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Articles and Pamphlets


Gorky, Maxim

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

Record # 67656


Price: $15.00 

 

Book Beautiful, The - Walter Pater and the House of Macmillan


Seiler, Robert M.

London, Athlone Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. A collection of letters between the Victorian writer and his publishers.

Record # 301730


Price: $13.00 

 

Briefwechsel - Herausgegeben von Friedrich Hirth Erster Band


Heine, Heinrich

Hardcover. Muller, Geor, 1914, Munchen, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 643 pages. The first volume of Heine's letters; German text 3/4 leather; minor rubbing around edges. Overall clean and tightcopy.

Record # 302487


Price: $16.00 

 

Chesterfield's Letters


Stanhope, Philip Dormer

Hardcover. Philadephia, PA, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1st, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 609 pages. Hardcover. "Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son." Sepia illustration of the Earl of Chesterfield on frontispiece with tissue attached. Brown fabric cover boards, slightly discolored with age. Gilt title on spine, still bright. Some fraying to top and bottom of spine. Condition still very good with some foxing within, but doesn't affect text. Original owner's dated (May 5, 1871) signature with address (in pencil) on front flyleaf.

Record # 30651


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Grumbles From the Grave


Heinlein, Robert A.

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine/Del Rey, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Edited by his wife, Virginia Heinlein. A selection from his personal letters expressing his thoughts & opinions on many subjects.

Record # 65583


Price: $16.00 

 

In Touch - The Letters of Paul Bowles


N/A

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Compilation of correspondence spanning eight decades and drawn from more than 7,000 letters

Record # 4823


Price: $15.00 

 

Irish Protestant Letters. Etc., Etc; Also, an Address on Ireland the Cradle of European Literature; To Which Is Added a Choice of Collection of Original and Selected Poetry


Dublin, R. R. B., J. B. Finlay

Hardcover. New York, De Witt & Davenport, 1st, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Light-brown, embossed cloth covers. Covers fairly worn, particularly along spine and edges. Covers somewhat soiled. Previous owner's signature, sticker, and notes on front end paper and flyleaf. Foxing throughout and on all edges. A few pages with minor pen markings. About 20 pages with creases or tears on bottom edge. Page 166 has small chunk out of it. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856389


Price: $50.00 

 

Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Elise


Canetti, Elias

Softcover. London, Calder and Boyers, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Green wrappers, perfect binding, letters translated by Christopher Middleton. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806235


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Letters on Literature and Politics 1912-1970


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus Young, 2nd, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Elena Wilson. Foreward by Leon Edel. Black & white illust.

Record # 54089


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters on Literature


Lang, Andrew

Hardcover. London, Longmans Green, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Beveled blue boards with gilt titles. Minor edge wear, front hinge slightly cracked on top, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 53400


Price: $13.00 

 

Letters to Dead Authors


Lang, Andrew

Hardcover. 1st, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages. Etched portrait by S. J. Ferris. Green cloth covers with embossed gold and ivory portrait on front and gold lettering on spine. Some rubbing on bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Foxing on some pages but overall condition is excellent for age.

Record # 802587


Price: $16.00 

 

Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope - Vol. II


Chesterfield, Lord

Hardcover. London, J. Dodsley, 3rd, 1774, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 2 only of 4 volumes. Leather covers worn, spine lettering faded. Internally Very Good.

Record # 303306


Price: $40.00 

 

Life of Reason, The: Or The Phases of Human Progress


Santayana, George

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 504 pages, new one-volume edition revised by the author in collaboration with Daniel Cory, relevant article about the letters of Santayana in the Atlantic Monthly laid-in. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge wear and spine fade, cover separated from spine but all pages intact, overall, clean and bright copy.

Record # 854664


Price: $20.00 

 

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters - Second Series.


N/A

Hardcover. Boston, Amer. Academy of Art & Letters, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Numbers 1-5. The annual proceedings for 1951-1955, bound in hardcover. Each with many speeches, addresses by notable American writers. 416 pages.

Record # 57254


Price: $80.00 

 

Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters - A Study of the Idiosyncratic and Humane of Modern Literature


Gross, John

New York , Macmillan , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w illustrations. 322 pages.

Record # 176741


Price: $15.00 

 

Salon and English Letters - Chapters on the Interrelations of Literature and Society in the Age of Johnson, The


Tinker, Chauncey Brewster

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Spine faded. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607767


Price: $12.00 

 

Tennessee Williams' Letters to Donald Windham: 1940-1965


Windham (Editor), Donald

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 333 hardcover with dust jacket. First collected letters by Tennessee Williams to be published. Dust jacket enclosed in a plastic protective sleeve. Moderate fading to dust jacket. Slight fading to prelim pages. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952596


Price: $24.00 

 

Voice From the Chorus, A


Tertz, Abram

Hardcover. London UK, Collins & Harvill Press, 1st UK, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Based on author's letters to his wife during six years imprisonment in a Soviet forced labor camp. With an introduction by Max Hayward. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light bumping to corners. Light soiling to fore edge text block. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952110


Price: $19.00 

Writer and the World: Essays, The Naipaul, V.S.

Writer and the World: Essays, The


Naipaul, V.S.

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 524 pages. Gilt letters on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 466916


Price: $15.00 

 

You & Me - The Continuing One-On-One Odyssey of a Literary Gambler


Krim, Seymour

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A collection of essays, reviews and letters by the cultural journalist. Dust jacket with chips, closed tears. Previous price inked out on front fly leaf.

Record # 64264


Price: $23.00 

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