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Condition: Near fine books in very good plus dustjacket, book has light corner bumps, slightly cocked through sitting on a shelf, dust jacket has light edge and corner wear. This is a large heavy books and may require additional postage.Additional essays by Douglas W. Druick, Henri Loyrette, Gary Tinterow, and Michael Pantazzi.Comprehensive in scope and definitive in nature, this volume includes paintings, pastels, drawings, monotypes, prints, photographs, and sculpture representing every aspect of the career of one of the protean artists of the nineteenth century. Lavishly illustrated. The exhibition was also held at the National Gallery of Canada and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Delta, New York, 1990. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light creasing at spine, price sticker on rear cover.Jack Kerouac--unwilling "King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism.Desolate Angel follows Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a four-way friendship that would become a socio-intellectual legend. In rich detail and with sensitivity, Dennis McNally recounts Kerouac's frenetic cross-country journeys, his experiments with drugs and sexuality, his travels to Mexico and Tangier, the sudden fame that… Leer más

Harvest/HBJ Books, New York. 11th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, light nicks and price sticker at rear cover.A record of Nin's third crucial encounter with North America during the difficult years of the 1940's which eventually determined her career as a writer.

Harvest/HBJ Books, New York. 18th trade paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear and nicks, spine creasing and scuffing, rear cover has light scuffing and price sticker.This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann.

Condition: Very good plus, light spine wear and creasing.A pamphlet and official museum guide to the Dickens House on Doughty Street in London. Includes period pictures.

Citadel Press, Secaucus, 1991. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine creasing, back cover has bottom corner crease, price sticker.With thirty-eight books currently in print and seven of his novels and short stories adapted into blockbuster films, Philip K. Dick is recognized worldwide as one of our time's greatest and most influential novelists. Lawrence Sutin's Divine Invasions, acknowledged by the Dick family as the official Philip K. Dick biography, illuminates the life of the man who loosed the bonds of the science-fiction genre and profoundly influenced such writers as Pynchon, Delillo, David Foster Wallace, and Jonathan Lethem. Absorbing, beautifully written, and profoundly revealing, Divine Invasions is a must-read for Dick fans and for all fans of contemporary fiction and film.

Condition: Good, edge wear and corner creasing, spine has nicks along staples, rear cover has creasing and light scuffing. A well read magazine.16 pages of super-color, action photos of Elvis in concert. Pictures on Elvis' cars. gold Cadillac limo, Stutz Blackhawk, and his custom tour bus.

Condition: Good, edge wear and small corner creases, spine has creasing and nicks, scuffing on covers, well read, large magazine format.A picture-filled recounting of Elvis' last few concerts.

Condition: Very good, light edge wear and creasing at corners and spine, price sticker, slight scuffing on rear cover.Unique collectors' edition with centerfold and moveable disc still attached.

Condition: Good, magazine has edge wear and creasing at corners, spine has nicks at staples. a complete but well read magazine.

Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine has light nicks, cover has slight scuffing. No interior writing and crossword is clean.Published by and for Elvis' British fans and friends.

Condition: Very good minus, light edge wear and corner bumps, scuffing along covers, spine creasing, well read complete magazine.Includes 36 covers of other Elvis magazines in small format and a couple of pin up pages.

Vintage, New York, 2018. Second printing. Condition: Near fine softcover, very slight edge nicks. 2nd printing.From the publisher: The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years draws on a very wide array of never-before-used material, resulting in the most nuanced portrait to date of this complex, enigmatic artist.

Bloomsbury, New York, 2001. First edition. Condition: Near fine book in very good plus dust jacket, book has light corner bumps, dust jacket has light edge wear and slight scuffing from price sticker that was removed.A collection of letters between a father and son. Both were published poets, but from very different generations. This volume is a personal insight into a family relationship in postwar America. It is also a document of a changing country and of two men trying to find their place in it.

Scholastic Inc., New York, 8th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge wear and corner bumps, spine nicks and creasing, creasing on covers, previous owners name and scribbling on inside front cover. Well read.A biography of a strong and dedicated woman who successfully worked for the recognition of women in the field of medicine in both the United States and Great Britain.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New Yor, 2002. First edition. Condition: Near fine, slight edge wear.From the publisher: How is it that Flaubert, the great nineteenth-century novelist and last of the great French romantics, still seems so very modern? In this stunning new biography, Geoffrey Wall investigates why not only Madame Bovary but its author exert such a firm hold on the popular imagination.

Shocken, New York, 1985. 8th trade paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, light nicks and creasing at spine, stamp from Shakespeare and Company bookstore on inside front cover.Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man whom Kafka trusted more than any other, and it is to Brod, as his literary executor and editor, that we are indebted for rescuing and bringing to light Kafka's work. Out of a lifelong devoted friendship, Brod drew this account of Kafka's youth, family and friends, his struggle to recognize himself as a writer, his sickness, and his last days.Franz Kafka gives us not only a more vivid and lifelike picture of Kafka than that painted by any of his contemporaries, but also a fascinating portrayal of the complicated interaction between two writers of different temperaments but similar backgrounds who together helped shape the future of twentieth-century… Leer más

North Point Press, New York, 2000. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge wear.In the first comprehensive biography of John Fante, one of the great outsider figures of twentieth century literature, Stephen Cooper untangles the enigma of an authentic American original.

Knopf, New York, 1993. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. Book has a little bowing, dust jacket has some light edge creasing near spine.In this revelatory biography of Jean Genet, we have the first full scale life of one of the great and controversial figures of twentieth century literature. Edmund White shows us the writer in all his permutations: poet, dandy, homosexual, thief; a "thug of genius", as Simone de Beauvoir called him.

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Condition: Fine book in near fine dust jacket, very light edge wear on dust jacket.

Poet, essayist, diarist, novelist, and diplomat, George Seferis brought about a revolution in the way people viewed his native Greece. Acclaimed for his thought-provoking lyric poetry, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. At the same time, he rose in the diplomatic corps to the position of Ambassador to Britain.

This elegantly written book-the first full biography of Seferis-provides insights into his work, life, and country. Roderick Beaton, an acknowledged authority on modern Greek literature and culture, draws on previously unknown sources to tell Seferis's story. He describes how Seferis occupied key diplomatic positions during periods of historic crisis before, during, and after World War II. He explores Seferis's service as Ambassador to London at a time when Greece and Great Britain were disputing the future of Cyprus, noting that some of Seferis's finest poetry was written… Leer más