DICKENS, CHARLES

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2 Volumes in 1)

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, circa 1894. Reprint. Hardcover. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt design on spine show light wear a couple of tiny tears head and tail of spine, front hinge started but still solid. Previous owner's name on FFEP previous store stamp dated 1894 on front & back pastedown.; A bright solid, book. Both volumes contained in one book. Undated except for store sticker - a very attractive book. Frontispiece with tissue guard, a number of B&W plates. ; Works of Charles Dickens; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 464 + 460 pages; "Left penniless by the death of his improvident father, young Nicholas Nickleby assumes responsibility for his mother and sister and seeks help from his Scrooge-like Uncle Ralph. Instantly disliking Nicholas, Ralph sends him to teach in a school run by the stupidly sadistic Wackford Squeers. Nicholas decides to escape, taking with him the orphan Smike, one of Squeers’s most abused young charges, and the two embark on a series of adventurous encounters with an array of humanity’s worst and best—greedy fools, corrupt lechers, cheery innocents, and selfless benefactors.". Very Good .

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Katalog: Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: nicholas nickleby dickens LITERATURE

DOBRéE, BONAMY

Rudyard Kipling Realist & Fabulist

London: Oxford University Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ shows some shelf wear with scuffing, light soiling, creasing, small tears. Sun-faded on spine, price-clipped, some erasure on front free end paper. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature::Biographies & Memoirs

Sonstige Stichworte: India POETRY LITERATURE

ECO, UMBERTO & MARTIN MCLAUGHLIN

On Literature

Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2004. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151008124. Only slight wear to book & DJ ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.10 X 6.10 X 1.30 inches; 352 pages; Translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin. "n this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge are on dazzling display throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes.Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that have made Eco one of the world's leading writers.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0151008124 Books PHILOSOPHY LITERATURE LITERATURE

ELIOT, GEORGE

Adam Bede

London: James Nisbet, 1905. Reprint. Hardcover. Illustrated by Arthur Layard. B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 428 pages; Some wear to extremities & spine, some water stain boards reprint. Previous owner's name on FFEP. Red cloth boards still bright with gilt print and stamped design. Pages yellowed. Undated but c. 1905. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Katalog: Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Literature LITERATURE

VAN ESVELDT, STEVEN

De Volmaakte Hollandsche Keuken-Meid. Onderwyzende Hoe Men Allerhande Spyzen, Confituren En Na-Gerechten, Zonder Ongemeene Kosten, Zelfs Voor de Roomsgezinden Op Visdagen En in de Vasten, Gezond En Smakelyk Kan Toebereiden: Hoe Men Alles Tegen de Winter Inlegt. Wat Men in de Slachttyd Doen Moe: En Hoe Men Mol En Versch Bier Houden. Benevens Eenige Vaste Tekens Waar Aan Men Zoen Kan of Het Vleesch, Ten Tyde Der Vee

Leiden NL: A.W. Sijthoff, [1761] 1965. Facsimile. Hardcover. Some soil on back panel of dustjacket ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. 2 pages of foldout illustrations laid in, dealing with the cutting of poultry and pigs. The dustjacket appears to be a heavy hand laid paper and the boards are made to appear as vellum. ; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Text totally in Dutch. This is from a series of Dutch texts written in in the mid 1700s as instructions for a kitchen maid in the performance of her duties, containing cuts of meat, recipes etc. It was originally published by van Estveldt in Amsterdam in 1761.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature::Holland

Sonstige Stichworte: holland recipes kitchen maid Reference Foreign Language Cooking, Food & Wine

EXMAN, EUGENE

The Brothers Harper a Unique Publishing Partnership and Its Impact on the Cultural Life of America from 1817 to 1853

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, tape glue remnants on FFEP and BFEP. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Stated first edition. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 415 pages; An excellent history of the formative years of one of the major American publishers, who introduced some important authors of American literature to the world.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature::Publishing

Sonstige Stichworte: herman melville Thoreau nathaniel hawthorne LITERATURE BUSINESS

GIBSON, DOUGLAS & ALICE MUNRO

Stories About Storytellers Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair Macleod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others

Toronto: ECW Press, 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1770410686. Only slight wear to DJ ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Illustrations; 9.10 X 6 X 1.40 inches; 392 pages; "“I’ll kill him!” said Mavis Gallant. Pierre Trudeau almost did, leading him (“Run!”) into a whizzing stream of traffic that almost crushed both of them. Alistair MacLeod accused him of a “home invasion” to grab the manuscript of No Great Mischief. And Paul Martin denounced him to a laughing Ottawa crowd, saying, “If Shakespeare had had Doug Gibson as an editor, there would be no Shakespeare!” On the other hand, Alice Munro credits him with keeping her writing short stories when the world demanded novels. Robertson Davies, with a nod to Dickens, gratefully called him “My Partner Frequent.” W.O. Mitchell summoned up a loving joke about him, on his deathbed. Stories About Storytellers shares these tales and many more, as readers follow Doug Gibson through 40 years of editing and publishing some of Canada’s sharpest minds and greatest storytellers. Gibson is a terrific storyteller himself, and through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that rarely gets told. From Jack Hodgins’ Vancouver Island to Harold Horwood’s Labrador, from Alice Munro’s Ontario to James Houston’s Arctic, Doug Gibson takes us on an unforgettable literary tour of Canada, going behind the scenes and between the covers, and opening up his own story vault for all to read and enjoy.". Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature::Publishing

Sonstige Stichworte: 1770410686 Robertson Davies Pierre Trudeau Publishing alice munro LITERATURE

GOLDSTEIN, BILL

The World Broke in Two Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the Year That Changed Literature

London UK: Bloomsbury Publications, 2017. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1408894580. Only slight wear ; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; B&W Plates; 9.3 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches; 351 pages; "'The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,' the American author Willa Cather once wrote. Yet for Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, 1922 began with a frighteningly blank page. Eliot was in Switzerland recovering from a nervous breakdown. Forster was grappling with unrequited love. Woolf and Lawrence, meanwhile, were both in bed with the flu. Confronting illness, personal problems and the spectral ghost of World War I, all four felt literally at a loss for words. As dismal as things seemed, 1922 turned out to be a year of outstanding creative renaissance for them all. By the end of the year Woolf had started Mrs Dalloway, Forster had returned to work on A Passage to India, Lawrence had written his heavily autobiographical novel Kangaroo, and Eliot had finished - and published to great acclaim - 'The Waste Land'. Full of surprising insights and original research, Bill Goldstein's The World Broke in Two chronicles the intertwined lives and works of these four writers in a crucial year of change.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Katalog: Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: 1408894580 1922 LITERATURE British Fiction LITERATURE

GRASS, GUNTER

Ein Weites Feld; Roman

Gottingen: Steidl, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 3882433663. Some edge wear to DJ, corners slightly bumped; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar ; German Edition; 1.85 x 8.23 x 5.28 Inches; 781 pages; Berlin 1989, a transitional time. Two old men came along the Wall, tall and gaunt, small and squat. An unlikely strange couple: the copyboy Theo Wuttke, called Fonty and his shadow Hoftaller, the eternal informer. A panorama of German history between the German revolution of 1848 and modern day, each chronology busting episode, picture-stories of then and now. Text in German. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Buchzahl: 14113

Katalog: Literature::German

Sonstige Stichworte: 3882433663 German Berlin wall Foreign Language

GUTHKE, KARL S.

Trails in No

Columbia SC: Camden House, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1879751542. Light creasing of DJ ; Still in publisher's shrinkwrap A bright, solid book ; Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 265 pages; The essays on German and European literature assembled in this volume view literary works in their broader cultural contexts — as, for example, from the vantage point of the history of science, of political life, of patterns of taste in the arts, or as viewed in the framework of broad anthropological issues. Sometimes the most interesting viewpoint has to do with conventions of everyday life. In these essays a literary text poses a puzzling question inviting inquiry; pursuing it, Professor Guthke takes his readers on an expedition into regions of the terres inconnues of human life and thought and sensibilities.The essays include, among others: 'Poetry in an Age of Science: Albrecht von Haller and the Crisis of the Enlightenment'; 'A Delicate Balance: Lessing and the Jews'; 'The King of the Weimar Republic: Hauptmann's Role in Political Life'; 'In Search of B. Traven, Mystery Man'; 'Last Words: A Convention in Life and Letters; 'Life from the End: Last Words in Narrative Biography'; and 'Last Words in Shakespeare's Plays'.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Buchzahl: 13274

Katalog: Literature::German

Sonstige Stichworte: 1879751542 Germany Shakespeare lessing B. Traven Albrecht von haller anthropological Linguistics Deutsch LITERATURE

HABE, HANS, MICHAEL BULLOCK (TRANS.)

Ilona

London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1962. 1st UK; First Impression. Hardcover. DJ shows some edge wear and scuffing, mild chipping, price clipped, tape stains on free endpapers. Top corners and top edge bumped. Some tape damage on front flap ; A bright solid, book, DJ in Mylar, the book still has the wraparound promotional paper band which touts this as Europe's latest best seller ; 640 pages; This book first appeared in Germany in 1960 and in the US in 1961. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Buchzahl: 10106

Katalog: World literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Germany Fiction

HAMMERTON, J. A.

Barrie the Story of a Genius

London: Samson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards show some shelf wear, staining. Previous owner wrote notes on BFEP (both sides), and inside back board. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. B&W photos, stated first edition. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 344 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Buchzahl: 19930

Katalog: Literature::Biographies

Sonstige Stichworte: Peter pan Dramatist Drama

HARTE, BRET

Her Letter : His Answer & Her Last Letter

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. 1st Thus. Hardcover. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. Lightly soiled, light shelf wear, corners lightly bumped, date written on front free end papers ; This beautiful volume is lavishly illustrated on every page. The paper is heavy weight glossy art quality, illuminated head and tail pieces, illustrated endpapers.; Color Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages; This edition is the first illustrated edition of the poetry which was first published in 1870. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Buchzahl: 16158

Katalog: Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: LITERATURE POETRY Illumination LITERATURE

HEINESEN, WILLIAM & ERIK J. FRIIS TRANSLATOR

The Lost Musicians

New York: Twayne Publishers/The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. DJ and boards show some shelf wear, DJ has small tears, light chipping, sun-faded on spine of Dj. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. Mild musty smell. Text in English ; The Library of Scandinavian Literature vol. 12; 8.3 X 5.5 X 1.3 inches; 363 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Katalog: World literature::Denmark

HESSE, HERMANN

Peter Camenzind

London: Peter Owen Ltd, 1968. First British Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0720600200. DJ scuffed, soiled, price clipped with light chipping. Water stain base of DJ spine, small stain base of back board, some soiling on half-title and facing page. ; A tight solid book. DJ in Mylar. This is the English language version of the book, translated from the German by W.J. Strachan. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 174 pages; "Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around him; after failed romances and a tragic friendship, his idealism fades into crushing hopelessness. He finds peace again only when he cares for Boppi, an invalid who renews Camenzind's love for humanity and inspires him once again to find joy in the smallest details of every life.". Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .

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Buchzahl: 6930

Katalog: Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: 0720600200 hermann hesse