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New York.: Alfred E Knop / Curtis Publishing., 1960. 4th printing since September 1959.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. In like new slip case (minor surface blemishes); clear mylar slightly damaged at top spine. Prior owner name inside front board, "April 1960" added.. 1 Maroon woven cloth over boards. Spine titles, gold, w/ silver decorations. Front small profile in black. Book volume in case w/ mylar protective clear wrap. 285 p. 22 cm. Fine book with mylar cover in fine slip case for its age. Philosophical essays selected from the Saturday Evening Post magazine, 1958, 1959. Contributing authors: Eiseley, Barzun, Beck, Tillich, Oppenheimer, Hamiliton, Huxley, Schlesinger, Sitwell, Brogan, Selye, Read, Hoyle, Mumford, Copland, D'Arcy, Newman, Hayakawa, Greenberg, Gropius, Russell. There is a spectrum of topics in 21 essays.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company., 1959. 3rd printing.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket. Clean unmarked book.. 1 Light green cloth over boards. 235 p. 21 cm. Index. A memoir more than a treatise for writers of biographies, Catherine Drinker Bowen writes of the people she met while researching her books, and the places that research took her. She writes of the life of a biographer.

Stratford-on-Avon / New York.: Shakespeare Head Press / Houghton MIfflin., 1927. Printed in Great Britain.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Small chip from top of spine, wear to edges; piece of marbled paper missing as from a prior sticker. Inside very nice.. 1 22 p. Paper covered boards, cream and red / cream marble; deckled edges right and bottom; A Biographical Note on the Author, Pages v-x, by whom is not clear, "V M D"; followed by the lead title (first appearing 1807). Specimen of the Art begins on Page 11: "L'Allegro, A Poem. By John Milton". Edward Copleston was a rector's son, born 1776, a scholar at Oxford, then a tutor, professor of poetry, provost, dean, (various schools) and Bishop of Llandaff. He died in 1849. His "Advice" piece utilized wit in an era when reviewers were being especially cruel (biographical notes).

New York.: Vintage Books / Random House., 1969. First edition. 1st Vintage Books edition. V-581.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Minor cover wear. Clean interior w/ age-toning.. McWilliams, Jim (Cover design by).. 1 Mass-market Paperback. xix, 202 p. Biography / Nobel Prize winning poet, lover of men, drugs, words. This portrait spans 20 years of Ginsberg's life rolling the Beat Generation into the 1960s-1970s.

HarperCollins Publishers, 1987. First edition. Stated. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 0 Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 255 p. Audience: General/trade; General/trade.

Alfred A. Knopf., 1971. First edition. Stated 1st Edition.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Staining to inside board end papers, no odor.. Minor, Wendell (Jacket Design by).. 1 Light olive green cloth over boards. 306 p. Silver spine, front titles. Audience: General/trade. Autobiographical family history by author Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher whose father had migrated from Michigan to Whittier, California, with his family. Whittier was a Quaker stronghold and the family would not be accepted there. And they were not. The strong family shelter and other community attractions of the early 20th century.

New York.: Picador USA., 1995. First edition. 1st paperback printing.. Trade paperback. Good. Highlighting/underlining. Short corner page placeholder turn downs: frequent. Spine creasing.. Altman, N L (Cover painting by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 619p. 24cm. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Audience: General/trade. Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, b.1889-d.1966, became so popular, so lionized in her home country that Stalin feared to kill her; but he did psychologically torture her by attacking her family and close friends. She wrote of oppression as a woman, mother, lover, artist. Literature scholar Roberta Reeder devoted many years studying the poet, teaching courses on Russian culture and literature at Harvard and Yale.

Denver / Chicago.: Alan Swallow / Franklin Bindery, 1950. First edition. 1950 first.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Light cup circle, front, 2 in. Front end paper loosening.. 1 Tan cloth over boards. Blue stamped title box, front, tan titles. Small spine titles, blue. 107p., 19 cm. One of 11 in series. A short coverage of author Anthony Trollope's life and works. Referenced is Michael Sadlier's "Trollope: A Commentary".

New York.: A Bantam Book by arr. w/ Holt, Rinehart, and Winston., 1970. First edition. 1st Bantam edition. Holt 1968 copyright.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Light page block random soiling. p. 287, single paragraph has light pencil underlining. Spine creasing minor.. 1 Mass-market paperback. Text in English, French. 524 p.; 18 cm. Translation of "Antimémoires". The Walnut Trees of Altenburg. --Anti-memoirs. --The Temptation of the West. --The Royal Way. --La Condition Humaine. Includes accounts of conversations with Ho Chi Minh, Mao Tse-tung, Stalin. Author Malroux published "Man's Fate" (Chinese Revolution, pub. 1933). From back cover on the author: "revolutionary, resistance fighter, novelist, hero of our time". Malroux timeline: Cambodia 1923, jailed; China 1925-1927, Agent, Nationalist People's Party of China; 1936, Spanish Civil War, founds International Air Squadron, flies 65 missions; 1940, World War II, volunteer private, French Tank Corps,… Read More

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1910. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Beautiful save for 4 library catalogue numbers on spine in white ink, and Pittsburg (NH) Free Public Library label inside front cover.. 0 xv, 302 p. 20 cm. Index. A career in newspapers and magazines during the 19th century in America.

Avon Books Division / Hearst Corporation., 1948. 'T-437' Abridged.. Mass-market paperback. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Short tears to lower spine. Moderate edgewear, cover soiling.. 1 221 p. Line art cartoons saying much w / little. Cover note: 'A magnificent carnival of untamed wit and whimsy by America's greatest humorist. ' Thurber was a reporter, cartoonist, playright, often amusing even the targets of his insults. Vintage paperback with cover price of 35 cents.

Norfolk CT.: A New Directions Paperback / James Laughlin., 1963. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine has brown-darkened area along spine. Irregular back cover small spots. Interior clean, unmarked. Firm binding.. Gudzin, Dolores (The Living Theatre production cover photo by).. 1 207 p. 21 cm. Graphically rendered cover photo in sharply contrasting B&W. Pre-WWII Fiction set in Germany; first punlished in 1935 and 1939, the two novels known as The Berlin Stories are related. Hitler was beginning his move to power in 1931. These 'fiction' works are 'dramatized memoirs' if the period 1929-1933 when Isherwood lived in Berlin. The episodes are comic in a way that reveals truths about Hitler's Germany, truths not so clear in history books. Isherwood was British and became a US citizen.

Nation Books, 2006. First edition. 1st Trade PB printing.. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 218 p. Audience: General/trade. Conversation between father and son over a year, ranging in topics. Norman Mailer was 55 years his senior, notes John Buffalo mailer in his Preface; thus the span of experience and history is greater than most father-son perspectives. His father, in the Introduction, also notes there is some repetition of ideas herein due to the sources from which topics have been drawn, but that some thoughts bear repeating.

Edinburgh.: Luath Press Ltd., 2011. First edition. Presumed 1st, no print line.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Appears unread. Single small dot, front cover.. 1 Tan woven cloth over boards w/ black titles in red ornate circle frame. Jacket in red paper wrapped around lower quarter covers, color illustrated. Glued binding. 224 p. 22 cm. Audience: General/trade. First edition "Fragments of Ancient Poetry" 1760; First edition of "Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books", 1762. Ossian was a third-century bard, according to Highland and Irish oral traditions. He told stories of his youth, his father, Fingal, and his son Oscar. James Macpherson, who compiled Ossian's stories, recounted in blindness, was born in the Highlands, 1736, in an area of the Jacobite uprising, 1745. He published the Ossianic poems to great success in the 1760s. Pressure rose to prove their authenticity. This history recounts the Ossianic timeline, 3rd century A.D. until 2010.

Avon Books, 1997. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 366 p. B&W pictorial cover; yellow lower subtitle box. Includes list of many writers lost to AIDS. From teh 1940s through the 1990s, 29 stories. Contributor bios. Select Bibliography.

New York.: William Morrow & Company., 1971. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 1 Purple cloth, black paper over boards. 542 p. 24 cm. B&W photo section. Born into the Edwardian era of 1910, British writer Nicholas Monsarrat noted the world was changing within the year. His autobiography flows with his decades of experience. Among his works: The Ship that Died of Shame, and The Cruel Sea. "An abridged version of the book published in Great Britain in two volumes under the title Life is a Four-Letter Word."

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc, 1972. C begins print line.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Clean. Tight. Unmarked save for 2 tidy address labels of prior owners, front and back inside covers. 2 light front cover spots, less than half-inch.. 1 259 p. B&W photo sections. Lining papers are facsimile pages of original handwritten diary pages. Dark & light blue cloth covered boards. In Lindbergh's words, she was struck by how extraordinary her life was for an ordinary person. Thus, this publication.

Boston.: David R. Godine Publisher., 1992. Trade paperback. Fine.. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. 195 p. 21 cm. Audience: General/trade. Author's 9th book, the first non-fiction: 22 essays, many previously published in periodicals, avant garde newspapers, and literary journals. These are the art of autobiography essay, noted Wolff in his Introduction, "to catch oneself in the act of being human". Born in 1936, Andre Dubus is a New Orleans native who became a Haverhill, Massachusetts, resident. He dedicates this collection to many authors and friends who held ticketed events reading from their own works over 5 Sunday afternoons to raise funds for his family, and many others who sent warmth and donations. Dubus had stopped to help another stranded on the highway, and was struck by a car. He lost one leg above the knee, enduring many surgeries. The other was damaged badly. And when he began writing again, he did so eloquently from a wheelchair. This book resulted.

Boston.: David R. Godine Publisher., 1991. First edition. Stated 1st.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1 Brick red cloth over boards. Bind-stamped author initials, front. Gold spine titles. 195 p. 22 cm. Audience: General/trade. Author's 9th book, the first non-fiction: 22 essays, many previously published in periodicals, avant garde newspapers, and literary journals. These are the art of autobiography essay, noted Wolff in his Introduction, "to catch oneself in the act of being human". Born in 1936, Andre Dubus is a New Orleans native who became a Haverhill, Massachusetts, resident. He dedicates this collection to many authors and friends who held ticketed events reading from their own works over 5 Sunday afternoons to raise funds for his family, and many others who sent warmth and donations. Dubus had stopped to help another stranded on the highway, and was struck by a car. He lost one leg above the knee, enduring many surgeries. The other was damaged badly. And when he began… Read More

New York: D. Appleton, 1924. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Minor cover wear, spotting.. 1 x, 416 p. : Portraits, B&W photos.; 19 cm. Paste-on decorated title boxes; front a bit askew; in black ink on cream. Blue cloth covered boards. Index of Book Prices; General Index. A book about authors and their titles, many early 20th century. The author's preface recounts the stranded Robinson Crusoe literary character who receives a precious cargo while seemingly alone on his island. It is a book. Seeing more cases strdewn on the shore, his delight knows no bounds, for each was full of the latest book titles. So pleased and entertained he is, he waves along other ships that might be his rescue.