Brecht in Exile [Bertolt]
New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint edge wear.
237 pp. A look at Bertolt Brecht's time spent in Europe and America after fleeing Nazi Germany.
New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint edge wear.
237 pp. A look at Bertolt Brecht's time spent in Europe and America after fleeing Nazi Germany.
New York: The Viking Press, 1958. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Price on front cover redacted.
307 pp. Authors include Francois Mauriac; E.M. Forster; Joyce Cary; Dorothy Parker; James Thurber; Thornton Wilder; William Faulkner; Georges Simenon; Frank O'Connor; Robert Penn Warren; Alberto Moravia; Nelson Algren; Angus Wilson; William Styron;.....
New York: Greenberg Publisher, 1930. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition. Number 168 of 1050 copies. No jacket. Boards soiled, spine label rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pencil marginalia.
xi, 171 pp. Authors included: Maurice Baring; James M. Barrie; Max Berrbohm; Rupert Brooke; Lewis Carroll; Joseph Carroll; Joseph Conrad;.....
New York: Norton, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Remainder mark.
302 pp. Scholar Andrew Dalby delves into the world that first heard the Odyssey and the Iliad, asking new questions about the poet named Homer. Rediscovering Homer follows the growth of the legend of Troy from a kernel.....
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Spine base bumped.
ix, 573 pp. Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet.....
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a near fine jacket.
ix, 185 pp. 8vo. How reliable is the history that human memory produces? Does the self, creating for others, become other? Elizabeth de Mijolla approaches these questions using a descriptive, nonprescriptive.....
New York: Bramhall House, 1974. Paget, Sidney; et al. Reissue. Large Hardcover.
Reissue. Several 1/2 inch jacket tears and one 1 inch tear repaired with clear tape.
128 pp. "Selections by Lady Conan Doyle, Wyndham Lewis, Christopher Morley, and others attest to the enduring popularity of the famed detective." Black-and-white.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Spine leans to the right, light edge wear to jacket edges, top page ridge foxed.
220 pp. The Edge of the Unknown is a collection of essays and articles written by Arthur Conan Doyle between 1919.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
408 pp. Works cited and index follow text, preface also lists general biographies of Lord Byron by other authors. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Controversy; Youth (1788-1809); Measure for Measure (1809-1816); A......
Washington, D.C. National Home Library Foundation, 1935. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Pencil note on front free endpaper, minor pencil marginalia.
ix, 292 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Diderot; Heine; Whitman; Ibsen; Tolstoi; Huysmans; Conclusion.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1893. Full-Leather.
Front free endpaper of Nature, Addresses and Lectures loose but included, rear free endpaper of Essays, Vol. 2 loose but included, stain along bottom edge of Representative Men: Seven Lectures, some spine loss to a few volumes.
315; 236; 383;.....
Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1846. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine head and bottom fore edge corner slightly exposed, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.
475 pp. 8vo. A collection of essays focusing on philosophical and literary topics. Everett's translations of European literature influenced.....
New York: Compass Books / Viking Press, 1958. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Ink name on endpaper, spine faded.
302 pp. Looks at Hemingway's early years and his time spent in Paris.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Slightly musty. Jacket edges bumped and rubbed, jacket spine lightly soiled. Related papers laid in.
397 pp. Andrew Field's superlative biography and comprehensive criticism of the complete works of Vladimir Nabokov was greeted with praise from the critics.....
New York: Atheneum, 1965. Raskin, Ellen. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. One inch tear to top edge of front jacket panel, jacket edges rubbed with a few other smaller tears. Spine leans to the left.
246 pp. Decorations by Ellen Raskin. The life of Emily Dickinson as seen through.....
New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1911. Full-Leather.
Edges rubbed.
xxi, 171 pp. Tipped in frontispiece and several illustrations. Contents include: Introduction; Comfort Found in Good Old Books; The Greatest Book in the World; Shakespeare Stands Next to the Bible; How to Read the Ancient Classics; The Arabian Nights and Other.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Faint edge wear.
333 pp. The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler.....
New York City: Friends of Leo H. Joachim, 1958. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, one of 1200 copies. Includes onionskin jacket.
vii, 43 pp. Joachim founded many important printing magazines including Production Yearbook. - Oak Knoll. He was the publisher and editor of Printing News, a weekly trade newspaper.....
Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2000. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. A fine copy.
220 pp. A study of the enormous influence of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche on turn-of-the-century German literature. The aim of this book is to explore "that post-Nietzschean archipelago of German literature which no one mind can.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. 4th Printing. Hard Cover.
Fourth printing. Jacket edges lightly rubbed.
ix, 328, x pp. A literary biography of the author of Canterbury Tales. The author, John Gardner, is also known for his reimagining of Beowulf from the perspective of the monster Grendel. "The pinnacle.....
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine leans to the right, light stain on front board, bottom corner of page ridges smudged.
xv, 589 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an American novelist.....
Knoxville: The University of Tennesee Press, 2014. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
xviii, 172 pp. "A teenage orphan from Vermont, Mary Gibson burst onto the literary scene during the early 1850s as a star writer.....
New York: Perennial, 2003. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. Sticker ghost on rear wrapper, remainder mark on page base.
xi, 578 pp. This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni's adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended.....
New York: Warner Books, 1976. Mass Market Paperback.
Spine creased, pages toned.
311 pp. Includes sections from a never-before published play, photographs and letters. "The Hollywood columnist offers a candid account of her relationship with Fitzgerald and of the motives and circumstances behind his behavior during his later years."
Morningside Heights, New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some tears, jacket spine toned.
xiii, 397 pp. A survey of classical Greek and Latin literature, books, and other tools to better understand this period.