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ESSENTIAL DONNE (THE ESSENTIAL POETS) .includes; SONGS, SATIRES, ELEGIES;ANNIVERSARIES, DIVINE POEMS sonnets, satires; elegy; relic,l sun rising; storm; prohibiition.more
DONNE, JOHN.;.CLAMPITT, AMY INTRODUCTION & EDITOR selected by.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Original ed. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid,bright; black & white titles on red & blue paper covers. ; 132 pages; "Sappho to Philaenis" "to his mistress going to bed (elegy). Illustrated by Portrait of Author Frontis (illustrator).
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Paperback. 228p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.
The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume I: The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale; The Last of the Mohicans, A Narrative of 1757; The Prairie, A Tale
Cooper, James Fenimore; Blake Nevius (editor) wrote the notes & selected the texts for this volume
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: VIVID: EPIC: AS-NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1985) First Printing: AS-NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $27.50 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, AS-NEW green silk-finish B…rillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, EXCELLENT smooth-cut text-block exterior marred ONLY by slightest rust-dust soiling on smooth-cut top edge, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Olin Nyallite archival paper * 5.24" x 8.12" x 1.62", 0.88 kg, 1347 pp. * CONTENTS: The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale (1); The Last of the Mohicans, A Narrative of 1757 (467); The Prairie, A Tale (879); Chronology (1319), Note on the Texts (1332), Notes (1338). * ABOUT THE BOOK: James Fenimore Cooper's epic of the American frontier follows the exploits of the scout Natty Bumpo, "Leatherstocking", from the French & Indian Wars to the early 19th century; here the five novels are gathered for the first time in two volumes in the order of their original publication. Leatherstocking first appears in "The Pioneers" as an aged hunter caught-up in the struggle to determine what kind of civilization will replace the vanishing wilderness. "The Last of the Mohicans" is a pure, unabashed adventure story, in which Natty & his Indian companions Chingachgook & Uncas attempt a daring rescue while the French threaten to invade the American colonies. In "The Prairie", Natty, in his 80s, is driven to refuge on the Great Plains, where Sioux, Pawnee, outlaw whites, & members of the Lewis & Clark expedition enact a fateful drama. A companion volume gathers "The Pathfinder" & "The Deerslayer". * 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.
Francis Parkman: France & England in North America, Volume II: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV, A Half-Century of Conflict, & Montcalm and Wolfe.
Parkman, Francis; David Levin (editor) wrote the notes & chronology & selected the texts for this volume.
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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 sew…n 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.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co, 1985
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Contemporary Indian Artists Montana Wyoming Idaho
Dorothy Jean, editor / selected by Myles Libhart and Ramon Gonya Ray
Language: English
Published by Tipi / Indian Arts and Crafts Board / of the U.S. Department of Interior, Washington DC, 1972
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good, illustrated soft cover catalog published in conjunction with exhibition, 80 pps, illus, bios and photos of artist's whose work is included in this exhibit. Cover shows shelf wear, light crease marks, age toned, interior pages without writing, tight.
Language: English
Published by Cleis Press, San Francisco, 2001
Series: Book 14 of 14 - Best Gay Erotica
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Paperback. xx, 212p., very good first edition, first printing stated trade paperback in pictorial wraps.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co, 1985
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Language: English
Published by Cleis Press, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA & San Francisco, CA, 1997
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 1st Edition. 194 pp. Stated first edition and first printing! Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Enid Farber (Cover Photo) (illustrator).
Count Basie (Jazz Masters Series)
Alun Morgan (Author & Selected Discography by); John Latimer Smith (Series Editor)
Language: English
Published by Spellmount Publishers Ltd./Hippocrene Books, Inc., Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK/New York, 1984
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Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Published in the UK: 1984. 94 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Occasional pencil underli…ning on text. No dust jacket. Peter Theodosiou (Cover Design) (illustrator).
Best Lesbian Erotica 1996
Heather Lewis (Selected and Introduced by); Tristan Taormino (Editor); Jane Perkins, Linda Smukler, Mona De Vestel, et al. (Authors)
Language: English
Published by Cleis Press, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA & San Francisco, CA, 1996
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 1st Edition. 197 pp. Book in essentially flawless condition with clean and crisp pages. Smooth cover. Very mild shelf wear. Stated first edition and first printing. Scott Idleman (Cover Design); Pete Ivey (Interior Design); Phyllis Christopher (Cover Photo) (illustrator).
Coleridge (Dell/Laurel)
G. Robert Stange (Selected and with an Introducion & Notes by); Richard Wilbur (General Editor)
Language: English
Published by A Dell Book/Published by Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1967
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Add to basketMass Market Paperback. Condition: Like New. 4th Printing March 1967. 159 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Moderate foxing around edges of pages. Richard Powers (Cover Drawing) (illustrator).
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman
Borowski, Tadeusz / introduction by Jan Knott / selected and translated by Barbara Vedder / general editor : Philip Roth / introduction translated by Michael Kandel
Published by Writers from the Other Europe, Penguin, 1980, 1980
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Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers
Contact seller5-star sellerAn excellent series guided by its general editor Philip Roth. Near fine pictorial stiff wraps with strong spine and the usual age toning.
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Seller: Nanny's Web, Caulfield South, VIC, AustraliaNanny's Web
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Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 96pp, 6 x 8 inches, ex-lib.
Language: English
Published by Cleis Press, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA & San Francisco, CA, 1997
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 1st Edition. 194 pp. Stated first edition and first printing! Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Enid Farber (Cover Photo) (illustrator).
Novels 1944-1962: My Home Is Far Away, The Locusts Have No King, The Wicked Pavilion, & The Golden Spur
Powell, Dawn; Tim Page (editor) wrote the Chronology & Notes & selected the Texts for this volume.
Language: English
Published by Library of America, New York, 2001
Series: Book 1 of 2 - Library of America Dawn Powell Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New Slipcase. 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-boa…rds 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).
Best Lesbian Erotica 1996
Heather Lewis (Selected and Introduced by); Tristan Taormino (Editor); Jane Perkins, Linda Smukler, Mona De Vestel, et al. (Authors)
Language: English
Published by Cleis Press, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA and San Francisco, CA, 1996
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 1st Edition. 197 pp. Book in essentially flawless condition with clean and crisp pages. Smooth cover. Very mild shelf wear. Stated first edition and first printing. Scott Idleman (Cover Design); Pete Ivey (Interior Design); Phyllis Christopher (Cover Photo) (illustrator).
Best Lesbian Erotica 1996
Heather Lewis (Selected and Introduced by); Tristan Taormino (Editor); Jane Perkins, Linda Smukler, Mona De Vestel, et al. (Authors)
Language: English
Published by Cleis Press, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA and San Francisco, CA, 1996
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 1st Edition. 197 pp. Book in essentially flawless condition with clean and crisp pages. Smooth cover. Very mild shelf wear. Stated first edition and first printing. Creased back cover. Scott Idleman (Cover Design); Pete Ivey (Interior Design); Phyllis Christopher (Cover Photo) (illustrator).
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co January 1985, 1985
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Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings: Madame De Treymes, Ethan Frome, Summer, Old New York, The Mother's Recompense, & A Backward Glance
Wharton, Edith; Cynthia Griffin Wolff (editor) wrote the notes & selected the texts for this volume
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SCINTILLATING: CLASSIC: FINE virtually AS-NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1990) First Printing, FINE unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners showing orig. $35.00 list price at bottom right inside front flyleaf, NE…W burgundy silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & Library of America colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior showing slightest shelf-dust soiling on top edge, IMPECCABLE white-on-burgundy Library of America patterned end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.24" x 8.12" x 1.48", 0.74 kg, 1137 pp. * CONTENTS: Madame De Treymes (1), Ethan Frome (61), Summer (157), Old New York (315), The Mother's Recompense (551), A Backward Glance (767), Appendix: Life & I (1069), Chronology (1097), Note on the Texts (1116), Notes (1123) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Collected here in one volume are 6 works that represent nearly a quarter century in the productive life of one of the most accomplished & admired of American writers. They explore the private worlds of our "Gilded Age." A once free-spirited American woman in Paris tries to extricate herself from her marriage to a French aristocrat in "Madame de Treymes." A divorced mother finds herself in a strange romantic triangle in "The Mother's Recompense." Repressed passions smolder in small town New England in the classic "Ethan Frome," a tale of unhappy marriage & desperate love which erupts in an act of shattering violence. In "Summer", which Wharton called "the Hot Ethan", she tells the story of a young women's initiation into the intricate sexual & social mores of a small town. Also included here are "Old New York," four linked novellas set in succeeding decades from the 1840s to the 1870s, Wharton's renowned autobiography "A Backward Glance," & "Life and I," a fascinating autobiographical fragment published here for the first time. * ABOUT The LIBRARY of AMERICA, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. * 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.
Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, and Other Writings
Cather, Willa; Sharon O'Brien (editor) wrote the Notes & selected the Texts for this volume
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New Slipcase. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1992) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE fro…nt & back tan-brown distinctively LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on superb Ecusta Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.24", 0.63 kg, x+1040 (1050) pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.48" x 1.50", 0.78 kg * CONTENTS: Texts (1-978); Alphabetical List of Titles & Authors Reviewed (979), Chronology (983), Note on the Texts (1003), Notes (1010) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Willa Cather, one of the great American novelists of the 20th century, also wrote some of America's best short fiction. From her haunting first story, "Peter," the tale of a Bohemian immigrant who brought his violin to the raw western frontier, to her posthumously published "The Best Years," the stories included here span the 50 years of Cather's writing life. In these tales of pioneers & farmers, artists & youthful lovers, immigrants & their striving children, she creates both a new, never-surpassed portrait of the land & people of the American West & a lively & contemporary picture of life in eastern cities. Many of her finest stories, among them "Coming, Aphrodite!" (a New York tale of passion & ambition) & the subtly constructed "Old Mrs. Harris," are unfamiliar to most readers. Her earliest, uncollected stories are steeped in memories of prairie childhood. "On the Divide," "The Enchanted Bluff," "Eric Hermannson's Soul," & others contain many of the themes of her later work, evoking the loneliness & hardship as well as the beauty & challenge of pioneer life "on the bright edges of the world." In the stories of "Youth and the Bright Medusa" (1920), which includes "The Sculptor's Funeral," "The Diamond Mine," & the well-known "Paul's Case," artists & other sensitive spirits struggle to preserve their integrity in a society ruled by convention & routine. "Obscure Destinies" (1932) presents 3 moving tales set in the western landscapes Cather loved. Her characters are endowed w/ some of the meditative solidity found in the portraits of Rembrandt, like the old farmer in "Neighbor Rosicky" who has only "one tap root that goes down deep." "The Old Beauty and Others" (1948), published shortly after Cather's death, includes "The Best Years," a Nebraska story that has a mournful charm unlike anything else she wrote. Cather's distinctive, lyrical prose can be found not only in her fiction but also in her "occasional" pieces: an appreciation of Sarah Orne Jewett, luminous reminiscences of Mrs. James Fields & her house in Boston, an account of meeting Flaubert's niece in Aix-les-Bains. Her critical essays, such as "The Novel Démeublé" & "On the Art of Fiction," which appear in "Not Under Forty" (1936), & her reviews of authors from Mark Twain to Frank Norris, as well as her appraisals of her own work, cast a discerning light on the creative role of the artist. This volume also contains Cather's first novella, "Alexander's Bridge" (1912), "My Mortal Enemy" (1926), a powerful novella in which a strong-willed woman brings about her own ruin, and Cather's only book of poetry, "April Twilights & Other Poems" (1933). * LIBRARY OF AMERICA, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving America's best and 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.
Plays By Webster & Ford -- Everyman's Library No 899.
John Webster and John Ford; G.B. Harrison (selected, introducted & editor)
Published by J.M.Dent & Sons / E.P. Dutton, London / New York, 1949
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Contact seller5-star sellerCloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint. 12mo in edgeworn, heavily chipped DJ with darkening, damp stains. Spine sun tanned. Flap not clipped. Light green cloth covered boards with spotting, dust stains & discoloration. Top textblock edge tinted reddish brown, though discolored & muddied from age. A previous… reader has affixed (upside down] a bookplate on the rear free end page. [336 pages].
Lester Young (Jazz Masters Series)
Dave Gelly (Author); Tony Middleton (Selected Discography by); John Latimer Smith (Series Editor)
Language: English
Published by Spellmount Publishers Ltd/Hippocrene Books, Inc., Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK & New York, 1984
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Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket/Not Issued. 1st Published in the UK in 1984 by Spell. 94 pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy with minimal external and overall wear and use. Copy with crisp and bright pages. Pencil underlining and marginalia throughout text. No dust jacket. Peter Theodosiou (Cover Desgin) (il…lustrator).
Typography now. The next Wave [English Edition]
Poynor, Rick, Edward Booth-Clibborn (Editor) - selected by Rick Poynor and why not associates :
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kart. Condition: Gut. 27,5 cm ; Großformmatige englischsprachige Paperbackausgabe, 223 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Gutes Exemplar (good Condirtion). hw1088 ISBN: 089134621X. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator).
Francis Parkman: France & England in North America, Volume II: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV, A Half-Century of Conflict, & Montcalm and Wolfe.
Parkman, Francis; David Levin (editor) wrote the notes & chronology & selected the texts for this volume.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent New Slipcase. 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-bloc…k 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.
Henry James: Novels 1886-1890: The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse
James, Henry; Daniel Mark Fogel (editor) prepared the Chronology, wrote the Notes & selected the Texts for this volume
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent New Slipcase. 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 fron…t 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.
Published by Playboy Press., USA., 1968
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Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, CanadaComic World
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Collected Edition, PBO thus.. ** [ CANADA BUYERS; This is a THICK BOOK (TWO CM or More in Thickness), thus can only be shipped by Expedited Mail in CANADA, Standard Pre-Set Postage Rates DO NOT APPLY, EXTRA Shipping Charges will be Required, to cover our actual Costs ] ** 603 pages… >> Cover scuffing & creasing; reading creasing to paper spine; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Photo Cover. (illustrator). Book.
Published by Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1956
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Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.Gibson's Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Book Club Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. DJ has tear on front cover ; Six complete novels and thirty-three stories. ; 504 pages. Illustrated by Martha Sawyers and William Reusswig (illustrator).
Published by Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1956
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Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.Gibson's Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Book Club Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. ; Six complete novels and thirty-three stories. ; 504 pages. Illustrated by Martha Sawyers and William Reusswig (illustrator).
Published by Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1956
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Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.Gibson's Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Book Club Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. ; 409 pages. Illustrated by Martha Sawyers and William Reusswig (illustrator).
