Too Old to Cry
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. More
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Abo Akademi University Press, January 2002. First Edition. Paper Back. Scarce. Octavo. Sun-bleached spine. Clean & sound with a few marginal pencil notes and tick marks. Also the last, blank page has a bunch of pencil notes, but there is nothing to distract from reading. 215 pages. More
Delta, February 2000. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir--a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of..... More
MacMillan Co., January 1947. First Edition. Cloth. First/first. Octavo. In heavily edgeworn DJ with darkened spine & clipped flaps. Maroon cloth with gold lettering and decor. Clean interors. [268 pp.]. More
Noonday Press, December 1995. Trade Paperback. When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey appeared in 1967, it changed the course of modern biography, setting a new standard for the recounting of literary lives and launching the enduring Bloomsbury revival. In the 1960s, however, many of Strachey's friends and lovers were still..... More
Oxford University Press, February 2012. Hardcover. In The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1957) Georg Lukacs discussed how the power struggle of the Cold War made it all the more pressing for literary writers to present 'concrete potentialities' of individual character in novel ways. Powers of Possibility explores how American experimental..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback with slightly slanted spine. Cover with worn edges and chipped spine corners. Mildly dog-eared fore-edge corners. Slightly stained cover with toning at margins. Foxing and scattered smudges textblock top edge and fore-edge. (315 pages and two page list of..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, October 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Richard Howard has been writing stylish, deeply informed commentary on modern culture and literature for more than four decades. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects--from American..... More
Harcourt, October 1980. Trade Paperback. More
Harcourt, October 1990. Hardcover. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1992. Soft Cover. The distinguished American poet examines the art and economics of writing, touching on communication, teaching, and inspiration. More
Princeton University Press, October 1982. First Thus. Soft Cover. The description for this book, The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s, will be forthcoming. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} Sunned spine with slight edgewear and curl to front cover. Previous owner's name in ink..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1962. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Oriiginal'. Paperback original. First time published complete in English. Darkening/foxing to cover, especially heavy darkening to spine. Dust staining to textblock edges, corners & margins. Cover design by Diana Klemin. (239 pp.). More
University of Ottawa Press, July 2005. Trade Paperback. The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's..... More
Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (U.S.) in worn dustjacket with soiling. Flap is not clipped. Teal cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Foxing & dust stains textblock edges, especially heavy at top. Soiling again heavily at top edge. Boards worn top & bottom of spine..... More
Sligo Press, 2000. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed on title page by J. Michael Lennon. Inked marginalia on several pages; else, very good. More
Simon & Schuster, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Now a TV series Living Biblically streaming on CBS All Access! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and thoughtful year spent obeying?as literally..... More
Random House Inc, September 2002. Trade Paperback. John O'Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later, with a wife and two kids of his own, the son moved back into those mountains in an attempt to..... More
Oxford Univ Pr, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Rasselas--regarded as Johnson's most creative work--presents the story of the journey of Rasselas and his companions in search of "the choice of life." Its charm lies not in its plot, but rather in its wise and humane look at man's constant search for..... More
Folio Society, January 1985. First Thus. Cloth. Gray cloth with gilt lettering in black background. Front cover illustration on printed paper affixed to board. 55 illustrations scattered through text and full page portrait of Maria Constable by Mary Bicknell on frontpiece opposite title page. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front..... More
Tarcher, December 1998. Trade Paperback. What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false..... More
Granada, January 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reprint. Paper Back. This book takes a critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights from the viewpoint of those whose job it is to give the work life on stage. From personal experience of over seventy productions, from interviews..... More
Karl Baedeker, January 1904. Hardcover. Limp boards. 'With 49 Maps and 75 Plans'. 14th Revised edition. More