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USA: Vintage International, 1990. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Vintage International, 1990. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Green and brown clean wrappers, light wear around edges, no creases. Soundly bound with all pages intact. Internals quite clean and free from any markings; moderately to heavily toned. The story of Thomas Sutpen who is born to a 'poor-white' family in the West Virginia mountains who runs away to Haiti at age 14. Later he appears in Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, with a band of Haitians, obtains 100 acres from the Chickaswa Indians, creates a plantation, builds a large house on 'Sutpen's Hundred'. He is obsessed with gaining status in the aristocracy of the South. He goes to great lengths, mostly sordid, to produce heirs for his 'dynasty'. Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner was born 1897 in Mississippi and died 1962, 313 pages. 8vo. 1990, Vintage International, USA.

U.S.A: Collier Books/Macmillan Publishing, 1992. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good+ Condition. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. Introduction by R. W. B. Lewis. Now a major motion picture. Very clean and unmarked with a touch of corner wear. Edith Wharton unfolds her story of New York Society life in the 19th-early 20th centuries and of a grand passion with a satirical eye, a life of desire and betrayal in Old New York. This authoritative text is reprinted from the Library of America edition of "Novels" by Edith Wharton, and is based on the sixth impression of the first edition, which incorporates the last set of extensive revisions that are obviously authorial. "There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major'--and Edith Wharton is one." 366 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches.,1992. Collier Books/Macmillan Publishing, New York, New York, USA

USA: Collier Books/Macmillan Publishing, 1993. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. Introduction by R. W. B. Lewis. Edith Wharton unfolds her story of New York Society life in the 19th-early 20th centuries, a portrait of desire and betrayl in Old New York. This authoritative text is rteprinted from the Library of America edition of novels by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton is considered a major American novelist. Very clean and unmarked with a touch of edgewear. Former owner name on inside of front cover.Tight glued binding. Pages clean, free of any markings, lightly toned. 366 pages. 7.25 x 4.3 inches. Collier Books/Macmillan Publishing, New York and Toronto, 1993.

U.S.A: IAP, 2009. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Large Paperback Book in Near Fine Condition. Glossy, bright, colorful pictorial cover is sparkling clean and unmarked, a bare touch of wear to corner tips; tight glued binding. Pages immaculate. This work of Henry James has come to be seen as a masterpiece of American fiction because of its remarkable technical structure, its profound moral significance, and its perceptive contrast of New World conscience and Old World culture. 300 PAGES. 10 x 8 inches. 2009, IAP, USA.

USA: Viking, 1950. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover in Good Condition, no jacket. Solid reading copy of this modern classic work, in red cloth. Clean and unmarked, with rubbing of edges and corners; binding solid. Square and tight. Endpaper with former owner inscription and some smudge marks on upper corners by hinge. Rough cut. Pages clean, no markings, toned. 314 pages. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. Viking Press, New York, 1950.

USA: Vintage International/Random House, 1990. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Vintage International, 1990. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. This edition follows the text of "As I Lay Dying" as corrected in 1985. Good, clean, solid book with faint corner and edge wear, tight and solid, pages edges and pages clean, toned, no markings or creases. This Faulkner novel is a harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. It is told in turns by each family memeber, including Addie herself. The novel ranges from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. 267 pages. 5.2 x 8 inches.1990, Vintage International/Random House, USA

New York, New York, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Remainder Hardcover BCE Book in Good+ Condition with s Dust Jacket As New. Remainder marks on all three sides of the text block, in heavy black-no other defects. Gold binding with silver titles is very clean and unmarked; internals as new. Set in Rio Brazil where almost anything is possible, if you are young and in love. And so, Tristao, a 19 year-old child of the slums and Isabel Leme, am 18 year-old child of the upper class, run off and get married. Their flight takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west--and their experiences are for you to read! John Updike is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 260 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1994, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA

USA: Signet Classic/New American Library, 1961. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Paperback in Good Condition. White cover with brown illustration and border, black and red titles, clean with a faint spot near top edge, wear all around edges, lower corner creased. Binding tight, solid, square. Pages clean and unmarked, toned. A story of a conniving, prosperous real-estate man from Zenith, one of the ugliest, but most convincing figures in American fiction, a total conformist. Babbitt gives consummate expression to the glibness and irresponsibility of the hardened, professional social climber. An American Literature Classic of the mid-20th century. Afterword by Mark Schorer. 327 pages. 7 x 4.25 inches. New York and Toronto, Signet Classic, 1961

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Ex-Library Hardcover Ex-Library Book in Good Condition, without Jacket. John Updike's fictional character, Jewish American novelist Henry Bech, made his first appearance over 70 years ago in John Updike's "The Bulgarian Poetess" and other short stories, which were then compiled into books, of which this is the first. Anti-hero Henry Bech is John Updike's irreverent alter-ego. Bound in deep red cloth, with light scuffing to extremities, a faint one inch whitish line on front near bottom spine corner and a slight discolored line near fore edge. Minimal lib markings, no pocket or card. Tight and solid. Rough cut. Paste-down has stain down outer edge. Internals quite clean and free from any markings, no creases, lightly toned pages. Front endpaper has been removed. Includes excerpts from the unpublished Russian journal of Henry Bech,… Read More

USA: Airmont Books, 1966. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Complete and Unabridged. Introduction by Neil H. Fisher. "Billy Budd" was completed a few months before the death of the author, Herman Melville (1819-1891). It was published 1924. The novel is a narrative, a tragedy, and an allegory - it is also a man's testament on life. "The Encantados, or Enchanted Isles" is a book of ten sketches, all laid in the lonely Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador--they represent Herman Melville at his highest point of achievement as a writer. Each sketch is a gem by itself. Compassion and wit mingle with his two major themes--the power of evil and man in isolation. Bright and clean cover with slight wear around edges. Soundly bound with all pages intact. Pages clean, completely free from any markings, no creasing. 158 pages. 7 x 4.25 inches. Airmont Books, New York, 1966.

U.S.A: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Very Good with a Good.Jacket. The birds referred to in the title are of the two-legged variety--Peter travels to Paris to do his junior year at the Sorbonne in France and has much to learn. A witty and tender story. Bound in gold cloth with blue titles, clean and unmarked, no wear to extremities. Sewn binding tight , solid and square, with endbands. Former owner inscription on the verso of the endpaper. Internals quite clean, no marks, no creases. Jacket is gold with blue print, clean with moderate wear to extremities. Now with clear archival protective cover. Octavo. 344 pages. 1971, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, USA

USA: Alfred A Knopf, 1971. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Hardcover Retired Library Book and Jacket in Good Condition. No library markings except pocket on rear endpapers. Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask. Originally published in German in 1953. A bold and distrubing theme pervades this moving and ironic tale of a strange deception. Mann was a master of psychological analysis and had profound perceptions into the mysterious realm where the physical and spiritual meet. Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, was a German novelist, social critic, philanthropist, essayist. He was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature. He emigrated to the US in 1939 and returned to Switzerland in 1952. Bound in black cloth with gilt titles. Appears clean and unmarked--jacket affixed to boards.Tight and solid sewn binding. Rough cut. Internals clean and unmarked. . Front endpaper with bookplate. Jacket is well-covered with mylar cover; price-clipped. It is clean and… Read More

USA: Doubleday & Co, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. 438 pp. Black cloth w/ bright yellow lettering on the spine. Clean & unmarked with a few rubbing type marks on boards; corners slightly bumped with light wear. Tight and solid volume. Top edge has a small stain. Rough cut. Interior is clean, no marks, no tears, toned. A story about the daughter of a family that has raised Spanish bull-fighting bulls for three generations who must choose between two famous matadors, both who are childhood friends. Much about bull-fighting and much romance. 438 pages. 1954, Publisher: New York. Doubleday & Co., New York, New York, USA

U.S.A: Penguin Books, 1977. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Paperback in Very Good Condition. Early-mid 20th Century English Classic Literature. Cover is clean and unmarked with light wear to edges. Binding is tight and square. Pages have no markings, are clean, uncreased. A story of Edward Driffield, a literary man much admired by society, married to a second wife of great rectitude and charm. She asks Alroy Kear to write Edwards's biography; as he begins to look into Dreffield's past, the spectre of Rosie, his first wife, arises; she was his luscious and 'common' companion and wife of his less respectable days, and lingers in his mind always. A biography just won't do. 203 pages. 4.25 x 7.25 inches. 1977, Penguin Books, USA

Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday & Company, 1948. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No jacket. Clean, unmarked, tight, solid book. A light discolored area on front, circular, inch in diameter. Black cloth binding with blind-stamp publisher's device on front, gilt titles and decoration on spine are rubbed but visible. Corners lightly scuffed, lower front one a more so. Spine head and heel compressed, lightly worn. Tight and solid. Pages intact, clean, no marks, no creases, toned. Maugham photo portrait and blurb from jacket affixed to endpapers. "Catalina" is novella. It is a story of the manners and exploits of the time, a compound of irony and romance. It is the story of Spain in the Golden Age of the sixteenth century. 275 pages. 5.5 x 8.2 inches. 1948, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, USA

Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday & Company, 1948. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Hardcover BCE in Good Condition. No jacket. Clean, unmarked, tight, solid book. Black cloth binding with blind-stamp publisher's device on front, gilt titles and decoration on spine. Slight wear to lower corners and spine ends. Spine is discolored with slightly lighter spotting. Pages intact, clean, no marks, no creases--nearly as new. "Catalina" is novella. It is a story of the manners and exploits of the time, a compound of irony and romance. It is the story of Spain in the Golden Age of the sixteenth century. 275 pages. 5.5 x 8.2 inches. 1948, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, New York, USA

Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday & Company, 1948. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Hardcover BCE in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked, tight, solid book. Black cloth binding with blind-stamp publisher's device on front, gilt titles and decoration on spine. No edge wear. Spine head and heel lightly compressed. Pages are all intact, clean, no marks, no tears, no creases. "Catalina" is novella; it is a story of the manners and exploits of the time, a compound of irony and romance. It is the story of Spain in the Golden Age of the sixteenth century. 275 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 1948, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, USA

U.S.A: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Hardcover in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. A novel in the "Strangers and Brothers" series, which is a sequence of eleven novels written between 1940 and 1970 dealing with political and personal integrity and the exercising of power, narrated by the character Lewis Eliot and following his life and career, from an English provincial town, to London lawyer, Cambridge don, wartime service at Whitehall, senior civil servant to retirement. This novel is one of high politics dealing with the effort by an English MP to take Great Britain out of the nuclear arms race in the 1950s. The book is bound in blue cloth with black and gilt spine panel, gilt titled and decorated. Clean and unmarked with faded strips along top and bottom edges. Corners and edges rubbed, slight scuffing of corners.Tight, solid book. Internals very clean, no marks except former owner name on endpaper, no… Read More

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Oxford World's Classics Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Jean Gooder. Gently used clean and unmarked book; tight, solid and square binding. Includes Chronology and Preface by Henry James. Other Stories included are: Pandora, The Patagonia, Four Meetings. 296 pages, with Notes and Variant Readings. 5 x 7.8 inches. 1998, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK

U.S.A: Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Stated First Edition--and Book Club Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Vintage Jacket in archival protective cover. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who won the Pulitzer Prize several times. His better known novels/plays are "The Bridge of San Luis Rey", "The Ides of March", and "Our Town". "The Eighth Day", first published in 1967, is set in Coaltown, Illinois in 1902 with a trial for a murder, a conviction and a later escape. It portrays life in the early 20th century on America. The book is clean, tight, solid. Bound in navy cloth spine, blue cloth boards; light wear to corners; spine head and heel compressed. Gilt design and lettering on spine, sharp and bright. Very clean. Turquoise blue endpapers. Rough cut. Internals quite clean and free from any markings. Jacket is clean,… Read More