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Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology (New York Public Library Collector's Editions)

By: Alcott, Louisa May

Price: $24.95

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1997

Seller ID: 010576

ISBN: 0385487223

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. ------- An intimate anthology of letters, poems, stories, and other personal and literary writing by Louisa May Alcott, an often surprising portrait emerges of this pioneering writer. ------- The author and her world are brought even more vividly to life with rare photographs and handwritten manuscripts and letters
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

By: Chabon, Michael

Price: $24.00

Publisher: San Franscisco, McSweeney's: 2008

Seller ID: 010473

ISBN: 1932416897

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. --------------- Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 parts; a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy.
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The World through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury

By: Corey, Mary F.

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press: 1999

Seller ID: 007991

ISBN: 0674961935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. First Edition, First Printing. ---- An excellent and innovative study of the New Yorker during its halcyon years, the late 1940s and the 1950s. ----- Though Corey writes from an academic vantage point and looks at it in the light of subjects (race, sex, class) fashionable among her colleagues, she grinds none of academia's axes; she is scrupulous, thoughtful and fair. (Jonathan Yardley Washington Post)
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The Law in Shakespeare

By: Davis, Cushman K.

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Washington D.C., Washington Law Book: 1883

Seller ID: 009110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. previous owner's name stamped on endpage. 12mo; 7.5 inches tall; 303 pages with index. ----- "Shakespeare's persistent and correct use of law terms was long ago noticed and caused the conjecture that he must have studied in an attorney's office. .. but that he was more addicted to the employment of legal nomenclature than any English writer (excepting, of course, the jurists) is incontestable;" From Introduction. The author through example from Shakespeare's plays gives legal explanation.
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A Book for Bookmen Being Edited Manuscripts & Marginalia With Essays on Several Occasions

By: Drinkwater, John

Price: $145.00

Publisher: London, Dulau & Company: 1926

Seller ID: 001132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Limited to 50 copies of which this is 15. Pencil numbered and signed by author. Full brown buckram lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, test clean some uncut. ------------ This copy has been handled as is evident from wear on spine; upper corner rubbed; rear has some imperfection; corners rubbed and broken; early pages foxed and general toning throughout. A worm hole affects lower corner last ten pages. A few light pencil marks on inside rear board from various bookmen from the years. ---------The volume contains several fold-out facsimile reprints of handwritten pages. The text block is well boun...
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Some Aspects of Horace

By: Fairclough, Henry Rushton

Price: $60.00

Publisher: San Francisco, John Henry Nash: 1915

Seller ID: 009739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Limited Edition: #54 of 262. 4to; 29.5 cm.; 11.5 inches tall. ----- A bi-millennial celebration of the birth of Horace in the form of this exuberant paean by the Professor Emeritus of Classical literature at Stanford. It is a typically lavish piece of bookmaking by Nash, and one of his last. ----- Quarter linen with marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Handling wear with rubbed corners.
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The Censorship of Books

By: Fellman, David

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin Press: 1957

Seller ID: 010591

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stapled cardstock 8.5 inches tall; [4] 35 p. ------ An address delivered at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Presses, Lincoln, Nebraska, May, 1957. ------- No flaws but a previous owner's name stamp and a hint of upper corner fold
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The Censorship of Books.

By: Fellman, David

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin Press: 1957

Seller ID: 009246

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stiff brown stock stapled wraps. 8vo; [4] 35 p. 8.5 inches tall. An address delivered at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Presses, Lincoln, Nebraska, May, 1957. Carefully handled only flaw is previous owner's stamp on front cover.
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An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine

By: Lapham, Lewis H. ; Rosenbush, Ellen

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Franklin Square Press: 2000

Seller ID: 010654

ISBN: 1879957531

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition - First Printing. --- Illustrated with B/W photos throughout. --- For over 150 years, Harper's Magazine has explored the American experience with a fiercely independent spirit and spectacular writing. That experience is available in this magnificent illustrated volume, spanning the decades and encompassing writing from Melville and Twain to Normal Mailer, David Mamet, and Annie Dillard. This beautiful volume includes reports, poetry, fiction, commentary, critiques of contemporary society and politics, speeches, humor - plus more than 200 photo...
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Tennyson

By: Levi, Peter

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 1994

Seller ID: 008016

ISBN: 068419662x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. First Edition, First Printing. ---------Levi ventures forth with personal charm and sensitivity as though the poet stood watching his writing desk; it's a pleasure to read literary biography that conveys love for its subject without sacrificing objectivity toward his flaws. Levi excels in the context of literary scholarship and influences upon Tennyson; he persuasively corrects false notions about a brooding and self-obsessed man. -------- Of special interest...
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Jack London's Cabin

By: North, Dick

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada, Willow Printers: 1986

Seller ID: 009256

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality.8vo; 32 pp. with B/W photographs. Saddle-stitched. Volume 1 in the Jack London Series.--------- The history of the discovery, authentication, moving, and rebuilding of the cabin on two separate locations--Dawson City and Jack London Square.
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A Sea of Change: Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream-a Contextual Biography

By: Ott, Mark P.

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Indiana, The Kent State University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 010888

ISBN: 0873389239

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. -------- A Sea of Change explores the importance of Hemingway's relationship to the waters of the Gulf Stream that transformed his imaginative work.
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Alien Heart: The Life and Work of Margaret Laurence

By: Powers, Lyall

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Downsview, Ontario, Canada, Univ of Manitoba Press: 2003

Seller ID: 000389

ISBN: 0887551750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. 8vo; 554 pages; Endnotes, bibliography and index. Illustrated with b/w photos. --- Today, almost two decades after her death, Margaret Laurence remains one of Canada's best-known and most beloved writers. Twice winner Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award for fiction, she was, as the late William French wrote, "more profoundly admired than any other Canadian novelist of her generation."
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The 19th Book Tesoro De Poveri

By: Rosenwald, Lessing

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Library of Congress,: 1961

Seller ID: 003872

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A comparison of three versions of perhaps the oldest recommended reading list, printed in Florence in 1494, includes original texts, translations, appendices and notes. --- Tan cloth binding with brown titles, clean and tight. 10 inches tall, 123 pages.
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Citation and Modernity: Derrida, Joyce, and Brecht (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory)

By: Sartiliot, Claudette

Price: $35.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Univ of Oklahoma Pr: 1993

Seller ID: 004209

ISBN: 0806125063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality, First Edition; First Printing; Dust jacket in protective Mylar sleeve.
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Literary Essays

By: Sartre, Jean-Paul ; Translated by Annette Michelson

Price: $29.95

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library: 1957

Seller ID: 010000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Like New in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. Previous owner's name on front free endpage. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has age-faded on the spine on rear panel. 12mo; 19 cm.; 7.5 inches tall; 96 pages. -------- The seven essays in this collection include: Francois Mauriac and Freedom; Camus 'The Outsider', Jean Giraudoux and the Philosophy of Aristotle; "Aminadab" or the Fantastic Considered as a Language; William Faulkner's 'Sartoris'; On 'The Sound and the Fury'; Time in the W...
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Shaft

By: Tidyman , Ernest

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1970

Seller ID: 009703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing. 8vo; 21 cm.; 8.25 inches tall; 188 pages. ----- The book is bound by red cloth covered boards with the title emblazoned in gilt letters on its spine. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. The only flaw is a tiny red dot top textblock near spine. [Which seems to be the usual for this title] Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. ------ The back of the dust jacket describes the main character John Shaft: "Who the hell does he think he is, this blackface Bogart who says the Revolution is a ...
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Tuesdays At Ten: A Recalling of Old Hours for Pennsylvania Men - Concrete Illustrations, Tangents & Asides

By: Weygandt, Cornelius

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press: 1928

Seller ID: 006934

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

SIGNED; Limited edition #72 of 260. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. ---- "For over thirty years I have talked to classes at Pennsylvania on Tuesdays and Thursdays at ten. This is a book made out of lectures at those hours." The author was Professor of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Contemporary Writers

By: Woolf, Virginia; Guiguet, Jean: Preface

Price: $32.21

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc.: 1965

Seller ID: 007562

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, First Printing.: American. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. Previous owner's name on top first blank page. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. 160 pages; 8.25 inches tall. --- Among the writers discussed are George Moore, Dorothy Richardson, E. M. Forester, Aldous Huxley. D, H, Lawrence, Theodore Dreiser....
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