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Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Work, and Character. An Anthology of History and Biography, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Belles-Lettres


Wagenknecht, Edward

Hardcover. New York , Creative Age Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 661 pages, black cloth covers with gilt design. Dust jacket with light edge wear, half inch chip at top of spine.

Record # 408314


Price: $13.00 

After The Fire: A Writer Finds His PlaceZimmer, Paul
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After The Fire: A Writer Finds His Place


Zimmer, Paul

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow poet John Engels on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 459565


Price: $25.00 

 

Alfred de Musset 1810-1857


Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. B&w frontispiece and 4 b&w illustrations and photographs in text. Some wear and rubbing to cover. Some light spotting. Else nice, tight copy.

Record # 851629


Price: $12.00 

 

Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet


Reeder, Roberta

Hardcover. New York , St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 619 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462862


Price: $15.00 

 

Anne Sexton: A Biography


Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 6th, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages, Illustrated in b&w. Very good condition in very good dust jacket.

Record # 603071


Price: $13.00 

Anne Sexton: A BiographyMiddlebrook, Diane Wood
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Anne Sexton: A Biography


Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470404


Price: $15.00 

 

Assault on Mount Helicon - A Literary Memoir


Barnard, Mary, Illust. by: Illustrated

Berkeley, CA, University of California, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 331 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 302801


Price: $15.00 

 

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


Hilton, Frank

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

Record # 31422


Price: $19.00 

Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and ModernismMcLees, Ainslie Armstrong
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Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and Modernism


McLees, Ainslie Armstrong

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some soiling to dust jacket. An otherwise clean copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471592


Price: $19.00 

 

Baudelaire's Voyages: The Poet and His Painters


Coven, Jeffrey/Dore Ashton (Contribution)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Bulfinch Press Book, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & white throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670046


Price: $19.00 

BaudelaireTroyat, Henri
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Baudelaire


Troyat, Henri

Softcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages. Softcover. Previous owners inscription to front edge. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 471591


Price: $15.00 

 

Benjamin Robert Haydon: Historical Painter


Olney, Clarke

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate and stamp on front endpapers. Dust jacket price clipped, has a touch of agewear, wrapped in protective plastic cover. Pages and edges have slight tanning from age. Pages otherwise unmarked and clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age. The author's purpose is to evaluate Haydon's place in the history of art, to indicate his importance as a pioneer in social concepts of art, and to describe his success and failure as a painter and as a man.

Record # 32183


Price: $23.00 

 

Best of Rilke, The


Arndt, Walter and Rainer Maria Rilke

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, Univ. Press of New England, 1st thus, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 form-free verse translations by Walter Arndt with facing commentary and compact originals, biography. Light edgewear to dj otherwise

Record # 57583


Price: $23.00 

Betjeman: A LifeWilson, A. N.
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Betjeman: A Life


Wilson, A. N.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. B&W photographs and illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt title to spine. Erratum laid-in. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850814


Price: $18.00 

 

Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath


Stevenson, Anne

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

Record # 31998


Price: $19.00 

 

Books of the Sea: An Introduction to Nautical Literature.


Lewis, Charles Lee

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 318 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and minor fraying on spine edge. Dust jacket is faded and has small tears on edges. Inside is nice and clean. Written by a Professor of the United States Naval Academy. Diverse topics include poetry, pirates, plays and oceanography.

Record # 852487


Price: $40.00 

 

Books of the Sea: An Introduction to Nautical Literature.


Lewis, Charles Lee

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, some wear to corners and edges. Residue from sticker on front flyleaf, otherwise inside is bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 853017


Price: $35.00 

Carl Sandburg: A BiographyNiven, Penelope
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Carl Sandburg: A Biography


Niven, Penelope

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 843 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE AND TITLE PAGES. Features 24 pages of black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 456856


Price: $50.00 

Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu ZhimoHsu, Tony S
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Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu Zhimo


Hsu, Tony S

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge Rivers Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471523


Price: $23.00 

 

Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity


Tillery, Tyrone

Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 235 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 508133


Price: $18.00 

 

Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties: A Memoir (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Kunin, Madeleine May

Hardcover. Brattleboro, VT, Green Writers Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight.

Record # 32148


Price: $23.00 

 

Dome and the Rock, The - Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens


Baird, James

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Original dust jacket with sunfade to spine edge, light toning, price-clipped. Clean & unmarked text. Tight copy.

Record # 750811


Price: $19.00 

Dream Song: The Life of John BerrymanMariani, Paul L.
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Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman


Mariani, Paul L.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, January 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 519 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451452


Price: $25.00 

 

Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson, The


Brack, Jr. (Editors), O. M./Robert E. Kelley

Hardcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages. Black cloth covers show standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610096


Price: $13.00