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New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1889. Mark Twain wrote A Connecticut Yankee after reading Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, exploring "a number of implicit parallels between Arthur's England and the American South: slavery; an agrarian economy which came into armed conflict with an industrial economy; a chivalric code which, Clemens said, was secondhand Walter Scott and kept the South mawkish, adolescent, verbose, and addicted to leatherheaded anachronisms like duels and tournaments. In both frameworks a civil war destroys the old order, and the Yankee has as acute a sense of loss as Mark Twain did" (Kaplan, 297).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991. First American edition of the Nobel-Prize winning author's second book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Jose Saramago 1.2006." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. The Portuguese writer Jose Saramago is the recipient of both the 1995 Camões Prize and 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. Harold Bloom described him as "the greatest living novelist" and considers him to be "a permanent part of the Western canon (Evans, 2002). The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis is "[t]he greatest of his novels" (New Statesman), "[a] capacious, funny, threatening novel" (New York Times Review of Books). Saramago "has created a body of work of luminous power: ironic, intellectually playful, dense and strange" (Scotsman). "A patient, old fashioned novel full of… Read more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991. First American edition of the Nobel-Prize winning author's second book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Jose Saramago on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. The Portuguese writer Jose Saramago is the recipient of both the 1995 Camões Prize and 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. Harold Bloom described him as "the greatest living novelist" and considers him to be "a permanent part of the Western canon (Evans, 2002). The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis is "[t]he greatest of his novels" (New Statesman), "[a] capacious, funny, threatening novel" (New York Times Review of Books). Saramago "has created a body of work of luminous power: ironic, intellectually playful, dense and strange" (Scotsman). "A patient, old fashioned novel full of dialogue and detail, mist, streets, squares, statues, meals, rooms, neighbors,… Read more

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston/ E.P. Dutton & Company, 1979-1994. First edition of the author's classic trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, 3 volumes. Each volume is signed and inscribed by Thomas Flanagan, with The Tenants of Time inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Ellen in the year of publication. Each are near fine to fine in near fine to fine dust jackets.

Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991. Uncorrected proof of the Nobel-Prize winning author's second book to be translated into English. Octavo, original blue wrappers. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago. In fine condition. The Portugese writer Jose Saramago is the recipient of both the 1995 Camões Prize and 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. Harold Bloom described him as "the greatest living novelist" and considers him to be "a permanent part of the Western canon (Evans, 2002). The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis is "[t]he greatest of his novels" (New Statesman), "[a] capacious, funny, threatening novel" (New York Times Review of Books). Saramago "has created a body of work of luminous power: ironic, intellectually playful, dense and strange" (Scotsman)."A patient, old fashioned novel full of dialogue and detail, mist, streets, squares, statues, meals, rooms, neighbors, life in a particular hotel of modest pretentions. Ao much 'reality,' carefully documented, lovingly piled up" (The New York Times).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Mark David Corser with good wishes Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings April 1938." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed, especially in the year of publication.

London: Methuen and Co, 1919. First edition, limited large paper issue of this collection of 45 poems, often considered Kipling's darkest work. Large octavo, original quarter vellum over paper-covered boards. One of 200 copies printed on handmade paper. In fine condition. Bookplate. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Kipling's The Years Between includes: The Benefactors, The Choice, A Death-Bed, Epitaphs, Natural Theology, A Pilgrim's Way, and The Song of the Lathes.

London: Methuen and Co., Ltd, 1919. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Kipling's The Years Between includes: The Benefactors, The Choice, A Death-Bed, Epitaphs, Natural Theology, A Pilgrim's Way, and The Song of the Lathes.

London: Methuen and Co., Ltd, 1919. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Kipling's The Years Between includes: The Benefactors, The Choice, A Death-Bed, Epitaphs, Natural Theology, A Pilgrim's Way, and The Song of the Lathes.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First edition of the concluding volume of Kissinger's memoirs. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Adam Henry A. Kissinger." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Jacket photographs by Mao Zedong and Darleen Rubin. Perhaps the best known American diplomatist of the century, Henry Kissinger is a major figure in world history, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and arguably one of the most brilliant minds placed in the service of American foreign policy. The third and final volume of his memoirs completes a major work of American history, beginning with the resignation of Richard Nixon and concluding with the end of the Ford Administration. "A distinguished and important work.... Kissinger's history of his own time in office is a work whose breadth, clarity of vision and historical scope amply justify its size. It is an event, a likely classic of its genre" (New York Times).

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Gatz many good wishes Ishmael Reed." The recipient, William "Gatz" Hjortsberg was an American novelist and screenwriter, best-known for writing the screenplay of the film 1985 American epic dark fantasy adventure film Legend, directed by Ridley Scott. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Nick Peters. A satirical take on the traditional Western, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down tells the story of the Loop Garoo Kid, an African-American cowboy who practices the religion of Neohoodooism, and describes his struggle against established religion and cultural oppression. The work was rated one of the 100 Best Books in the 20th Century by the American Book Review and a San Francisco Chronicle poll. "Ishmael Reed is a most talented humorist and possessor of a powerfully antic and lyric… Read more

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1982. First Wesleyan University Press edition of Japanese American poet Garrett Hongo's first collection of poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed to fellow American poet Annie Dillard on the half-title page, "for Annie Dillard, my admiration from Garrett 29 May '84." From the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate below the inscription. Cover illustration by Wakako Yamauchi. Born in Hilo, Hawaii, American Japanese poet Garrett Kaoru Hongo's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Antaeus, Poetry Northwest, and Amerasia Journal among others. Hongo said his first book of poems, Yellow Light, "has to do with origins, the search for them" emerging out of a sense of the Japanese American past. "Garrett Kaoru Hongo has now made a place in American poetry for our own familiar neighborhoods...He is a sure eye, a sure voice - as rhythmic and strong as an Hawaiian chant" - Maxine Hong Kingston.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. Finely bound illustrated edition of Fields' Yesterdays with Authors. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Tout with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, gilt decorative cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, watered silk doublures and endleaves, gilt topstain, extra illustrated with 61 rare plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece of Charles Dickens, and engraved portraits of Thackeray, Wordsworth, Hawthorne, Longfellow, and many others. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Fields' famed Yesterdays With Authors includes biographies and portraits of William Thackeray, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth, and Nancy Mitford. with numerous additional portraits of Charles Kingsley, William Prescott, Robert Burns, and many others.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. First edition of the autobiography of one of America's all-time baseball greats. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Morry Good Luck Yogi Berra." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket Kodachrome by Hy Peskin. Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player tells the true story of one of America's greatest baseball players. Beginning with his childhood in the Italian section of St. Louis, Yogi tells of his determination to be a baseball player despite his parents' protests that he could make good money as a laborer, his early and tough years in the minors, his eventual entrance into the majors, and the fantastic success he has enjoyed with the Yankees. Here is the excitement of the important games he participated in, which of course includes eleven World Series; the behind-the-scenes activities in the dug-out, on the road, in the field - including… Read more

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. First edition of J. Smeaton Chase's classic survey of the Yosemite Valley. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated with photographs by the author throughout. In near fine condition. A very clean example.    

New York: Viking, 1994. First edition of this collection of quotes from Rogers' writings throughout his career. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mr. McFeely on the half-title page, "To Lori and Brian from Mr. McFeely Speedy Delivery 2009." Additionally laid in is a signed photograph, "To Brian, from Mr. McFeely Speedy Delivery 2009." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Walt Seng.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960. One of the most beloved figures of the twentieth century, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt remains a role model for a life well lived. At the age of seventy-six, Roosevelt penned this guide to living a fuller life. You Learn by Living is a powerful volume of enduring common sense ideas and heartfelt values. Offering her own philosophy on living, Eleanor takes readers on a path to compassion, confidence, maturity and civic stewardship.