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               Milton in America
               Ackroyd, Peter

Vintage 1997                                     ISBN  0749386258
New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death? What if he had crossed the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New England? From this idea Peter Ackroyd creates an entralling story of conflict, treachery, hypocrisy and greed.
JOHN MILTON,PARADISE LOST,17TH CENTURY,NEW ENGLAND,AMERICAN COLONIES,PURITANS,HISTORICAL NOVELS,HISTORICAL FICTION                                                                                                                                                          Book# 5210, 5211 		US$9.95

         
               Unbridled Spirits: Short Fiction About Women in the Old West
               Alter, Judy and A. T. Row

Texas Christian University Press 1994                     ISBN  0875651240
Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
This collection of short stories (by Willa Cather, Mari Sandoz, Bret Harte, Jack London and many others) is designed to refute the traditional notion that women in western fiction were mere stereotypes - the soiled dove or the pure schoolmarm...
AMERICAN LITERATURE,AMERICAN HISTORY,AMERICAN WEST,WESTERN FRONTIER,PIONEERS,NINETEENTH CENTURY                                         Book# 6501 		US$12.00


               The Tidewater Tales (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
               Barth, John
 The Johns Hopkins University Press 1997   ISBN: 080185556X
 Near Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Minor bumping of one corner - else Fine.
 Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Sailing on Chesapeake Bay, a young couple tell each other
 tales to ease the worries of her eight and a half months pregnancy.                     
 MARYLAND,CHESAPEAKE BAY,STORIES,SAILING       Book #7597		  
US$10.00 
   

         
               The Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey
               Bennett, William J. (edit.)

Simon & Schuster First Edition 1995                        ISBN  0684803135
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
The inspiring and instructive companion volume to The Book of Virtues, offers many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history.
MORALITY,CHILDHOOD,AMERICAN HISTORY,AMERICAN SOCIETY                                                                                                                                                                   Book# 6089 		US$14.00

         
               Separate Country: a literary journey through the American South
               Binding, Paul

Paddington First Edition 1979                                     ISBN  0448220725
Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Faint edge spotting - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with the slightest of wear; in a clear protective cover.
Paul Binding, an Englishman long fascinated by Southern literature, made an extensive journey through the South, talking to its most distinguised writers in their homes. Includes conversations with: Walker Percy, Eudora Welty, Andrew Lytle and other Southern writers.
SOUTHERN LITERATURE,SOUTHERN AUTHORS,SOUTHERN WRITERS, WALKER PERCY,EUDORA WELTY,ALLEN TATE,ANNE TYLER,
PETER TAYLOR,REYNOLDS PRICE,JAMES DICKEY                                Book# 5912 		US$12.50


         
               Asleep in the Sun
               Bioy Casares, Adolfo

Persea First American Edition 1978                          ISBN  0892550309            
Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.DJ with moderate wear, small creasing of flaps and a small, closed tear;
in a clear protective cover.
Love and freedom are untimately illusions, Bioy Casares seems to be telling us, while totalitarian systems, in most of today's world, are all too real. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine.
TOTALITARIANISM,FREEDOM,LOVE,ARGENTINA,SOUTH AMERICA,SOUTH AMERICAN WRITERS                                                                                              Book# 3032 		US$25.00

         
               How to Read and Why
               Bloom, Harold

Simon & Schuster 2001                                       ISBN  0684859076
Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well.
ESSAYS,READING,READERS,LITERARY CRITICISM,WRITERS,POETRY,POETS, DRAMA,PLAYS,NOVELS                                                                                          Book# 5855 		US$8.00

         
               absent without leave
               Boll, Heinrich

McGraw-Hill Second Printing 1973                                      ISBN
Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Very slight edge spotting and corner wear of binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
DJ with a small area of tape residual and scraping on reverse; in a clear protective cover.
Volume contains two novellas by the 1972 Nobel Laureate: Absent Without Leave and Enter and Exit. His works focus principally on the
Second World War, its aftermath, the havoc it wreaked on the people of Germany. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz.
WORLD WAR II,GERMANY,NAZI GERMANY,POST-WAR GERMANY,
MODERN LITERATURE                                                                                          Book# 2872 		US$28.00

         
               Of Wives and Wiving:
                A Manual of Instruction, Exhortation & Admonition gathered from Older Authors
                for the Guidance, Delight and Moral Fortification of Contemporary Readers
               Buncle, John, Jnr.

Henry Regnery 1949                                      
Near Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Mild corner bumping and previous owner's small stamp on front paste-down. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ price-clipped with moderate wear and tanning and with small chips and closed tears; in a clear protective cover.
A quaint little collection of brief writings on wives, love and marriage by many older authors including Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Francis Bacon and the like.
LOVE,LOVERS,MARRIAGE                                                                                   Book# 5951 		US$12.00

           
               The Family of Pascual Duarte
               Cela, Camilo Jose'

Little, Brown 1964                                    ISBN  0316134317
Near Fine Trade Paperback. Several tiny, superficial scratches of front wrap - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
The classic of modern Spanish literature by the Nobel Prize-winning writer. Translated from the Spanish by Anthony Kerrigan.
SPANISH LITERATURE,NOBEL LAUREATES                                               Book# 5847 		US$9.00

         
               Biographia Literaria
               Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Everyman's Library 1930                                      
Very Good Hardcover (12mo) in no Dustjacket as issued. Top edge stained black. Mild soiling of binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
A collection of essays on literary criticism by Coleridge. With an Introduction by Arthur Symons.
ENGLISH LITERATURE,NINETEENTH CENTURY,LITERARY CRITICISM,WRITING                                                                            Book# 5277 		US$22.00


               Tales of the Sea
               Conrad, Joseph

New Unread Oversized Trade Paperback. Unmarked.                 ISBN  0890098018
A collection of Conrad's powerful and beautifully-written sea stories including Lord Jim, Typhoon, Children of the Sea, Heart of Darkness and others.
NAUTICAL,SAILING SHIPS,AGE OF SAIL,ADVENTURE                           Book# 6733 		US$14.00

           
               Read With Me
               Costain, Thomas B.

Doubleday Book Club Edition 1965                                       
Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Top edge stained red. Book has slight corner wear and previous owner's very small label on front paste-down. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge wear and mild scuffing; in a clear protective cover.
A personal anthology of memorable reading, selected and introduced by Thomas B. Costain. Contains stories by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Woolf, Godden, Priestly, Gallico and many others.
SHORT STORIES,HEMINGWAY,FITZGERALD,CHESTERTON,GALLICO, BRENDAN BEHAN,PORTER,PARKER,GODDEN,BENET                            Book# 2645 		US$10.50


               The Real Camelot: Paganism and the Arthurian Romances
               Darrah, John
 Dorset 1981   ISBN: 0880290277
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 The Real Camelot introduces us to a King Arthur who belongs not to a post Roman Britain but to an earlier,
 pagan era.                      
 ENGLISH LITERATURE,KING ARTHUR,LEGEND,MYTHOLOGY       Book #7419		  
US$14.00 
   
         
           
               Playing Cowboys: Low Culture and High Art in the Western
               Davis, Robert Murray

University of Oklahoma Press 1991                  ISBN  0806124024                                   
Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
Robert Murray Davis examines the Western hero - a principal image of American manhood since publication of The Virginian - as portrayed by a variety of post-World War II novelists and filmmakers.
WESTERNS,WESTERN NOVELS,AMERICAN LITERATURE,FILMS,MOTION PICTURES,CINEMA,HOLLYWOOD,HEROES                                                 Book# 3293 		US$10.50

           
               The Waterworks
               Doctorow, E.L.

Random House First Trade Edition 1994                                      
Very Good Trade Paperback. Slight wear of wraps and slight edge spotting. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 By the award winning author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, World's Fair and others.
RAGTIME,BILLY BATHGATE,LOON LAKE,WORLD'S FAIR,
20TH CENTURY LITERATURE                                                                            Book# 2292 		US$9.50

           
               World's Fair
               Doctorow, E.L.

Random House First Edition 1985                  ISBN  0394525280
Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Cloth binding with some fading; lettering remains bright. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
DJ with several small tears; in a clear protective cover.
20TH CENTURY LITERATURE                                                                            Book# 1281 		US$9.50

         
               Webster's Dictionary of American Writers
               Editors of  Merriam-Webster

Barnes & Noble 2004                                      ISBN  0760755442
New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
Over 1600 Articles on Writers, Literary Works, and Movements
AMERICAN LITERATURE,AMERICAN AUTHORS,DRAMA,POETRY,AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS,AMERICAN POETS                                                                  Book# 6304 		US$14.50


               Houses behind the Trees
               El-Bisatie, Mohamed
 University of Texas Press 1998   ISBN: 0292720955
 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
 Set in a small village in the Egyptian Delta, El-Bisatie’s finely tuned novella illustrates the social and
 sexual tensions in a community in which nothing is secret and where people’s pasts haunt their present.                      
 EGYPT,EGYPTIAN WRITERS,EGYPTIAN LITERATURE       Book #7213		  
US$9.75 
   
           

               Conversations with Maya Angelou
               Elliot, Jeffrey M. (edit.)

University Press of Mississippi Third Printing 1989             ISBN  087805362X
Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
Conversations between Maya Angelou and various interviewers concerning her life
 and writings. 
BIOGRAPHY,LITERARY CRITICISM,AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS                                                                                                                                                                   Book# 6076 		US$7.50


               The Eye of the Prophet
               Gibran, Kahlil
 Frog 1995   ISBN: 1883319404
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 A collection of writings by the author of the poem, The Prophet, translated from the Arabic and French.                      
 PROSE POEMS,POETS       Book #7521		  
US$10.00 
   


               Darkness Visible
               Golding, William

Farrar, Straus, Giroux Third Printing 1979                                       
Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. A small area of writing on front paste-down, wear of lower board edges and edge spotting.
Book is tight and overall bright. DJ with edge wear and a small, closed tear; in a clear protective cover.
"...a boy steps out of the flaming destruction of the London Blitz miraculously alive, but orphaned and hideously scarred for life...
He becomes a prophet, a wandering soul, who has his own 'voices'."
MYSTERY,LONDON BLITZ                                                                                   Book# 2434 		US$11.50


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