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Alexander Solzhenitsyn - A Century in His Life


Thomas, D.M.

Paperback. NY, St. Martins, Unc. proof wraps, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 52904


Price: $20.00 

 

Alice James: A Biography


Strouse, Jean

Softcover. New York, New York Review of Books, Reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 2230391


Price: $15.00 

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 

 

Aline


Klein, Carole

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 204302


Price: $12.00 

 

All Will Be Well: A Memoir


McGahern, John

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st American, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Deckled fore edge. Dust jacket unclipped with some chipping along edges. Gilt title on spine. A small bit of moisture damage to top spine, otherwise in good condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30794


Price: $10.00 

American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia PlathRollyson, Carl

American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath


Rollyson, Carl

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470167


Price: $13.00 

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 

 

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 

Arthur C. Clarke: The Authorized BiographyMcAleer, Neil

Arthur C. Clarke: The Authorized Biography


McAleer, Neil

Hardcover. Chicago, Contemporary Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Dust jacket in mylar protective sleeve.

Record # 469919


Price: $15.00 

 

Arthur Ransome


Hunt, Peter

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Twayne's English Author Series. Ed. by Lois R. Kuznets with bibliography

Record # 56382


Price: $25.00 

At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac BabelPirozhkova, A.N.

At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel


Pirozhkova, A.N.

Softcover. South Royalton, VT, Steerforth, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers, light foxing on page block.

Record # 468481


Price: $10.00 

Attic, The: Memoir of a Chinese Landlord's SonCao, Guanlong

Attic, The: Memoir of a Chinese Landlord's Son


Cao, Guanlong

Hardcover. California, University of California Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Slight edge fading to boards and spine. Otherwise clean inside and out. From dust jacket front flap: "In this exquisite memoir, novelist Guanlong Cao sketches the tale of growing up in Shanghai during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution."

Record # 30190


Price: $19.00 

 

Authors Today and Yesterday


Kunitz, Stanley J.

Hardcover. NY, H. W. Wise, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Brief bios of 320 writers published 1900-1933. 726 pages. Green cloth browned on spine otherwise VG.

Record # 68764


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

BEING REDFast, Howard M.

BEING RED


Fast, Howard M.

hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 370 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs in center. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf otherwise Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468538


Price: $11.00 

 

Bellow - A Biography


Atlas, James

Paperback. NY, Random House, advanced uncorrected proof wraps , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light wear along edges, otherwise copy is clean. paperback, 674 pgs.

Record # 108763


Price: $18.00 

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 

Bellow: A Biography (SIGNED COPY)Atlas, James

Bellow: A Biography (SIGNED COPY)


Atlas, James

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 704 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE. Faint line on top text block, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with fraying to top spine and minor wear to dust jacket. Adhesive residue on front dust jacket.

Record # 470593


Price: $31.00 

 

Beloved Land, The


Dedijer, Vladimir

Hardcover. London, Macgibbon & Kee, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 374 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. There are a few places internally where gutter is cracked. Light soil on covers/page block. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233436


Price: $15.00 

Ben Hecht: The Man Behind the LegendMacAdams, William

Ben Hecht: The Man Behind the Legend


MacAdams, William

hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469129


Price: $19.00 

 

Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy 1918-1950 Volume III


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 544 pages. Hardcover. Volume III. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue textured cover boards, navy blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. In this, the final volume of Halroyd's mammoth Shaw biography, the story opens with G.B.S. campaigning in the general election of 1918 and gradually unveils him in his various roles as conjurer, fabulist, and seer.

Record # 32456


Price: $25.00 

 

Bernard Shaw: Volume 1-1856-1898: The Search for Love


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st UK, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 486 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of famed playwright and literary figure. Mild rubbing and fading to dust jacket. Unmarked. Black-and-white photographs throughout. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 4450010


Price: $20.00 

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 

 

Beyond the Wild Wood


Green, Peter

Hardcover. London, Grange Books, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Minor bumping to corners. Many black-and-white and color illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951780


Price: $15.00 

 

Blast from the Past (SIGNED)


Friedman, Kinky

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Shuster, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Memoirs of countercultural Texan writer. Bright and clean dust jacket, in a protective sleeve. A tight copy.

Record # 952348


Price: $35.00 

 

Bob Dylan In America


Wilentz, Sean

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 3rd, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean copy with minor scratches to dust jacket, minor foxing to top edge of textblock.

Record # 2230274


Price: $19.00 

 

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin


Lepore Jill

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Light green cover boards, dark green quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Deckled foreedge. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. The life story of Benjamin Franklin's sister, Jane Franklin.

Record # 31776


Price: $19.00 

 

Borges: A Life


Williamson, Edwin

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 2nd, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 574 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Meticulously researched biography. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light bumping to corners. Slight age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952593


Price: $16.00 

 

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 

 

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 and Winston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 684 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Still in good condition. Some light foxing to edges and boards, but pages clean and bright. Dust jacket unclipped and whole, but just a bit of yellowing due to age.

Record # 30700


Price: $19.00 

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 

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 

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 

Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu ZhimoHsu, Tony S

Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu Zhimo


Hsu, Tony S

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge Rivers Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 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 # 471523


Price: $23.00 

Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of EnglandAstell, Mary

Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England


Astell, Mary

Softcover. Toronto, Iter Inc, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Softcover. Mild age wear to edges of cover, otherwise very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230978


Price: $50.00 

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 

 

Churchill's Generals


Keegan, John

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, now protected with a plastic cover. Illustrated in black & white, tight bindng, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750947


Price: $15.00 

Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern RenaissanceWaldron, Ann

Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance


Waldron, Ann

hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469131


Price: $13.00 

 

Collected Works of Ken Wilbur, The: Volume Five: Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilbur


Wilbur, Ken

Hardcover. Boston, Shambhala, 2nd, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 506 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Gray covers. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has a small tear at top of spine, patched with tape. In excellent condition. Ken Wilbur talks about his short time with his wife who died of breast cancer.

Record # 31393


Price: $23.00 

 

Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties: A Memoir (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Kunin, Madeleine May

Hardcover. Brattleboro, VT, Green Writers Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight.

Record # 32148


Price: $23.00 

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 

 

Curse of the Misbegotten, The: A Tale of the House of O'Neill


Bowen, Croswell

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Written with Shane O'Neill, the playwright's son. Black & white photos. 384 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. A few pages with pencil lines in margins otherwise very good.

Record # 59056


Price: $12.00 

Damon Runyon: A LifeBreslin, Jimmy

Damon Runyon: A Life


Breslin, Jimmy

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

Record # 466746


Price: $13.00 

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 

Dictionary of Irish Biography, ABoylan, Henry

Dictionary of Irish Biography, A


Boylan, Henry

hardcover. Niwot, CO, Roberts Rinehart Pub, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 462 pages. Hardcover with faded dust jacket. Black and white pictures. Front board lightly warped otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468944


Price: $19.00 

 

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 BiographyBenfey, Christopher

Double Life of Stephen Crane, The: A Biography


Benfey, Christopher

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light fading to top of cloth covers. Lightly smudged on page block, but unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 469941


Price: $11.00 

 

Enough About You: Adventures in Autobiography


Shields, David

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out, in great shape.

Record # 30571


Price: $15.00 

 

Eug

Hardcover. Boston, MA, James R. Osgood & Company, 1st, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in dark brown cloth, gilt title on spine and design embossed on front cover. Cover boards have some age wear, fraying, rubbing, chipping. Front and rear hinges cracked, but binding still tight. Spine slightly cocked. Some moisture staining along foreedge, but doesn't affect text or illustrations. Moisture damage to back cover board. Tanning from age throughout. In great shape for its age.

Record # 31723


Price: $38.00 

 

Famous Authors (Women)


Harkins, E. F.

Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Pane, 5th printing, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages, 15 B&W photo portraits, including one on cover label with gilt & 2-color decoration. Short biographies of 21 women authors. Top edge gilt.

Record # 304925


Price: $8.00 

 

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 

Films of John Cassavetes, The: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies (Cambridge Film Classics)Carney, Ray

Films of John Cassavetes, The: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies (Cambridge Film Classics)


Carney, Ray

softcover. Cambridge , Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Softcover. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers, light fading to spine, light markings to page block, otherwise very good copy.

Record # 468448


Price: $38.00 

Fire in the Mind, A: The Life of Joseph CampbellLarsen, Stephen

Fire in the Mind, A: The Life of Joseph Campbell


Larsen, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 636 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Former price sticker on rear dust jacket. Tight copy.

Record # 470651


Price: $19.00 

 

First Time Around, The: Some Irreverent Recollections


Wechsberg, Joseph

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 381 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Pages and edges slightly yellow with age. dust jacket unclipped, but some age wear, still intact. In good shape considering its age.

Record # 30630


Price: $11.00 

 

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor


Gooch, Brad

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2009, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 464 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor soiling to front cover of dust jacket. Wear to top edge of back cover. Spine slightly cocked. Clean and unmarked inside. Black & white photographs.

Record # 2230371


Price: $19.00 

 

Flanzy's: Story - Part. Two three, four


Chod--kowski violet, too --, mrs; Flanzy. leigh: Lewis, Illust. by: Richard Chodkowski

Hardcover. Middlebury, mnrstbks, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Brilliant. apostrophe. no quotation marks. New - 12/3/04 three returns. ILLUSTRATED BY DICK CHODKOWSKI

Record # 191808


Price: $78.00 

 

Flaubert: A Biography


Lottman, Herbert R.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 396 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sticker residue on top right corner of front cover. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black & white images throughout.

Record # 471407


Price: $15.00 

 

Foremost Good Fortune, The


Conley, Susan

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover, Dust jacket unclipped. Deckled fore edge. Gilt title on spine. In excellent condition, clean and bright inside and out.

Record # 30679


Price: $11.00 

 

Forty Years with Berenson


Mariano, Nicky

Hardcover. 1966, Alfred A. Knopt, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 352 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear. Deckled foreedge, dyed top edge. A little age-yellowing to pages, but clean inside and in good condition.

Record # 30948


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Gen

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket very good, unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age. Brown cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled edges, a touch of tanning and the beginnings of foxing to edges. Pages clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. "Wineapple brings to life the intense, compelling woman who, sporting a monacle, came to be synonymous with our bittersweet, romantic view of Americans in Paris between the wars."

Record # 31768


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Global Village: The 1960's


Aquin, Stephanie

Softcover. Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Softcover. Color pictures. Light edgewear to wrappers otherwise very good.

Record # 469456


Price: $31.00 

 

Gore Vidal - Writer Against The Grain


Parini, Jay

NY, Columbia University Press , 2nd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like New.

Record # 200497


Price: $15.00 

 

Graham Greene - An Intimate Portrait by His Closest Friend and Confidant


Duran, Leopold

San Francisco, CA, Harper Collins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Light rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 201303


Price: $15.00 

 

Grain of Wheat, A - A Writer Begins


Bulla, Clyde Robert

Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 49 pages, b&w photos.

Record # 602036


Price: $35.00 

 

Hardy


Seymour-Smith, Martin

Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket with minor wear. Otherwise clean and tight inside.

Record # 2230417


Price: $31.00 

 

Hawthorne: A Life


Wineapple, Brenda

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 509 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Vivid portrait of writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Rough-cut fore edge. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952404


Price: $19.00 

 

Headed for the Blues


Skvorecky, Josef

Hardcover. New Jersey, The Ecco Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Very clean inside and out. Dust jacket unclipped.

Record # 30580


Price: $19.00 

 

His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir


Jenkins, Dan

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped and excellent. Clean and unmarked inside and out. Looks barely read, in very good condition.

Record # 5560120


Price: $15.00 

 

Homage to Theodore Dreiser: On the Centennial of His Birth


Warren, Robert Penn

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1971, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, color dust jacket. Very light wear to edges of dust jacket; book in excellent condition.

Record # 803266


Price: $13.00 

 

Hooded, Hawk, The - Or the Case of Mr. Boswell


Lewis, D.B. Wyndham

Hardcover. NY, Longman S. Green & Co., 1st US, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows wear, chipping and tears. Covered with brodart. Spine faded. Cover boards are faded, rubbed and lightly frayed. Gilt lettering. Pages lightly darkened.

Record # 60247


Price: $18.00 

If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, A MemoirRabassa, Gregory

If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, A Memoir


Rabassa, Gregory

Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471410


Price: $15.00 

 

Invisible Man, The: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells


Coren, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471245


Price: $11.00 

 

Invisible Writer - A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates


Johnson, Greg

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 54091


Price: $28.00 

 

Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates


Johnson, Greg

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 492 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of noted writer. Black-and-white photos throughout. Slight bumping to bottom edge. Edgewear and light rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951283


Price: $29.00 

 

Istanbul: Memories and the City (With New Introduction by the Author)


Pamuk, Ophan

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Deluxe Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 560 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. Light remainder mark on bottom edge. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Looks nearly new. Beautiful copy. Ophan Pamuk's portrait of his city is a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy that all Istabullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.

Record # 31715


Price: $31.00 

 

Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition


Calvino, Italo

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Princeton University Press, 1st Paperback, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 640 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 2230276


Price: $15.00 

 

Italo Svevo - The Man and the Writer


Furbank, P. N.

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif., 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. Dj blurb taped to front fly leaf. Previous owner's signature front end paper, otherwise

Record # 54202


Price: $25.00 

 

Jack London: A Life


Kershaw, Alex

Hardcover. New York, NY, St. Martin's Press, First US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Black boards with silver titles to spine. Deckled edge. 16 pages of illustrations in black & white plus four maps. Dust jacket in very good shape with only light, marginal wear to edges. Clean, tight and unmarked.

Record # 6670093


Price: $19.00 

James Merrill: Life and ArtHammer, Langdon

James Merrill: Life and Art


Hammer, Langdon

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 944 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470172


Price: $31.00 

James Williamson: Studies and Documents of a Pioneer of the Film NarrativeSopocy, Martin

James Williamson: Studies and Documents of a Pioneer of the Film Narrative


Sopocy, Martin

Hardcover. London, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs. light edge wear and fading to dust jacket. Black cloth covers with gilt decoration and lettering in spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 467972


Price: $15.00 

Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and OthersChapman, R. W.

Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others


Chapman, R. W.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set. Hardcover without dust jacket. Marbled covers. Both volumes include pull out map. Previous owners book plates on front end paper of both volumes. Some pages untrimmed in both volumes. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857489


Price: $375.00 

 

Jane Austen: A Life


Tomalin, Claire

Hardcover. New York, NY, Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with gilt titles to maroon cloth spine. Deckled edge, black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670049


Price: $23.00 

 

Jane Austen: the Secret Radical


Kelly, Helena

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped. Some slight moisture staining to bottom left corner of back cover and dust jacket. Does not affect pages. In great condition. Binding tight, spine straight. An illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and how she intended her books to be read.

Record # 32125


Price: $19.00 

Jean Rhys: Life and WorkAngier, Carole

Jean Rhys: Life and Work


Angier, Carole

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown & Co., 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 762 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean copy with edgewear to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Record # 471814


Price: $23.00 

 

Jean Stafford: A Biography


Roberts, David

Hardcover. Boston MA, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 494 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Elegant biography of distinguished writer. Mild rubbing and fading to dust jacket, which is enclosed in a protective plastic sleeve. Mild soiling to fore edge text block. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952595


Price: $29.00 

John Wilkins 1614-1672: An Intellectual BiographyShapiro, Barbara

John Wilkins 1614-1672: An Intellectual Biography


Shapiro, Barbara

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA , University of California Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 333 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows normal age wear, fading and chipping. Price Clipped. Name of former owner in pen in front end papers, light pencil marking in text.

Record # 2231109


Price: $19.00 

 

Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives


Karl, Frederick R.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1008 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Blue top edge of text block. Minor foxing to text block. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 470927


Price: $25.00 

Joseph P. LashLash (Intro.), Jonathan

Joseph P. Lash


Lash (Intro.), Jonathan

Softcover. New York , New York Public Library, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 52 pages, tipped in portrait as frontispiece. A collection of remembrances by the writer's family and friends. White stapled wrappers with brick-red dust jacket that has a small dime size stain on front.

Record # 411331


Price: $25.00 

Journey Around My Room - The Autobiography of Louise BoganLimmer, Ruth

Journey Around My Room - The Autobiography of Louise Bogan


Limmer, Ruth

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 196 pages. Black & white photographs. Dust jacket has some small tears and edgewear. Water staining in one inch splotch on rear end paper that continues on some of the fore edge. Corners lightly bumped. Light soil to rear dust jacket.

Record # 204579


Price: $15.00 

 

Journey to My Father: Isaac Bashevis Singer


Zamir, Israel

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, 1st Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Green cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. A personal and moving portrait of one of this century's major writers, and an honest exploration of the often charged and complex relationship between father and son, and son and father.

Record # 32457


Price: $15.00 

Jules Verne: An Exploratory BiographyLottman, Herbert R.

Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography


Lottman, Herbert R.

Hardcover. New York, St Martins Pr, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470082


Price: $13.00 

Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 - 2 VolumesRichards, Laura E./Maud Howe Elliott/Florence Howe Hall

Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 - 2 Volumes


Richards, Laura E./Maud Howe Elliott/Florence Howe Hall

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes. Ex-library set with bookplates and stamps on front endpapers, and labels at bottom at bottom of spines. Top edges gilt. Slight fade to spines. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614004


Price: $63.00 

Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph HellerDaugherty, Tracy

Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller


Daugherty, Tracy

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 560 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470011


Price: $13.00 

 

Knut Hamsun


Larsen, Hanna Astrup

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light wear to edges. Gutter cracks throughout but still intact.

Record # 2233496


Price: $23.00 

 

Lardner on Baseball


Lardner, Ring, Jeff Silverman (Editor)

Hardcover. Guilford, CT, The Lyons Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 492 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cream cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Light remainder mark on bottom edge. Pages clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. A look at the life of the sports journalist and fiction writer.

Record # 32198


Price: $19.00 

 

Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, The


Ray, Gordon N. (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 695 pages. Hardcover. Volume 3 of 4. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Boards bound in red, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover. Some age wear, light tanning. Inlaid: Map of the West End from Weale's "London Exhibited in 1852". Correspondence of British novelist, author and illustrator.

Record # 31221


Price: $38.00 

 

Letters of Ernest Hemingway, The: Volume 5, 1932-1934


Spanier, Sandra (Ed.), Miriam B. Mandel

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 699 pages. Hardcover. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. Like new. Hemingway's personal correspondence is a look into his intimate life.

Record # 31929


Price: $50.00 

 

Letters of James Gibbons Huneker


Huneker, Josephine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, James Gibbon Huneker, in sepia tones protected with tissue guard. Green cloth covered boards with gilt cameo to cover, gilt titles to spine. Deckled side edge, green dyed top edge. Tight binding, previous owner's signature to front fly leaf, else clean.

Record # 6670157


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters of T.E. Lawrence, The


Garnett, David (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran & Co., Inc., 1st Edition, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 896 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout with fold-out maps. Dust jacket has some agewear (see images), price clipped. Binding good. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, design blind-stamped on front cover. Some tanning from age throughout, doesn't affect text, illustration, or maps. These letters form the intimate personal record of the life of the most discussed, most puzzling, and least understood figure of the post-war era.

Record # 33496


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters of Virginia Woolf, The: Volume 2 1912-1922


Nicolson, Nigel (Editor), Joanne Trautmann (Asst. Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st American edition, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 627 pages. Hardcover. Volume II only. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, purple quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tanning from age on spine, otherwise in good shape (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Page clean. In very good condition. Even richer than it's predecessor, Vol. II of Virginia Woolf's letters covers the first decade of her marriage; the publication of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, and Jacob's Room; the founding of the Hogwarth Press; and the years of World War I.

Record # 32340


Price: $23.00 

 

Life and Letters of Joel Chandler Harris, The


Harris, Julia Collier

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , unk, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, ex-lib copy w/ usual markings, b&w Illustrations.

Record # 16266


Price: $13.00 

 

Life and Times of Goethe, The


Grimm, Herman

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 101556


Price: $20.00 

 

Life and Times of Jane Austen, The


Wilks, Brian

Hardcover. London, Chancellor Press, Rep., 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, A photographic history of the period. Black & white illust. 144 pages.

Record # 60516


Price: $30.00 

 

Life of Dylan Thomas, The


Fitzgibbon, Constatntine

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, b&w photos

Record # 11913


Price: $10.00 

 

Life of Graham Greene, The: Volume Three: 1955-1991


Sherry, Norman

Hardcover. New York, Viking Penguin, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 906 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The third and final volume of the definitive biography of acclaimed writer Graham Greene. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light bumping to upper and lower spine. Black-and-white photography throughout. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952394


Price: $25.00 

 

Life of John O'Hara, The


MacShane, Frank

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Engrossing biography of famed writer. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, which is encased in a plastic sleeve. Light fading to prelim pages. Faint age toning to text block edges. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952586


Price: $19.00 

 

Life of John O'Hara, The


MacShane, Frank

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Record # 2233415


Price: $15.00 

Life of Katherine Mansfield, TheAlpers, Antony

Life of Katherine Mansfield, The


Alpers, Antony

hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 466 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469632


Price: $10.00 

Life of Saul Bellow, The: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964Leader, Zachary

Life of Saul Bellow, The: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964


Leader, Zachary

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 832 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Decorative trimming on fore edge, silver gilt to spine. Light sun fading to top edge of boards.

Record # 470122


Price: $25.00 

 

Life of Thomas Hardy, The (Volumes 1 and 2)


Hardy , Florence Emily

Hardcover. London , Macmillan and Co, Ltd , reprint , 1933 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 654 pages. Illustrated frontispiece in both volumes. Gilt lettering on spines. Foxing throughout. Rubbing to front and back cover. Frontispiece lose from binding of volume 2. Otherwise clean, tight copies.

Record # 857439


Price: $38.00 

 

Life Torn by History, A: Franz Werfel 1890-1945


Jungk, Peter Stephan

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Boards and pages very clean, some light foxing on edges. Dust jacket has just a touch of age wear, but in great shape and completely intact. Gilt title on spine.

Record # 30632


Price: $19.00 

 

Lillian Hellman: The Image, the Woman (SIGNED)


Wright, William

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Some sunfading to covers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.

Record # 471292


Price: $19.00 

 

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer


Kaplan, Fred

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The literary side of America's sixteenth president. Light bumping to corners, mild rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 951343


Price: $16.00 

Little By LittleLittle, Jean

Little By Little


Little, Jean

Hardcover. Canada, Viking, reprint , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Canada, Dutton, reprint , Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w and color photographs throughout. Card from author laid in. Blind stamp on front cover. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated end papers and fly leafs. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Otherwise clean, tight copy. . Schools, Periods & Styles pages. Record # 467197

Record # 467197


Price: $23.00 

 

Little House Sampler, A


Wilder, Laura Ingalls and Rose Wilder Lane

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 3rd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Editor William T. Anderson chronologically arranged dozens of newspaper and magazine articles regarding Laura Ingalls Wilder. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Fading to dust jacket spine. Slight bowing to front and rear boards. Light age toning to top text block edge. Mild crease to top front flap. Unmarked. A clean copy.

Record # 951787


Price: $19.00 

 

Lives Like Loaded Guns - Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds


Gordon, Lyndall

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Group, First US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 491 pages. Hardcover. Grey boards with gilt titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750981


Price: $19.00 

Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's FeudsGordon, Lyndall

Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds


Gordon, Lyndall

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Price clipped dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471731


Price: $19.00 

 

Mad in Pursuit


Leduc, Violette

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. from French by Derek Coltman

Record # 52969


Price: $18.00 

 

Making of Charles Dickens, The: An absorbing Study of a Complex and Striking Character During the Years of His Major Creative Development


Hibbert, Christopher, Illust. by: George Cruikshank

Hardcover. New York, Harper Row Publishers, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout, including those by George Cruikshank from several of Dickens' novels. Dust jacket price clipped. Covers bound in teal, gilt title on spine, covers slightly faded along top edge (shelf wear). Dust jacket in decent shape, clean inside.

Record # 30791


Price: $10.00 

Man Who Lived Twice, TheBarnes, Eric Wollencott

Man Who Lived Twice, The


Barnes, Eric Wollencott

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight fading to upper edge of covers and to spine. With an introductory chapter by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Inscription on front end papers, signed 1956 to "Martin" with inscription by "Frances" allegedly to be actress Frances Starr.

Record # 2230894


Price: $25.00 

Man Who Wasn't Maigret, The: A Portrait of Georges SimenonMarnham, Patrick

Man Who Wasn't Maigret, The: A Portrait of Georges Simenon


Marnham, Patrick

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st US , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Hardcover. B&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468091


Price: $19.00 

 

Man Working, 1919 - 1962: William Faulkner - A Catalogue of the William Faulkner Collections at the University of Virginia Library


Faulkner, William/Linton R. Massey (Editor) & John Cook Wyllie (Introduction)

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia/Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered board with black printed titles to canvas ivory cloth spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Related ephemera laid-in. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751235


Price: $94.00 

 

Mark Twain and "Life on the Mississippi"


Kruse, Horst H.

Hardcover. Amherst MA, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Well-researched work on Mark Twain and his relationship with the Mississippi River. Mild rubbing to dust jacket, which is housed in a plastic protective sleeve. Unmarkled. bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 4450016


Price: $19.00 

 

Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years


Shelden, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 484 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some black and white pictures. Light wear to edges. Rippling to top dust jacket on front. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233630


Price: $19.00 

Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final YearsShelden, Michael

Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years


Shelden, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd printing, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature plate on front end paper. Light crinkling to dust jacket top edge and inside front flap.

Record # 470280


Price: $15.00 

 

Marquis de Sade - Letters From Prison


de Sade, Marquis

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, First Edition, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 401 pages. Hardcover. Ivory cloth with red printed titles to black cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. TIght binding, sharp corners, clean unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750929


Price: $23.00 

Marshall Mcluhan: Escape Into Understanding: The Authorized BiographyGordon, W. Terrence

Marshall Mcluhan: Escape Into Understanding: The Authorized Biography


Gordon, W. Terrence

Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471815


Price: $31.00 

Martin Amis Bradford, Richard

Martin Amis


Bradford, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books LTD, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 449 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, slight edgewear. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951101


Price: $16.00 

Mary Austin - Song of a MaverickStineman, Esther L.

Mary Austin - Song of a Maverick


Stineman, Esther L.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale U. Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and light fading to dust jacket.

Record # 702


Price: $15.00 

 

Mass for the Dead, A


Gibson, William

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 431 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title to spine. Top edge dyed. Light foxing to edges. Clean inside. Some age wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's dated inscription on front flyleaf. Poet, novelist, playwright, William Gibson writes his autobiography.

Record # 30287


Price: $19.00 

 

Matthew Arnold


Paul, Herbert W.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1902, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 188 pages. English Men of Letters Series. Ex-lib but only minor stamping, bookplate. Light wear, scuffing to spine. Internally very clean and bright.

Record # 300706


Price: $6.00 

 

Max Lerner : Pilgrim in the Promised Land


Lakeoff, Sanford

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1998, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 323 pages. Black and white photographs. Riveting biography begins with this gifted writer and educator's unpublished memoir. Notes and Index.

Record # 803028


Price: $10.00 

 

Memoirs of a Bastard Angel


Norse, Harold

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 447 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelfwear to dust jacket front. Small stains to hardcover boards. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471143


Price: $19.00 

 

Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac


Nicosia, Gerald

Paperback. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 767 pages, paperback. Thoroughly researched biography of Jack Kerouac. Slight soiling to copy edges. Corners lightly bumped. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951284


Price: $24.00 

 

Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter


Fraser, Antonia

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Based on the diaries the author kept during her 33 year relationship with famed playwright Harold Pinter. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight bumping to spine. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. Rough-cut edges. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 4450025


Price: $15.00 

 

My Life with John Steinbeck: The Story of John Steinbeck's Forgotten Wife


Brown, Douglas

Softcover. UK, Lawson Publishing, 1st paperback, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean. Binding tight. In great shape, looks barely read. Based on interviews between Gwyn Steinbeck and Douglas Brown. A look at the mysterious author, John Steinbeck.

Record # 31886


Price: $23.00 

 

My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell


Wilkinson, Alec

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Hardcover. Very clean inside and out. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped.

Record # 30638


Price: $15.00 

 

My Own River Kwai


Boulle, Pierre

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket covered in brodart, shows chipping, and rips. The author's own true adventures as a secret agent in the Far East during WW II. Light fading to cover boards. Gilt "PB" initials on front cover.

Record # 58240


Price: $15.00 

Mysteries of Time and Spirit - The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald WandreiLovecraft, H. P./S. T. Joshi & David E. Schultz (Editors)

Mysteries of Time and Spirit - The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei


Lovecraft, H. P./S. T. Joshi & David E. Schultz (Editors)

Hardcover. San Francisco, Night Shade Books, First Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 439 pages. Hardcover with facsimile copy of handwritten letters to endpapers. Black cloth covered boards with iridescent titles to cover & spine. Frontis illustration of H. P. Lovecraft & Donald Wandrei in black & white. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751009


Price: $80.00 

 

Mystery of Georges Simenon, The: A Biography


Bresler, Fenton

Hardcover. Toronto, General Publishing, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of acclaimed mystery author. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight chipping to dust jacket corners and spine. Mild bumping to board corners. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952591


Price: $29.00 

 

Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965


Ford (Editor), Hugh

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Book Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white photographs. Foxing to top edge. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613692


Price: $25.00 

 

Newman's Way - The Odyssey of John Henry Newman


O'Faolain, Sean

NY, Devin-Adair, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, The Irish writer's biography of the religious leader Cardinal Newman. 335 pages. Book lightly shelfworn.

Record # 600279


Price: $12.00 

 

Niccolo's Smile - A Biography of Machiavelli


Viroli, Maurizio

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket illustration by Santi di Tito, Portrait of Machiavelli, Florence, Italy. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750390


Price: $15.00 

 

Nixon Watch, The


Osborne, John, Illust. by: Robert Osborn

Hardcover. New York, Liveright Publishing Corp., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 201 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket slightly yellowed with age, otherwise very clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "John Osborne shows in this book not only that he is the best 'Nixonologist' covering the White HOuse but also how other writers...have themselves been victims and even unknowing perpetrators of the Nixon image."

Record # 30318


Price: $23.00 

No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth LawrenceWilson, Emily Herring

No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence


Wilson, Emily Herring

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent shape, clean inside and out. From the front flap: "...one hundred years after her birth, No One Gardens Alone tells for the first time the story of this fascinating woman. Like classic biographies of literary figures such as Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, this book reveals Lawrence in all her complexity and establishes her, at last, as one of the premier gardeners and garden writers of the twentieth century."

Record # 30425


Price: $23.00 

 

No Pretty Pictures - A Child of War


Lobel, Anita, Illust. by: Anita Lobel

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY LOBEL on title-page. A memoir of her life as a child in Poland hiding from the Nazis.

Record # 63244


Price: $50.00 

Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New YorkerLane, Anthony

Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker


Lane, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 784 pages. Hardcover with lightly faded dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor bump on covers bottom edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468499


Price: $23.00 

 

Notebook, The


Saramago, Jose

Hardcover. US, Verso, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy.

Record # 2230254


Price: $15.00 

Notes of a Vagabond: Ways of MenBonsels, Waldemar

Notes of a Vagabond: Ways of Men


Bonsels, Waldemar

Hardcover. New York, Albert and Charles Boni, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in brown and gilt, 274 pages. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise clean, bright copy. In a poor dust jacket with paper loss at edges. Considered a classic of hoboing, the book chronicles the German writer's life of wandering and his spiritual growth.

Record # 412424


Price: $63.00 

 

Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston


Payne, Daniel G.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 391 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Black and white photos.

Record # 750041


Price: $19.00 

Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy NovelHull, Christopher

Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel


Hull, Christopher

Hardcover. New York, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Record # 2230405


Price: $19.00 

Pablo Neruda: A Passion for LifeFeinstein, Adam

Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life


Feinstein, Adam

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 510 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 471817


Price: $23.00 

 

Pagan Time: An American Childhood


Perks, Micah

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Counterpoint, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 161 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. in excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30792


Price: $9.00 

 

Paris Review, The - Summer, 1984


Plimpton (Editor), George/Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine

Softcover. Flushing, NY, Deborah S. Pease/The Paris Review, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations throughout, including an ads section. Features writers & interviews, Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine. Previous owner's signature lightly erased to preliminary page. Else, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751380


Price: $19.00 

 

Path to Power, The


Thatcher, Margaret

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 656 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471249


Price: $23.00 

 

Paul Strand: Essays on His Life and Work


Stange, Maren

Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Light soil on page block.

Record # 2233330


Price: $19.00 

Penelope Fitzgerald: A LifeLee, Hermione

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life


Lee, Hermione

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Price clipped front dust jacket flap. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470938


Price: $19.00 

 

Personality of Jonathan Swift, The


Ehrenpreis, Irvin

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Cover boards have a touch of fading at edges, otherwise very good. Pages and edges slightly tanned from age. In beautiful condition. Book not only looks at the Irish satirist's life, but his strong points of view.

Record # 32037


Price: $15.00 

 

Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare


Fields, Bertram

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Speculations regarding Shakespeare. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952602


Price: $16.00 

 

Portrait of T. E. Lawrence: The Lawrence of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom


Richards, Vyvyan

Hardcover. London, UK, Jonathan Cape, First Edition, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrations in black & white throughout. Light toning throughout. Previous owner's pencil marks have been erased, light marks remain in some spots. Original dust jacket with small chips, tears to edges, now protected in a plastic cover. Tight binding, sharp corners, a nice copy.

Record # 751457


Price: $250.00 

 

Private History of Awe, A


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. New York, North Point Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, small tears & price-clipped. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751196


Price: $15.00 

 

Raisa Orlova - Memoirs


Orlova, Raisa

New York, Random House, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Black & white photography. Remainder line on bottom book edge. Remainder dot on top book edge.

Record # 207100


Price: $15.00 

 

Raymond Carver - An Oral Biography


Halpert (Ed.), Sam

Softcover. Iowa City, Univ. of Iowa, 3rd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of interviews with family, friends & fellow writers. 196 pages.

Record # 65096


Price: $19.00 

 

Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century


Rollyson, Carl

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st UK, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Thoroughly researched biography of famed writer. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light fading to dust jacket spine. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951522


Price: $19.00 

Recollections of Virginia WoolfNoble, Joan Russell

Recollections of Virginia Woolf


Noble, Joan Russell

Hardcover. US, W. Morrow, 1st, 1972-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages. Hardcover. Clean copy, with faded cloth covers on top edge, gilt lettering. Light wear and small tears on top spine to dust jacket.

Record # 466771


Price: $11.00 

 

Roald Dahl: A Biography


Treglown, Jeremy

Hardcover. London UK, Faber and Faber, 1st UK, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of famed author. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light fading to text block edges. Faint soiling to rear dust jacket panel. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952580


Price: $19.00 

 

Robber Rocks: Letters and Memories of Hart Crane 1923-1932


Brown, Susan Jenkins

Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket show some agewear. Some foxing to edges, but doesn't affect text. Clean inside. In good condition.

Record # 30813


Price: $15.00 

 

Robert Browning: A Bibliography 1830-1950


Broughton et al., Leslie Nathan

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pages. Ex-library, with only minor end paper stamping, residue. Light pencil notes throughout. Hardcover with faded gilt lettering on spine. Corners bumped.

Record # 106271


Price: $25.00 

 

Robert Frost and the Lawrence, Massachusetts, High School Bulletin: The Beginning of a Literary Career


Connery Lathem, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Grolier Club, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Hardcover with plastic protective cover. Ivory pages with illustrations in black and white. Clean, tight copy. Gilt top edge.

Record # 2233170


Price: $38.00 

 

Robert Lowell: A Biography


Hamilton, Ian

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

Record # 32455


Price: $23.00 

 

Ross MacDonald - A Biography


Nolan, Tom

New York, Scribner, BC ed, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 496 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 205351


Price: $15.00 

 

Rough Magic - A Biography of Sylvia Plath


Alexander, Paul

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

Record # 750130


Price: $15.00 

 

Saint-Exup

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 525 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Compelling biography of famed French writer. Moderate fading, rubbing, and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight tear to rear panel of dust jacket. Rough cut fore edge. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952055


Price: $23.00 

 

Saroyan: A Biography


Lee, Lawrence and Barry Gifford

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 338 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of acclaimed and controversial writer. Moderate rubbing and fading to dust jacket. Heavy edgewear to top dust jacket edges, front and rear. Mild soiling to dust jacket as well. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 4450015


Price: $13.00 

Saul Bellow - There is Simply Too Much to Think AboutBellow, Saul/Benjamin Taylor (Editor)

Saul Bellow - There is Simply Too Much to Think About


Bellow, Saul/Benjamin Taylor (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st Edition, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 532 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750132


Price: $19.00 

Saul Bellow: lettersBellow, Saul

Saul Bellow: letters


Bellow, Saul

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 571 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469547


Price: $23.00 

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

Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff 1917-1976


Hindus (Ed.), Milton

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

Record # 30289


Price: $19.00 

 

Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler


MacShane, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, Reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 501 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Some age wear to dust jacket but still whole and in good condition. Board bound in black, gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out.

Record # 30703


Price: $15.00 

 

Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike


Updike , John

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

Record # 857425


Price: $10.00 

Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr.Lockridge, Larry

Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr.


Lockridge, Larry

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Group, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 499 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30678


Price: $13.00 

Shakespeare's Religious BackgroundMilward, Peter

Shakespeare's Religious Background


Milward, Peter

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Loyola University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Normal light wear and fading to jacket, but very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230650


Price: $23.00 

She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora EphronCohen, Richard

She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron


Cohen, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gutter crack at title page.

Record # 470134


Price: $15.00 

Some Remarkable Men - Further MemoirsLord, James

Some Remarkable Men - Further Memoirs


Lord, James

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Dust jacket design by John Fontana and author photo by Bernard Minoret, in 1950 with Jean Cocteau. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750134


Price: $10.00 

 

Splendid Poseur - Joaquin Miller - American Poet


Marberry, M.M.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Biography exposing the many lies and exagerations that American writer, Joaquin Miller, told about himself and his life. the dust jacket shows wear, chipping and some small tears, but inside it is clean. Frontis photo of Miller. hardbound, 310 pgs.

Record # 108810


Price: $28.00 

Sportswriter, Life & Times Of Grantland RiceFountain, Charles

Sportswriter, Life & Times Of Grantland Rice


Fountain, Charles

Hardcover. N.Y., Oxford, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 78


Price: $18.00 

 

Starting Out in the Thirties


Kazin, Alfred

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages. Hardcover. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Dust jacket unclipped, has a little agewear, very good. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Some slight tanning from age/shelfwear to edges and pages. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Tells of Kazin's coming of age in the decade that began with the depression and ended with the outbreak of WWII.

Record # 31774


Price: $15.00 

 

Steeplejack


Huneker, James Gibbons

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons , First Thus, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 327 pages. Hardcover, publisher's dark green cloth. Gilt cameo to cover, faded gilt titles to spine. Deckled edge, some pages unopened. Frontis illustration, James Gibbons Huneker, in sepia tones, protected with a tissue guard. Small 2mm dent to right side edge. Wonderful illustrations in black & white throughout, clean and unmarked pages, with only light toning.

Record # 6670142


Price: $31.00 

Steven Spielberg: A BiographyJackson, Kathi

Steven Spielberg: A Biography


Jackson, Kathi

Hardcover. Westport, CT, Greenwood, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Light adhesive residue on back cover, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Record # 468722


Price: $13.00 

 

Sylvia Plath: A Biography


Wagner-Martin, Linda W.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cover boards, pink quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped, very good. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In this biography, only the second ever published, and the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, the author examines the ironies and contradictions of Sylvia Platt's life, as well as her achievements.

Record # 32191


Price: $25.00 

 

Sylvia


Michaels, Leonard/Sylvia Bloch

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Mercury House, First Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations by Sylvia Bloch throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751381mem


Price: $13.00 

T.E. Lawrence, The Selected LettersBrown, Malcolm (ed.)

T.E. Lawrence, The Selected Letters


Brown, Malcolm (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 568 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket slightly faded and some foxing. Foxing also to top of text block and slightly in front end papers. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230873


Price: $25.00 

T.E. Lawrence: A New BiographyStewart, Desmond

T.E. Lawrence: A New Biography


Stewart, Desmond

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some wear and chipping to upper edge. Slight foxing to upper text block, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230874


Price: $19.00 

 

Tarzan Forever - The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs Creator of Tarzan


Taliaferro, John

NY, Scribners, 2nd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. like new

Record # 200576


Price: $20.00 

 

Tarzan Forever - The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs Creator of Tarzan


Taliaferro, John

NY, Scibner, 2nd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Like new.

Record # 200575


Price: $20.00 


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