SCOTT, EVELYN

The Shadow of the Hawk

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good 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. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown page. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but does have edge wear, rubbing and several small edge tears.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 46932

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SHEEAN, VINCENT

A Day of Battle

New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc, 1938. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge nicks, small chips and edge wear. "Sheean served as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune during the Spanish Civil War. Sheean wrote the narration for the feature-length documentary Crisis (1939) directed by Alexander Hammid and Herbert Kline. He translated Ève Curie's biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1939) , into English. Sheean wrote Oscar Hammerstein I: Life and Exploits of an Impresario (1955) as well as a controversial biography of Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy and Red (1963). He studied at the University of Chicago, becoming part of a literary circle which included Glenway Wescott, Yvor Winters, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Janet Lewis while he was there. Vincent and Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean were friends of Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband, Eugen; they spent time together on Ragged Island off the coast of Maine during the summer of 1945. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 46712

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SINCLAIR, UPTON

100% : The Story of a Patriot

Pasadena, CA: Published By the Author, 1920. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed on the front endpaper by the author. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The front cover of the book has several small spatters of white paint (mostly faded). The spine of the book has some rubbing and beginning biopredation. The top spine end has noticeable fading and some water spotting. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is some red ink from the top spine end of the book cover which has bled onto the top edge of several of the last text pages. This copy has been signed on the front endpaper by the author. There is also a previous owner's inked name and number 23 on the front endpaper. "Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come." ; Signed by Author. Very Good- .

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Book number: 44037

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SINCLAIR, UPTON

Another Pamela Or, Virtue Still Rewarded

New York: Viking Press, 1950. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 067012902X. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of some beginning toning to the endpapers and edges of the text block. The dust jacket has a couple of small edge nicks and tears, with one wrinkled tear to the middle of the rear panel and some small nicks to the spine ends. "Upton Sinclair has taken a busman's holiday to write this new novel, his first since he completed his ten-volume Lanny Budd series." "Upton Sinclair imagined himself a poet and dedicated his time to writing poetry. Upton Sinclair early in his career. Upton Sinclair wearing a white suit and black armband, picketing the Rockefeller Building in New York City. In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks in disguise, working undercover in Chicago's meatpacking plants to research his novel, The Jungle (1906) , a political exposé that addressed conditions in the plants as well as the lives of poor immigrants. When it was published two years later, it became a bestseller. With the income from The Jungle, Sinclair founded the utopian Helicon Home Colony in Englewood, New Jersey (Helicon Home Colony was a white-only space ). He ran as a Socialist candidate for Congress. The colony burned down under suspicious circumstances within a year." (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 44049

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SINCLAIR, UPTON (UPTON SINCLAIR JR. )

The Flivver King

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1937. Early Reprint. Paperback. This is a trade sized paperback with light cardstock covers and a stapled binding. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued thus without a dust jacket. The covers have some light edge wear and nicking and generalized toning, especially to the spine ends and edges. The text pages are clean but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper. This is an early reprint of a book self-published by Upton Sinclair. "What is Henry Ford? What have the years done to him? What has his billion dollars made of him?" "Many of his novels can be read as historical works. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's point of view and the industrialist. Novels like King Coal (1917) , The Coal War (published posthumously) , Oil! (1927) and The Flivver King (1937) describe the working conditions of the coal, oil and auto industries at the time. He attacked J. P. Morgan, whom many regarded as a hero for ending the Panic of 1907, saying that he had engineered the crisis in order to acquire a bank. [citation needed] The Flivver King describes the rise of Henry Ford, his "wage reform", and the company's Sociological Department to his decline into antisemitism as publisher of The Dearborn Independent. King Coal confronts John D. Rockefeller Jr. And his role in the 1913 Ludlow Massacre in the coal fields of Colorado.". Very Good- .

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Book number: 34495

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SINCLAIR, UPTON

The Spokesman's Secretary Being the Letters of Mame to Mom

Pasadena, CA: Upton Sinclair, 1926. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a pamphlet style paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled binding. The pamphlet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued thus without a dust jacket. This is a first paperback edition. The covers have some beginning nicking and foxing to the edges and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. "Dear Mom: You been complaining there ain't enough news in my letters, well you sure will get a load of it this trip of the postman. Your Mame has been cast for little Cinderella in the big political show and the fairy-coach is waiting at the door." "Upton Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U. S. Meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States.". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 34500

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SINCLAIR, UPTON

They Call Me Carpenter a Tale of the Second Coming

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. True 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. True First Edition - published by Boni & Liverright. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The lettering on the spine of the book is slightly dulled. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some spotting and ground-in dirt to the edges of the text block. "Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U. S. Meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muck-raking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 44050

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SMITH, WILBUR

Birds of Prey

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0312157916. Illustrated by Martucci Greisbach. 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 some slight bumping to the top and bottom spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some beginning curling to the spine ends.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46838

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SONTAG, SUSAN

Under the Sign of Saturn

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374280762. Illustrated by Constance Fogler. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and brigh, but has some rubbing and nicking to the spine ends and corners, along with some beginning toning to the white portions. This is a book of essays, including: On Paul Goodman, Approaching Artaud, Fascinating Fascism, Under the Sign of Saturn, Syberberg's Hitler, Remembering Barthes, and, Mind as Passion. This particular book was printed in a small initial run. "Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, film-maker, teacher, and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover, and In America. Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and communism and leftist ideology. Although her essays and speeches sometimes drew controversy, she has been described as "one of the most influential critics of her generation." " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 46688

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SPARK, MURIEL

The Only Problem

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399129871. This is a First American Trade Edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but there is some beginning edge wear and bumping to the spine ends. "Spark began writing seriously, under her married name, after World War II, beginning with poetry and literary criticism. In 1947 she became editor of the Poetry Review. This position made Spark one of the only female editors of the time. Spark left the "Poetry Review" in 1948. In 1953 Muriel Spark was baptised in the Church of England but in 1954 she decided to join the Roman Catholic Church, which she considered crucial in her development toward becoming a novelist. Penelope Fitzgerald, a fellow novelist and contemporary of Spark, wrote that Spark "had pointed out that it wasn't until she became a Roman Catholic... That she was able to see human existence as a whole, as a novelist needs to do". In an interview with John Tusa on BBC Radio 4, she said of her conversion and its effect on her writing that she "was just a little worried, tentative. Would it be right, would it not be right? Can I write a novel about that – would it be foolish, wouldn't it be? And somehow with my religion – whether one has anything to do with the other, I don't know – but it does seem so, that I just gained confidence…" Graham Greene, Gabriel Fielding and Evelyn Waugh supported her in her decision. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 40255

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BOOK COMMITTEE OF THE SPINNERS' CLUB (COLLECTED BY)

The Spinners' Book of Fiction By Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Geraldine Bonner, Mary Halleck Foote, Eleanor Gates, Etc.

San Francisco, CA: Paul Elder and Company, 1907. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Lillie, V. O'Ryan, Maynard Dixon, etc.. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light generalized toning to the spine of the book. There is an oval pictorial pastedown on the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. The foredge and bottom edge of the text block are uncut. There are six full page, full color illustrations throughout the book, illustrated by Lillie V. O'Ryan, Maynard Dixon, Albertine Randall Wheelan, Merle Johnson, E. Almond Withrow and Gordon Ross. Initials and decorations are by Spencer Wright. Authors contributing include: Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Geraldine Bonner, Mary Halleck Foote, Eleanor Gates, James Hopper, Jack London, Bailey Millard, Miriam Michelson, W. C. Morrow, Frank Norris, Henry Milner Rideout, Charles Wawrren Stoddard, Isobel Strong, Richard Walton Tully and Herman Whitaker.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 45823

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STEGNER, WALLACE

The City of the Living

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Edward Sweet. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, by the author on the half title page. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the bottom spine end of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is one small spot of paper lifted to the top corner of the front endpaper from rubbing. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, though there is some light toning and ground-in dirt to the white portions. There are several very small mostly closed edge tears and some beginning rubbing and edge wear. This volume contains a series of short stories including: The Blue-Winged Teal, The City of the Living, Pop Goes the Alley Cat, Maiden in a Tower, Impasse, the Volunteer, Field Guide to the Western Birds, and, The Traveler. "He served as a special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall and was elected to the Sierra Club's board of directors for a term that lasted 1964–1966. He also moved into a house near Matadero Creek on Three Forks Road in nearby Los Altos Hills and became one of the town's most prominent residents. In 1962, he co-founded the Committee for Green Foothills, an environmental organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the hills, forests, creeks, wetlands and coastal lands of the San Francisco Peninsula. Stegner's novel Angle of Repose (first published by Doubleday in early 1971) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972. Yet it was based on the letters of Mary Hallock Foote (first published in 1972 by Huntington Library Press as the memoir A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West). Stegner explained his use of unpublished archival letters briefly at the beginning of Angle of Repose but his use of uncredited passages taken directly from Foote's letters caused a continuing controversy." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 45687

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STOCKTON, FRANK R. (FRANK RICHARD STOCKTON)

The Captain's Toll-Gate with a Memorial Sketch By Mrs. Stockton and a Bibliography

New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1903. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The rear covers have a couple of spots of ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's name penciled on the front endpaper.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 46584

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STONE, ROBERT

Death of the Black-Haired Girl

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 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. "Robert Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist. He was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Stone was five times a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, which he did receive in 1975 for his novel Dog Soldiers. Time magazine included this novel in its list TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Dog Soldiers was adapted into the film Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) starring Nick Nolte, from a script that Stone co-wrote. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 40807

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STYRON, WILLIAM

Lie Down in Darkness

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1951. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0965335852. Illustrated by George Salter. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine of the book cover has some toning / darkening and there is fading to the gilt lettering. There is some light bumping and edgewear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some beginning toning to the endpapers and the bottom edges of a section of the text pages have light bumping as if from a fall. The dust jacket is clean and bright, but does have two tears (one to the bottom rear spine end, and the bottom rear flap joint. There is also rubbing and color loss to the spine and flap joints. The rear cover and spine have toning /darkening. "This is the story of the irreconcilably divided Loftis family of Port Warwick, Virginia. It is the story of Peyton Loftis, whose tragic beauty, it seemed, inevitably sowed devotion and destruction wherever she went." This is the author's first novel. "After graduation, Styron took an editing position with McGraw-Hill in New York City. Styron later recalled the misery of this work in an autobiographical passage of Sophie’s Choice. After provoking his employers into firing him, he set about writing his first novel in earnest. Three years later, he published the novel, Lie Down in Darkness (1951) , the story of a dysfunctional Virginia family. The novel received overwhelming critical acclaim. For this novel, Styron received the prestigious Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy of Arts and Letters." (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 45686

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