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Robert Lowell: A Biography


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 527 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled foreedge. Cover boards bound in burgundy cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, very good, wrapped in protective clear plastic brodart. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. This definitive biography is the first extended study of the life and works of the poet Robert Lowell.

Record # 32455


Price: $23.00 

Robert Penn Warren and American idealismBurt, John
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Robert Penn Warren and American idealism


Burt, John

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 238 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt titles on spine. Foxing to dust jacket and edges, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 238 pages. Record # 467501

Record # 467501


Price: $19.00 

 

Rock Rabbit and the Rainbow, The


Post, Laurens Van Der

Hardcover. US, Daimon Verlag, 1st, 1998-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 393 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464281


Price: $13.00 

Rodin (GERMAN EDITION)Rilke, Rainer Maria
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Rodin (GERMAN EDITION)


Rilke, Rainer Maria

Hardcover. Leipzig, Im Insel-Verlag, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original quarter black cloth and blue paper-covered boards; spine lettering in gilt. With 96 full-page illustrations. GERMAN TEXT. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Publisher's flyers laid in. Top of text block darkened, light foxing to endpapers otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 412018


Price: $63.00 

 

Rough Magic - A Biography of Sylvia Plath


Alexander, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Viking Penguin, 1st Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750130


Price: $15.00 

Rudyard Kipling in Vermont: Birthplace of the Jungle BooksMurray, Stuart
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Rudyard Kipling in Vermont: Birthplace of the Jungle Books


Murray, Stuart

Hardcover. Bennington, Vt., Past, 1st, September 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages, b&w photographs. Light stain on fore-edge. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 454445


Price: $18.00 

 

Ruskin Family Letters: The Correspondence of John James Ruskin, His Wife, and Their Son, John, 1801-1843


Ruskin, John J.

Hardcover. Ithaca [N.Y.] Cornell University Press [1973], Cornell University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set with slipcase and photographs. Light foxing on edges and edgewear on slipcase, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457800


Price: $31.00 

 

Salman Rushdie - Sentenced to Death


Weatherby, W.J.

Hardcover. NY, Carroll $ Graf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 2999


Price: $15.00 

 

Sambo Sahib: The Story of Helen Bannerman author of 'Little Black Sambo'


Hay, Elizabeth

Hardcover. Totowa, NJ, Barnes & Noble, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Biography of the life of Helen Bannerman and her controversial books about "Little Black Sambo." 194 pages. In very good condition, clean and well-bound. Some rubbing to dust jacket. Includes b&w illustrations.

Record # 807633


Price: $35.00 

 

Saroyan - A Biography


Lee, Lawrence and Barry Gifford

Hardcover. NY, Harper & row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 52926


Price: $18.00 

 

Saul Bellow, Drumlin Woodchuck


Harris, Mark

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609367


Price: $12.00 

Science and Religion in the Era of William James: Volume 1, Eclipse of Certainty, 1820-1880Croce, Paul Jerome
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Science and Religion in the Era of William James: Volume 1, Eclipse of Certainty, 1820-1880


Croce, Paul Jerome

Softcover. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1. 350 pages, b&w illustrations. Faint pencil markings in margin on a handful pages. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Record # 458660


Price: $13.00 

 

Scott and Ernest - The Hemingway Friendship


Bruccoli, Matthew J.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos, 168 pgs. Closed tears, dust jacket with edgewear, chips.

Record # 100972


Price: $40.00 

 

Sean O'Casey and His World


Krause, David

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Dust jacket with short closed tears, otherwise very good.

Record # 106175


Price: $18.00 

 

Sean: An Intimate Memoir of Sean O'Casey


O'Casey, Eileen

Hardcover. New York , Coward McCann Goghegan, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages, brown cloth covers with a lightly worn dust jacket. His wife's recollections edited by J.C. Trewin.

Record # 406377


Price: $13.00 

 

Secret Life of The Lonely Doll - The Search for Dare Wright, The


Nathan, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611653


Price: $19.00 

 

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette


Thurman, Judith

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1999-10-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 592 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464497


Price: $38.00 

Seductive Poison - A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples TempleLayton, Deborah
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Seductive Poison - A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple


Layton, Deborah

Hardcover. NY, Anchor/Doubleday, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Black & white photos throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 58135


Price: $15.00 

Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff 1917-1976Hindus (Ed.), Milton
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Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff 1917-1976


Hindus (Ed.), Milton

Softcover. Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Clean inside and out.

Record # 30289


Price: $19.00 

 

Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, The


Lawrence, D. H.

Hardcover. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 524 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 456422


Price: $30.00 

 

Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry


Breit (Ed.), Harvey and Margerie Bonner Lowry

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 459 pages, b&w frontispiece photo. Light green boards with green cloth spine. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, with small closed tear.

Record # 405204


Price: $23.00 

 

Selected Poems Francis Thompson


Thompson, Francis/Wilfrid Meynell

Hardcover. New York, John Lane Company, First Edition, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 141 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with gilt decoration & gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt top edge. Deckled bottom & side edges. Previous owner's signature in pencil to prelim page. Frontis illustration, Francis Thompson, in black & white, protected with tissue guard. Light toning throughout. Otherwise very clean & unmarked.

Record # 751186


Price: $25.00 

 

Serpent in Eden: H.L. Mencken and the South


Hobson, Fred C.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, May 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. Light rubbing, edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451577


Price: $15.00 

Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, TheMott, Michael
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Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, The


Mott, Michael

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 690 pages. Illustrated frontispiece. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Slight staining to fore edge. Musty odor, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466958


Price: $13.00 


  
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