UPDIKE, JOHN

Bech Is Back

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394528069. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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UPDIKE, JOHN

A Month of Sundays

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0233966625. Illustrated by Neil Fujita. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is one small bump to the top spine end of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "John Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seventh days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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VIDAL, GORE

Two Sisters a Novel in the Form of a Memoir

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0434829587. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light nicking, edge wear and a couple small of semi-closed edge tears. "Gore Vidal's singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature, politics - as penetrating and controversial as ever, in a book which will stand as a landmark in the author's versatile and distinguished career." "As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's principal subject was the history of the United States and its society, especially how the militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. And Norman Mailer. As such, and because he thought that men and women potentially are bisexual, Vidal rejected the adjectives "homosexual" and "heterosexual" when used as nouns, as inherently false terms used to classify and control people in society." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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VIDAL, GORE

Visit to a Small Planet a Comedy Akin to a Vaudeville

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing, edge wear and toning to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears and nicks along with generalized rubbing and several smallish chips and creases / wrinkles. "Visit to a Small Planet is the rare article, a television play which has gained immeasurably in its transference to the stage. It's not only longer and louder, it's a great deal funnier." "As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's principal subject was the history of the United States and its society, especially how the militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. And Norman Mailer. As such, and because he thought that men and women potentially are bisexual, Vidal rejected the adjectives "homosexual" and "heterosexual" when used as nouns, as inherently false terms used to classify and control people in society." (from the book). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 46364

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WIESEL, ELIE (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY MARION WIESEL)

The Oath

New York, NY: Random House, 1973. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394487796. Illustrated by Paul Bacon. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some beginning rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 46374

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WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS

Rose O' the River

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1905. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by George Wright. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some fading / sunning to the spine of the book cover along with some beginning bumping and wear to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription, on the front endpaper. Illustrated throughout with ten full page illustrations by George Wright. "Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor." ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 34491

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WOIWODE, LARRY

Indian Affairs a Novel

New York, NY: Atheneum, 1992. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0689121555. Illustrated by David Frampton. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some very minor rubbing to the spine ends and some extremely slight sunning / fading. "Larry Alfred Woiwode (October 30, 1941 – April 28, 2022) was an American writer from North Dakota, where he was the state's Poet Laureate from 1995 until his death. His work appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Gentleman's Quarterly, The Partisan Review and The Paris Review. He was the author of five novels; two collections of short stories; a commentary titled "Acts"; a biography of the Gold Seal founder and entrepreneur, Harold Schafer, Aristocrat of the West; a book of poetry, Even Tide; and reviews and essays and essay-reviews that appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post Book World. He received North Dakota's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, in 1992. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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WOLFE, TOM

I Am Charlotte Simmons

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374281580. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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WOOLARD, JIM R.

Raiding with Morgan

New York: Kensington, 2014. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1617732680. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "John H. Morgan (June 1, 1825 – September 4, 1864) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. In April 1862, he raised the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, fought at Shiloh, and then launched a costly raid in Kentucky, which encouraged Braxton Bragg's invasion of that state. He also attacked the supply-lines of General William Rosecrans. In July 1863, he set out on a 1,000-mile raid into Indiana and Ohio, taking hundreds of prisoners. But after most of his men had been intercepted by Union gunboats, Morgan surrendered at Salineville, Ohio, the northernmost point ever reached by uniformed Confederates. The legendary "Morgan's Raid", which had been carried out against orders, gained no tactical advantage for the Confederacy, while the loss of his regiment proved a serious setback. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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WRIGHT, RICHARD

How Bigger Was Born the Story of Native Son, One of the Most Significant Novels of Our Time, and How It Came to Be Written

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Pamphlet. This is a staplebound pamphlet with medium cardstock covers. The pamphlet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The yellow covers have some ground-in dirt and beginning toning, especially to the spine. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but have a bit of light, generalized toning. "I am not so pretentious as to imagine that it is possible for me to account completely for my own book, Native Son. But I am going to try to account for as much of it as I can, the sources of it, the material that went into it, and my own years' long changing attitude toward that material." "Native Son was published by Harper & Brothers on March 1, 1940. On March 12 of the same year, Richard Wright delivered the lecture, “How ‘Bigger’ Was Born, ” at Columbia University in New York City. He eventually gave this lecture four more times, twice in Harlem, and in Chicago and North Carolina. Harper’s soon published the lecture as a pamphlet, and it was included in subsequent editions of the novel. It is also included in the restored text of Native Son, published by The Library of America in 1991, and HarperPerennial in 1993.". Very Good+ .

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