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Graham Greene: An Intimate Portrait by His Closest Friend and Confidant


Duran, Leopoldo

Hardcover. US, HarperCollins, 1st, 1995-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463753


Price: $10.00 

Graham Greene: An Intimate Portrait by His Closest Friend and ConfidantDuran, Leopoldo

Graham Greene: An Intimate Portrait by His Closest Friend and Confidant


Duran, Leopoldo

Hardcover. 1st, April 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, b&w photographs. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451626


Price: $12.00 

 

Granite Monthly, A New Hampshire Magazine, Volume IX


n/a

Hardcover. Concord, New Hampshire, John N. McClintock , 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 370 pages, with illustrations. A magazine devoted to Literature, Biography, History, and State Progress. Copyright page missing from this volume, light damage to front endpaper, minor corner bump and edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853715


Price: $30.00 

 

Granite Monthly, A New Hampshire Magazine, Volume Six


n/a

Hardcover. Concord, New Hampshire, John N. McClintock , 1st, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 386 pages, with illustrations. A magazine devoted to Literature, Biography, History, and State Progress. Minor foxing throughout, light damage to front endpaper, minor corner bump and edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853716


Price: $30.00 

 

Granite Monthly, The : A New Hampshire Magazine, Devoted to History, Biography, Literature and State Progress. Vol 38. New Series Vol 1


N/A

Hardcover. Concord, NH, Granite Monthly Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 592 pages. Black cloth covers, gilt titles to spine. B&W photographs and illustrations. Spine slightly faded. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 809706


Price: $20.00 

 

Granite Monthly, The : A New Hampshire Magazine, Devoted to History, Biography, Literature and State Progress. Vol 6.


N/A

Hardcover. Concord, NH, Granite Monthly Co., 1st, 1883, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 386 pages. Black cloth covers with embossed design, gilt titles to spine. B&W illustrations. Ex-lib embossed stamp. Spine slightly faded with chunk missing from top. Several pages loose, and hinges cracked. Otherwise, clean copy.

Record # 809707


Price: $20.00 

 

H. L. Mencken and the Debunkers (SIGNED)


Martin, Edward A.

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Geoorgia Press , 2nd printing, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Neatly SIGNED BY MARTIN on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 854845


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Hand of a Stranger, The (Journal D'un Inconnu)


Cocteau, Jean

Hardcover. London, Elek Books, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages. Authorized transl. by Alec Brown. Ex-lib with erased label on spine, stamping to front endpaper, title-page. Fade to spine and top portions of front & back cloth binding.

Record # 502350


Price: $11.00 

 

Hand to Mouth - A Chronicle of Early Failure


Auster, Paul

Hardcover. NY, H.Holt, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light remainder line to top edge

Record # 52955


Price: $10.00 

 

Hand to Mouth - A Chronicle of Early Failure


Auster, Paul

Hardcover. NY, H.Holt, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, light remainder line to top edge

Record # 52956


Price: $20.00 

 

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure


Auster, Paul

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 449 pages. SIGNED BY AUSTER on bookplate. Minor wear to dust jacket in protective brodart cover, else like new.

Record # 450235


Price: $35.00 

Happiest Man Alive, The : A Biography of Henry MillerDearborn, Mary V.

Happiest Man Alive, The : A Biography of Henry Miller


Dearborn, Mary V.

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461789


Price: $10.00 

 

Harriet Monroe and the Poetry Renaissance: The First Ten Years of Poetry, 1912-22


Williams, Ellen

Hardcover. Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 8vo, brown cloth. (xiv), 312 pp. ISBN 0252004787. Story of the legendary Chicago editor and poet. Her little magazine, Poetry, was very influential in modernist literature. Some fade to dust jacket spine.

Record # 804506


Price: $10.00 

 

Hawthorne's Secret: An Untold Tale


Young, Philip

Hardcover. US, David R Godine, 1st, 1984-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462348


Price: $10.00 

 

Headed for the Blues


Skvorecky, Josef

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. from Czech by Kaca Polackova Henley

Record # 53128


Price: $11.00 

 

Heifetz


Alexrod, Herbert

Hardcover. Neptune City, N.J., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 506 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Light edge wear to covers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451987


Price: $35.00 

 

Henry Fielding


Thomas, Donald

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609370


Price: $12.00 

Henry James and the 'Woman Business'Habegger, Alfred

Henry James and the 'Woman Business'


Habegger, Alfred

Hardcover. Cambridge [England] ; New York, 1st, September 29, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Lighht edgewear to dust jacket with small scratch to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 457687


Price: $44.00 

 

Henry James at Home


Hyde, H. Montgomery

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. No dust jacket. Light fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 54093


Price: $6.00 

 

Henry James: A Life in Letters


James, Henry

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st US, 1999-11-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 668 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463190


Price: $19.00 

 

Here But Not Here - My Life With William Shawn and the New Yorker


Ross, Lillian

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 52960


Price: $20.00 

 

Hidden Life of Emily Dickinson, The


Walsh, John Evangelist

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages. Illustrated with 4 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket with darkening along edges, and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610145


Price: $15.00 

HISTORY OF THE GINGER MANDonleavy, J. P.

HISTORY OF THE GINGER MAN


Donleavy, J. P.

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994-03-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 517 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461802


Price: $13.00 

 

Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever


Cheever, Susan

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages, b&w photographs. Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise very good in a very good jacket.

Record # 402499


Price: $18.00 

Home Before DarkCheever, Susan

Home Before Dark


Cheever, Susan

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin (T), 2nd printing, 1984-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461873


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

 

House of Elrig - An Autobiography of Childhood, The


Maxwell, Gavin

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Brown dust jacket with red and back lettering over red cloth covers with stamped decoration on front and gilt lettering on spine. Black and white photographs inside. Clean and bright interior.

Record # 613302


Price: $15.00 

 

House of Trees: Memoirs of an Australian GIrlhood


Colebrook, Joan

Softcover. New York, Penguin Books, reprint, 1988, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF, color photograph on cover. Light wear to cover; a tight, clean copy.

Record # 802993


Price: $11.00 

 

I Could Tell You Stories - Sojourn in the Land of Memory


Hampl, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY HAMPL on half-title page.

Record # 107978


Price: $32.00 

 

Impossible Exile, The : Stefan Zweig at the End of the World


Prochnik, George

Hardcover. US, Other Press, 1st, 2014-05-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464744


Price: $25.00 

 

Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, The


Prochnik, George

Hardcover. US, Other Press, reprint, 2014-05-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages. B&w photography throughout. Blind stamp on front cover. Edge wear to dust jacket, else clean, tight copy.

Record # 466448


Price: $13.00 

In Bed with Gore VidalTeeman, Tim

In Bed with Gore Vidal


Teeman, Tim

Softcover. Bronx, NY, Magnus Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to paper wrappers. Small tear on top spine.

Record # 470609


Price: $19.00 

 

In the Middle Distance


Delbanco, Nicholas

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, fictitious autobiography, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 801646


Price: $15.00 

 

In the Storm of the Eye - A Lifetime at CBS


Leonard, Bill

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photos throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some edge wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 53270


Price: $12.00 

 

Indecent Pleasures: The Life and Colorful Times of William Targ


Targ, William

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan Publishing Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 428 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 810127


Price: $12.00 

 

Indigo Bunting, The - A Memoir of Edna St. Vincent Millay


Sheean, Vincent

Hardcover. New York, Schocken Books, First Thus, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 131 pages. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titles to ivory cloth spine. Original dust jacket with light toning, small tears edges & price-clipped. Blue top edge. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751185


Price: $23.00 

Interior Castle, The - The Art & Life of Jean StaffordHulbert, Ann

Interior Castle, The - The Art & Life of Jean Stafford


Hulbert, Ann

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages, unmarked and bright copy.

Record # 52919


Price: $10.00 

 

Invented Lives - F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald


Mellow, james R.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 569 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. slight degree of fading to spine. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609331


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

Inventions of Mark Twain, The Lauber, John

Inventions of Mark Twain, The


Lauber, John

Hardcover. US, Hill & Wang Pub, 1st, 1990-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461824


Price: $10.00 

 

Inventions of Mark Twain, The


Lauber, John

NY, Hill and Wang, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 340 pages.

Record # 68080


Price: $18.00 

Invisible Spectator, An : A Biography of Paul BowlesSawyer-Laucanno, Christopher

Invisible Spectator, An : A Biography of Paul Bowles


Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher

Hardcover. US, Grove Pr, 1st, 1989-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 501 pages. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461838


Price: $11.00 

 

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 

 

Iris Murdoch: A Life


Conradi, Peter J.

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2001-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 706 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464641


Price: $13.00 

 

Isaac Bashevis Singer - Children's Stories and Childhood Memoirs


Allison, Alida

Hardcover. NY, Twayne, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Twaynes U.S. Authors Series #661.

Record # 57245


Price: $11.00 

 

Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of West 86th Street


Kresh, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 439 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front flap on dust jacket creased. Remainder mark on bottom. Black and white photos in center.

Record # 2233413


Price: $15.00 

 

Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life


Child, Lydia Maria

Hardcover. New York , Negro Universities Press, reprint., 1969, Book: Very Good, 493 pages. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855999


Price: $15.00 

 

Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition


Calvino, Italo

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Princeton University Press, 1st Paperback, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 640 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 2230276


Price: $15.00 

 

Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett


Spurling, Hilary

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 621 pages, with photographs. Remainder line on bottom edge and minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456769


Price: $15.00 

 

J.M. Barrie: The Man Behind the Image


Dunbar, Janet

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 413 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs. Fading, rubbing, slight soiling to dust jacket. Edgewear to dust jacket, mostly to spine and top edge. Damp stain to dust jacket, not wrinkled; mostly confined to interior dust jacket. Price clipped. Erasure marks to front flyleaf. Light rubbing to boards, bottom edge slightly bumped. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951247


Price: $35.00 

 

Jack - A Biography of Jack London


Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609375


Price: $12.00 

 

Jack London: A Life


Kershaw, Alex

Hardcover. New York, NY, St. Martin's Press, First US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Black boards with silver titles to spine. Deckled edge. 16 pages of illustrations in black & white plus four maps. Dust jacket in very good shape with only light, marginal wear to edges. Clean, tight and unmarked.

Record # 6670093


Price: $19.00 

 

James A. Michener: The Beginning Teacher and His Textbooks


Dybwad, G.L. and Joy V. Bliss

Hardcover. Albuquerque NM, The Book Stops Here, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 103 pages, b&w illustrations. Limited to 800 copies. A biography of Michener's teaching days (1921-1947) and the books he taught from. With notes and reminiscences by Michener. In a bright dust jacket.

Record # 405312


Price: $23.00 

 

james Baldwin - Artist on Fire


Weatherby, W. J.

Hardcover. New York, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 412 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609339


Price: $12.00 

 

James Joyce - The Years of Growth 1882-1915


Costello, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, dust jacket with slight rubbing, otherwise, nice copy.

Record # 53357


Price: $8.00 

Jane Austen: A LifeTomalin, Claire

Jane Austen: A Life


Tomalin, Claire

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket and very minor soil to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459815


Price: $25.00 

 

Jane Austen: A Life


Tomalin, Claire

Hardcover. New York, NY, Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with gilt titles to maroon cloth spine. Deckled edge, black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670049


Price: $23.00 

 

Jascha Heifetz


Weschler-Vered, Artur

Hardcover. London, 1st , February 13, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451982


Price: $60.00 

 

Jean Cocteau: The Man & the Mirror


Sprigge, Elizabeth/Jean-Jacques Kihm

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings and photographs. Dust jacket worn with small tears and chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608453


Price: $15.00 

 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Volume I 1712-1758


Guehenno, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 460 pages, black cloth. Previous owner's small sticker on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 403332


Price: $15.00 

 

Joffre


Recouly, Raymond

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 369 pages, b&w frontispiece. Chipping, tears, light soiling to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851380


Price: $20.00 

 

John Cheever: A Biography


Donaldson, Scott

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1988-06-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages, b&w photos. Light sun-fade to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463766


Price: $10.00 

 

John Cheever: A Biography


Donaldson, Scott

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1988-06-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Light edgewear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462505


Price: $10.00 

John Cheever: A BiographyDonaldson, Scott

John Cheever: A Biography


Donaldson, Scott

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1988-06-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 461831


Price: $10.00 

 

John Millington Synge - Twayne's English Authors Series


Gerstenberger, Donna

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, Revised Ed., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with minor wear, fade to spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 407860


Price: $19.00 

John Ruskin: The Later YearsHilton, Tim

John Ruskin: The Later Years


Hilton, Tim

Hardcover. New Haven, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 656 pages, b&w photos. Light staining to rear dust jacket cover, slight rubbing to front flap edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453078


Price: $20.00 

 

John Ruskin


Harrison, Frederic

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt design, top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Record # 402721


Price: $12.00 

 

John Stanislaus Joyce - The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father


Jackson, John Wyse and Peter Costello

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&w illust. 494 pgs.

Record # 105677


Price: $28.00 

 

John Steinbeck, the Errant Knight: An Intimate Biography of his California Years


Valjean, Nelson

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages plus index, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket, spine faded; protected by mylar cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850779


Price: $18.00 

Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and AndyGruelle, Kim (Foreword)

Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy


Gruelle, Kim (Foreword)

Hardcover. Gretna, La., Pelican Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460492


Price: $38.00 

Joseph Conrad: Interviews and RecollectionsRay, Martin (Editor)

Joseph Conrad: Interviews and Recollections


Ray, Martin (Editor)

Hardcover. Iowa City, 1st, September 1, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451637


Price: $12.00 

 

Joseph Conrad: Interviews and Recollections


Ray, Martin

Hardcover. US, University Of Iowa Press, 1st, 1990-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages. Light shelf-wear and scratching to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462731


Price: $13.00 

Joseph P. LashLash (Intro.), Jonathan

Joseph P. Lash


Lash (Intro.), Jonathan

Softcover. New York , New York Public Library, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 52 pages, tipped in portrait as frontispiece. A collection of remembrances by the writer's family and friends. White stapled wrappers with brick-red dust jacket that has a small dime size stain on front.

Record # 411331


Price: $25.00 

 

Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters


Steinbeck, John

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 182 pages, color frontispiece, seven fold-out facsimile plates of Steinbeck's original manuscript. Limited to 600 copies, very good in a very good slipcase with light rubbing to rear panel. The glassine dust jacket is present, worn with a chunk gone from front panel.

Record # 406348


Price: $188.00 

 

Journal: Traduit de l'americain par Georges Agadjanian


Agadjanian, Georges and Robert Solo

Softcover. Paris, Les Editions de la Diaspora francaise, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages, French text, softcover.

Record # 404752


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph HellerDaugherty, Tracy

Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller


Daugherty, Tracy

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 560 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470011


Price: $13.00 

 

Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Elise


Canetti, Elias

Softcover. London, Calder and Boyers, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Green wrappers, perfect binding, letters translated by Christopher Middleton. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806235


Price: $15.00 

 

Kay Boyle - Author of Herself


Mellen, Jean

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 670 pages

Record # 56401


Price: $19.00 

 

Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography from Shakespeare to Plath


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 402932


Price: $18.00 

 

Kerouac


Charters, Ann

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Straight Arrow Books, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856900


Price: $31.00 

 

King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson


Leamer, Laurence

Hardcover. New York, 1st, July 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages, b&w photographs. Dust jacket price-clipped. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451640


Price: $10.00 

 

Kipling Primer, A: Including Biographical and Critical Chapter, an Index to Mr. Kipling's Principal Writings and Bibliographies


Knowles, Frederic Lawrence

Hardcover. Boston, Brown and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages, red cloth cover. Tanning to edges and newspaper clipping inset pages, browning around newspaper clipping. Some slight edge wear to cover. Otherwise tight, clean copy.

Record # 401731


Price: $25.00 

 

Kiss, The: A Memoir


Harrison, Kathryn

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardccover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Light edgewear with small crease to front bottom.

Record # 2233489


Price: $15.00 

 

Knut Hamsun


Larsen, Hanna Astrup

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light wear to edges. Gutter cracks throughout but still intact.

Record # 2233496


Price: $23.00 

 

Kokoro - Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life


Hearn, Lafcadio

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Unk., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Spine gilt faded. Previous owner's bookplate, signature.

Record # 55787


Price: $30.00 

 

La Fontaine and His Friends


MacKay, Agnes Ethel

Hardcover. NY, Braziller, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 7136


Price: $18.00 

 

Last Dalai Lama, The


Goodman, Michael

Hardcover. Boston, 1st, May 12, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 364 pages, b&w photographs. Business card of the assistant secretary to the Dalai Lama laid in. Light fading to price-clipped dust jacket. Foxing, staining to top and fore-edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451776


Price: $20.00 

 

Last Stands - Notes From Memory


Masters, Hilary

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd printing, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 457290


Price: $8.00 

 

Learning to Look


Pope-Hennessy, John

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages, b&w photographs throughout, unclipped dust jacket with some rubbing. Heavy foxing to edges, but interior very clean.

Record # 451170


Price: $12.00 

 

Ledge Between the Streams


Mehta, Ved

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 2595


Price: $20.00 

 

Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis


Gresham, Douglas H.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, b & w photos, clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800573


Price: $8.00 

 

Leslie Stephen: His Thought and Character in Relation to his Time


Annan, Noel

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd US pr., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 342 pages, b&w illustrations. Black and rust cloth, dust jacket is worn, chipped.

Record # 406786


Price: $10.00 

 

Letters of Eric Gill


Gill, Eric/Walter Shewring (Editor)

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, First Edition, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Pink top edge. Light marginal sunfade to spine edge. Front hinge cracked, tender & held in place with light threads of cloth at bottom edge. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751230


Price: $19.00 

 

Letters of Ernest Hemingway, The: Volume 5, 1932-1934


Spanier, Sandra (Ed.), Miriam B. Mandel

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 699 pages. Hardcover. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. Like new. Hemingway's personal correspondence is a look into his intimate life.

Record # 31929


Price: $50.00 

 

Letters of Henry James, Volume I: 1843-1875, The


James, Henry

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 493 pages. Sunfading to dust jacket spine, two small closed tears to front cover. Faint foxing to edges, previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458232


Price: $19.00 

Letters of Henry James, Volume II: 1875-1883, The James, Henry

Letters of Henry James, Volume II: 1875-1883, The


James, Henry

Hardcover. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume 2. 438 pages. Light sunning to dust jacket spine, previous owner's signature on front end paper, faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458233


Price: $38.00 

 

Letters of James Gibbons Huneker


Huneker, Josephine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, James Gibbon Huneker, in sepia tones protected with tissue guard. Green cloth covered boards with gilt cameo to cover, gilt titles to spine. Deckled side edge, green dyed top edge. Tight binding, previous owner's signature to front fly leaf, else clean.

Record # 6670157


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters of Narcissa Whitman


Whitman, Narcissa

Hardcover. Fairfield, Washington, Ye Golden Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages, with illustrations. Minor corner and spine edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456054


Price: $30.00 

 

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 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 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 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 

 

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: 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 

 

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 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 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 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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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'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 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 

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 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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Memorial of Andrew J. Shipman: His Life and Writings


Pallen, Conde B.

Hardcover. New York , Encyclopedia Press, Inc., 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, no dust jacket. Wear, rubbing and soiling to edges and spine. Front hinge cracked. Interior very clean.

Record # 607719


Price: $12.00 

 

Memphis Afternoons - A Memoir


Conaway, James

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Dust jacket spine sunned.

Record # 68071


Price: $15.00 

 

Millay in Greenwich Village


Cheney, Anne

Hardcover. University AL, University of Alabama Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 402535


Price: $12.00 

 

Mind and Art of Henry Miller, The


Gordon, William A.

Hardcover. LA, Louisiana State University Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857093


Price: $10.00 

 

Minor Lives - A Collection of Biographies by John Nichols


Hart (Editor), Edward L.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 367 pages. Dust jacket worn, with darkening to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610115


Price: $13.00 

 

Mishima: A Vision of the Void


Yourcenar, Marguerite

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st US, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 152 pages. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857124


Price: $10.00 

Morning After, The - American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986Will, Geroge F.

Morning After, The - American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986


Will, Geroge F.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. A collection of his columns & essays from the 80's. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 58145


Price: $12.00 

 

Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life


Mortimer, John

Hardcover. London, Viking, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 404110


Price: $12.00 

 

My Autobiography


McClure (Willa Cather), S.S.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 2nd pr., 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages,b&w illustrations. Copyright page states "May, 1914" so 2nd impression of this memoir. Supposedly ghostwritten by Willa Cather. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering, cover pastedown.

Record # 404637


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

My First Cousin Once Removed - Money, Madness & the Family of Robert Lowell


Stuart, Sarah Payne

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages, black & white photos. Light edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else very good.

Record # 53374


Price: $6.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

My Own River Kwai


Boulle, Pierre

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket covered in brodart, shows chipping, and rips. The author's own true adventures as a secret agent in the Far East during WW II. Light fading to cover boards. Gilt "PB" initials on front cover.

Record # 58240


Price: $15.00 

 

My Sister Life - The Story of My Sister's Disappearance


Flook, Maria

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 351 pages. Hardcover. Review slip attached to cover. Some shelf ware to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 177878


Price: $12.00 

 

My Stephen Crane


Linson, Corwin K.

Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages, hardcover, b&w illustrations. Light wear to dust jacket edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 602640


Price: $10.00 

 

Mystery of Georges Simenon, The : A Biography


Bresler, Fenton

Hardcover. US, Beaufort Books, 1st, 1983-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461630


Price: $13.00 

 

Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965


Ford (Editor), Hugh

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Book Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white photographs. Foxing to top edge. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613692


Price: $25.00 

 

Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist


Gordon, Lois

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 447 pages. Cover and dust jacket have very little wear. Bright and clean, b&w photographs throughout.

Record # 455889


Price: $25.00 

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The American Years


Cantwell, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, light browning, residue to front end paper, otherwise VG

Record # 53140


Price: $11.00 

 

Nell Gwyn - Mistress to a King


Beauclerk, Charles

Hardcover. New York, NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, First US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of full page, full color illustrations. Mustard cloth covered boards with navy titles to spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. A nice copy, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751277


Price: $15.00 

No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith WhartonNo Author

No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton


No Author

Hardcover. New York, Scribner Book Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 546 pages. Light wear/rubbing to dust jacket else a nice, bright copy.

Record # 454430


Price: $10.00 

 

No Ordinary Man: Judge Forbes and His Library


Lockwood, Allison McCrillis

Softcover. US, Daily Hampshire Gazette, 1st, 1994-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 464553


Price: $13.00 

 

Nobody Told Me


Geringer, Ken

Hardcover. New York, Hipway Book, Reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket.

Record # 804288


Price: $10.00 

 

North of Now


Wetherell, W.D.

Hardcover. New York, The Lyons Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Half cloth boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511830


Price: $8.00 

 

Notebook, The


Saramago, Jose

Hardcover. US, Verso, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy.

Record # 2230254


Price: $15.00 

 

Notorious Life of Gyp, The


Silverman, Willa Z.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford U. Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, right-wing anarchist in Fin-De-Siecle France

Record # 6332


Price: $18.00 

 

Novelist of Vermont, The - A Biographical and Critical Study of Daniel Pierce Thompson


Flitcroft, John E.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press , 1st , 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages hardcover. Green cloth covers. Gilt decoration on the spine. Gilt top edge. Illustrate frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Cloth frayed at top and bottom of flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857205


Price: $19.00 

 

Olive Schreiner


First, Ruth

Hardcover. US, Rutgers University Press, 1st US, 1990-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463729


Price: $10.00 

 

Oliver Goldsmith: His life and works


Sells, A. Lytton

Hardcover. London, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 423 pages, with illustrations. Dust jacket edge wear and crease, foxing on edges, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 457713


Price: $15.00 

One Matchless Time: A Life of William FaulknerParini, Jay

One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner


Parini, Jay

Hardcover. New York , Harper Collins Publishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 487 pages, b&w photos. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 855195


Price: $38.00 

 

One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner


Parini, Jay

Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 2004-11-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 492 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462810


Price: $13.00 

 

Orientalist, The : Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life


Reiss, Tom

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 2005-02-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 433 pages, b&w photos. Previous owner's stamp on end papers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464280


Price: $10.00 

Osbert - A Portrait of Osbert LancasterBoston, Richard

Osbert - A Portrait of Osbert Lancaster


Boston, Richard

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, with black & white illustrations throughout. Light dust jacket spine fade, otherwise, spotless and bright copy.

Record # 4784


Price: $8.00 

Osbert SitwellZiegler, Philip

Osbert Sitwell


Ziegler, Philip

Hardcover. New York, 1st American, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 444 pages, b&w photographs, unclipped dust jacket, some rubbing to covers. Clean and tight.

Record # 451161


Price: $15.00 

 

Oscar Wilde


Ellmann, Richard

Hardcover. US, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd printing, 1988-01-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 680 pages. Small tears to upper edger of dust jacket flaps, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463018


Price: $13.00 

Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy NovelHull, Christopher

Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel


Hull, Christopher

Hardcover. New York, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Record # 2230405


Price: $19.00 

 

Oxford History of English Literature: English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660.


Bush, Douglas

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 680 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and slight bumping on edges of spine. Minor foxing on dust jacket, along spine on front and rear endpages, and around all edges. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852595


Price: $15.00 

 

Oxford History of English literature: English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century


Sutherland, James

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 589 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Edges of spine slightly bumped, otherwise no visible wear to cover. Some foxing on dust jacket, spine at front and rear endpage, and edges of pages. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Edited by Bonamy Dobree and Norman Davis.

Record # 852594


Price: $18.00 

Pablo Neruda: A Passion for LifeFeinstein, Adam

Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life


Feinstein, Adam

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 510 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 471817


Price: $23.00 

 

Pages From a Cold Island


Exley, Frederick

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 51992


Price: $25.00 

 

Papa - A Personal Memoir


Hemingway, M.D., Gregory H.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Preface by Norman Mailer. A personal biography by his son. Dj price clipped

Record # 56359


Price: $15.00 

 

Paris Review, The - Summer, 1984


Plimpton (Editor), George/Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine

Softcover. Flushing, NY, Deborah S. Pease/The Paris Review, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations throughout, including an ads section. Features writers & interviews, Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine. Previous owner's signature lightly erased to preliminary page. Else, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751380


Price: $19.00 


  

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