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Poetry of Dylan Thomas, The


Olson, Elder

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 164 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner, and bookplate opposite half title page. Dust jacket with chipping at top and bottom of spine, closed tears along edges. Jacket now protected with plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611576


Price: $19.00 

 

Poets' Country: The Homes and Haunts of the Poets


Lang (Ed.), Andrew, Illust. by: F.S. Walker

Hardcover. New York, NY, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages. Green-brown cloth hard covers with gilt title and front cover color illustration on paper. Color illustrations. Some staining and discoloration on pages and inside cover.

Record # 604040


Price: $13.00 

 

Portrait of jane Austen, A


Cecil, David

Hardcover. New York, Hill and Wang, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609338


Price: $28.00 

 

Praying for Rain


Weidman, Jerome

Hardcover. NY, Harper & row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 52928


Price: $15.00 

 

Prince-Errant and Evocator of Horizons: A Reading of R. B. Cunninghame Graham


Haymaker, Richard E.

Hardcover. Kingsport, TN, Kingsport Press, limited, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited Edition. 374 pages, b&w frontispiece. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Ex-lib w/ stamp on top edge, pocket mark on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851061


Price: $15.00 

 

Private History of Awe, A


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. New York, North Point Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, small tears & price-clipped. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751196


Price: $15.00 

 

R.L.S. - Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter


Ferguson, Delancey and Marshall Waingrow

Hardcover. New Haven, Yal Univ. Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 385 pages, dust jacket with edgewear and closed tears, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 55464


Price: $16.00 

 

Radclyffe Hall at The well of loneliness: A sapphic chronicle


Dickson, Lovat

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages, minor foxing on top edge and previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456762


Price: $12.00 

 

Recollections of Mr. James Lenox of New York and the Formation of His Library


Stevens, Henry

Hardcover. London, Henry Stevens & Son, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages, three-quarters white cloth with marbled boards. Illustrated with 3 engraved portraits with tissue guards. Frontispiece plate is loose, otherwise very good, clean and tight.

Record # 402744


Price: $50.00 

 

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow - Nature Writing and Autobiography


Allister, Mark

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609167


Price: $15.00 

Reluctantly: Autobiographical EssaysCarruth, Hayden
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Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays


Carruth, Hayden

Softcover. Port Townsend, WA, Copper Canyon Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to wrappers, dog-ears to a few pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459562


Price: $31.00 

 

Remembeing Randall - A Memoir of Poet, Critic and Teacher Randall Jarrell


Jarrell, Mary von Schrader

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54198


Price: $18.00 

 

Remembering John Masefield


Lamont, Corliss

Hardcover. NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 4753


Price: $12.00 

 

Reminiscences (2 Volume Set)


McCarthy, Justin

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages (Vol. 1), 424 pages (Vol. 2), hardcover. Two volumes of the reminiscences of Justin McCarthy, M.P. and advocate of home rule for Ireland. Illustrated frontispiece intact. Previous owner's inscription to title page. (Volume 1) Light bumping, edgewear, and light rubbing to both volumes, as well as light age toning to text blocks. Gilted top edges. Tight and clean copies.

Record # 951510


Price: $31.00 

 

Reminisences of Lafcadio Hearn


Koizumi (Mrs. Hearn), Setsuko

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages, dark blue covers with silver decoration. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Light rubbing to silver on cover otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 405213


Price: $25.00 

 

Renegade in Power: The Diefenbanker Years


Newman, Peter C.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 2nd pr, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 414 pages. SIGNED BY NEWMAN ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket. Edgewear, chipping and mild rubbing to dust jacket, previous owner's pencil notations to rear endpaper.

Record # 807280


Price: $25.00 

 

Restless Spirit, A: The Story of Robert Frost


Bober, Natalie S.

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt & Co, 2nd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 197 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor edgewear on dust jacket and

Record # 2230253


Price: $19.00 

 

Ring - A Biography of Ring Lardner


Yardley, Jonathan

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. From the library of Bernard Malamud (written on front end paper, signature?) with a letter from pub. PR dept. soliciting & blurb

Record # 56385


Price: $20.00 

 

Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and His Literary Circle, 1895-1915


Seymour, Miranda

Hardcover. Houghton Mifflin, 1st Am, June 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages, b&w photographs, map endpapers. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453604


Price: $15.00 

Roald Dahl: A BiographyTreglown, Jeremy
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Roald Dahl: A Biography


Treglown, Jeremy

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 3rd printing, 1994-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Minor sun-fade and shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461782


Price: $13.00 

 

Robert Browning: A Bibliography 1830-1950


Broughton et al., Leslie Nathan

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pages. Ex-library, with only minor end paper stamping, residue. Light pencil notes throughout. Hardcover with faded gilt lettering on spine. Corners bumped.

Record # 106271


Price: $25.00 

 

Robert Frost and the Lawrence, Massachusetts High School Bulletin


Lathem, Edward Cnnery and Lawrence Thompson

Hardcover. NY, Grolier Club, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ltd to 1200. Printed by the Stinehour Press

Record # 109065


Price: $51.00 

 

Robert Frost and the Lawrence, Massachusetts, High School Bulletin: The Beginning of a Literary Career


Connery Lathem, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Grolier Club, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Hardcover with plastic protective cover. Ivory pages with illustrations in black and white. Clean, tight copy. Gilt top edge.

Record # 2233170


Price: $38.00 

 

Robert Frost: A Pictorial Chronicle


Morrison, Kathleen

Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1974, Dust Jacket: Good, 133 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket shows light wear, sunning to covers and a small rubbed patch inside the front flap from an old sticker. Upper edge of front end paper is price clipped. Nice, bright copy.

Record # 809832


Price: $12.00 


  
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