Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Hard Cover.
Still in shrink wrap. Jacket spine faded.
312 pp. Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity and the controversy that his books generated. These collected interviews include what.....
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. Hard Cover.
Spines slightly cocked, a couple minor stains, ink name on front endpaper.
Two volume set. Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son.....
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Large chips and tears to jacket. Bottom corners of boards rubbed, pencil name on front endpaper. Stained.
xvii, 356 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations and plates. "One of the foremost bookmen of America here recounts the pleasures to be had in.....
London: Williams and Norgate, 1894. Hard Cover.
Former library copy - usual marks. Tissue guard loose but included, hinges broken.
xxiv, 481 pp. Blue cloth boards. "George Croom Robertson (10 March 1842 - 20 September 1892) was a Scottish philosopher. He sat on the Committee of the National Society for.....
Rochester, New York: Rochester Public Library, 1978. Stapled Binding.
Wrappers toned.
24 pp. Nathaniel Kellogg "N.K." Fairbank (1829 - 1903) was a Chicago industrialist whose company, the N.K. Fairbank Co., manufactured soap as well as animal and baking products in conjunction with the major meat packing houses of northern Illinois.....
Toronto, Ontario: Harbourfront Reading Series, 1997. Limited Edition. Stapled Binding.
Signed by author without inscription. #48 of 150 signed, numbered copies, from a total edition of 550. Faint smudge to rear wrapper.
25 pp. Ann Beattie discusses what it is to be a writer, analyzing her own writings and the.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1972. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Slightly musty, minor loss from jacket corners, jacket a bit toned, edges foxed, ink name on half-title page.
xv, 314 pp. A biography of Virginia Woolf written by her nephew, which was originally published in two volumes.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Hard Cover.
Remainder mark, ink mark on half-title page, some ink underlining.
xlviii, 755 pp. Isaiah Berlin is one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, the most famous English thinker of the post-war era, and the focus of growing interest and discussion.....
Lyons, New York: The Lyons Republican Company, 1912. Third Edition. Hard Cover.
Third edition. Edges lightly foxed.
102 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece of Charles H. Betts, black-and-white plate of Theodore Roosevelt. Letters between Charles H. Betts and Theodore Roosevelt on American democracy.
New York: Vintage Books, 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
New. Reprint. An exceptional copy.
xiii, 721 pp. Inspiration for the award-winning 2023 film Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., etc. American Prometheus is a rich evocation of America at midcentury, a new and compelling portrait of.....
New York: Vintage Books, 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Minor blemishes along edges. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xiii, 721 pp. American Prometheus is a rich evocation of America at midcentury, a new and compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man profoundly connected.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his stamp. (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). No jacket. Boards bowed.....
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Top edge foxed.
xii, 209 pp. Within a single captivating narrative, John Bonner combines an intensely personal memoir of scientific progress and an overview of what we now know about living things. Bonner, a major participant in.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1952. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1954-63 printing, Toledano 282.1, binding/jacket style 10i with unnumbered list of titles on verso, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Hinges just beginning to weaken, jacket price clipped, jacket edges rubbed with a couple small closed tears and associated creases on rear panel
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New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1881. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine label lightly rubbed.
iv, 250 pp. David Hartley was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology. James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He is counted among the founders.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed, faint foxing to edges.
804 pp. The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of.....
New York: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1999. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Laminate starting.
xiv, 746 pp. "In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Tears to jacket edges. Top page ridge lightly foxed.
536 pp. Charles Darwin: "A Man of Enlarged Curiosity" is a major biography of the man whose observations and formulation of history changed man's assessment of himself.....
Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Large Hardcover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Top corner lightly bumped, owner bookplate on front endpaper.
167, [1]; 22 pp. Italian text, with English translation included in a separate paperback supplement. A collection of narratives of Italian voyages by notable individuals, with reproductions of color and black-and-white illustrations throughout.....
Ohio / Washington, D.C. National Cash Register / Microcard Editions, 1970. Hard Cover.
An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
276 pp. A yearly publication of articles written about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Includes: Fitzgerald's Sun Also Rises: Notes and Comments by Philip.....
US: Woodbine House, 1992. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Top edge bumped.
xi, 107 pp. New foreword and afterword. It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights. Pearl S. Buck.....
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1863. Hard Cover.
Former library copy - usual marks.
209 pp. Brown cloth, paper spine label. Includes: Biographical Sketch of Henry Thomas Buckle; Mill on Liberty; The Influence of Women on the Progress of Knowledge. "Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 - 29 May.....
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1866. Hard Cover.
Minor loss to spine head and to spine base, pencil note and label on front free endpaper, some pages stained, minor marginalia.
209, [7] pp. Ads follow text. Black cloth, paper spine label. Includes: Biographical Sketch of Henry Thomas Buckle; Mill.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some chips and tears, jacket spine faded, front joint weakening.
xxv, 235 pp. Introduction by George Steiner, translated by Ann Dunnigan. When Bulgakov, a young Moscow philosophy student, joined the Tolstoy household at Yasnaya.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1925. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First Modern Library edition. Toledano 3.2, binding style 4, Bernhard endpapers, 4-page publisher catalog follows text. Edges a bit rubbed, pages lightly toned.
485, [4] pp. Navy blue flexible leatherette binding. "The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the.....