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Voice of The Irish, The


Kelly, Blanche Mary

Hardcover. NY, Sheed and Ward, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping and spine of dust jacket discolored. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, overall, clean and tight copy.

Record # 201004


Price: $8.00 

 

"Most Women..."


Waugh, Alec

Hardcover. London, Cassell, 1st , 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cover shows some wear, internally there is some foxing and there are few small stains. Black & white woodcuts by Lynd Ward. former bookdealer's stamp front paste-down, previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Record # 109355


Price: $25.00 

 

'Dearest Emmie' - Thomas Hardy's Letters to His First Wife


Weber (Editor), Carl J.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. No dust jacket. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613632


Price: $19.00 

 

'JAMES JOYCE: THE YEARS OF GROWTH, 1882-1915'


COSTELLO, PETER

Hardcover. US, KYLE CATHIE, 1st UK, 1992-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 374 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket with slight sunning to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463692


Price: $10.00 

 

( Francois Villon ) - Ballades - French and English


N/A

Hardcover. London, Allan Wingate, 1st UK, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY DEUTSCH on front fly leaf . Selected by Andre Deutsch & Mervyn Savill. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chips.

Record # 58264


Price: $26.00 

 

(Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities


Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 402 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has some age yellowing and agewear. Clean inside, in good condition.

Record # 30775


Price: $15.00 

 

120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings, The


de Sade, Marquis

New York, Grove Press , Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 799 pages. A reprint of the original 1966 Edition. Introduction by Simone de Beauvoir & Pierre Klossowski.

Record # 302715


Price: $20.00 

1920 DiaryBabel, Isaac

1920 Diary


Babel, Isaac

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2nd printing, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages. Light wear, scuffing to dust jacket. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 453649


Price: $8.00 

 

1920 Diary


Babel, Isaac

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st US, 1995-04-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1126 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464388


Price: $10.00 

 

2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl


Pinchbeck, Daniel

Hardcover. New York, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, Reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 407 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604501


Price: $10.00 

 

20th Century Book - Its illustration and design - New and revised edition


Lewis, John

Hardcover. London, Herbert Press, 2nd Revised, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated - some color. Foxing to edges, preliminary pages. Light wear to dust jacket. Unmarked copy.

Record # 612721


Price: $44.00 

 

3 American Moralists - Mailer Bellow Trilling


Scott, Jr., Nathan A.

Notre Dame, University Press of Notre Dame, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 230 pages. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket spine faded.

Record # 206924


Price: $12.00 

 

3 Books - Body Rags, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, the Past


Kinnell, Galway

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st collected, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY KINNELL.

Record # 127247


Price: $80.00 

 

A Century of Science and Other Essays


Fiske, John

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 477 pages. Top edge gilt. Cover has light edgewear. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 206800


Price: $20.00 

 

A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life


Morris, Wright

Hardcover. New York, 1st thus, January 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Previous price sticker on front fly leaf. Covers slightly warped. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 452314


Price: $10.00 

 

A Common Room - Essays 1954-1987


Price, Reynolds

Paperback. New York, Athenuem, 1st wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 405 pages. Paperback.

Record # 207605


Price: $12.00 

 

A decade of euphoria: Western literature in post-Stalin Russia, 1954-64


Friedberg, Maurice

Hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 371 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453592


Price: $18.00 

 

A Dirty Hand - The Literary Notebooks of Winfield Townley Scott


Scott, Winfield Townley

Austin, TX, Univ. of Texas, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Foreward by Merle Armitage. 161 pages. Dust jacket with light soil.

Record # 62411


Price: $18.00 

 

A Guide to the Russian Texts of Tolstoi's War and Peace


Lehrman, Edgar

Softcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Ardis Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. White paperback with Turqoise title and image of Tolstoy on cover. Gives brief summaries and translations of Russian words and phrases in War and Peace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 501576


Price: $19.00 

 

A Hell of a Place To Lose A Cow


Tim, Brookes

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Adventure Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 308 pages. Slight crease on bottom of dust jacket.

Record # 801848


Price: $10.00 

A history of the writings of Beatrix Potter, including unpublished workLinder, Leslie

A history of the writings of Beatrix Potter, including unpublished work


Linder, Leslie

Hardcover. London, New York, Warne, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket with small chip missing from upper edge of spine.

Record # 460526


Price: $44.00 

 

A Map of Misreading


Bloom, Harold

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 206 pages. Blue cloth w/ gilt lettering on spine. Beige dust jacket w/ faded spine and minor edgewear. Previous owner's name/date on front flyleaf. Cut-out newspaper article (review of the book) tucked into endpapers.

Record # 803801


Price: $32.00 

 

A Selected Bibliography of Slavic Linguistics - Volume I


Stankiewicz, Edward and Dean S. Worth

Paris, Mouton, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 206042


Price: $15.00 

 

A sense of story: Essays on contemporary writers for children


Townsend, John Rowe

Hardcover. London, 1st edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, blue dust jacket. Clean covers, light edgewear to dust jacket, with faded spine, neat ink underlining to pages 193-199, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, tight binding.

Record # 450679


Price: $12.00 

 

A SUMMER STORY. SHERIDAN'S RIDE AND OTHER POEMS.


Read, Thomas

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1st, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages, 8 page catalog of Read's poetical works. 2 page Table of Contents for this title listing 35 poems. 12mo. Brown cloth; gilt title design on spine. Front cover cloth with some puckering. Some wear at top/bottom edges of spine. Brown end papers. Former owner's signature on half title page.

Record # 809163


Price: $18.00 

 

A Terrible Beauty Is Born - The Irish - Troubles 1912-1922


O'Conner, Ulick

Hard Back . London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, and illustrations.

Record # 201000


Price: $30.00 

 

A Traveller in Romance: Uncollected Writings 1901 - 1964


Maugham, W. Somerset

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456764


Price: $18.00 

 

A World of My Own: A Dream Diary


Greene, Graham

Hardcover. New York, Penquin Group, 2nd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 116 pages, Light bumping to front and cover boards, bumping and fading to spine, light soil to front and back dust cover and small rips to top of dust cover spine.

Record # 30062


Price: $15.00 

 

A.S. Pushkin: Selected Works / . . :


Vorobeva / , I.V. (ed.) / . . ( )

Hardcover. Moscow / , Children's Literature / , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Text in Russian. Red cloth w/ Black Pushkin profile on front. One mark on front cover, a few white marks on back cover. Corners bumped. Tan pictorial dust jacket shows minor edgewear/chipping and a few inch - 2 inch tears on front and back. Pictorial end papers w/ copies of Pushkin's handwriting. B/W illustrations throughout. Clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Record # 804203


Price: $35.00 

 

Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop


Paton, Priscilla

Hardcover. Hanover [N.H.], New Hampshire, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages, with illustrations. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456414


Price: $15.00 

 

About Town: The New Yorker and The World It Made (First Edition)


Yagoda, Ben

Hardcover. US, Scribner, 1st, 2000-02-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 478 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463909


Price: $10.00 

 

Abraham Lincoln - A Poem


Allen Lyman Whitney

Hardcover. NY , G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Top edge gilt. Some shelf wear, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 300519


Price: $12.00 

 

Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914


Pachter, Marc

Softcover. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Beige pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Light wear to borders, else like new. Newspaper clippings laid in. Collection of the stories, impressions and observations of 33 illustrious visitors to America, who were subjects of the National Portrait Gallery"s Bicentennial Exhibition. Text augmented by historic paintings, prints and photographs.

Record # 605625


Price: $16.00 

 

Account of the English Dramatick Poets, An: In Two Volume


Langbaine, Gerard

Softcover. Los Angeles, University of California Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First published in 1691, reprinted with an introduction by John Loftis in both volumes. Light edge wear and fade, foxing on edges, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 854987


Price: $38.00 

 

Achievement of Robert Penn Warren, The


Justus, James H.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to spine. The literary achievement of Robert Penn Warren. Fading and light foxing to prelim pages. Age toning and foxing to text block edges. Light wear to board bottom edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952605


Price: $24.00 

 

Adrift on an Ice-Pan


Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 68 pages. Blue covers w/ light edge wear. Previous owner's signature on title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850801


Price: $60.00 

 

Advance of the English Novel, The


Phelps, William Lyon

Hardcover. New York, NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, First Thus, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Hardcover. Publisher's navy cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Light toning throughout. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean & unmarked.

Record # 6670052


Price: $25.00 

 

Affirming Limits - Essays on Morality, Choice, and Poetic Form


Pack, Robert

Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, hardcover. Light dust jacket edgewear, fade to spine.

Record # 602551


Price: $20.00 

 

African Images in Juvenile Literature


Maddy, Yulisa Amadu

Hardcover. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 1st, November 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Very good.

Record # 454785


Price: $10.00 

 

African Silences


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. 1st, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462309


Price: $10.00 

 

African Silences


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light rubbing.

Record # 106991


Price: $10.00 

 

African Silences


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. 1st, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462308


Price: $10.00 

African SilencesMatthiessen, Peter

African Silences


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and spotting on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456235


Price: $40.00 

 

African Treasury, An


Hughes (Editor), Langston

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Stories, poems, articles, and essays on Africa, selected by Langston Hughes. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, mostly to spine. Fading and rubbing to dust jacket as well. Light bumping to spine and corners. Faint age toning to text block top edge. Unmarked. A tight and clean copy.

Record # 951810


Price: $19.00 

After the "Death of Literature": West German Writing of the 1970sBullivant, Keith

After the "Death of Literature": West German Writing of the 1970s


Bullivant, Keith

Hardcover. Oxford , Berg , 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 398 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Includes appendix of contributors. Foxing to dust jacket interior. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469513


Price: $25.00 

 

After the Avant-Garde: Essays in Art and Culture


Boyers, Robert

Hardcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, spine cocked, light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 402759


Price: $15.00 

After The Fire: A Writer Finds His PlaceZimmer, Paul

After The Fire: A Writer Finds His Place


Zimmer, Paul

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow poet John Engels on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 459565


Price: $25.00 

 

Age of Opulence: The Bell Epoque in the Paris Herald 1890-1914


Dorsey, Hebe

Hardcover. New York , Harry Abrams, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 illustrations, 16 in full color, from the archives of the International Herald Tribune. Burgundy cloth covers with gold lettering on pine. Dust jacket back scuffed otherwise excellent condition,

Record # 802615


Price: $19.00 

 

Agee on Film (2 Vols.) - Reviews and Comments - 5 Film Scripts


Agee, James, Illust. by: Tomi Ungerer

Hardcover. NY, McDowell Obolensky, 1st, 1958/1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol I: with black & white photos, drawings by Tomi Ungerer. Vol II: Contains his script of The African Queen. Light soil, edgewear to dust jackets.

Record # 54408


Price: $70.00 

 

Agitations - Letters to the Press, 1875-1950


Shaw, Bernard

Hardcover. NY, Ungar, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, edited by Dan H. Laurence and James Rambeau, 375 pgs. Dust jacket with fade to spine, top edge of front panel.

Record # 105893


Price: $10.00 

 

Agony and The Triumph, The: Papers on the Use and Abuse of Myth


Weisinger, Herbert

Hardcover. US, Michigan State University Press, 2nd, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Chipped jacket and darkened spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233643


Price: $19.00 

 

AIDs and Its Metaphors


Sontag, Susan

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456671


Price: $15.00 

 

Air-line to Seattle: Studies in Literary and Historical Writing About America


Lynn, Kenneth S.

Hardcover. Chicago, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 227 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457723


Price: $13.00 

 

Airing Dirty Laundry


Reed, Ishmael

Hardcover. Reading, MA, Addison Wesley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 6480


Price: $12.00 

 

Alan


Benson, E. F.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Co, 1st, 1925, Dust Jacket: None, 356 pages. Cocked spine, wear to edges and corners of cover, cover slightly discolored, front hinge cracked, loose, foxing to top of page block.

Record # 803052


Price: $19.00 

Albion: Origins of the English ImaginationAckroyd, Peter

Albion: Origins of the English Imagination


Ackroyd, Peter

Hardcover. US, Doubleday Publishing, 1st, 2003-10-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 524 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462078


Price: $15.00 

Albion: The Origins of the English ImaginationAckroyd, Peter

Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination


Ackroyd, Peter

Hardcover. US, Chatto & Windus, reprint , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 516 pages. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. Some discoloration to edges, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466918


Price: $19.00 

 

Alexander Pushkin: A celebration of Russia's best-loved writer


Briggs, A.D.P.

Hardcover. US, Hazar, 1st, 1999-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462921


Price: $10.00 

 

Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model & Her Own Desire


Lipton, Eunice

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar with minor rubbing.

Record # 804118


Price: $10.00 

Alien Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the "First" EmigrationBeaujour, Elizabeth Klosty

Alien Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the "First" Emigration


Beaujour, Elizabeth Klosty

hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468940


Price: $19.00 

All But the Waltz: Essays on a Montana FamilyBlew, Mary Clearman

All But the Waltz: Essays on a Montana Family


Blew, Mary Clearman

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 2nd printing, 1991-09-10, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461852


Price: $10.00 

 

All the Extant Works of Francois Rabelais Physician


Putnam, Samuel , Illust. by: Jean de Bosschere

Hardcover. New York, Covici Friede Publishers , 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1274 pages across three separate volumes. Full page color and b&w illustrations throughout by Jean de Bosschere. Top edge gilt. Includes eight appendices and extensive notes from translator. Illustrated color frontispiece to each volume. This set #370 of 1300 sets printed. Musty odor, but otherwise each volume is clean and tight.

Record # 857433


Price: $375.00 

 

Allen Ginsberg in America


Kramer, Jane

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611604


Price: $23.00 

 

Allice and Look Who Else Through the Looking Glass


Bernice Steinbaum Gallery

Softcover. New York, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Complete with looking glass tied on with gold cord. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Very light soiling and edge-wear on covers. Minor wear and sun-fading along spine. Nice, unmarked copy.

Record # 856494


Price: $19.00 

 

Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women: A New York Review Collection


Dinnage, Rosemary

New York, New York Review of Books, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 296 pages. Book and dust jacket in excellent condition.

Record # 504084


Price: $12.00 

 

Alpine Path, The: The story of my career


Montgomery, L. M

Hardcover. Don Mills, Ont., reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages. Edge wear, fading, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451909


Price: $15.00 

 

Ambigu


Margerit, Robert

Softcover. Paris, Fontaine, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 89 pages, illustrated paper wrappers, paper mostly chipped from spine. Fragile but sound copy, one of 500 copies.

Record # 403411


Price: $25.00 

 

Ambiguous Realities - Women in the Middle Ages & Renaissance


Levin, Carole and Jeanie Watson

Hardcover. Detroit, Wayne State, 1st , 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of essays on women & their role in the literature & history of Europe

Record # 54958


Price: $20.00 

 

American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South


Benfey, Christopher

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 453183


Price: $15.00 

 

American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South


Benfey, Christopher

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 453184


Price: $15.00 

 

American Beat


Greene, Bob

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. A collection of his columns from the early 1980's. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 304122


Price: $12.00 

 

American Character, The


Brogan, D.W.

NY, Knopf, Unknown, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, previous owner's signature on front pastdown, spine lettering faded, 169 pages.

Record # 75306


Price: $12.00 

 

American Fiction - 1774 - 1850- A Contribution Toward a Bibliography


Wright (Editor), Lyle H.

Hardcover. London, Headline Book Publishing, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 411 pages. Hardcover. Blue tweed cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Light foxing to edges. Dust jacket price-clipped, with light wear to edges, now protected with a plastic cover. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750893


Price: $35.00 

 

American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature


Miller, David C.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale Univrsity Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 344 pages. b&w illustrations. Cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Like new, in shrinkwrap. A beautiful copy.

Record # 605361


Price: $42.00 

 

American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature


Miller, Mr. David C.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993-09-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, b&w illustrations. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463561


Price: $23.00 

 

American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices


Pack, Robert (Editor)

Hardcover. Hanover, Middlebury, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 373 pages. Clean unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 454104


Price: $10.00 

 

American Literature in Parody


Falk, Robert P. (Ed.)

NY, Twayne, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A collection of parody, satire, and literary burlesque. Dust jacket worn, chipped. 279 pgs.

Record # 300042


Price: $15.00 

 

American Literature


Abernethy, Julian W.

Hardcover. New York, Charles E. Merrill Co, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages. SIGNED BY ABERNETHY ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Green cloth covers, gilt stamped titles to spine, stamped borders, b&w illustrations throughout. Slight edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; a very clean, neat copy in great condition.

Record # 808278


Price: $35.00 

 

American Nights Entertainment


Overton, Grant

NY, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 black & white tipped-in portraits of writers. 414 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Re-inforced binding by library book house. Not ex-lib.

Record # 69066


Price: $12.00 

 

American Novel and the Way We Live Now, The


Aldridge, John W.

hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64522


Price: $31.00 

 

American Poetry - Wildness and Domesticity


Bly, Robert

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages.

Record # 68334


Price: $15.00 

 

American Problems.


Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 465 pages. Green cloth cover, cloth faded on spine. Some wear to corners and edges. Small chunk missing of cover and pages on botton right corner, but no text is missing. Pages untrimmed on fore edge, top edge gilt. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Volume XVI in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt.

Record # 852797


Price: $10.00 

 

American Procession, An - The Major American Writers from 1830 to 1930 - The Crucial Century


Kazin, Alfred

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 100976


Price: $25.00 

 

American Realism - New Essays


Sundquist (Editor), Eric J.

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, 298 pages. Previous owners name at upper right corner of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609007


Price: $12.00 

 

American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism 1885-1917


Crunden, Robert M.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Dust jacket unclipped, some tanning to back cover, very good. Tan cover boards, brown quarter cloth, brown title on spine. Binding tight. Pages clean. Edges have a touch of foxing. Provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to our entry into World War I.

Record # 33506


Price: $15.00 

 

American Stories


Trillin, Calvin

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of essays

Record # 54730


Price: $20.00 

 

American Studies


Menand, Louis

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Like new in a dust jacket.

Record # 602393


Price: $18.00 

 

American Woman, Italian Style: Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women


Albright, Carol Bonomo and Moore, Christine Palamidessi

Softcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st ed., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855690


Price: $19.00 

 

American Writers Supplement X - Madison Smartt Bell to John Edgar Wideman


Parini (Ed.), Jay

NY, Scribners, 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Profiles, critiques & bibliographies on 18 more American Writers. 593 pages. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 65316


Price: $40.00 

 

American Writers Supplement X - Madison Smartt Bell to John Edgar Wideman


Parini (Ed.), Jay

NY, Scribners, 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Profiles, critiques & bibliographies on 18 more American Writers. 593 pages. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 65315


Price: $40.00 

 

American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies (4 Vols.)


Unger (Ed.), Leonard

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volumes 1-4 complete of this original reference series which has since been expanded with many supplements added. Each book is 500-600 pages, approximately 100 authors from Henry Adams to Richard Wright. Printed board covers, no dust jackets issued.

Record # 402818


Price: $150.00 

 

American Writers: Classics Volume 2


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Thomson/Gale, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages, Vol. 2 only. Printed boards, no dust jacket issued. Like new condition, clean.

Record # 402821


Price: $40.00 

 

American Writers: Retrospective Supplement II- James Baldwin to Nathanael West


Parini, Jay (Ed.)

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 615 pages, like-new condition.

Record # 512033


Price: $32.00 

American Writers: Supplement IV Part 1Parini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement IV Part 1


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 4th supplemental volume this reference series, Part 1 only. Maya Angelou to Linda Hogan. 418 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402827


Price: $25.00 

American Writers: Supplement V Parini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement V


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 5th supplemental volume this reference series. Russell Banks to Charles Wright. 615 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402828


Price: $30.00 

American Writers: Supplement VIParini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement VI


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 6th supplemental volume this reference series. Don DeLillo to W.D. Snodgrass. 607 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402826


Price: $30.00 

American Writers: Supplement XIIParini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement XII


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 12th supplemental volume this reference series. Kathy Acker to Richard Russo. 599 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402817


Price: $30.00 

 

American Writers: Supplement XIII Edward Abbey to William Jay Smith


Parini, Jay (Ed.)

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 617 pages, like-new condition.

Record # 512041


Price: $32.00 

 

American Writers: Supplement XIII Edward Abbey to William Jay Smith


Parini, Jay (Ed.)

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 617 pages, like-new condition.

Record # 512040


Price: $32.00 

 

American Writers: Supplement XIII Edward Abbey to William Jay Smith


Parini, Jay (Ed.)

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 617 pages, like-new condition.

Record # 512039


Price: $32.00 

American Writers: Supplement XIIIParini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement XIII


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 13th supplemental volume this reference series. Edward Abbey to William Jay Smith. 617 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402824


Price: $30.00 

American Writers: Supplement XIVParini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement XIV


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 14th supplemental volume this reference series. Cleanth Brooks to Logan Pearsall Smith. 630 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402823


Price: $30.00 

American Writers: Supplement XVIIParini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement XVII


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 17th supplemental volume this reference series. Max Apple to Franz Wright. 562 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402822


Price: $30.00 

American Writers: Supplements I - X (14 Volumes)Parini (Ed.), Jay and Leonard Unger

American Writers: Supplements I - X (14 Volumes)


Parini (Ed.), Jay and Leonard Unger

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprints, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The first 10 supplemental volumes to this reference series, 14 volumes in all as Nos. 1-4 have two parts. Each is approximately 300-400 pages. Printed board covers, all clean, very good.

Record # 402814


Price: $500.00 

 

Americana Esoterica


Van Doren, Carl/Various Authors

Hardcover. New York, Macy-Masius, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Limited to 3000 copies - this being hand numbered #53. Front cover paste down and endpapers by Rockwell Kent. Wine colored cloth covers. Fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610834


Price: $31.00 

 

Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel


Ward , Mrs. Humphrey (translator)

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, handwritten poem on front end paper. Foxing, soiling to end papers and first few pages. Edges of some pages rough. Binding slightly weak. Else pages clean and crisp.

Record # 401970


Price: $20.00 

 

An American Original: The Life of J. Frank Dobie


Tinkle, Lon

Hardcover. Boston, 2nd Printing, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, small chunk missing from back bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456773


Price: $8.00 

An Honest Writer: The Life and Times of James T. FarrellLanders, Robert K.

An Honest Writer: The Life and Times of James T. Farrell


Landers, Robert K.

Hardcover. San Francisco CA, Encounter Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 562 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 407396


Price: $13.00 

 

An Introduction to the French Poets


Brereton, Geoffrey

Hardcover. Fair Lawn, NJ, Essential Books, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Dark red top edge. Edge wear, light soiling to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851382


Price: $12.00 

 

An Unhurried view of Erotica


Ginzburg, Ralph

London, Secker & Warburg, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover,125 pages. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Introduction by Dr. Theodor Reik and preface by George Jean Nathan. Top edge stained red. Dust jacket has light edgewear and rubbing to covers and spine. There is a small chip out of the top back cover.

Record # 511180


Price: $10.00 

Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989Chatwin, Bruce

Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989


Chatwin, Bruce

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 1996-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461801


Price: $10.00 

 

Anatomy of Satire, The


Highet, Gilbert

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 301 pages, b&w illustrations. Gray cloth covers, dust jacket with light soil, edgewear, fading to small area. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 405202


Price: $15.00 

 

Ancestral House - The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe.


Rowell (Editor), Charles H.

Paperback. Boulder, Westview Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511672


Price: $6.00 

 

Anchors Aweigh!: Tales of Wooden Ship Days


Swan (editor), Oliver G.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 235 pages, illustrated throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and tear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853401


Price: $20.00 

 

And Did You Once See Sidney Plain?


Wilk, Max

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, a memoir of S.J. Perelman

Record # 1953


Price: $15.00 

 

Anderson Papers, The


Anderson, Jack

hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 101389


Price: $10.00 

 

Andr

Softcover. New York, Willis Locker & Owens, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages, paperback. Collection of essays that focus on Breton's prose and poetic texts. Mild rubbing to wraps. Light underlining throughout. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952057


Price: $19.00 

Andre & Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar WildeFryer, Jonathan

Andre & Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde


Fryer, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, St Martins Pr, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468927


Price: $10.00 

 

Anekdotenschatz - Von Der Antike bis auf Unsere Tage


Hoffmeister, Heribert

Berlin, Verlag Praktisches Wissen, 1st ?, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. German text.

Record # 206212


Price: $12.00 

Angela the Upside-Down Girl: And Other Domestic TravelsHiestand, Emily

Angela the Upside-Down Girl: And Other Domestic Travels


Hiestand, Emily

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Pr, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469738


Price: $15.00 

Angela's AshesMcCourt, Frank

Angela's Ashes


McCourt, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 363 pages. Edgewear to price clipped dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 452961


Price: $8.00 

AnimailAmory, Cleveland

Animail


Amory, Cleveland

Hardcover. New York, Windmill Books, 1st US , 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, Windmill Books, 1st US , 1976, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, Blind stamp on cover. Small tear to dust jacket repaired with tape. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 210 pages. Record # 467718

Record # 467718


Price: $10.00 

 

Animals, The : Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy


Isherwood, Christopher

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2014-05-13, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 481 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464156


Price: $23.00 

 

Anna Akhmatova - Poet & Prophet


Reeder, Roberta

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 5185


Price: $30.00 

Anne Sexton: A BiographyMiddlebrook, Diane Wood

Anne Sexton: A Biography


Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin, 5th printing, 1991-09-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461556


Price: $10.00 

 

Annotated Catalogue of the Papers of Charles S. Peirce


Robin, Richard S.

Hardcover. MA, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light edgewear and sunning and a small sticker-stain to front cover.

Record # 855910


Price: $100.00 

 

Annotated Wizard of Oz, The: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz


Baum, L. Frank

Hardcover. New York, 1st, October 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 384 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout, illustrated end papers. Light edge wear to dust jacket, sticker residue on front. Foxing to top and fore-edge. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 452927


Price: $30.00 

 

Another Life - A Memoir of Other People


Korda, Michael

NY, Random House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light wear, fade to dust jacket otherwise VG/VG.

Record # 67257


Price: $18.00 

 

Another South: Experimental Writing in the South


Lavender, Bill (Editor)

Softcover. Tuscaloosa, University Alabama Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 454664


Price: $16.00 

 

Anthology of Russian Literature


Wiener, Leo

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 447 pages, b&w frontispiece. Top edge gilt. Edgewear, light rubbing to maroon cloth covers, dent to rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 852071


Price: $50.00 

 

Anthology of West Indian Literature


Thieme (Ed.), John, Annette Warren and George Cave

Softcover. Guyana, University of Guyana, 1st thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages, a collection of excerpts, poems and essays by writers like Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, others. Appears to be text for study course. Softcover in green wrappers. Date is approximate.

Record # 404526


Price: $18.00 

 

Anthony Burgess


Coale, Samuel

Hardcover. New York, Ungar, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, One in the Modern Literature Series, 223 pages, dust jacket with rubbing, closed tear, 2 copies

Record # 177823


Price: $15.00 

 

Anthony Burgess


Coale, Samuel

Hardcover. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very minor wear on edges of jacket, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230493


Price: $19.00 

 

Anthony Trollope - A Critical Study


Cockshut, A.O.J.

Hardcover. NY, NY University Press, 1st U.S., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pgs. dust jacket w/ light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 108201


Price: $15.00 

 

Anthony Trollope


Glendinning, Victoria

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st US, 1993-01-19, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 551 pages. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462243


Price: $13.00 

 

Antilles, The


Walcott, Derek

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, the Nobel Lecture

Record # 1999


Price: $12.00 

 

Antiquity of Proverbs, The


Marvin, Dwight Edwards

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt top edge. Light wear to edges, faint, marginal toning to edges throughout. Tight binding, tight signatures, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751272


Price: $31.00 

 

Antologia Carducciana: Poesie e Prose


Mazzoni, Guido and Giuseppe Picciola

Hardcover. Bologna, Nicola Zanichelli, 2nd w/ appendix, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 495 pages. Cream cloth, gilt design/red title label on spine. All Edges Red. Covers soiled. Edges of boards bumped.

Record # 804001


Price: $16.00 

 

Anton Chekhov - A Life


Rayfield, Donald

Hardcover. NY, H.Holt, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 674 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 52958


Price: $30.00 

 

Anton Tchekhov - Literary and Theatrical Reminiscences


Koteliansky (Editor), S. S.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1st UK, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Foxing to edges and some pages throughout. Covers show standard wear. Unmarked text.

Record # 609515


Price: $20.00 

 

Aperto libro ou le latin retrouve


Rudder, Orlando De

Softcover. US, Larousse, 1st, 1991-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages, b&w illustrations. Text in French. Previous owner's stamp and notes on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464444


Price: $31.00 

 

Aphrodite - A Memoir of the Senses


Allende, Isabaelle

Hardcover. NY, Harper Flamingo, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Color illust.

Record # 55784


Price: $20.00 

 

Apocalypse of the Word - The Life and Message of George Fox (1624 - 1691) (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Gwyn, Douglas

Softcover. Richmond, Friends United Press, Reprint, 1991 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 241 pages bound in wine colored wraps. Inscribed by the author to title page. Light creases to spine & a touch of faint foxing to top edge. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751197


Price: $15.00 

 

Apricots from Chernobyl


Novakovich, Josip

Paperback. St. Paul, MN, Graywolf Prress, 1st wraps, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY NOVAKOVICH on title-page.

Record # 301689


Price: $15.00 

 

Arabian Nights, The: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights


Detmold (Illustrator), E. J.

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 4th Printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages, with color paintings by Detmold throughout, gilt decorated cover and spine, red slipcase.

Record # 854176


Price: $40.00 

 

Architectural Monuments of the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra: Research and Restoration / - :


Trofimov / , I.V. / . .

Hardcover. Moscow / , State Publishing Co. "Literature" / , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Text in Russian. Yellow cloth, design on cover, gilt on spine. B/W pictorial dust jacket protected in mylar cover, shows minor edgewear. B/W photos throughout. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Spine cocked. Otherwise, clean, unmarked, tight.

Record # 804183


Price: $30.00 

 

Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman


O'Faolain, Nuala

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co. , 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 1/4 black cloth, 3/4 green paper. Gilt lettering on spine. Color pictorial dj with photograph of author.

Record # 803797


Price: $26.00 

 

Area of Darkness, An


Naipaul, V.S.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, previous owner's book plate on half-title. Dust-jacket worn, chipped

Record # 177861


Price: $20.00 

 

Areopgifica and Other Prose Writings


Milton, John

Hardcover. N Y, Macmillan Co., 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 170 pages. Dust jacket worn, soiled, spine darkened. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 60203


Price: $15.00 

 

Argosy of Fables - A Representative Selection from the Fable Literature of Every Age and Land, An


Cooper, Frederic Taber/Paul Bransom

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 485 pages. Features 24 full color tipped-in plates by Paul Bransom. Previous owners bookplate opposite half title page. Title in gilt on spine and front cover. Cloth covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609707


Price: $100.00 

Arizona Quarterly - Spring 1972Melville, Herman

Arizona Quarterly - Spring 1972


Melville, Herman

Softcover. Tucson AZ, University of Arizona, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover journal, pastel green wrappers, 96 pages. Issue devoted to Herman Melville with 6 essays by various writers. Volume 28, No. 1. Cover with creases at corner, otherwise very good, clean

Record # 411519


Price: $19.00 

 

Arnold's Poetic Landscapes


Roper, Alan

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages, dust jacket edge wear and chip, price clipped, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 854896


Price: $15.00 

 

Arnolds, The: Thomas Arnold and His Family


Trevor, Meriol

Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 206 pages, with illustrations. Dust jacket edge wear and rub, foxing on edges and preliminary pages, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 854895


Price: $13.00 

 

Around Our House


Giles, Henry & Janice Holt

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 348 pages. Clean, sharp copy. Unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 69206


Price: $60.00 

 

Art and Psychoanalysis


Phillips, William (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Criterion Books, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 552 pages. Green top edge. Black cloth covers w/ light rubbing to corners, small burn mark on front gutter; spine slightly faded. Light soiling to edges. Hinges slightly weak. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 851550


Price: $12.00 

Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim Gill, Anton

Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim


Gill, Anton

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st ed., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. B&W photographs. Gilt lettering along spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855609


Price: $15.00 

 

Art of Fiction, The


Besant, Walter and Henry James

Boston, DeWolfe & Fiske, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 85 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on cover, spine blank. There is a water-stain on the top outside corner of the pages which shrinks in size toward the rear. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 601973


Price: $28.00 

Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, The Hochman, Barbara

Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, The


Hochman, Barbara

Hardcover. US, Univ of Missouri Pr, 1st, 1988-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461473


Price: $10.00 

 

Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, The


Hochman, Barbara

Hardcover. Columbia, University of Mo., 1st., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53078


Price: $15.00 

 

Art of Isaac Babel, The


Carden, Patricia

Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essays on famed author. Chipping to dust jacket spine, top edge. Edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951250


Price: $25.00 

 

Art of Literary Research, The


Altick, Richard D.

Hardcover. New York, NY, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., First Edition, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with sepia toned illustration to endpapers & gilt titles to spine. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751248


Price: $13.00 

 

Art of The Compleat Angler, The


Cooper, John R.

Hardcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages, green cloth with silver lettering. Dust jacjet very good with minor wear, small chip to rear.

Record # 403376


Price: $12.00 

 

Art of the Lyrical Ballads, The


Parrish, Stephen Maxfield

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 250 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing, fading to dust jacket spine. Faint foxing to edges. Internally very good.

Record # 855016


Price: $38.00 

 

Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays


Haycraft, Howard

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 545 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title stamped on spine and front cover. A touch of fraying to top and bottom of spine and corners of covers. Top edge dyed red. Some light age tanning to pages and edges. Binding tight, spine straight. Ogden Nash, Earl Stanley Gardner, Ben Hecht, Anthony Bouche and many others.

Record # 31648


Price: $38.00 

 

Articles and Pamphlets


Gorky, Maxim

Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House, Unknown, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 408 pages

Record # 67656


Price: $15.00 

 

Articulate Energy: An Enquiry into the Syntax of English Poetry


Davey, Donald

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with slight foxing on bottom back cover. Slight browning on edges of front and back dust jacket flaps. Green boards with green writing on spine. Writing in pen on page 9. Stamping on dust jacket and front flyleaf.

Record # 850110


Price: $25.00 

 

Articulate Flesh: Male homo-eroticism & modern poetry


Woods, Gregory

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2nd, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Color-illustrated soft cover. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 804518


Price: $8.00 

 

Artificial Wilderness, An - Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature


Birkerts, Sven

Paperback. Boston, Godine, Rep. wraps , 1990, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 430 pages.

Record # 301631


Price: $25.00 

 

As They Appear


Brown, John Mason

NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, price clipped.

Record # 62370


Price: $12.00 

 

Aspects of E.M. Forster - Essays and Recollections Written for His 90th Birthday


Stallybrass (Ed.), Oliver

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Contributions by E. Bowen, Plomer, D. Garnett, others. Dust jacket price clipped, chipped, short tears

Record # 55238


Price: $15.00 

 

Astonishment of Words, The - An Experiment in the Comparison of Languages


Proetz, Victor

Hard Back . Austin, TX, Texas University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 200968


Price: $18.00 

 

Astrophil and Stella


Sidney, Philip/Max Putzel

Softcover. Garden City, Anchor Books, First Edition, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Softcover with illustrated wraps, lightly age toned. Soil toning to spine. Pencil marks throughout. A very nice, collectible copy, with sharp corners & tight binding.

Record # 751192


Price: $25.00 

 

At Home - Essays 1982-1988


Vidal, Gore

NY, Random House, 1ST, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages

Record # 61901


Price: $20.00 

 

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings


Kerouac, Jack

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Edited by Paul Marion. More than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one. Bumping to lower spine. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Bottom edge boards mildly rubbed. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951273


Price: $19.00 

 

Auden in Love: The Intimate Story of a Lifelong Love Affair


Farnan, Dorothy J.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, Reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages.Pictorial dust jacket with small tear to front in mylar. Remainder ink stamp bottom edge.

Record # 804126


Price: $8.00 

 

August Strindberg


Lagercrantz, Olof

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609343


Price: $15.00 

 

Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd


Longsworth, Polly

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 449 pages, with photographs. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456774


Price: $18.00 

 

Austin and Mabel


Longsworth, Polly

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2nd printing, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 449 pages, photos in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857108


Price: $19.00 

Authentic Voices: Arkansas Culture, 1541-1860Sarah, M. Fountain (editor)

Authentic Voices: Arkansas Culture, 1541-1860


Sarah, M. Fountain (editor)

Hardcover. Conway, AR, University of Central Arkansas Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469570


Price: $13.00 

 

Author and Agent - Eudora Welty & Diarmuid Russell


Kreyling, Michael

Hardcover. NY, FSG, 3rd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 55481


Price: $18.00 

 

Author of Waverly, The


Devlin, D.D.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st UK, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A critical study of Walter Scott. Heavy rubbing, fading, and age toning to dust jacket. Fading to prelim pages. Heavy age toning and fading to text block edges. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952601


Price: $13.00 

 

Author's Dimension The : Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1993-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461783


Price: $10.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The - Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 336 pages.

Record # 56355


Price: $20.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The - Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus Young, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by Grace Paley

Record # 60533


Price: $20.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The : Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1993-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages, Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462502


Price: $13.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The : Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1993-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463794


Price: $10.00 

 

Autobiographical Myth of Robert Lowell, The


Cooper, Phillip

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Univ. of North Carolina, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 170 pages. Dust jacket with 2 closed tears otherwise very clean and bright.

Record # 62404


Price: $8.00 

 

Autobiography by Eric Gill


Gill, Eric

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, Reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine edge. Red top edge. Frontis illustration, Eric Gill, Self Portrait (1927), in black & white. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751210


Price: $19.00 

 

Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume One


Smith, Harriet Elinor

Hardcover. California, University of California Press, 3rd, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 736 pages. Volume one. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. Very clean inside and out.

Record # 30639


Price: $23.00 

 

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition


Smith, Harriet Elinor (Editor)

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, Reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 760 pages. Vol. 1. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight curling to top edge of dust jacket front. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471027


Price: $25.00 

 

Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Vol. 1


Twain, Mark

Hardcover. US, University of California Press, rep, 2010-11-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 1 only. 736 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464617


Price: $31.00 

 

Autobiography of Mrs. Oliphant, The


Coghill, Mrs. Harry (Ed.)

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, Rep. Paperback , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages. Paperback.

Record # 302259


Price: $12.00 

 

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The


Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Hardcover. Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Small format book measures - 5 1/4" X 4". Leather spine with raised bands. Title in gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Marbled boards and endpapers. Previous owners name stamped on front endpaper. Light foxing to preliminary pages and last 4 pages of index. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610381


Price: $50.00 

Awkward: A DetourCappello, Mary

Awkward: A Detour


Cappello, Mary

Softcover. New York, Bellevue Literary Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Slight rubbing to covers, otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 454259


Price: $12.00 

 

Babel to Byzantium - Poets & Poetry Now


Dickey, James

Paperback. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st wraps, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages.

Record # 60233


Price: $12.00 

 

Back Talk


Weidman, Jerome

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609349


Price: $8.00 

Balancing ActsHoagland, Edward

Balancing Acts


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1992-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461796


Price: $10.00 

Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, The: A LifeWilson, Frances

Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, The: A Life


Wilson, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471555


Price: $19.00 

 

Baptism and Temptation of Christ, The - The First Day Of a Medieval French Passion Play


Elliott, Jr., John R. and Graham A. Runnalls

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale Univ., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Some ink brackets on 3 pages. Previous ownmer's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 63517


Price: $15.00 

 

Bar-20: The Life of Clarence E. Mulford, Creator of Hopalong Cassidy, with Seven Original Stories Reprinted


Nevins, Jr., Francis M.

Hardcover. Jefferson NC, McFarland and Co., 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages, blue cloth covers with white lettering. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 406008


Price: $38.00 


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