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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott Key, 1896-1940)
F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli with Judith S. Baughman.
Publisher: [Columbia, South Carolina UP , 1996..
203 p., index; 23.5 cm. ”...writing has been my chief interest in life, and I am in every sense a professional.” ‘The forty-six selections in this volume construct an autobiographical account of Fitzgerald's twenty-year endeavor to maintain careers as a commercial writer and as a literary artist. Offering a clear sense of his seriousness about writing, they correct misconceptions that have impeded a proper assessment of Fitzgerald's professional authorship and distorted his reputation as a man of letters.' Stock# 100,303x.Fine/ dj fine American literary history, criticism.
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Whitman, Martha Mitchell
Mattie : the letters of Martha Mitchell Whitman
Publisher: [New York], New York University Press, 1977.
. Publisher isbn: 0814791786. 101pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition in good d.j. good
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Le Carre, John
Call for the Dead
Publisher: [New York], Walker & Company, [1962].
Book Club ed. 128 p.Author's first book Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
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Item number: 60.
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Miner, Charles, 1780-1865
Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert the Scribe: Containing Lessons in Manners, Morals, and Domestic Economy
Publisher: [NY], Printing House of W. E. Rudge, Inc. [c1930].
[3]-137, [6] p., 1 leaf; 21 cm. Originally published in the Gleanor. Doylestown: Printed by Asher Miner. July--1815. "Copyright... by Wyoming Historical and Geological Society." Edited, with foreword and notes, by J. P. Boyd; includes four essays not included in the Doylestown, 1815, edition (p. 121-137). Boyd, Julian P. (Parkes), 1903- . This facsimile edition by the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society printed in 600 copies: this is #142. Miner published these as newspaper essays in his "Gleaner and Luzerne Advertiser" in 1810-1813. He gathered them for the 1815 edition. Inscribed by Boyd as "a specimen of my early days at Wilkes-Barre." Stock#35916 (pa). Vg, no dj as issued.
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Item number: 35916.
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Nolan, William F. [Hemingway, Ernest] Kellough, Robert, illustrator.
Dark Encounter. Cover Illustration by Robert Kellough.
Publisher: [Ventura, Calif.?] Dream House, 1986.
Twenty poems by the science-fiction/ western/ horror/ pulp writer. The last is a very nice long poem on Ernest Hemingway. Limited to 50 hardcover copies, this is number 17. Signed by Nolan and Kellough. There is a personal inscription by Nolan on the front endpaper. Fine/fine. 101845.
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Item number: 101845.
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Ludington, Townsend & John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey and The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos
Two titles sold as one item. 20th Century Odyssey: Dark blue and white cloth in blue and white pictorial jacket, 8vo. xx+568pp. Index, notes, 18-page section b/w illus. VG+/VG. Book appears unread. Jacket has light scuffing with one small (1/16") spot of surface loss to front, light wear upper spine. Fourteenth Chronicle: Red and black cloth in gold pictyorial jacket, 8vo. Edited with biographical narrative by Townsend Ludington. xi+662pp. Index, notes. G+/VG-. Half-inch wide dampstain across lower edge pages, approximately one-third of way up from spine, affecting about 1/4" of lower margin on interior pages throughout text. Textblock unaffected. Light to moderate foxing to fore edge pages. Otherwise book is clean, unmarked with tight binding. Jacket has soil to edges, rubbing. Hard Cover
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Item number: 000654.
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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
Das Land der Spitzen Tannen [The Country of the Pointed Firs]
Deutsch von Elizabeth Schnack. Mit Zeichnungen von Hanny Fries. Manesse Verlag [1961]. 379 p., illus.; dj, 15.5 cm.; dj has small tears, spots, else VG. stock#101155. American literature, fiction; Maine.
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Item number: 101155.
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Townsend, Virginia F. Illustrated by: Illustrated by F. T. Merrill
Mills of Tuxbury, The
Publisher: A. K. Loring; Boston: 1871.
Very Good with no dust jacket First Edition Hardcover 363 pages; 12mo (7.25") 19 cm; Original full green cloth, gilt lettering and decor on front and spine, pale yellow endpapers, 4 b/w illustraions on glossy plates, including frontispiece. ; NAP. Illustrations by Frank Thayer Merrill, engraved by John Andrew & Son. ; Picturesque novel of life in a New England mill town, with woman protagonist, authored by longtime assistant editor of Arthur's Home Magazine. ; Moderate exterior wear, mainly to lower tips. Pages a bit yellowed from age. 8 leaves creased at upper tips, not affecting text. Owner name and address penned in small, fine letters on front endpaper, dated 1871. Title page lightly foxed. No other marks. Binding tight. Overall quite attractive. Scarce.
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Item number: 12591.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher Illustrator: Illustrated by The Players Collection
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN OR LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY
Publisher: A. L. Burt New York NY N.D..
Reprint Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear, Previous owner's name; Frontispice illustrated by The Players Collection; frontispiece; 467 pages
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Item number: 72224.
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Rouse, Adelaide L.
The Deane Girls. A Home Story.
Publisher: A. L. Burt, NY [c. 1895, A. I. Bradley & Co.]. .
406, 2 p., illus. incl. front., green cloth boards stamped in black, white & red; corners worn, ex Medford Universalist Library with blindstamps, else VG. Eight hitherto protected clergyman’s daughters set themselves to earning a living in turn-of-the-century Massachusetts. stock#101357
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Item number: 101357.
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Gordon, Alice and Vincent Virga
SUMMER
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Reading, MA, 1990.
Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. First Printing, Hardcover. ISBN: 0201194600 In pc DJ, prev. Owner's gift inscription on ffep; Beige cl. Color illustrations. Excerpts from 37 American writers celebrating the summer season; Square 4to; 252 pages
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Item number: 931.
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Cooper, James Fenimore
PATHFINDER
Publisher: Airmont Book New York 1964.
Reprint Paperback Very Good with no dust jacket; Wear at edges. ; Mass Market PB; 384 pages
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Item number: 29667.
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Twain, Mark
CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
Publisher: Airmont New York NY 1964.
Paperback Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner inscribed, pages yellowing; Mass Market PB
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Item number: 5045.
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Jacobson, Marcia Ann
Henry James and the Mass Market
Publisher: Alabama UP ['Second Printing 1986'].
189 p., index; maroon cloth covers, spine stamped in gold; fine. Contents include The Literary Marketplace; 'The Bostonians'; 'The Princess Casamassima'; 'The Tragic Muse'; Responses to Failure; 'What Maisie Knew'; 'The Awkward Age'. Stock# 26776. American literary history, criticism.
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Item number: 26776.
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Hillerman, Tony
Talking mysteries : a conversation with Tony Hillerman
Publisher: Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, c1991.
3rd printing. Publisher isbn: 0826312799. 135pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition in very good d.j. good
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Item number: 33011.
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Cather, Willa
SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf New York NY 1940.
Book Club Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. ; Book Club Edition; 295 pages
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Item number: 4408.
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Cather, Willa
SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf New York NY 1940.
First Edition Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket; 295 pages
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Item number: 5779.
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Cather, Willa
SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf New York NY 1940.
First Edition Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine faded. ; 295 pages
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Item number: 5822.
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Updike, John
S.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf New York NY 1988.
Book Club Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; 279 pages
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Item number: 53458.
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Gallup, Donald
The Flowers of Friendship: Letters Written to Gertrude Stein
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf New York, 1953.
Blue-green cloth with gilt titles and figures to spine and gilt figures to front, in lavender and black jacket with matching b/w photos of Stein to front and back, 8vo. xxxvii+403pp+xii. Index, five b/w plates. Brief notes on correspondents and context preceding individual letters. VG+/VG. Light sunning to cloth along upper edges and spine, with colors and figures all still bright and sharp. Minute touches of surface loss along lower edges and tips of corners. Binding tight and square, pages bright and unmarked. Jacket has mild abrasion along all, heavier with small chips at spine ends and corners, but no tears or creases. Occasional rubbing to panels and especially along hinges. Central colors, titles and photos clear and strong. Jacket in Brodart. Not ex-lib. Possible remainder with Borzoi impress to lower rear board. G+. Hard Cover VG+
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Item number: 009441.
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Levin, Harry
The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf New York, 1970.
IMPORTANT CONDITION NOTE: One signature of bindery paper printed blank, resulting in blank pages to pp.180-1, 184-85, 188-189, 192-193, 196-197, 200-201, 208-209. Black cloth in white and black jacket, 8vo. 4th printing (March 1970). xii+263pp.+ix. Index, chronology, bibliography. Apart from condition note above VG+/VG. Book has light rubbing to overall sharp and dark cloth with spine end softening, creases to extreme tips of pp. 180-186. Else tight, sharp, bright and unmarked, jacket is rubbed with chips along upper edges. Central panels, colors and titles still strong. VG- VG-
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Item number: 009425.
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McCarthy, Cormac.
The Crossing. Volume Two, The Border Trilogy.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1994. 'Fourth Printing, July 1994'.
Sequel to All the Pretty Horses. 'An essential novel by any measure, and the transfixing middle passage of Cormac McCarthy's ongoing trilogy, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once.' 426 p., 22 cm.; pictorial dj has minor flare at top; VG+. 30578.
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Item number: 30578.
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Reuben Post Halleck
History of American Literature
Publisher: American Book Company, NY, 1939.
G+ cloth hardback, no DJ. Spine faded, edges worn. Corners bumped. Tight binding. End papers discolored. Pps VG, lightly tanned. 12mo, 431 pps with illustrations, index, questions and answers.
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Item number: 2203.
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Bunyan, John
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
Publisher: American Tract Society New York N.D..
Reprint Hardcover Good+ with no dust jacket; Previous owner's name. Spine covering worn and torn, spine weak and cracked. ; From This World to that Which is to Come Delivered Under the Similtude of a Dream. ; 651 pages
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Item number: 43199.
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The Massachusetts Review, vol. V, no. 1, Autumn 1963
Publisher: Amherst, Mass., 1963.
. 196p. Paperback Very good condition Includes Portraits of Artists by Leonard Baskin, eighteen reproductions and a wood engraving
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Item number: 39496.
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Sinclair, Upton
JUNGLE
Publisher: Amsco School Publications New York NY N.D..
Reprint Softcover Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Light water stain at top edge. ; Trade PB; 379 pages
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Item number: 1987.
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Lewis, R. W. B.
The Jameses: A Family Narrative
Publisher: Anchor Books, 1993.
Trade soft cover in light purple wraps with portraits of James family members to front, 8vo. 694pp. Indices, notes, illustrations. VG+. Overall curl (but no bends or folds) to front wrap, with light wear/curl with slight separation to tips of corners. Pages lightly toned but clean and unmarked. Binding tight and square. ISBN: 0385424957. Soft Cover VG+
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Item number: 007061.
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Pieratt, Asa B.
Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography (1987)
Publisher: Archon Books Hamden, CT, 1987.
Blue cloth w. gilt titles to spine and front, no jacket, 8vo. xxiv+289pp. Frontis. Index, chronology. Bibliography of all Vonnegut's writings to date, including interviews, appearances on tape and film -- even work for the Cornell Sun. Annotated checklist of works on Vonnegut, and list of doctoral dissertations on Vonnegut. Ex-academic-ref.-lib., with call to spine, stamps and tags to endpapers. Apart from lib. distinctions, volume is near fine, with bumping and crease to upper rear board, light bumping to other corners. Else fine. ISBN: 0208020713. Hard Cover VG
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Item number: 001852.
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McLinn, William L.; White, Stuart W.
Mark Twain: Social Critic for the 80s (signed)
Publisher: AT Press San Francisco, 1980.
Stapled pamphlet in buff textured wraps with b/w photo of Twain imitator (McLinn in character) to front, 8vo. Mark Twain Social Issues Program, Vol. 1. Copy #884. Signed by McLinn on title page. 100pp. B/W photos of McLinn as Twain throughout. Excerpts Twain pieces on social criticism. NF. Mild rolling crease (no sharp fold or bend) to lower corner front wrap, mild toning upper edge front wrap and along front hinge. Else as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. Soft Cover NF
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Item number: 007987.
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Lorenz, Clarissa M.
Lorelei Two : my life with Conrad Aiken
Publisher: Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1983.
. Publisher isbn: 0820306614. 231pp. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition in very good d.j. good
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Item number: 41506.
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Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon, 1905-2006
Next-to-Last Things. New Poems and Essays by Stanley Kunitz
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press [c1985]. 'First Edition'.
130 p.; 22 cm. Poems and essays by Kunitz. ISBN 087113036x. Blue pictorial dj; fine, gift quality. stock#46350.
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Item number: 46350.
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Dana, Olive E.
Under friendly eaves, by Olive E. Dana
Publisher: Augusta, Maine, Burleigh & Flynt, 1894.
. 300 p. 19 cm. Hardcover Good condition Wright III - 1387
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Item number: 28640.
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Childs, Mary Fairfax Illustrated by: Illustrated by Edward H. Potthast
De Namin' ob de Twins, 1e : (1st Edition, 1908) and Other Sketches from the Cotton Land, Illustrated by Edward H. Potthast
Publisher: B. W. Dodge & Company; N. Y. : 1908.
Very Good with no dust jacket First Edition Hardcover 139 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Ex-Library; Beautiful pale green cloth decorated on front in white and black with log cabin, banjoes and cotton plants, gilt lettering on front and spine, 22 short stories and poems in African American southern dialect, 8 b/w glossy plates with captions. ; Same date. Warning: Includes racist material. ; Front endpaper marked in fountain pen and stamped with library name. Dewey decimal number on heel. Rear endpaper has primitive library pocket affixed. No other library marks. One plate is bound in upside down, as issued. Overall book shows very light wear. Binding tight. Quite attractive.
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Item number: 13554.
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Dryden, Edgar A.
Melville's Thematics of Form: The Great Art of Telling the Truth
Publisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, 1968.
xiv, 226 p.; illus.; 22 cm. For Melville fiction "offers a world that does not mirror physical reality but rather transforms it into metaphysical reality." Stock# 31,433.Good, some ink underlining./ dj vg.
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Item number: 31433.
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Zwerdling, Alex
Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatraites and the Siege of London
Publisher: Basic Books New York, 1998.
Light blue paper over boards with blue quarter binding, in blue illustrated glossy jacket, 8vo. 1st edition. xvi+383pp. Index, notes, b/w plates. Book is as new: brioght, tight, sharp and unmarked. Jacket has curl with faint creases along upper edges (all suppressed in Brodart). Else fine with bright, sharp colors and figures. Neither ex-lib no remainder. ISBN: 0465032753. First Edition VG. Hard Cover Fine
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Item number: 008229.
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Brooks, Cleanth & Warren, Robert Penn, editors
Stories from the Southern Review
Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, c1953.
. 435p Hardcover Very good condition in fair d.j., spine faded fair
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Item number: 34614.
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Quinlan, Kieran. [Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974]
John Crowe Ransom's Secular Faith.
Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State UP, 1989.
xvii, [4], 116 p. "Ransom's literary efforts are viewed as a philosophical project aimed at discovering an empirical validity for the world rather than a transcendental one." Stock# 22,502. New copies in shrinkwrap. Stock# 22,502x.
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Item number: 22502.
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Watson, Ritchie Devon.
Yeoman Versus Cavalier. The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion.
Publisher: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U. Press, 1993..
1st ed. 183+ pp. "Examines the emergence of the planter-aristocrat over the yeoman as the dominant cultural icon in the newly settled states of the Old Southwest--Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas--during the first half of Hard Cover. ISBN: pre civil war southern literature; southern literature; confederacy;
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Item number: 1474.
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The World's Body
Ransom, James Crowe
Publisher: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968.
Paperback..Very Good..Previous owner's name on front endpaper..White on dark blue and black spine..Standard Size..404 pages.
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AUD 17.39 | CAD 18.65 | EUR 13.95 | GBP 11.94 | JPY 1,636.36 | MXN 200.00 | ZAR 180.00 |
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Item number: 011019.
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Young, Thomas Daniel and Core, George (editors)
Selected Letters of John Crowe Ransom
Publisher: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
Cloth, with dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Black on purple spine. Standard Size. 434 pages.
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AUD 19.32 | CAD 20.73 | EUR 15.50 | GBP 13.27 | JPY 1,818.18 | MXN 222.22 | ZAR 200.00 |
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Item number: 20943.
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Thoreau, Henry David
Walden
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1998.
As New with no dust jacket. First Edition (?). 1. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0807014230 Publisher's glossy wraps. 8vo. xxiii, 312 pp. This is a new, unread, unmarked copy, clean, tight and square. AS NEW. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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AUD 9.61 | CAD 10.31 | EUR 7.71 | GBP 6.60 | JPY 904.55 | MXN 110.56 | ZAR 99.50 |
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Round Table Books, LLC.
Item number: 6981.
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Irving, Washington
TALES OF A TRAVELLER AND LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Publisher: Belford, Clarke & Company Chicago, IL.
Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine weak. ; Irving's Works
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AUD 9.66 | CAD 10.36 | EUR 7.75 | GBP 6.64 | JPY 909.09 | MXN 111.11 | ZAR 100.00 |
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Item number: 48483.
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Irving, Washington
MAHOMET AND HIS SUCCESSORS
Publisher: Belford, Clarke & Company Chicago, IL.
Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine weak. ; Irving's Works
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Item number: 48484.
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Irving, Washington
CRAYON PAPERS AND SALMAGUNDI
Publisher: Belford, Clarke & Company Chicago, IL.
Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine weak. ; Irving's Works
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Item number: 48486.
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Byrd, William
The Prose Works of William Byrd of Westover
Publisher: Belknap / Harvard Cambridge, MA, 1966.
reddish=brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, in grey and red uncoated card jacket with portrait of Byrd to front, 8vo. Edited with introduction by Louis B. Wright. viii+438pp. Index, editor's footnotes throughout. NF/VG. Book has mildly bumped corner with touches of loss at tips (fraying to lower front tip). Else fine: tight and square binding; bright, unmarked pages. Price-clipped jacket has 1" closed tear with associated triangular creases to upper front edge toward spine (internally tape-repaired/reinforced). 3/8" chip at upper front tip. Else near fine with strong central figures, titles and colors. In Brodart. Ex-lib. VG NF
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AUD 13.77 | CAD 14.77 | EUR 11.05 | GBP 9.46 | JPY 1,295.45 | MXN 158.33 | ZAR 142.50 |
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Item number: 004710.
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Loving, Jerome
Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif., Univ. of California Press, c1999.
. Publisher isbn: 0520214277. 545p. Paperback Very good condition Advance reaading copy signed by the author for Nancy.
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AUD 13.53 | CAD 14.51 | EUR 10.85 | GBP 9.29 | JPY 1,272.73 | MXN 155.56 | ZAR 140.00 |
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Item number: 016933.
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Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910)
Roughing It With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Franklin R. Rogers
Publisher: Berkeley, Un. California Press, for The Iowa Center for Textual Studies,1972.
Works of Mark Twain vol. 2. xi, 673 p., plates, maps; 23.5 cm. Text Established and Textual Notes by Paul Baender. Twain's second book, first published in 1872 on his days as a miner and journalist in Nevada. Stock #28,279. Vg/ no dj. American literature,
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Item number: 28279.
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Parkinson, Thomas Francis, 1920-
Hart Crane and Yvor Winters: Their Literary Correspondence / Thomas Parkinson
Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press, c1978.
xxiii, 174 p., index, 24 cm. Bibliography: p. [167]-168. Except for 45 letters fron poet Hart Crane, 1899-1932, Yvor Winters, 1900-1968 burned all his letters. This shows Cranes's gifts as critic and poet. Stock# 36,844. Vg/ dj vg.
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AUD 19.32 | CAD 20.73 | EUR 15.50 | GBP 13.27 | JPY 1,818.18 | MXN 222.22 | ZAR 200.00 |
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Item number: 36844.
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London, Jack
CALL OF THE WILD
Publisher: Bernard Tauchnitz Leipzig 1912.
Reprint Softcover Very Good- with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Tears at spine and cover. ; Collection of British and American Authors. ; Tauchnitz Edition; Vol. 4323; 262 pages
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Item number: 39948.
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Stein, Gertrude, and Robert Bartlett Haas
Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein, A
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press; Los Angeles: 1971.
Very Good Second Printing Softcover 158 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Tan covers, red and brown lettering, burgundy-red endpapers, laid paper throughout. ; Isbn 0876851367. Anthology of Stein, with essays by Robert Bartlett Haas, Stein's neice Gertrude Stein Raffel, and Professor Donald Sutherland. Book edited by Haas. ; Covers lightly worn at corners. Five pages have small ballpoint Xs in margins. No other defects.
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Item number: 13785.
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Harte, Bret
WORKS OF BRET HARTE
Publisher: Black's Readers Service Company New York 1932.
Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Previous owner's name. ; 301 pages
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Item number: 58081.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE One Volume Edition
Publisher: Black's Readers Service Company New York NY N.D..
Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket; Previous owner's name; 635 pages
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Item number: 33668.
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Liptzin, Sol
The Jew in American Literature
Publisher: Bloch Publishing Co NY, 1966.
Good+ in Good dust jacket, Hardcover In lightly edgeworn DJ, very light foxing to top edge ; Tan cloth hardback. Biblio, index; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 251 pages
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Item number: 43325.
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Case, Venelia R,
Grange Poems
Publisher: Bloomfield, Conn., Privately printed, 1892.
. 92p. Hardcover Good condition, front cover bleached in spots
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Item number: 39375.
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Caskoden, Edwin [pseudonym of Charles Major].
WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER, Or The Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, & Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth.
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill [Indianapolis, IN]. No date. (1898, 1901)..
359pp. + 10pp. publisher's ads. sm8vo. Light blue cloth with the front cover decorated with a divided panel created by double-rulings in red. The left side contains in the title printed in red, & the right a sketch of a castle in red. The author's name appears in red just below the panel. The spine is lettered in red & bears a large red flower. Frontispiece of Julia Marlowe (unsigned) on coated paper. Very unusual 'commercial breaks' are provided by 10 tipped-in b/w plates on glossy paper scattered throughout the text with (mostly) illustrated advertisements including American Lady Corset Co., Stuart's Dyspepsia, Borden's Malted Milk, Pompeian Cream, Waterman Fountain Pens ('Clip-Cap' shown), 3 in One Oil, Vapo-Cresolene, Mennen's Powder, etc. Fair: EX LIBRARY ('American Library League') with the library's rules pasted on the front paste-down endpaper, a small blurb about the book pasted on the back endpaper, & a '3' in ink on the spine; front hinge is cracked & both hinges have been reinforced with white library tape; top edge soiled; frontispiece detached; spine is a bit faded with worn sides; covers have normal wear.
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Item number: 95-0040.
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Dreiser, Theodore
BULWARK
Publisher: Book Find Club New York NY 1946.
Book Club Edition Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket; Cover shows some wear, edges bumped owner inscribed; Spine is weak, and cracked
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AUD 6.76 | CAD 7.25 | EUR 5.43 | GBP 4.64 | JPY 636.36 | MXN 77.78 | ZAR 70.00 |
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Item number: 2990.
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