The SAME RIVER TWICE: A Memoir
Scribner, January 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket very good. Boards have some sunning on the top edge. A small scrape on the back board. Light foxing on the endpapers. More
Scribner, January 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket very good. Boards have some sunning on the top edge. A small scrape on the back board. Light foxing on the endpapers. More
Counterpoint LLC, March 2004. Hardcover. If you have a language question, where do you go for the answer? How do you keep proper syntax from sounding stiff, and, on the other hand, how do you keep conversational language from being embarrassingly incorrect? Barbara Wallraff, the author of The Atlantic's Word..... More
Heritage Press, January 1948. Hardcover. Spine is sunned but book is in good, cardboard slipcase splitting at the seems. More
Easton Press, 1990. First Edition. Leather. Navy blue leather with gold lettering on ribbed spine and gold design front and rear cover. Gold textblock edges. Moire end pages. Unused Easton Press Ex Libris laid in., Silk ribbon marker. 'This leather-bound First Edition is personally signed by Wendy Wasserstein' on special..... More
Little Brown and Company, June 1985. Trade Paperback. More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. Penciled underlining & tick marks scattered through text. Edgewear, rubbing and user worn corners. (316 pages with four pages of available Anchor titles.). More
Macmillan & Co., June 1891, November 1893. Reprint. Cloth. [5' x 7 & 1/2'] Two volumes, both early UK reprints. Octavo both. Volume two: Bowed spine with moderate lean: red cloth with gold lettering. Spine is sunned. Worn at edges espcially at top of spine. Likewise worn along raised spine..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1954. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Tanning/darkening to spine and margins. Worn edges of covers. Deep vertical crease down middle of front cover. Previous owner's name and a date inked half title page. Otherwise clean, sound, with no markings, underlinings, side-notes, etc. (238 pages and two page list..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 1984. Reprint. Trade Paperback. From one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century, this installment of Edmund Wilson's private notebooks covers the years of the 1940s, providing a rich lens into the writer's life and the world at large. Wilson turned forty-five in..... More
Doubleday, January 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild edgewear and toning to cover. 508 pages plus eight page list of available Dolphin and Anchor titles available. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), October 1986. First Edition. Cloth. {4 & 1/2 x 7 & 1/2'} In DJ with moderate use wear. Sun-tanned jacket spine. Soiling & foxing jacket cover. Front flap is not clipped. Fern green cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine., Tightly bound at bottom..... More
Grove Pr, October 1989. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
University Press of Mississippi, April 1990. Trade Paperback. "Literary journalist," "lowly social historian," "chronicler of his times," and "champion of realism" are among the many epithets heaped upon Tom Wolfe by himself and his myriad admirers and critics. In this collection of interviews spanning his richly productive career, Wolfe is..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, February 2011. Trade Paperback. In The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Jenny Woolf brings to life the brilliant, secretive, and self-contradictory creator of Alice in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. Reveling in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life, Carroll always--at least in..... More
Anchor Canada, March 1998. Trade Paperback. One of the best ways to understand history is through eye-witness accounts. Ting-Xing Ye's riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of..... More