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Collection of works
de Welty, Eudora
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- 1990
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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EUR 4,335.50
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N.p., 1990. Small collection of works by the Pulitzer-Prize winning Mississippi author and photographer, Eudora Welty. A private collection formed primarily in the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, this group spans Welty's long career and includes several early magazine appearances.
Most of Welty's regularly published books are present, and most present as near fine to fine.
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The Last Flower: a Parable in Pictures
de Thurber, James
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- 1939
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EUR 650.32
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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1939. Thurber, James. Oblong small quarto. First edition. Inscribed by Thurber at the front flyleaf. When Thurber published the book in 1939, just a few months after the beginning of World War II, all hopes that civilization might break the cycle of war had been dashed. Illustrated with Thurber's simple and expressive cartoons, the story… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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An Artist of the Floating World
de Ishiguro, Kazuo
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- 1986
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EUR 216.78
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London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First edition, second issue. Ishiguro's second novel, a further meditation, at once fictive and perilously factual, on post-Second World War Japan. Minimal bumps to corners of boards, else near fine in full black cloth, in a fine dust wrapper. Precio
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The Points of My Compass
de White, E. B.
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- 1962
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EUR 406.22
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NY: Harper & Row, 1962. First edition. Inscribed by the author: "Jane and By, With love and a Merry Christmas from Auntie K and Andy / N. Brooklin, Maine." A collection of eighteen essays, originally published in The New Yorker, in which White describes an America viewed from his armchair. Quarter black cloth with brown paper over boards and… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Last Poems
de Lawrence, D. H.
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- 1932
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EUR 271.44
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Florence: Giuseppe Orlini, 1932. First edition. One of 750 copies. The tenth installment in the publisher's Lugarno Series, which had previously editioned Lawrence's The Story of Doctor Manente, The Virgin and the Gipsy, and Apocalypse. Edited by Richard Aldington and Orlini with an Introduction by the former. Bound in full terracotta paper over boards with paper spine label. Some… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Run River
de Didion, Joan
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- 1963
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EUR 5,961.31
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NY: Ivan Obolensky, Inc, 1963. First edition. With TLs from Didion from her East 75th Street apartment back to a friend in Sacramento, in which she muses on the unexpected difficulties of moving (particularly with regard to the unpacking of silver and her typewriter) and considers, wearily, the banal critical reception of her first book: "The general tenor of… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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When We Were Orphans
de Ishiguro, Kazuo
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- 2000
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London: Faber and Faber, 2000. First edition. Signed by the author. Here Ishiguro returns to his frequent site of inquiry: the transnational relationship between England and Japan in the tumultuous period during and around the Second World War. Trace edgewear, else near fine in black paper over boards, and in a fine dust wrapper. Together with the first American… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Overhead the Sun: Lines from Walt Whitman
de Whitman, Walt
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- 1969
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(NY: Spiral Press, 1969. Frasconi, Antonio. Small folio. (38)ff. One of twenty-five copies signed by Frasconi, who illustrated this work with eighteen full-page colored woodcuts and a smaller colored colophon device. Issued in an unbound format, the illustrations are printed on Hosho paper and tipped-in to the Rives paper folders, opposite which Whitman's poetry has been set by Joseph… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Studs Lonigan
de Farrell, James T.
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- 1935
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EUR 2,167.75
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NY: Vanguard Press, 1935. First edition. Inscribed by the author to Ira Gershwin, and with a secondary inscription from the author's brother-in-law, songwriter Lou Paley, to Gershwin, suggesting that "Buried somewhere in 'Studs' you'll find material for an excellent 10 hr. blackout." Consisting of three novels bound together-Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgement Day-Farrell strives… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Not Under Forty
de Cather, Willa
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- 1936
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NY: Knopf, 1936. First edition. One of 333 copies printed on Nihon Japan vellum. Signed by the author at the limitation page. This collection of six essays is said by the author to be of "little interest for people under forty years of age," positing her literary engagement with the Great War to be rigorously and singularly generational. Full… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Bridge on the Drina
de Andric, Ivo
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- 1956
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EUR 325.16
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956. First English edition. A resonant and ever-celebrated installment in the corpus of Serbo-Croat novels, Andric's tale weaves threads of characters around a bridge built by Ottoman Mehmed Pasha. Full green cloth over boards. Bumps to corners, some soiling to covers, offset toning to flyleaves, else very good. Edgewear to very good dust… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Quiet American
de Greene, Graham
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- 1955
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EUR 406.22
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London: Heinemann, 1955. First edition. A novel written and set at the beginning of the American involvment in Vietnam, Greene explores how the ripples of naive patriotism and neoliberalism impact the global equilibrium. The novel proved a difficult sell in America, where its anti-American undertones were critically disparaged. It saw two film adaptations: one in 1958 that flipped the… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Alms of Alcippe
de Yourcenar, Marguerite
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- 1982
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EUR 379.83
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NY: Targ Editions, 1982. Callahan, Timothy. Small quarto. First edition of the English translation. One of 250 copies, signed by Yourcenar at the colophon. Frontispiece photograph by Timothy Callahan. Translated by Edith R. Farrell. Yourcenar (an anagram of her given last name, Crayencour) was a notable Belgian-French poet and translator in her own right, and was the first female… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
de Hijuelos, Oscar
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- 1989
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EUR 163.05
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NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. Uncorrected proof. Signed by the author. Hijuelos' portrait of a Cuban family as its members navigate midcentury New York remains a bold entrance into the Latin-American literary scene and an impressive narrative of personal fictions and political facts in an age of Desi Arnaz and the Cold War. It served as the basis… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Our Man in Havana
de Greene, Graham
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- 1958
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London: Heinemann, 1958. First edition. A tragi-comedy of a washed up vaccum salesman who becomes an unwitting agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service. Basis for the 1959 film starring Sir Alec Guinness and Maureen O'Hara. Minor bumps to corners and lower edge, mild edgewear, else near fine in blue cloth and in very good dust wrapper, price-clipped with a… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
de Matthiessen, Peter
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- 1965
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NY: Random House, 1965. First edition. Inscribed by Matthiessen to Kennett Love, Matthiessen's brother-in-law, longtime foreign correspondent for the New York Times and in 1965 an associate professor at Princeton (his ownership inscription at the front flyleaf reiterates such). Signed again by Matthiessen at the half title. This exploration of the incursion of two white men-one a missionary and… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Member of the Wedding
de McCullers, Carson
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- 1946
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EUR 1,355.32
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. First edition. Inscribed to "Eddie and Dotty" by the author on an adhered label bearing the logo of the Riverside Press. McCullers' novella follows, in her characteristically Gothic and semi-autobiographical style, a young woman and the tapestry of her family during a hot Georgia summer. Full pale yellow cloth over boards. Soiling to covers and… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Professor's House
de Cather, Willa
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- 1925
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EUR 1,030.15
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NY: Knopf, 1925. First edition. One of 225 copies signed by the author at the limitation page. This novel tells the story of a professor's midlife crisis as he mourns the death of his youth and a student once engaged to his daughter. Partially unopened. Quarter green cloth with marbled boards and paper label to spine, which is slightly… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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O Pioneers!
de Cather, Willa
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- 1937
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. First edition. Saleman's dummy, blank after page six, and with no signature on limitation page. Quarter tan cloth with blue cloth over boards, leather spine label. T.e.g. Some wear to edges and dampstain along base of spine, slightly soiled. Very good. Precio
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1919
de Dos Passos, John
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- 1932
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EUR 704.99
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NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. First edition. The second in Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy, 1919 exhibits an experimental style we might, in the modern view, call cinematic, incorporatinig archival and biographical materials, "Newsreel" sections, and the stream of consciousness perspective of the "Camera Eye." Bound in full orange cloth with silver titling at upper cover and spine. Boards… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 704.99