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American Poetry, The Nineteenth Century (Volumes One & Two); I: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman; II: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney
Hollander, John (editor) selected the contents and wrote the notes for both volumes I & II.
Language: English
Published by Library of America, New York, New York 1993
Series: American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Book 1 of 2. Book 1 of 2 - American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent Slipcase. 1st Edition. A TREASURE: LABOR OF LOVE: COMPREHENSIVE: AUTHORITATIVE: UNPRECEDENTED: ENRICHING: SPLENDID: FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition two-volume hardcover boxed set (Orig. 1993) First Printings, EXCELLENT LOA box showing the slightest signs of wear w/… sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, AS-NEW blue Brillianta linen-over-boards covers w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & LOA-logo & titles gold-stamped on uncreased spines, EXCELLENT mylar-protected jackets w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners BUT w/ c. 1.0" long open tear from top spine-cap of the jacket of Vol. I, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exteriors, AS-NEW Smyth-sewn bindings w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interiors handsomely printed on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta-Nyalite archival paper * Both volumes: 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.50"; Volume I: 0.74 kg, 1099 pp; Volume II: 0.70 kg, 1050 pp; 2-vol. set w/ slipcase: 1.66 kg, 2149 pp. * ABOUT THE TWO-VOUME SET: From the lyrics of Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson to folk ballads & moving spirituals, one of our greatest cultural legacies is the distinctly American poetry that arose in the 19th-century United States. Embracing over 1,000 poems by nearly 150 poets, 'American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century' reveals for the first time the full beauty & diversity of that tradition. UNPRECEDENTED in its COMPREHENSIVE sweep & in its textual AUTHORITY, this two volume anthology reassesses & restores America's poetic heritage. The century's greatest poets are here presented in generous selections: Dickinson, Poe, Emerson, Melville, & Whitman. Alongside these are the currently undervalued achievements of Whitter, Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, & Holmes, as well as poems only now finding full recognition: mystical sonnets by Jones Very, the Romantic fantasies of Maria Gowen Brooks, the exquisite fin de siecle verse of Trumbull Stickney. Special features include American Indian poetry in 19th-centuery versions, & a rich gathering of anonymous folk songs, ballads, & hymns whose lyrics echo in our American language more than a century later. * 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. Created w/ support form the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, and hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is dedicated to restoring & preserving America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine two-volume boxed set for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & to international destinations via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL at our posted rates.
Language: English
Published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1969
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Corner and edge-wear, clean solid copy. Contains 5 poems by Leonard Cohen, also work by Avi Boxer et al. Harold Town (illustrator).
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Jack London: Novels & Stories: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Selected Klondike Short Stories, The Sea-Wolf, Selected Short Stories
London, Jack; Donald Pizar (editor) wrote the notes & selected the contents for this volume.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: THRILLING: AS-NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (orig. 1982) Second Printing, AS-NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW rayon-weave British-green Brillianta silk-finish fabric-over-boards cove…r w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMMACULATE white-on-green LOA patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Olin Nyallite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.28", 0.66 kg, 1021 pp * CONTENTS: The Call of the Wild (1), White Fang (87), Selected Klondike Short Stories (285), The Sea-Wolf (479), Selected Short Stories (773), Chronology (991), Note on the Texts (995), Historical & Geographical Note (1001), Maps (1005), Notes (1008) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence: these are the qualities that made Jack London phenomenally popular in his own day & continue to make him, both at home & abroad, among the most widely-read of American authors. 'The Call of the Wild', perhaps the best novel ever written about animals, traces a dog's education for survival in the ways of the wolf pack. 'White Fang', in which a wolf-dog becomes domesticated out of love for a man, is an unforgettable portrayal of a world of "hunting & being hunted, eating & being eaten, all in blindness & confusion." In 'The Sea Wolf', the primitive takes human form in the ruthless, indomitable Wolf Larsen, captain of a crew of outcasts on the lawless Alaskan seas. Set in the Klondike, California, Mexico, & the South Seas, the short stories collected here (many for the first time) reveals London as one of America's greatest storytellers. * ABOUT LIBRARY OF AMERICA: 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.
Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays: Volume 2: 1891-1910
Twain, Mark; Louis J. Budd selected the contents & wrote the notes for this volume.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1992) First Printing, NEW LOA jacket w/ sharp new edges & corners & showing $35.00 orig. pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sh…arp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ blue silk ribbon page-marker bound-in from top, NEW white-on-blue LOA-logo-patterned card-stock front & back end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed w/ remarkable clarity in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42, 0.70 kg, 1050 pp. * CONTENTS: Selections presented year-by-year (1-938); Appendix: More Maxims of Mark (939), Chronology (949), Note on the Texts (998), Notes (1016), Index of Titles (1049) * ABOUT THE BOOK: A collection of Twain's writings from his later years includes first-rate pieces that should be better known, as well as previously uncollected works that reflect the inner workings of one of the keenest minds in American history. * Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, & died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person & in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at 12 when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, & Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, & publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, & sentimental, & also pessimistic, cynical, & tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called "the Lincoln of our literature." * TheIBRARY 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 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.
Row. Introduction by Denise Carty, St. Thomas, Caribbean
Pierre, Anthony Leonard; aka Jah Tony. Dorothea Taylor-Palmer, cover artist. Walter L. Bishop III, contents illustrator
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Paperback. 176p., experimental typography, many line illustrations, softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch color-decorated wraps. Roughly handled with corner-tip creasings and edgewear, leading edge is contact-stained from being packed next a leather-bound book, but completely free of underlinings or ownerships, a fair copy that is complete…and readable. Jah Tony was born in Jamaica, immigrated to New York, moved to Madison.
Language: English
Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons 1993
Series: Sean Dillon, Book 2 of 22. Book 2 of 22 - Sean Dillon
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Book Club Edition. Some water damage on bottom left corner of book; No rips or tears; 1945. Thunder Point opens at the Fuhrer Bunker in Berlin, the day before Adolf Hitler's suicide. The Fuhrer arranges for Reichsleiter Martin Bormann to flee Germany by air to… Norway, where a German U-boat waits to take him to South America. 1992. Sean Dillon, the elusive terrorist from Eye of the Storm, is facing a firing squad in war-torn Yugoslavia. He is saved at the last minute by his old nemesis, Brigadier Charles Ferguson- head of Group Four, the British prime minister's personal action unit. In exchange for his salvation, Dillon must take on a Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. lack job" for Ferguson in the Caribbean. The wreck of the German U-boat has been discovered at Thunder Point, off St. John in the American Virgin Islands. In the U-boat is a diary kept by the captain, as well as the contents of the watertight briefcase (illustrator).
Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, & Essays: The Conjure Woman; The Wife of His Youth & Other Stories of the Color Line; The House Beyond the Cedars; The Marrow of Tradition; Uncollected Stories; Essays (Library of America No. 131)
Chesnutt, Charles W.; Werner Sollors selected the contents & wrote the notes for this volume
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent New Slipcase. 1st Edition. PIONEERING: INNOVATIVE: HONEST: POWERFUL: HARSH: BITTER: SEERING: NEW Library of America hardcover, First Edition (Orig. 1985) First Printing, NEW cream-white LOA slipcase w/ LOA logo gilt stamped at top center of double-gilt-bordered front pa…nel w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green Library of America patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyallite archival paper * 5.24" x 8.12" x 1.62", 0.60 kg, x+940 (950) pp / w/ Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.36" x 2.12", 0.70 kg * CONTENTS: Stories, Novels, & Essays: The Conjure Woman (1); The Wife of His Youth & Other Stories of the Color Line (97); The House Beyond the Cedars (267); The Marrow of Tradition (463); Uncollected Stories (721); Essays (837); Chronology (915), Note on the Texts (924), Notes (929) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Before Langston Hughes & Zora Neale Hurston, before James Weldon Johnson & Nella Larsen, Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature w/ searching explorations of the meaning of race & innovative use of African-American speech & folklore. Rejecting genteel Victorian hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, & "passing", Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of Jim Crow w/ novels & stories of formal clarity: creating, in the process, the modern African American novel. Here is the best of Chesnutt's work in the largest & most comprehensive edition ever published, presenting for the first time the full range of his achievement as a writer & social critic. "The Conjure Woman" (1899) introduced Chesnutt to the public as a writer of "conjure" tales, stories that explore black folklore & supernaturalism. That same year, he published "The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line", stories set in Chesnutt's native North Carolina that dramatize the legacies of slavery & Reconstruction at the turn of the century. His first novel, "The House Behind the Cedars" (1900) tells, as no previous novel ever had, of racial passing. "The Marrow of Tradition" (1901), Chesnutt's masterpiece, is a powerful & bitter novel about the harsh reassertion of white dominance in a southern town at the end of the Reconstruction era, based largely on the Wilmington race riot. Nine uncollected short stories, including conjure tales omitted from "The Conjure Woman", round out a selection of the author's fiction. Eight essays highlight Chesnutt's prescient views on the paradoxes of race relations in America & the definition of race itself. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: WERNER SOLLORS teaches Afro-American Studies & English at Harvard University. His most recent book is "Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature". * ABOUT LIBRARY OF AMERICA: Library of America is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, & keeping permanently in print, America's best & most significant writing. The LOA series includes hundreds of volumes, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, & ribbon markers, & are printed on premium acid-free archival paper that will last for centuries. * 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.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Large Size Book, 1st Printing.He's Hollywood's most dazzling star, whose flawless countenance inspires the worship of millions and fires the hatred of one twisted soul. His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series of terrifying, enigmatic "messages"… breaches the exquisitely calibrated security systems of his legendary Bel Air estate. The boxes arrive mysteriously, one by one, at Channing Manheim's fortified compound. The threat implicit in their bizarre, disturbing contents seems to escalate with each new delivery. Manheim's security chief, ex-cop Ethan Truman, is used to looking beneath the surface of things. But until he entered the orbit of a Hollywood icon, he had no idea just how slippery reality could be. Now this good man is all that stands in the way of an insidious killer-and forces that eclipse the most fevered fantasies of a city where dreams and nightmares are the stuff of daily life. As a seemingly endless and ominous rain falls over southern California, Ethan will test the limits of perception and endurance in a world where the truth is as thin as celluloid and answers can be found only in the illusory intersection of shadow and light. Enter a world of marvelous invention, enchantment, and implacable intent, populated by murderous actors and the walking dead, hit men and heroes, long-buried dreams and never-dying hope. Here a magnificent mansion is presided over by a Scottish force of nature known as Mrs. McBee, before whom all men tremble. A mad French chef concocts feasts for the mighty and the malicious. Ming du Lac, spiritual adviser to the stars, has a direct line to the dead. An aptly named cop called Hazard will become Ethan's ally, an anarchist will sow discord and despair, and a young boy named Fric, imprisoned by celebrity and loneliness, will hear a voice telling him of the approach of something unimaginably evil. Traversing this extraordinary landscape, Ethan will face the secrets of his own tragic past and the unmistakable premonition of his impending violent death as he races against time to solve the macabre riddles of a modern-day beast. A riveting tour de force of suspense, mystery, and miraculous revelation, The Face is that rare novel that entertains, provokes, and uplifts at the same time. It will make you laugh. It will give you chills. It will fill you with hope. essages" breaches the exquisitely calibrated security systems of his legendary Bel Air estate. The boxes arrive mysteriously, one by one, at Channing Manheim's fortified compound. The threat implicit in their bizarre, disturbing contents seems to escalat (illustrator).
Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three Lives, Portraits & Other Short Works, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Stein, Gertrude: Catharine R. Stimpson & Harriet Chessman selected the contents & wrote the notes for this volume
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent New Slipcase. 1st Edition. RADICAL: INNOVATIVE: BRILLIANT: SUPERB: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1998) First Printing, NEW cream laminate-paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double gilt-rule-bordered front panel displaying gilt-stamped LOA-logo at top center, NEW si…lk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive 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 acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.26", 0.62 kg, 941 pp. Slip-case: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.30", 0.71 kg * CONTENTS: Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932: Q.E.D. (1), Three Lives (65), Portraits & Other Short Works (275), The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (653); Chronology (917), Note on the Texts (928), Notes (935) * ABOUT THE BOOK: The most radical innovator in 20th-century literature, Gertrude Stein proposed nothing less than a reinvention of language from the ground up. Covering the first 30 years of the 4 decade-long expanse of her literary production, this is the first volume of a superb Library of America 2-volume edition which presents a full-scale gathering of Stein's achievements. Breaking decisively w/ all previous literary traditions & grammatical norms, Gertrude Stein forged a unique idiom (abstract & down-to-earth, playful & subversive, philosophical & erotic by turns) which influenced writers as varied as Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Thornton Wilder, & John Ashbery. This LOA volume, along w/ its companion, surveys a literary trajectory that from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of World War II marked her as a fearless & uncompromising experimenter. She was also a master of anecdote & aphorism, many of whose phrases (from "rose is a rose is a rose" to "there is no there there" & "when this you see remember me") have passed into the language. This first volume, containing works written between 1903 & 1932, takes Stein from her first, more traditional fictional works to the exuberant & astonishing experiments of the early Paris years. She was a devoted student of William James, w/ whom she studied psychology at Radcliffe in the 1890s, & took an early interest in memory & the function of repetition in human character. In her early works, she sought a new kind of realism exemplified here by "Q.E.D." (written 1903, published posthumously), a novel about lesbian entanglements at college, & the modern classic "Three Lives" (1909), a set of novellas about the lives of 3 ordinary women, described in the simplest & most direct of prose. In her brilliant abstract "portraits" Stein uses an extraordinary array of verbal techniques to evoke those friends & collaborators (Matisse, Picasso, Apollinaire, Juan Gris, Satie, Mabel Dodge, Carl Van Vechten, Sherwood Anderson, Virgil Thomson) w/ whom she shared decades of revolutionary ferment in the arts. Her play "Four Saints in Three Acts" (1927), which became the basis for an opera by Virgil Thomson, is written for a freewheeling theater of the mind where everything becomes possible. In "Lifting Belly" & other works she joyously celebrates her lifelong relationship w/ Alice B. Toklas, one of the most famous domestic partnerships of that century. "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" (1933), Stein's oblique & playful memoir, became an immediate bestseller & sealed Stein's international celebrity. * 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).
Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957-1980
Williams, Tennessee; Mel Gussow & Kenneth Holdich selected the contents & wrote the notes for this volume
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New Slipcase. 1st Edition. AUTHORITATIVE: DARING: HONEST: RAW: INSIGHTFUL: POETIC: GENEROUS: UNCOMPROMISNG: REVOLUTIONARY: NEW LOA hardcover, First Edition (orig. 2000) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ gilt LOA logo at center & double-ruled gilt borders on front panel, NEW rus…t-crimson silk-finish Brillianta linen-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-purple LOA patterned end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite paper * 5.00" x 8.12" x 1.42", 0.63 kg, 999 pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.68", 0.72 kg * Chronology (963), Note on the Texts (982), Notes (991) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Exploring human passion w/ daring and unflinching honesty, Tennessee Williams forged a poetic theater of raw psychological insight that fused realism & expressionism. Now, in an authoritative 2-volume edition, LOA collects the plays that reveal a prophetic figure in American life & letters: a writer of generous sympathies & uncompromising frankness who reached wide audiences w/ plays that revolutionized the themes & styles of the modern theater. This 2nd volume traces Williams' career as it evolved in his adventurous & sometimes shocking later works, including "Orpheus Descending", "Suddenly Last Summer", & "Sweet Bird of Youth", plays that stirred controversy when first produced because of their concern w/ acts of horrific violence; the satiric marital comedy "Period of Adjustment"; "The Night of the Iguana", a moving drama set in Mexico that contains some of Williams' most lyric writing, & "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale", a re-imagining of the earlier "Summer & Smoke". "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore", w/ its use of Kabuki-like stylization, began a more experimental phase of Williams' writing, represented here by "Kingdom of Earth" (also known as "The Seven Descents of Myrtle"), "The Mutilated", "Small Craft Warnings", & "Out Cry". In late plays such as "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" & the autobiographical "Vieux Carré", Williams returned to many of his earlier themes & settings. This edition includes a newly researched chronology of Tennessee Williams' life, explanatory notes (including cast lists of many of the original productions), & an essay on the texts. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: MEL GUSSOW(1933-2005), who was a drama critic, a cultural writer at The NYT, & author of several books including "Edward Albee: A Singular Journey". KENNETH HOLDICH is professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans, editor since 1989 of the Tennessee Williams Journal, & the author of "In Old New Orleans". * 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).
ALDROVANDI ON CHICKENS: THE ORNITHOLOGY OF ULISSE ALDROVANDI (1600) VOLUME II, BOOK XIV
Aldrovandi, Ulisse (translated from the Latin with introduction, contents, and notes by L. R. Lind)
Published by University of Oklahoma Press (1963) 1st ed, Norman, OK 1963
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Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters
Bishop, Elizabeth: Robert Giroux & Lloyd Schwartz (Editors) selected the Contents & wrote the Notes for this Volume
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. ASTONISHING: INDISPENSABLE: RADIANT: TOUCHING: INTIMATE: INTELLIGENT: OBSERVANT: WRY: "OUR GREATEST NATIONAL TREASURE" NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2008) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $40.00… pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE patterned white-on-blue LOA card-stock end-papers, NEW binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free lightweight-opaque archival paper * Chronology (905), Biographical Notes (920), Note on the Texts (924), Notes (932), Index of Poem Titles & First Lines (961), Index (966) * 5.06" x 8.12" x 1.36", 0.66 kg, xviii+980 (998) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" & called her "our greatest national treasure". Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody else's". Long before a wider public was aware of Bishop's work, her fellow poets expressed astonished admiration of her formal rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, & sometimes eccentric flights of imagination. Today she is recognized as one of America's great poets of the 20th century. This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate & reticent, adventurous & perfectionist. It presents all the poetry that Elizabeth Bishop published in her lifetime, in such classic volumes as "North & South", "A Cold Spring", "Questions of Travel", & "Geography III". In addition it contains an extensive selection of unpublished poems & drafts of poems (several not previously collected), as well as all her published poetic translations, ranging from a chorus from Aristophanes' "The Birds" to versions of Brazilian sambas. "Poems, Prose, and Letters" also brings together most of her published prose writings, including stories; reminiscences; travel writing about the places (Nova Scotia, Florida, Brazil) that so profoundly marked her poetry; & literary essays & statements, including a number of pieces published here for the first time. The book is rounded out with a selection of Bishop's irresistibly engaging & self-revelatory letters. Of the 53 letters included here, written between 1933 & 1979, a considerable number are printed for the first time, & all are presented in their entirety. Their recipients include Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell, Anne Stevenson, May Swenson, & Carlos Drummond de Andrade * ABOUT THE EDITORS: ROBERT GIROUX was chairman of the editorial board of Farrar, Straus and Giroux & Elizabeth Bishop's longtime editor. He edited her "Collected Prose" (1984) & "One Art" (1994), her selected letters. LLOYD SCHWARTZ is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, classical music editor of The Boston Phoenix, & a regular reviewer for NPR's Fresh Air. In 1994 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His most recent poetry collection is "Cairo Traffic" * LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence
Rhodehamel, John H. (editor) selected the contents & wrote the notes for this volume
Language: English
Published by Library of America, New York 2001
Series: Library of America: The American Revolution Collection, Book 3 of 3. Book 3 of 3 - Library of America: The American Revolution Collection
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. PANORAMIC: DRAMATIC: INTIMATE: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2001) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $40.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW blue silk-finish rayon-weave Brill…ianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW Smythe-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & blue silk page-marker ribbon bound-in at top, IMPECCABLE white-on-blue LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Domtar Literary Opaque archival paper * 5.06" x 8.12" x 1.44", 0.78 kg, xviii+878 (896) pp * CONTENTS: Texts (1-800), Chronology (801), Biographical Notes (813), Note on the Texts (830), Notes (842), Index (859) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public declarations, contemporary narratives & private memoranda, "The American Revolution" brings together over 120 pieces by more than 70 participants (American & British, Patriot & Loyalist, military & civilian) to create a unique literary panorama of the War of Independence. Beginning w/ Paul Revere's ride in April 1775 & ending w/ George Washington's return to private life in December 1783, the volume presents authors both famous & obscure through their firsthand descriptions of the most dramatic events of the conflict from which a new nation was to emerge: the early battles of Lexington, Concord & Bunker Hill; the failed American invasion of Canada; the 1776 campaign in New York & New Jersey; the crucial battle of Saratoga; the cold & hunger of Valley Forge; the bitter fighting in the South & along the western frontier; the treachery of Benedict Arnold; & the final decisive triumph at Yorktown. Famous figures (Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, John & Abigail Adams) are here alongside lesser known participants like Samuel Blachley Webb describing courage & panic at Bunker Hill or Sarah Hodgkins writing longingly to her absent soldier husband. American Loyalists & British officers & officials serving in America provide provocative insights into the losing side of an epochal conflict. * 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 below cost additional fee & shipment of all international orders via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted rates.
Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays: Volume 2: 1891-1910
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: IMPECCABLE: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1992) First Printing, NEW LOA jacket w/ sharp new edges & corners & showing $35.00 orig. pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards… cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ blue silk ribbon page-marker bound-in from top, NEW white-on-blue LOA-logo-patterned card-stock front & back end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed w/ remarkable clarity in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42, 0.70 kg, 1050 pp. * CONTENTS: Selections presented year-by-year (1-938); Appendix: More Maxims of Mark (939), Chronology (949), Note on the Texts (998), Notes (1016), Index of Titles (1049) * ABOUT THE BOOK: A collection of Twain's writings from his later years includes first-rate pieces that should be better known, as well as previously uncollected works that reflect the inner workings of one of the keenest minds in American history. * ABOUT MARK TWAIN: MARK TWAIN was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, & died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person & in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at 12 when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, & Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, & publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, & sentimental, & also pessimistic, cynical, & tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called "the Lincoln of our literature." * TheIBRARY 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 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: CLASSIC: ASTONISHING: EXUBERANT: MEDITATIVE: INSPRING: AUTHORITATIVE: NEW LOA hardcover First Edition (Orig. 1997) First Printing, NEW impeccable LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW blue 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 distinctive white-on-blue LOA patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked banding at spine-caps w/ blue silk page-marking ribbon bound from the top, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyallite archival paper * CONTENTS: Poems, Plays, Essays, Uncollected Prose, Notebooks (excerpts), Journals & Letters; Chronology, Note on the Texts, Notes, Index of Poem Titles & First Lines * 5.0" x 8.18" x 1.28' * 0.70 kg, xxii+1034 (1056) pp / Splip-case: 5.36" x 8.48" x 1.52 * 0.76 kg * ABOUT THE BOOK: : "Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced." — Library Journal / Wallace Stevens's unique voice combined meditative speculation & what he called "the essential gaudiness of poetry" in a body of work of astonishing profusion & exuberance, poems that have remained an inspiration & influence for generations of poets & readers. Now, for the first time, the works of America's supreme poet of the imagination are collected in one authoritative Library of America volume. Here are all of Stevens' published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time w/ the haunting lyrics of his later years & early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo inventiveness of "Harmonium", his first volume (including such classics as "Sunday Morning" & "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"), through "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," "Esthétique du Mal," "The Auroras of Autumn," & the other large-scale masterpieces of his middle years, to the austere final poems of "The Rock," Stevens' poetry explores w/ unrelenting intensity the relation between the world & the human imagination, between nature as found & nature as invented, & the ways poetry mediates between them. The volume presents over 90 poems uncollected by Stevens, including early versions of often-discussed works like "The Comedian as the Letter C" & "Owl's Clover." Also here is the most comprehensive selection of Stevens' prose writings. "The Necessary Angel" (1951), his distinguished book of essays, joins nearly 50 shorter pieces, many previously uncollected: reviews, speeches, short stories, criticism, philosophical writings, & responses to the work of T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, & other poets. The often-dazzling aphorisms Stevens gathered over the years are included, as are his plays & selections from his poetic notebooks. Rounding out the volume is a 50-year span of journal entries & letters, newly edited from manuscript sources, which provide fascinating glimpses of Stevens' thoughts on poetry & the creative process. The volume also contains explanatory notes, a detailed chronology of Stevens' life, & an essay on textual selection. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, & keeping permanently in print, America's best & most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, & ribbon markers, & are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via efficient USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.
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The Library December 1966 Hans Fischer; Leba M Goldstein; J E Norton; Simon Nowell-Smith; Vinton A Dearing; G Thomas Tanselle; Jean Robertson; Bent Juel-Jensen; Trevor Fawcett. Contents include: Conrad Gessner 1516-1565 as Bibliographer and Encycopedist; The Pepys Ballads; The Post Office London Directory; The Printing of George Meredith's The Amazing Marriage; Some Routines for Textual Criticism; The Recording of Press Figures; Sidney and Bandello; Michael Drayton and William Drummond of Hawthornden - A Lost Autograph Letter Rediscovered;
R A Sayce (Editor) / Hans Fischer; Leba M Goldstein; J E Norton; Simon Nowell-Smith; Vinton A Dearing; G Thomas Tanselle; Jean Robertson; Bent Juel-Jensen; Trevor Fawcett. Contents include: Conrad Gessner 1516-1565 as Bibliographer and Encycopedist; The Pepys Ballads; The Post Office London Directory; The Printing of George Meredith's The Amazing Marriage; Some Routines for Textual Criticism; The Recording of Press Figures; Sidney and Bandello; Michael Drayton and William Drummond of Hawthornden - A Lost Autograph Letter Rediscovered;
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. Illustrated. Hans Fischer; Leba M Goldstein; J E Norton; Simon Nowell-Smith; Vinton A Dearing; G Thomas Tanselle; Jean Robertson; Bent Juel-Jensen; Trevor Fawcett. Contents include: Conrad Gessner 1516-1565 as Bibliographer and Encycopedist; The Pepys Ballads; The Post Office London Di…rectory; The Printing of George Meredith's The Amazing Marriage; Some Routines for Textual Criticism; The Recording of Press Figures; Sidney and Bandello; Michael Drayton and William Drummond of Hawthornden - A Lost Autograph Letter Rediscovered.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Copyright Date: 1928 Octavo, 1928-1930, PP.100,97, 294,94 Plus B & W Plates, Ex. Library Connecticut Audubon Society , Shaken But Repaired. The Flint No.47 Does Not Have a large 41 inch x 57 inch folding map, The index does not list a map In The Contents, but does list and has 42 Text Figures And sixt…y Seven B & W Plates the first of which REcorded striae. is missing; From Appearance of the b (illustrator).
The Harleian Miscellany, or a Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as Well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Political, and Critical Notes With
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Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings: The Dream Life of Balso Snell, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million, The Day of the Locust, Letters
West, Nathanael; Sacvan Bercovitch selected the contents & wrote the notes for this volume
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New Slipcase. 1st Edition. AUTHORITATIVE: BRILLIANT: ORIGINAL: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1998) First or Later Printing (under pub. orig. shrink-wrap): NEW cream laminate-paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double rule-borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel, NEW si…lk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-tan LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, 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 acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.50", 0.70 kg, 829 pp. Slip-case: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.62", 0.80 kg * CONTENTS: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1), Miss Lonelyhearts (55), A Cool Million (127), The Day of the Locust (239), Other Writings (393), Unpublished Writings & Fragments (411), Letters (769); Chronology (803), Note on the Texts (813), Notes (820) * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this volume LOA offers the most complete literary portrait ever published of Nathanael West. Along w/ the 4 novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gathers his work in other genres, including stories, poetry, essays & plays, film scripts & treatments, & letters. When West died in a California highway accident in 1940 at the age of 37, his originality & brilliance were little known outside an intensely admiring circle of fellow writers: William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, S. J. Perelman, & others. Not until West's 4 novels were reissued in the late 1950s was he acknowledged as one of the most gifted writers of his generation. His masterpieces "Miss Lonelyhearts" & "The Day of the Locust", w/ their blending of manic farce & despairing compassion, & their vision of an America awash in its own mass-produced fantasies, read like a prophecy of much that was to come in American literature & life. Each of West's novels is distinct in style & theme. In the Dada-inspired "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" (1931), he freely mixes high-flown literary & religious allusions w/ erotic & scatological humor. "Miss Lonelyhearts" (1933) presents, in a series of grotesque, starkly etched episodes, the spiritual breakdown of a newspaper columnist overwhelmed by his readers' suffering. By contrast, "A Cool Million" (1934) reduces the eternal optimism of Horatio Alger's novels to a brutal, cartoonish farce. In his last work, "The Day of the Locust" (1939), West renders w/ hallucinatory precision the reverse side of the Hollywood dream, as he choreographs a cast of failures, has-beens, & deluded glamour-seekers in what becomes an apocalyptic dance of death. Also included is a generous sampling of West's other surviving work, ranging from freewheeling improvisations & grotesque comic tales to more mainstream work written w/ Hollywood or Broadway in mind, & including his anti-war satire "Good Hunting" & his adaptation of Francis Ile's famous crime novel "Before the Fact". The uncollected West shows him as a writer who embodied the contradictions & crazy-quilt exuberance of American culture, & raises the question of how he might have developed had his career not been cut short. Selected correspondence w/ William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Malcolm Cowley, Bennett Cerf, & others rounds out the volume & sets West's literary life in fuller context. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: SACVAN BERCOVITCH (1933-2014) was the 2007 recipient of the Bode-Pearson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in American Studies, author of "The Puritan Origins of the American Self", & editor of the multi-volume Cambridge History of American 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 in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).
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