Books about: other books, literacy in general, writers, bookstores, literary culture. Usually non-fiction, but can be fiction as long as books are a central plot theme. Includes Biographies of Authors.
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New York: Random House USA Inc, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Background Information:'James Atlas is a model biographer. He writes with the conversational ease of a born storyteller, giving us both a richly informed history of one of America's most original and gifted writers and a......
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Book Club Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Carlos Baker's classic portrayal brings into sharp focus one of the titans of twentieth-century American literature, a writer whose life itself was the stuff of legend. Baker draws not only on Hemingway's diaries, letters, and unpublished writings, but.....
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A very important work on Hemingway's writing craft, where Baker shows and explains how Hemingway went about the creation of his short stories and novels. This is an invaluable resource for researchers and especially apprentice writers.....
![Item #17027 The Life, Time and Works of Victor Hugo [Two Volumes, Complete] [Biography]. Alfred...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17027.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687525418)
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1902. Limited Edition #725 of 1000 the Centenary Edition. Half Leather. Alfred Barbou was himself a famous writer at that time as well as an intimate friend of Victor Hugo. This book was approved by Victor Hugo and his wife, was translated into several languages.....
USA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. A Fine Hardcover. Dancing around the Bride is the first exhibition to explore the interwoven lives, works, and experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968) and four of the most important American postwar artists: composer John Cage (1912-1992), choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009).....
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Limited Edition No. 251 of 750 copies. Hardcover. This lovely edition presents a comprehensive compilation of the writings of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, a notable English poet and physician of the nineteenth century. Delving into his complete letters, poetry, and dramatic pieces, this volume offers readers a......
![Item #014111 Johnson Agonistes and other Essays [Samuel Johnson]. Bertrand H. Bronson](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/014111.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1646944511)
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1965. A Near Fine Hardcover. This concise volume gathers together two essays on Samuel Johnson and one on James Boswell. The essays are entitled 'Johnson Agonistes', 'Boswell's Boswell' and 'Johnson's 'Irene'. All three are written in an open, readable style and contain numerous quotations.....
New York: Dutton, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The third volume in the series on the history of literary life in America, covering roughly 1840-1890.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Twenty-two years of correspondence between Ernest Hemingway and his editor, Maxwell Perkins, are covered in a volume that chronicles Hemingway's development from promising young writer to famous novelist and the steadfast loyalty of.....
![Item #16802 The Soldier-Bishop, Ellison Capers [Civil War - Confederacy]. Walter B. Capers](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16802.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683997517)
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated cloth. Ellison Capers (1837-1908), a Charleston native, was elected major of a regiment at the beginning of the war, but advanced quickly, being promoted to colonel during the Atlanta campaign, and to Brigadier General in the aftermath of.....
![Item #004105 The Gambler: An Autobiography, 1920-1939. [Stuart Cloete]. Stuart Cloete](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/004105.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650384843)
London: Collins, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Very GoodDust Jacket.
U.S.A. The Overlook Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
London: Dulau & Company, 1926. Limited Edition of 50. A Very Good Hardcover. John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. He was known before World War I as one of the Dymock poets, and his poetry was included in all five volumes of Georgian Poetry. After World War I......
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1937. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. David Edstrom (a.k.a. Pehr David Emanuel Edström and David Edstrom) was an American sculptor and this is his autobiography. Edstrom spent time in Paris, early in the 19th century and became a member of the Gertrude Stein circle.....
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 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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Good Dust Jacket. Kenneth Grahame was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows, a classic of children's literature, as well as The Reluctant Dragon. Both.....
USA: Penn State University Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This study seeks to define the medieval literary conventions governing allusions to certain Ovidian and Virgilian tales of love in the works of Boccaccio, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer. Using evidence from the Latin mythographers, it addresses.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Ernest Hemingway's contributions to the Toronto Star during 1920-24 showcased his diverse interests and unique voice. From Toronto to Paris and across Europe, he delved into politics, sports, war, travel, human relations, and more. This collection.....