Signed edition. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a bit of light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Her first novel Bastard Out of Carolina was published in 1992 to great acclaim, becoming a best-seller. It was later adapted as a film of the same name, directed by Anjelica Huston for TNT. The book and film both generated controversy because of ... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There are a couple of small, light spots of discoloration to the front cover of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has several tiny edge tears to the top cover, and several edge nicks and some edge wear to the to spine end. The top edges of the entire cover have some beginning toning. "Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 ? 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was award... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the half title page. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one tear to the front spine joint and a couple of small nicks and spots of rubbing. View More...
Color and B&W illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (16 August 1888 ? 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer. He was renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them v... View More...
SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The spine has some overall toning, including the paper label. The text pages are clean and bright. The edges of the text block have some light toning and foxing. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription. "Brooks' best-known work is a series of studies entitled 2: Makers and Finders: A History of the Writer in America, 1800-1915 (1952) , which chronicled the development of American literature during the long 19t... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a two volume set. Three quarter leather with green silk boards. The books are in Very Good+ condition and were likely issued without dust jackets. The books and their contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers and have edg wear, rubbing and some wear to the leather. The text pages are clean and bright. "The object which I proposed to myself in compiling this book was twofold. I desired, if possible, to present a portrait of a singular personality, and I hoped to be able to achieve this object mainly by allo... View More...
This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Lucy Maud Montgomery, OBE (November 30, 1874 ? April 24, 1942) , published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following." View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. "Born in Manchester, England, in 1900, growing up wasn?t easy for Janet Taylor Caldwell. Her Scottish parents warned her that if she ever misbehaved at school, she?d be ?thoroughly thrashed. ? Weekends at home were filled with church and chores. When her family immigrated to America in 1907, life only got tougher. Her ... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing, bumping and wear. The book covers have marbled papers and there is a clean, bright paper label on the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and tears along with a couple small spots of ground-in dirt. View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, but has some toning to the dust jacket flaps." Now a family man, Keith set out on his career in publishing, first at Walnut Circle Press as a print salesman, then as editor of trade magazine The Professional Upholsterer, onward to feature writer of COMPUTE! Magazine, where he was at the forefront of reporting on the burgeoning home computing industry throughout its emergence as a household staple... View More...
This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is a large patch of foxing to the rear endpaper / rear pastedown page. "In 1832, at the age of 21, Harriet Beecher moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to join her father, who had become the president of Lane Theological Seminary. There, she also joined the Semi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club whose members included the... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and address on the front endpaper. The dust jacket is clean and bright. "Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 ? June 22, 1992) was a preeminent American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a previous owner's ink stamped name and address on the front endpaper. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "The Bloomsbury Group?or Bloomsbury Set?was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. This loose collective of friends and relatives was closely associated w... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some noticeable fading to the spine, spine joints and front top edge. "Kerouac is recognized for his style of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as his Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, life in New York, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie mov... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 ? June 22, 1992) was a preeminent American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I ... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 ? 6 July 1932) was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a Scottish family. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908) , one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon. Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milne's Toad of Toad Hall, based on part of The Wind in t... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The bottom corners have some loss of paper as well. The text pages are clean and bright. "She (Howe) attended lectures, studied foreign languages, and wrote plays and dramas. Howe had published essays on Goethe, Schiller and Lamartine before her marriage in the New York Review and Theological Review. Passion-Flowers was published anonymously in 1853. The book collected personal p... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is clean and bright. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks, and there is one medium chip to the top rear panel. "Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 ? July 18, 1899) was an American writer of young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a f... View More...
Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one small chip missing to the bottom spine end. "From its inception in 1894 to its demise in 1938, the Roycroft community produced some of the finest hand-crafted (1) furniture, books, lamps and metal work of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The community reflected the Movem... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. Included is a special preface for the American Edition. The book and its contents are in clean, mostly bright condition. The spine ends of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The top and bottom edges of the text block have some ground-in dirt and spotting. The dust jacket has noticeable toning to the spine and several spots of ground-in dirt to the covers. There are a couple of small nicks and chips to the spine ends and corners of the dust jacket as well. "Edward ... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light edge wear and bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has numerous edge nicks, tears and beginning chips. The spine of the dust jacket is lightly toned. "Among the many accounts and memoirs that have made Ernest Hemingway larger than life, this, by his younger sister, is unique. Ernie is a simple recollection of the Hemingway family life, with emph... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but there are several small edge nicks and beginning tears, specially to the spine ends and corners. "John Middleton Murry (6 August 1889 ? 12 March 1957) was an English writer. He was prolific, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for ... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The front endpaper has two small patches of discoloration where a couple of stickers were removed. The dust jacket has several small edge tears, nicks and spots of rubbing . There is some light ground-in dirt to the covers as well. "Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 ? January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it wa... View More...
This book is number 564 in an unknown limitation. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some edge wear, bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners along with some paper loss to the bottom corners from rubbing. There are a couple of small spots of discoloration to the covers and toning to the paper spine label. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of a previous owner's address label on the front pastedown. "Norton was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Art... View More...
Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning rubbing and fraying. The text pages are generally clean, but do have foxing. There is a rectangular patch of toning to the front endpaper, along with a previous owner's inked gift notation, dated 1907. Illustrated with 20 full page, full color illustrations by Helen Allingham. "Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 ? 6 October 1892) was Poet Laurea... View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine condition. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with some very beginning wear to the spine ends and corners. "In 1948, four months after the publication of Cry, The Beloved Country, the separatist National Party came to power in South Africa. In 1953 Paton founded the Liberal Party of South Africa, which fought against th... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 ? July 22, 1967) was a Swedish-American poet, writer, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of h... View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some light spotting to the edges of the text block. The dust jacket has a couple of tiny nicks to the spine ends of the dust jacket. "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 who... View More...
Limited to 950 unnumbered copies. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The dust jacket has several smallish edge tears, overall toning and spots of foxing. "After their wedding San Francisco on May 19, 1880, Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson set off on an adventurous honeymoon to the Napa Valley. Stopping briefly for a night in Vallejo, the Stevenson?s boarded a train to carry them (and their dog Chuchu) to Calistoga at the north end of the Napa Valley. They spent the remainder of May in Calistoga, at one of th... View More...
