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American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman (The Library of America)

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Library of America: 1993

Seller ID: 2262955

ISBN: 0940450607

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Page ridges very faintly foxed. 1993 Hard Cover. xxiii, 1099 pp. In nineteenth-century America, poetry was part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. The two volumes of The Library of Americas American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveal the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These extraordinary anthologies reassess Americas poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. Extending chronol...
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The Chief's Daughter; or, The Settlers in Virginia (The New Series of Historical Tales Illustrating the Chief Events in Ecclesiastical History, British, American, and General, Number 3.)

By: N/A

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London, John Henry and James Parker: 1859

Seller ID: 2306597

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards soiled, rear joint starting, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, title page loose but included, hole along page edge of some pages. 1859 Small Hard Cover. 126 pp. 12mo. Colonial American fiction, featuring a frontispiece of Pocahontas saving the life of English settler John Smith. Sabin 12688.
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Pocahontas: A Historical Drama, in Five Acts; with an Introductory Essay and Notes

By: A Citizen of the West [Owen, Robert Dale]; [Mackay, Robert W. Stuart]

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New-York, George Dearborn: 1837

Seller ID: 2289646

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Boards a bit rubbed with minimal loss from spine head and foot, corners exposed, moderately foxed throughout, ink name on front endpaper and flyleaf. 1837 Hard Cover. Sabin 58021. Sabin gives both Owen and Mackay as possible authors, without providing rationale in support of either. Mackay is listed as the copyright holder on this copy. A historical drama focused on the life of Pocahontas, the Native American daughter of chief Powhatan famous for saving the life of John Smith. She later converted to Christianity and wed John Rolfe.
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To See You Again: Stories

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 2270618

ISBN: 0394523350

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 304 pp. Tells the stories of a woman distraught over the loss of her husband's diaries, a teachers's unexpected attraction towards a student, and an artist's reevaluation of her life and accomplishments.
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Return Trips: Stories

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1985

Seller ID: 2270620

ISBN: 0394536339

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Top edge and endpapers faintly foxed, jacket lightly toned with faint crease on front flap corner, spine cloth a bit discolored along edges. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 195 pp. The author writes in these stories of people in motion, traveling in search of friends, culture, renewed engagement with life--people seeking the magic of a new place or traveling to places of childhood to put the past to rest.
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Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine, June 1934 (Vol. XCVI, No. 6, [Whole] No. 576)

By: Adams, Franklin P.; Chambers, Robert W.; Lyons, Eugene; Cram, Mildred; Holbrook, Weare; Sabatini, Rafael; Rickenbacker, E.V. [Eddie Vernon]; Knight, Clayton; Ripley, Clements; Swift, J. Otis; Kyne, Peter B.; Barton, Bruce; Abdullah, Achmed; Flagg, James

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, International Magazine Company, Inc.: 1934

Seller ID: 2292766

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Edges lightly rubbed and foxed. 1934 Magazine. 200 pp. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2. Harrison Fisher illustration on front wrapper, Life Savers advertisement on rear wrapper. Color and black & white advertisements, photographs, and illustrations throughout. Cosmopolitan Magazine was founded in 1886, and purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1905, who merged it with another smaller publication he owned in 1925. It was called 'Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine' until 1952, the year after Hearst's death. During this period it published the first appearances of many novels and short s...
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Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine, May 1934 (Vol. XCVI, No. 5, [Whole] No. 575)

By: Adams, Franklin P.; Douglas, Lloyd C.; Vance, Louis Joseph; Baron, Walter; Cram, Mildred; Knickerbocker, H.R.; Abdullah, Achmed; Duncan, Gregor; Maugham, W. Somerset; Hambidge, Gove; Sobol, Louis; Kerr, Sophie; Robinson, Elsie; Roe, Vingie E.; Parker, Do

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, International Magazine Company, Inc.: 1934

Seller ID: 2292767

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

1/4 inch tear to rear wrapper edge, faint internal crease to portion of front wrapper. 1934 Magazine. 184 pp. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2. Harrison Fisher illustration on front wrapper, Betty Crocker advertisement featuring Sylvia Sidney on rear wrapper. Color and black & white advertisements, photographs, and illustrations throughout. Cosmopolitan Magazine was founded in 1886, and purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1905, who merged it with another smaller publication he owned in 1925. It was called 'Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine' until 1952, the year after Hearst's death....
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The Education of Henry Adams (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Adams, Henry

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1982

Seller ID: 2307021

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher's Notes from the Editors pamphlet laid in. Spine leans backward very slightly. 1982 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 530 pp. Full dark brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Preface by Henry Cabot Lodge, illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational the...
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The Education of Henry Adams (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books 76)

By: Adams, Henry; Adams, James Truslow

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1931

Seller ID: 2278349

ISBN: 0394600762

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes original jacket. Copyright states 1931, but presence of ISBN, jacket style, and $2.95 list price indicate 1970-1975 printing. Jacket edges a bit rubbed. xvi, 517, [11] pp. Introduction by James Truslow Adams. The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial...
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, in Two Volumes (The Library of America)

By: Adams, Henry; Parker; Dorothy; Cummings, E.E.; Swenson, May

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Library of America: 2000

Seller ID: 2288498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase. A few light spots on slipcase panels. Newspaper clippings laid in to volume two. 2000 Hard Cover. xxx, 986; xxxii, 1009 pp. Two volume set. Includes publisher's slipcase. In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now for the first time the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry through the post-War years restores that era in all its astonishing beauty and explosive energy. Thi...
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A Death in the Family

By: Agee, James

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, McDowell, Obolensky: 1985

Seller ID: 2271540

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Modern reissue. Ink name on front endpaper, light edge wear. 1985 Hard Cover. A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began writing it in 1948, but it was not quite complete when he died in 1955. It was edited and released posthumously in 1957 by editor David McDowell. Agee's widow and children were left with little money after Agee's death and McDowell wanted to help them by publishing the work. Agee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958 for the novel.
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Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out. A Sequel to Little Men.

By: Alcott, Louisa M. [May]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Roberts Brothers: 1894

Seller ID: 2297872

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Tear to spine head, front hinge starting, tissue guard lightly foxed. 1894 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 365 pp. Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to Little Men is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. In it, Jo's children, now grown, are caught up in real world troubles.
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Eight Cousins; or, the Aunt-Hill

By: Alcott, Louisa M. [May]

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio / New York, The World Syndicate Publishing Co.: 1935

Seller ID: 2308669

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No publisher date (ink date 1935). Some chips, tears and creases to jacket edges, rear jacket flap joint torn most of the way down but still holding. Ink name and date on front free endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 252 pp. Politzer jacket art. After the death of her father, orphan Rose Campbell has no choice but to go and live at the 'Aunt Hill' with her six aunts and seven boy cousins. For someone who was used to a girl's boarding school, it is pretty overwhelming, especially since her guardian Uncle Alec makes her eat healthy things like oatmeal, and tries to get her t...
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Three Proverb Stories: Kitty's Class-Day, "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine"; Aunt Kipp, "Children and Fools Speak the Truth"; Psyche's Art, "Handsome is that Handsome Does"

By: Alcott, Louisa M. [May]; Hoppin, Augustus

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Loring: 1889

Seller ID: 2207251

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Stains throughout, pencil names. 1889 Hard Cover. 148 pp. Illustrated by Augustus Hoppin. Three Proverb Stories (Kitty's Class-Day, A Stitch in Time Saves Nine; Aunt Kipp, Children and Fools Speak the Truth; Psyche's Art, Handsome is that Handsome Does).
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys

By: Alcott, Louisa May

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1901

Seller ID: 2262055

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Two half-inch tears along top edge of jacket front, jacket edges lightly rubbed, ink marks on rear jacket flap. Ink note on front endpaper. 1901 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 335 pp. Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to 'Little Men'. Little Men tells the story of Jo...
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (Illustrated Junior Library)

By: Alcott, Louisa May

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1947

Seller ID: 2278345

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

One inch by one inch chip to jacket spine head and jacket spine base, jacket edges rubbed with multiple small chips and creases. 1947 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 372 pp. Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline. Color endpapers. Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to 'Little...
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Anthony Adverse

By: Allen, Hervey

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: 1933

Seller ID: 2283715

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, first state (p. 352, line 6: Xaxier; p. 397, line 22: found found; p. 1086, line 18: blacksmith ship). Includes original jacket in good condition (unclipped, $3.00 list price on front flap). Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket toned. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1224 pp. 8vo. The novel which inspired the 1936 Academy Award winning film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. From the publication of his Ballads of the Border in 1916, when he was in the National Guard serving on the Mexican Border, Hervey...
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Anthony Adverse

By: Allen, Hervey

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: 1933

Seller ID: 2283716

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, first state (p. 352, line 6: Xaxier; p. 397, line 22: found found; p. 1086, line 18: blacksmith ship). Includes original jacket in good condition (unclipped, $3.00 list price on front flap). Jacket toned, minimal loss from jacket spine head, a few closed 1/2 inch tears along edges. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1224 pp. 8vo. The novel which inspired the 1936 Academy Award winning film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. From the publication of his Ballads of the Border in 1916, when he was in the National ...
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The Choir Invisible

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company: 1898

Seller ID: 2202908

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

18th printing. No jacket, large stain to corner of rear paste-down endpaper and rear endpaper. 1898 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 361 pp. James Lane Allenwas an American novelist and short story writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as Kentucky's first important novelist. This novel, by the author of John Gray, is a story set in the green wilderness of Kentucky. Parts...
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A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1900

Seller ID: 2286110

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus. Spine faded, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1900 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxii, 276, [4] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations similar to those used in the Cranford Series, which began in 1891 and gave us the famous Peacock on Sundial cover design now coveted by collectors. Revised from the 1894 and 1895 originals, this edition includes the full text of A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath, with a new preface by the author, and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. A novel by an important Kentucky author known for incorporating...
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Mi Pais Inventado: Un Paseo Nostalgico por Chile

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Rayo: 2003

Seller ID: 2200718

ISBN: 0060545658

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

2nd printing. Signed by author without inscription. Spanish text. Near fine. Near Fine. 2003 Hard Cover. 219 pp. Spanish text. El primer recuerdo que Isabel Allende tiene de Chile es el de una casa que nunca conoci: la casa grande y vieja de la calle Cueto, donde naci su madre. Esta casa, evocada por su abuelo con tanta frecuencia que Isabel cree haber vivido all, se convierte en la protagonista de su primera novelaLa Casa de los Espritus. Dicha obra vuelve a aparecer al comienzo de las fascinantes y seductoras memorias,Mi Pas Inventado, que ahora nos ofrece esta talentosa escritora. Los asidu...
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Seven Trees: Limited Fine Press Edition

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: North Andover, Kat Ran Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2195946

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, hand numbered #35 on limitation page, and signed by Julia Alvarez and Sara Eichner. Faint stain on rear panel of clamshell case. Original mailing envelope from Kat Ran Press containing a duplicate prospectus laid in. 1998 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. Folio in publisher's clamshell case with prospectus. One of 65 copies, only 50 of which were available for sale. Julia Alvarez and Sara Eichner have worked separately to create the combined suite of poems and prints, Seven Trees. This second offering from the Kat Ran Press is the firs...
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1991

Seller ID: 2200720

ISBN: 0945575572

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Near fine. Jacket toned. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 290 pp. The GarcasDr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofabelong to the uppermost echelon of Spanish Caribbean society, descended from the conquistadores. Their family compound adjoins thepalacioof the dictators daughter. So when Dr. Garcas part in a coup attempt is discovered, the family must flee.They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far remov...
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The Woman I Kept to Myself: Poems

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 2004

Seller ID: 2200725

ISBN: 1565124065

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Near Fine. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 155 pp. The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life. In these seventy-five autobiographical poems, Alvarezs clear voice sings out in every line. Here, in the middle of her life, she looks back as a way of understanding and celebrating the wo...
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Something to Declare: Essays

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1998

Seller ID: 2200751

ISBN: 1565121937

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Near Fine. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 300 pp. In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez takes us behind the scenes and shares the lessons she's learned on her way to becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist. In 1960, when Alvarez was ten years old, her family fled the Dominican Republic. Her father participated in a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, and exile to the United States was the only way to save his life. The family settled in New York City, where D...
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Before We Were Free

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2002

Seller ID: 2200755

ISBN: 0375815449

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Near Fine. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 167 pp. Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her To Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the governments secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillos dictatorship. Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leavin...
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The Other Side (El Otro Lado): Poems

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Dutton: 1995

Seller ID: 2200756

ISBN: 0525939229

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Promotional postcard laid in. Near fine. Jacket lightly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 155 pp. English text. Characterized by respect for the past, delight in the sensory details of the present, and tentative but cherished hope for the future, a collection of poems culminates in the title poem about the poet's return to her native Dominican Republic. Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Alvarez rose to prominence with the novels How the Garca Girls Lo...
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In the Name of Salome: A Novel

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 2000

Seller ID: 2200759

ISBN: 1565122763

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Near Fine. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 357 pp. In her most ambitious work sinceIn the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication to teaching strengthened another. Camila Henriquez Urena is about to retire from her longtime job teaching Spanish at Vassar College. Only now as she sorts through family papers does she begin to know the woman behind the legend of her mother, the revered Salome Urena,...
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Homecoming: Poems

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 1984

Seller ID: 2201052

ISBN: 0394620526

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First paperback printing. Signed by author without inscription. 1984 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 93 pp. Alvarez's first published collection of poetry, a work of great subtlety and power in which the young poet returned to her old-world childhood in the Dominican Republic. Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Alvarez rose to prominence with the novels How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The ...
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Eben Holden: A Tale of the North Country

By: Bacheller, Irving

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company: 1900

Seller ID: 2202217

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, front hinge starting, rear board edge slightly bumped, ink name and date to front endpaper, pages toned. 1900 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 432 pp. A story of the hardy wood-choppers of Vermont, who founded their homes in the Adirondack wilderness. Eben, the hero, is a bachelor with an imagination that is a very wilderness of oddities. Irving Bacheller (1859-1950) was an American journalist and writer who founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States.
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