BROOKS, VAN WYCK

The Flowering Of New England.

E. P. Dutton, London: 1952. Hardcover with dustjacket. Reading copy. Previous owner's supplementary illustations, some glued, and a few pencil marks. A brilliant account of the lives of some 50 authors & painters, a poetic evocation of 19th century Boston, and an almost reverential tribute to the genius of Hawthorne, Emerson & Thoreau. Includes an Index.
¶ 563 pages.

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Book number: 10920X1

Catalogue: NEW ENGLAND

Keywords: (American Literature, New England, History, Criticism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa Alcott, Van Wyck Brooks).

BROOKS, VAN WYCK.

New England: Indian Summer 1865-1915.

University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1984. Softcover. Good condition. A study of William Dean Howells, William and Henry James, and Henry Adams, all formidable raconteurs and letter writers. The long waning of New England's dolden day is chronicled with the fullest resources of the author's affection and research. Includes an Index.
¶ 557 pages.

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Book number: 11400X1

Catalogue: LITERARY CRITICISM

Keywords: (Henry James, New England, William James, Henry Adams, William Dean Howells, Literary Criticism, Letters, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edward Arlington Robinson, Francis Parkman, James Russell Lowell, John La Farge, Oliver Wendell Holm

BROOKS, VAN WYCK; BETTMANN, OTTO L.

Our Literary Heritage: A Pictorial History Of The Writer In America.

E. P. Dutton and Co., New York: 1956. Hardcover with dustjacket. reading copy. The dustjacket is torn. This book is based on Van Wyck Brooks' five volume work Makers and Finders: a History of the Writer in America. This abridged version incorporates illustrations selected by Dr. Otto Beckmann.
¶ 246 pages.

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Book number: 36403X4

Catalogue: BIOGRAPHY

Keywords: (Van Wyck Brooks, Otto Bettmann, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Frank Norris, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Abrahm Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, Phine

BROOKS, VAN WYCK; BETTMANN, OTTO L.

Our Literary Heritage: A Pictorial History Of The Writer In America.

E. P. Dutton and Co., New York: 1956. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. The dustjacket is torn. This book is based on Van Wyck Brooks' five volume work Makers and Finders: a History of the Writer in America. This abridged version incorporates illustrations selected by Dr. Otto Beckmann.
¶ 246 pages.

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Book number: 36403X1

Catalogue: BIOGRAPHY

Keywords: (Van Wyck Brooks, Otto Bettmann, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Frank Norris, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Abrahm Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, Phine

BROOKS, VAN WYCK; BETTMANN, OTTO L.

Our Literary Heritage: A Pictorial History Of The Writer In America.

E. P. Dutton and Co., New York: 1956. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. This book is based on Van Wyck Brooks' five volume work Makers and Finders: a History of the Writer in America. This abridged version incorporates illustrations selected by Dr. Otto Beckmann.
¶ 246 pages.

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Book number: 36403X2

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Keywords: (Van Wyck Brooks, Otto Bettmann, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Frank Norris, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Abrahm Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, Phine

BROOKS,VAN WYCK.

Storia della letteratura americana (1800-1915). La fioritura della Nuova Inghilterra.

Traduz.di A.M.Speckel. Roma, 1953, Astrolabio cm.14,5x22, pp.457, leg.ed.

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Book number: 44899

Catalogue: Letteratura Storia delle Letterature

BROOKS,VAN WYCK.

Storia della letteratura americana (1800-1915). La Nuova Inghilterra: l'Estate di San Martino.

Traduz.di M.De Sanna. Roma, 1952, Astrolabio cm.14,5x22, pp.419, leg.ed.

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Book number: 44900

Catalogue: Letteratura Storia delle Letterature

BROOKS, VAN WYCK.

The Times Of Melville And Whitman.

E. P. Dutton and Co., New York: 1947. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Fair condition. Wavey pages. Nicks on ede of cover
¶ 489 pages.

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Book number: 37140X1

Catalogue: AMERICANA

Keywords: (Herman Melville).

BROOKS, VAN WYCK.

The Times Of Melville And Whitman.

E. P. Dutton and Co., New York: 1947. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Dustjacket has a little tyear on the back.
¶ 489 pages.

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Book number: 43604X1

Catalogue: BIOGRAPHY

Keywords: (Herman Melville).

BROOKS, VAN WYCK.

The Times Of Melville And Whitman.

E. P. Dutton and Co., New York: 1947. Hardcover with dustjacket. Reading copy.
¶ 489 pages.

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Book number: 37140X2

Catalogue: AMERICANA

Keywords: (Herman Melville).

BROOKS, VAN WYCK.

The World Of Washington Irving.

E. P. Dutton & Co., New York: 1950. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. Slipcase is worn and torn on bottom. Book is in good condition. Distinguished American literary critic, this volume deals with the literary histories of New York, the Middle States, the South and the West, from the turn of the century. His biographies include Audubon, Irving, Fenimore Cooper, Bryant and Poe. Includes an Index.
¶ 514 pages.

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Book number: 36187X1

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Keywords: (American Literature, History, Criticism, Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper).

BROOKS, VAN WYCK.

The World Of Washington Irving.

E. P. Dutton & Co., New York: 1950. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Reading copy. Previous owner's supplementary illustrations, some glued, and a few pencil marks. Distinguished American literary critic, this volume deals with the literary histories of New York, the Middle States, the South and the West, from the turn of the century. His biographies include Audubon, Washington Irving, Fenimore Cooper, Bryant and Poe.
¶ 514 pages.

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Book number: 10918X1

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Keywords: (American Literature, History, Criticism, Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving).

BROOKS, VAN WYCK.

The World Of Washington Irving.

E. P. Dutton & Co., New York: 1944. Hardcover, no dustjacket. reading copy. Distinguished American literary critic, this volume deals with the literary histories of New York, the Middle States, the South and the West, from the turn of the century. His biographies include Audubon, Irving, Fenimore Cooper, Bryant and Poe. Includes an Index.
¶ 387 pages.

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Book number: 47120X1

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Keywords: (American Literature, History, Van Wyck Brooks, Literary Criticism, Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper).

BROOKS, VAN WYCK; MUMFORD, LEWIS; KREYMBORG, ALFRED; AND ROSENFELD, PAUL (EDITOR)

The American Caravan: A Yearbook of American Literature

New York, The Literary Guild of America. 1927. Hard Cover. Moderate wear; an adequate readable copy. Good +.

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Book number: 060860

Catalogue: General

Keywords: Study, Studies, Readers, Reading, Writers, Writing, Author, Culture, Society, Cultural, Literature, Literary, History, Historical, Reference, Resource, Man, Mankind, Humanity, America, American, Americana

AMIEL, HENRI-FREDERIC; BROOKS, VAN WYCK (TRANSLATOR); JALOUX, EDMOND (INTRODUCTION)

Amiel's Philine: From the Unpublished Journals of Henri-Frederic Amiel

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1930. Hard Cover. Rare dust jacket. Dust jacket has some small edge chips and light fading; a very nice copy of book. Journal entries originally unpublished by the famous author, illuminating his relationship with a woman named "Philine". 401 pages. Very Good +/Very Good.

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Book number: 043995

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Biographical, Bio, Study, Studies, Reference, Resource, History, Historical, Life, Story, Work, Profession, Career, Influence, Significance, Narrative, Memoirs, Recollections, Memories, Portrait, Profile, Henri-Frederic Amiel, Philine, Journals

GAUGUIN, PAUL; BROOKS, VAN WYCK (TRANSLATOR).

Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals.

Indiana University Press, Bloomington & London: 1958. Softcover. Reading Copy. Tight Binding. Former libary book with stamps and labels.
¶ 254 pages.

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Book number: 41387X1

Catalogue: JOURNALS

Keywords: (Paul Gauguin, Journals, Van Wyck Brooks).

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL; BROOKS, VAN WYCK (INTRODUCTION); HOLDEN, R. J. (ILLUSTRATOR).

The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table.

The Heritage Press, New York: 1955. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition.Ê Slipcase is slightly worn. One who today readsThe Aristocrat Of The Breakfast Table may well recall the remark of Henry James, Sr., Holmes was not only intellectually alive, he was alive in all fields of thought as a man of science who was a man of rhymes, one of those people he spoke of 'who know something about almost everything and never make a mistake.' Mingles miscellaneous facts nd fanies, and whih crackles with wit and gaiety.
¶ 281 pages.

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Book number: 9399X1

Catalogue: ESSAYS

Keywords: (Aristocrats, Essays, Henry James Sr., Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Oliver Wendell Holmes).

BETTMANN, OTTO L./ VAN WYCK BROOKS

Our literary heritage.

New York, Dutton & Cie. 1956, 2e Druk. Book, A pictoirial history of the writer in America. Many photographs. 246 p. Halfcloth. Hardcover. Good.

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Book number: 003906

BRADFORD, GAMALIEL; BROOKS, VAN WYCK

The Letters of Gamaliel Bradford 1918-1931

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. hardcover. Name of previous owner on ffep.. Acceptable/No Jacket .

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Book number: COTH0006266

Catalogue: Literary Biography, Criticism: American

Keywords: Literary Biography Criticism American

BROOKS, VAN WYCK

America's Comin -of -Age

NY: Huebsch, 1915. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Author Signed: "For Dr. Dickstein/ with kind regards -/ Van Wyck Brooks/ Octbr 27, 1926. Wm Semple Stilwell's bookplate on inner cover Pages 69-147 has been gnawed neatly at the lower quarter inch of the pages by a rodent, a child or an angry wife. The gnawer had thousands of book to choose to gnaw and had to pick the signed one. The book is possible the only gnawed copy of the signed work.Unique maybe.. Good/No Dj .

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Book number: TTN0007551

Catalogue: Literary Biography, Criticism: English

BROOKS, VAN WYCK ( EDITED BY )

The American Caravan; A Yearbok of American Literature

, . Literary Guild of America, 1927. ( hb no dj, cover is extremely worn, rubbed and faded, ink name pre title page, front hinge cracked, o/w in good cond. )

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Book number: 70499

Catalogue: Literature

BROOKS, VAN WYCK AND MUMFORD, LEWIS (EDS.),

The American Caravan.

NY: Macauley, (1927). First Edition. "A Yearboook of American Literature," with co-editors Van Wyck Brooks and Lewis Mumford. Contributions by Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, Hart Crane, Louise Bogan, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Carl Rakosi and many others. Owner name front flyleaf; text block shaken; spine and spine gilt faded; very good, lacking the dust jacket.

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Book number: 023347

Catalogue: Anthology

BROOKS, VAN WYCK; MUMFORD, LEWIS; KREYMBORG, ALFRED; ROSENFELD, PAUL - EDITORS

The American Caravan: A Yearbook of American Literature

The Literary Guild of America, 1927. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, gilt spine & cover lettering, some light rubbing, tone & shelf wear to boards & spine, rough-cut page ridges toned, front hinge slightly weakened with netting visible, pages clean. 1927 Hard Cover. 843 pp. Contents include poems by various authors including: An Alpine Idyll by Ernest Hemingway, Biography by Malcolm Cowley, From: A Folded Skyscraper by William Carlos Williams, Fragment of a Biography by Archibald MacLeish, an early Modernist work by Yvor Winters called Fire Sequence, which is difficult to find elsewhere, as soon after Winters changed his style radically, works by Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Allen Tate, etc.

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Book number: 1528559

BROOKS, VAN WYCK, ALFRED KREYMBORG, LEWIS MUMFORD, PAUL ROSENFELD

The American Caravan a Yearbook of American Literature

New York: Macaulay, 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good or better in green boards. Owner book plate, first leaf is creased hinge is showing areas, but still tight..

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Book number: 32735

Keywords: First Editions Literature & Fiction

BROOKS, VAN WYCK (1886-1963) , KREYMBORG, ALFRED (1883-?) , MUMFORD, LEWIS (1895-1990) & ROSENFELD, PAUL (1890-?) JOINT EDITORS

The American Caravan, a Yearbook of American Literature

New York. The Macaulay Company 1927. 1st Edition. No. of pages: 843. Description: p. 843. Subjects: Twentieth Century American Literature. Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Short novels / Narratives in Verse / Plays. Coloured. Decorated end-papers. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Weight in Kg appr.: 2

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Book number: 74215