Search Results: Literature from Veery Books

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1948. 27 pp. A sticker shadow, some discoloration and chipping near edge of wraps, a few light pencil marks in text, else fine. Being the Andrew Lang Lecture delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 7 May 1947. ''When Theodore Roosevelt, the first of that name to be a famous President of the United States, was in England after his bold exploration of the Amazon, he was invited to Oxford to give the Romanes Lecture. It was a great occasion. The Vice-Chancellor and Doctors were assembled in the Divinity School, preparatory to wlking in procession acorss to the Sheldonian Theatre, where the lecture was to be delivered. Roosevelt had written to me saying that he had been quite convinced by my book on Homer, and as he had previously expressed his agreement with Lang's books, this put him in a slightly difficult position towards Lang. The President came up to me and said: 'Are you on speaking terms with Andrew Lang?'… Read More

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1951. 32 pp. A sticker shadow, some discoloration near edge of wraps, a few light pencil marks in text, else fine. Being the Andrew Lang Lecture delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 11 May 1950. ''Yet we may consider that, though journalism may kill a man, it quickens his life while it lasts--of all men in educated callings, unless he has a college fellowship to rest upon, he is least able to let himself degenerate into the too well-known type described by La Fontaine: 'Il se leve un matin sans savoir pourquoi faire. / Il se promene, il va, i dessein, sans sujet. / Il se couche le soir sans savoir d'ordinaire / Ce que dans le jour il a fait.' ''. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1951. 32 pp. A sticker shadow, some discoloration near edge of wraps, a few light pencil marks in text, else fine. Being the Andrew Lang Lecture delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 11 May 1949. ''You will see that I am leading you gently but firmly towards what is generally admitted to be the greatest 'Serbonian bog' of History, where 'armies whole' of critics have 'sunk', in vain effort to find bottom, and from which few have emerged with credit.''. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1952. 32 pp. A sticker shadow, some discoloration near edge of wraps, a few light pencil marks in text, else fine. Being the Andrew Lang Lecture delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 14 November 1951. ''Carlyle described [Knox] as'the one Scotchman to whom, of all others, his country and the world owe a debt'l while, even within the last few years, an American historian has recorded his opinion that John Knox was 'possibly the most important man in Scottish history', certainly a man to be 'reckoned great by any estimate based upon influence'. Such was--as it still is--the tradition which Andrew Lang encountered when he came to write the second volume of his History of Scotland; and his endeavor to 'get behind' that tradition (to use his own words) led one ardent advocate of Knox to review Lang's volume under the title 'Knox in the Hands of the Philistines'.''. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over… Read More

278 pp. Octavo, 5.5 x 9 in. This is an near perfect facsimile of the original 1970 publication. The book and slip case are in fine condition. The dust jacket, as is quite common with this First Edition Library production, Has light wear along the the spine where the board is hinged and at the fold around the fore edge of the board. Else, a very attractive specimen. The F.E.L. 3.5 x 7.5 in. info card is laid in. An archival cover has been added to the dust jacket.

356 pp. Octavo, 6 x 8.5 in. This is an near perfect facsimile of the original June 4, 1940, publication of which, it is estimated, only 3000 were printed. The book, dust jacket, and slip case are in fine condition. The F.E.L. 3.5 x 7.5 in. info card is laid in. An archival cover has been added to the dust jacket.

291 pp. Octavo (5.5 x 8.25 in.) Light wear to wraps with a crease to top fore-edge corner of wraps. Signed by Walter Mosley at his story "Open House." With a letter from the publisher laid in. Foreword: Lift-off, laurel wreaths, and the power of "yes" by Allan Gurganus, With stories by Sue Miller, Ethan Canin, Ann Patchett, Brad Owens, Harriet Doerr, Mark Dewey, Emily Hammond, A.M. Homes, Jonathan Ames, Suzanne Juergensen, Lauren Belfer, David Lipshy, Daniel Mueller, Michael Drinkard, Chris Spain, Steven Barthelme, Mona Simpson, Jennifer Coke, M.T. Sharif, Pinckney Benedict, Fenton Johnson, and Molly Giles.

London: Sotheby's London, 2005. 254 pp. 522 lots. A tiny bump to top fore edge corner. Part One, London only. Session One: English and American Literature, Children's Books, History and Science: Seventeenth Century: Lots 1-8; Eighteenth Century: Lots 9-17; Nineteenth Century: Lots 18-191; Session Two: Twentieth Century Lots 192-438; including film Lots 270-194; Cookery, Lots 439-441; Art and Art Reference Lots 442-449; Continental and World Literature, Lots 450-522. Cosmatos received the Golden Raspberry Award in 1985 for directing Rambo: First Blood Part II. Nicely illustrated, with photos of the filmmaker.. Illustrated Wraps. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

400 pp. Octavo, 6 x 9 in. This is an near perfect facsimile of the original publication of September 10, 1951. The book (brown cloth with gilt lettering), dust jacket, and slip case are in fine condition. The F.E.L. 3.5 x 7.5 in. info card is laid in. An archival cover has been added to the dust jacket.

London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1997. 421 items. From A Beckett to Yeats. Many interesting items with detailed descriptions. . Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York/London: John Lane The Bodley Head/Dodd Mead, 1928. 219 pp. Spine considerably darkened and beginning to wear at top and bottom. Boards are clean and bright with minimal wear. Pages clean and mostly uncut, however book opens to sewing in three places. Decorative endpapers. Two-color TP, graphics on TP and half-title. Init caps throughout. ' ''Yes,'' I answered, ''Heraclitus was probably the first to discover the malady of pessimism; and that is why Nietzsche hailed him as a master.''//''Clearly,'' answered France musingly, ''Only, whether our philosophic ideas sadden or console, it is, in either case, the result of a delusion. Yes, of a great delusion. We are wont, in fact, to imagine that, by a long process of thought and reflection, it is possible for us to unveil any secret we will. We deem that no department of knowledge is closed to us. Proud of his attributes as a thinking animal, man has rashly sought to build up, on the basis… Read More

Boston: Partisan Review, 1983. 154 pp. 486-640. Writers in Exile: Politics and Ideology--Boris Schragin, Stanislaw Baranczak, Erazim Kohak, Leszek Kolakowski; Encounters with the West--Sergei Dovlatov, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Vladimir Voinovich, Andrei Siniaski. Fiction: Italo Calvino--Park Bench Vacation, Saturday of Sun, Sand, and Sleep. Articles: William Phillips--Four Portraits; Pico Iyer--The World According to Beattie; Marjorie Welish--Flesh and the Devil in Figure Painting; David Remnick--An Interview with Charles Wright; Dan Jacobson--On Migratory Workers; Morris Dickstein, Peter Brooks, Williams Phillips, Edith Kurzweil, Steven Marcus, Leon Weiseltier, Dennis Wrong--Intellectuals and Politics.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

225 pp. + ads. Octavo, 8.5 x 5.5 in. Fine wraps, with clear archival jacket. Signed by Tim O'Brien at his contribution. Contents: Introduction: Tim O'Brien, Mark Strand; Fiction & Nonfiction: Lee K. Abbot, A Creature Out of Palestine; Gina Berriault, Who is It Can Tell Me Who I am?; Robert Cohen, The Old Mistakes; Janet Desaulniers, After Rosa Parks; Edward Hardy, Bowling in the Future; Joyce Carol Oates, Easy Lay; Heather White, An Interview with James Merrill; Poetry: Nin Andrews, That Cold Summer; When a Woman Loves a Man; Jennifer Ashton, Still Life with Motion; An Elegy Is a Man; Judith Berke, Cave in the Ravine; Story; Teresa Cader, Wind, Horse, Snow; Laura Conklin, Black; Wyn Cooper, Talk; Kathy Fagan, Two Tragedies, With Preface; Letter from the Garden; James Finnegan, Running Lights; Louise Gluck, Circe's Grief; Penelope's Stubbornness; Jorie Graham, The Errancy; Davud Greenberg, Schoolyard with Boat; Common Will; The Hole in the Ocean; Color Comes to the Night; Linda Gregerson, Fish Dying… Read More

267 pp. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.5 in. First edition, first printing, a fine volume with no flaws in a fine dust jacket in an archival cover, signed by Mosley on the title page below his name. An attractive item. "He got back to his feet and hobbled to the new music, reeling and rocking on a rhythm of unsteady feet. Maybe he'd die before he got there."

304 pp. Octavo, 6 x 8.5 in. This is an near perfect facsimile of the original March 25, 1957, publication. The book, dust jacket, and slip case are in fine condition. The F.E.L. 3.5 x 7.5 in. info card is laid in. An archival cover has been added to the dust jacket.

489 pp. Wear to corners and top and bottom of spine. The spine a touch less vibrant than the boards, but still an eye catcher on the shelf. This florid design with leaves and flowers and trifoils was a style also used for other authors by Hurst. All edges gilt, quite bright. Red clay endpapers. One engraved plate between pp 112 & 113. A life of Virgil (pp. v-x), unattributed, The AEneas, Georgics, and Pastorals.Then o'er the running Stream, or standing Lake,⁠A Passage for thy weary People make;With Osier Floats the standing Water strow;Of massy Stones make Bridges, if it flow:That basking in the Sun thy Bees may lye,And resting there, their flaggy Pinions dry:⁠When late returning home, the laden Host,By raging Winds is wreck'd upon the Coast.Wild Thyme and Sav'ry set around their Cell,Sweet to the taste, and fragrant to the Smell:Set rows of Rosemary with flow'ring Stem,⁠And let the purple Vi'lets drink the Stream.—Georgics, Book IV