Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare
USA: PublicAffairs, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
Books about Books and Authors
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.
Delve into the captivating world of books and authors with our curated collection. Discover literary treasures, explore the minds of beloved writers, and ignite your passion for the written word.
Bellow
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......
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Book Club Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp [Box Edition]
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).....
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Johnson Agonistes and other Essays [Samuel Johnson]
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.....
The Times of Melville and Whitman.
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.
The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway/Maxwell Perkins Correspondence: 1925-1947
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.....
The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work
New York: Harper & Row, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A spiritual autobiography of sorts, the book ranges widely, from Cro-Magnon art to Arthurian legend to marriage as a "sacrificial field," as it follows Campbell from his Catholic boyhood and early interest in American Indians to.....
![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&v=1683997517)
The Soldier-Bishop, Ellison Capers [Civil War - Confederacy]
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&v=1650384843)
The Gambler: An Autobiography, 1920-1939. [Stuart Cloete]
London: Collins, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Very GoodDust Jacket.
Self Portrait Taken from Letters & Journals of Charles Ricketts
London: Peter Davies, 1939. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Background Information:Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) was a British artist, illustrator, author and printer, known for his work as a book designer and typographer and for his costume and scenery designs for plays and operas.Ricketts first made his mark.....
Reporting America
U.S.A. The Overlook Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
The History of the Ginger Man
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
A Book for Bookmen Being Edited Manuscripts & Marginalia With Essays on Several Occasions
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......
The Testament of Caliban
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.....
George Henry Calvert
New York : Morningside Heights: Columbia University Press, 1944. Hardcover.
Some Aspects of Horace
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1915. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover. The book is a lavish piece of bookmaking by Nash, and one of his last.A bi-millennial celebration of the birth of Horace in the form of this exuberant paean by the Professor Emeritus of Classical literature at.....
Faulkner at West Point
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.....
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Soft cover.
Seven Horizons
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Good Hardcover.
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books.Awarded the Pulitzer and several additional acknowledgements.
Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets
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.....
Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries
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.....
Kenneth Grahame, 1859-1932 a study of his life, work and times
London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Good Dust Jacket.
The Myths of Love: Classical Lovers in Medieval Literature
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.....