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By: N/A
Price: $12.00
Publisher: American Antiquarian Society: 1989
Seller ID: 2279598
Smudges on rear wrapper. 1989 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. A short history of Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) , the Massachusetts printer, publisher, and founder of the American Antiquarian Society. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Archibald Constable and Co Ltd: 1903
Seller ID: 2263572
Edges rubbed, hinges beginning to loosen, ink name on front endpaper. 1903 Hard Cover. 333, [3] pp. 8vo. A biographical account of the family behind Punch magazine, who were contemporaries of well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. View more info
By: Ackerman, Diane
Price: $7.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276300
First edition. Front board lightly cocked. 2011 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 322 pp. Everyone who cherishes the gift of language will cherish Diane Ackerman's narrative masterpiece, an exquisitely written love story and medical miracle story, one that combines science, inspiration, wisdom, and heart. One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. When he regained awarenes... View more info
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Anchor Books: 2006
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2275618
First printing. Ink name on blurb page, faint odor of smoke, minor general wear. 2006 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 572 pp. Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd immerses us in sixtee... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270623
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket faintly toned. Stain along page ridge, margin of title page, and rear endpaper. 1990 Hard Cover. xix, 216 pp. Recounting her decade-long obsession with Mexico, the author describes Mayan ruins, the misery of Mexico City, Mexican art, and the magic of the country's landscape and people. View more info
By: Adams, Henry; Adams, James Truslow
Price: $12.50
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1931
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2273167
Lacks jacket. Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1931 Hard Cover. x, x, 517, [1] 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 a... View more info
By: Adams, Henry; Adams, James Truslow
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1931
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2278349
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 theor... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266251
First edition. No jacket, light general wear, pages faintly toned. 1923 Hard Cover. xvi, 559 pp. Adams was descended from the Presidential family, and was the first appointed director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. William Shakespeare (/??e?ksp??r/ SHAYK-speer; 26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616)[a] was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[2][3][4] He... View more info
By: Adler, Jeremy
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Overlook: 2004
Seller ID: 2176816
Very light edge wear. 2004 Trade Paperback. Renowned Kafka scholar Jeremy Adler examines the life of the writer who probed the hostile side of modernity in darkly terrifying masterpieces that mirrored the turmoil of his own inner world. The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish works, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscr... View more info
By: Agee, James
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 2005
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2203804
First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 818 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of two novels, a novella, and three short stories by the American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, with chronology and notes following text. Also included are reproductions of the photographs from Let Us Know Praise Famous Men, depicting the impoverished s... View more info
By: Agee, James
Price: $13.50
Publisher: George Braziller: 1962
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2266778
Third printing. Jacket spine-head and spine-base lightly rubbed, front jacket flap creased. A few faint spots along top edge of boards. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 235 pp. The present edition amounts to ninety some letters written over a period of thirty years to an Episcopalain priest who was not only the author's oldest friend, but, in a way, his foster father. James Rufus Agee (/?e?d?i?/ AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) wa... View more info
By: Albrizzi, Giovanni Battista; Stefanutti, Ugo
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Arnaldo Forni Editore: 1984
Seller ID: 2198605
Owner bookplate on front endpaper, small surface tear on reverse of jacket spine (possibly from removal of a mylar cover that was affixed with tape?). 1984 Hard Cover. 342 pp. 8vo. 1984 facsimile of original 1740 edition, including all original illustrations and fold-out map. A guide book to Venice by an Italian journalist best known for his work Gerusalemme Liberata. View more info
![Image for Waldo Emerson: A Biography [Ralph]](/assets/images/product/2280334.jpg)
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Viking: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2280334
First edition. Lightly foxed, edge wear to jacket. 1981 Hard Cover. Provides an intimate look at the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, reevaluating his personal relationships with women, philosophers, reformers, and correspondents. View more info
By: Allende, Isabel
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Rayo: 2003
Edition: 2nd Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200718
2nd printing. Signed by author without inscription. Spanish text. Near fine.Near Fine. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 219 pp. Spanish text. El primer recuerdo que Isabel Allende tiene de Chile es el de una casa que nunca conoció: la casa grande y vieja de la calle Cueto, donde nació su madre. Esta casa, evocada por su abuelo con tanta frecuencia que Isabel cree haber vivido allí, se convierte en la protagonista de su primera novela La... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200658
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Board edges lightly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 330 pp. 8vo. With an enchanting blend of magical realism, politics, and romance reminiscent of her classic bestseller The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende presents a soul-baring memoir that seizes the reader like a novel of suspense. Written for her daughter Paula when she became ill and slipped into a coma,... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: HaperCollinsPublishers: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200717
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine.Front bottom right corner of jacket lightly bumped. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 199 pp. Isabel Allende's first memory of Chile is of a house she never knew. The large old house on the Calle Cueto, where her mother was born and which her grandfather evoked so frequently that Isabel felt as if she had lived there, became the protagonist of her first novel, The House of th... View more info
By: Allison, Dorothy
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Dutton: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270795
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 94 pp. An autobiographical narrative by the author of Bastard out of Carolina explores such topics as love and loss, beauty and terror, and the intricacies of family love and hatred while illuminating the rural poverty of the South. View more info
By: Alpert, Barry; Dorn, Ed; Raworth, Tom; Davie, Donald; Kelly, Robert
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Barry Alpert: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263029
First edition - a paperback original. Rear wrapper lightly rubbed. 1972 Large Softcover. 59 ff. Transcripts of interviews with Ed Dorn and Tom Raworth, with poems by each, and additional commentary by Ed Dorn, Donald Davie, Robert Kelly, Tom Raworth, and Barry Alpert. The first issue of the Washington, D.C. poetry magazine, which ultimately only printed nine issues. From Granary Books' 'From a Secret Location' project: For all but one of its nine issues, Vort followed th... View more info
By: Alpert, Barry; Hollo, Anselm; Berrigan, Ted
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Barry Alpert: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262848
First edition - a paperback original. Lacks rear wrapper, otherwise excellent. 1972 Large Softcover. 44 ff. Transcripts of interviews with Anselm Hollo and Ted Berrigan. The second issue of the Washington, D.C. poetry magazine, which ultimately only printed nine issues. From Granary Books' 'From a Secret Location' project: For all but one of its nine issues, Vort followed the same pattern in its plain, large-format issues, creating a little critical universe for each of ... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200751
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 Raf... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Associazione Napoletana per i Monumenti e il Paesaggio / Tipografia Gennaro D'Agostino: 1965
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 2198606
Limited edition, #398 of 550. Light wear to corners. 1965 Trade Paperback. 310, [5] pp. Plain wrappers, printed dust jacket. Italian text. 1965 reissue of Alvino's 1845 account of 19th century Naples, with 42 illustrations by Achille Gigante. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2003
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2268632
First printing. A very nice copy. 2003 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 265 pp. Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians. Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional. He considers Jefferson and Washington, who were progressive thinkers (while livin... View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: The Overlook Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1536637
First edition. Includes original jacket. Jacket creased along rear edge.Very Good. 1999 Hard Cover. 608 pp. Primo Levi is represented in this world almost entirely by his writings, and his public self--shy, intelligent, diffident--has long hidden the true Levi. This major biography delves deeply into the life and mind of the controversial writer, philosopher, and Holocaust witness, exploring the complex nature of a man who felt misunderstood, certain that future generati... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: William Morrow: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270789
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 269 pp. From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But at nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by twenty-one, she couldn't grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could explain what was happening to her or predict wha... View more info
By: Armitage, Angus
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons:
Seller ID: 1523035
Lightly rubbed, jacket price clipped.Very Good. 158 pp. Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a British astronomer, technical expert, and a composer. Born in Hannover, Wilhelm first followed his father into the Military Band of Hannover, but emigrated to Britain at age 19. Herschel became most famous for the discovery of the planet Uranus in addition to several of its major moons such as Tita... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Liveright, Inc. Publishers: 1932
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276900
First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper ('To Mr. Julian Street with pleasant memories, Gertrude Atherton, 1932'). This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr. Lacks jacket. Spine faded. 598 pp. 8vo. A memoir by the fiercely independent and opinionated author who was friends with Ambrose Bierce, James Phelan, and others. Includes historical information about San Francisco in the late 19th and early 20th centur... View more info
By: Bair, Deirdre
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 1996
Seller ID: 2272439
Spine creased,a few light creases to wrappers, light sticker adhesive on rear wrapper, pages very faintly toned. 1996 Trade Paperback. xviii, 654 pp. This biography offers an insight into the intellectual and sexual life of Anais Nin. It includes material drawn from unpublished archives and diary pages and shows how through her lifelong struggle to become a respected writer, she constructed a way of life that became confused even to herself. View more info
By: Baker, Deborah
Price: $7.00
Publisher: The Penguin Press: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2196769
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2008 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America’s edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, where he hoped to meet poets Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger. Baker follows Ginsberg and his companions as they... View more info
By: Baker, Deborah
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Grove Press: 1993
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2203727
1st printing. Spine slightly cocked, page ridges foxed.Jacket creased. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, 478 pp. In her poetry, fiction, essays, and public statements, Laura Riding tackled Freud, feminism, communism, language and belief, sexuality, and the coming of age of the American dream. Her range of associations includes writers such as Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. Now comes a brilliantly origin... View more info
By: Barke, James
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Macmillan: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1736311
First edition. Former library copy with only a few marks. 1946 Hard Cover. Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, a... View more info
