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	ACWORTH, BERNARD Swift London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947. Drk grn clth. Fine; The satirist and clergyman, Swift presented to 18th century England an insight into problems yet unsolved; 250 pp. pages. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 1070 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	ADAMS, SAMUEL HOPKINS A. Woollcott New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. Second Edition. Tan cloth hc. Near fine, dusty, sl wear at edges, bkplate inside fr. Cover; Indexed, Adams called the biography of the reconteur his life and his world; Photos; 386 pp. pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 1127 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BARRINGTON, E Glorious Apollo New York: Dodd Mead, 1925. First Edition. Drk. Blue cloth. Vg+. Very light edgewear. ; The life of Lord Byron written in the form of a novel; B&w Frontis of Byron; 371 pp. pages. USD 23.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2030] Book number: 1083 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BARZUN, JACQUES (EDITOR) The Selected Writings of John Jay Chapman New York: Farrar, Straus, Cudahy, 1957. First Edition. Brick cloth hc. F/f; Indexed, Chapman is a man who took the public and private morality seriously, and now is an unknown Thoreau. ; 294 pp. pages. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 1087 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BEHRMAN, S. N. People in a Diary: A Memoir Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. First Edition. Green cloth, hc. Nr. Fine/nr. Fine, very lt. Fade at bott. Edge, some wear DJ edge; Celebrity in a day of eloquence is recalled in this memoir; Photos; 338 pp. pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 277 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BENTWICH, NORMAN My 77 Years Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1961. First Edition. Maroon cloth. F/nr. Fine, some wear around DJ edges; Indexed, from his writings, he is a scholar, but this account of his life shows that he was also an international statesman; 344 pp. pages. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 1088 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BRINNIN, JOHN MALCOLM The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1959. First Edition. Rise. Nf/vg+, sl. Wear at spine bott, DJ wear at spine edges, DJ spine faded; Indexed, This biography goes beyond the life to the personality and beyond the writing to its analysis; 427 pp. pages. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 1104 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BROOKS, VAN WYCK The Times of Melville and Whiteman N. P. (new York): E. P. Dutton, 1947. First Edition. Green cloth. Nr. Fine/vg, sl. Wear to bott, wear to top, bott. DJ; Indexed, mid-19th century life of country and letters seen through the lives of two of the literary giants of the day; 489 pp pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 424 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BROWN, JOHN MASON The Worlds of Robert E. Sherwood New York: Harper & Row, 1965. BOMC. Red/blk cloth. Fine/fine; Indexed, Pulitzer Prize winner, dramatist, biographer, wartime director of the Office of War Information, and member a member; Photos; 409 pp. pages. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 1133 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BROWNE, LEWIS That Man Heine New York: Macmillan, 1927. First Edition. Silver bds, hc. Very good+; Indexed, provenance, from library of late film actor Jean Hersholt, donated to Motion Picture Country House, stamped; 420 pp. pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1033 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	CLARKE, GERALD Capote. A Biography New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. 1st. Ed. (BC). HB. VG+/VG+; A big thick biography on Capote. Remainder mark on bottom edge, o. W. Fine.; Illustrated; 632 pp. pages. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 1026 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	COBB, IRVIN S. Exit Laughing New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. Grey buckram. Nr. Fine, fair DJ, sl. Dustiness, dark inside covers, ; Indexed, an autobiography of a once famous humorist and newpaper writer; 572 pp pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1109 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	COLES, ROBERT Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publ, 1987. First Edition. Grey bds, hc. F/f; Indexed, for me, it is strange that this short, tortured life draws attention, like the tongue probing a bad tooth; 179 pp. pages. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 1065 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	FERRIS, PAUL Dylan Thomas: A Biography New York: Dial Press, 1977. bc. Green boards. Fine/fine; Indexed; Photos; 399 pp. pages. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 178 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	FORD, FORD MADOX, EDITED BY MICHAEL KILLIGREW Your Mirror to My Times New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition. Black cloth hc. Fine/nr. Fine, very lt. Edgewear to DJ; The scion of the Rossettis of poetic and pre-Raphaelite reputation reviews his life's events; 392 pp. pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 544 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	GELB, ARTHUR AND BARBARA O'Neill New York: Harper, 1962. First Edition. Off-white cl.. Good+, clip marks top edge pages, name label ffep, spine edgwear; Indexed, ; Photos; 970 pp. pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1084 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	GOLDEN, HARRY The Right Time: The Autobiography of Harry Golden New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. bc. Yellow cloth. Nr fine/nr fine, very lt. Wear, inscribed on ffep, tape marks, ; Indexed, ; Photos; 450 pp. pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 965 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	HYSLOP, LOIS BOE AND FRANCIS E. Baudelaire: A Self-Portrait London: Oxford University Press, 1957. Maroon cloth. Near fine, sl. Dustiness; Indexed; 259 pp. pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 159 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	KAZAN, ALFRED Starting out in the Thirties Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1965. First Edition. Gr. Cloth, hc. Fine/fine; Kazan's literary career began in the thirties, from Jewish part of Brownsville, Brooklyn to Manhattan's literary hothouse; 166 pp. pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1027 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	LAYMAN, RICHARD Shadowman: The Life of Dashiell Hammett New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1981. Beige cloth, hc. F/f; Indexed, from Pinkerton detective to film-writer, he will be ever remembered as one of the prime detective writers. ; Photos; 285 pp. pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 286 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	LEAVIS, F. R. D.H. Lawrence: Novelist New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. 1st Am. Green cloth hc. Fine/nf, DJ has sl. Wear spine ends, corners; Indexed, a critical analysis of one of the top novelists of the century; 391 + v pp. pages. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 292 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	LEWIS, D. BEVAN WYNDHAM Francois Villon Garden City, NY: Garden City Publ, 1928. Blck cloth hc. Vg+, spine top pulled; Prefaced by hilaire belloc; 407 PP. pages. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 1049 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	LONG, E. HUDSON O. Henry, the Man and His Work Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, 1949. First Edition. Blue cloth. Nr. Fine, cover discolored, bkplate fr. Cover, sl. Spine endwear; Indexed, Sydney Porter became the exemplare for a generation of short story writers; his remain among the best; 158 pp. pages. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 1090 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	MIGEO, MARCEL Saint-Exupery. London: Macdonald, 1961. First English Edition. Green cloth hc. Fine/vg DJ tattered at top, price-clipped; Indexed, Transl. From the French by H. Briffault. ; Photos; 335 pp. pages. USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2471] Book number: 1040 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	MORGAN, TED Maugham, a Biography NY: Simon and Schuster, (1980). First Edition. Grey cloth hc. Nf/nf, sl. Dusty, sl wear on DJ spine edge; Notes and index, note by executor of literary will, Spencer Curtis Brown; Photos; 711 pp. pages. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 1077 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.

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	ACWORTH, BERNARD Swift London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947. Drk grn clth. Fine; The satirist and clergyman, Swift presented to 18th century England an insight into problems yet unsolved; 250 pp. pages. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 1070 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	ADAMS, SAMUEL HOPKINS A. Woollcott New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. Second Edition. Tan cloth hc. Near fine, dusty, sl wear at edges, bkplate inside fr. Cover; Indexed, Adams called the biography of the reconteur his life and his world; Photos; 386 pp. pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 1127 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BARRINGTON, E Glorious Apollo New York: Dodd Mead, 1925. First Edition. Drk. Blue cloth. Vg+. Very light edgewear. ; The life of Lord Byron written in the form of a novel; B&w Frontis of Byron; 371 pp. pages. USD 23.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2030] Book number: 1083 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BARZUN, JACQUES (EDITOR) The Selected Writings of John Jay Chapman New York: Farrar, Straus, Cudahy, 1957. First Edition. Brick cloth hc. F/f; Indexed, Chapman is a man who took the public and private morality seriously, and now is an unknown Thoreau. ; 294 pp. pages. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 1087 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BEHRMAN, S. N. People in a Diary: A Memoir Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. First Edition. Green cloth, hc. Nr. Fine/nr. Fine, very lt. Fade at bott. Edge, some wear DJ edge; Celebrity in a day of eloquence is recalled in this memoir; Photos; 338 pp. pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 277 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BENTWICH, NORMAN My 77 Years Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1961. First Edition. Maroon cloth. F/nr. Fine, some wear around DJ edges; Indexed, from his writings, he is a scholar, but this account of his life shows that he was also an international statesman; 344 pp. pages. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 1088 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BRINNIN, JOHN MALCOLM The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1959. First Edition. Rise. Nf/vg+, sl. Wear at spine bott, DJ wear at spine edges, DJ spine faded; Indexed, This biography goes beyond the life to the personality and beyond the writing to its analysis; 427 pp. pages. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 1104 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BROOKS, VAN WYCK The Times of Melville and Whiteman N. P. (new York): E. P. Dutton, 1947. First Edition. Green cloth. Nr. Fine/vg, sl. Wear to bott, wear to top, bott. DJ; Indexed, mid-19th century life of country and letters seen through the lives of two of the literary giants of the day; 489 pp pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 424 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BROWN, JOHN MASON The Worlds of Robert E. Sherwood New York: Harper & Row, 1965. BOMC. Red/blk cloth. Fine/fine; Indexed, Pulitzer Prize winner, dramatist, biographer, wartime director of the Office of War Information, and member a member; Photos; 409 pp. pages. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 1133 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	BROWNE, LEWIS That Man Heine New York: Macmillan, 1927. First Edition. Silver bds, hc. Very good+; Indexed, provenance, from library of late film actor Jean Hersholt, donated to Motion Picture Country House, stamped; 420 pp. pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1033 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	CLARKE, GERALD Capote. A Biography New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. 1st. Ed. (BC). HB. VG+/VG+; A big thick biography on Capote. Remainder mark on bottom edge, o. W. Fine.; Illustrated; 632 pp. pages. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 1026 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	COBB, IRVIN S. Exit Laughing New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. Grey buckram. Nr. Fine, fair DJ, sl. Dustiness, dark inside covers, ; Indexed, an autobiography of a once famous humorist and newpaper writer; 572 pp pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1109 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	COLES, ROBERT Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publ, 1987. First Edition. Grey bds, hc. F/f; Indexed, for me, it is strange that this short, tortured life draws attention, like the tongue probing a bad tooth; 179 pp. pages. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 1065 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	FERRIS, PAUL Dylan Thomas: A Biography New York: Dial Press, 1977. bc. Green boards. Fine/fine; Indexed; Photos; 399 pp. pages. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 178 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	FORD, FORD MADOX, EDITED BY MICHAEL KILLIGREW Your Mirror to My Times New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition. Black cloth hc. Fine/nr. Fine, very lt. Edgewear to DJ; The scion of the Rossettis of poetic and pre-Raphaelite reputation reviews his life's events; 392 pp. pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 544 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	GELB, ARTHUR AND BARBARA O'Neill New York: Harper, 1962. First Edition. Off-white cl.. Good+, clip marks top edge pages, name label ffep, spine edgwear; Indexed, ; Photos; 970 pp. pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1084 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	GOLDEN, HARRY The Right Time: The Autobiography of Harry Golden New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. bc. Yellow cloth. Nr fine/nr fine, very lt. Wear, inscribed on ffep, tape marks, ; Indexed, ; Photos; 450 pp. pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 965 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	HYSLOP, LOIS BOE AND FRANCIS E. Baudelaire: A Self-Portrait London: Oxford University Press, 1957. Maroon cloth. Near fine, sl. Dustiness; Indexed; 259 pp. pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 159 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	KAZAN, ALFRED Starting out in the Thirties Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1965. First Edition. Gr. Cloth, hc. Fine/fine; Kazan's literary career began in the thirties, from Jewish part of Brownsville, Brooklyn to Manhattan's literary hothouse; 166 pp. pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1027 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	LAYMAN, RICHARD Shadowman: The Life of Dashiell Hammett New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1981. Beige cloth, hc. F/f; Indexed, from Pinkerton detective to film-writer, he will be ever remembered as one of the prime detective writers. ; Photos; 285 pp. pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 286 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	LEAVIS, F. R. D.H. Lawrence: Novelist New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. 1st Am. Green cloth hc. Fine/nf, DJ has sl. Wear spine ends, corners; Indexed, a critical analysis of one of the top novelists of the century; 391 + v pp. pages. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 292 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	LEWIS, D. BEVAN WYNDHAM Francois Villon Garden City, NY: Garden City Publ, 1928. Blck cloth hc. Vg+, spine top pulled; Prefaced by hilaire belloc; 407 PP. pages. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 1049 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	LONG, E. HUDSON O. Henry, the Man and His Work Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, 1949. First Edition. Blue cloth. Nr. Fine, cover discolored, bkplate fr. Cover, sl. Spine endwear; Indexed, Sydney Porter became the exemplare for a generation of short story writers; his remain among the best; 158 pp. pages. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 1090 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	MIGEO, MARCEL Saint-Exupery. London: Macdonald, 1961. First English Edition. Green cloth hc. Fine/vg DJ tattered at top, price-clipped; Indexed, Transl. From the French by H. Briffault. ; Photos; 335 pp. pages. USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2471] Book number: 1040 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.
	MORGAN, TED Maugham, a Biography NY: Simon and Schuster, (1980). First Edition. Grey cloth hc. Nf/nf, sl. Dusty, sl wear on DJ spine edge; Notes and index, note by executor of literary will, Spencer Curtis Brown; Photos; 711 pp. pages. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 1077 Click here to order or inquire at mybookiejoint.com.