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Joseph P. LashLash (Intro.), Jonathan
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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
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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 

 

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 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
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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 


  
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