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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
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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 

Osbert - A Portrait of Osbert LancasterBoston, Richard
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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
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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
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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
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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 

 

Pasternak: A Pictorial Biography


Ruge, Gerd

Hardcover. New York , McGraw Hill Book Company, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light wear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 810139


Price: $15.00 

 

Paston Letters, The


Fenn (Ed), John

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, reprint , 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two volumes. Brown top edge. In very good condition.

Record # 503431


Price: $13.00 

 

Paul Muldoon


Kendall, Tim

Softcover. Chester Springs, PA, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Small ink-mark to top edge, slight indentation to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453079


Price: $12.00 

Pauline Autobiography: Toward a New UnderstandingLyons, George
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Pauline Autobiography: Toward a New Understanding


Lyons, George

Softcover. Atlanta, Ga., Society of Biblical Literature, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459237


Price: $15.00 

 

People, People Everywhere - Footprints of a Wanderer


David, Bob

Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes, 1st, 1936, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. A collection of articles which first ran in the New York Sun.

Record # 55891


Price: $18.00 

 

Perfect Stranger, The - A Memoir


Kauanagh, P. J.

Hardcover. St.Paul, MN , Graywolf Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53026


Price: $18.00 

 

Personality of Thoreau, The


Sanborn, F.B.

Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Goodspeed, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 71 pages, number 410 of a 500. French hand-made paper, printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with one plate and two facsimiles of Thoreau's journal. Gray-green boards with a beige cloth spine with a paper label. Spine and covers darkening, light shelf wear.

Record # 412416


Price: $75.00 

 

Philosopher Pickett


Powell, Lawrence Clark

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 178 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Three black-and-white illustrations, plus frontispiece. Tanning along spine of dust jacket. Water stains on front and rear dust jacket covers, cloth cover and front and rear end paper and flyleaf. Also some water staining along top edge and on frontispiece and title page. Light foxing on front and rear end paper and flyleaf and fore edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856128


Price: $44.00 

 

Pictures & Conversations


Bowen, Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, ex-lib, her last book

Record # 7243


Price: $12.00 

 

Pilgrim in the Ruins


Tolson, Jay

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The life of Walker Percy

Record # 6163


Price: $18.00 

Poem of a Life - A Biography of Louis Zukofsky, TheScroggins, Mark
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Poem of a Life - A Biography of Louis Zukofsky, The


Scroggins, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Shoemaker Hoard, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 572 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613167


Price: $19.00 


  
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