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Boston: David R. Godine, 2004. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 368 pages. Eagerly exchanging an existence of idle privilege and social intrigue for one of hard work and literary distinction, Origo led a life characterized by vitality and commitment. Born in 1902 into a wealthy American family, she and her British mother permanently left the… Ler mais sobre este item

Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 145 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 354102

NY: Columbia University Press, 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 194 pages. Index, map, biliographies, appendices. Clean copy. Record # 385917

NY: Harcourt, 2004. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 134 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HALL ON BOOKPLATE ON FRONT END PAPER. Gutter crack on page 132, otherwise tight copy. Newspaper clipping laid in. Record # 354057

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1959. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 334 pages. The editor has chosen excerpts from de Tocquville's 14 notebooks he kept on his visit to America 1831-32. The detailed notes were the raw material that became his classic Democracy In America. Many of these observations never made into the… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1931. 3rd Ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Five volumes complete, 594, 576, 543. 645 and 593 pages. Olive cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt.Couple hinges tender. Bright, clean set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Record # 403353

New York: Viking Press, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 598 pages, green cloth with silver lettering. Illustrated with color and b&w photographs, map on endpapers. The book is clean and square with a small bump/cloth wrinkle on bottom of front panel near spine. Dust jacket worn with chipping at edges, some larger chips to rear panel. Record… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 324 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. B&w photographs, spotless and tight copy. Record # 456447

Paris: Tchou, 1966. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 253 pages, b&w cartoon drawings by Copi. White cloth covers with black design. A collection of quotes from writers of the Surrealist movement in France. Long preface by Corvin. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR (HIS WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD) to Roger Shattuck, author and chronicler of the period.… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 191 pages, green cloth covers. A scarce study of the Caribbean writer which has been heavily annotated and underlined by Joyce Adler, the previous owner. Adler was a literary scholar and published two books on Harris herself. Record # 404508

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1972. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/None. 246 pages. Previous owner’s signature on front flyleaf. Light spotting to edges. Very minor rubbing to cover edges. A nice, clean copy. Record # 851850

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright price-clipped dust jacket. What WW2 in London was like through the eyes of the British witer. Clean copy. Record # 385636

Dublin NH: William L Bauhan, 2001. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 163 pages. An unconventional family idyll in pastoral Bucks County, Pennsylvania of the 1930’s is suddenly broken to pieces by the arrival of a band of writers led by poets Robert Graves and especially Laura Riding. Told from the perspective of her 12-year-old self, the author paints… Ler mais sobre este item

NY: New York University Press, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 200 pages. Joyce Cary long a popular author among discriminating readers, is gaining a wider audience for his novels every year. This critical study of his work considers the developing relationship between his matter and his manner. It especially emphasizes his… Ler mais sobre este item

NY: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 266 pages. Christian religion's influence on secular Victorian culture, especially literature. Clean copy. Record # 385721

Princeton University Press, 1956. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt and black title on spine, 353 pages. WITH THE AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION pasted to front fly leaf. Clean copy. Record # 385729

Meadville PA: The Chautauqua-Century Press, 1892. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. George Wharton Edwards. Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and white decorations on front cover, beveled edges, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece of King George I, and other b&w drawings and decorations by George Wharton Edwards. 211 pages, clean copy. Record # 385592

NY: Simon & Schuster. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, A sociological look at the influence of Shakespeare's Shylock on world mythology describes the character's creation and his evolution on the stage, and presents writing about him by Proust, James, T. S. Eliot, and others. Amazingly, Shylock is in only five scenes in… Ler mais sobre este item

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Foreword by Joseph Frank. Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this relationship by studying changes in narrative form… Ler mais sobre este item