Here are the 383 literary biographies that are in our computer, and in stock on our shelves in Walpole, NH, as of January 27. 2008. The first several listings are general biographies in nature, and then the titles are sorted by the person the book is about. That literary personage's name will be in ( ), at the beginning of the listing, so you may wish to use the "find" feature of your browser to speed your search for the person you are interested in. Hopefully you will find that title that you will want to order, make a note of the order number and please place your order at any time. Thank you, RAY
1. COMMEMORATIVE TRIBUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS, 1905-1941, Amer. Academy of Arts & Lett, New York, 1942, 432pp, good+, tan cloth (hardcover) nice clean and tight copy, "The commemorative tributes in this volume have been reprinted from the original pamphlets issued in intervals during the years 1905-1941." Inscribed on the front free endpaper by WILLIAM LYON PHELPS to his niece in 1942., (Order No: 25894 ), $20.00
2. Church, Richard, BRITISH AUTHORS - A TWENTIETH CENTURY GALLERY, Longmans Green & Co., London, (1943), 58 B&W portraits, 156pp, good, wraps (softcover), A portrait gallery of 57 modern British authors, from Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy to Virginia Woolf and Daphne du Maurier. The author introduces both they and their work. Published for The British Council., (Order No: 50338 ), $6.00
3. Earnest, Ernest, EXPATRIATES AND PATRIOTS: AMERICAN ARTISTS, SCHOLARS, AND WRITERS IN EUROPE, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1968, 310pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 5565 ), $7.00
4. Guppy, Shusha, LOOKING BACK: A PANORAMIC VIEW OF A LITERARY AGE BY THE GRANDES DAMES OF EUROPEAN LETTERS, British American Publishing, Latham, NY, (1991) 1st ptg, 21 B&W photos, 308pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 094516730X In Looking Back Shusha Guppy gives us ten unforgettable protraits of the grandes dames of British letters, some of the finest novelists, essayists and biographers of our time-women like Rosamond Lehmann, Juliette Huxley, Lady Diana Cooper and Molly Keane. Drawn from The Paris Review's prestigious interview series, these discussions form a spirited and informative collection which takes us on a journey through a century of history, from Bloomsbury to the Great War up to the present., (Order No: 10306 ), $5.00
5. Gibson, William M. and Arms, George, TWELVE AMERICAN WRITERS, The Macmillan Company, New York, (1962) 1st ptg, 812pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This volume presents, in depth and in considerable breadth, the creative and critical work of twelve major American writers: Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Twain, James, Frost, Eliot and Faulkner. Short fiction, essays, poetry, and other relatively brief writings are included., (Order No: 19180 ), $7.50
6. Honan, Park, AUTHORS' LIVES: ON LITERARY BIOGRAPHY AND THE ARTS OF LANGUAGE, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1990) 1st ed, 279pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312042612 The author draws on his own experience in writing major biographies of Jane Austen and Matthew Arnold to explain modern methods in reconstructing authors' lives., (Order No: 26171 ), $7.50
7. Kunitz, Stanley J. and Haycraft, Howard (edited by), AMERICAN AUTHORS 1600-1900: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, The. H. W. Wilson Company, New York, (1949) 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 846pp, good, blue cloth, (hardcover) EX-LIB, First published in 1938. Complete in one volume with 1300 biographies and 400 portraits., (Order No: 28311 ), $14.50
8. Kidd, Walter E., BRITISH WINNERS OF THE NOBEL LITERARY PRIZE, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, (1973) 1st ed, 280pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0806110759 This companion volume to AMERICAN WINNERS OF THE NOBEL LITERARY PRIZE evaluates the seven British winners of the most prestigious of all literary awards., (Order No: 35376 ), $5.00
9. Laskin, David, A COMMON LIFE: FOUR GENERATIONS OF AMERICAN LITERACY FRIENDSHIP AND INFLUENCE, Simon & Schuster, New York, (1994), B&W photos, 460pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0671724193 Author tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porte and Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell., (Order No: 6422 ), $4.50
10. Land, Myrick, THE FINE ART OF LITERARY MAYHEM: A LIVELY ACCOUNT OF FAMOUS WRITERS AND THEIR FEUDS, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1963) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 242pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Among the fascinating feuds recorded are a very Victorian dispute between Thackeray and Dickens, Henry James's polite but irreconcilable feud with H.G. Wells, and Hemingway's controversies with Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein., (Order No: 34368 ), $5.00
11. Mumby, Frank Arthur (arranged and edited by), LETTERS OF LITERARY MEN: VOLUME I - SIR THOMAS MORE TO ROBERT BURNS; VOLUME II - THE NINETEENTH CENTURY - TWO VOLUME SET, Kennikat Press, Port Washington, NY, (1970), very good, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjackets as published, ISBN 0804609640 First published in 1906. Volume I - SIR THOMAS MOORE TO ROBERT BURNS, 374pp; Volume II - THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 632pp., (Order No: 35295 ), $25.00
12. Santiago, Esmeralda and Davidow, Joie (editors), LAS MAMIS: FAVORITE LATINO AUTHORS REMEMBER THEIR MOTHERS, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 193pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0375408797 This book brings to life fourteen remarkable women in sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious stories about the ups and downs of families from Kansas to Colombia and Boston to Mexico City., (Order No: 28890 ), $7.00
13. Smith, Graeme Kinross, AUSTRALIA'S WRITERS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THEIR LIVES AND THEIR WORK, Thomas Nelson Australia, West Melbourne, Victoria, (1980) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 342pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0170053210 An account of the lives and work of more than fifty of Australia's most important authors, poets and dramatists., (Order No: 52070 ), $20.00
14. Stephen, Leslie, HOURS IN A LIBRARY - NEW EDITION -- THREE VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1909, good, red cloth (hardcover) light fade and wear to spines, Volume I, 350pp; Volume II, 348pp; and, Volume III, 343pp. Essays on English and American authors., (Order No: 52171 ), $15.00
15. Todd, Janet (editor), WOMEN WRITERS TALKING, Holmes & Meier, Publishers, New York, (1983) 1st Amer, B&W photographs, 262pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0841907560 Interviews with fifteen leading women writers--including Angelou, Barton, Byatt, Drabble, French, Greer, Irigaray, Johnson, Jong, Lurie, Moreau, Morgan, Paley, Rochefort, and Sarton--were undertaken especially for this book and have never before appeared in print. Conducted by various critics and scholars, theinterviews offer revealing insights into the personal and artistic development of each writer., (Order No: 14388 ), $15.00
16. Yates, J. V. (editor), THE AUTHOR'S AND WRITER'S WHO'S WHO - SIXTH EDITION, Burke's Peerage Limited, London, (1971) 6th ed, 887pp, good+, black cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 39486 ), $20.00
17. ( Adams ), Adams, Richard, THE DAY GONE BY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Hutchinson, London, (1990), B&W illustrations, 398pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0091739675 This memoir follows Adams from his birth in 1920 to the end of the Second World War., (Order No: 38132 ), $8.00
18. ( Adams ), Samuels, Ernest (edited by), HENRY ADAMS: SELECTED LETTERS, Belknap Pr./Harvard Pr., Cambridge, MA, 1992, B&W illustrations, 587pp, fine w/very good dustjacket (small closed tear on dustjacket), ISBN 0674387570 This selection, the first based on the authoritative six-volume LETTERS, represents every major private and public event in Adams' life from 1858 to 1918 and confirms his reputation as one of the greatest letter writers of his century. Review slip and press release laid in., (Order No: 21279 ), $6.00
19. ( Adams ), Wagner, Vern, THE SUSPENSION OF HENRY ADAMS: A STUDY OF MANNER AND MATTER, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, (1969), B&W frontis, 268pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), A complete appraisal of the works of Henry Adams that reveal him as a literary artist of commanding attention and as a humorist unique in our intellectual history., (Order No: 17358 ), $8.50
20. ( Alger ), Gardner, Ralph D., HORATIO ALGER OR THE AMERICAN HERO ERA, The Wayside Press, Mendota, IL, (1964) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 505pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The story of America's all-time best-selling author by a noted Alger biographer. Bibliography of Alger's Works follows the text., (Order No: 3699 ), $7.50
21. ( Alger ), Mayes, Herbert R., ALGER: A BIOGRAPHY WITHOUT A HERO, Macy-Masius, New York, 1928 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 241pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), One of the first biographies of Alger, and a must for the Horatio Alger collection., (Order No: 3698 ), $25.00
22. ( Anderson ), Bennett, Patrick, ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS: THE LIFE AND HARD TIMES OF EDWARD ANDERSON, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, (1988) 1st ed, 19 B&W ill., 191pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0890963525 This is the story of Edward Anderson, primarily in what were, ironically, his golden years--the Great Depression. The laconic loner hopped freights, wrote two proletarian novels of the social underclass, looked for inspiration in a shot glass, and mixed with Hollywood celebrities while employed as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers., (Order No: 16563 ), $8.50
23. ( Arnold ), Bush, Douglas, MATTHEW ARNOLD: A SURVEY OF HIS POETRY AND PROSE, The Macmillan Company, New York, (1971) 1st ptg, 202pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), Masters of World Literature, Louis Kronenberger, Editor., (Order No: 5282 ), $4.00
24. ( Auden ), Osborne, Charles, W. H. AUDEN: THE LIFE OF A POET, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, (1979), B&W illustrations, 336pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0151942862, (Order No: 5996 ), $3.50
25. ( Austen ), Firkins, O. W., JANE AUSTEN, Russell & Russell, New York, 1965, 254pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), First published in 1920., (Order No: 36282 ), $25.00
26. ( Babel ), Pirozhkova, A. N. (translated by Anne Frydman and Robert L. Busch), AT HIS SIDE - THE LAST YEARS OF ISAAC BABEL, Steerforth Press, South Royalton, VT, (1996), 171pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1883642981, (Order No: 49637 ), $5.00
27. ( Barham ), Lane, William G., RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM, Univ. of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, (1967), B&W frontis, 271pp, very good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) small chip rear of dj, Richard Harris Barham, author of the Ingoldsby Legends, is shown here as an associate of the most effective writers, publishers, actors, and dramatics of his time, and emerges as having played an active role in the literary events of the period., (Order No: 13528 ), $10.00
28. ( Barton ), Barcus, James E. (edited by), THE LITERARY CORRESPONDENCE OF BERNARD BARTON, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, (1966), 154pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "My purpose in this study is to bring together in one place the literary correspondence of Bernard Barton and through this correspondence to gain further understanding of Barton himself, of his literary friends, and of the age he lived in.", (Order No: 45209 ), $7.50
29. ( Bellow ), Harris, Mark, SAUL BELLOW: DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1980), 184pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0820305294, (Order No: 40108 ), $7.50
30. ( Benet ), Benet, Laura, WHEN WILLIAM ROSE, STEPHEN VINCENT AND I WERE YOUNG, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, (1976), B&W photographs, 112pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0396072895 A memoir of the childhood of Laura, William Rose, and Stephen Vincent Benet., (Order No: 18799 ), $4.00
31. ( Bennett ), Bennett, Arnold (edited by James Hepburn), LETTERS OF ARNOLD BENNETT: VOLUME I - LETTERS TO J. B. PINKER, Oxford University Press, London, 1966, 427pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), This volume contains about 450 of the more than 2600 letters Bennett wrote to his literary agent between 1901 and his death in 1931., (Order No: 50206 ), $25.00
32. ( Bennett ), Bennett, Arnold (edited by James Hepburn), LETTERS OF ARNOLD BENNETT: VOLUME III 1916-1931, Oxford University Press, London, 1970, 368pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0192121855 In the last 15 years of his life Arnold Bennett had a wide circle of friends, and this second volume of general correspondence includes notalbe series of letters to Lord Beaverbrook, Frank Swinnerton, Harriet Cohen, Hugh Walpole, and Andre Gide, and others., (Order No: 50207 ), $25.00
33. ( Bierce ), Fatout, Paul, AMBROSE BIERCE: THE DEVIL'S LEXICOGRAPHER, University of Oklahoma Pr., Norman, OK, (1951) 1st ed, 351pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) small tear on dj, POI, This biography attempts to interpret Ambrose Bierce's character in the light of present-day psychology, particularly the psychology of childhood and adolescence., (Order No: 35529 ), $20.00
34. ( Blake ), Wilson, Mona, THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927, 24 B&W plates, 397pp, good+, vellum spine (hardcover) light edgewear, clean and tight, Copy 1284 of 1480. A nice copy of this edition., (Order No: 11381 ), $75.00
35. ( Boccaccio ), Bergin, Thomas G., BOCCACCIO, The Viking Press, New York, (1981), 392pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670177350, (Order No: 3788 ), $6.00
36. ( Brecht ), Bunge, Hans (edited by) (translated by Geoffrey Skelton), LIVING FOR BRECHT: THE MEMOIRS OF RUTH BERLAU, Fromm International Pub., New York, (1987), B&W illustrations, 292pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0880640715 Bertolt Brecht's collaborator and companion recalls her forty years of devotion to the man and his work., (Order No: 23241 ), $5.00
37. ( Brooke ), Stringer, Arthur, RED WINE OF YOUTH - A LIFE OF RUPERT BROOKE, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, (1948) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 287pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 50683 ), $7.00
38. ( Browning ), Cary, Elisabeth Luther, BROWNING: POET AND MAN, A SURVEY, G.P. Putnam's/Knickerbocker, NY/London, (1902), B&W illustrations, 282pp, very good, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover), First published in 1899., (Order No: 19041 ), $12.00
39. ( Browning ), Erickson, Lee, ROBERT BROWNING: HIS POETRY AND HIS AUDIENCES, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1984), 288pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0801416183 In this comprehensive critical study of Robert Browning's poetry and artistic career, the author shows how Browning's search for an audience shaped his poetic strategies. Through close readings of the poems, he makes clear that the theme of speaker and audience is central to an understanding both of Browning's work and of his complex artistic evolution., (Order No: 13732 ), $15.00
40. ( Browning ), King, Roma A., THE FOCUSING ARTIFICE: THE POETRY OF ROBERT BROWNING, Ohio University Press, Athens, OH, 1968, 288pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), "Shows how Robert Browning's poetry from PAULINE through ASOLANDO arises from and embodies Browning's two major concerns.", (Order No: 6731 ), $5.00
41. ( Browning ), Kenyon, Frederic G. (edited by), ROBERT BROWNING AND ALFRED DOMETT, E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1906, B&W illustrations, 161pp, very good, green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 38886 ), $20.00
42. ( Browning ), McCarthy, Barbara P. (introduced and edited by), ELIZABETH BARRETT TO MR BOYD: THE UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING TO HUGH STUART BOYD, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1955, 299pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), These letters from a gifted, sensitive woman to a blind scholar twenty-five years her senior cover the period from 1827, when she was twenty-one, to 1847, the year after her marriage to Robert Browning., (Order No: 52089 ), $10.00
43. ( Buck ), [Buck, Pearl S.], A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PEARL S. BUCK, John Day/Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, (1936) 1st ed, 28pp, near fine wraps (softcover)w/very good original mailing envelope, Published most likely as a promotional piece, this uncommon booklet comes in the original envelope from Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc. Publishers. The envelope is addressed to the original owner whose estate it comes from., (Order No: 53322 ), $85.00
44. ( Burke ), Bjorkman, Edwin; and Towne, Charles Hanson, THOMAS BURKE - A CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF THE MAN OF LIMEHOUSE; WITH A NOTE ON A NOVEL, George H. Doran Company, New York, n.c. circa 1926, 20pp, good, wraps (softcover), THOMAS BURKE, THE MAN OF LIMEHOUSE, by Edwin Bjorkman; and THE SUN IN SPLENDOR, by Charles Hanson Towne., (Order No: 43537 ), $25.00
45. ( Burns ), Lindsey, John, ROBERT BURNS: RANTIN' DOG - POET OF THE COMMON MAN, Liveright Publishing Corp., New York, (1947), B&W illustrations, 412pp, good+, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 31836 ), $5.00
46. ( Burroughs ), Lupoff, Richard A. (preface by Henry Hardy Heins), EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: MASTER OF ADVENTURE, Canaveral Press, New York, 1965, B&W illustrations, 295pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A pioneer study of ERB's literary output. Traces the major themes and characters of Burroughs' many books and treats extensively the question of ERB's sourches in the works of such prominent authors as Kipling, Haggard, and Wells., (Order No: 52972 ), $40.00
47. ( Byron ), Bigland, Eileen, PASSION FOR EXCITEMENT - THE LIFE AND PERSONALITY OF THE INCREDIBLE LORD BYRON, Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, (1956), 317pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 51906 ), $5.00
48. ( Byron ), Foot, Michael, THE POLITICS OF PARADISE: A VINDICATION OF BYRON, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1988) 1st US, B&W frontis, 424pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0060390913 A new analysis of Lord Byron, this freedom-loving poet, who was at once the most admired and the most vilified artist of his age., (Order No: 13763 ), $4.00
49. ( Byron ), Longford, Elizabeth, THE LIFE OF BYRON, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1976) 1st ed, 237pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISSN 0316531928 In this scholarly yet graceful biography, the author gives shape and significance to the volcanic career of the quintessential romantic, and makes sense of the many contradictions he embodied., (Order No: 13974 ), $11.50
50. ( Byron ), Quennell, Peter, BYRON: THE YEARS OF FAME, St. James's Library, London, (1950), B&W frontis, 319pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), "This book is an attempt to isolate a certain period of his life and, through his relationship with his public and with the social and political existence of his period, to carry the study of his temperament a step further. A quantity of new material has been employed; and I have endeavoured to investigate the familiar outlines of his career, between July 1811 and April 1816, from a new angle.", (Order No: 34685 ), $5.00
51. ( Cabell ), Van Doren, Carl, JAMES BRANCH CABELL - MODERN AMERICAN WRITERS SERIES, Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1928 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 87pp, good++ w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 46011 ), $5.00
52. ( Cabell ), Van Doren, Carl, JAMES BRANCH CABELL, The Literary Guild, New York, 1932, B&W illustrations, 89pp, good, black cloth spine (hardcover), First published in 1925., (Order No: 48781 ), $3.00
53. ( Cable ), Butcher, Philip, GEORGE W. CABLE - TWAYNE'S UNITED STATES AUTHORS SERIES 24, Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, (1962), 189pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This is a critical study of an author long ranked with Howells, Twain, and James--his contemporaries and acquaintances--and generally regarded as the first Southern novelist to contribute a permanent classic to American literature., (Order No: 41414 ), $10.00
54. ( Cable ), Rubin, Louis D., GEORGE W. CABLE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A SOUTHERN HERETIC, Pegasus, New York, (1969), 304pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The life and art of George Washington Cable, a pioneering realist in Southern literature and the first Southern novelist to deal directly and honestly with the racial dilemma that emerged from the ruins of the post-Civil War South., (Order No: 6929 ), $5.00
55. ( Caldwell ), Stevens, C. J., STORYTELLER: A LIFE OF ERSKINE CALDWELL, John Wade, Publisher, Phillips, Maine, (2000) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 375pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1882425111 This book is a full portrait of a complicated personality., (Order No: 48996 ), $8.00
56. ( Carroll ), Carroll, Lewis; Blackburn, Philip C. and White, Lionel (edited by), LOGICAL NONSENSE, THE WORKS OF LEWIS CARROLL: NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, COMPLETE, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1934)1st trade, 568pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BIOGRAPHY, NOTES AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Here are all of the inimitable Lewis Carroll fancies--not only Alice's immortal adventures and other old favorites, such familiar and beloved books as, "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Sylvie and Bruno", but also many shorter works that are here collected and reprinted for the first time., (Order No: 42145 ), $75.00
57. ( Carroll ), Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson, THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL (REV. C. L. DODGSON), The Century Co., New York, 1899 (1898), B&W illustrations, 448pp, good, red cloth (hardcover), teg, old hinge repairs, "Intimately as I thought I knew Mr. Dodgson during his life, I seem since his death to have become still better acquainted with him. If this Memoir helps others of his admirers to a fuller knowledge of a man whom to know was to love, I shall not have written in vain.", (Order No: 23724 ), $25.00
58. ( Carroll ), Gattegno, Jean, LEWIS CARROLL: FRAGMENTS OF A LOOKING-GLASS, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, (1976) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 327pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0690010281, (Order No: 4830 ), $5.00
59. ( Carroll ), Green, Roger Lancelyn (first edited and supplemented by), THE DIARIES OF LEWIS CARROLL: IN TWO VOLUMES, VOLUME I ONLY, Greenwood Press, Publishers, Westport, CT, (1971), B&W illustrations, 262pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0837145049 Contents include: Introduction By F. Menella And Violet Dodgson; Mrs. Shawyer's Reminiscences; Introductory: 1832-54; The Diary For 1856; The Diary For 1857; 1858-61; The Making Of Alice: 1860-3; 1864-7; Note On Russian Journal., (Order No: 53453 ), $125.00
60. ( Carroll ), Hinde, Thomas (selected and introduction by), LEWIS CARROLL - LOOKING-GLASS LETTERS, Collins & Brown, London, (1991), B&W and color illustrations, 160pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1855850389 Through Carroll's own letters and diaries we can discover some of the forces motivating this highly imaginative and complex man., (Order No: 4834 ), $12.50
61. ( Carroll ), Madan, Falconer, LEWIS CARROLL CENTENARY EXHIBITION - LONDON: 29 JUNE - 31 JULY, 1932 - CATALOGUE, J. & E. Bumpus, Ltd., London, 1932, B&W frontis, 116pp, very good, wraps (softcover), With Illustration and Notes, and an Essay by Harold Hartley on Dodgson's Illustrators., (Order No: 28281 ), $75.00
62. ( Cary ), Foster, Malcolm, JOYCE CARY: A BIOGRAPHY, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, (1968) 2nd ptg, B&W photographs, 555pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The author had access to the Cary Collection of manuscripts, letters, and diaries now in the keeping of The Bodleian Library at Oxford. He has drawn upon these sources as well as interviews with many of Cary's family and friends to create an engaging and sympathetic portrait of this ebullient nonconformist whom Lord David Cecil once characterized as "a sage and a saint.", (Order No: 18660 ), $7.50
63. ( Chase ), Westbrook, Perry D., MARY ELLEN CHASE - TWAYNE'S UNITED STATES AUTHORS SERIES, Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, (1965), 176pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A major reassessment of the writer Mary Ellen Chase., (Order No: 26197 ), $10.00
64. ( Chaucer ), Howard, Donald R., CHAUCER: HIS LIFE, HIS WORKS, HIS WORLD, E. P. Dutton, New York, (1987) 1st ed, B&W ill., 636pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 052524400X A biography that brings together Chaucer, the man and the poet, and the age in which he lived., (Order No: 33789 ), $14.50
65. ( Chekhov ), Yarmolinsky, Avrahm (selected and edited by), LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV, The Viking Press, New York, (1973), 490pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670425966 Yarmolinsky has chosen more than five hundred letters for this book, annotating them where necessary., (Order No: 37057 ), $12.50
66. ( Chivers ), Watts, Charles Henry, THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS: HIS LITERARY CAREER AND HIS POETRY, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1956), 286pp, very good, teal blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, Born in Washington, Georgia, in 1809, Chivers moved through the literary world of pre-Civil War America with an outward confidence startling in the light of the virtually complete critical silence which met his literary efforts throughout his lifetime., (Order No: 31510 ), $8.50
67. ( Cleary ), George, Susanne K., KATE M. CLEARY: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY WITH SELECTED WORKS, Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, (1997), B&W illustrations, 250pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0803221649 This volume recovers the life and works of a fascinating western American author. In 1884, Kate Cleary moved from Chicago to Hubbell, Nebraska, where she bore six children and helped support her family by publishing hundreds of stories, poems, and articles., (Order No: 38087 ), $10.00
68. ( Cockerell ), Blunt, Wilfrid, COCKERELL, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 385pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Life of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962), friend of Ruskin and William Morris and Director of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge., (Order No: 2983 ), $7.50
69. ( Coleridge ), Lefebure, Molly, THE BONDAGE OF LOVE: A LIFE OF MRS SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1987) 1st Amer, 13 B&W ill., 287pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) remainder mark, ISBN 0393024431 Using a wealth of hitherto unpublished material, the author explores the realities of the Coleridge marriage, as opposed to the myth., (Order No: 13406 ), $5.00
70. ( Collier ), Ganzel, Dewey, FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES: THE CAREER OF JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982, B&W illustrations, 454pp, very good+, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0192122312 The career of John Payne Collier--a nineteenth-century 'man of letters.', (Order No: 22836 ), $6.00
71. ( Collins ), Sigworth, Oliver F., WILLIAM COLLINS: TWAYNE'S ENGLISH AUTHORS SERIES - NO. 25, Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, (1965), 192pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 26565 ), $9.50
72. ( Compton-Burnett ), Burkhart, Charles, I. COMPTON-BURNETT, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1965, 142pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), How will Ivy Compton-Burnett be regarded in 100 years' time? Mainly as an engaging eccentric, as Thomas Love Peacock is regarded now? Or as a kind of twentieth-century Jane Austen--as one of the wittiest satirists and profoundest observers of human behaviour? In other words, just how great a writer is she?, (Order No: 34280 ), $7.50
73. ( Compton-Burnett ), Greig, Cicely, IVY COMPTON-BURNETT: A MEMOIR, Garnstone Press, London, (1972), 135pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0855110600 A memoir about one of our greatest novelists from March 1946 to August 1969., (Order No: 34279 ), $10.00
74. ( Compton-Burnett ), Sprigge, Elizabeth, THE LIFE OF IVY COMPTON-BURNETT, George Braziller, New York, (1973) 1st ptg, B&W ill., 191pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0807606855 An intimate, absorbing and revealing biography of one of the most original and fascinating literary figures of our time., (Order No: 34278 ), $7.50
75. ( Conrad ), JOSEPH CONRAD - A SKETCH WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY, Doubleday Page & Co., New York, (1924), ill. by Edward A. Wilson, 48pp, very good, wraps (softcover) extemely light edgewear, (Order No: 43536 ), $12.50
76. ( Conrad ), Najder, Zdzislaw, JOSEPH CONRAD: A CHRONICLE, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, (1983), B&W ill., 647pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0813509459 A comprehensive portrait of this great writer., (Order No: 33720 ), $14.50
77. ( Cowley ), Young, Thomas Daniel (edited by), CONVERSATIONS WITH MALCOLM COWLEY, Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, (1986), B&W frontis, 224pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0878052917 Literary Conversations Series., (Order No: 32450 ), $3.00
78. ( Crane ), Hazo, Samuel, HART CRANE: AN INTRODUCTION AND INTERPRETATION, Barnes & Noble, Inc., New York, (1963), 3 B&W ill., 146pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover), A study of the life and poetry of Hart Crane., (Order No: 13984 ), $5.00
79. ( Crane ), Mariani, Paul, THE BROKEN TOWER: A LIFE OF HART CRANE, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1999) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 492pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0393047261 Few poets have lived as extraordinary and fascinating a life as Hart Crane, the American poet who made his meteoric rise in the late 1920s and then as suddenly flamed out, killing himself at the age of thirty- two and thus turning his life and poetry into the stuff of myth., (Order No: 21965 ), $14.50
80. ( Curle ), Curle, Richard and Conrad, Joseph (edited with an introduction and notes by R. C.), CONRAD TO A FRIEND: 150 SELECTED LETTERS FROM JOSEPH CONRAD TO RICHARD CURLE, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1928, B&W frontis, 242pp, good, black cloth (hardcover), "The 150 letters contained in this volume have been selected from the large number that Conrad wrote to me from the year in which I first met him, 1912, to the year of his death, 1924.", (Order No: 34482 ), $20.00
81. ( Daudet ), Roche, Alphonse V., ALPHONSE DAUDET: TWAYNE'S WORLD AUTHORS SERIES - NO. 380, Twayne Publishers, Boston, (1976) 1st ptg, 191pp, very good+, green buckram cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 080576223X, (Order No: 26570 ), $15.00
82. ( Davies ), Davies, Emily; (Murphy, Ann B. and Raftery, Deirdre - edited by), EMILY DAVIES COLLECTED LETTERS, 1861-1875, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, VA, (2004) 1st ptg, 555pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813922321 Much of the social change that Emily Davies witnessed - and helped to effect - was discussed, encouraged, and elictied through her personal letters., (Order No: 42373 ), $85.00
83. ( Davis ), Langford, Gerald, THE RICHARD HARDING DAVIS YEARS: A BIOGRAPHY OF A MOTHER AND SON, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1961) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 336pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0851410111, (Order No: 2986 ), $4.00
84. ( De Sade ), de Saint-Yves, Leonard (selected and translated by), SELECTED WRITINGS OF DE SADE, British Book Centre, New York, (1954), 306pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 4491 ), $5.00
85. ( de Sade ), Thomas, Donald, THE MARQUIS DE SADE: A NEW BIOGRAPHY, A Citadel Press Book, Secaucus, NJ, (1992) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 326pp, very goo+d, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0806513381 This illuminating and dramatic biography puts de Sade in perspective, unraveling his complex life and thought against the turbulent background of revolutionary France and considers his legacy in the context of our own time., (Order No: 40379 ), $7.50
86. ( Defoe ), Bastian, F., DEFOE'S EARLY LIFE, Barnes & Noble Books, Totowa, NJ, (1981), 8 B&W plates, 1 map, 377pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0389200948, (Order No: 10143 ), $14.50
87. ( Dickens ), Barlow, Eleanor Poe, THE MASTER'S CAT: THE STORY OF A CHARLES DICKENS AS TOLD BY HIS CAT, The Dickens House, London, (1998), B&W illustrations, 132pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0951852531 Charles Dickens lived a life as fascinating as that of any character he created. It was full of sadness and joy, poverty and wealth, mystery and fame., (Order No: 40843 ), $15.00
88. ( Dickens ), Chesterton, G. K. (et al), CHARLES DICKENS - A BOOKMAN EXTRA NUMBER 1914, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914, B&W and color illustrations, 208pp, good+, wraps (softcover) some occasional light foxing, Great illustrations and photographs, and interesting advertisements. The articles in the text are divided into these sections: Charles Dickens; The Life and Work of Dickens; Charles Dickens: His Work and His Personality; and, The True Story of Dora Copperfield, and much much more., (Order No: 46317 ), $40.00
89. ( Dickens ), Fitzsimons, Raymund, GARISH LIGHTS: THE PUBLIC READING TOURS OF CHARLES DICKENS, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, (1970), B&W illustrations, 192pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), In his day, Charles Dickens was the greatest one-man show on earth. This is an account of Dickens, the showman. From 1858 to 1870, the last years of his life, Dickens barnstormed across Britain and the United States reading from his own works., (Order No: 18958 ), $6.00
90. ( Dickens ), Fido, Martin, THE WORLD OF CHARLES DICKENS: THE LIFE, TIMES AND WORK OF THE GREAT VICTORIAN NOVELIST, Carlton, London, (1997), B&W and color ill., 144pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1858683424 This volume presents the author's life and works in a highly illustrated volume that takes a thematic all-encompassing look at this brilliant writer and the society that so influenced his work., (Order No: 34564 ), $17.50
91. ( Dickens ), Hardwick, Michael and Hardwick, Mollie (compiled by), THE CHARLES DICKENS ENCYCLOPEDIA, Wordsworth Editions, Hertfordshire, (1992), 376pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1853269727 This is one of the most comprehensive, detailed and accurate single-volume reference books on the life and work of Charles Dickens ever compiled., (Order No: 33940 ), $15.00
92. ( Dickens ), Mankowitz, Wolf, DICKENS OF LONDON, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, (1977), 100 B&W ill. 12pp of color, 252pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0025794108 Lively, critical biography by this well-known writer., (Order No: 7675 ), $5.00
93. ( Dickens ), Pope-Hennessy, Una, CHARLES DICKENS 1812-1870, Chatto & Windus, London, 1945, B&W illustrations, 476pp, good, red cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 7036 ), $3.00
94. ( Dickens ), Pearson, Hesketh, DICKENS: HIS CHARACTER, COMEDY, AND CAREER, Methuen & Co., Ltd., London, (1949), 15 B&W plates, 366pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 7038 ), $5.00
95. ( Dickens ), Straus, Ralph, DICKENS: A PORTRAIT IN PENCIL, Victor Gollancz, Ltd., London, 1928, B&W illustrations, 319pp, good, orange cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 7037 ), $14.50
96. ( Dickens ), Wagenknecht, Edward, DICKENS AND THE SCANDALMONGERS: ESSAYS IN CRITICISM, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, (1968) 2nd ptg, 162pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), Wagenknecht confronts the literary controversy concerning Charles Dickens's relations with Ellen Ternan. In addition to the title essay, selections include "Dickens in Longfellow's Letters and Journals," "Dickens and Ellen Glasgow," "Dickens and the Marxians," and others., (Order No: 14265 ), $5.00
97. ( Dickens ), Wilson, Angus, THE WORLD OF CHARLES DICKENS, The Viking Press, New York, (1970), B&W and color illustrations, 302pp, good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0670020265 The author traces Dicken's career from his birth in a small, lower-middle-class terrace house in Portsmouth to his death, an internationally recognized and revered figure; he quotes extensively from Dickens's letters and writings; he shows how Dickens's life, experience and obsessions were transmuted into the great art of his novels, and he throws new light on works which, he says, have greatly influenced his own., (Order No: 27292 ), $7.50
98. ( Dinesen ), Migel, Parmenia, TITANIA: THE BIOGRAPHY OF ISAK DINESEN, Random House, New York, (1967) 1st ptg, 56 B&W ill., 325pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) couple closed tears on jacket, In this first biography of Isak Dinesen, Parmenia Migel writes with delicacy and insight about her subject who was for many years her close personal friend., (Order No: 17691 ), $4.00
99. ( Dods ), Bennett, Betty T., MARY DIANA DODS, A GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR, William Morrow and Co., Inc., New York, (1991) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 303pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0688087175 "The Astonishing Revelation of a Daring 170-Year-Old Deception.", (Order No: 4756 ), $4.00
100. ( Donnelly ), Anderson, David D., IGNATIUS DONNELLY - TWAYNE'S UNITED STATES AUTHORS SERIES: TUSAS 362, Twayne Publishers, Boston, MA, (1980) 1st ptg, B&W frontis, 129pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket - EX-LIB, ISBN 0805773037, (Order No: 51605 ), $22.50
101. ( Douglas ), Hyde, H. Montgomery, LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS: A BIOGRAPHY, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, (1985) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 366pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0396086934 Here, in the first biography of Douglas to be written with the full blessing of his literary executor, is the fascinating and extraordinary story of the life of the man--renowned throughout most of his life for his exceptionally good looks--for whom one short but fatal homosexual friendship was to have such long-lasting consequences., (Order No: 44298 ), $7.50
102. ( Doyle ), Brown, Ivor, CONAN DOYLE: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE CREATOR OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Hamish Hamilton, London, (1972), 145pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0241021553 The story of a struggling young doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle, who was to become rich and famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and whose life was to be ruled by the demands of a public insatiable for more and more Holmes., (Order No: 39129 ), $20.00
103. ( Dreiser ), Elias, Robert H., THEODORE DREISER: APOSTLE OF NATURE, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1949 1st ed, 354pp, index, good, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 41717 ), $5.00
104. ( Dreiser ), Lundquist, James, THEODORE DREISER, Frederick Ungar Publishing, New York, (1983) 3rd ptg, 150pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0804425639 A lively introduction to one of our most controversial writers gives us a new assessment of the man who is said to have left American literature as changed as Darwin left biology., (Order No: 39326 ), $10.00
105. ( Dreiser ), Matthiessen, F. O., THEODORE DREISER, William Sloane Associates, New York, (1951), 267pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), F. O. Matthiessen, critic and scholar, and Professor of American Literature at Harvard, died in the spring of 1950. This book, which he had contracted to write for the American Men of Letters Series, was found among his papers, finished to the point where it could be published, as it now is, without other changes than those necessary to prepare the manuscript for the printer., (Order No: 16768 ), $3.00
106. ( Dreiser ), McAleer, John J., THEODORE DREISER: AN INTRODUCTION AND INTERPRETATION - AMERICAN AUTHORS AND CRITICS SERIES, Barnes & Noble, Inc., New York, (1968), 180pp, very good, red cloth (no dustjacket), (Order No: 26574 ), $6.00
107. ( Eliot ), Sencourt, Robert, T. S. ELIOT: A MEMOIR, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, (1971), B&W illustrations, 266pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) small chip on jacket, ISBN 0396063470, (Order No: 6724 ), $5.00
108. ( Eliot, Joyce ), Sultan, Stanley, ELIOT, JOYCE AND COMPANY, Oxford University Press, New York, (1987) 1st ptg, 326pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0195063430 In this study, Sultan informs a unique type of historical criticism with a richly intimate knowledge of three key works--"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," THE WASTE LAND, and ULYSSES--and confronts questions of literary theory implicit in the modernist period., (Order No: 41964 ), $4.50
109. ( Emerson ), Michaud, Regis (translated from the French by George Boas), EMERSON: THE ENRAPTURED YANKEE, Harper & Brothers, Pub., New York, 1930 1st ed, frontis, 444pp, good, green cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 40276 ), $7.50
110. ( Emerson ), Norton, Charles Eliot (edited by), LETTERS FROM RALPH WALDO EMERSON TO A FRIEND, 1838-1853, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Cambridge, 1899, 82pp, very good+, olive green cloth, teg (hardcover), The friend to whom the letters in this little volume were addressed was younger than Emerson by nine years., (Order No: 51973 ), $12.50
111. ( Emerson ), Porte, Joel (editor), EMERSON: PROSPECT AND RETROSPECT, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982, 198pp, fine, brown cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0674249151 The essays that follow in this collection attempt both to come to terms with Emerson's modernity and to cast an eye back on his origins and development. In their range of reference they suggest not only how extensively Emerson is linked to the present but also how firmly he was rooted in America's past and in the history of his own time., (Order No: 13781 ), $10.00
112. ( Emerson ), Wagenknecht, Edward, RALPH WALDO EMERSON: PORTRAIT OF A BALANCED SOUL, Oxford University Press, New York, 1974, 307pp, good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 40919 ), $10.00
113. ( Empson ), Gill, Roma (edited by), WILLIAM EMPSON: THE MAN AND HIS WORK, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, (1974), 244pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0710078234 This volume of commemorative and celebratory essays, by a number of today's most distinguished literary figures, concentrates on Empson himself--the critic, the poet and friend., (Order No: 37971 ), $14.50
114. ( Field ), Wilson, Francis, THE EUGENE FIELD I KNEW, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1898, B&W illustrations, 128pp, very good, olive green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 25106 ), $7.50
115. ( Field ), Thompson, Slason, EUGENE FIELD: A STUDY IN HEREDITY AND CONTRADICTIONS, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1901 1st ed, B&W illustrations, very good, red cloth, teg (hardcover), Two volume set: 346pp, 349pp., (Order No: 14890 ), $20.00
116. ( Fisher ), Yates, Elizabeth, PEBBLE IN A POOL: THE WIDENING CIRCLES OF DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER'S LIFE, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., New York, 1958 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 284pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This vibrant moving portrait has been interpreted for young people., (Order No: 43750 ), $12.50
117. ( Fitzgerald ), Meyers, Jeffrey, SCOTT FITZGERALD A BIOGRAPHY, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, (1994) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 400pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0060190361, (Order No: 52185 ), $3.00
118. ( Flaubert ), Bart, Benjamin F., FLAUBERT, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, (1967) 1st ed, 40 B&W ill., 791pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0815600879 According to the New York Times Book Review, "this is the most complete and perhaps the best book on Flaubert.", (Order No: 14063 ), $8.00
119. ( Fowles ), Olshen, Barry N., JOHN FOWLES, Frederick Ungar Publishing, New York, (1980) 3rd ptg, 140pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0804426551 First published in 1978. This is the first comprehensive critical study of Fowles work., (Order No: 17194 ), $5.00
120. ( Frederic ), Myers, Robert M., RELUCTANT EXPATRIATE: THE LIFE OF HAROLD FREDERIC, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, (1995) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 202pp, very good, gray cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0313292566 Contents include: The Emerging Realist (1856-1882); Albany Mugwump (1882-1884); London Correspondent (1884-1886); Professional Author (1886-1890); London Bon Vivant (1890-1893); Author of THE DAMNATION OF THERON WARE (1893-1896); and, Literary Celebrity and Christian Scientist (1896-1898)., (Order No: 38088 ), $30.00
121. ( Frost ), Anderson, Margaret Bartlett, ROBERT FROST AND JOHN BARTLETT: THE RECORD OF A FRIENDSHIP, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1963) 1st ed, 9 B&W ill., 224pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), These letters to a lifetime friend constitute an intimate chronicle of two remarkable families, the Frosts and the Bartletts: how resolutely they worked, how richly they lived, how they endured many personal crises with wisdom, dignity, and grace., (Order No: 16935 ), $3.50
122. ( Frost ), Thompson, Lawrance (edited by), SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1964) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 645pp, good+ w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), This book comes as close as the poet ever came to producing his autobiography. Among these 566 letters, the reader will find the scattered seeds of the tantalizingly complex man and artist who was Robert Frost., (Order No: 16621 ), $12.00
123. ( Frost ), Thompson, Lawrance, ROBERT FROST: THE YEARS OF TRIUMPH, 1915-1938, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1970) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 744pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0030845300, (Order No: 34054 ), $12.00
124. ( Frost ), van Egmond, Peter, ROBERT FROST: A REFERENCE GUIDE 1974-1990, G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, MA, (1991) 1st ptg, 148pp, fine, maroon cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as issued), ISBN 0816172714 Essentially a compilation of the writings about Robert Frost, 1974-1990., (Order No: 14131 ), $5.00
125. ( Frost ), Walsh, John Evangelist, INTO MY OWN: THE ENGLISH YEARS OF ROBERT FROST, 1912-1915, Grove Press, New York, (1988) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 286pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0802110452 A fascinating account of Frost's years in England, with special attention to such things as his friendship with Edward Thomas., (Order No: 32948 ), $6.00
126. ( Fry ), Stanford, Derek, CHRISTOPHER FRY ALBUM, Peter Nevill, London, 1952, B&W illustrations, 116pp, good, blue cloth w/very light edgewear (hardcover), The story of Christopher Fry's success as poet-playwright., (Order No: 19705 ), $4.00
127. ( Gale ), Simonson, Harold P., ZONA GALE - TWAYNE'S UNITED STATES AUTHORS SERIES, Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, (1962), 157pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), A critical-analytical study of the writing of Miss Gale (Mrs. William L. Breese), the Wisconsin writer who died in December, 1938., (Order No: 31966 ), $6.50
128. ( Gardner ), Johnston, Alva, THE CASE OF ERLE STANLEY GARDNER, William Morrow & Company, New York, (1947), B&W illustrations, 87pp, good+, salmon colored cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Biography and a list of his mysteries., (Order No: 41713 ), $22.50
129. ( Gibbon ), Whitfield, Peter, GRASSIC GIBBON AND HIS WORLD, Aberdeen Journals, Ltd., Scotland, (1994), color illustrations, 96pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0951064266 Lewis Grassic Gibbon is widely regarded as the greatest Scottish novelist of this century., (Order No: 48193 ), $10.00
130. ( Gibbon ), Wedgwood, C. V., EDWARD GIBBON, The British Council, London, (1955), frontis, 36pp, very good, wraps (softcover), "Writers and Their Work: No. 66" A series on Writers and their Work., (Order No: 50498 ), $6.00
131. ( Gide ), Ames, Van Meter, ANDRE GIDE - THE MAKERS OF MODERN LITERATURE, New Directions Books, Norfolk, CT, (1947), B&W frontis, 302pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "This penetrating new study of France's greatest living man of letters demonstrates how Gide's career epitomizes the tensions of our time.", (Order No: 50679 ), $8.00
132. ( Gide ), Brugmans, Linette F. (edited, with translations, introduction, and notes by), THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ANDRE GIDE AND EDMUND GOSSE, 1904-1928, New York University Press, New York, 1959, B&W frontis, 220pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Shortly after first reading LA PORTE ETROITE the English critic Edmund Gosse wrote a letter of warmest praise to its author, Andre Gide, inaugurating an intimate correspondence that was to continue for nearly 20 years., (Order No: 28639 ), $8.00
133. ( Goethe ), Fairley, Barker, A STUDY OF GOETHE, Oxford at the Clarendon Pr., London, 1947, 280pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This book deals mainly with Goethe's inner biography. It examines his chief works, especially Faust, in the light of the life and shows him to be a modern man confronted with modern problems., (Order No: 34313 ), $15.00
134. ( Goethe ), Leppmann, Wolfgang, THE GERMAN IMAGE OF GOETHE, Oxford at the Clarendon Pr., London, 1961, 220pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In offering a balanced account of Goethe's effect on the literary, musical, scientific, and political life of Germany from the 1770's to the present time, Professor Leppmann traces the development of a rather neglected phenomenon in the world of letters; the rise, fall, and re-birth of a great writer's reputation., (Order No: 34318 ), $20.00
135. ( Gordon ), Makowsky, Veronica A., CAROLINE GORDON: A BIOGRAPHY, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989, B&W illustrations, 260pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 019505718X The author of nine novels, three collections of short stories, and two critical works, Caroline Gordon produced an impressive--though unjustly neglected--body of work. Her considerable contributions to modern Southern fiction notwithstanding, her life was especially fascinating for two other reasons: the prominent literary circles in which she moved and her heroic efforts to "have it all"--marriage, career, and family--at a time when such aspiration was neither touted nor supported., (Order No: 19414 ), $5.00
136. ( Gordon ), Waldron, Ann, CLOSE CONNECTIONS - CAROLINE GORDON AND THE SOUTHERN RENAISSANCE, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1987) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 416pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0399132287, (Order No: 49638 ), $4.00
137. ( Gorky ), Troyat, Henri (translated by Lowell Bair), GORKY: A BIOGRAPHY, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, (1989) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 216pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0517572370 The distinguished and critically acclaimed biographer of Russian rulers and writers, has written here a masterful work about Maxim Gorky, the author whose novels, plays, and memoirs depict working-class life in the pre- and postrevolutionary eras., (Order No: 15912 ), $4.00
138. ( Grahame ), Green, Peter, KENNETH GRAHAME: A BIOGRAPHY, The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, OH, (1959) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 401pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The dramatic and human story of the fascinating and complex man who wrote THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS., (Order No: 28494 ), $5.00
139. ( Gray ), Sells, A. L. Lytton (assisted by Iris Lytton Sells), THOMAS GRAY: HIS LIFE AND WORKS, George Allen & Unwin, London, (1980), B&W frontis, 293pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0049280430 The author's intention in this biography of Gray is to place the man and the poet in a truer focus than has any previous writer; for in Professor Lytton Sells' view, earlier studies of Gray have been insufficiently critical., (Order No: 16399 ), $8.50
140. ( Green ), Green, Julian (translated by Anne and Julian Green; preface by Julian Green), THE GREEN PARADISE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY VOLUME I (1900-1916), Marion Boyars, New York, (1993), 243pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0714529559 Autobiography, confession of adolescence, an exercise in the art of evoking past experiences--Julian Green's memories of his childhood are full of many fascinations., (Order No: 19097 ), $7.00
141. ( Grey ), Kant, Candace C. (foreword by Loren Grey), ZANE GREY'S ARIZONA, Northland Press, Flagstaff, AZ, (1984) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 184pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 087358354X This volume, an in-depth exploration of Grey's experiences in Arizona, examines his intimate relationship with the state's spectrum of land and climate while demonstrating the manner in which this internationally known author transformed his observations into spell-binding tales of human courage in the face of danger and adversity., (Order No: 21505 ), $12.00
142. ( Gyp ), Silverman, Willa Z., THE NOTORIOUS LIFE OF GYP: RIGHT-WING ANARCHIST IN FIN-DE-SIECLE FRANCE, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 325pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195087542 Who was this impossibly prolific, fanatically nationalistic writer and activist whose polemical novels and caricatures significantly encouraged the development of popular anti-Semitism in France, and who made such an extraordinary mark in an era when women were still denied the vote or access to public office? In the first critical biography ever written of this gifted and troubled woman, the author brilliantly illuminates the life and times of Gyp, otherwise known as Sibylle-Gabrielle Marie- Antoinette de Riquetti de Mirabeau, comtesse de Martel de Janville (1849-1932)., (Order No: 15627 ), $4.50
143. ( Hamilton ), Mikkelsen, Nina, VIGINIA HAMILTON, Twayne Publishers, New York, (1994) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 169pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0805740104 Twayne's United States Authors Series Number 630. First book-length study of Hamilton, which presents a writer who has broadened readers' knowledge of the African-American cultural experience., (Order No: 38083 ), $45.00
144. ( Hannay ), Worth, George J., JAMES HANNAY: HIS LIFE AND WORKS, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS, (1964), B&W frontis, 191pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The purpose of this workmanlike study of Hannay, a labor of love, is "to trace his curiously rich, yet sad career.", (Order No: 18897 ), $25.00
145. ( Hardy ), Drabble, Margaret (editor), THE GENIUS OF THOMAS HARDY, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1976 1st Amer, 48 B&W ill., 191pp, good, black cloth spine (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 039449556X The author has assembled a wide-ranging collection of essays by sixteen distinguished authors, shedding new and penetrating light on many aspects of Hardy's life and art., (Order No: 12646 ), $3.00
146. ( Hardy ), Hawkins, Desmond, THOMAS HARDY - THE ENGLISH NOVELISTS SERIES, Arthur Barker Ltd., London, (1950), 112pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 26576 ), $8.50
147. ( Harris ), Cousins, Paul M., JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS: A BIOGRAPHY, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, LA, (1969) 2nd ptg, B&W ill., 237pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A full scale biography of Joel Chandler Harris., (Order No: 33927 ), $12.50
148. ( Harris ), Pullar, Philippa, FRANK HARRIS: A BIOGRAPHY, Simon and Schuster, New York, (1976), 16pp of B&W illustrations, 444pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0671220918 Here at last the major biography, in all its scandalous detail, of the real man behind the legendary author of the world's most enduring work of pornography, Frank Harris' My Life and Loves. Now Philippa Pullar brings back to life Frank Harris the reformer, traveler, interviewer and financial intriguer; the loyal friend and companion, risking his reputation to support Oscar Wilde; obsessed totally by his wife, Nellie; and acting as a catalyst for young writers., (Order No: 12650 ), $3.00
149. ( Harris ), Pearsall, Robert Brainard, FRANK HARRIS: TWAYNE'S ENGLISH AUTHORS SERIES - NO. 103, Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, (1970), 196pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 26560 ), $4.00
150. ( Harris ), Rickels, Milton, GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS: TWAYNE'S UNITED STATES AUTHORS SERIES - NO. 91, Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, (1965), 159pp, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 26580 ), $4.50
151. ( Harris ), Root, E. Merrill, FRANK HARRIS, The Odyssey Press, New York, 1947 1st ed, B&W frontis, 324pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 32005 ), $4.50
152. ( Hawthorne ), Ticknor, Caroline, HAWTHORNE AND HIS PUBLISHER, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1913, B&W illustrations, 339pp, very good, olive green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 52577 ), $15.00
153. ( Heine ), Pawel, Ernst, THE POET DYING: HEINRICH HEINE'S LAST YEARS IN PARIS, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, (1995) 1st ed, B&W frontis, 277pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0374235384 This book focuses on those last crucial years of Heine's life, as they reflect his artistic growth and spiritual transformation and also, in a larger sense, one of the most critical periods in French and European history., (Order No: 24772 ), $7.50
154. ( Highwater ), Highwater, Jamake, SHADOW SHOW: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INSINUATION, Alfred van der Marck Edition, New York, (1986) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 240pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0912383240 Highwater gathers together interviews, encounters, and critical writings from his varied past, weaving the whole into the "insinuation" of an autobiography., (Order No: 26659 ), $12.50
155. ( Hillhouse ), Hazelrigg, Charles Tabb, AMERICAN LITERARY PIONEER: A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF JAMES A. HILLHOUSE, Bookman Associates, Publ., New York, 1953, B&W illustrations, 226pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A noteworthy poet in his own right, James Abraham Hillhouse is particularly significant as a forerunner of New England's literary renaissance in the nineteenth century., (Order No: 52990 ), $8.50
156. ( Hind ), Hind, C. Lewis, NAPHTALI: BEING INFLUENCES AND ADVENTURES WHILE EARNING A LIVING BY WRITING, The Bodley Head Limited, London, (1926), 44 B&W ill., 253pp, ads, very good, blue cloth (hardcover) dustjacket panels laid in, (Order No: 32438 ), $15.00
157. ( Hippius ), Pachmuss, Temira, ZINAIDA HIPPIUS: AN INTELLECTUAL PROFILE, Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., Carbondale, IL, (1971), B&W illustrations, 491pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0809304090 The author's study opens to the reader the intrinsic worth of Hippius' ideas, the rich imagery and singing quality of her verse, as well as her metaphysical and tragic Weltanschauung. The author's study encompasses not only Hippius' published writings but also her unpublished works--her correspondence, her diaries, her literary and personal memoirs., (Order No: 26628 ), $6.50
158. ( Houseman Yeats ), Aldington, Richard, A. E. HOUSMAN AND W. B. YEATS - TWO LECTURES, The Peacocks Press, Hurst, Berkshire, 1955, 36pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) good glassine cover, Limited to 350 copies, these lectures were part of a series delivered in New York in about 1938. Pages largely unopened., (Order No: 29081 ), $50.00
159. ( Howells ), Bennett, George N., THE REALISM OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 1889-1920, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN, 1973, 254pp, fine, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0826511805 A critical exploration and elucidation of each of the novels from 1889-1920 of William Dean Howells., (Order No: 16756 ), $7.00
160. ( Howells ), Olsen, Rodney D., DANCING IN CHAINS: THE YOUTH OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, New York University Press, New York, 1991, 23 B&W illustrations, 344pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814761720 This insightful study of childhood and youth demonstrates how the turbulent social and cultural changes of the early nineteenth century shaped Howells's emotional and intellectual life., (Order No: 16922 ), $12.50
161. ( Hudson ), Hudson, W. H. (edited and with an introduction and explanatory notes by Edward Garnett), 153 LETTERS FROM W. H. HUDSON, The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923, 193pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover), One of 1,000 copies. Largely uncut and unopened pages., (Order No: 52919 ), $45.00
162. ( Hugo ), Hugo, Victor; and, Dole, Nathan Haskell (translated by), VICTOR HUGO'S LETTERS TO HIS WIFE AND OTHERS (THE ALPS AND THE PYRENEES), Estes and Lauriat, Boston, (1895), 308pp, good+, olive green cloth, teg (hardcover) light bump top corners, The journey to the Alps belongs to 1839, and the the Pyrenees is 1843. Nice clean, bright and tight copy - just a light bumping to the top corners of the boards, not affecting the book block., (Order No: 46016 ), $17.50
163. ( Irving ), Bryant, William Cullen, A DISCOURSE ON THE LIFE, CHARACTER AND GENIUS OF WASHINGTON IRVING, G. P. Putnam, New York, 1860, 52pp, good, original black/green cloth (hardcover), DELIVERED BEFORE THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN NEW YORK, ON THE 3D OF APRIL, 1860., (Order No: 44838 ), $20.00
164. ( James ), James, Henry; Dupee, Frederick W. (edited with an introduction by), HENRY JAMES: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Criterion Books, New York, (1956), B&W frontis, 622pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This volume contains the complete text of A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS, NOTES OF A SON AND BROTHER and THE MIDDLE YEARS, which James wrote in the last five years of his life (1911-16)., (Order No: 52291 ), $10.00
165. ( James ), Edel, Leon, HENRY JAMES - A LIFE, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1985), B&W illustrations, 740pp, good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0060154594, (Order No: 41645 ), $4.00
166. ( James ), Geismar, Maxwell, HENRY JAMES: AND THE JACOBITES, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1963 1st ptg, 463pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The definitive study of a great literary figure and the cycles of opinion among his critics., (Order No: 25455 ), $6.00
167. ( James ), Le Clair, Robert C., YOUNG HENRY JAMES, 1843-1870, Bookman Associates, New York, (1955), B&W frontis, 469pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, A study of the first three decades of Henry James' life., (Order No: 48458 ), $7.00
168. ( James ), Moore, Marianne; Wilson, Edmund; Spender, Stephen; Blackmur, R. P. et al, HOMAGE TO HENRY JAMES, 1843-1916, Paul P. Appel, Mamaroneck, NY, 1971, B&W illustrations, 218pp, very good, light brown cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0911858172 Originally published 1934., (Order No: 44354 ), $25.00
169. ( James ), West, Rebecca, HENRY JAMES - WRITERS OF THE DAY SERIES, Nisbet & Co., Ltd., London, (1916), B&W frontis, 128pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) (clean and tight copy), Rebecca West's First Book. BAL, Volume 5, Henry James, Section III., (Order No: 27167 ), $35.00
170. ( Johnson ), Johnson, Charles (edited by Rudolph P. Byrd), I CALL MYSELF AN ARTIST: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT CHARLES JOHNSON, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1999) 1st ptg, 398pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 0253335418 This volume gathers together a rich sampling of Johnson's work: stories and outtakes from the novels; essays, including a lengthy autobiography; cartoons; speeches; and interviews., (Order No: 23429 ), $17.50
171. ( Johnson ), Piozzi, Hesther Lynch (edited, with an introduction by S. C. Roberts), ANECDOTES OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, NY, (1969), 196pp, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 0836950976 Originally published in 1925 under the title, "ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.: DURING THE LAST TWENTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE.", (Order No: 21575 ), $17.50
172. ( Jones ), MacShane, Frank, INTO ETERNITY: THE LIFE OF JAMES JONES, AMERICAN WRITER, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1985 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 355pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0395353556 The author reveals the dimensions of this talented and controversial writer against the background of the country that affected him and was, in turn, affected by him., (Order No: 21558 ), $5.00
173. ( Josephson ), Shi, David E., MATTHEW JOSEPHSON, BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (1981) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 314pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300025637 Matthew Josephson - social critic, award-winning biographer, and popular historian - was at the center of many of the major cultural and intellectual events of his age., (Order No: 38197 ), $7.50
174. ( Joyce ), Ellmann, Richard, JAMES JOYCE, Oxford University Press, New York, 1959 2nd ptg, 16 plates of illustrations, 842pp, good+ w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 8268 ), $10.00
175. ( Joyce ), Joyce, James (edited, translated and introduced by Louis Berrone), JAMES JOYCE IN PADUA, Random House, New York, (1977) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 146pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394409906 In April 1912 in Padua, James Joyce wrote two essays as part of an examination to qualify for a teaching position in the Italian public school system. These essays were only recently recovered from the archives of the University of Padua., (Order No: 52920 ), $6.00
176. ( Joyce ), Magalaner, Marvin and Kain, Richard M., JOYCE: THE MAN, THE WORK, THE REPUTATION, New York University Press, New York, 1956, 377pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, corner bump, Clean and tight copy, but with a bump to the lower corner of the rear board., (Order No: 53008 ), $15.00
177. ( Kafka ), Karl, Frederick R., FRANZ KAFKA: REPRESENTATIVE MAN, PRAGUE, GERMANS, JEWS, AND THE CRISIS OF MODERNISM, Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1991, B&W illustrations, 810pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0395561434 Not just a personal biography, this book presents a vivid and authoritative picture of the historical, cultural, and artistic world from which Kafka arose, examining the entire body of his writing in light of his status as the representative man of our time., (Order No: 19756 ), $10.00
178. ( Kafka ), Urzidil, Johannes (translated from the German by Harold A. Basilius), THERE GOES KAFKA, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, 1968, B&W illustrations, 231pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), From an intimacy with a common spiritual homeland shared with Kafka, the author conjures up the essential background of the poet and provides authentic emphasis for the understanding of his literary art., (Order No: 18668 ), $12.50
179. ( Keats ), Hewlett, Dorothy, A LIFE OF JOHN KEATS - SECOND EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED, Barnes & Noble, Inc., New York, 1950, B&W illustrations, 408pp, good, light blue cloth (light fade to spine) (hardcover), (Order No: 42798 ), $8.00
180. ( Keats ), Lowell, Amy, JOHN KEATS - VOLUME I AND VOLUME II - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, (1925) 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, very good++, red cloth (hardcover) w/lightly worn slipcase, Two volume set: Volume I, 631pp; Volume II, 662pp. Exceptionally nice clean, tight and bright set with advertising brochure laid in and with lightly worn slipcase., (Order No: 23415 ), $17.50
181. ( Kerouac ), Gifford, Barry and Lee, Lawrence, JACK'S BOOK: AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF JACK KEROUAC, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1978), B&W photographs, 339pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312439423 "With the voices of the men and women who populate the Kerouac novels, including: William Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Gore Vidal, & others.", (Order No: 12235 ), $4.50
182. ( Kipling ), Clemens, Will M., A KEN OF KIPLING: BEING A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF RUDYARD KIPLING, WITH AN APPRECIATION AND SOME ANECDOTES, New Amsterdam Book Company, New York, 1899, 3 B&W ill., 141pp, good++, pictorial cloth (hardcover), Very nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 17584 ), $15.00
183. ( Kipling ), Gross, John (editor), THE AGE OF KIPLING: THE MAN, HIS WORK, AND HIS WORLD, Simon and Schuster, New York, (1972) 1st US, 99 B&W ill., 178pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0671214055 In this collection of essays, Kipling's youth, his years in India, his fascination with the army and the military ethos, his increasing disillusion with an England that seemed to him to have failed and shrunk, are all described in a book that assembles a moving and unique portrait of a major literary figure., (Order No: 13443 ), $7.50
184. ( Kipling ), Laski, Marghanita, FROM PALM TO PINE: RUDYARD KIPLING ABROAD AND AT HOME, Facts on File Publications, New York, (1987), B&W illustrations, 192pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0816016887 Here Marghanita Laski re-creates Kipling's life and, in particular, his world--one dominated by the British Empire--showing us how he viewed it and reflected it in his writing., (Order No: 17309 ), $5.00
185. ( Kipling ), Mason, Philip, KIPLING: THE GLASS, THE SHADOW AND THE FIRE, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1975) 1st ed, 334pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 006012833X, (Order No: 39009 ), $8.00
186. ( Kipling ), Van de Water, Frederic F. (foreword by Vrest Orton), RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERMONT FEUD, Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, (1981), drawings by Bernadine Custer, 119pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, First published in 1937. This is a rousing good story of an unrecorded epoch in Kipling's life., (Order No: 42307 ), $8.50
187. ( Kleist ), Maass, Joachim (translated from the German by Ralph Manheim), KLEIST: A BIOGRAPHY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, (1983) 1st ed, 313pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0374181624 The first full-scale biography of Kleist to appear in English. Maass draws heavily on letters and other primary sources to reconstruct Kleist's life, while simultaneously scrutinizing each of his major works. Dustjacket illustration by Maurice Sendak., (Order No: 17919 ), $8.00
188. ( L'Engle ), L'Engle, Madeleine, TWO-PART INVENTION: THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, (1988) 1st ed, 232pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0374280207 This moving memoir documents a marriage of more than forty years between Hugh Franklin, a successful stage actor, and Madeleine L'Engle, a best-selling author. Their setting was Crosswicks, an eighteenth-century Connecticut farmhouse, which became an icon of their marriage., (Order No: 14616 ), $4.50
189. ( Laforgue ), Ramsey, Warren (edited by) (preface by Harry T. Moore), JULES LAFORGUE, ESSAYS ON A POET'S LIFE AND WORK, Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., Carbondale, IL, (1969), 194pp, very good, orange cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), A many-sided exploration of Jules Laforgue., (Order No: 35961 ), $8.00
190. ( Lamb ), Barnett, George L., CHARLES LAMB: TWAYNE'S ENGLISH AUTHORS SERIES - NO. 195, Twayne Publishers, Boston, (1976), 172pp, very good+, maroon buckram cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0805766685, (Order No: 26564 ), $5.00
191. ( Lamb ), Howe, Will D., CHARLES LAMB AND HIS FRIENDS, The Bobbs- Merrill Company, Indianapolis, (1944) 1st ed, 19 B&W ill., 364pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), To see Charles Lamb as he was to himself and to those who knew him was the purpose of this book. The author presents Lamb in his different relationships and in reference to his favorite interests, rather than to follow the years of his life in a strict order., (Order No: 9209 ), $6.00
192. ( Lamb ), Lamb, Charles; and, Lamb, Mary - Lucas, E. V. (edited by), THE WORKS OF CHARLES AND MARY LAMB - THE LETTERS OF CHARLES AND MARY LAMB - TWO VOLUMES: 1790-1820 AND 1821-1834, Metheun & Co., London, (1905), 2 vols, 1025pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB with much edgewear to cloth, Two volume set of letters published as Volume VI and Volume VII of THE WORKS OF CHARLES AND MARY LAMB. A clean and tight set, but with private library marks on the spines, and much wear to the top and bottom of the spines., (Order No: 44945 ), $15.00
193. ( Lawrence ), Daleski, H. M., THE FORKED FLAME: A STUDY OF D. H. LAWRENCE, Northwestern University Pres, Evanston, IL, 1965 2nd ptg, 320pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), By detailed critical analysis of representative novels, this study attempts to trace the development of D. H. Lawrence as a novelist., (Order No: 36674 ), $7.50
194. ( Lawrence ), Lawrence, D. H. (edited with an introduction by Diana Trilling), THE SELECTED LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, (1958) 1st ptg, 322pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 36678 ), $7.50
195. ( Lear ), Chitty, Susan, THAT SINGULAR PERSON CALLED LEAR: A BIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD LEAR, ARTIST, TRAVELLER, AND PRINCE OF NONSENSE, Atheneum, New York, 1989, B&W photos, 305pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 068911897X, (Order No: 6301 ), $5.00
196. ( Lehmann ), Lehmann, John, THE WHISPERING GALLERY - AUTOBIOGRAPHY I, Longman's, Green and Co., London, (1956) 3rd ptg, B&W frontis, 342pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The first volume of John Lehmann's autobiography, IN MY OWN TIME, and takes the reader to the outbreak of the Second World War., (Order No: 51909 ), $5.00
197. ( Lincoln ), McCue, James Westaway, JOE LINCOLN OF CAPE COD, The Cape Cod Publishers, Silver Lake P.O., MA, 1949, B&W photographs, 76pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) signed by the author, "Joseph Lincoln was not only a novelist of wide reputation, but he was also a public benefactor. His success had in it something heartening and corrective. In the midst of work which appeals to the base and cynical in human life (American city life) his clean, wholesome, humorous stories of Cape Cod Sea Captains and their neighbors gave evidence of the fact that there was a huge public for decent, homely fiction. ...", (Order No: 23826 ), $35.00
198. ( Lowell ), Heymann, C. David, AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF JAMES RUSSELL, AMY, AND ROBERT LOWELL, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, (1980), B&W illustrations, 561pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0396076084 No other American family has played a larger, more inspiring role in the private, public, and commercial affairs of the nation as a whole. Out of this aristocratic clan have emerged three of the most famous and colorful poets America has produced: James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891; Amy Lowell, 1874-1925; and Robert Lowell, 1917-1977., (Order No: 19505 ), $4.00
199. ( Lowell ), COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: POET, SCHOLAR, DIPLOMAT - FEBRUARY 22, 1819, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1919, 88pp, very good, purple cloth spine, teg (hardcover), "Born in Cambridge, Mass., February 22, 1819, Died in Cambridge, August 12, 1891 - Held Under the Auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, February 12-22, 1919.", (Order No: 9454 ), $12.50
200. ( Lowell ), Raffel, Burton, ROBERT LOWELL - MODERN LITERATURE SERIES, Frederick Ungar Publishing, New York, (1981), 157pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0804427070, (Order No: 26573 ), $5.00
201. ( Lucien ), Baldwin, Barry, STUDIES IN LUCIAN, Hakkert, Toronto, 1973, 123pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 0888665245 In this, the first full-length treatment of Lucien in English, Barry Baldwin examines the evidence for Lucian's life, and tries to reconstruct as much as possible from contradictory and elusive data., (Order No: 47666 ), $10.00
202. ( Malraux ), Malraux, Andre, ANTI-MEMOIRS, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1968), 420pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 8272 ), $3.00
203. ( Marlowe ), Morris, Brian (edited by), CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Hill and Wang, New York, (1969) 1st Amer, 197pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0809067803 This book is the record of the first York Symposium, held at Langwith College in the University of York in April 1968. Dr. Morris writes in his Foreword: 'the idea behind the venture was that it might be productive if a small group of academics with special interests in Marlowe's work could live together for a long weekend, hear each other's work and offer criticism, comment, and new ideas on it both publicly and privately.' Mermaid Critical Commentaries series., (Order No: 18069 ), $18.50
204. ( Marshall ), Phelps, William Lyon, ARCHIBALD MARSHALL - A REALISTIC NOVELIST, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1918, B&W frontis, 57pp, good, blue paper covered boards (hardcover), The original form of this book was a lecture on the William Vaugn Moody foundation at the University of Chicago. Includes a bibliography of Marshall's works., (Order No: 43774 ), $10.00
205. ( Martinengou ), Moutzan-Martinengou, Elisavet, MY STORY, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1989) 1st ptg, 125pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0820311251 Translated from the Greek by Helen Dendrinou Kolias. The first English translation of the autobiography of this remarkable woman who found an outlet for her enormous creative energy in writing. Her only surviving work, My Story, covers Martinengou's life from age eight, focusing on her desperate attempts to break out of the trap in which she found herself., (Order No: 13708 ), $10.00
206. ( Marvel ), Murray, Nicholas, WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME: THE LIFE OF ANDREW MARVELL, St. Martin's Press, New York, (2000) 1st US, B&W illustrations, 294pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) small corner bump, ISBN 0316648639 This volume explores the life and work of a complex and elusive personality whose poetry continues to stimulate the modern mind., (Order No: 28395 ), $6.00
207. ( McNickle ), Parker, Dorothy R., SINGING AN INDIAN SONG: A BIOGRAPHY OF D'ARCY MCNICKLE, Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, (1992), B&W illustrations, 317pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0803236875 This biography traces the course of McNickle's life from the reservation of his childhood through a career of major import to American Indian political and cultural affairs., (Order No: 35401 ), $5.00
208. ( Melville ), Hayes, Kevin J. & Parker, Hershel (revised by), CHECKLIST OF MELVILLE REVIEWS, Northwestern University Pr., Evanston, IL, 1991, 157pp, fine, beige cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0810110288 Revised by the authors from the 1975 Checklist by Steven Mailloux and Hershel Parker. Barring oversights on the authors part, this volume includes every review listed in every published study of Melville's contemporary reception and every new review found by the compilers or privately supplied to them., (Order No: 13915 ), $10.00
209. ( Melville ), Post-Lauria, Sheila, CORRESPONDENT COLORINGS: MELVILLE IN THE MARKETPLACE, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, (1996), 276pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1558490035 Challenging the view of Melville as an isolated, alienated genius, the author presents him not only as a writer keenly attuned to the popular culture of his day but also as one who considered reliance upon cultural materials fundamental to his creativity., (Order No: 40378 ), $15.00
210. ( Mencken ), Goldberg, Isaac, THE MAN MENCKEN: A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SURVEY, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1925 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 388pp, good, black cloth (paint spot on lower edge) (hardcover), (Order No: 26101 ), $7.50
211. ( Mencken ), Hobson, Fred C. (foreword by Gerald W. Johnson), SERPENT IN EDEN: H. L. MENCKEN AND THE SOUTH, Univ. of North Carolina Pr., Chapel Hill, NC, (1974) 2nd ptg, B&W frontis, 242pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In addition to exploring the motivation for the famous essay, "The Sahara of the Bozart," and the explosive reaction of Southerners, the book investigates the larger role that Mencken played in the Southern life of the 1920s., (Order No: 31591 ), $10.00
212. ( Miller ), Martin, Jay, ALWAYS MERRY AND BRIGHT: THE LIFE OF HENRY MILLER - AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY, Penquin Books, New York, (1980), B&W photos, 560pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0140055487, (Order No: 7677 ), $7.50
213. ( Miller ), Winslow, Kathryn, HENRY MILLER: FULL OF LIFE, A MEMOIR OF AMERICA'S UNINHIBITED LITERARY GENIUS, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, (1986) 1st ed, 35 B&W illustrations, 364pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874774047 This memoir by a friend of thirty-six years finally brings us Miller as he was: a brillant, magical, and prescient man of bustling creativity and genius-entertaining to know and to read in all seasons., (Order No: 12491 ), $7.50
214. ( Mitchell ), Pyron, Darden Asbury, SOUTHERN DAUGHTER - THE LIFE OF MARGARET MITCHELL, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 533pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195052765, (Order No: 48190 ), $4.00
215. ( Moliere ), Fernandez, Ramon (translated from the French by Wilson Follett), MOLIERE: THE MAN SEEN THROUGH THE PLAYS, Hill and Wang, New York, (1958), 212pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The central theme of this book is that the dramatist, like other writers, can write only what he is., (Order No: 38759 ), $12.50
216. ( Monahan ), Monahan, Michael, ADVENTURES IN LIFE AND LETTERS, Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1912, 373pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover), Nice clean, bright and tight copy., (Order No: 31991 ), $15.00
217. ( Moody ), Brown, Maurice F., ESTRANGING DAWN - THE LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., Carbondale, IL, (1973), sepia toned illustrations, 321pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0809306182 Poet and playwright, whose works enjoyed phenomen al success in the early 1900s, William Vaughn Moody's literary reputation seems to have lived under the shadow of his time., (Order No: 50779 ), $8.00
218. ( Moore ), Dunleavy, Janet Egleson (edited by), GEORGE MOORE IN PERSPECTIVE, Malton Press/Colin Smythe, Kildare/Buckinghamshire, (1983), B&W illustrations, 174pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0389203955 This collection was gathered together to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of George Moore's death. Irish Literary Studies 16., (Order No: 25999 ), $12.50
219. ( Morris ), Morris, Wright, A CLOAK OF LIGHT: WRITING MY LIFE, Harper & Row Publishers, New York, (1985) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 306pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0060153997 This is the concluding volume of Morris' memoirs. These pages give us the substance of a writer's life to which his fiction provides the commentary., (Order No: 15029 ), $4.00
220. ( Morris ), Morris, Wright, WILL'S BOY: A MEMOIR, Harper & Row, Publishers, NY, (1981) 1st ed, B&W frontis, 200pp, very good w/very good dustjacket, Wright Morris re-creates the early years of his life in the Midwest in what may well be his most enchanting volume. This memoir captures a period of history and recounts personal experiences that are impossible to resist., (Order No: 15092 ), $15.00
221. ( Munday ), Conway, Eustace, ANTHONY MUNDAY: AND OTHER ESSAYS, Privately Printed, New York, 1927, B&W frontis, 112pp, good, cream cloth spine w/light soil and wear (hardcover), Anthony Munday (1553-1633) is probably the most neglected of Elizabethan literary characters. He was the writer of some of the most charming lyrics of the period., (Order No: 39330 ), $47.50
222. ( Munro ), Langguth, A. J., SAKI: A LIFE OF HECTOR HUGH MUNRO - WITH SIX SHORT STORIES NEVER BEFORE COLLECTED, Simon and Schuster, New York, (1981) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 366pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0671247158, (Order No: 50450 ), $10.00
223. ( Murray ), Griffin, Ernest G., JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY: TWAYNE'S ENGLISH AUTHORS SERIES - NO. 72, Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, (1969), 182pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 26558 ), $17.50
224. ( Nabokov ), Lee, L. L., VLADIMIR NABOKOV: TWAYNE'S UNITED STATES AUTHORS SERIES - NO. 266, Twayne Publishers, Inc., Boston, 1976, 168pp, very good, blue buckram cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0904000834, (Order No: 26581 ), $10.00
225. ( Nabokov ), Rowe, William Woodin, NABOKOV'S DECEPTIVE WORLD, New York University Press, New York, 1971, 193pp, fine, salmon cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0814773532 A book that examines the style and composition of Vladimir Nabokov and his importance as a novelist., (Order No: 14313 ), $9.50
226. ( Nichols ), Nichols, Beverley, FATHER FIGURE - AN UNCENSORED AUTOBIOGRAPHY, William Heinemann, Ltd., London, (1972) 1st ed, B&W ill., music examples, 215pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0434512036 John Nichols is the central figure of this unflinchingly candid autobiographical book., (Order No: 25880 ), $25.00
227. ( O'Casey ), Krause, David, SEAN O'CASEY: AND HIS WORLD, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, [1976], B&W illustrations, 128pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684147270 Proud, Protestant and poor, Sean O'Casey was a writer of genius who, like Joyce and Beckett, had to leave Ireland to be completely Irish. But in spite of forty years' self-inflicted exile O'Casey's work contains lessons which, as this perceptive biography shows, are frighteningly relevant to the Ireland of today., (Order No: 17311 ), $3.00
228. ( O'Neill ), Coolidge, Olivia, EUGENE O'NEILL, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1966), 223pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 48784 ), $6.00
229. ( O'Neill ), Floyd, Virginia (edited and annotated by), EUGENE O'NEILL AT WORK: NEWLY RELEASED IDEAS FOR PLAYS, Frederick Ungar Pub. Company, New York, (1981), B&W illustrations, 407pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0804422052 When Eugene O'Neill died in 1953, his widow gave his notebooks to Yale University with instructions that they be kept from public viewing for twenty-five years. At the end of that period, Yale selected Virginia Floyd for the immense task of examining and preparing the restricted notebooks, which were all in O'Neill's nearly indecipherable handwriting. This book is the result--an extraordinary look at the making of a dramatist., (Order No: 17381 ), $7.50
230. ( Pa Chin ), Lang, Olga, PA CHIN AND HIS WRITINGS: CHINESE YOUTH BETWEEN THE TWO REVOLUTIONS, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1967, B&W illustrations, 402pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This volume is more than a standard critical biography. The author focuses on the content of his novels and short stories, which vividly describe the life of Chinese youth. She also pays great attention to the Western, particularly Russian and French, influences on his political philosophy and creative writings., (Order No: 52139 ), $10.00
231. ( Pasternak ), Pasternak, Boris (translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by David Magarshack), LETTERS TO GEORGIAN FRIENDS, Secker & Warburg, London, (1968), 9 B&W ill., 190pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 043636350X These letters cover the period from 1931 to 1959, a few months before Pasternak died in official disgrace, and are written to some of his intimate friends in the Soviet republic of Georgia. Also included is a section on his Georgian friends from his autobiographical sketch, I REMEMBER., (Order No: 14697 ), $5.00
232. ( Pasternak ), Pasternak, Boris (translated with a preface and notes by David Magarshack), I REMEMBER: SKETCH FOR AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Pantheon, New York, (1959), B&W illustrations, 192pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), With an essay on Translating Shakespeare translated by Manya Harari. Boris Pasternak recalls the incidents and influences that made him the poet and the man he is today., (Order No: 25992 ), $4.00
233. ( Percy ), Percy, Walker (edited with an introduction by Patrick Samway), SIGNPOSTS IN A STRANGE LAND, The Noonday Press, New York, (1992), 428pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0374523452 This book includes three unpublished essays as well as two unpublished talks, and ends with two interviews, including Percy's witty self-interview, "Questions They Never Asked Me.", (Order No: 25601 ), $6.00
234. ( Phelps ), Phelps, William Lyon, AUTOBIOGRAPHY WITH LETTERS, Oxford University Press, New York, 1939 8th ptg, B&W illustrations, 982pp, good+, blue cloth (no dustjacket), (Order No: 23235 ), $4.00
235. ( Pinkney ), Mabbott, Thomas Ollive and Pleadwell, Frank Lester, THE LIFE AND WORKS OF EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1926, B&W illustrations, 233pp, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover) front panel of jacket laid in, A MEMOIR AND COMPLETE TEXT OF HIS POEMS AND LITERARY PROSE, INCLUDING MUCH NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. The story of Pinkney's life--his career in the navy, in the law, and as editor of THE MARYLANDER--and his death at twenty-six are told here, and all his poetry, which has never before been published together in its entirety, is included in this volume., (Order No: 25510 ), $20.00
236. ( Poe ), Rein, David M., EDGAR A. POE: THE INNER PATTERN, Philosophical Library, New York, (1960), 134pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) inscribed by author, (Order No: 38871 ), $7.50
237. ( Poe ), Walsh, John, POE THE DETECTIVE: THE CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES BEHIND THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, (1968), B&W illustrations, 156pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The author's account of how Poe constructed his story from the facts of the Rogers case, moved it to a Parisian setting, made it a foil for the talents of his fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin, and found it necessary to make important changes in the story not only after its initial publication but while it was running serially., (Order No: 38270 ), $20.00
238. ( Pope ), Griffin, Dustin H., ALEXANDER POPE: THE POET IN THE POEMS, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1978), 285pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The author brings a sensitive critical reading of the texts and an impressive knowledge of the poet's life and writings to his discussion of poems from the entire range of the poet's career., (Order No: 29329 ), $7.50
239. ( Pope ), Quennell, Peter, ALEXANDER POPE: THE EDUCATION OF GENIUS, 1688-1728, Stein and Day Publishers, New York, (1968), B&W illustrations, 278pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This major biography of the eighteenth-century English poet and satirist spans the formative years of Pope's career, up to the publication of the first DUNCIAD., (Order No: 45108 ), $10.00
240. ( Potter ), Linder, Leslie (transcribed from her code writing by) (with an appreciation by H. L. Cox), THE JOURNAL OF BEATRIX POTTER FROM 1881 TO 1897, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, London, (1966) 2nd ptg, B&W and color illustrations, 448pp, very good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 48054 ), $25.00
241. ( Pound ), Heymann, C. David, EZRA POUND: THE LAST ROWER, A POLITICAL PROFILE, The Viking Press, New York, (1976), B&W illustrations, 372pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670303917 This biography presents a judicious, balanced account of the life and times of this complex, often contradictory man. The author draws on a great deal of previously unavailable material-including the recently released F.B.I. files, which Heymann is the first scholar to obtain, and which include letters from Pound to Mussolini, Count Ciano, and Mezzasoma. The final section of this book is the account of the author's personal meetings with Pound., (Order No: 14062 ), $5.00
242. ( Pound ), Norman, Charles, ERZA POUND, The Macmillan Co., New York, 1960 1st ptg, 493pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 2478 ), $5.00
243. ( Prescott ), Gardiner, C. Harvey (selected and edited by), THE PAPERS OF WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, 1964, B&W frontis, 441pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), "In sum, in terms of the range of Prescott's correspondents and papers, as well as the range of his activities, this collection is broadly representative, not definitive in reference to any person or matter.", (Order No: 27707 ), $3.50
244. ( Proust ), Thody, Philip, MARCEL PROUST, Macmillan, London, (1987), 180pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0333406974 A straightforward analysis of how Proust's novel is constructed, what it contains, and how its themes can be related to our experiences as members of American or English society in the late twentieth century., (Order No: 34711 ), $20.00
245. ( Pushkin ), Beckwith, Martha Warren; Malevsky-Malevitch, Peter; Golokhvastoff, George V.; Strelsky, Nikander; et al, PUSHKIN, THE MAN AND THE ARTIST, The Paisley Press, Inc., New York, 1937, 245pp, good+ w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), An attempt to give the public a complete picture of Pushkin, written by scholars of authority, well informed as to Russian life and letters., (Order No: 29617 ), $20.00
246. ( Pym ), Pym, Barbara; Holt, Hazel (ed) & Pym, Hilary (ed), A VERY PRIVATE EYE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN DIARIES AND LETTERS, E. P. Dutton, Inc., New York, (1984) 1st ed, 12 B&W ill., 358pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0525242341 As an integral part of her training, Barbara Pym kept from her first days at Oxford till her death from cancer in January 1980, a series of private diaries and notebooks in which she pointedly observed herself and the world around her. It is from this ongoing life journal, and from a selection of letters to close personal friends, that the editors have formed the autobiography that makes up A Very Private Eye., (Order No: 13388 ), $5.00
247. ( Pym ), Salwak, Dale, BARBARA PYM: A REFERENCE GUIDE, G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, MA, (1991) 1st ptg, 162pp, very good+, maroon cloth (hardcover)(no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0816190763 The selections that make up the body of this book begin with an anonymous review of SOME TAME GAZELLE, in the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (1950.1), and end with the American edition of Hazel Holt's biography (1991.2), published eleven years after her death. Between the two are more than 750 samplings of critical opinions, reflecting the fluctuations of the author's reputation in both Great Britain and the United States., (Order No: 27863 ), $14.50
248. ( Quennell ), Quennell, Peter, THE WANTON CHASE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM 1939, Atheneum, New York, 1980 1st Amer, B&W frontis, 192pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0689110812 This book begins where THE MARBLE FOOT left off, starting in 1939 with his World War II misadventures as an inept fire warden (discharged for smoking on the job) and indifferent government censor, and following the progress of his life since., (Order No: 23803 ), $4.00
249. ( Quennell ), Quennell, Peter, THE MARBLE FOOT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1905-1938, Collins, London, 1976, B&W frontis, 254pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), The first volume of Quennell's biography. Yet not his life alone--for, like Edmund Gosse's FATHER AND SON, this is a double portrait., (Order No: 23804 ), $5.00
250. ( Rabelais ), Eldridge, Paul, FRANCOIS RABELAIS: THE GREAT STORY TELLER, A. S. Barnes and Company, South Brunswick, NJ, (1971), 215pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0498077993 The life, the work and the times of this great master., (Order No: 25914 ), $5.00
251. ( Ransom ), Young, Thomas Daniel (edited by), JOHN CROWE RANSOM: CRITICAL ESSAYS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, LA, (1968), B&W frontis, 290pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), These sixteen essays on Ransom as poet, critic, and editor--along with the comprehensive bibliography compiled by Mildred Brooks Peters--will assist the reader in evaluating the achievements of one of this country's most distinguished and articulate men of letters., (Order No: 16663 ), $12.50
252. ( Reade ), Burns, Wayne, CHARLES READE: A STUDY IN VICTORIAN AUTHORSHIP, Bookman Associates, New York, (1961), B&W ill., 360pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Since Charles Reade was perhaps the most enignmatic of all the eminent Victorians, this book endeavors, first of all, to explain his emotional and intellectual development--to show why he developed into a Victorian son and lover with delusions of personal grandeur; why in line with these delusions he felt that he had discovered in Bacon the key to all knowledge, and that, in consequence, he was destined to become a great writer-saviour of the Nineteenth Century., (Order No: 33926 ), $12.50
253. ( Reid ), Reid, John (Tobias, Andrew), THE BEST LITTLE BOY IN THE WORLD: THE MATURING OF JOHN REID, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1973) 1st ed, 247pp, good++ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0399111214 A remarkably honest book about one man's experiences in growing up and learning to live with himself and others., (Order No: 26451 ), $25.00
254. ( Renard ), Bogan, Louise and Roget, Elizabeth (edited and translated by), THE JOURNAL OF JULES RENARD, George Braziller, New York, (1964), 254pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Renard's JOURNAL, spanning twenty-four years and published in definitive form in 1935, is a very long book. It was reissued in 1960 in the format of the BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA PLEIADE, a compact volume which runs to 1267 pages. This edited version was created specifically for the American reader., (Order No: 16023 ), $14.50
255. ( Repplier ), Stokes, George Stewart, AGNES REPPLIER: LADY OF LETTERS, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1949 2nd ptg, B&W frontis, 274pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In this charming and unusually appealing biography of one of America's great literary figures, doors open once more on Clinton Street, teacups rattle in Boston, and gaslights glow again on turning pages., (Order No: 25314 ), $3.50
256. ( Rilke ), Rolleston, James, RILKE IN TRANSITION: AN EXPLORATION OF HIS EARLIEST POETRY, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1970, 246pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300012209 Three motifs crucial to Rilke's later development--das Kind, die Hand, and das Ding--recur throughout his voluminous early output. The author examines the role these key words played in the poet's attempt to create new dimensions in a language that had grown stale, focusing especially on their relevance to his developing image of the ideal artist., (Order No: 35312 ), $9.50
257. ( Robertson ), J. B. K. (edited by), MORGAN ROBERTSON, THE MAN, Metropolitan Magazine, New York, (1915), B&W frontis, 132pp, good, red cloth (hardcover), In this book is Morgan Robertson with all his weaknesses and foibles and all the other things too, that made him a big man., (Order No: 39926 ), $12.00
258. ( Rousseau ), Blanchard, William H., ROUSSEAU AND THE SPIRIT OF REVOLT: A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, (1967), 300pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), In this study, a practicing psychologist examines the interplay between Rousseau's complex personality and his political writings. Dr. Blanchard presents the biographical facts of Rousseau's life and, with the help of Rousseau's Confessions, interprets them according to modern psychology., (Order No: 15754 ), $6.00
259. ( Runyon ), Breslin, Jimmy, DAMON RUNYON, Ticknor & Fields, New York, (1991), 410pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0899199844 This biography recreates the life and times of the extraordinary Damon Runyon, the journalist who personified the razzle- dazzle of Broadway and the Roaring Twenties., (Order No: 10593 ), $3.50
260. ( Ruskin ), Hilton, Tim, JOHN RUSKIN - THE LATER YEARS, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (2000) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 656pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300083114 This is the second and final volume of Tim Hilton's acclaimed life of John Ruskin, one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the nineteenth century., (Order No: 41198 ), $15.00
261. ( Sachs ), Sachs, Maurice (translated from the French by Richard Howard), WITCHES' SABBATH: AN UNEXPURGATED AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Stein and Day Publishers, New York, (1964), 315pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 37660 ), $7.50
262. ( Sand ), Barry, Joseph, INFAMOUS WOMAN: THE LIFE OF GEORGE SAND, Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, (1976), 461pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) BCE, (Order No: 25270 ), $3.00
263. ( Sand ), Schermerhorn, Elizabeth W., THE SEVEN STRINGS OF THE LYRE: THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF GEORGE SAND, 1804-1876, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1927, B&W ill., 327pp, good, green cloth (hardcover), The story of the life of George Sand is told here in her Memoirs, her letters, her novels and her prefaces., (Order No: 34608 ), $11.00
264. ( Sandburg ), Golden, Harry, CARL SANDBURG, The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, OH, (1961) 1st ed, B&W photographs, 287pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A close friend of Sandburg's uses letters, journals, anecdotes, and some unpublished documents to create a warm and wise study of one of America's most popular and best-loved writers., (Order No: 15800 ), $5.00
265. ( Sartre ), Sartre, Jean-Paul (translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman), THE WORDS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, George Braziller, Ridgefield, NJ, (1964) 2nd ptg, 255pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Now at fifty-nine, Sartre has undertaken his autobiography, bringing to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight which he has applied so brilliantly in earlier books to Baudelaire and Jean Genet., (Order No: 19070 ), $4.00
266. ( Sayers ), Hitchman, Janet, SUCH A STRANGE LADY: A BIOGRAPHY OF DOROTHY L. SAYERS, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1975), B&W illustrations, 177pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0060119039 Almost everyone knows Lord Peter Wimsey by now, but very few people know much, if anything, about his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers., (Order No: 44764 ), $7.00
267. ( Schwartz ), Pollet, Elizabeth (edited and introduced by), PORTRAIT OF DELMORE: JOURNALS AND NOTES OF DELMORE SCHWARTZ, 1939-1959, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, (1986) 1st ptg, 663pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0374236399 These journals and notes provide a brilliant self-portrait of the poet, showing his creative genius at work. They are full of poems, notes for poems, night thoughts, daytime speculations. They also constitute an important document of the New York literary milieu of the forties and fifties., (Order No: 16462 ), $11.50
268. ( Sebestyen ), Monseau, Virginia R., PRESENTING OUIDA SEBESTYEN, Twayne Publishers, New York, (1995) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 130pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0805782249 Twayne's United States Authors Series - Young Adult Authors., (Order No: 36204 ), $8.00
269. ( Shakespeare ), Howarth, Herbert, THE TIGER'S HEART: EIGHT ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE, Oxford University Press, New York, 1970, 210pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In these eight learned and imaginative essays a distinguished critic combines historical speculation and literary and stylistic analysis to illumine Shakespeare's art and his essential humanity--to show, in the phrase from which the title is taken, the "Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde.", (Order No: 33967 ), $7.50
270. ( Shakespeare ), Mabie, Hamilton Wright, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1907, 345pp, very good, bound in green buckram cloth (hardcover), "In this study of Shakespeare it has been the endeavour of the writer to present the poet as a man, not as a series of problems associated with a name; to reveal the dramatist in the growth of his spirit, his thought, and his art by filling in the background of landscape, educational opportunity, social condition, and race activity, which, in connection with his work, give his face distinctness of outline and feature.", (Order No: 27589 ), $4.00
271. ( Shakespeare ), Schelling, Felix E., SHAKESPEARE AND "DEMI-SCIENCE" - PAPERS ON ELIZABETHAN TOPICS, University of Penn. Press, Philadelphia, 1927, 221pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) light wear bottom edge cloth, (Order No: 3574 ), $12.00
272. ( Shakspeare ), Guizot, M., SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES -- [SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TIMES], Harper & Brothers, Pub., New York, [1852], 360pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover), lacks front free endpaper, Contents include: Shakspeare and His Times; Shakspeare's Tragedies; Shakspeare in France; Shakspeare's Historical Dramas; and Shakspeare's Comedies., (Order No: 31594 ), $30.00
273. ( Shakspere ), Baldwin, T. W., ON ACT AND SCENE DIVISION IN THE SHAKSPERE FIRST FOLIO, Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., Carbondale, IL, 1965, 179pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), One of the premier Shakspere scholars of our time attacks some unsolved problems and suggests some answers of interest to serious students of Shakspere. Two questions have long intrigued literary scholars: Why do the quartos printed during Shakspere's lifetime fail to indicate act divisions, and who was responsible for the act divisions in the subsequent First Folio? Note: throughout this volume the early spelling for Shakespeare is used., (Order No: 13225 ), $15.00
274. ( Shaw ), Ervine, St. John, BERNARD SHAW: HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS, William Morrow & Co., New York, 1956, B&W illustrations, 628pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 3323 ), $4.00
275. ( Shaw ), Holroyd, Michael (edited by), THE GENIUS OF SHAW: A SYMPOSIUM, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1979), color plates, B&W ill., 238pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0030435412 Bernard Shaw declared that he had over a dozen reputations, and in this book Michael Holroyd and his team of distinguished writers have a look at them., (Order No: 16788 ), $6.00
276. ( Shaw ), Henderson, Archibald, IS BERNARD SHAW A DRAMATIST?, Mitchell Kennerley, Ridgefield, NJ, 1929, B&W frontis, 33pp, very good, green cloth (hardcpver) w/slipcase w/light edgewear, A Scientific, but imaginary Symposium in the neo-Socratic Manner: Conducted by Bernard Shaw's Biographer. One thousand copies of this playlet by Archibald Henderson were printed at the Georgian Press Westport CT, by Richard W Ellis in April, 1929 for Mitchell Kennerley, New York. This is Copy Number 631., (Order No: 19489 ), $12.50
277. ( Shaw ), Holroyd, Michael, BERNARD SHAW: VOLUME I, 1856-1898, THE SEARCH FOR LOVE, Random House, New York, (1988) 1st Amer, B&W ill., 487pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394525779 The author takes Shaw from his birth in 1856, through a series of poignant and tantalizing love affairs, to his marriage in 1898., (Order No: 34285 ), $6.00
278. ( Shaw ), Leigh-Taylor, N. H. (edited and with an introduction by), BERNARD SHAW'S READY-RECKONER: A GUIDE TO CIVILIZATION, Random House, New York, (1965) 1st ptg, 231pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), A presentation in condensed form of Shaw's ideas on important social questions., (Order No: 38761 ), $8.50
279. ( Shaw ), Minney, R. J., RECOLLECTIONS OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, (1969) 2nd ptg, 211pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0137673841, (Order No: 3322 ), $5.00
280. ( Shaw ), MacCarthy, Desmond (foreword by J. W. Lambert), SHAW: THE PLAYS, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, (1973), 217pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0715363123 The author followed the progress of George Bernard Shaw from the time of the pioneer productions of the plays at the London Court theatre under the direction of Harley Granville Barker. In this volume twenty-seven of the plays are discussed; in many cases MacCarthy commented on the original presentations and again, twenty years or more later, when he had new points to make but, such was his maturity as a young critic, no conclusions to withdraw., (Order No: 17193 ), $7.50
281. ( Shaw ), Peters, Sally, BERNARD SHAW: THE ASCENT OF THE SUPERMAN, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (1996) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 328pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0300075006 A critical biography exploring Shaw's background and beliefs, interests and obsessions, relationships with men and women, prose writings and dramatic art., (Order No: 40858 ), $12.50
282. ( Shaw ), Tompkins, Peter (edited and with an introduction by), TO A YOUNG ACTRESS: THE LETTERS OF BERNARD SHAW TO MOLLY TOMPKINS, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, (1960) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 192pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The correspondence between Bernard Shaw and an American artist from 1921 through 1949., (Order No: 29281 ), $5.00
283. ( Shaw ), Weintraub, Stanley, JOURNEY TO HEARTBREAK: THE CRUCIBLE YEARS OF BERNARD SHAW 1914-1918, Weybright and Talley, New York, (1971), 368pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 4336 ), $6.00
284. ( Shelley ), Dowden, Edward, THE LIFE OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE - WORKING SET - WORN COVERS, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London, 1887, B&W illustrations, good, blue cloth (hardcover) WORN & STAINED COVERS - SEE NOTE, Volume I, 554pp with a few pencil/pen marks or notes; Volume II, 586pp. This is a WORKING SET because of the wear to the cloth bindings. Volume II is the worst looking with some staining also and weak hinges. BUT for the price this is a good working set., (Order No: 49504 ), $25.00
285. ( Shelley ), Ingpen, Roger and Peck, Walter E. (editors), THE COMPLETE WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY - CORRESPONDENCE: VOLUMES VIII- IX-X - LETTERS, Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1926, very good, vellum spines with black labels (hardcover), Volume VIII - Letters 1803 to 1812, 339pp; Volume IX - Letters 1812 to 1818, 348pp; Volume X - Letters 1818 to 1822, 453pp. "This Edition printed from type which has been distributed is strictly limited for Great Britain to 495 sets for sale and for the United States of America to 285 sets for sale." Published for The Julian Editions. Nice clean and tight set that has probably never been read., (Order No: 10625 ), $110.00
286. ( Shelley ), LETTERS FROM PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY TO ELIZABETH HITCHENER, Bertram Dobell, London, 1908, 351pp, good+, cloth (lifting from boards as usual) (hardcover), Lacks front free endpaper. "With an Introduction and Notes.", (Order No: 369 ), $30.00
287. ( Sitwell ), Sitwell, Edith, A POET'S NOTEBOOK, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1950 1st ed, 276pp, good+, tan cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, inscribed by author, (Order No: 51743 ), $30.00
288. ( Skelton ), Edwards, Anthony S. G. (editor), SKELTON: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, (1981), 224pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0710007248 John Skelton, who was born in about 1460 and died in 1529, was one of the earliest Tudor poets. Skelton's work has always attracted controversy, a trait that makes his reputation a particularly rewarding subject for study., (Order No: 14019 ), $9.50
289. ( Spender ), Weatherhead, A. Kingsley, STEPHEN SPENDER AND THE THIRTIES, Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA, (1975), 241pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0838713704 Criticism of the corpus of Stephen Spender's poetry is long overdue and this book attempts to remedy the neglect., (Order No: 14053 ), $6.00
290. ( Sperber ), Sperber, Manes (translated from the German by Harry Zohn), THE UNHEEDED WARNING: 1918-1933, Holmes & Meier, New York, (1991), 216pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0841910324 Translated from the German by Harry Zohn. Psychologist, novelist, essayist, and political theorist, Manes Sperber begins his story in Vienna, when he was thirteen years old and concludes the book-which is the second volume of his three-volume autobiography entitled All Our Yesterdays-with a gripping account of his imprisonment and release by the Germans in Berlin., (Order No: 13080 ), $7.50
291. ( Stegner ), Benson, Jackson J., WALLACE STEGNER: HIS LIFE AND WORK, Viking, New York, (1996) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 472pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's inscription, ISBN 0670862223 Drawing on nearly ten years of research and unlimited access to Stegner's letters and personal files, Benson traces the trajectory of Wallace Stegner's life., (Order No: 40398 ), $7.50
292. ( Stein ), Bowers, Jane Palatini, GERTRUDE STEIN, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1993), 174pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312095333 The author elucidates some of Stein's most difficult texts and enables readers to re-evaluate Stein's position in the modernist canon., (Order No: 48707 ), $7.50
293. ( Steiner ), Steiner, George, ERRATA: AN EXAMINED LIFE, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (1997) 1st ptg, 206pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300075030 George Steiner, one of the great literary minds of our century, now relates the story of his own life and the ways that people, places, and events have colored the central ideas and themes of his work., (Order No: 52897 ), $9.50
294. ( Stendhal ), Caraccio, Armand (translated by Dolores Bagley), STENDHAL, New York University Press, New York, (1965), 221pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The author explores the life and work of Henry Beyle, who was to be known to the world as Stendhal., (Order No: 17076 ), $7.00
295. ( Stendhal ), Wood, Michael, STENDHAL, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1971), 208pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0801406803 Besides examining the political, social, and literary backgrounds of his work, the author considers Stendhal the artist, his comic vision, and the paradoxes that underlie his work. From the "Novelists and Their World" series edited by Graham Hough., (Order No: 17742 ), $6.50
296. ( Stendhal ), Wakefield, David, STENDHAL: THE PROMISE OF HAPPINESS, The Newstead Press, Bedford, UK, (1984), B&W illustrations, 198pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0853900272 The following study is intended as a sequel to STENDHAL AND THE ARTS, but, instead of treating Stendhal's art-criticism as a separate phenomenon, this book attempts to show (with numerous illustrations) the relationship of the pictorial arts to his entire life and literary output., (Order No: 26541 ), $9.50
297. ( Sterne ), Bill, Alfred H., ALAS, POOR YORICK!, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1927, 263pp, very good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover), "Being Three Hitherto Unrecorded Adventures in the Life of the Reverend Laurence Sterne, A.B., Vicar of Coxwold in Yorkshire, etc., etc., Author of the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.", (Order No: 38086 ), $8.50
298. ( Stevenson ), Hinkley, Laura L., THE STEVENSONS, LOUIS AND FANNY, Hastings House Publishers, New York, (1950), 360pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), The author presents the fascinating vicissitudes of that unquiet life led by the Stevensons against an ever-changing background., (Order No: 31330 ), $5.00
299. ( Stevenson ), Steuart, John A., ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1924 1st tpg, very good, dark maroon cloth, teg (hardcover), Two volume set: Volume 1, 419pp; Volume 2, 352pp., (Order No: 17121 ), $12.50
300. ( Stevenson ), Simpson, E. Blantyre, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S EDINBURGH DAYS, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1898, 326pp, good, brown cloth, teg (hardcover) light edgewear, lacks ffep, Contents include: Birth and Parentage; Thomas Stevenson; Mrs. Stevenson; Alison Cunningham; Infant Days; Schooldays; Spring Equinox; Learning to Write; Legal and Literary Training; Life at Twenty-Five; and, Travel Songs., (Order No: 22914 ), $10.00
301. ( Stevenson ), Stevenson, Robert Louis, VAILIMA LETTERS: BEING CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESSED BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON TO SIDNEY COLVIN, NOVEMBER 1890-OCTOBER 1894, Methuen and Co., London, 1895 2nd ed, B&W illustrations, 366pp, ads, good, brown cloth, teg (hardcover), Ads dated September 1895., (Order No: 34602 ), $10.00
302. ( Stevenson ), Watt, Francis, R. L. S., The Macmillan Company, New York, 1913, B&W frontis, 311pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), This is a complete life of Robert Louis Stevenson, with accounts of Stevenson's Edinburgh, Stevenson and the Pentlands and Lothians, and some real people in his books., (Order No: 22913 ), $10.00
303. ( Stickney ), Haldane, Sean, THE FRIGHT OF TIME: JOSEPH TRUMBULL STICKNEY, 1874-1904, The Ladysmith Press, Ladysmith, Quebec, (1970), B&W frontis, 194pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A definitive biography of Stickney including all the poet's surviving adult letters, as well as many extracts from his prose works., (Order No: 38889 ), $12.50
304. ( Stowe ), Thulesius, Olav, HARRIET BEECHER STOWE IN FLORIDA, 1867 TO 1884, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC, (2001), B&W illustrations, 170pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0786409320 This examination of Stowe's Florida years reveals a little-known side of this well-known writer., (Order No: 38565 ), $15.00
305. ( Strachey ), Holroyd, Michael, LYTTON STRACHEY: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY - VOLUME I THE UNKNOWN YEARS 1880-1910; THE YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT 1910-1932 2 VOLUME SET, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1968) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, very good w/good dustjackets (hardcover) in good slipcase, Two volume set: Volume I - THE UNKNOWN YEARS 1880-1910, 475pp; Volume II - THE YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT 1910-1932, 754pp, (Order No: 17858 ), $7.50
306. ( Strindberg ), Lagercrantz, Olof (translated by Anselm Hollo), AUGUST STRINDBERG, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, (1984) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 399pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0374106851 Drawing on unrivaled knowledge of the Swedish source materials, the author demonstrates the scope and quality of Strindberg's prodigious body of work--plays, poems, novels, histories, letters, diaries, and essays., (Order No: 18175 ), $6.50
307. ( Strode ), Strode, Hudson, THE ELEVENTH HOUSE: MEMOIRS, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, (1975) 1st ed, 312pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0151282307 In astrology the eleventh house is the House of Friends. This is a book of friends who were collected and cherished by Hudson Strode., (Order No: 19172 ), $5.00
308. ( Sullivan ), Sullivan, Mark, THE EDUCATION OF AN AMERICAN, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., New York, 1938, B&W illustrations, 320pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 49505 ), $5.00
309. ( Summers ), Frank, Frederick S., MONTAGUE SUMMERS: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT - THE GREAT BIBLIOGRAPHERS SERIES, NO. 7, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1988, 278pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0810821362, (Order No: 50706 ), $20.00
310. ( Swift ), Rowse, A. L., JONATHAN SWIFT, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1975), 25 B&W illustrations, 240pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684145618, (Order No: 5920 ), $6.00
311. ( Swinburne ), Panter-Downes, Mollie, AT THE PINES: SWINBURNE AND WATTS-DUNTON IN PUTNEY, Gambit Incorporated, Boston, MA, 1971 1st ptg, 9 B&W ill., 196pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0876450494 The author has managed to recreate in delightful detail the daily life of Algernon Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton, two oddly matched companions: the genial, ethereal and perennially childlike Swinburne, and his ponderous, devoted and ever-watchful guardian and friend., (Order No: 14209 ), $4.00
312. ( Swinnerton ), Bennett, Arnold; Wells, H. G.; Overton, Grant M., FRANK SWINNERTON: PERSONAL SKETCHES, George H. Doran Company, New York, (1920), B&W frontis, 47pp, very good, blue paper covered boards (hardcover), "Together with Notes and Comments on the Novels of Frank Swinnerton.", (Order No: 39024 ), $14.50
313. ( Tarbell ), Tomkins, Mary E., IDA M. TARBELL, Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, (1974), 182pp, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 080570714X Twayne's United States Authors Series, No. 247., (Order No: 37319 ), $40.00
314. ( Tennyson ), Albright, Daniel, TENNYSON: THE MUSES' TUG-OF-WAR, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (1986), 256pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) small bump bottom front board, ISBN 0813911001 This, the first volume in the series Virginia Victorian Studies, describes and analyzes incoherencies and divisions found in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson. It also relates the fragmentary quality of his achievement to certain crises in Romantic and Victorian aesthetics., (Order No: 13376 ), $10.00
315. ( Thackeray ), Elwin, Malcolm, THACKERAY: A PERSONALITY, Russell & Russell, New York, (1966), 4 B&W ill., 410pp, very good, red cloth (no dustjacket), (Order No: 21459 ), $15.00
316. ( Thackeray ), Forster, Margaret, MEMOIRS OF A VICTORIAN GENTLEMAN: WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, William Morrow and Company, New York, 1979, B&W illustrations, 391pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0688034403 Illustrated by William Makepeace Thackeray. Regretting that Thackeray had never written an autobiography, Margaret Forster decided, after reading every word he had ever written, she would let Thackeray speak for himself. The result is one of the most imaginative literary creations of modern times., (Order No: 13872 ), $5.00
317. ( Thackeray ), Harden, Edgar F., THACKERAY'S ENGLISH HUMOURISTS AND FOUR GEORGES, University of Delaware Press, Newark, DE, (1985), 278pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874132746 The first book to be published on Thackeray's lecture-essays., (Order No: 3728 ), $8.00
318. ( Thackeray ), Peters, Catherine, THACKERAY'S UNIVERSE: SHIFTING WORLDS OF IMAGINATION AND REALITY, Oxford University Press, New York, 1987, over 100 Thackeray B&W ill., 292pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195048555 Catherine Peters' biography of Thackeray charts the connections between his traumatic life experiences and the often disconcerting view of the world evident in Thackeray's novels. A special feature of her book is its reproductions of over 100 Thackeray illustrations. Thackeray was a gifted draughtsman and illustrator and provided the illustrations for a number of his own novels., (Order No: 10087 ), $10.00
319. ( Thoreau ), Taylor, Bob Pepperman, AMERICA'S BACHELOR UNCLE: THOREAU AND THE AMERICAN POLITY, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (1996) 1st ptg, 180pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0700608060 The author argues that Thoreau was one of America's most powerful and least understood political thinkers, a man who promoted community and democratic values while being ever vigilant against the evils of excessive or illegitimate authority., (Order No: 38984 ), $20.00
320. ( Thurber ), Holmes, Charles S., THE CLOCKS OF COLUMBUS - THE LITERARY CAREER OF JAMES THURBER, Atheneum, New York, 1972 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 360pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 40979 ), $5.00
321. ( Tolstoy ), Crankshaw, Edward, TOLSTOY: THE MAKING OF A NOVELIST, The Viking Press, New York, (1974), B&W and color ill., 276pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670718610, (Order No: 6448 ), $5.00
322. ( Tolstoy ), Citati, Pietro & Rosenthal, Raymond (translated by), TOLSTOY, Schocken Books, New York, (1986) 1st ptg, 265pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0805240217 From Italy's leading literary critic comes a work acclaimed the best short critical biography of Tolstoy in any language. It was awarded the coveted Premio Strega in 1984. The author sets out to describe vividly the most important stages in the creative life of the great Russian novelist., (Order No: 14017 ), $6.00
323. ( Tolstoy ), Simmons, Ernest J., LEO TOLSTOY, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1946, 780pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 49507 ), $5.00
324. ( Traven ), Raskin, Jonah, MY SEARCH FOR B. TRAVEN, Methuen, New York, (1980) 1st ed, 249pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0416007414 This singular literary mystery is the chronicle of an attempt to penetrate the life of one of the most tenaciously elusive celebrities of our time--the author of such world-wide bestsellers as THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE whose true identity continues to mystify his millions of readers ten years after his death., (Order No: 27862 ), $5.00
325. ( Trevisa ), Fowler, David C., THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN TREVISA, MEDIEVAL SCHOLAR, University of Washington Pr., Seattle, WA, (1995), 281pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0295974273 Over a period of thirty-five years eminent medievalist David Fowler has pieced together an account of Trevisa's life and times by diligently seeking out documents bearing on his activities and translations., (Order No: 27385 ), $14.50
326. ( Trilling ), Trilling, Diana, THE BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY: THE MARRIAGE OF DIANA AND LIONEL THRILLING, Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, (1993) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 442pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0151116857, (Order No: 33348 ), $7.50
327. ( Triolet ), Mackinnon, Lachlan, THE LIVES OF ELSA TRIOLET, Chatto & Windus, London, (1992), 14 B&W ill., 216pp, very good w/very good dustjacket, Elsa Triolet was the first woman ever to win the Prix Goncourt, the most important literary award in France. She is known in Britain for that and, more often, for being the 'Elsa' of the poems her husband Louis Aragon wrote in the French Resistance, poems in which she became a symbol of France., (Order No: 21805 ), $14.50
328. ( Trollope ), Snow, C. P., TROLLOPE: HIS LIFE AND ART, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1975), B&W and color ill., 191pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684144018 In this engrossing book C. P. Snow, one of the foremost living English novelists and public servants, writes about a great 19th century English novelist who also was a man of affairs., (Order No: 10918 ), $5.00
329. ( Twain ), Allen, Jerry, THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, (1954) 1st ed, 339pp, good (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 16669 ), $3.50
330. ( Twain ), Cooper, Robert, AROUND THE WORLD WITH MARK TWAIN, Arcade Publishing, New York, (2000) 1st ed, B&W ill., B&W maps, 420pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1559705221 Follow in the footsteps of one of America's most beloved writers, the immortal Mark Twain, as he circles the globe, performing before more than a hundred standing-room-only crowds., (Order No: 35317 ), $12.50
331. ( Twain ), Davis, Sara deSaussure and Beidler, Philip D. (editors), THE MYTHOLOGIZING OF MARK TWAIN, University of Alabama Press, University, AL, (1986) 2nd ptg, 186pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0817302018, (Order No: 35422 ), $4.00
332. ( Twain ), Fatout, Paul, MARK TWAIN ON THE LECTURE CIRCUIT, Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., Carbondale, IL, (1969), 321pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 29429 ), $7.50
333. ( Twain ), Ganzel, Dewey, MARK TWAIN ABROAD: THE CRUISE OF THE "QUAKER CITY", University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1968), 6 B&W plates, B&W figures, 330pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), The author reconstructs the actual voyage of the world's first luxury cruise in 1867. The only notable passenger on the "Quaker City" was Mark Twain, on board as a correspondent for