(DICKENS, CHARLES)

Charles Dickens at 200 - Letters

New York, The Morgan Library & Museum. 2011. Printed Wrapper (softcover), Tall 8vo. 19 pages. The transcript of manuscript letters displayed at the Morgan exhibition celebrating Dickens' bicentennial. Light bends to the front and back wrappers; crisp within. Very Good.

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Book number: 004669

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BERSIHAND, ROGER

Japanese Literature

New York, Walker and Company. 1965. Cloth, 8vo. 115 pages. Beginning A.D. 710 and moving to the publication period; song, poetry, prose, theatre, philosophy and history, criticism. The pages are darkened; the book is crisp and clean. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003320

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CALITRI, CHARLES J. WITH BERTRAM D. BRETTSCHNEIDER

The Goliath Head: A Novel About Caravaggio

New York, Crown. 1972. quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 346 pages. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002465

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Keywords: Caravaggio Novel

CARSON, SUSANNAH (EDITED BY); HAROLD BLOOM (FOREWORD)

A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

New York, Random House. 2009, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781400068050). Paper covered boards, 8vo. 295 pages. Commentary by Eudora Welty, E.M. Forster, Lionel Trilling, Martin Amis, Rebecca Mead, Anna Quindlen, C.S. Lewis, Harold Bloom and others of the 33. Red dot remainder mark. Otherwise clean throughout; tight binding. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 004340

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Keywords: Jane Austen English Literature 9781400068050

CHAUCER, GEOFREY ; GEORGE PHILIP KRAPP ( ENGLISHED ANEW BY)

Troilus and Cressida: A Love Poem in Five Books

New York, Literary Guild. 1932. Paper backed cloth boards, 9" x 6 3/4". Ill.: Wood Engravings by Eric Gill. pp. xviii, (2), 309. Illustrations, wood engravings, by Eric Gill appear along the margins on every page of text. Page edges are a little age darkened; imitation vellum backing is darkened; blue cloth boards are faded unevenly. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003167

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Keywords: Chaucer Troilus Wood Engravings by Eric Gill

CONRAD, PETER

Imagining America

New York, Oxford University Press. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0195026519). Cloth, 8vo. 319 pages. America, the United States, in literature: Trollope, Dickens, Wilde, Kipling, Lawrence, Stevenson, Wells, Auden, Huxley, Isherwood, and others. Clean throughout, nearly fine. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003520

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Keywords: America Imagined Described Literature Fiction 0195026519

FAIRCHILD, JILL (EDITED BY)

Trees: A Celebration

New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 1-55584-313-1). quarter-cloth w/ paper boards, Slim 4to. 113 pages, illustrated with woodcuts. An anthology of poems, tales, excerpts of larger works; Frost, Ronsard, Chekhov, Hesse, a couple dozen others. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 003157

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Keywords: Trees Poems Essays Woodcuts 1555843131

FAULKNER, WILLIAM (JAMES B. MERIWETHER (EDITED BY)

Father Abraham

New York, Random House. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-394-53722-x). Cloth, Slim 4to. Ill.: Wood engravings by John DePol. 73 pages; illustrated with wood engravings by John DePol; includes a facsimile section of Faulner's manuscript. Father Abraham became the beginning of Faulkner's The Hamlet and also was apparently recast by him as a short story before the publication of The Hamlet. Inscribed by John DePol on the page opposite the title page. The Jacket is price-clipped. Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by the artist.

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Book number: 003191

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Keywords: John Depol 039453722x Wood Engravings by John Depol

GOODMAN, PAUL

Kafka's Prayer

New York, The Vanguard Press. 1947, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo. 265 pages. An important critical work examining Kafka's thinking and writing. "Writing is Prayer." Clean throughout; tight binding. Head of the spine is pulled and frayed. Good./No Jacket.

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Book number: 004034

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Keywords: Kafka Writing Criticism

GORLING, LARS; ANSELM HOLLO (TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH BY)

491

New York, Grove Press. 1966, First Printing. Cloth, 8vo. 282 pages. Clean and tight; half-inch loss at tail of the joint. Otherwise very good. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001079

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Keywords: Lars Gorling Swede Swedish Novel

GRAFTON, SUE

K Is for Killer

New York, Henry Holt. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-8050-1936-7). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 285 pages. Signed by Grafton on the title page. Top corner of front board bumped. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 001316

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Keywords: Sue Grafton Mystery Fiction 0805019367

HILLERMAN, TONY

The Fallen Man

New York, HarperCollins Publishers (harper collins). 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 006017773x). Paper covered boards, 8vo. 294 pages. A reunion of Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in the investigation of a long ago death on the sacred mountain, Ship Rock. Clean throughout, tight binding; about as new. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 004343

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Keywords: Tony Hillerman Joe Leaphorn Jim Chee Navajo Mystery Crime 006017773x

HOVING, THOMAS

Discovery

New York, Simon and Schuster. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0671682482). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 302 pages. "The globe-trotting curators of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art .. make the archaeological discovery of a lifetime." Clean throughout. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003709

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Keywords: Hoving Museum Mystery 0671682482

HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN; JOHN UPDIKE (INTRODUCTION)

Indian Summer

Vintage Books. 1990. (ISBN: 0679726144). Printed Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 278 pages. A trip to Italy changes hearts' loves. Clean throughout. Very Good.

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Book number: 003717

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Keywords: William Dean Howells Novel 0679726144

LANG, ANDREW (TRANSLATED BY)

Aucassin and Nicolette

New York, The Outing Publishing Company. quarter cloth / paper boards, 7" x 4". No date. 72 pages; 2 pages of advertisements at the back; frontispiece portrait of Lang. "The Golden Books form a series of dainty little volumes representing the pure gold of literature." Embossed boards with stamped gilt decoration and titles. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003053

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