George Henry Calvert
New York : Morningside Heights: Columbia University Press, 1944. Hardcover.
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New York : Morningside Heights: Columbia University Press, 1944. Hardcover.
New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Documents one of Faulkner's last public appearances, at West Point, on April 16, 1962, printing his reading of selections from The Reivers, including his departures from the original text. Also prints transcripts from.....
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Written in the style of a novel, but meticulously following the historical record, A Death in the Islands weaves a story of lies, deception, mental illness, racism, revenge, and murder, a series of events.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Soft cover. Felstiner tells the poet's story: his birth in 1920 in Romania, the overnight loss of his parents in a Nazi deportation, his experience of forced labor and Soviet occupation during the war, and then his difficult exile in Paris.Felstiner uncovers Celan's sources.....
New York: Basic Books, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. “This book goes beyond the parlor game of rating presidents and digs deeply into what qualities truly matter. By doing so, Al Felzenberg has produced a smart and fascinating look at the impact our.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Good Hardcover. A 'literary adventure-biography' relating world travels and the author's life. Finger was part of the literary circle that included Bernard Shaw, Cunningham Grahame and their group of young social philosophers.Before beginning an adventure in Patagonia.....
Summerville, GA, Howard Finster, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated stiff Wraps. Howard Finster was an American artist and Baptist minister from Georgia. He claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the design of his swampy land into Paradise Garden, a folk art sculpture garden with.....
Antwerp, Belgium: International Art Press, 1981. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.
Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. What is the spell that M.F.K. Fisher casts over enchanted readers who, privileged, dip into her timeless culinary masterworks and occasional fiction?With this volume of never-before-published letters, fans who know M.F.K. only by such.....
New York: St Martins Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Between 1870 and 1914, 100 American women married into British nobility, usually offering wealth in exchange for social status. In this lively and gossipy biography, Fowler (Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of.....
USA: IndyPublish.com, 2001. Hardcover. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Third Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Background Information:Charles II, byname The Merry Monarch, (1630—1685), king of Great Britain and Ireland who was restored to the throne after years of exile during the Puritan Commonwealth. The years of his reign.....
New York: Knopf, 1996. Third Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Background Information:Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Caroline Amelia Elizabeth; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) was Queen of the United Kingdom and Hanover as the wife of King George IV from 29 January 1820 until her death in.....
USA: It Books, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Based on six years of research and interviews with Bowden himself, not to mention the Bowden family, former players, and opposing coaches, Bowden is the complete stunning story of the making of a legend. This.....
Paris: Auguste Vaton, Libraire, Avignon, 1841. First Edition, First Printing. Quarter Leather. Aiguebelle Abbey is a Trappist monastery located in Montjoyer and Réauville, in the Drôme region of France, near the borders of Dauphiné and Provence.Initially, this site held a Benedictine monastery established in 1045 by Hugues Adhemar, who was.....
New York: Villard, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Even for those of us who don't know Mondavi from Mateus, Love by the Glass is a treat. Wine columnists Dottie Gaiter and John Brecher have one of the best marriages you'll ever see, and a delightful story.....
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
New York: Seal Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. On May 10, 1996, the Danish author became the first Scandinavian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and, also, a survivor of the Sagarmatha Environmental Expedition that claimed eight lives. This account includes b&w photos.....
New York: Atheneum, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
London: Nichols and Sons, 1884, Limited Edition. Full Leather Hardcover. According to tradition, Katherine of Alexandria was a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early fourth century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar.....
New York: Holt Paperbacks, 1992. Soft cover.
Bloomingdale: Indiana University Press, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Soft cover. '... the best collection of feminist essays on women poets now available.' [—Spokeswoman Review] The essays in this landmark volume highlight the achievements of "Shakespeare’s sisters," including Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti.....
New York: The Free Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Since the publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1917, Agatha Christie has become one of the most widely read authors ever. Yet despite her international reputation as a mystery writer, little.....
New York: Avant Garde Books, Near Fine in a Good Dust Jacket. "Ralph Ginzburg's imprisonment climaxed a ten-year literary cause célèbre stemming from the United States Supreme Court's suppression of his quarterly 'Eros'...Ralph Ginzburg's account of his imprisonment is both an historical document and a profoundly moving, unabashedly intimate personal.....
Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. Her realistic depictions of life in her native Virginia.....