Search Results: LITERATURE CATALOG 47 from Gregor Rare Books

New York::: McGraw-Hill,,, 1952... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine bright unclipped dust jacket with a touch of edge wear. These memoranda and letters from the time a young James Boswell spent in holland studying the law provide an intimate look at the famous biographer. Boswell seems a man troubled by depression as well as pressure from his father and a desire to raise himself socially. He can also be a kind of moral scold to the people he valued most. Not necessarily an attractive character but his candor and intimacy are what is valuable to a reader interested in how people really lived in the distant past.

New York:: Farrar Straus Giroux,, 1966.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with previous owner name on flyleaf in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. This collection of Ms. Bowles' writing includes the complete Two Serious Ladies and In the Summer House along with seven short stories: Plain Pleasures, Everything is Nice, A Guatemalan Idyll, Camp Cataract, A Day in the Open, A Quarreling Pair, and A Stick of Green Candy.

New York:: Norton,, 1997.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This fourth volume in Reynolds' five volume biographical series covers Hemingway's life and works from A Farewell to Arms to For Whom the Bell Tolls against the historical backdrop of the Cuban Revolution, African safaris, his residence in Key West and the Spanish Civil War. He experimented in fiction and nonfiction, pushing his limits as a writer, in such works as Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa, and To Have and Have Not. In this "masterpiece in the making," Reynolds brings us so close to Hemingway that "you can all but smell Hemingway's whisky breath coming off the pages"

Nigmegen::: Henk van Gelre,,, 1961... First Printing of the First Edition. All issues in Very Good overall condition. First Edition. This set contains volumes #1, #2 (2 copies), #3, #4, #5, #6. These slender newsletters feature articles on the life and work of Henry Miller along with pieces by Miller himself.