Search Results: Literature from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Meridian Books/New American Library, 1977. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/VG; Clean & sound w/rubs to leading edges & trace creasings to corners & spine. First published in hardcover by Thomas Y. Crowell; this copy is an over-sized paperback reprint. French novelist Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) is one of the first writers of science fiction, and his stories often anticipate later scientific and technological developments. In From the Earth to the Moon (1865) he explored space travel. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) features submarines. Highly regarded in Europe, for the English reading public, some works suffered from poor translation & truncation. This exceptional, annotated English edition, augmented w/some 150 illustrations, restores the adventure to its proper place in literature. Strong copy.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1947. First Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. Good/No Jacket. Text/Clean & Strong. Vintage 1947, First Edition, First Thus. PLEASE NOTE: Book Has Been Crushed --- w/wrinkled front & back upper corners to otherwise sound beige linen boards, and, w/corresponding bends to text corners. DJ/None. PO name to rear endpaper. Frontispiece: Photo portrait of Shaw. Analysis by British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor & Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard Univ., Eric Russell Bentley (1916 - 2020), who, in 1998 was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. This is a critical literary study of the influential Irish playwright & critic Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), who penned some 60 plays including Man and Superman (1902) and Pygmalion (1912), and recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature. 242 pgs, reviewing "what we can find in" Shaw, in 4 chapters: 1, Political Economy; 2, Vital Economy; 3, The… Read More

New York, NY: Oxford Univ Press, 1968. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Text/Sporadic blue hilighting to Preface & Chapter 1 (Literature as Transformation), else As New. Vintage 1968, First Edition, First Thus; published w/o ISBN number. Beige linen boards/VG w/soling & discoloration to lower front edge. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block & endpapers. DJ/Poor; intact but tattered. A look at influence on readers/audience exerted by poems, novels, theatre & film ... plus online media. Early phenomenon of secularism? Enlightening analysis of psychological powers of persuasive powers from literary critic & Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar, Emeritus of Univ of Florida, Norman N. Holland (1927 - 2017). 378 pgs on literary influence on contemporary philosophies. 12 chapters in 2 parts: I, Model Developed; and II, The Model Applied.

New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1989. First Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/Fine. Archival Family Photos. Text/BRAND NEW. First Edition, First Printing. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ (with author's portrait on front & back)/FINE. Memoir. Posthumous publication of Louis L'Amour's (1906 - 1988) account of his wandering years as an interant worker in the West. In an interview just prior to his death, the prolific L'Amour (orinally spelt LaMoure), when asked for a self-evaluation of his works, said, "The worst is I am no longer a kid and I am just getting to be a good writer. The prolific L'Amour published some 89 novels, primarily Western fiction, and received an Honorary Ph. D. from Jamestown College (1972), the Congressional Gold Medal (1982), and the Medal of Freedom from President Ronald Reagan (1984). 232 pgs w/family photos accompanied by auithor's captions. 28 chapters.

New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1989. First Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Archival Family Photos. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Printing. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ (author's portrait on front & back)/VG; price-clipped. PO name to fEP. Memoir. Posthumous publication of Louis L'Amour's (1906 - 1988) account of his wandering years as an interant worker in the west. In an interview just prior to his death, the prolific L'Amour (orinally spelt LaMoure) --- author of some 89 novels, primarily western fiction. When asked for a self-evaluation of his works, said, "The worst is I am no longer a kid and I am just getting to be a good writer". He received an Honorary Ph. D. from Jamestown College (1972), the Congressional Gold Medal (1982), and, the Medal of Freedom from President Ronald Reagan (1984). 232 pgs w/family photos accompanied by auithor's captions. 28 chapters.

Madison, WI: Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1968. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/Near New w/tidy, minute marginalia to 6 pages (4, 5, 7, & 85 - 87). Gilt embossed orange linen boards//Fine. DJ/NF w/trace edge wear. Vintage 1968 First Edition, First Thus; ISBN subsequently assigned. Scholarly study of prose styles & the self of 8 17th century English Renaissance authors from Joan Webber (1929 - 1974). 198 pgs in 8 chapters: Chapter I, Style & Self in 17th-CenturyProse; II, Donne & Bunyan: The Styles of Two Faiths; III, John Lilburne: The Eye of the Political Radical; IV, Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Democritius, Jr.; V, Richard Baxter: The Eye of the Hurricane; VI, Sire Thomas Browne: Art as Recreation; VII, John Milton: The Prose Style of God's English Poet; and, VIII, Thomas Traherne: The Fountain of Love; and, IX, Conclusion. Fine copy despite cited marginalia.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press, 1965. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/NEW & Bright w/po name strikeout to front cover verso & fEP. Vintage 1965 First Edition, First Thus. Blue linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF. Study of rhetorical self-awareness in the Renaissance epic, applying distinctions between narrator and author., from Uniy of CA, Robert M. Durling (1929-2021), known for his prize translations of Petrarch's Rime Spars, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. 280 pgs , in 2 parts, examines 4 epics: Boiardo's Orland innamorato, Arisosto'ls Orlando furioso, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, and Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Text in 7 chapters, 2 parts: Part I: Ancient & Medieval Influence: Two Roman Poets; 2, Chaucer; and 3, Petrarch); and, Part II (chapters 4, Boirdo; 5, Ariosto; 6, Tasso; & 7, Spenser), followed by Notes & Index.s which considers Horace, Ovid, Chaucer & Petrarch; & Spenser. Fine copy.

Mexico, D.F., Mexico: Editorial Porrua, 1981. Reprint . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW, showing margin discoloration. Spanish language text. 1981, Sexta Edicion. Softcover/NF w/faint creasing to upper front corner. Book shop label to fEP. Celebrated epic poem of Martin Fierro by Argentine journalist & poet José Hernández (1834 - 1886). Martín Fierro, also known as El Gaucho Martín Fierro, is a 2,316-line narrative poem. It is a historical testimony of to the gauchos' (skilled horsemen, often poor, at times unruly marauders of cattle ranches) contribution in Argentine's independence from Spain, and, a prime example of "gauchesque" verse (known as "payadas") penned in distinctive Argentinian rural vernacular. Saga has been translated into some 70 languages. 105 pgs, originally published in two parts: I, El Gaucho Martín Fierro (1872); and II, La Vuelta de Martín Fierro (1879).

New York, NY: Puffin, 1995. 1994 Reissue, 20th Printing . Paperback. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. Classic novel of a shipwrecked sailor from English novelist Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) who also gave us Moll Flanders (1722). First person, autobiography of the fictional, now of mythical stature, Robinson Crusoe. Defoe's creation is loosely based on, and inspired by on true experiences of Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk (1676 - 1721) who knew 4 years as a castaway on an island in the Pacific Ocean. First published 1719; this is the 1986 abridged (concentrating on the essential story-line of the original) Puffin Classics editon of 1995, 20th Printing. 273 pgs, 14 sectors, concluding w/an Epilogue.