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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 

Out in CultureDoty, William G.
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Out in Culture


Doty, William G.

softcover. London, Continuum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 544 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Light fading to spine.

Record # 470022


Price: $15.00 

 

Outermost Dream, The - Literary Sketches


Maxwell, William

Paperback. St. Paul, MN, Graywolf, 1st wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages

Record # 55502


Price: $12.00 

 

Outermost Dream, The: Essays and Reviews


Maxwell, William

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essays and criticism from noted writer. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Rough-cut fore edge. bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 4450009


Price: $13.00 

 

Owl Creek Letters and Other Correspondence


W. (William Cowper Prime)

Hardcover. New York , Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1848, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Hardcover. Embossed brown cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Light fraying to bottom of spine. Foxing to preliminary pages, light foxing to some pages. 2 page sections loose from binding - pages 83-102 and 107-126. previous owner's signature on blank prelim page. Author's first book.

Record # 406595


Price: $113.00 

 

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 

 

Palm Sunday


Vonnegut, Kurt

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder spray, bottom edge

Record # 56365


Price: $18.00 

 

Paper Trail


Dorris, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 889


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Park-Street Papers


Perry, Bliss

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Perry was editor of the Atlantic Monthly at 4 Park Street in Boston. Thus the title of these collected literary pieces. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue, still an attractive gilt-dec. cover.

Record # 62750


Price: $20.00 

 

Parting from Phantoms: Selected Writings, 1990-1994


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. Chicago, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 315 pages. Slight bump to upper edge of spine, else a clean unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 456742


Price: $15.00 

 

Passage through India


Snyder, Gary

Softcover. San Francisco, Grey Fox Press, 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages, with some black & white photographs. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 457445


Price: $15.00 

 

Passions of the Mind - Selected Essays


Byatt, A.S.

NJ, Turtle Bay, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 62422


Price: $15.00 

 

Penchants & Places: Essays and Criticisms


Leithauser, Brad

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Deckled fore edge. Very clean book, bright inside. In excellent condition.

Record # 30784


Price: $15.00 

 

Piece of My Mind, A


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, reflections at sixty

Record # 6339


Price: $18.00 

 

Piece of My Mind, A


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, reflections at sixty

Record # 2032


Price: $18.00 

 

Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002


Kermode, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 466 pages. light edgewear and scarring to dust jacket, remainder line to bottom edge, light soil to front end paper. Neat, tight copy.

Record # 458556


Price: $13.00 

 

Pied Piper Syndrome and other Essays, The


Hunter, Mollie

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Essays on writing for children, 118 pgs.

Record # 70552


Price: $18.00 

 

Poetry & Fiction - Essays by Howard Nemerov


Nemerov, Howard

New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2nd, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 380 pages. Dust jacket with short tears, wear to top of front panel, spine fade.

Record # 62380


Price: $25.00 

 

Poetry and Repression- Revisionism from Blake to Stevens


Bloom, Harold

New Haven, CT., Yale University Press, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Light spotting to end papers, some pages with very light crease, otherwise very good.

Record # 302890


Price: $18.00 

 

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006


Vidal, Gore

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Gore Vidal's memoir. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight tear to dust jacket spine at top edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952599


Price: $13.00 

 

Polished Surface, The - Essays in the Literature of Worldliness


Kronenberger, Louis

New York, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 289 pages.

Record # 304795


Price: $19.00 

 

Polished Surface, The - Essays In the Literature of Worldliness


Kronenberger, Louis

hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages.

Record # 64594


Price: $18.00 

 

Pourquoi la Nouvelle Critique - Critique english translation Objectivite


Doubrovsky, Serge

Paperback. Paris, Mercure de France, unknown wraps, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages. Paperback. French text.

Record # 205540


Price: $15.00 


  
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