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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: CLASSIC: SUPERB: AS-NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) Fifth Printing (c. 2006): AS-NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & showing $27.50 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, AS-NEW navy-blue Brillianta silk-finish linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA-colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-blue LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Olin-Nyalite opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.78", 0.90 kg, 1252 pp. * CONTENTS: Democracy (1), Esther (185), Mont Saint Michel & Chartres (337), The Education of Henry Adams (715), Poems (1193); Chronology (1209), Note on the Texts (1217), Notes (1229) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This LOA volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful & original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil War to WW I. Here for the first time in a single volume, these works show the many forms (fiction, poetry, autobiography, philosophical & historical speculation) in which Adams gave expression to his vision of the meaning of the unsettling changes in American life & values. Each of the 2 novels, "Democracy" & "Esther", chooses a woman on whom to center the effects of social change. In "Democracy", Madeleine Lee, an emancipated & idealistic young widow, moves to Washington to learn the nature of political power & is disillusioned upon discovering the intrigues of rampant corruption. The free-thinking heroine in "Esther", caught in the warfare between science & religion, finds that she cannot surrender her moral independence, even to marry a clergyman. Adams, though a man of the modern world, remained in temperament a child of the 18th century, his political ideals shaped by his presidential ancestors, great-grandfather John Adams & grandfather John Quincy Adams. The failure of those ideals to withstand the challenges of an industrialized America drove him to seek refuge in the study of the medieval age of faith in France. Out of it came his skeptic's "Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres". Her presence dominates the book that followed: "Mont Saint Michel & Chartres". In evocative & sensitive prose Adams moves from the architecture, sculpture, & stained glass of Chartres to the religion, literature, politics, social order, & crusades of the 11th, 12th, & 13th centuries. Adams translates the poetry of courtly love & recounts the drama of Eleanor of Aquitaine's life & the timeless love of Abelard & Heloise. The narrative rises at the end to the brilliantly re-enacted drama of St. Thomas Aquinas' victory over the rival philosophers. If "Mont Saint Michel" portrayed a world unified by a common faith, "The Education of Henry Adams" portrayed a world irresistibly moving toward chaos. The world once unified by the Virgin was now ruled by the impersonal Dynamo & already confronted by the "metaphysical bomb" of radium & the prospect of infinite energy for man's use. Adams balances, w/ extraordinary urbanity & wit, the rival claims he found as much in himself as in modern civilization. Together, these 2 works still pose an urgent question: Can the human mind ultimately control the monstrous aggregates of power which it has wrung from nature? * ERNEST SAMUELS (1903-1996), volume editor, was emeritus professor of English at Northwestern University & author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 3 vol. biography of Henry Adams. JAYNE N. SAMULES, co-editor, was an assistant editor of the Letters of Henry Adams. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts, & restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. MONUMENTAL: A TREASURE: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) 7th Printing (c. 2010): NEW LOA jacket, NEW sand-tan silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ tan silk page-marker ribbon, NEW white-on-brown LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Olin Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 2.06", 1.02 kg, x+1620 (1630) pp * CONTENTS: Count Frontenac & New France under Louis XIV (1), A Half-Century of Conflict (329), Montcalm & Wolfe (829); Chronology (1505), Note on the Texts (1511), Notes (1514), Index (1517) * This is the 2nd of 2 vols. which together incorporate all 7 titles of Francis Parkman's monumental account of France & England's imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Parkman conceived the project in 1841, when he was a Harvard sophomore, & persisted in it despite chronic nervous disorders that affected his eyes. The last volume of what he called his "history of the American forest" appeared almost 30 years after the 1st. Deservedly compared as a literary achievement to Gibbon's "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire", Parkman's accomplishment is hardly less awesome than the explorations & adventures he so vividly describes. His own indomitable spirit is reflected in 2 of the history's most fiercely resolute figures: La Salle, obsessed with colonizing the Mississippi Valley, & Frontenac, determined to bolster France's tottering position in the New World. Here for the 1st time Parkman's massive complete epic appears in a compact form. It tells a story of great empires maneuvering in an unfamiliar & hostile terrain w/ all the guile, sophistication & ingenuity learned from centuries of European rivalry. "Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV" tells how France might have won her imperial struggle w/ England. Frontenac, a courtier made governor of New France by that most sagacious of monarchs, oversaw the colony's brightest era of growth & influence. Had Canada's later governors possessed his administrative skill & personal force, his sense of diplomacy & political talent, or his grasp of the uses of power in a modern world, the English colonies to the south might have become part of what Frontenac saw as a continental scheme of French dominion. England's American colonies flourished, while France, in both the Old World & the New, declined from its late 17th century greatness. Conflict over the developing western regions of North America erupted in a series of colonial wars. As narrated by Parkman in "A Half-Century of Conflict", these American campaigns, while only part of a larger, global struggle, prepared the Colonies for the American Revolution. In "Montcalm & Wolfe" Parkman describes the fatal confrontation of the 2 great French & English commanders whose climactic battle marked the end of French power in America. As the English Colonies cooperated for their own defense, they began to realize their common interests, their relative strength, & their unique position; & in this imperial war of European powers we begin to see American figures (Benjamin Franklin, George Washington) soon to occupy a historical stage of their own. Parkman's chronicle, concluding on the Plains of Abraham after nearly 250 years of conflict, will permanently transform our image of the American landscape. Written w/ verve, suppleness & wit, this grand narrative history of political & theological conflict, of feats of physical endurance, of courtly manners practiced w/ comic disproportion against the backdrop of a looming wilderness, is a treasure of our national & of world literature. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. BILLIANT: CLASSIC: NEAR FINE Library of America stated First Edition hardcover (1987) First Printing, FINE mylar-protectedLOA jacket w/ portrait of Benjamin Franklin on front panel & w/ EXCELLENT edges & corners, NEW sand-tan Brillianta silk-finish rayon-weave fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, VG smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED Only with slight incidence of "spotting", NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & bronze silk ribbon page-marker, IMPECCABLE white-on-tan LOA-patterned front & back card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed w/ ELEGANT clarity in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB silk-finish acid-free Ecusta-Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42", 0.68 kg, x+816 (826) pp. W/ slipcase: 5.36 x 8.36" x 1.50", 0.77 kg * CONTENTS: Writings: Letters from London 1757-1775 (1), Paris 1776-1785 (169), Philadelphia 1785-1790 (371), Poor Richard's Almanack 1733-1758 (441), The Autobiography (565); Chronology (731), Note on the Texts (756), Notes (770), Index (791) * ABOUT THE BOOK: "Writing has been of Great Use to me in the Course of my Life," Benjamin Franklin said in his famous Autobiography. W/ characteristically calculated understatement, he attributed his enormous & varied successes to "my having learnt a little to scribble." This LOA collection of Franklin's works begins w/ letters sent from London (1757-1775) describing the events & diplomacy preceding the Revolutionary War. The volume also contains political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, & letters written in Paris (1776-1785), where he represented the revolutionary United States at the court of Louis XVI, as well as his speeches given in the Constitutional Convention & other works written in Philadelphia (1785-1790), including his last published article, a searing satire against slavery. Also included are the delightfully shrewd prefaces to "Poor Richard's Almanack" (1733-1758) & their worldly, pungent maxims that have entered our American culture. Finally, the classic "Autobiography", Franklin's last word on his greatest literary creation "his own invented personality" is presented here in a new edition, completely faithful to Franklin's manuscript. * THE LIRBARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: NEW Library of America First edition hardcover (2003) First Printing, NEW matt-cream LOA slipcase w/ double gilt-rule borders & gilt-LOA-logo stamped on front face, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW burgundy silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE white-on-maroon LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ crimson-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & crimson silk page-marker ribbon bound-in from top, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Domtar Literary Opaque pap. * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.08", 0.60 kg, 1062 pp. / With slipcase: 5.36" x 8.36" x 1.26", 0.70 kg * CONTENTS: Travel Books & Other Writings, 1916-1941: Rosinante to the Road Again (1), Orient Express (125), In All Countries (269), Selections from Journeys Between Wars (431), A Pushcart at the Curb (489), Uncollected Essays 1916-1941 (587), Letters & Diaries 1916-1920 (633); Chronology (803), Notes on the Texts (821), Notes (827), Index (850). * ABOUT THE BOOK: John Dos Passos witnessed the modern era's defining events & distilled their literary essence into an innovative, trademark pastiche style: "something like a multimedia event" in book form, wrote The New Yorker. As an ambulance driver during World War I, as an eyewitness to the Spanish Civil War, Italian Fascism, Mexican social upheaval, & post-revolutionary shifts in Russia & Central Asia, & as a participant in protests in the United States, Dos Passos charted cataclysms & his evolving response to them before the ink had dried in the history books. Now, The Library of America restores to print his vibrant travel books "Rosinante to the Road Again" (1922), "Orient Express" (1927), "In All Countries" (1934) & the Spanish Civil War material added to "Journeys Between Wars" (1938), American classics which Dos Passos wrote concurrently w/ his fictional masterpieces "Three Soldiers", "Manhattan Transfer", & "U.S.A." Featured in this edition are full-color reproductions of Dos Passos' own remarkably vivid Orient Express watercolors. This volume also restores to print the rare travel poems cycle "A Pushcart at the Curb" (1922); political & literary essays that dramatize his complicated relationship w/ communism; & a selection of early letters & diaries from World War I. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: TOWNSEND LUDINGTON (editor) is Boshamer Professor of English & American Studies at UNC (Chapel Hill), author of "John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey" & editor of "The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of Dos Passos". * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this splendid book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ Domestic USPS PRIORITY MAIL available for a nominal additional fee & shipment of all international orders via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: POWERFUL: BELOVED: AS-NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1987) First Printing: VG slipcase w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners but MARRED w/ shelf-dust soiling, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior , NEW sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW handsome front-back tan-brown distinctively LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished Ecusta-Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.74", 0.84 kg, 1336 pp. SLIPCASE: 5.25" x 8.50" x 1.86", 0.96 kg * CONTENTS: The Troll Garden (1), O Pioneers! (133), The Song of the Lark (291), My Antonia (707), One of Ours (939); Chronology (1299), Note on the Texts (1319), Notes (1323). * ABOUT THE BOOK: "Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her powerful fiction the Nebraska frontier of her youth. The vast Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow & the sky is huge & open, mirrors the uniquely American ethic of her characters: their heroic aspirations & stoicism, their passion for creativity, their rebelliousness of spirit. This volume, the first in The Library of America's authoritative three-volume collected Cather, includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," her first work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O Pioneers!," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia" & "One of Ours," which earned a Pulitzer Prize. * LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: NEW LOA First edition hardcover (orig. 2001) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ double-ruled gilt borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel & sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW British-green rayon-weave silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA-colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & emerald silk page-marker ribbon bound-in from top, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.24", 0.62 kg, 967 pp. slipcase: 5.46" x 8.50" x 1.42", 0.72 kg * CONTENTS: Novels 1944-1962: My Home Is Far Away (1), The Locusts Have No King (241), The Wicked Pavilion (501), & The Golden Spur (725); Chronology (943), Note on the Texts (955), Notes (959) * ABOUT THE BOOK: American literature has known few writers capable of the comic élan & full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been a rediscovery of the novelist who was such a vital presence in literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1960s, a writer whom Gore Vidal has called "our best comic novelist" & whom Edmund Wilson considered to be "on a level w/ Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh & Muriel Spark." LOA has again made available in an excellent 2-volume edition the best of Powell's quirky, often hilarious, sometimes deeply moving fiction. Dawn Powell (a vital part of literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s through the 1960s) was the tirelessly observant chronicler of two very different worlds: the small-town Ohio where she grew up & a sophisticated Manhattan to which she gravitated. If her Ohio novels are more melancholy & compassionate, her exuberant & incisive Manhattan novels sparkle w/ a cast of writers, show people, businessmen & hustling hangers-on. All show rich characterization & a flair for the gist of complex social situations. A playful satirist & unsentimental observer of failed hopes & misguided longings, Dawn Powell is a literary rediscovery of rare importance. The 2nd of two LOA volumes devoted to Powell, this opens w/ "My Home Is Far Away" (1944), a fictionalized memoir of Powell's difficult childhood. "The Locusts Have No King" (1948), The Wicked Pavilion (1954) & The Golden Spur (1962) are brilliant comedies that extend her dissection of the follies & longings of a sophisticated cast of characters. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "Wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland & has a more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh, the writer to whom she's most often compared." - Lisa Zeidner, NYT * ABOUT THE EDTIOR: Tim Page (editor of this volume) is the author of "Dawn Powell: A Biography" & editor of "The Diaries of Dawn Powell" & "The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell". He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1997, & is a culture critic at the Washington Post. * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: CLASSIC: SUPERB: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) Second Printing (c. 1998): NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showig $27.50 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue Brillianta silk-finish linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA-colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-blue LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Olin-Nyalite opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.78", 0.90 kg, 1252 pp. * CONTENTS: Democracy (1), Esther (185), Mont Saint Michel & Chartres (337), The Education of Henry Adams (715), Poems (1193); Chronology (1209), Note on the Texts (1217), Notes (1229) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This LOA volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful & original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil War to WW I. Here for the first time in a single volume, these works show the many forms (fiction, poetry, autobiography, philosophical & historical speculation) in which Adams gave expression to his vision of the meaning of the unsettling changes in American life & values. Each of the 2 novels, "Democracy" & "Esther", chooses a woman on whom to center the effects of social change. In "Democracy", Madeleine Lee, an emancipated & idealistic young widow, moves to Washington to learn the nature of political power & is disillusioned upon discovering the intrigues of rampant corruption. The free-thinking heroine in "Esther", caught in the warfare between science & religion, finds that she cannot surrender her moral independence, even to marry a clergyman. Adams, though a man of the modern world, remained in temperament a child of the 18th century, his political ideals shaped by his presidential ancestors, great-grandfather John Adams & grandfather John Quincy Adams. The failure of those ideals to withstand the challenges of an industrialized America drove him to seek refuge in the study of the medieval age of faith in France. Out of it came his skeptic's "Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres". Her presence dominates the book that followed: "Mont Saint Michel & Chartres". In evocative & sensitive prose Adams moves from the architecture, sculpture, & stained glass of Chartres to the religion, literature, politics, social order, & crusades of the 11th, 12th, & 13th centuries. Adams translates the poetry of courtly love & recounts the drama of Eleanor of Aquitaine's life & the timeless love of Abelard & Heloise. The narrative rises at the end to the brilliantly re-enacted drama of St. Thomas Aquinas' victory over the rival philosophers. If "Mont Saint Michel" portrayed a world unified by a common faith, "The Education of Henry Adams" portrayed a world irresistibly moving toward chaos. The world once unified by the Virgin was now ruled by the impersonal Dynamo & already confronted by the "metaphysical bomb" of radium & the prospect of infinite energy for man's use. Adams balances, w/ extraordinary urbanity & wit, the rival claims he found as much in himself as in modern civilization. Together, these 2 works still pose an urgent question: Can the human mind ultimately control the monstrous aggregates of power which it has wrung from nature? * ERNEST SAMUELS (1903-1996), volume editor, was emeritus professor of English at Northwestern University & author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 3 vol. biography of Henry Adams. JAYNE N. SAMULES, co-editor, was an assistant editor of the Letters of Henry Adams. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts, & restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1987) Fourth Printing (c. 2012), NEW gloss-laminated unclipped jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing $40.00 publisher price printed at the bottom right of the front inside flyleaf, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta cloth-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine caps & tan silk page-marker ribbon, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, white-on brown LOA-pattermed front & back end-papers on heavy stock, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.52", 0.76 kg, 1168 pp. * CONTENTS: Sister Carrie (1), Jennie Gerhardt (457), Twelve Men (825); Chronology (1131), Note on the Texts (1159), Notes (1164) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Theodore Dreiser is arguably the most important figure in the development of American fiction in this century. According to H.L. Mencken, "American writing before & after his time, differed almost as much as biology before & after Darwin." "Dreiser's great first novel 'Sister Carrie' came to housebound & airless America like a great, free Western wind, & to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain & Walt Whitman," Sinclair Lewis declared in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1930. Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old small-town girl drawn to bustling Chicago, becomes the passionless mistress of a good-humored traveling salesman & then of an infatuated saloon manager Hurstwood who leaves his family & elopes w/ her to New York. Dreiser's brilliant, panoramic rendering of the two cities' fashionable theaters & restaurants, luxurious hotels & houses of commerce, alongside their unemployment, labor violence, homelessness, degradation & despair makes this the 1st American novel on a grand scale. In a 1911 review, H.L. Mencken wrote, "'Jennie Gerhardt' is the best American novel I have ever read, w/ the lonesome but Himalayan exception of 'Huckleberry Finn.' It has no more moral than a string quartet or the first book of Euclid." Beautiful, vital & generous, but morally naive & unconscious of social conventions, Jennie emerges superior to the succession of men who exploit her. There are no villains in the novel; in Dreiser's view, everyone is victimized by the desires the world excites but can never satisfy. Dreiser's embracing compassion is felt in "Twelve Men" (1919), a collection of portraits of men he knew & admired. They range from "My Brother Paul" (Paul Dresser, vaudeville musical comedian & composer of "On the Banks of the Wabash" & "My Gal Sal") to "Culhane, the Solid Man," a sanatorium owner & former wrestler. Dreiser recalls these anomalous individuals & the twists of fate that shaped their lives without sentiment but w/ honest emotion & respect for the bleak & unvarnished truth. * The LIBRARY of AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. MONUMENTAL: A TREASURE: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) First Printing, EXCELLENT LOA slipcase, NEW sand-tan silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ tan silk page-marker ribbon, NEW white-on-brown LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Olin Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 2.06", 1.02 kg, x+1620 (1630) pp. * CONTENTS: Count Frontenac & New France under Louis XIV (1), A Half-Century of Conflict (329), Montcalm & Wolfe (829); Chronology (1505), Note on the Texts (1511), Notes (1514), Index (1517) * This is the 2nd of 2 vols. which together incorporate all 7 titles of Francis Parkman's monumental account of France & England's imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Parkman conceived the project in 1841, when he was a Harvard sophomore, & persisted in it despite chronic nervous disorders that affected his eyes. The last volume of what he called his "history of the American forest" appeared almost 30 years after the 1st. Deservedly compared as a literary achievement to Gibbon's "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire", Parkman's accomplishment is hardly less awesome than the explorations & adventures he so vividly describes. His own indomitable spirit is reflected in 2 of the history's most fiercely resolute figures: La Salle, obsessed with colonizing the Mississippi Valley, & Frontenac, determined to bolster France's tottering position in the New World. Here for the 1st time Parkman's massive complete epic appears in a compact form. It tells a story of great empires maneuvering in an unfamiliar & hostile terrain w/ all the guile, sophistication & ingenuity learned from centuries of European rivalry. "Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV" tells how France might have won her imperial struggle w/ England. Frontenac, a courtier made governor of New France by that most sagacious of monarchs, oversaw the colony's brightest era of growth & influence. Had Canada's later governors possessed his administrative skill & personal force, his sense of diplomacy & political talent, or his grasp of the uses of power in a modern world, the English colonies to the south might have become part of what Frontenac saw as a continental scheme of French dominion. England's American colonies flourished, while France, in both the Old World & the New, declined from its late 17th century greatness. Conflict over the developing western regions of North America erupted in a series of colonial wars. As narrated by Parkman in "A Half-Century of Conflict", these American campaigns, while only part of a larger, global struggle, prepared the Colonies for the American Revolution. In "Montcalm & Wolfe" Parkman describes the fatal confrontation of the 2 great French & English commanders whose climactic battle marked the end of French power in America. As the English Colonies cooperated for their own defense, they began to realize their common interests, their relative strength, & their unique position; & in this imperial war of European powers we begin to see American figures (Benjamin Franklin, George Washington) soon to occupy a historical stage of their own. Parkman's chronicle, concluding on the Plains of Abraham after nearly 250 years of conflict, will permanently transform our image of the American landscape. Written w/ verve, suppleness & wit, this grand narrative history of political & theological conflict, of feats of physical endurance, of courtly manners practiced w/ comic disproportion against the backdrop of a looming wilderness, is a treasure of our national & of world literature. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: CLASSIC: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1989) First Printing (?) Uncertain & unverifiable because we wish to maintain the orig. pub. shrink-wrap, EXCELLENT NEW cream paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double gilt-rule-bordered front panel displaying gilt-stamped LOA logo at top center, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE handsome white-on-tan LOA-patterned end-papers on heavy stock, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & silk tan page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron-Galliard on SUPERB unblemished Olin-Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.62", 0.82 kg, 1296 pp. Slipcase: 5.36 x 8.54" x 1.74", 0.92 kg, 1296 pp. * CONTENTS: Henry James: Novels 1886-1890: The Princess Casamassima (1), The Reverberator (555), The Tragic Muse (701); Chronology (1257), Note on the Texts (1273), Notes (1281) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This fine offering of 3 novels from James' brilliant "middle period" explores historical & social dilemmas as relevant to his time as to today's, in London, Paris, Venice, beauty, wealth, sexual passions & betrayals, secrets within families, the conflicts between art & politics, & much more. * HENRY JAMES (1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., & brother of eminent psychologist & philosopher William James. He spent his early life in America & studied in Geneva, London & Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law School, & in 1864 began to contribute both criticism & tales to magazines. In 1869, & then in 1872-74, he paid visits to Europe & began his first novel, "Roderick Hudson". Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, & Zola, & wrote "The American" (1877). In December 1876 he moved to London, where 2 years later he achieved international fame w/ "Daisy Miller". Other famous works include "Washington Square" (1880), "The Portrait of a Lady" (1881), "The Princess Casamassima" (1886), "The Aspern Papers" (1888), "The Turn of the Screw" (1898) & 3 large novels of the new century, "The Wings of the Dove" (1902), "The Ambassadors" (1903) & "The Golden Bowl" (1904). In 1905 he revisited the United States & wrote "The American Scene" (1907). * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal below-cost additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: AUTHORITATIVE: SUPERB: AS-NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1982) Printing Unstated (Assumed First), NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $25.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW maroon Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-maroon LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished Olin Nyallite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.84", 0.92 kg, 1493 pp * CONTENTS: Tales & Sketches (1), A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys (1159), Tanglewood Tales for Girls & Boys (1303), Chronology (1471), Note on the Texts (1477), Notes (1483) * ABOUT THE BOOK: 'Tales & Sketches' offers what no reader has ever been able to find: an authoritative edition of Hawthorne's complete stories in a single comprehensive volume. Here is everything for his three collections: 'Twice-Told Tales', 'Mosses from an Old Manse', 'The Snow-Image, & Other Twice Told Tales', & 16 uncollected stories. The unique arrangement by order of publication charts Hawthorne's evolution into one of the most powerful & experimental writers of American fiction. From familiar but always surprising works like "Young Goodman Brown," to masterly fables like "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," to lesser-known gems like "The Wives of the Dead", these haunting stories of love & guilt, of duty & license, of the fateful ties of family & nation, show why Hawthorne is a great artist, & an astonishingly contemporary one. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: Roy Harvey Pearce is emeritus professor of American literature at the University of California at San Diego. He has published extensively on 19th-century American literature & intellectual history & served on the editorial board of the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ Domestic USPS PRIORITY MAIL available for a nominal additional fee & shipment of all international orders via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: VIVID: SHOCKING: TRAILBLAZING: EPIC: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1986) First Printing, EXCELLENT virtually AS-NEW LOA SLIPCASE w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & double-gilt-rule borders on front panel w/ LOA logo gilt-stamped at center-top, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW rust-crimson silk-finish Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE white-on-purple LOA patterned card-stock end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyallite archival paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.52", 0.78 kg., 1232 pp / Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.48" x1.64", 0.90 kg * CONTENTS: Vandover & the Brute (1), McTeague (261), The Octopus (573), Essays (1099); Chronology (1211), Note on the Texts (1217), Notes (1223) * ABOUT THE BOOK: In his brief career (he died at 32), Frank Norris introduced fresh & sometimes shocking elements into American fiction. Inspired by the naturalistic "new novel" developed in France by Zola & Flaubert, he adapted it to American settings, adding his own taste for exciting action & a fascination w/ the emerging sciences of economics & psychology. Vandover & the brute, set in a vividly described San Francisco, captures w/ harsh realism the dissipation & decline of a fashionable playboy into virtual bestiality. McTeague (source for Erich von Stroheim's classic film Greed) was a radical departure for its time in its frank treatment of sex, domestic violence & pathological obsession, revealing the dark underside of San Francisco's new middle class. The octopus depicts the epic struggle of strong, ruthless California ranchers w/ the railroad monopoly & its political machine. Twenty-two essays address theories of literature, the state of American fiction, & the social responsibilities of the artist. The New York Times said, "An opportunity to read, or re-read, in an authentic new edition, the work of one of the trailblazers in American literature." * The selection of essays presents: Theory and reality, Zola as a romantic writer, The "English Courses" of the University of California, An opening for novelists, Fiction is selection, Perverted tales, Frank Norris' weekly letter (June 22, 1901), Frank Norris' weekly letter (August 3, 1901), Frank Norris' weekly letter (August 24, 1901), The true reward of the novelist, Novelists of the future, The need of a literary conscience, The mechanics of fiction, A plea for romantic fiction, Fiction writing as a business, "The literature of the West", The great American novelist, The frontier gone at last, Story-tellers vs. novelists, The novel with a "purpose", A neglected epic, & The responsibilities of the novelist * LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: CLASSIC: FUNDAMENTAL: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (2001) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ double-ruled gilt borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel & sharp new edges & corners, NEW British-green rayon-weave silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA-colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & emerald silk page-marker ribbon bound-in from top, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyallite archival paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.36", 0.71 kg, 1108 pp. With slipcase: 5.30" x 8.48" x 1.54", 0.81 kg * CONTENTS: Hamilton: Writings (1); Appendices (1027), Chronology (1035), Note on the Texts (1052), Notes (1056), Index (1090) * ABOUT THE BOOK: One of the most vivid, influential & controversial figures of the American founding, Alexander Hamilton was an unusually prolific & vigorous writer. As a military aide to George Washington, forceful critic of the Articles of Confederation, persuasive proponent of ratification of the Constitution, first Secretary of the Treasury, & leader of the Federalist party, Hamilton devoted himself to the creation of a militarily & economically powerful American nation guided by a strong republican government. His public & private writings demonstrate the perceptive intelligence, confident advocacy, driving ambition & profound concern for honor & reputation that contributed both to his rise to fame & to his tragic early death. Arranged chronologically, "Writings" contains more than 170 letters, speeches, essays, reports, & memoranda written between 1769 & 1804. Included are all 51 of Hamilton's contributions to "The Federalist", as well as subsequent writing calling for a broad construction of federal power under the Constitution; his famous speech to the Constitutional Convention, which gave rise to accusations that he favored monarchy; early writings supporting the Revolutionary cause & a stronger central government; his visionary reports as Treasury secretary on the public credit, a national bank, & the encouragement of American manufactures; a detailed confession of adultery made by Hamilton in order to defend himself against charges of official misconduct; & his self-destructive attack on John Adams during the 1800 campaign. An extensive selection of private letters illuminates Hamilton's complex relationship w/ George Washington, his deep affection for his wife & children, his mounting fears during the 1790s regarding the Jeffersonian opposition & the French Revolution, & his profound distrust of Aaron Burr. Included in an appendix are conflicting eyewitness accounts of the Hamilton-Burr duel. * ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1757-1804) was born in the West Indies & served during the War of Independence as a captain. His military brilliance was recognized, & he was sent on several important military commissions. He was George Washington's secretary & aide-de-camp & in 1787 become a Member of the Constitutional Convention. From 1789 to 1795 he was the first Secretary of the Treasury, & in 1801 he held the casting vote against Burr & for Jefferson. He fought a duel w/ Burr & died the next day. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. GREATNESS !!! FUNDAMENTAL: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (Orig.1988) First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW British-green Brillianta silk-finish rayon-weave fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.48", 0.72 kg, 1092 pp * CONTENTS: Complete Plays 1920-31: Diff'rent (1), The First Man (55), The Hairy Ape (119), The Fountain (165), Welded (233), All Got's Chillun Got Wings (277), Desire Under the Elms (317), Marco Millions (379), The Great God Brown (469), Lazarus Laughed (537), Strange Interlude (629), Dynamo (819), Mourning becomes Electra (887); Chronology (1055), Note on the Texts (1077), Notes (1083) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) is one of the most significant forces in the history of American theater. With no uniquely American tradition to guide him, O'Neill introduced various dramatic techniques, which subsequently became staples of the U.S. theater. By 1914 he had written 12 one-act and 2 long plays. Of this early work, only "Thirst and Other One-act plays" (1914) was originally published. From this point on, O'Neill's work falls roughly into 3 phases: the early plays, written from 1914 to 1921 ("The Long Voyage Home", "The Moon of the Caribbees", "Beyond the Horizon", "Anna Christie"); a variety of full-length plays for Broadway ("Desire Under the Elms"; "Great God Brown"; "Ah, Wilderness!"); & the last, great plays, written between 1938 & his death ( "The Iceman Cometh", "Long Day's Journey Into Night", "A Moon for the Misbegotten"). Eugene O'Neill is a 4-time Pulitzer Prize winner, & he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1936. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2001) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ double-ruled gilt borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel & sharp new edges & corners, NEW British-green rayon-weave silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA-colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & emerald silk page-marker ribbon bound-in from top, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.24", 0.67 kg, 1068 pp. With slipcase: 5.46" x 8.50" x 1.42", 0.77 kg * CONTENTS: Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night (1), Come Back to Sorrento (205), Turn, Magic Wheel (371), Angels on Toast (557), & A Time to Be Born (767); Chronology (1045), Note on the Texts (1057), Notes (1061) * ABOUT THE BOOK: American literature has known few writers capable of the comic élan & full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been a rediscovery of the novelist who was such a vital presence in literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1960s, the writer whom Gore Vidal has called "our best comic novelist" & whom Edmund Wilson considered to be "on a level w/ Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh & Muriel Spark." LOA has again made available in an excellent 2-vol. edition the best of Powell's quirky, often hilarious, sometimes deeply moving fiction. Dawn Powell (a vital part of literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s through the 1960s) was the tirelessly observant chronicler of 2 very different worlds: small-town Ohio where she grew up & sophisticated Manhattan to which she gravitated. If her Ohio novels are more melancholy & compassionate, her exuberant & incisive Manhattan novels sparkle w/ a cast of writers, show people, businessmen & hustling hangers-on, all w/ rich characterization & flair for the gist of complex social situations. A playful satirist & unsentimental observer of failed hopes & misguided longings, Dawn Powell is a literary rediscovery of rare importance. The first of the two volumes published by LOA, this volume contains "Dance Night" (1930), Powell's own favorite among her works; "Come Back to Sorrento" (1932), originally published as "The Tenth Moon", a compelling study of frustrated aspirations; "Turn, Magic, Wheel" (1936), a whirlwind tour of Manhattan's literary life; "Angels on Toast" (1940), whose farcical pace recalls screwball comedy; and "A Time To Be Born" (1942), with its evocation of wartime mass media. * "Wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland & has a more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh, the writer to whom she's most often compared." - Lisa Zeidner, NYT * Tim Page (editor of this volume) is the author of "Dawn Powell: A Biography" & editor of "The Diaries of Dawn Powell" & "The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell". He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1997, and is a culture critic at the Washington Post. * The Library of America is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost charge & via USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international destinations.