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Running to the Mountain: A Journey of Faith and Change by: Katz, Jon
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Running to the Mountain: A Journey of Faith and Change by: Katz, Jon

Hardcover. US, Villard, 2nd printing, 1999-02-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 464616
Price: $12.00 

Sartre & Flaubert by: Barnes, Hazel E.

Sartre & Flaubert by: Barnes, Hazel E.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 449 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has several chips, small holes, and closed tears. Gray cloth covers have some brown staining, but are generally in good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright, despite foxing along top edge. Binding is solid. This book explores the extent to which "The Family Idiot" is all of a biography, a novel, an autobiography, a philosophical work, and literature rolled into one. Clean copy. Record # 34342
Price: $18.00 

Satiric and the Didactic in Ben Jonson's Comedy, The by: Baum, Helena Watts
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Satiric and the Didactic in Ben Jonson's Comedy, The by: Baum, Helena Watts

Hardcover. Richmond, VA, University of North Carolina , 1st, 1947, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Green cloth, gilt, minor rubbing. Good dust jacket in mylar is price clipped with edge wear and rubbing. Record # 803630
Price: $12.00 

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by: Milford, Nancy
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by: Milford, Nancy

Hardcover. US, Random House, Bc. Ed., 2001-09-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 550 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463691
Price: $12.00 

Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism by: Stacks, John F.
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Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism by: Stacks, John F.

Hardcover. US, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2002-12-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 372 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear and scratching to lightly soiled dust jacket. Record # 465872
Price: $12.00 

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by: Thurman, Judith
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by: Thurman, Judith

Hardcover. US, Knopf, Bc ed, 1999-10-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 529 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462930
Price: $12.00 

Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike  by: Updike , John
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Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike by: Updike , John

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 857425
Price: $12.00 

Simone Weil (Radcliffe biography series) by: Coles, Robert
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Simone Weil (Radcliffe biography series) by: Coles, Robert

Hardcover. US, Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co, 1st, 1987-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463759
Price: $12.00 

Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street by: Lingeman, Richard
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Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street by: Lingeman, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 659 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has one closed tear at the top of the spine, and some shelf wear to the top edge. Black paper covers have minor bumping at the top and bottom of the spine, but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book presents an empathetic, absorbing, and balanced portrait of an eccentric alcoholic-workaholic whose novels and stories exploded shibboleths with a volatile mixture of caricature and realism. Clean copy. Record # 34137
Price: $30.00 

Solo in Tom-Toms, A by: Fowler, Gene
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Solo in Tom-Toms, A by: Fowler, Gene

Hardcover. New York, Viking, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages. Price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 609337
Price: $12.00 

Tesserae - Memories and Suppositions by: Levertov, Denise
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Tesserae - Memories and Suppositions by: Levertov, Denise

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Slight crease the front cover of the dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 108334
Price: $12.00 

The Politics of Literature:Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English by: Kampf, Louis, Paul Lauter
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The Politics of Literature:Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English by: Kampf, Louis, Paul Lauter

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 429 pages. Edited by Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter. Includes index and biography of contributors. Gray cover. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Record # 803559
Price: $12.00 

The World of Damon Runyon by: Clark, Tom
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The World of Damon Runyon by: Clark, Tom

Hardcover. US, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Light sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463843
Price: $12.00 

Thomas Mann - Letters to Paul Amann 1915-1952 by: Mann, Thomas
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Thomas Mann - Letters to Paul Amann 1915-1952 by: Mann, Thomas

Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Record # 206614
Price: $12.00 

Titania - The Biography of Isak Dinesen by: Migel, Parmenia
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Titania - The Biography of Isak Dinesen by: Migel, Parmenia

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 325 pages. Light wear, closed tears to edges of dust jacket else a clean, tight copy. Record # 60938
Price: $12.00 

To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman by: Lane, Ann J.
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To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman by: Lane, Ann J.

Softcover. Plume, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to wrappers and slight tanning to pages, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 458671
Price: $12.00 

Underground Stream, The : The Life and Art of Caroline Gordon by: Jonza, Nancylee Novell
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Underground Stream, The : The Life and Art of Caroline Gordon by: Jonza, Nancylee Novell

Hardcover. US, Univ of Georgia Pr, 1st, 1995-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 464068
Price: $12.00 

Unfinished Journey by: Menuhin, Yehudi
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Unfinished Journey by: Menuhin, Yehudi

Hardcover. 1st, March 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 393 pages, b&w photographs. Pink top edge. Dust jacket price-clipped. Else very good. Record # 451978
Price: $12.00 

Uninhibited Byron, The: An Account of his Sexual Confusion by: Grebanier, Bernard
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Uninhibited Byron, The: An Account of his Sexual Confusion by: Grebanier, Bernard

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 354 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear. Reveals a side of Byron heretofore unknown except through allusions and rumors. Record # 801697
Price: $18.00 

Unsentimental Education, An - Writers and Chicago by: McQuade (Ed.), Molly
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Unsentimental Education, An - Writers and Chicago by: McQuade (Ed.), Molly

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Anthology of writers associated with the Univ. of Chicago Record # 53380
Price: $12.00 

Walt Whitman: Words for America by: Kerley, Barbara, Illust. by: Brian Selznick
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Walt Whitman: Words for America by: Kerley, Barbara, Illust. by: Brian Selznick

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 50 pages with selected poems by Walt Whitman. Fantastically illustrated in color by Brian Selznick to complement biography. Very good condition, tight copy. Record # 512369
Price: $12.00 

War Bird: The Life and Times of Elliott White Springs by: Davis, Burke
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War Bird: The Life and Times of Elliott White Springs by: Davis, Burke

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2nd, October 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages, b&w photos. Light scratch to edges of flap, slight sunning to spine, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 457863
Price: $12.00 

Welcoming Life - The M.F.K. Fischer Scrapbook, A by: Gioia, Dominique
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Welcoming Life - The M.F.K. Fischer Scrapbook, A by: Gioia, Dominique

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Counterpoint, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 119 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs from the life of M.F.K. Fischer. Light wear to dust jacket. Record # 604513
Price: $12.00 

What Am I Doing Here by: Chatwin, Bruce
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What Am I Doing Here by: Chatwin, Bruce

hard back. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom. Record # 202236
Price: $12.00 


  
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