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Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of American Writers
Editors of Merriam-Webster
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Merriam-Webster 2001
ISBN: 0877790221 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book has a lower-edge remainder remark. Otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A compendium of more than 1,600 entries and photographs dealing with America’s greatest writers, important literary works, and most important literary groups. AMERICAN LITERATURE,AMERICAN WRITERS Book #7695 |
US$16.00 |
Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey
Bishop, James, Jr.
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Simon & Schuster
1995
ISBN
0684804395 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked Novelist, essayist, naturalist, philosopher, and social critic, the late Edward Abbey may have been the most popular writer to take the American Southwest as his subject. He was also an impassioned critic of the exploitation of the wilderness by governmental, industrial, and ranching interests, as well as by the tourist industry. Illustrated. AMERICAN WEST,AMERICAN SOUTHWEST,CONSERVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISM,AMERICAN SOCIETY Book# 4693 |
US$12.00 |
In Search of Melancholy Baby
Aksyonov, Vassily
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Random House First Edition 1987
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Here the acclaimed Russian emigre novelist Vassily Aksyonov offers an exuberant chronicle of his encounters with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as he makes the United States his home. UNITED STATES,AMERICA,AMERICAN SOCIETY,EMIGRATION, IMMIGRATION, HUMOR Book# 3777 |
US$14.75 |
Hans Christian
Andersen: A Biography
Book,
Fredrik
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University of Oklahoma Press
Second Printing 1963
ISBN 0686887891 Very Good Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Slight edge spotting. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge/corner wear; in a clear protective cover. Translated from the Swedish by George C. Schoolfield. An authoritative biography of the greatest Danish writer of the nineteenth century. Illustrated. FABLE,FAIRY TALES,LEGEND,MYTH,DENMARK,COPENHAGEN, AUTHORS, DANISH WRITERS, NINETEENTH CENTURY Book# 2687, 4745 |
US$12.00 |
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now
Angelou, Maya
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Bantam 1994
Fine Mass Market Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic. MEMOIRS,SPIRITUALITY,WOMEN'S STUDIES,ESSAYS Book# 4052 |
US$3.50 |
I. Asimov
Asimov, Isaac
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Bantam 1995 ISBN: 055356997X Very Good Trade Paperback. Spine is gently creased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. An autobiography of the prolific science fiction and popular science author and polymath. Illustrated. SCIENCE FICTION,SCIENCE WRITING,BIOCHEMISTRY,AMERICAN WRITERS Book #7774 |
US$6.50 |
The Man Behind The Da Vinci Code: The Unauthorized Biography of Dan Brown
Rogak, Lisa
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Andrews McMeel 2005
ISBN: 0740756427 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book has a top-edge remainder mark. DJ in a clear protective cover. AMERICAN WRITERS,RELIGIOUS HISTORY,GNOSTICS,GNOSTICISM,MARY MAGDELAN Book #7330 |
US$6.50 |
I'll Always Have Paris
Buchwald, Art
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G.P. Putnam's Sons First Edition
1996 ISBN: 0399141871 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The noted columnist and humorist writes of his post-war Paris years. HUMOR,PARIS,FRANCE,JOURNALISM,HERALD TRIBUNE,WRITING Book #2216,2560 |
US$17.50 |
Little Wilson and Big God: The First Part of the Confessions
Burgess. Anthony
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Grove Weidenfeld 1991
ISBN: 0802132405 Near Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Tiny bottom edge spot - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. An autobiographical work by the author of numerous works including A Clockwork Orange. An unforgettable portrait of his first forty years, from his childhood in Manchester, England, to the moment when, having been told he was dying from brain cancer, he dedicated himself to writing. AUTOBIOGRAPHY,MEMOIRS,BRITISH AUTHORS,MANCHESTER,A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Book #6673 |
US$12.00 |
Raymond Chandler: A Biography
Hiney, Tom
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Atlantic Monthly Press First
American Edition 1997 ISBN: 0871136902 Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a tiny lower corner chip - else Fine; in a clear protective cover. The author of the Philip Marlowe detective novels, he was central to the birth of what became known as film noir. Illustrated. AMERICAN WRITERS,MYSTERY WRITERS,FILM NOIR,DETECTIVE NOVELS, PHILIP MARLOWE,THE BIG SLEEP Book #5859 |
US$14.00 |
With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer
Clapp, Susannah
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Penguin 1999 ISBN: 0140276459 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a nomad whose desire for adventure and enlightenment was made wholly evident by his writings... With Chatwin is a mesmerizing portrait of one of the most legendary writers of our time. AMERICAN AUTHORS,IN PATAGONIA,THE SONGLINES Book #7131 |
US$9.00 |
Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet - Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert’s Muse
Du Plessix Gray, Francine
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Simon & Schuster First
Edition 1994 ISBN: 0671742388 Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a tiny closed tear - else Fine; in a clear protective cover. A ground-breaking biography of the woman who was Gustave Flaubert’s great love, the confidant of numerous literary figures including Victor Hugo, and one of the most prolific writers of nineteenth-century France. NINETEENTH CENTURY FRANCE,FRENCH LITERATURE,FRENCH AUTHORS,GUSTAVE FLAUBERT,VICTOR HUGO,FEMINISTS Book #7056 |
US$12.00 |
A House Called Memory
Collier, Richard
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E. P. Dutton First U. S. Edition
1961 ISBN: Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Mild wear and fading of boards and an area of writing on front paste-down. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with edge wear with several small chips; in a clear protective cover. A Distinctive Memoir of a Boyhood in England by the author of The City That Would Not Die. ENGLAND,CHILDHOOD,BOYHOOD,YOUTH Book #2490 |
US$13.50 |
Joseph Conrad
Fletcher, Chris
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Oxford University Press
1999
ISBN 0195214412 Fine Hardcover in no Dustjacket as issued. Decorative laminate binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The British Library writers’ lives. Nicely illustrated. ENGLISH LITERATURE,NOVELISTS,SEAFARING,NAUTICAL,LORD JIM, HEART OF DARKNESS,POLAND Book# 6925 |
US$11.00 |
Once There Was a Farm...A Country Childhood Remembered
Dabney, Virginia Bell
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Ballantine 1990
ISBN: 034536502X New Unread Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "I have been indelibly imprinted by my own years growing up on a working farm", Mrs. Dabney writes, and with loving hindsight she re-creates for the reader a world that is forever lost. FARMS,FARMING,VIRGINIA,GROWING UP,COMING OF AGE Book #4562 |
US$11.50 |
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Dahl, Roald
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Puffin 1986 ISBN: 0140318909 Near Fine Trade Paperback. Very slight wear of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Roald Dahl's fascinating tales of his own childhood. Illustrated. CHILDRENS' STORIES,AUTHORS,BRITISH AUTHORS,WILLIE WONKA,MEMOIRS Book #2654 |
US$4.00 |
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Dahl, Roald
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Puffin / Penguin1986
ISBN: 0140318909 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. “As full of excitment and the unexpected as the stories he writes, Roald Dahl,s tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating, often very funny, and are not to be missed!” Illustrated. ENGLAND,BRITISH AUTHORS,CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY,CHILDRENS BOOKS Book #7043 |
US$4.50 |
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend
Fullbrook, Kate and Edward Fullbrook
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BasicBooks 1994
ISBN: 0465078273 New Unread Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. He was France's best-known philosopher and chief arbiter of intellectual fashions during the postwar era. She was the most influential forerunner of today's feminist movement, who nonetheless seemed to live in the shadow of a great man. So goes one of the great cultural legends of our time. The only problem, as Kate and Edward Fullbrook point out in this beautifully written and meticulously researched portrait, is that it is wrong. PHILOSOPHY,INTELLECTUALS,FRANCE,FRENCH LITERATURE,TWENTIETH CENTURY, EXISTENTIALISM,FEMINISM,WOMEN'S STUDIES Book #4629 |
US$11.75 |
James Dickey: The World as a Lie
Hart, Henry
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Picador First Edition
2000 ISBN: 0312203209 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. “Henry Hart sees lying as the central theme to Dickey’s life and art, and in this authoratative, immensely entertaining biography, Hart delves deeply behind his subject’s many masks.” Illustrated. AMERICAN WRITERS,SOUTHERN WRITERS,DELIVERANCE Book #7348 |
US$14.00 |
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
Thurman, Judith
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St. Martin’s
1982
ISBN
0312437382 Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. “Until now, the life and art of Isak Dinesen have been, as Dinesen herself wrote in a tale of two lovers, ‘a pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other’. Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.” Illustrated. OUT OF AFRICA,SEVEN GOTHIC TALES,KENYA,EAST AFRICA,DENMARK, BARON BROR BLIXEN,DENYS FINCH HATTON Book# 6931 |
US$12.00 |
The Shark Net: Memories and Murder
Drewe, Robert
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Viking First American Edition
2000 ISBN: 0670888095 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A memoir of extraordinary events from his childhood in Perth by one of Australia's most celebrated writers. CHILDHOOD,MURDER,HOMICIDE,MYSTERY,SERIAL KILLERS,TRUE CRIME,PERTH,AUSTRALIA Book #5459 |
US$14.50 |
