Random House, October 1989. Hardcover. "A grand epic." THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER Master storyteller James A. Michener sweeps us off to the Caribbean, with a magnificent novel that captures the eternal allure of that glittering string of islands and their tumultuous history. Beginning in 1310 and continuing through Columbus's arrival..... More
Random House, September 1980. Book Club. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy yellow cloth boards w/ gilt at front and spine; Previous owner inscription present at front paste-down; Text free of markings; Dust jacket VG w/ mild edge wear present. More
Random House, January 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing; Solid binding; Clean, sturdy yellow cloth boards w/ immaculate gilt lettering/design at front and spine; Text free of markings; Unclipped dust jacket VG w/ the slightest bit of edge-wear present; Jacket housed in protective mylar; An exceptional copy. More
Lea and Blanchard, Phila: 1840, January 1840. Hardcover. Two volume set complete; No slipcase present; Lea and Blanchard, 1840; Presumed 2nd printing w/ '(2)' present at printer's page; Books heavily worn; Bindings intact; Vol. 1 rear hinge loose but still intact; Cloth boards heavily soiled and faded, mild fraying present..... More
Doubleday Anchor Book, 1958. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass Market paperback. Stated 'First Edition', First Anchor edition. Darkened spine and cover margins. [353 pages]. More
Random House (NY), October 1992. Hardcover. "Astounding...Fast-moving, Intriguing...James Michener is back in huge, familiar form with MEXICO." LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS Here is the story of an American journalist who travels to Mexico to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, but who is ultimately swept up in..... More
Library of America, July 1985. Cloth. The five novels in "The Leatherstocking Tales," Cooper's great saga of the American wilderness, are now gathered for the first time in two volumes, in the order of their original publication They form a pageant of the American frontier, whose hero, Natty Bumppo, is..... More
Library of America, July 1985. Cloth. When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in The Pioneers, one early reader said of his departure, I longed to go with him. American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in two..... More
Random House (NY), September 1985. Hardcover. "A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, Anglos and Hispanics, frontier and settlement, money and power...James Michener is something rare and valuable: an honorable craftsman doing honorable work....He manages to make history vivid and palatable to the reader." THE BOSTON GLOBE Texas..... More
Tachyon Publications, November 2004. Paper Back. "There is just one great collection of Tiptree's fiction in print . . . Her Smoke Rose Up Forever from Tachyon Publications. It contains all of her major short stories.'" ?New York Times Book Review Her Smoke Rose Up Forever collects eighteen brilliant short..... More
Wesleyan, June 1978. Soft Cover. Classic poems from a famous American poetThis volume represents, under one cover, the major work of the man whom critics and readers have designated the authentic poet of his American generation. For this collection, James Dickey has selected from his four published books all those..... More
University of California Press, December 1981. First Thus. Trade Paperback. In James Joyce's early work, as in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, meanings are often concealed in obscure allusions and details of veiled suggestive power. Consistent recognition of these hidden significances in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a...... More
Top Shelf Productions, March 2007. Trade Paperback. Kochalka invented the daily diary comic strip, spawning a grass roots comix movement that has swept across the globe. Every day Kochalka draws a little comic strip about something that happened to him that day. As simple as that concept might seem, in..... More
Top Shelf Productions, August 2004. Trade Paperback. A deluxe compilation of the first five years of James Kochalka's ground breaking daily diary comic strip. Since October 1998, James Kochalka has kept a daily diary, drawn in comic strip form in his sketchbook. Drawn with relaxed and beautiful brushwork, these strips..... More
PM Press, July 2022. Trade Paperback. Jack Proctor, a celebrated older writer and curmudgeon, goes off to residency where he is to be an honored part of teaching and giving public readings, he soon finds the atmosphere of the literary world has changed since his last foray into the public..... More
Penguin Classics, December 1999. Trade Paperback. Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses, James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book -- the night. "A nocturnal state...That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream." The..... More
Other Press (NY), January 2022. Hardcover. This strikingly illustrated edition presents Joyce's epic novel in a new, more accessible light, while showcasing the incredible talent of a leading Spanish artist. The neo-figurative artist Eduardo Arroyo (1937-2018), regarded today as one of the greatest Spanish painters of his generation, dreamed of..... More
Random House Inc, May 1995. Paper Back. This new Selected Poems replaces an earlier selection of work by James Merrill entitled From the First Nine (1982), now out of print; it includes 121 poems taken from that work and from Late Settings (1985), but it excludes the long narrative poem..... More
Oxford University Press, November 1997. Trade Paperback. In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential breakthrough narrative, the oft-told story of postmodern poets throwing off their modernist shackles in the 1950s, Longenbach offers a more nuanced perspective. Reading a diverse..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. This introductory study presents Racine's Phèdre as the culmination of French classical tragedy. It situates the play in its historical, literary and theatrical context, shows its relationship with other tragedies of Racine, and sketches its influence on later European literature. It analyzes the..... More
Faber & Faber, January 1985. Paper Back. Joyce's fictionalized autobiographical love story is presented together with textual and documentary notes. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Rutgers Univ. Press, January 1948. Cloth. {5&1/2' x 8&1/2'} Army green cloth covered boards with gold lettering with title and author's name within square fields of red and gold decorations along spine. Top textblock edge likewise tinted green. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to pastedown. Non-authorial inked inscription on ffep. Foxing..... More
Avon Books/Bard Books, September 1975. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Light foxing. Heavy foxing/staining to textblock top edge. Previous reader's nam in ink top of front cover verso. First Barb Books/Avon. [160 pages]. More
Simon & Schuster, January 2018. Hardcover. New York Times Bestseller James Lee Burke's most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this gritty, atmospheric mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana. DAVE ROBICHEAUX IS A HAUNTED MAN. Between his recurrent nightmares about Vietnam, his battle with alcoholism, and the..... More
