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CHATEAU THIERRY: A Friendly Guide for American Pilgrims to the Shrines between the Marne and the Vesle
de Alexander Woolcott
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- Historical facsimile edition
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- 2024
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Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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NEW copy. Historical facsimile edition of the original 1919 edition by The Lafayette Publishing Company, Paris. Maps, illustrations, 24 pages. ~~~ " . . . touring the battle sites at
Chateau Thierry, Vaux, Belleau Woods, Bouresches, La Voie du Chatel, La Loge Farm, Coupru, Bezu-le-Guery, along the Marne, Soissons, Berzy-le-Sec, Vierzy, Chavigny Ferme, Longpont, Juvigny, along the River Ourcq, Chateau de… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE EARLY CAREER OF MALCOLM COWLEY: A Humanist among the Moderns
de James Michael Kempf
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- First Edition
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- 1985
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- Hardcover with dust jacket
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NEW copy, F/F. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bibliography, index, 145 pages. ~~~ "Kempf has made good use of primar source materials, most notable of which are the extensive collection of Cowley papers now deposited at the Newberry Library in Chicago and the files of the little magazines of the 1920s. By presenting the long foreground of Cowley's distinguished life and… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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HARP ON THE SHORE: Thoreau & the Sea
de Willard H. Bonner
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- First Edition
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- 1985
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- Hardcover with laminated covers, issued without dust jacket
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NEW copy. Hardcover with laminated, illustrated covers (issued without dust jacket. Illustrated, notes, index, 129 pages. OUT OF PRINT. ---
Allusions to the sea permeate Thoreau's writings, enriching many of his basic ideas. Harp on the Shore examines Thoreau's use of maritime metaphor. It shows how he, a writer ordinarily perceived as quintessentially landlocked, came to view the terrestrial world in… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE LAND ITSELF
de Jared Carter
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- 2019
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NEW copy, trade paperback. Introductory essay by BJ Omanson, photographs by Jared Carter, 57 pages. ~~~ "Jared Carter's poetry -- in its fidelity both to the letter and the spirit of the land -- does something that art should never lose sight of: it adheres so scrupulously to the world as it is, to the 'local habitation' in all its… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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DARK HILLS OF HOME
de Marc Harshman
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- 2022
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NEW copy, paperback. Illustrations, 35 pages. ~~~ Every poem in the "Dark Hills of Home" had its birth among the foothills and hollows of the western Alleghenies, between the Ohio and Monongahela rivers in the heart of Appalachia--- where the sun rises late and sets early, and the night is never entirely absent. ~~~~~ Illustrated with period engravings and printed… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE TOWER AT THE EDGE OF THE WOOD: Bois Belleau, Seventy-five Years After
de BJ Omanson
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- 2017
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NEW copy, paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Illustrations, Night after night through heavy shellfire, Alpheus Appenheimer, a private with the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, 4th Brigade of Marines, hauled ammunition to front-line positions of his company with a 4-line mule-team and wagon during the fiercest fighting at Belleau Wood. ~~~ For years after the war, Alpheus hoped to return to Belleau… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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JACK FOLEY'S UNMANAGEABLE MASTERPIECE: California Literary Timeline 1940-2005
de Dana Gioia, Peter Whitfield
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- 2019
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NEW copy, trade paperback. Illustrations, essays by various hands, reviews, biographical note, bibliography, 109 pages. ~~~ In 2011 a tiny press in Berkeley published Visions & Affiliations, an eccentric 1300-page chronology of post-war California literature in two massive paperbound folio volumes. With no commercial distribution or publicity, the book sold about two hundred copies and soon vanished from sight--but not… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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WILD FRUITS: Thoreau's Rediscovered Lost Manuscript
de Henry Davd Thoreau (edited by Bradley P. Dean)
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NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition ~~~ Illustrated end pages (map), introduction, related passages, a Thoreau chronology, glossary of botanical terms, a note on the provenance of the manuscript, manuscript facsimile, 90-odd pages of notes, works cited, index, 409 pages. ~~~ Thoreau's Walden (1854) is regarded both as a masterpiece of American prose and as a forerunner… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE LETTERS OF MARGARET FULLER: Volume I: 1817-18
de Robert N. Hudspeth
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- Second Printing
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- 1983
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NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. ~~~ Detailed notes following each letter, index, 374 pages. ~~~ The first letters in Volume I are those of a seven-year-old child; the last were written by an uncommonly well-educated woman ready for a larger challenge than schoolteaching could offer her. The letters tell the story of her work with Amos… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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NATURE AND THE AMERICAN: Three Centuries of Changing Attitudes
de Hans Huth
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- New Edition (originally published in 1957
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- 1990
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Trade paperback in Near Fine condition. ~~~ Illustrated, introduction by Douglas H. Strong, notes, bibliography, index, 250 pages. ~~~ Hans Huth was for many years Curator of Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago and a consultant for the U.S. National Park Service. --- For this new Bison Book edition, Douglas H. Strong has written an introduction discussing recent… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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HENRY THOREAU: A Life of the Mind
de Robert D. Richardson Jr.
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- Sixth Paperback Printing
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- 1998
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VG. Remainder mark on bottom edge of book, otherwise a clean, tight copy. ~~~ Illustrations, Chronology, Principal sources, Notes, Index, 455 pages. ~~~ The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE ESSAYS OF HENRY D. THOREAU
de Lewis Hyde (editor)
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- 2002
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Trade paperback, NF condition. ~~~ Introduction, essays, annotations, bibliography, index, 390 pages. ~~~ With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their composition. This definitive edition includes Thoreau's most famous essays, "Civil Disobedience"… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE BETTER ANGEL: Walt Whitman in the Civil War
de Roy Morris, Jr.
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- First Edition
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- 2000
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VG/NF. Hardcover in dust jacket in near fine condition except for remainder mark on bottom edge of book. ~~~ Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 270 pages. ~~~ "This deftly written, almost unbearably moving book serves to remind us powerfully of the horrors faced by the wounded on the Civil War battlefields, of the genius and compassion of Walt Whitman in dealing… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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LONGFELLOW IN THE AFTERMATH OF MODERNISM
de Dana Gioia
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- reprint edition
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- 2023
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New paperback. Illustrated, bibliography, picture credits, 117 pages. ~~~ "The renaissance in Longfellow studies can be said to have begun in 1993 with the publication in The Columbia History of American Poetry of "Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism," a lengthy essay by the California poet and educator Dana Gioia, who would later serve as director of the National Endowment… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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COMPANY K
de William March
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- First Edition, Third Printing
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- 1933
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Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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Very Good +. Hardcover, clean, tight, no chips or edgewear, slight toning to spine. A very nice copy in collectible condition. No dust jacket. ~~~ First Edition, Third Printing (Feb 1933). ~~~ Praised by Grahme Greene, Christopher Morley and Ernest Hemingway as one of the most significant novels of the First World War. ~~~ Innovative in form, it is told… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THREE SOLDIERS
de John Dos Passos
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- Very Good
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- First Modern Library Edition, with new introduction.
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- 1932
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- Hardcover with dust jacket.
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Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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VG/VG. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. A tight, clean copy. Book without chips or tears to cover. Jacket has minor chipping to head of spine (see photo), now in mylar protector. Originally published by George H. Doran Company in 1921. This Modern Library edition published in 1932 with a new introduction by the author. ~~~From the dust jacket: "Three Soldiers… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THROUGH THE WHEAT
de Thomas Boyd
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- VG
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- reprint edition with new material
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- 1978
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VG/VG. Original "$8.95" price still intact on dust jacket. (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978). One of the Lost American Fiction series edited by Matthew J. Bruccolli. Reprinted from the original Scribners 1923 edition. Unique to this edition: an Afterward by James Dickey. 278 pages. ~~~~~ Through the Wheat was recommended to Scribners by F. Scott Fitzgerald and received… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THREE YEARS ON THE NOWHERE ROAD: The Awakening of a Poetic Sensibility
de BJ Omanson
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- 2018
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In his memoir, Three Years on the Nowhere Road, BJ Omanson recounts the strange and haphazard road that led him to a life of poetry-- a life of inadequate means, manual labor, wilderness solitude and-- as he was a high-school dropout-- nothing whatever to do with writing programs or academia. ---- In November of 1972, married scarcely a year and… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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STARK COUNTY POEMS
de BJ Omanson
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- Enlarged illustrated edition
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- 2018
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Consisting of over fifty poems, from short lyrics in a variety of forms to lengthy blank verse and free verse narratives, "Stark County Poems" portrays the history of a small rural county in central Illinois, along the upper Spoon River valley. ~~ Chronologically arranged, and incorporating letters, newspaper articles, obituaries, family stories, early county histories and diaries, the poems cover… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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BEFORE THE CLANGOR OF THE GUN: The First World War Poetry of John Allan Wyeth
de BJ Omanson
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- First Edition
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- 2018
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- Miracle Binding (glued)
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This, the first full-length study of the recently rediscovered poet of the First World War, John Allan Wyeth, contains several in-depth studies of the poetry as well as a wealth of new biographical material. Essays include:
~~ John Allan Wyeth: Lost Poet of the Lost Generation.
~~ Artistry & Authenticity in the War Sonnets of John Allan Wyeth.
~~ A Yank at the… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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