Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fien in like jacket with a tiny bot of soil at bottom page edges. 1195 pages with two sets of illustrated plates. Beautiful copy of this absorbing and masterful biography of the great English author. More about Dickens
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. Hardcover. Later printing of 1946 copyright with new introductory essay by Denis Brogan 1961, near fine cloth hardcover shows touch of bumping to bottom corners and touch of soil at bottom page edges, else tight and clean, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) that... More about The Education of Henry Adams
Summit Books, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine with red remainder dot to bottom page edges in near fine jacket showing just some mild trace wear. 346 pages with some black & white plates. Remains an attractive copy of this look back by Sir kingsley. More about Memoirs
Library Publishers, 1955. Hardcover. Very good + hardcover (no dust jacket) showign just some light shelf and trace wear including touch of foxing at page edges. 240 pages. Solid copy of this new abridged translation of Andersen's autobiography by Maurice Michael. More about The Autobiography of Hans Christian Andersen
Random House, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fien maroon cloth hardcover shows a touch of shelf soil to bottom page edges and soem other very light trace wear, in a near fine dust jacket (price at flap) that shows just a hint of shelf wear as well. 469... More about The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings 1927-1939
Easton Press, 1980. Collector's Edition. Leather Bound. Collector's edition is near fine with just a touch of shelf wear. 190 pages with blank Easton bookplate laid-in. Leather bound with gilt emboss, ribbon marker, page edges gilt, raised bands to spine and silk moire end papers. Remains an attractive copy of... More about The Effayes: Or Councils Civill & Morall of Francis Bacon -Essays of Sir Francis Bacon...
University of Georgia Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine in like jacket with both showing just some mild trace wear including some mild scratching to back cover of jacket. 626 pages with a set of black & white plates. Remains an attractive copy of this biography of... More about Malcolm Cowley: The Formative Years
Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated, near fine in like jacket with both showing some very mild trace wear. 540 pages with some black & whites. Still an attractive copy of this "..uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth-century American women" More about Intertwined Lives
New Directions, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, near fine cloth hardcover shows touch of bumping to bottom corners, in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) showing age toning to flaps. 272 pages with a few black & whites. Still a nice copy of this look at the life... More about William Everson: The Life of Brother Antoninus
University of Nebraska Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, near fine blue cloth hardcover shows light bit of shelf and trace wear, in a very good + price-clipped dust jacket thta shows some mild rubbing and touch of edge wear. 303 pages. Stilla good looking copy of this "..historical... More about The Orphic Vision: Seer Poets from Novalis to Rimbaud
New Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. First American printing, near fine with a tiny spot of some sort to rear cover and some faint staining at page fore edges, in near fine jacket (price at flap) showing a hint of edge wear. 559 pages with a set of Black &... More about A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren
Clarkson N. Potter, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fien hardcover shows bit of soiling at page edges, in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) that shows a touch of shelf wear. 400 pages with a set of black & white plates. Nice copy of this "..story of... More about The Alcotts: Biography of a Family
Bloomsbury Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine hardcover in near find dust jacket (price at flap) with both showing just a hint of wear. 458 pages with illustrations. Still a good looking copy of this biography of the legendary English poet. More about Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot
Random House, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. First printing stated, very good + hardcover showing touch of soil and wear at covers and page edges, rental library stamp at top corner of front end paper, and some other mild trace wear, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) showing rubbing... More about The Worcester Account
Viking Press, 1984. Hardcover. 2nd printing, near fine, tight and clena hardcover shows touch of soil at page edges and some other light trace wear, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows exposure toning (yellowing) along spine and spine edges of panels, and with edge wear that... More about The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer
Viking, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine in like jacket with both showing just the slightest bit of trace wear. 472 pages with a set of black & white plates. Nice looking copy of this well thought of biography of the popular American author. More about Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work
Second Spring Books, 2014. Paperback. Near fine trade paperback is tight and clean while showing some mild shelf and trace wear. 299 pages. Still a pleasing copy of this work that "..examines in depth the influence of Catholic sacramentality on the thought and work of Tolkien, with major emphasis on... More about Tolkien's Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle Earth
Privately Printed, 1939. Third edition. Hardcover. 2nd edition 1938, crossed out by author with third and Novemeber, 1939 wruitten in, inscribed by the author on the front end paper, very good + blue cloth hardcover (no dust jacket if issued) shows just a touch of soil to covers and some... More about Signifying Nothing
Louisiana State University Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine hardcover shows just a hint of foxing at top page egdes and name stamp at rear paste down, in near fien dust jacket that shows rubbing and light edge wear. 248 pages. Still an attractive copy of this... More about Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou (Southern Literary Studies
Modern Library, 1952. Hardcover. Reprint, near fine with just a hint of lean in near fine price clipped jacket with wrinkle to rear flap. 559 pages. Remains an attractive copy of this abridgement of the great work that is #282 in the Modern Library line of reprints. More about The Life of Samuel Johnson
Viking, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First American edition, near fine hardcover in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) with both showing just a light bit of trace wear. 515 pages. Good looking copy of this "..dazzling exploration of the thriving traffic in fiction between the Old World of Europe... More about Dangerous Pilgrimages: Transatlantic Mythologies and the Novel
Readers Union, 1957. Hardcover. Near fine hardcover with touch of musty smell, in very good + jacket (price at flap) showing just a hint of soil and couple of short closed edge tears. 245 pages with black & whites. Still an attractive copy of this "..biography of Dylan Thomas in his last years.." More about Dylan Thomas in America
Schocken Books, 1960. Second edition. Hardcover. 2nd enlarged edition, near fine teal cloth with previous owner name at front paste down tucked uder flap and some othe rmild trace wear in very good jacket with some trace soil and bit of dullness (faded to light brown from red) to KAFKA... More about Franz Kafka: A Biography
E. P. Dutton & Co., 1959. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, very good + cloth hardcover that shows some mild trace wear including tiny bit of fray and loss at spine head and touch of bumping to top corners of cover, else tight and clean, in very good - price-clipped... More about Howells: His Life and World
Easton Press, 1996. First edition. Leather Bound. Collector's edition #861 of 1,350 signed by Buchwald. Near fine with just a touch of shelf wear including couple of very light scratches at page fore edges. 236 pages with black & whites. Leather bound with gilt emboss, ribbon marker, page edges gilt... More about I'll Always Have Paris (Easton Press
