Unmarked. A new verse translation by Robert Pinsky with notes by Nicole Pinsky. Foreword by John Freccero. 355p. Text in English and Italian. • • • View More...
Text in German. Unmarked text. Tear on dust jacket, top, front. Translated by Ilse Liesi. Title page creased. 459p. Postscript by Max Wildi. Measures 4x6 inches.
Anne Elliot is the protagonist of Jane Austen's sixth and last completed novel, Persuasion (1818), published posthumously. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Copyright 1900. 315p. Measures 5x7.5 inches. Text in English. Introduction by W. P. Trent. Le Cousin Pons is one of the last of the 94 novels and short stories that make up Honoré de Balzac's Comédie humaine.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Illustrated. Text in English. Measures 5.25x7.75 inches. 285p.
This 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was originally published in serial form. It takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought profound changes to French society; the struggle by individuals to secure a higher social status is a major theme in the book. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Dust jacket, with Chatto price sticker on flap, under clear mylar cover. Edited, with an introduction, by Robert Giroux. 278p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches.
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was an American poet and short story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. 217p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches. A Hardscrabble Book.
Begins with Hawthorne in the 1830s, and ends with Edith Wharton and Sinclair Lewis in the 1920s. Selections from other well-known and lesser-known figures. Three parts: New England's much-celebrated scenery; intimate links between sexual and romantic themes and New England vacations; and New England nostalgia. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. A novel of ideas. Uses a traditional mystery format as a vehicle for commenting on the joy and pain of writing. 178p. • • • View More...
Examines the life and work of the renowned poet Charles Olson (1910-1970). He was a second generation modern American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Fourth printing. Revised edition with a new introduction and an updated bibliography. Index. 169p. Measures 5.25x8 inches.
This book is a practical guidebook to the work of Virginia Woolf that uses many of her own writings to present a critical summary of her method and achievement. • • • View More...
Ex-library. Two pages in the introduction contain highlighting. Covers the importance of time in Greek tragedy. Chapters on Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and more. Index. 180p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Closed tear on dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom.
Edited and with an Introduction by Angus Wilson. Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket, with illustration by Julie Mehretu (Black City, 2007, Francois Pinault Collection). Remainder mark. Collection of stories written over the course of many years. 183p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Number 272 in edition of 300. Signed and inscribed to Dorothy Bryant (1930-2017), an American novelist, playwright, essayist and feminist writer. Illustrated by Mayona Phelps Engdahl. Preface by Richard Welin.
Some age tanning on cover. Wave to volume. 62p. Measures 6.25x9.75 inches.
Donald Emblen (1918-2009) served as the first Sonoma County Poet Laureate. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he wrote between 1922 and his death in 1940. The volume includes This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and Damned; The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night; and The Last Tycoon. 1455p. This robust volume measures 6.25x9.5x2.5 inches. View More...
Unmarked text. 222p. Index. Measures 5.5x8 inches. The first extended study of the notoriously reclusive author of Catcher in the Rye.
Earlier versions of this book were the objects of considerable litigation that made front-page news across America as Salinger and his lawyers tried to stop their publication. The author uses interviews and public records to reconstruct the Salinger's life from 1919-1965. The author also discusses his major fiction. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Includes The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, Jack or The Submission, and The Chairs. 160p. Measures 5.25x8.25 inches.
The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugène Ionesco (1909-94) did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects that allow his work to be simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. 32p. Measures 5.75x8.25 inches. Chronology. Section on Romanticism. Bibliography.
The Keats–Shelley Memorial House is a writer's house museum in Rome, Italy, commemorating the Romantic poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. First American edition, originally published in Great Britain. Small remainder mark on bottom. This novel looks at a mid-life transition during a single summer. 275p.
Doris May Lessing (1919-2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She won the Nobel Prize in 2007. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Some wear on head and tail of spine. Color frontispiece and black-and-white plates. No date, copyright 1894 and 1908. lustrated end papers. 135 page with decorative borders. Measures 6x8.25 inches.
Translated by Erving Winslow. Introduction by Montrose J. Moses. Il
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Flemish Belgian author who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. Pelleas and Melisande qualifies as among his best works. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Housed in original slipcase. Volume 1, East and West contains 30 stories; Volume 2, The World Over "contains all the stories I have written not in volume 1." Each volume contains a preface by the author. Volume 1: 955p.; Volume 2: 681p.
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. • • • View More...
