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Price: $40.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2283482
Condition: Very Good
Early printing (no A or publisher emblem). Red spine panels lightly rubbed, ink name and address on front endpaper. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2285242
Condition: Good
Early printing. Includes original jacket with $2.75 price on flap. Light stain on top edge and front endpapers, ink name on front endpaper, jacket stained, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla u... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1976
Seller ID: 2286240
Condition: Near Fine
A few tiny scuffs on spine. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 314 pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, including a rose motif on spine & boards, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A limited edition published for subscribers of Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Includes illustrations by Herbert Tauss. The story of a troubled romance, set against the Italian campaign of World War I. Hemingway's third novel, and his first bestseller, which confirmed his status as one of the great's of American literature. He went on to ... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1980
Seller ID: 2286564
Condition: Near Fine
1980 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 347, [3] pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A limited edition published for subscribers of Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature. Includes illustrations by Barron Storey. The story of a troubled romance, set against the Italian campaign of World War I. Hemingway's third novel, and his first bestseller, which confirmed his status as one of the great's of American literature. He went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 195... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation: 1937
Seller ID: 2286745
Condition: Very Good
Edges lightly rubbed. 1937 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 262 pp. 8vo. Part of a collection of six works in uniform bindings by the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winning author. Reprinted by Collier from the original Scribner editions. Navy blue boards, gilt titles, blind-stamped quill pen design on front board, mirrored on spine. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2290429
Condition: Good
First edition (Hanneman 18). Lacks jacket. Spine faded and a bit rubbed, light ring stain on front board. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation: 1932
Seller ID: 2290747
Condition: Good
Boards a bit soiled, top edges of three volumes lightly stained, ink name on front endpapers. 1932 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 278; 262; 355; 471; x, 597; 259 pp. A collection of six works by the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winning author, in uniform bindings. Reprinted by Collier from the original Scribner editions. Navy blue boards, gilt titles, blind-stamped quill pen design on front board, mirrored on spine. Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway's work about bullfighting) include an extensive glossary of related terms. Also includes an estimate of Sydney Frankl... View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2291370
Condition: Very Good
First edition (Hanneman A18A). Lacks jacket. Spine toned, owner bookplate on front endpaper,. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit. View more info
By: Hemingway, Ernest; Hemingway, Patrick
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Scribner: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2270185
ISBN: 0684849216
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Top edge lightly stained. 1999 Hard Cover. 319, [1] pp. 8vo. True at First Light is a work by American novelist Ernest Hemingway released posthumously in 1999 during the author's centennial year. The work was left unfinished at the time of Hemingway's suicide in July 1961. True at First Light is about Hemingway's 1953 safari to East Africa with his fourth wife Mary. In the work, he explores conflict within a marriage, the conflict of cultures, and the fear a writer faces when writing appears to become impossible, all the while describing on the surface, a hunting trip in Kenya. ... View more info
By: Hemingway, Ernest; Hemingway, Patrick
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Scribner: 1999
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2279031
ISBN: 0684849216
Condition: Near Fine
Book club edition. 1999 Hard Cover. 319, [1] pp. 8vo. True at First Light is a work by American novelist Ernest Hemingway released posthumously in 1999 during the author's centennial year. The work was left unfinished at the time of Hemingway's suicide in July 1961. True at First Light is about Hemingway's 1953 safari to East Africa with his fourth wife Mary. In the work, he explores conflict within a marriage, the conflict of cultures, and the fear a writer faces when writing appears to become impossible, all the while describing on the surface, a hunting trip in Kenya. The book includes desc... View more info
By: Hemingway, Ernest; Lewis, Sinclair
Price: $125.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1968
Seller ID: 2277195
Condition: Near Fine
Publisher's blank bookplate laid in. Front and end matter faintly foxed. 1968 Full-Leather. xi, [3], 498, [4] pp. 8vo. Maroon full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with lithographs by Lynd Ward, with an introduction by Sinclair Lewis. In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight, For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the Internation... View more info
By: Hemingway, Ernest; Warren, Robert Penn
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1957
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2188018
Condition: Very Good
Book club edition. Jacket edges rubbed and creased with a few small chips, brief ink note on front jacket flap.Good. 1957 Hard Cover. 355 pp. 8vo. Original black cloth, yellowish-brown paper labels on spine & front board, black stamped titles & borders. The story of a troubled romance, set against the Italian campaign of World War I. Hemingway's third novel, and his first bestseller, which confirmed his status as one of the great's of American literature. He went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. View more info
By: Kertesz, Imre
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Melville House: 2008
Seller ID: 2195923
ISBN: 1933633530
Condition: Very Good
2008 Trade Paperback. 129 pp. From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history... The acclaimed Hungarian Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész continues his investigation of the malignant methodologies of totalitarianism in a major work of fiction. In a mysterious middle–European country, a man identified only as “the commissioner” undertakes what seems to be a banal trip to a nondescript town with his wife—a brief detour on the way to a holiday at the seaside—that turns ... View more info
By: Kipling, Rudyard
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Doubleday and McClure Company: 1899
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2199334
Condition: Very Good
First American edition. Ink name on half-title page, binding just beginning to weaken, spine slightly faded. 1899 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 119 pp. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4. Original blue-green cloth, gilt titles, black design with silver moon on front cover, gilt top page ridge, decorative endpapers. Black & white illustrations by Orson Lowell throughout. The first separate publication of this title, following its appearance in Century Magazine (1895) and the collection of stories entitled The Day's Work (1898). A separate British edition followed in 1907, the year Kiplin... View more info
By: Lagerlof, Selma; Howard, Velma Swanston
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company: 1910
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2198948
Condition: Good
Early reprint. No jacket, spine slightly cocked, edges rubbed, pages toned, hinges beginning to weaken, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1910 Hard Cover. xiii, 430 pp. From the Swedish of Selma Lagerlof. Translated by Velma Swanston Howard. Decorations by Harold Heartt. Considered a masterpiece since first published in 1907, this enchanting, remarkably original work by a Nobel Prize-winning author records the adventures of a mischievous 14-year-old who is changed into a tiny being, transported across the Swedish countryside on the back of a goose, and learns about nature, geography, and ... View more info
By: Laxness, Halldor; Magnusson, Magnus (Translator)
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Methuen & Co Ltd: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1949923
Condition: Very Good
First edition of the English translation. Includes original jacket. Endpapers faintly foxed, jacket toned with minimal biopredation along edges.Very Good. 1961 Hard Cover. vi, 201, [1] pp. 8vo. A novel by the winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature, and a landmark in Icelandic fiction, being the first novel published in Iceland to sell its entire initial print run on the day of publication. The story is set amidst the British occupation of Iceland during World War II, and depicts urban life in Iceland. It was adapted to film in 1984 by Borsteinn Jonsson, and also influenced the world of ... View more info
By: Lessing, Doris
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Perennial Classics: 1999
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2285167
ISBN: 006093140X
Condition: Near Fine
Reprint. An exceptional copy. 1999 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine reviles part of her own experience. And in the blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all fo... View more info
By: Lewis, Sinclair
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1922
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2202993
Condition: Good
Photoplay edition, featuring black-and-white stills from the film. 1 inch tear to spine base, ink name and address on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss. 1922 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 401 pp. 8vo. 8-page publisher ad follows text. A novel by the author who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature, which inspired the film starring Willard Louis and Carmel Myers. Lewis is most well-known for Main Street, though recently his cautionary tale It Can't Happen Here has seen increased popularity based on similarity to current political events. View more info
By: Lewis, Sinclair
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The First Edition Library:
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2205377
Condition: Near Fine
Includes publisher's slipcase and jacket. Minimal cosmetic wear to top jacket corner and jacket spine. We have more books available by this author!. 401 pp. 8vo. High quality facsimile reprint of original first edition. A novel by the author who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature, which inspired the film starring Willard Louis and Carmel Myers. Lewis is most well-known for Main Street, though recently his cautionary tale It Can't Happen Here has seen increased popularity based on similarity to current political events.Keywords: CLASSICS AMERICAN LITERATURE FICTION SINCLAIR LEWIS NOBEL PRIZ... View more info
By: Lewis, Sinclair
Price: $125.00
Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation: 1920
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2290934
Condition: Very Good
Spines a bit faded, boards lightly rubbed. 1920 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Six works by the popular author who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is most well-known for Main Street, though recently his cautionary tale It Can't Happen Here has seen increased popularity based on similarity to current political events. View more info
By: Lewis, Sinclair
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company / The Quinn and Boden Co., Inc.: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2291380
Condition: Very Good
First edition, second state (G in Gantry corrected from looking like a C, as in first state). Lacks scarce jacket. Boards lightly soiled, page edges faintly foxed. 1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. 8vo. Sinclair Lewis went on to become the first American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1930), following the success of his 1925 novel Arrowsmith, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Lewis declined the award). Elmer Gantry is a satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion that caused an uproar upon its publication in 1927. The title character... View more info
By: Lewis, Sinclair; Fadiman, Clifton
Price: $7.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1947
Seller ID: 2276304
Condition: Very Good
Lacks jacket. Ink name on front endpaper, pages lightly toned. 1947 Hard Cover. 377, [7] pp. 8vo. Dodsworth tells the story of a young American couple who moves to Europe. When the woman becomes involved with another man, her husband must choose between forgiving his wife or abandoning the relationship, and Europe, forever. Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 'for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit an... View more info
By: Lewis, Sinclair; Schorer, Mark
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.: 1961
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2281311
Condition: Good
Book club edition. Top edge lightly stained, jacket toned, ink number on page base, book club inserts laid in. 1961 Hard Cover. xii, 914 pp. 8vo. Three novels by the first American Nobel Prize winning novelist collected in one volume, with an introduction by Mark Schorer. Includes: Main Street; Babbitt; Arrowsmith. View more info
By: Lincoln, Don; Lederman, Leon
Price: $9.00
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2197159
ISBN: 0801891442
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 2009 Hard Cover. xiv, 172 pp. First edition. The highest-energy particle accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider runs under the border between France and Switzerland. It leapt into action on September 10, 2008, amid unprecedented global press coverage and widespread fears that its energy would create tiny black holes that could destroy the earth. By smashing together particles smaller than atoms, the LHC recreates the conditions hypothesized to have existed just moments after the big bang. Physicists expect it to aid our understanding of how the universe came into bei... View more info
By: Mann, Thomas
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Vintage International: 1992
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2204194
ISBN: 0679736468
Condition: Good
1st printing. Spine creased, wrappers rubbed, pages lightly toned. 1992 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 604 pp. Translated from German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the s... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Perennial: 1998
Seller ID: 2282511
ISBN: 0060740450
Condition: Good
Faintly toned. 1998 Trade Paperback. 458 pp. The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. View more info
By: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia; Grossman, Edith
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1988
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 2274981
ISBN: 0394561619
Condition: Very Good
First American edition. Light crease to bottom jacket corner. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 348 pp. 8vo. A novel by one of the leading authors in the magical realist tradition, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Inspiration for the 2007 film of the same name. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his hea... View more info
By: Morrison, Toni
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269275
ISBN: 0375409440
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Review copy with publisher's letter and review slip laid in. A bit smoky, otherwise an excellent copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 201, [1] pp. 8vo. Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer for her novel Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida–even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey’s Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the void in, or the center of, thei... View more info
By: Munro, Alice
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Douglas Gibson/McClelland and Stewart: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201638
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Fine.Near Fine. 1998 Hard Cover. 399 pp. A collection of stories by the Nobel Prize winning Canadian author known for her short fiction. In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. ... View more info
By: Naipaul, V.S.
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Andre Deutsch: 1971
Edition: 2nd Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2202743
Condition: Very Good
2nd printing. Signed by author without inscription on slip affixed to title page. Minor foxing on endpapers & page ridges, front jacket flap corner clipped, jacket lightly toned. 1971 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 256 pp. 8vo. The Booker Prize winner by the author from Trinidad who would go on to win the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature. This grouping of two short stories, a short novel within a prologue and an epilogue from Naipaul's travel journals, is held together by Naipaul's pervading concern with the themes of exile, freedom and prejudice. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sir... View more info
