New York: Prometheus Books, 1987. Lionel Abel was a prominent American dramatist, critic and translator, credited with coining the term “metatheatre” and translating Jean-Paul Sartre into English. In Important Nonsense, Abel offers incisive essays on major intellectual figures such as Dostoevsky, Sartre, Kojeve and Russell, revealing his lifelong engagement with.....

Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Julia Alvarez emerged as one of the most important Dominican American literary voices of the late 20th century. Her work helped bring immigrant experience, bilingual identity, and Caribbean-American cultural history into mainstream contemporary American literature. ‘Something to Declare’ offers.....

New York: Horizon Press, 1970. KEY FEATURES OF THE TRILOGY —+++ The Set: Includes all three volumes of Anderson's memoirs, covering the Modernist literary explosion, the Ulysses obscenity trial, and her life in Paris with Georgette Leblanc and Jane Heap.+++ Subject Matter: A foundational text of Lesbian history, capturing the.....

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Historical Significance:This volume remains one of the most important visual records of Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957). Robert Hupka's photographs are technically masterful, taken under difficult low-light conditions without flash, yet they reveal the 'terrifying intensity' of Toscanini's.....

New York: Putnam Pub Group, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. District park ranger Anna Pigeon is forced to reexamine her "spiritual connection" to God's creatures when she works on a project that has her hanging out bloody lures to attract grizzly bears in Glacier National Park.....

New York: Horizon Press, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Historical Significance:Eric Bentley was a titan of dramatic criticism and the primary force behind introducing Bertolt Brecht to the English-speaking world. In the mid-20th century, his 'chronicles' of the New York stage were considered essential reading, blending academic rigor with the.....

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1947. Limited Edition, Deluxe Issue of 249 copies. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- Ray Bergman was the undisputed king of American angling for three decades. As the long-time editor of Outdoor Life, his voice didn't just teach people how to fish; it defined the gear, the ethics.....

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1942. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE — Jacob Epstein was a lightning rod for the modernist movement. By the time this book was inscribed to Ben Raeburn in 1947, Raeburn was already beginning to cement his reputation as a publisher who valued artistic integrity over commercial safety. This copy.....

New York: Viking Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. 'Sharp, guileful, and malevolently funny, Boyle's stories are "more than funny, better than wicked,' says The Philadelphia Inquirer. 'They make you cringe with their clarity.' A critic recently said of T. Coraghessan Boyle, 'More.....

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2001. Limited Edition of 1500. HISTORICAL CONTEXT / SIGNIFICANCE —Issued during a period of renewed interest in small-press horror publishing, this edition reflects Subterranean Press’s role in shaping the collectible market for contemporary dark fiction. Provenance from D. Douglas Fratz places the volume within a documented.....

New York: George Braziller, 1972. Two Hardcovers with Dust Jackets, accompanied by original typed correspondence. SCHOLARLY FEATURES+++ The Poetry Wars of 1972: The September letter preserves a fierce defense of Burnshaw's In the Terrified Radiance following Richard Howard's refusal to provide a promotional blurb, with Burnshaw colorfully dismissing Howard's output.....

New York: The Book League of America, 1942. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —In 1941, Caldwell was one of the few American journalists in Moscow during the German invasion. 'All Night Long' was written upon his return to the United States, intended to humanize the Soviet struggle for an American audience. The novel.....

Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Nathaniel Pereira, son of a New York Jewish merchant, gets dispatched to revive an uncle's South Carolina plantation, but his story is derailed by the interspersed accounts of several generations of women driven from slavery.....