Athens: University of Georgia, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Rear jacket panel lightly faded, front jacket flap creased.
x, 364 pp. Alone in the Dawn is the first full-length study of life and work of Adelaide Crapsey, an American poet who lived at the same time and often.....
New York: Harper Collins, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Top page ridge lightly foxed, faint edge wear to jacket.
336 pp. Presents the story of Allende's ancestors and youth as it was written by her daughter's hospital bedside, reflecting the challenges and achievements of one family during a......
New York: Bantam, 1998. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. Faint edge wear.
The compelling wisdom and deeply felt perceptions of Maya Angelou have been cherished by millions of readers. Now, in a continuation of her bestseller Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, she shares many of her most.....
New York: Bantam, 1997. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
336 pp. This engaging book chronicles the changes in Maya Angelou's life as she enters the hub of activity that is New York. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, she re-dedicates herself to writing, and finds love.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1993. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback.
Reprint. Faint edge wear.
246 pp. "A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images.....
Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Hard Cover.
Still in shrink wrap. Jacket lightly 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.....
Princeton: Ontario Review Press, 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Faint edge wear.
Includes "Dissecting the Way a Writer Works" by Graeme Gibson, "A Question of Metamorphosis" by Linda Sandler, "My Mother Would Rather Skate Than Scrub Floors" by Joyce Carol Oates, "Dancing on the Edge of a Precipice".....
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1883. Hard Cover.
1883 printing. Hinges starting, frontispiece recto soiled.
419 pp. Additional color title page, facsimiles of manuscript pages, woodcut illustrations. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (born Feb. 27, 1807, Portland, Mass., U.S.—died March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Mass.), U.S. poet. Longfellow graduated from Bowdoin College and traveled.....
Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1967. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Spine creased, light edge wear, page ridges lightly soiled.
xiii, 791 pp. Gustave Flaubert, (born December 12, 1821, Rouen, France—died May 8, 1880, Croisset), novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly foxed. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
414 pp. A selection of unpublished writings, letters, diaries and journals from the most celebrated humanist and art historian of the early to mid-century 20th century; 1887-1958, Bernard Berenson. Selected.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. No jacket. Top corners of boards bumped.
xiii, 464 pp. Includes black-and-white plates. A biography of Emily Dickinson with a collection of her letters and poetry.
London: House & Maxwell, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly foxed. Page ridges and pages foxed.
256 pp.William Caxton, (born c. 1422, Kent, England—died 1491, London), the first English printer, who, as a translator and publisher, exerted an important influence on English literature. In 1438 he was.....
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1926. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, one of 350 copies. Edges rubbed and a bit faded. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.
ix pp., letters unpaginated. Includes facsimile fold-outs. Thomas Butts was William Blake's chief patron and a close friend from 1794-1827. This.....
New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1941. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, one of 750 copies. Front jacket panel stained, jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips. Front board lightly scratched, rear board lightly soiled.
xvii, 142 pp. Basing his tales on personal experiences in the Civil War, Charles.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. Hard Cover.
Volume I: Two inch tear to spine head panel. Both volumes: Edges rubbed, loss to spine head and to spine base.
xiii, 563; 505 pp. Two volume set. Additions and notes by John Wilson Croker. Samuel Johnson, byname Dr. Johnson, (born September.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891. Reynolds, Joshua. Hard Cover.
'The Library Edition.' 1 inch split to cloth along front joint of first volume, endpapers foxed, front hinge of first and third volumes just beginning to weaken, front and rear hinges of second and fifth volumes weakening, some pages.....
New York: The Literary Guild, Inc., 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Bookplate and ink name and address on front endpaper.
xxviii, 520 pp. Edited from the original manuscript, a more informal journal than Boswell's Life of Johnson, and considered by many scholars to be his best.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket flap price-clipped. Page ridges lightly foxed, ink name and address on first blank.
xvi, 301 pp. Catherine Drinker Bowen was born as Catherine Drinker on the Haverford College campus on January 1, 1897, to.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed, faint foxing to page ridge.
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.....
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Corner wear, page ridges lightly smudged.
724 pp. Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and.....
New York: Bloomsbury, 2005. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Faint edge wear.
224 pp. Renowned novelist James Brown's searing memoir is a wrenching yet often wry chronicle of loss and reaffirmation written in response to a life marked by alcohol and drug abuse; mental illness; economic hardship; and the.....
Garden City, New York: International Collectors Library, 1970. Plotkin, Barnett I. Reissue. Hard Cover.
xi, [3], 726 pp. Original brown leatherette binding, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, ribbon marker bound in, brown endpapers. Illustrations by Barnett I. Plotkin. Selected, with an introduction, by Christopher Ricks. A collection of.....
New York: Random House, 1978. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. One inch tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel.
xv, 168 pp. ...gives the richest account to date of the Fitzgerald/Hemingway relationship. Not only does it set the dates, but it also provides psychological profiles of two of.....
New York: Harper Perennial, 2001. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. A nice copy.
324 pp. Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places.....
New York: Basic Books / Perseus Books Group, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First paperback printing. An exceptional copy.
x, 420 pp. Includes section of reproductions of black-and-white illustrations, photographs, and documents. Washington Irving - author, ambassador, and Manhattanite - has largely slipped from America's memory, and yet, his creations.....