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The Atlantic Monhly, November 1928
by
Price: US $6.00
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
This issue of the important literary magazine has the usual variety of poetry, non fiction and firction articles. Including Shirahanna, an Interlude ... Details
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
by Ai Weiwei , translated by Allan H. Barr
Price: US $23.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
"An exquisitely serious masterpiece about his Chine" says Andrew Solomon on the dustjacket. And I agree. It is a biography of his prominent family'... Details
The Lark
by Anouilh, Jean - translated by Christopher Fry
Price: US $12.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
An introductory note by the suthor says this play is not an attempt to explain Joan of Arc. Original grey cloth with no edgewear, bright black title ... Details
The Atlantic Monhly, February, 1923
by Arhur Pound, Nora Dwyer, Harold Vinal and others
Price: US $6.00
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
This issue of the important literary magazine has the usual variety of poetry, non fiction and firction articles. In very nice condition for its 90 ... Details
A Guide to English Lierature, Essay on Gray, On the Study of Literature
by Arnold, Matthew (1st 2 essays) and John Morley (3rd essay)
Price: US $20.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Original burgundy cloth with bright gilt titles on front board and the spine. Hint of wear at the corners, but very clean and tight. Inside a prior ... Details
Next Door to a Poet
by Brown, Rollo Walter (1880-1956)
Price: US $9.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
The poet next door was Edwin A. Robinson , of considerable fame at this time. And next door was Summers at the MacDowell artistic Colony in New Hamps... Details
Anglo-American First Editions Part Two: West to East 1786-1930
by Brussel, I.R. With an Introduction By Lord Esher
Price: US $15.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Protected in Mylar
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Protected in Mylar
Edition: First Edition
A very useful reference, updating and improving on previous books on questions of edition precedence. Pages xxxi, 132. Original binding with nice... Details
The Way of Ecben, A Comedietta Involving a Gentleman
by Cabell, James Branch
Price: US $18.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase
Edition: First Edition
Progoma; b;acl s[ome wotj gilt decorated boards. No edge wear. The title on the spine is barely visible. Inside,like new. This is an unread copy, ... Details
Abdication
by Candler, Edmund
Price: US $20.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
This is a hardback binding of the Turtle Point paperback, in terra cotta spine with very pretty terra cotta handmarbled boards and matching endpapers.... Details
Three Light-Years
by Canobbio, Andrea
Price: US $9.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Fine copy, with no edgewear, in a fine dust jacket with no wear and NOT price clipped. The NY Times thought this one of the best novels of 2014. Th... Details
A LOST LADY
by Cather, Willa
Price: US $480.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition
Original light green cloth, surprisingly unfaded. Gilt titles on the front and the spine. First edition, first issue with "of" on line 19 of the las... Details
April Twilights and Other Poems
by Cather, Willa
Price: US $600.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
/This is a reissue of Cather's first book, originally published in 1903. But the reissue has a Part Two, consisting of 12 new poems, some previously u... Details
Not Undeer Forty
by Cather, Willa
Price: US $75.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Charming literary essays about Sahar Orne Jewett, Thomas Mann, Katherine Mansfield and a friendship with the Niece of Flaubert. A nice copy in pale g... Details
Obscure Destinies, Three New Stories of the West
by Cather, Willa
Price: US $98.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Original pale green cloth with the spine slightly faded. Original paper labels on the spine and front board. No edgewear. and clean and tight inside... Details
The Professor's House
by Cather, Willa
Price: US $30.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
This novel and A Lost Lady, purlished in the 1920s elevated Cather's literary status dramatically (wikipedia). Original blue cloth spine with orange b... Details
Youth and the Bright Medusa
by Cather, Willa
Price: US $30.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Cather, unhappy with her publisher Houghton Mifflin, switched to Knopf with this book , her second short story collection. Original green cloth with ... Details
The Dark O' the Moon, being Certain Further Histories of the Folk Called "Raiders"
by Crockett, S.R.
Price: US $19.00
Binding: 3/4 Leather
Book Condition: Very Good
Binding: 3/4 Leather
Book Condition: Very Good
As customary, this is a rebinding of the Tauchnitz reprint, this time in 3/4 brown morocco, with brown boards and raised bands on the spine. Fresh gi... Details
Fellowship Point
by Dark, Alice Elliott
Price: US $20.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
The much praised novel, writen with great empathy and skill, a treat for anyone who has enjoyed the coast of Maine. Friendship, secrets, legacy, love... Details
The Crow's Nest
by Day, Clarence (1874 - 1935)
Price: US $17.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Good-humored observations about men and human nature and books. Original brown cloth with gilt title on the front but title faded on the unfaded sp... Details
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Edward Fitzgerald, E.H. Whinfield, Justin Huntly McCarthy
Price: US $35.00
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Title continued, "Comprising the Metrical Translations by Edward Fitzherald and E.H. Whinfield, and the prose version of Justin Huntly McCarthy". Int... Details