Item 29343Beats & Company: A Portrait of a Literary Generation
Garden City, NY: Dophin/Doubleday, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 159 pp. Folio. Some wear and scuffing to udst jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean within.
Literary Biography
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Item 28535James A. Michener: The Beginning Teacher and His Textbooks
Albuquerque, NM: The Book Stops Here, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. 103 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Item 31489Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders
Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. xix, 524 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Item 30315Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. x, 277 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies.
Item 3204Dreamer of Dune
New York: Tor, 2003. Manchess, Gregory. First Edition. Hardcover. 576 pp. 8vo. First/First. Black boards with gold/gilt lettering on spine. Fine dust jacket now in mylar cover. Signed by Brian Herbert on title page. .
Item 28311Pitch Uncertain: A Mid-Century Middle Daughter Finds Her Voice
Cambridge, MA: TidePool Press, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover. x, 210 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Inscribed to a previous owner by the author on the title page.
Item 25924It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent (In Russian)
Russia: Mockba, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Second Printing, 1966. 647 pp. 8vo. Only Russian Edition of Rockwell Kent's autobiography first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1955. Dust jacket has minor chips and tears, scuffing, now in mylar cover. Slight bumping to cover boards, minor soiling at edges.....
Item 30932Sarah Orne Jewett
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 160 pp. 8vo. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, some soiling, losses at head and foot of spine, small loss 1-1/2' down from head of spine, now in mylar cover. Green cloth boards with some foxing to half-title page, otherwise quite.....
Item 31978Michener: A Writer's Journey
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Printing. xx, 339 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Inscribed by Stephen May on the first free endpaper.
Item 31502Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More
London: R. B. Seeley and W. .Burnside, 1839. New Edition. Hardcover. viii, 472pp. [8 ads]. 12mo. Brown cloth publisher's binding with blind embossed decoration to covers, gold embossed titling to spine. Previous owner's name on first free endpaper, front hinge paper starting to tear, same with rear, but still tight.....
Item 30896Between Two Worlds: An Autobiography
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. 500 pp. 8vo. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, chips at edges, tears at head and foot of spine, sunning overall, now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Slight lean to text block. Previous owner's.....
Item 28867"Next to Mother's Milk..." An Engelhard Lecture on the Book
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1987. First Edition. Wraps. Second Printing, 1989. 25 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with light age toning along spine on rear panel. A wonderful address by Powell on the joys of books and libraries. Designed by his lifelong friend and collaborator Ward Ritchie and bawdily.....
Item 30956Reinterpeting Christine de Pizan
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. x, 310 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Item 31930Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 (2 Volumes)
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. 392, 434 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to sign, Julia Ward Howe's signature embossed in gold on cover of each volume. Ex-library with a library stamp on the first free endpaper of each volume. Clean within...
Item 31537Melville: A Biography
New York: Clarkson Potter, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. xxv, 710 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Item 30645Three Virgins of Haworth Being an Account of the Brontë Sisters
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Third Printing. xi, 230 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has chips, tears, small losses at edges, fading along top edge as well as spine, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine.....
Item 29387"Constantly Risking Absurdity" The Writings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Troy, NY: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, 95 pp. 8vo. Light pencil underlining and short notes throughout.
Item 30497The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, 214 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has considerable darkening, chipping at edges, darkening to spine that has faded titling, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling and profile of Sherlock Holmes on cover. Some darkening and scuffing.....
Item 22481Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Third Printing. xix, 736 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Item 30753Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Third Printing. xix, 736 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Item 31910Legends of the Slow Explosion: Eleven Modern Lives
North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 2018. First Edition. Trade Paperback. xi, 158 pp. 8vo. Light pencil underlining within introduction, a few sentences written in pencil on last free endpaper -- otherwise, clean within.
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