous owner's bookplate.

Record # 303893


Price: $23.00 

 

Measure of Her Powers: An M. F. K. Fisher Reader


Fisher, M. F. K. (Editor)

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., 1st, November 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 411 pages. Some light shelfwear, rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457566


Price: $13.00 

 

Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen


Euripides

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st thus, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Transl. with notes by James Morwood

Record # 51953


Price: $25.00 

 

Mediaeval Latin Lyrics


Waddell, Helen

Hardcover. New York, Richard R. Smith, 1st US, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages, black cloth covers, previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Corners lightly bumped otherwise very good.

Record # 402737


Price: $30.00 

 

Medieval English Verse and Prose: In Modernized Versions


Willard, Rudolph & Roger Sherman Loomis

Hardcover. NY, Appleton Century, rep, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 16062


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 

 

Meditations and Contemplations in Two Volumes


Hervey, James

Hardcover. Troy, NY, Solomon Wilbur, 1st, 1813, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes in one. 212 and 177 pages. Brown leather covers w/ edge wear, rubbing, small tears to front cover and bottom of spine. Front hinge starting to crack on outside. Foxing and soiling to pages and end papers. Else binding tight.

Record # 851078


Price: $50.00 

 

Melodious Guile - Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language


Hollander, John

New Haven, CT, Yale University Press , 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 262 pages. Dust jacket with closed tears, wear to corners.

Record # 502602


Price: $20.00 

 

Memoir of Robert Wheaton, with Selections from His Writings


unknown

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering. Pieces from top and bottom of spine missing. Rubbing to cover corners. Previous owner's signature inside front cover. Else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 850652


Price: $30.00 

Memoirs of a Dada DrummerHuelsenbeck, Richard

Memoirs of a Dada Drummer


Huelsenbeck, Richard

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, Reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Softcover. Heavy foxing to textblock edges. Sunfading to dust jacket. Otherwise a clean copy with minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 471653


Price: $13.00 

 

Memoirs of a Public Baby


O'Connor, Philip

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A frank self-revelation and a distinguished piece of literature. Price clipped dust jacket. Moderate fading, edgewear, and rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951616


Price: $31.00 

 

Memoirs of a Publisher, The


Doubleday, F. N.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. B&w frontispiece. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Light rubbing to dust jacket in brodart. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 851930


Price: $25.00 

 

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi


Dickens, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Stein and Day, 1st thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 311 pages, with illustrations by George Cruikshank; edited, annotated and introduced by Richard Findlater. Minor dust jacket edge wear and crease, otherwise, very clean, bright and tight copy.

Record # 854370


Price: $20.00 

 

Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully (Volume 3)


de Bethune, Maximilian

Hardcover. London, 1757, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 3 only. 416 pages. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Rubbing, edge wear to covers. Hinges starting to crack. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Discoloration to endpapers and title page. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 851525


Price: $60.00 

 

Memoirs of Princess Natal'ja Borisovna Dolgorukaja


Townsend, Charles E.

Paperback. Columbus OH, Slavica Publishers, Inc., Reprint of 1913 ed., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 146 pages. White covers. Top corner of front cover has crease. Foxing to covers. Otherwise, clean, tight unmarked. B/W photos of gravemarker at end. One map and family tree.

Record # 804007


Price: $58.00 


  

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