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'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 

A history of the writings of Beatrix Potter, including unpublished workLinder, Leslie

A history of the writings of Beatrix Potter, including unpublished work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

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 

 

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 

 

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 

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 

 

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 

 

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: 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 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 

 

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 

 

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 

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 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 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 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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

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 

 

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 

 

Because I Was Flesh


Dahlberg, Edward

Hardcover. Norfolk, Ct, New Directions, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 234 pages. Light foxing to end papers, top edge and dust jacket. Light sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856835


Price: $50.00 

 

Beginning of the Journey, The : The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling


Trilling, Diana

Hardcover. US, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1st, 1993-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463734


Price: $10.00 

 

Beginning of the Journey, The : The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling


Trilling, Diana

Hardcover. US, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1st, 1993-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464309


Price: $13.00 

Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into ArtMikics, David

Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art


Mikics, David

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Page 118 corner creased.

Record # 470290


Price: $15.00 

 

Ben Hecht - A Biography


MacAdams, William

Paperback. NY, Barricade, 1st pbk, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 53088


Price: $15.00 

 

Bernard Shaw - The Pursuit of Power


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, review slip

Record # 1781


Price: $30.00 

 

Bernard Shaw, Vol. 1: 1856-1898 - The Search for Love


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st US, 1988-09-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 486 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463892


Price: $10.00 

 

Bernard Shaw, Vol. 1: 1856-1898 - The Search for Love


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st US, 1988-09-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 486 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463893


Price: $10.00 

 

Bernard Shaw, Vol. 2: 1898-1918 - The Pursuit of Power


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st US, 1989-09-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 2 only. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464086


Price: $10.00 

 

Bernard Shaw: The Darker Side


Silver, Arnold

Hardcover. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 353 pages. B&W photographs throughout. Minor edge wear to dust jacket. Overall very tight and clean copy.

Record # 401910


Price: $12.00 

Better Angel, The: Walt Whitman in the Civil War Morris, Roy

Better Angel, The: Walt Whitman in the Civil War


Morris, Roy

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket in very good condition with slight curling to top of back inside flap. Very clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 470820


Price: $19.00 

 

Big Swingers, The - A Biography


Fenton, Robert W.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice Hall, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The story of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan in the movies. Black & white photos.

Record # 53042


Price: $35.00 

 

Big Swingers, The: A Biography


Fenton, Robert W.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 258 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy. A biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs and his most famous creation, Tarzan.

Record # 406652


Price: $23.00 

 

Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath


Stevenson, Anne

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin (T), 1st, 1989-08-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 413 pages, illustrations in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462936


Price: $10.00 

 

Black Sun - The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby


Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 367 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Covers slightly bowed. Dust jacket worn along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609357


Price: $12.00 

 

Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Art


Marsh, Jan

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt & Co, 1st, 1996-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463258


Price: $10.00 

 

Books of the Sea: An Introduction to Nautical Literature.


Lewis, Charles Lee

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 318 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and minor fraying on spine edge. Dust jacket is faded and has small tears on edges. Inside is nice and clean. Written by a Professor of the United States Naval Academy. Diverse topics include poetry, pirates, plays and oceanography.

Record # 852487


Price: $40.00 

 

Books of the Sea: An Introduction to Nautical Literature.


Lewis, Charles Lee

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, some wear to corners and edges. Residue from sticker on front flyleaf, otherwise inside is bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 853017


Price: $35.00 

 

Borges


Williamson, Edwin

NY, Viking, proof, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 549 pages. Proof in wrappers, near fine.

Record # 512168


Price: $18.00 

 

Boy Down Kitchen Street, The


Paul, Leslie

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY PAUL

Record # 5553


Price: $18.00 

 

Brian Friel (The Irish writers series)


Maxwell, D.E.S.

Hardcover. US, Bucknell University Press,U.S., 1st, 1975-08-20, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 112 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing and foxing to price clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge.

Record # 464830


Price: $28.00 

 

Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1922-1928


Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Slight yellowing to dust jacket and edges, otherwise clean inside and out.

Record # 30800


Price: $13.00 

 

British Writers: Edited Under the Auspices of the British Council (Vol. VI)


Scott-Kilvert(Ed.), Ian

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 6 of this reference series, Thomas Hardy to Wilfred Qwen, 460 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402801


Price: $40.00 

British Writers: Edited Under the Auspices of the British Council Supplement IScott-Kilvert(Ed.), Ian

British Writers: Edited Under the Auspices of the British Council Supplement I


Scott-Kilvert(Ed.), Ian

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprints, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The first supplemental volume to this reference series: Graham Greene to Tom Stoppard. Printed board covers, minor soil to edges of text block.

Record # 402800


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Retrospective Supplement IIParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Retrospective Supplement II


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 2 to this retrospective reference series, Jane Austen to Oscar Wilde, 509 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 402808


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement IIStade (Ed.), George

British Writers: Supplement II


Stade (Ed.), George

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The second supplemental volume to this reference series: Kingsley Amis to J.R.R. Tolkien, 626 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402809


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement VStade (Ed.), George and Sarah Hannah Goldstein

British Writers: Supplement V


Stade (Ed.), George and Sarah Hannah Goldstein

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 5th supplemental volume to this reference series: Alan Ayckbourn to Graham Swift, 571 pages. Printed board covers, very good.

Record # 402810


Price: $30.00 

 

British Writers: Supplement VI


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 6 to this reference series. Some light damp wrinkling to bottom edge of some pages. Otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 402802


Price: $25.00 

British Writers: Supplement XParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Supplement X


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 10 to this reference series, Ayi Kwei Armah to Jon Stallworthy, 455 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 402807


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Supplement X


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 10 to this reference series, Ayi Kwei Armah to Jon Stallworthy, 455 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 402804


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XIParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Supplement XI


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Thomson/Gale, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 11th supplemental volume to this reference series: Iain Banks to Alan Warner, 456 pages. Printed board covers, minor soil to edges of text block.

Record # 402813


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XIParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Supplement XI


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Thomson/Gale, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 11th supplemental volume to this reference series: Iain Banks to Alan Warner, 456 pages. Printed board covers, minor soil to edges of text block.

Record # 402816


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XIIParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Supplement XII


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Thomson/Gale Group, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 12 to this reference series, Fleur Adcock to R.S. Thomas, 456 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 402805


Price: $30.00 

Bront's, The Barker, Juliet R. V.

Bront's, The


Barker, Juliet R. V.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1003 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Faint soil to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460333


Price: $38.00 

 

Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street


Clarke, Norma

Hardcover. Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the back cover: "With its broad tableau and vividly drawn cast of characters, this book is a genuinely accessible and enlightening account of the working lives of Grub Street authors."

Record # 30312


Price: $23.00 

 

Cain: The Biography of James M. Cain


Hoopes, Roy

Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 684 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 405443


Price: $25.00 

 

Capote: A Biography


Clarke, Gerald

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 631 pages, b&w illustrations. Bright, clean copy in a dust jacket.

Record # 405216


Price: $15.00 

 

Capote: A Biography


Clarke, Gerald

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 631 pages. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 450554


Price: $12.00 

Captain Marryat: Seaman, Writer, and AdventurerPocock, Tom

Captain Marryat: Seaman, Writer, and Adventurer


Pocock, Tom

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470218


Price: $15.00 

 

Captain's Best Mate, The : The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860


Lawrence, Mary Chipman.

Softcover. US, Brown University Press, rep, 1986-04-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462385


Price: $10.00 

Carl Sandburg: A BiographyNiven, Penelope

Carl Sandburg: A Biography


Niven, Penelope

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 843 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE AND TITLE PAGES. Features 24 pages of black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 456856


Price: $50.00 

 

Catalyst for Controversy: Paul Caras of Open Court


Henderson, Harold

Hardcover. Carbondale, Illinois, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 205 pages. Gray cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy, like new.

Record # 606633


Price: $25.00 

Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40'sBeaton, Cecil

Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's


Beaton, Cecil

Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. line drawings, Diary entries about Greta Garbo and other famous persons. Dust jacket with closed tears, edgewear.

Record # 178030


Price: $15.00 

Chainless Soul, A: A Life of Emily BronteFrank, Katherine

Chainless Soul, A: A Life of Emily Bronte


Frank, Katherine

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin (T), 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pagtes. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470265


Price: $15.00 

 

Chandlertown: The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe


Thorpe, Edward

Hardcover. New York , St. Martin's, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 407070


Price: $19.00 

 

Charles Dickens and Other Victorians


Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams Sons, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, a collection of essays originally given as lectures at Cambridge University. Blue boards have a stripe along top with light fading otherwise excellent condition, tight and clean.

Record # 601304


Price: $21.00 

Charles DickensSlater, Michael

Charles Dickens


Slater, Michael

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 2nd, 2009-11-10, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 696 pages. Hardcover. Black and white illustration in center. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket and corners.

Record # 466752


Price: $25.00 

 

Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle


Shorter, Clement K.

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st thus, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 512 pages. Light wear and fade to maroon cloth covers. Foxing throughout text.

Record # 857062


Price: $38.00 

 

Christina Stead: A Biography


Rowley, Hazel

Softcover. 1st, October 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 646 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451514


Price: $15.00 

Chronicler of Barsetshire, The: A life of Anthony TrollopeH., R. (Robert Henry) Super

Chronicler of Barsetshire, The: A life of Anthony Trollope


H., R. (Robert Henry) Super

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 528 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top and fore edge. Spine of dust jacket faded. Minor tear to dust jacket repaired with tape. Otherwise clean, tight copy. . 528 pages. Record # 467115

Record # 467115


Price: $15.00 

 

Cissy Patterson: The Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson, Publisher and Editor of the Washington Times-Herald


Hoge, Alice Albright

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hard cover. 237 pages. B&w photos throughout. Pink top edge. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing, scratches. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 501958


Price: $9.00 

 

Clear Pictures


Price, Reynolds

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 2714


Price: $18.00 

 

Colette: A Life


Lottman, Herbert R.

Hardcover. Boston, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, with photographs. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456771


Price: $18.00 

 

Colette


Sarde, Michele

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 479 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609340


Price: $12.00 

 

Complete Notebooks of Henry James, The: The Authoritative and Definitive Edition


James, Henry (Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers, editors)

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 633 pages. Hardcover. Edited with introductions and notes by Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers. Illustrated with 8 pages of b/w plates. Light blue-green endpapers. pages 283 - 291 have small bump on top edge near right corner. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Black cloth with gilt decoration on front and gilt lettering on spine. Corners lightly bumped. B/W pictorial dust jacket with green lettering, light shelfwear. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 40073


Price: $16.00 

 

Confederate Bushwhacker: Mark Twain in the Shadow of the Civil War


Loving, Jerome

Hardcover. US, UPNE, 1st, 2013-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464167


Price: $15.00 

Conversations with Erskine CaldwellArnold, Edwin T.

Conversations with Erskine Caldwell


Arnold, Edwin T.

Softcover. US, University Press of Mississippi, 1988-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 461811


Price: $10.00 

Conversations With Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through The Twentieth CenturyVolkov, Solomon

Conversations With Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through The Twentieth Century


Volkov, Solomon

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 459526


Price: $19.00 

Conversations With Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through The Twentieth CenturyVolkov, Solomon

Conversations With Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through The Twentieth Century


Volkov, Solomon

Hardcover. US, Free Press, 1st, 1998-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461862


Price: $10.00 

 

Conversations With Peter Taylor (Literary Conversations Series)


McAlexander, Hubert Horton

Hardcover. US, Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1987-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 463738


Price: $10.00 

Conversations With Peter Taylor (Literary Conversations Series)McAlexander, Hubert Horton

Conversations With Peter Taylor (Literary Conversations Series)


McAlexander, Hubert Horton

Hardcover. US, Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1st, 1987-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Light scratching to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461470


Price: $10.00 

 

Cora Crane: A Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane


Gilkes, Lillian

Hardcover. London, Neville Spearman, 1st UK, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear, soil.

Record # 402929


Price: $18.00 

 

Courage for Truth, The


Merton, Thomas

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

Record # 3457


Price: $18.00 

 

Crabcakes - A Memoir


McPherson, James Alan

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder line bottom edge

Record # 52907


Price: $20.00 

Creating Colette: Vol. 2, from Baroness to Woman of Letters 1912-1954Francis, Claude

Creating Colette: Vol. 2, from Baroness to Woman of Letters 1912-1954


Francis, Claude

Hardcover. US, Steerforth Press, 1st, 1999-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 2 only. 298 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461781


Price: $10.00 

Creating ColetteFrancis, Claude

Creating Colette


Francis, Claude

Hardcover. US, Steerforth Press, 1st, 1998-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Decorative stitching to cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466659


Price: $13.00 

Creation of Nikolai Gogol, TheFanger, Donald

Creation of Nikolai Gogol, The


Fanger, Donald

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 300 pages, blue cloth in dust jacket that has edgewear, chipping.

Record # 402933


Price: $12.00 

 

Crime of the Century and Other Misdemeanors, The


Godey, John

Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 191 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Some tears to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 175237


Price: $12.00 

 

Cruel Banquet: The Life and Loves of Frida Strindberg


Strauss, Monica

Hardcover. UK, Harcourt Brace International, 1st, 2000-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461361


Price: $10.00 

 

Cruel Banquet: The Life and Loves of Frida Strindberg


Strauss, Monica

Hardcover. UK, Harcourt Brace International, 1st, 2000-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461362


Price: $10.00 

 

Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey


Duberman, Martin Bauml

Hardcover. New York, N.Y., U.S.A., Dutton Adult, 1st, April 1, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457915


Price: $15.00 

D.H. Lawrence - The Story of a MarriageMaddox, Brenda

D.H. Lawrence - The Story of a Marriage


Maddox, Brenda

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages, with black & white photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 11317


Price: $10.00 

D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a MarriageMaddox, Brenda

D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage


Maddox, Brenda

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1994-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages, b&w photos. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461830


Price: $11.00 

 

D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage


Maddox, Brenda

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Shuster, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket and remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462248


Price: $10.00 

D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a MarriageMaddox, Brenda

D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage


Maddox, Brenda

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1994-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461829


Price: $11.00 

 

Damon Runyon: A Life


Breslin, Jimmy

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991-09-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 410 pages, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463844


Price: $10.00 

 

Dawn Powell: A Biography


Page, Tim

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 1998-10-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463727


Price: $10.00 

 

Day at the Beach, A - Recollections


Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 52912


Price: $18.00 

 

Dear Departed - A Memoir


Yourcenar, Marguerite

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. from French by Maria Louise Ascher

Record # 54420


Price: $20.00 

 

Dear Juliette: Letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley


Sherman (Ed.), Susan

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages, b&w photos.

Record # 402460


Price: $18.00 

Dearest Chums and Partners - Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children - A Domestic BiographyHarris, Joel Chandler/Hugh T. Keenan (Editor)

Dearest Chums and Partners - Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children - A Domestic Biography


Harris, Joel Chandler/Hugh T. Keenan (Editor)

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750131


Price: $25.00 

 

Desert & The Stars: A Portrait of T.E. Lawrence


Armitage, Flora

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Dust jacket faded. Cover and pages very clean.

Record # 802304


Price: $10.00 

Diaries of Sofia TolstoyNo Author

Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy


No Author

Hardcover. rep., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 609 pages, b&w illustrations. Slight bumps to all corners, light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457859


Price: $38.00 

 

Diaries


Wagner, Cosima

Hardcover. Collins, 1st UK, December 4, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume 2. 1200 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket shows light edgewear and two small closed tears to front cover. Faint foxing to top edge, light wrinkle to upper corner of the first 24 pages, not effecting text

Record # 458143


Price: $50.00 

 

Disraeli - A Picture of the Victorian Age


Maurois, Andre

Hardcover. NY, Apleton, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Illust. Previous owner's bookplate. Dj worn, chipped, creased, with spittong to front cover. Inernallt clean and tight.

Record # 57636


Price: $8.00 

Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna BarnesHerring, Phillip

Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes


Herring, Phillip

Hardcover. New York, Viking Adult, 1st, November 1, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 386 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458518


Price: $13.00 

Dog Days: A Sequel to Donkey's YearsHiggins, Aidan

Dog Days: A Sequel to Donkey's Years


Higgins, Aidan

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, black cloth covers with silver lettering on spine. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 407846


Price: $19.00 

 

Don't Tread On Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman


Crowther (Editor), Prudence

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Inscribed by former owner on front flyleaf. Just a touch of foxing to tope edge, otherwise in good condition. Pages clean inside.

Record # 30793


Price: $13.00 

 

Don't Tread On Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman


Crowther, Prudence

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages, b&w photographs, bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 404681


Price: $15.00 

 

Donkey's Years


Higgins, Aidan

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, black cloth covers with silver lettering on spine. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 407847


Price: $13.00 

 

Dorothy and Red


Sheean, Vincent

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages, b&w photographs. A biography of Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Light edge wear, rubbing, spine slightly faded. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850043


Price: $15.00 

 

Dostoevski's Image in Russia Today


Seduro, Vladimir

Hardcover. Belmont, MA, Nordland Publishing Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 508 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning, otherwise excellent and wrapped in protective plastic cover. In great condition. Including Appendix.

Record # 32038


Price: $31.00 

 

Double Life Of Stephen Crane, The: A Biography


Benfey, Christopher

Hardcover. New York, 1st, September 1, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages, b&w photographs. Creases to front dust jacket flap. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451628


Price: $12.00 

 

Downhill All The Way - An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939


Woolf, Leonard

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Record # 609355


Price: $12.00 

 

Dr. Seuss: American Icon


Nel, Phillip

Hardcover. New York, Continuum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460467


Price: $25.00 

 

Dreiser


Swanberg, W. A.

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 614 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with creases along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609359


Price: $12.00 

 

Dylan Thomas - No Man More Magical


Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Top of spine chewed with similar damage at top of dust Jacket - Text and strength of spine not effected by damage. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609358


Price: $15.00 

 

Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson, The


Brack, Jr. (Editors), O. M./Robert E. Kelley

Hardcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages. Black cloth covers show standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610096


Price: $13.00 

Early Career of Malcolm Cowley: A Humanist Among the ModernsKempf, James M.

Early Career of Malcolm Cowley: A Humanist Among the Moderns


Kempf, James M.

Hardcover. US, Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1985-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 461822


Price: $10.00 

 

Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Volume 3, 1838-1842


Spiller, Robert E. & Wallace E. Williams

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume 3 only. 590 pages. previous owner's signature on front end paper, light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight sunning to spine. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Record # 855957


Price: $19.00 

 

Early Life of Thomas Hardy: 1840-1891, The


Hardy, Florence Emily

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages, b&w photos and illustrations, portraits protected by tissue guards, acetate dust jacket over covers, age tanning, small red stain on front cover, otherwise very clean, tight copy.

Record # 801429


Price: $13.00 

 

Edgar Wallace: The Biography of Phenomenon


Lane, Margaret

Hardcover. New York, Book League of America, 2nd, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 423 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Light soil internally. Previous owner's stamps on end paper.

Record # 2233420


Price: $19.00 

 

Edith Wharton A to Z - The Essential Guide to the Life and Work


Wright, Sarah Bird

Softcover. New York, Checkmark Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Short crease at bottom right corner of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609009


Price: $10.00 

 

Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life - An Illustrated Biography


Dwight, Eleanor

New York, Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Clean, bright copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 405123


Price: $23.00 

 

Edmund Wildon - A Biography


Meyers, Jeffrey

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 53004


Price: $25.00 

 

Edmund Wilson: A Bibliography


Ramsey (Ed.), Richard D.

Hardcover. NY, Lewis, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 948


Price: $25.00 

Edmund Wilson: A BiographyMeyers, Jeffrey

Edmund Wilson: A Biography


Meyers, Jeffrey

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461794


Price: $10.00 

 

Education of a Wandering Man


L'Amour, Louis

Hardcover. US, Bantam, 1st, 1989-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463854


Price: $10.00 

 

Elinor Wylie - A Biography


Olson, Stanley

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press/James Wade, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 376 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Ex-library copy with minimal stamping, etc. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 609342


Price: $8.00 

 

Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It


Millier, Brett C.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, March 15, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 602 pages, b&w photos. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458427


Price: $31.00 

 

Ellen Glasgow - Beyond Convention


Wagner, Linda W.

Austin, TX, Univ. of Texas, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages.

Record # 62355


Price: $20.00 

Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group PortraitBaker, Carlos

Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait


Baker, Carlos

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 1996-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 608 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461836


Price: $13.00 

 

Emily Dickinson


Wolff, Cynthia Griffin

Hardcover. New York, reprint, November 12, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 638 pages. Dark gray covers, color illustrated dust jacket. Light edge wear to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, previous owner's signature to front end paper corner; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451783


Price: $15.00 

 

English Biography in the Eighteenth Century


Longaker, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Octagon Books, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 519 pages, light foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 855014


Price: $15.00 

 

English Men of Letters: Jeremy Taylor


Gosse, Edmund

Hardcover. Grosse Pointe, MI, Scholarly Press, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages. Maroon cloth, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856872


Price: $15.00 

 

Esenin: A Life


McVay, Gordon

Softcover. NY, Paragon House, 1st pbk, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. B&W photographs. Slight tinting to covers. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855608


Price: $13.00 

 

Etchings In an Hourglass


Simon, Kate

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

Record # 1928


Price: $12.00 

Eudora: A Writer's LifeWaldron, Ann

Eudora: A Writer's Life


Waldron, Ann

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 1998-11-10, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 398 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461518


Price: $11.00 

Evelyn Waugh: A BiographyHastings, Selina

Evelyn Waugh: A Biography


Hastings, Selina

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1995, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 724 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Gilt titles on spine. Foxing to edges. Edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 723 pages. Record # 467508

Record # 467508


Price: $13.00 

 

Excursions in the Real World


Trevor, William

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 5757


Price: $25.00 

 

Fabulous Freddie & Saints and Sinners


Green, Paul D.

New York, Funk, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 289 pages. Black & white photography. Gift inscription on front end paper. Dust jacket has edgewear, spine sunned.

Record # 207891


Price: $10.00 

 

Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky


Lester, Julius

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, 1st, October 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 457287


Price: $7.00 

 

Family Memories - An Autobiographical Journey


West, Rebecca

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 100679


Price: $15.00 

 

Faulkner at West Point


Fant, Joseph L. and Robert Ashley

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st pr, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 136 pages, b&w photographs. Yellow top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to edges. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851384


Price: $20.00 

 

Faulkner at West Point


Fant, Joseph L. and Robert Ashley

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st pr, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 136 pages, b&w photographs. Yellow top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to edges. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851383


Price: $20.00 

 

Faulkner-Cowley File, The: Letters and Memories 1944-1962


Cowley, Malcolm

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages, two-toned cloth covers, dust jacket with mild wear.

Record # 405985


Price: $25.00 

Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. ThompsonPerry, Paul

Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson


Perry, Paul

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages, with b&w photographs. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456673


Price: $12.00 

 

Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch: An Appreciation of his Life and Works


Jordan & Wright, ed., William George & Richardson

Hardcover. New York, The Authors Club, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pp. An examination of the life and literature of Russia's Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch, through the eyes of American writers. A literary hoax. Larrovitchis an imaginery writer.

Record # 604846


Price: $11.00 

 

Figures of Autobiography: The Language of Self-Writing


Fleishman, Avrom

Hardcover. Berkeley, 1st, February 9, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 486 pages. Light soil to inside of dust jacket upper edge, faint foxing to all edges. Neat readingcopy.

Record # 457662


Price: $13.00 

 

Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright


Dardis, Tom

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Biography of the man who changed American publishing.

Record # 12522


Price: $9.00 

Firebrand:: The Life of Horace LiverightDardis, Tom

Firebrand:: The Life of Horace Liveright


Dardis, Tom

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1995-07-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461795


Price: $13.00 

 

Flaws in the Glass - A Self-Portrait


White, Patrick

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56363


Price: $18.00 

 

Fool of the Family a Life of J.M. Synge


MCCORMACK, W.J.

Hardcover. US, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1st, 2000-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 499 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464815


Price: $13.00 

 

For the Time Being


Dillard, Annie

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelfwear. Slight yellowing to dust jacket inside flaps. Small folds to some page corners, used as bookmarks. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 471131


Price: $19.00 

 

Four Worthies: John Chamberlain, Anne Clifford, John Taylor, Oliver Heywood (SIGNED)


Notestein, Wallace

Hardcover. New Haven CONNECTICUT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. INSCRIBED BY NOTESTEIN on front fly leaf. In a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 404702


Price: $18.00 

 

Frank O'Connor


Wohlgelernter, Maurice

Hardcover. US, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1977-10-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464822


Price: $11.00 

 

Franz Kafka: Representative Man


Karl, Frederick

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991-11-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 810 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464191


Price: $15.00 

Fred Gipson at WorkLich, Glen E.

Fred Gipson at Work


Lich, Glen E.

Hardcover. College Station, Texas A&M, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 125 pages, spotless and bright copy.

Record # 1097


Price: $8.00 

 

Frieda Lawrence


Jackson, Rosie

Hardcover. London/San Francisco, Pandora, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Includes "Not I, But the Wind" & other autobiographical writings by Lawrence. 240 pages.

Record # 60684


Price: $10.00 

 

From Main Street to Stockholm: Letters of Sinclair Lewis 1919-1930


Smith (Editor), Harrison

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages, b&w frontispiece portrait of Lewis. Dust jacket with edge wear, corner chip. Otherwise clean.

Record # 407069


Price: $10.00 

 

From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel: Parts 1 & 2: The Works of Rudyard Kipling, (Volumes 15 & 16)


Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Vol 15 (Part 1): 494 pages. 3 b/w plates with tissue guards. Vol 16 (Part 2): 553 pages. 3 b/w plates with tissue guards. Hardcovers. Deckled untrimmed edges. Early editions in the Scribner's series, bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt decoration and elephant and swastika sign (Kipling's trademark) on the front cover and title page, top edge gilt. Just a touch of age wear to spine and cover boards, fading, soil, chipping. Bindings tight. Lovely, clean copies from this collection.

Record # 31474


Price: $25.00 

 

Galley Slave


Lake, Austen

Hardcover. Boston, Burdette, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 291 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photography throughout. Gift inscription on front end paper. Dust jacket has edgewear, missing small chunk from front and back. Cover has light edgewear. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 206692


Price: $9.00 

 

Gandhi, Soldier of Nonviolence: an Introduction


Kytle, Calvin

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Seven Locks Press, reprint, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 203 pages. Inscribed by author on front fly leaf. Foxing to edges. Crease on front flap of dust jacket. "Autographed Copy" sticker on front of dust jacket. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855717


Price: $25.00 

 

Genet - A Biography


White, Edmund

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 728 pages. Hardcover. Canvas cloth boards with silver titles. Bright dust jacket with illustration in black & white and only marginal wear to edges. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751359


Price: $25.00 

 

Genius in Disguise:: Harold Ross of The New Yorker


Kunkel, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, 1st, March 7, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 497 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Else very good.

Record # 452250


Price: $10.00 

 

George Eliot - Voice of a Century


Karl, Frederick R.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Several pages with corner fold otherwise

Record # 54062


Price: $18.00 

 

George Eliot: The Emergent Self


Redinger, Ruby

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 515 pages and index. Burgundy cloth cover, "RVR" embossed on cover, title and author gilt on spine. Corners bumped. Purple decorative stain on top edge. Dust jacket has significant edgewear, rubbing.

Record # 401615


Price: $12.00 

George, Being George: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals - and a Few Unappreciative Observers.Aldrich, Jr., Nelson W.

George, Being George: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals - and a Few Unappreciative Observers.


Aldrich, Jr., Nelson W.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 423 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 750092


Price: $15.00 

 

Georgie and Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife, The Untold Story


Di Giovanni, Norman Thomas

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in dark green cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and bright. Like new, looks barely read. Based on an extensive collection of original material in the form of diaries, notebooks, letters, manuscripts, and photographs, most of which have never before been seen, Georgie & Elsa provides a unique insight into one of the few true geniuses of literature.

Record # 32318


Price: $23.00 

 

Get Dutch! A Biography Of Elmore Leonard


Challen, Paul

Softcover. Toronto, CN, ECW, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations. Paperback with 182 pages.

Record # 203232


Price: $15.00 

 

Gift Imprisoned, A - The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 101197


Price: $20.00 

 

Gore Vidal


Parini, Jay

Hardcover. US, Columbia University Press, 2nd printing, 1992-10-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463745


Price: $11.00 

 

Gorky: A Biography


Troyat, Henri

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages, b&w illustrations. Translated from French by Lowell Bair.

Record # 404544


Price: $10.00 

 

Graham Greene - An Intimate Portrait by His Clost Friend & Confidant


Duran, Leopoldo

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white photos

Record # 52931


Price: $18.00 

 

Graham Greene - An Intimate Portrait by His Clost Friend & Confidant


Duran, Leopoldo

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white photos

Record # 52932


Price: $18.00 


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