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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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Unsentimental Education, An - Writers and Chicago


McQuade (Ed.), Molly

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Anthology of writers associated with the Univ. of Chicago

Record # 53380


Price: $8.00 

 

Words Still Count With Me - A Chronicle of Literary Conversations


Mitgang, Herbert

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Interviews with dozens of writers. 320 pages.

Record # 63229


Price: $18.00 

 

World Unsuspected, A - Portraits of Southern Childhood


N/A

Chapel Hill, NC, Univ. of North Carolina, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Writers talk about their childhoods, illustrated with b&w family snapshots. 237 pages

Record # 300214


Price: $30.00 

 

Writers in Hollywood


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, 326 pgs. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 100993


Price: $13.00 

 

Zane Grey: Man of the West


Karr, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Greenberg, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages. Red cloth cover. Previous owner's name and date on front end paper.

Record # 804540


Price: $11.00 

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