Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co Ltd, 1903. Hard Cover.
Edges rubbed, hinges beginning to loosen, ink name on front endpaper.
333, [3] pp. 8vo. A biographical account of the family behind Punch magazine, who were contemporaries of well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1980. Reissue. Full-Leather.
Faint blemishes to gilt on edges, top corner slightly pushed.
xiv, 529 pp. Black full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. "The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Fonseca, Gonzalo. Reissue. Full-Leather.
Minor blemishes to boards, edges, and endpapers.
xvi, 367 pp. Full maroon leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. "Henry Adams's classic meditation on medieval culture and architecture, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1966. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1966 printing, Toledano 076.2, binding/jacket style 11l with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, beige Rockwell Kent endpapers. Near fine in very good jacket. Ink name and date on front endpaper, spine ends lightly bruised, jacket lightly rubbed.
xvi, 517, [11] pp.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Wohlberg, Ben F. Reissue. Full-Leather.
An exceptional copy.
342 pp. Black full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Two-panel illustration preceding title page and full-page illustrations in text by Ben F. Wohlberg. A Death.....
Washington, D.C. Barry Alpert, 1972. First Edition. Large Softcover.
First edition - a paperback original. Lacks rear wrapper, otherwise excellent.
44 ff. Transcripts of interviews with Anselm Hollo and Ted Berrigan. The second issue of the Washington, D.C. poetry magazine, which ultimately only printed nine issues. From Granary Books' 'From.....
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Near Fine.
x, 300 pp. "In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez takes us behind the scenes and shares the lessons she's learned on her way.....
Napoli: Associazione Napoletana per i Monumenti e il Paesaggio / Tipografia Gennaro D'Agostino, 1965. Limited Edition. Trade Paperback.
Limited edition, #398 of 550. Light wear to corners.
310, [5] pp. Plain wrappers, printed dust jacket. Italian text. 1965 reissue of Alvino's 1845 account of 19th century Naples, with 42 illustrations.....
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 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.....
New York: William Morrow, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy.
269 pp. "From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But at nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by.....
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.....
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. Hard Cover.
Spines slightly cocked, boards very lightly rubbed, a couple minor stains, ink name on front paste-down 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.....
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Both volumes: Boards lightly soiled, page ridge and pages foxed.
xi, 467; 442 pp. Two volume set. Matthew Arnold, (born December 24, 1822, Laleham, Middlesex, England—died April 15, 1888, Liverpool), English Victorian poet and literary and social critic.....
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".....
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[1]) was a Scottish philosopher. He sat on the Committee of the National Society for.....
Great Britain: Bloomsbury, 1996. Trade Paperback.
Spine creased,a few light creases to wrappers, light sticker adhesive on rear wrapper, pages very faintly toned.
xviii, 654 pp. "This biography offers an insight into the intellectual and sexual life of Anais Nin. It includes material drawn from unpublished archives and diary pages.....
Michigan: Francis Asbury Press, 1985. Second Edition. Trade Paperback.
Second edition. Edges lightly rubbed, light smudge on rear cover.
388 pp. "A definitive biography of the intriguing and controversial Dutch thinker of the late sixteenth - early seventeenth centuries. Not merely a biography in the traditional sense, the book involves.....
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.....
Toronto, Ontario: Harbourfront Reading Series, 1997. Signed Copy. 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. Jacket edges rubbed with some tears, jacket lightly toned. Page ridges 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.....
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A couple minor tears to jacket edges.
viii, 218 pp. Focusing, framing, scanning―the language of film―and Gombrich's studies in the psychology of perception are used by John Bender to isolate pictorial effects and devices in literature. The theory.....
New York: HarperCollins, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned.
xv, 223 pp. "Bestselling, award-winning novelist Elizabeth Berg knows a thing or two about writing, having graced the world with wonderful works of fiction including Talk Before Sleep, The Year of.....
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.....
New York: Warner Books, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First paperback printing. Spine slightly cocked.
From the Bible to Ralph Ellison, America's most prominent and bestselling literary critic takes an enlightening look at the concept of genius through the ages in a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all.....