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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd., 1950. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: His Life and Speculations. CONTENTS: I. A Room in Pall Mall II. Mount Lebanon III. Background of a Young Man IV. The Dilatory Bibliographer V. Brother Speculator VI. The First Edition Club Limited VII. The Ingenious Financier VIII. The Catastrophe IX. The Quest for Corvo X. Wine and Food XI. Finchingfield XII. Musical Boxes and Protean Scenes XIII. "I Have Built My Life For Peace" XIV. All The Unwritten Books XV. The End XVI. A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning; Index of Persons Mentioned. EXCERPT: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Besides my general debt to many friends and acquaintances of my brother, who have provided helpful suggestions, corrections and criticism, I owe the following specific acknowledgements of gratitude for assistance in shaping this book... I must thank my mother, my sister and my brothers, for their help… Read More

Toronto: Vintage Canada A Division of Random House of Canada Limited, 2000. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. Wayne Johnston, Author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Ben Hansen, Catching Capelin at Ferryland. TEXT DESIGN AND MAPS: CS Richardson. SYNOPSIS: Baltimore's Mansion introduces the Johnstons of Ferryland, a Catholic colony founded by Lord Baltimore in the 1620s on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, and centres on three generations of fathers and sons. Filled with heart-stopping description and a cast of stubborn, acerbic, yet utterly irresistible family members, it is an evocation of a time and place reminiscent of Wayne Johnston's best fiction. Wayne Johnston's latest novel (his fifth), The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, has been published internationally to tremendous critical acclaim. The film… Read More

Toronto: McArthur & Company BOOK: Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. FRONT JACKET PHOTO: Barry Callaghan and the family dog Maize, 123 Walmer Road, 1943. BACK JACKET PHOTOS: top left: Loretto Callaghan, 1929; top right: Morley Callaghan, 1929; middle: Tom Callaghan's CNR pass, photos of Tom and Mary (Minn), 1943; bottom left: Morley writing at his desk, 123 Walmer Road, 1949; bottom right: Barry (right) on St. Peter's baseball team, Christie Pits, 1949. JACKET PHOTOS PROVIDED BY: Barry Callaghan. SYNOPSIS: This brilliantly written memoir is about two writers, a father and son. Barry Callaghan writes with great elegance and wit about the joys and travails of growing up in a writerly family, with a father, Morley, who was one of Canada's best loved authors. Barrelhouse Kings begins in the Callaghan house in Toronto, and ends with Morley's death. It's a… Read More

Evergreen Lives BOOK: Front Endpapers Lightly Soiled; Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. "The outstanding Genius of English Literature . . . " - Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. CONTENTS: Select Bibliography; Chronology; Introduction; The Earliest Years; In Purgatory; Getting Ahead; Success, Marriage and Tragedy; Crusader and Historian; America and Italy; At The Summit; Dark Days; Setting Sun; Twilight of a God; Illustrated Life; Acknowledgements. SERIES: Evergreen Lives Series Editors: Michael and Mollie Hardwick. SYNOPSIS: The life of Charles Dickens is more fascinating perhaps than even the lives of those extraordinary and unforgettable characters who populate his brilliantly humorous and socially trenchant novels. The second of eight children, his early life was a turmoil of poverty and humiliating despair, with his family finally removed to the Marshalsea debtors' prison due to his… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: 1899-1926. INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY: Robert Mallet. CONTENTS: Preface - by John Russell; Introduction - by Robert Mallet; The Correspondence; Notes; Index. EXCERPT: PREFACE The general course of this correspondence has been so carefully charted by Monsieur Robert Mallet that I need only refer the reader to his lengthy and illuminating Introduction. There are, however, certain aspects of the monumental exchange which may require some further elucidation for those whose first language is English. It is not only French literature, but French life, that is the enveloping subject of the book; and letters which, in themselves, might seem trivial or otiose may acquire a new pungency if placed in their historical context. The letters run from 1899 to 1926,… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Light Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Edges Lightly Soiled; Spine Moderately Faded Due to Sun Exposure; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: GB 561. COVER ILLUSTRATION: T. S. Eliot, by Wyndham Lewis (1938), by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. CONTENTS: List of Plates; Abbreviations; 1. Early Models 2. A New England Student 3. Beyond Philosophy 4. Eliot's Ordeals 5. The Waste Land Traversed 6. Conversion; Appendices I. Eliot's Reading in Mysticism (1908-14); II. Dating The Waste Land Fragments III. A Note on The Waste Land and Ulysses; Source Notes; Biographical Sources; Index. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lyndall Gordon was born in South Africa and has taught at Columbia University and Oxford University. REVIEWS: "One of the precious handful [of Eliot studies in the last decade] which have given us fresh news about the elusive poet of The Waste Land. This is impressive biography...informed by crisp and accurate… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Name and City Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Boards, Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866). CONTENTS: Chapter The First INTRODUCTORY 1. Prelude (1932) 2. Persona and Personality 3. Quality of the Brain and Body Concerned; Chapter the Second ORIGINS 1. 47 High Street, Bromley, Kent 2. Sarah Neal (1822-1905) 3. Up Park and Joseph Wells (1827-1910) 4. Sarah Wells at Atlas House (1855-1880) 5. A Broken Leg and Some Books and Pictures (1874); Chapter the Third SCHOOLBOY 1. Mr. Morley's Commercial Academy (1874-1880) 2. Puerile View of the World (1878-79) 3. Mrs. Wells, Housekeeper at Up Park (1880-1893) 4. First Start in Life--Windsor (Summer 1880) 5. Second Start in Life--Wookey (Winter 1880) 6. Interlude at Up Park… Read More

Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, 1985. 0.8 cm Round Gouge in Spine Joint to Front Cover; Book Slightly Warped; Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: Two Narratives. COVER DESIGN BY: Cooper Thirkell. CONTENTS: Author's Foreword; Prologue to an Autobiography; The Crocodiles of Yamoussoukro. SYNOPSIS: "It is now nearly thirty years since...on smooth, 'non-rustle' BBC script paper, I wrote the first sentence of my first publishable book..." Finding the Centre contains all the irony, instinct and brilliance we would expect from V. S. Naipaul, but never before has he written about himself, the process and the magic of writing with such sustained and engaging intimacy. The two 'personal narrative pieces' in this book both involve journeys. In the first, Naipaul goes back to Trinidad, to his childhood, his family and particularly his father, in search of his roots as a writer. In the… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus Ltd., 1955. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: Being Volume Two of The Golden Echo. EXCERPT: Preface ...My second volume owes its title to its covering the years of the First World War and those while we were still living in its shadow. Any picture of that period must be dominated by a sense of bitterness and bereavement. My next volume, which will be called The Familiar Faces, will deal with the years of freedom when we believed that war would not come again.... Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap BOOK: P329 (Last Page of Index)/Blank Page, Two Following Blank Pages Unopened (The leaves of the book are still joined at the fold, not slit apart.); Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; Theocratic Twilight; New Country; Love and Marriage; Emancipation; Holidays; The Burden of Fame; In Green Pastures; Index. EXCERPT: PREFACE Lyman Beecher began the chronicles of his family. At seventy-eight, he sat in the parlor of his daughter Harriet Beecher Stowe's house, in Andover, Massachusetts, and dictates his autobiography to his son Charles, who later assorted his father's letters and journals, collected memories from the other Beecher children, and edited The Autobiography, Correspondence, etc. of Lyman Beecher, D.D. Thirty-four years later, Mrs. Stowe followed her father's example. With the help of… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Richard Rhodes, Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb. BOOK NUMBER: 10901945. DESIGNED BY: Laurie Jewell. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH FROM: the author's private collection. JACKET DESIGN: Lawrence Ratzkin. SYNOPSIS: In this moving and terrifying memoir of loss and eventual triumph, Richard Rhodes (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his best-selling The Making of the Atomic Bomb) has written an extraordinary portrait of his "American boyhood." Little more than a year old when his mother killed herself, Rhodes has ever since been conscious of "a hole in the world" where her nurture should have been. His father tried to raise him and his older brother,… Read More

London: Miniature Books The Rodale Press, 1954. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Discolouration Where Stickers Were Once Affixed; Moderately Creased; Heavily Chipped; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Letters of Guy de Maupassant and Marie Bashkirtseff. SYNOPSIS: This collection of twelve letters is lively literary entertainment. Marie Bashkirtseff, at twenty-four a scholar, socialite, musician and artist, writes incognito to de Maupassant, then a highly successful writer. Maupassant replies guardedly at first, but at length, intrigued by her gaiety and provocativeness, he demands to know her name--and for Marie the duel of wits is won. Danuta Laskowska's charming illustrations interpret perfectly the spirit of the letters.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Danuta Laskowska. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: A Thomas Dunne Book - St. Martin's Press, 1998. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Scuffed; Moderately Scratched; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Kingsley Amis arrived on the English literary scene with the publication of his classic novel Lucky Jim in 1954, and few writers since have provoked such wildly disparate degrees of laughter, admiration, and contempt in the reading public. For better or worse, Amis was known almost as much for his personality as for his work as a novelist - for his outspoken nature (one columnist called him "a literary Rottweiler"), his unfashionable praise for Thatcherism, and his devotion to whiskey - and in this, the only authorized biography of Amis, Eric Jacobs skilfully captures that personality with sympathetic detail and healthy doses of Amisian wit. Amis's life was in turns both tragic and triumphant, and from it Jacobs manages to spin a narrative that… Read More

New York: A Thomas Dunne Book - St. Martin's Press, 1998. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Kingsley Amis arrived on the English literary scene with the publication of his classic novel Lucky Jim in 1954, and few writers since have provoked such wildly disparate degrees of laughter, admiration, and contempt in the reading public. For better or worse, Amis was known almost as much for his personality as for his work as a novelist - for his outspoken nature (one columnist called him "a literary Rottweiler"), his unfashionable praise for Thatcherism, and his devotion to whiskey - and in this, the only authorized biography of Amis, Eric Jacobs skilfully captures that personality with sympathetic detail and healthy doses of Amisian wit. Amis's life was in turns both tragic and triumphant, and from it Jacobs manages to spin a narrative that mirrors the… Read More

New York: A Thomas Dunne Book - St. Martin's Press, 1998. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Kingsley Amis arrived on the English literary scene with the publication of his classic novel Lucky Jim in 1954, and few writers since have provoked such wildly disparate degrees of laughter, admiration, and contempt in the reading public. For better or worse, Amis was known almost as much for his personality as for his work as a novelist - for his outspoken nature (one columnist called him "a literary Rottweiler"), his unfashionable praise for Thatcherism, and his devotion to whiskey - and in this, the only authorized biography of Amis, Eric Jacobs skilfully captures that personality with sympathetic detail and healthy doses of Amisian wit. Amis's life was in turns both tragic and triumphant, and from it Jacobs manages to spin a narrative that mirrors the… Read More

New York: Arbor House Publishing Company BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 10-83. JACKET DESIGN BY: Janet Halverson. ISBN: 0-87795-469-0 (Copyright Page)/0-87795-524-7 (Dust Jacket). SYNOPSIS: Spanning some eight decades, here is the remarkable and remarkably candid autobiography of an extraordinary woman, born with--and very much a part of--the twentieth century. Laura Z. (for Zametkin) Hobson...from her childhood as the daughter of the first editor of the Jewish Daily Forward to a stint of reporting on the New York Post; from marriage to and divorce from book publisher Thayer Hobson to director of promotion of Time and a position as perhaps the leading magazine promotion writer in the country; from the extraordinary adoption of one son and the birth of another--both as a single… Read More

New York: A Berkley Book published by The Berkley Publishing Group, 1984. Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age, Including Covers and Spine (Evident by Discolouration Where Price Sticker Was Previously Affixed). SUB-TITLE: The Correspondence Between T. H. White and L. J. Potts. ALSO KNOWN AS: This Berkley book contains the revised text of the original hardcover edition. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction 1--Cheltenham, Cambridge, Reigate 2--Stowe 3--Stowe Ridings 4--Doolistown 5--Duke Mary's 6--Alderney; Appendixes - A White's Comments on L. J. Potts's Poems; B A Sample of T. H. White's Poems; C L. J. Potts's Review of The Elephant and the Kangaroo; D "Milk-a-Punch Sunday"; E The Works of T. H. White; Notes; Index. SYNOPSIS: Adviser, adversary, harshest critic, most devoted friend--L. J. Potts, White's Cambridge tutor, was all these and more. This extraordinary,… Read More

New York: hermitage house inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Heavily Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The imaged Word, it is, that holds; Hushed willows anchored in its glow. It is the unbetrayable reply; Whose accent no farewell can know. "Of the poets who came into prominence during the 1930's in America, none is more likely to achieve an immortality than Harold Hart Crane," said Horace Gregory and Marya Zaturenska in their history of American poetry. SUB-TITLE: 1916-1932. FRONTISPIECE: The frontispiece is taken from a photograph of Crane by Hervey Minns, a winner of international prizes, whom Crane found living in obscurity in Akron and began to tout to the art magazines, as told in his letters. CONTENTS: Preface; Chronology; PART ONE Ohio (1916-1922); PART TWO New York (1923-1925); PART THREE West Indies-Europe… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1962. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Remnants of Bowmanville Public Library Sticker Affixed to Front Free Endpaper; Remnants of Pocket Affixed to Rear Fixed Endpaper; Remnants of Sticker Affixed to Rear Free Endpaper; Non-Sticky Tape Residue/Discolouration to Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers, Front Free Endpaper; Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Non-Sticky Adhesive Residue to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Moderately Creased; Lightly Chipped; Heavily Pulled to Spine, Front Over-Leaf Portions Due to Removal of Sticker, Adhesive Tapes; Heavily Yellowed from Adhesive Tapes; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Writer's Reminiscences and Reflections. WRAPPER DESIGN BY: Thomas Simmonds. CONTENTS: Preface; Part One: The Swan Arcadian (1910-1914); Part Two: Carry On, Carry On! (1914-1919); Part Three:… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGNED BY: Jaya Dayal. JACKET PHOTO BY: Jerry Bauer. JACKET BY: Paul Gamerello. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Preface; Prologue. PART ONE I Forebears (1821-1912) II Parents (1912-1918) III Orphans (1918-1923) IV Caesar and Catiline (1923-1929). PART TWO V Vassar (1929-1933) VI Harold Johnsrud (1933-1936). PART THREE VII The P. R. Boys (1936-1937) VIII Edmund Wilson (1937-1939) IX Wellfleet (1940-1945). PART FOUR X A Dividing Line (1945) XI Academe (1946-1946) XII Realists and Idealists (1947-1949). PART FIVE XIII Portsmouth (1949-1952) XIV Wellfleet Revisited (1952-1955) XV Venice Observed (1955-1956) XVI Florence and a Villa (1956-1959). PART SIX XVII Coup de Foudre (1960-1962) XVIII Bestseller (1963) XIX… Read More