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Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives, 1995-1997
by Crouch, Stanley
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American Quarterly (Vol. 66, No. 1, 2, 3, 4 (March, June, September, and December 2014))
by Banet-Weiser, Sarah (Ed.)
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Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014 Extra shipping charge may apply for this item to some destinations. Perfect bound in printed card covers. 4 issues offered as a set, overall about 7 cm thick & about 1200 pages. Slight shelf wear, else fine. Fits in medium flat-rate box. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. Magazine. Near Fine/No dj, as issued. 23 X 15 cm.
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Around the House: Reflections on Life Under a Roof
by Owen, David
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New York: Villard Books (Random House), 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Creamy white boards, black spine with red foil titles, xiv, 192, [2] pp. A few tiny marginal notes & some notes on rear paste-down, corners bumped. DJ spine sunned, but fully legible, tiny tears at head of spine; in Brodart archival cover. Owen follows up on The Walls Around Us with a book of essays on living in his two century old house, some relating to the house and some not. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG-/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.
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At Home in the World: Collected Writings from The Wall Street Journal
by Pearl, Daniel
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New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, & Singapore: Simon & Schuster, 2002 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White boards, foil titles on blue spine, xix, 278, [1] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Posthumous collection of Pearl's articles edited by Helene Cooper and foreword by Pearl's widow Mariane. Pearl was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan early in 2002. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). 2nd ptg. . Fine/Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.
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The Bedside 'Guardian' 3 (1953-1954)
by Brown, Ivor (Ed.)
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London: Collins, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Turquoise cloth, 255 pp, 3 cartoons, 1 map, 1 chess ill., index to authors. Corners, spine ends, and top edge of front board bumped, slight edge wear. DJ browned and slightly chipped, with a few closed tears (largest 2 cm); in Brodart archival cover. Collection of articles on diverse topics from the Manchester Guardian. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Very Good/Very Good. 20 X 13½ cm.
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The Book of Surprises: An Anthology of the Unusual
by Flesch, Rudolph (Ed.)
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New York: Harper & Row, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, gilt publisher's device on front board, xi, 467 pp. Boards lightly scuffed and spine slightly faded, light foxing on a few pages. "Everybody loves surprises, and everybody loves to read about them. What I've done here is pull together, from a lifetime of reading, forty-eight stories and articles that are surprising, unexpected, unusual, astonishing, extraordinary, or shocking." Ranging from short fiction and capsule biographies to gambling superstitions and the effects of epidemics on history.. First Edition. . VG+/No dj. 22 X 15 cm.
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Brideshead Benighted
by Waugh, Auberon
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Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth-textured boards, 221 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Collection of weekly articles from The Spectator, arranged by subject. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.
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The Bright and Glowing Place
by Rowsome, Frank, Jr.
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Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Red boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles, grey endpapers, [vii], 212 pp, 8 illustrations. Ex-library with usual markings including "Withdrawn" stamp, head of spine worn. Essays on fires & fireplaces. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. Illus. by Aldren A. Watson. 22 X 15 cm.
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A Commencement Address
by Cooke, Alistair
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Plain cardboard covers, stapled through fold, 2-color printed dust jacket, [iv], 30, [2] pp. Tail of spine and top corner bumped. DJ spine browned & ends slightly chipped; in Brodart arcihval cover. This is the text of an address delivered at Smith College on June 7, 1954. Shipping weight 8 oz.. First Edition. . VG+/VG+. 21½ X 13½ cm.
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Essays: Historical and Literary (Vol. 1, Scenes and Characters in American History; Vol. 2: In Favorite Fields)
by Fiske, John
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Both volumes bound in full blue cloth, gilt titles on spines, top edges gilt; frontis., vii, 422, [2] pp, index; [vii], 316 , [2] pp, index. Extremities lightly rubbed, bottom corners of volume 2 bumped, high quality paper is still bright & clean. Contents of vol. 1: biographical essays on Thomas Hutchinson (last royal governor of Massachusetts); Gen. Charles Lee; Alexander Hamilton; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; Andrew Jackson; and Daniel Webster; and on Harrison, Tyler, and the Whig coalition. Contents of vol. 2: old & new ways of treating history; John Milton; the fall of New France; Connecticut's influence on the federal constitution; deeper significance of the Boston Tea Party; reminiscenses of Huxley; Herbert Spencer's service to religion; John Tyndall; evolution & the present age; Koshchei the deathless. Shipping weight 6 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . VG+/No dj.…
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Essays of Elia
by Lamb, Charles
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New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth, xxiv, v-viii, 9-519, teg. No date, but around 1892, when the short-lived publisher (a subsidiary or Lovell's United States Book Company) was organized. Corners bumped, top and bottom edges of boards and spine rubbed, ownership sticker and doodles on front endpapers, half-title torn at bottom near gutter, pp 505-6 have a 1 X 2 cm hole that is apparently a manufacturing defect, and a few corners are creased. This edition has introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger, and is apparently part of a uniform edition. Device with the words "Century Edition" is stamped on bottom of spine. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G-/No dj. 19 X 13 cm.
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Fables and Distances
by Haines, John
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St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, xiv, 269, [2] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Collection of 30 essays, 12 previously published, on "the craft and value of poetry, the arts and their influence in public life, the creative spirit in art and literature, and wilderness and nature." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23 X 16 cm.
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Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels
by Knowles, Horace (Ed.)
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue buckram, gilt-on-black titles on spine, gilt titles on front board, xix, 696 pp, index of authors. This copy was ordered before publication by legendary Minneapolis bookman J. Harold Kittleson, as evidenced by an offer letter and acknowledgement card from rare-book dealer James F. Drake, Inc. The offer letter has a brief note in Kittleson's handwriting. A Publishers' Weekly review of the book is also laid in. Top rear corner heavily bumped, bottom edge slightly rubbed. DJ has creases matching bumped corner, spine ends & corners rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. "A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present," by authors varying from Lord Macaulay to James Thurber. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG+. 24 X 16½ cm.
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George Santayana's America: Essays on Literature and Culture
by Santayana, George (collected by James Ballowe)
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Urbana, Chicago & London: University of Illinois Press, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, black titles on spine, tan endpapers, x, 180 pp. DJ has a 2-cm tear to bottom of front panel, slight wear to corners & spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Contains sixteen essays on travel, literature, and life in America written from 1886 to 1922. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). 3rd ptg. . Fine/VG. 23½ X 16 cm.
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Horse & Buggy Philosopher
by Brownell, William L.
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Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, 1939 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black textured paper covered boards, titles stamped and reverse stamped in orange, 296 pp, portrait. Bound w/o free end papers. Printed on yellowish paper one assumes to be vegetable parchment. Corners bumped, spine sunned and rubbed, a few raised water spots on front board. A collection of essays written for Brownell's column in the company organ. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. VG/No dj. 18½ X 13½ cm.
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Hours with Men and Books
by Mathews, William
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Toronto: Belford Brothers, 1877 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Likely the first Canadian printing; first US issue was in 1877; Belford Bros. name changed to Rose-Belford in 1878. Blue cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, blind dec. on rear board, brown endpapers, 352 pp. Cloth rubbed, boards showing through at corners, front hinge shaken. Contains essays on mostly literary topics, and profiles of Thomas De Quincey, Robert South, Charles H. Spurgeon, and Judge Story. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). Early printing. . G/No dj. 18½ X 12½ cm.
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
by Jerome, Jerome K.
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New York: Hurst & Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, circa 1900. Forest green cloth with gilt titles on spine, 203 pp, frontispiece. Corners lightly bumped, corners and spine ends frayed, joints and bottom edge rubbed, edges soiled, paper slightly browned, a half-inch tear to front endpaper at top of gutter, shaken joints repaired with acid-free PVA. A clean (except for the dusty edges) and servicable, but not particularly attractive, stereotyped reprint. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). Reprint. . G-/No dj. 19 X 13 cm.
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Imperial Masquerade
by Lapham, Lewis
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New York: Grove Weidenfeld (Wheatland Corp.), 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Eggplant boards, navy blue cloth spine with gilt titles, xvi, 397, [1] pp, index. Collection of Lapham's articles, most of which appeared in Harper's Magazine (of which he was editor) from 1981 to 1989. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 22½ X 14½ cm.
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Individualism Reconsidered and Other Essays
by Riesman, David
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Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey cloth, blue & yellow titles, [ii], 529 pp, footnotes, index. DJ sunned near spine & top edge, small chips & edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Collection of essays on a variety of topics including ethics, popular culture (including my favorite, "Bookworms and the Social Soil"), sociology, psychology, and totalitarianism. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/VG. 24 X 16 cm.
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It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
by Bellow, Saul
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New York: Viking, 1994 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale lilac boards, black cloth spine, foil titles on spine & blind initials on front board, grey endpapers, xv, 327, [1] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Bellow's first collection of non-fiction includes essays on life, literature, politics, and much else, originally published from 1948 to 1993. Mr. Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize, and multiple National Book Awards for his fiction. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 15½ cm.
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