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1944ref. 620305New York: Harper & Brothers 1944. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 311pp. Small dark spot on top of front board a couple scratches and spine ends with some bumping and light wear very good or better. Signed by the author. Philip Larkin described the book as "not superlative but managing to catch something of the indomitable soul of art. Really rather moving." Basis for the 1958 Ronald Neame-directed film featuring Alec Guinness and Kay Walsh.Burgess 99. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1973ref. 274479Davis: Asian American Studies University of California Davis 1973. 139 pg. paperback 8.5x11 inches signed by Gus Lee on title page title label added to spine with tape. Coming four years after the Third World Liberation Front protests resulted in the creation of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley this conference reflects much of the early dilemmas and difficulties faced by the Asian American movement. As the title suggests even the creation of Asian American Studies was somewhat debated in terms of its utility as many worried that siloing different groups into different departments would weaken the movement. Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis unknown books
1936ref. 2352401New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas / Grosset & Dunlap 1936. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Anderson Harry. Appears to be an original edition married to the movie tie-in jacket Harrison Smith and Robert Haas listed on title page and spine Grosset & Dunlap on jacket but it's possible Grosset purchased unsold copies from Smith & Haas and added their own jacket so we are calling this a reissue rather than a first edition married to a reissue jacket. Board edges slightly faded jacket edges rubbed with some loss from corners. Binding tight and square text clean bright and unmarked. 1936 Hard Cover. Harry Anderson jacket art depicting a World War I soldier in a trench shown in a similar pose as a Prohibition-era gangster. Rear jacket flap advertises Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. This novel inspired the 1937 film starring Spencer Tracy as the protagonist who struggles to return to his old life after the war and ends up turning to a life of crime informed by the skills he learned as a soldier. An interesting juxtaposition of the military novel and noir crime fiction which also examines the disconnection many veterans feel upon returning home. Cowen served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I for which he was awarded the Military Cross. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas / Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1989ref. 574289New York: E.P. Dutton 1989. Softcover. Fine. First edition. 131pp. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Poetry. E.P. Dutton unknown books
2007ref. 60728NY: Ecco 2007. First edition first prnt. One of an unspecified number of copies with a tipped-in page signed by Oates issued by the publisher for promotional purposes. One corner just tapped with corresponding tiny creases on the dustjacket; unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ecco hardcover books
1998ref. 627714New York: Henry Holt and Company 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 130pp. Illustrated. Fine in a trifle rubbed still fine dust jacket. Henry Holt and Company hardcover books
ref. 63836hardcover. 8vo cloth-backed boards d.w. New York 1990. unknown books
1925ref. 140948862Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1925. Early Reprint. Near Fine. Seventh printing of the first edition. 736 pp. Bound in publisher's blue printed wraps lettered in white. Housed in a custom teal blue cloth clamshell case with green morocco spine label stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light toning and wear to the notoriously fragile wraps. Light creasing to spine light chipping to ends to ends small closed tear to rear joint at foot with tiny abrasion to rear cover. Light corner creases from prelims to 112 p. A nicer than usually found copy of Joyce's epic modern novel. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1978ref. 593798Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Elizabeth Hansell. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some toning. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
1927ref. 13715Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. Very Good. Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. Ninth printing. Large octavo; publisher's "Greek flag blue" wrappers lettered in white housed in half morocco slipcase lettered in gilt inner cloth chemise; 735pp. Wraps worn at extremities with very slight chipping to base of spine; spine creases with slight lean else sound. Overall Very Good. Extra leaf tipped in at front and signed "James Joyce Paris 2-6-28." The bound in leaf inserted by an unknown previous party coincides with Joyce living in Paris while Finnegan's Wake was being published serially under the title "fragments from Work in Progress." Slocum 17. Shakespeare and Company unknown books
1976ref. 49376Austin TX: University of Texas Press 1976. Very Good/Very Good-. Austin TX: University of Texas Press 1976. First Edition. Slim octavo 22cm; publisher's boards in dust jacket; vi2150pp.; map in text. Some light soil and scattered paper scarring to jacket chiefly at rear panel small remainder mark at bottom textblock edge remnants of old price sticker to front pastedown. About Very Good internally clean and sound. University of Texas Press unknown books
2016ref. 1405251New York: HarperCollins Publishers 2016. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 369 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering price uncut: "U.S.A. $27.99/CANADA $34.99". Quarter bound in light blue paper with dark blue paper boards. Flat signed by author on title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1405251. Special Collections - Downstairs. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
2014ref. 1405298New York: HarperCollins Publishers 2014. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 481 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Pictorial spine with white lettering. Dust jacket with mild shelf wear to back cover protected in mylar covering price uncut: "USA $26.99". Quarter bound with gray cloth and green cloth to boards with mild shelfwear on top and bottom edges of boards. Text block has mild age-toning to top and deckled fore edges. Flat signed by author on title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1405298. Special Collections - Downstairs. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
1983ref. 63362Worcester: American Antiquarian Society 1983. cloth dust jacket. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. xii 322 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. These essays have been written by leading scholars on early bookselling reading habits and the impact of printing in early America. Printing history in its broadest context may be viewed as a distinct form of cultural history a synthesis combining the attention to ideas that is central to intellectual history with the emphasis on patterns of behavior and organization characteristic of social history. This work encourages new approaches to the study of early printing including the fusion of bibliographical analysis and the broadly cultural approach of the French historians of books and society. Together the essays demonstrate how the world of print changed between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - both shaping and reflecting the larger American culture. Titles of the papers presented here include "The Uses of Literacy in New England 1600-1850" "The Anglo-American Book Trade before 1776" "The Wages of Piety: The Boston Book Trade of Jeremy Condy" "The Colonial Retail Book Trade: Availability and Affordability of Reading Material in Mid-Eighteenth Century" Virginia" "Bibliography and the Cultural Historian: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Novel" "Early Music Printing and Publishing" Books and the Social Authority of Learning: The Case of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia" "Elias Smith and the Rise of Religious Journalism in the Early Republic" and "Print and the Public Lecture System 1840-1860." Most of the essays were originally prepared for an October 1980 conference of the same title sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society. Small embossed private ownership stamp on first blank page. American Antiquarian Society unknown books
1957ref. 2352280New York: The Viking Press 1957. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x1. Woods Miriam. 1957 3rd printing. Rear wrapper toned owner bookplate on front flyleaf. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 253 pp. Miriam Woods cover design. The first novel of Irish writer James Joyce best known for Ulysses who also wrote Finnegan's Wake and Dubliners. It traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown and culminates with his self-exile from Ireland in Europe. The Viking Press paperback books
1990ref. 2350823New York: Dutton 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 20x20x20. First edition. Board edges slightly toned otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1990 Hard Cover. 276 pp. 8vo. A novel by National Book Award winning author Joyce Carol Oates who has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize multiple times. Published under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. "Maggie teaches piano at the Conservatory. Beneath the surface of the academic community sinister passions are stirring. Suddenly with a savage act of rape Maggie's civilized and sophisticated way of life is shattered and she is drawn into a horrifying world of sexual exploitation and violence. Dutton hardcover books
1986ref. 2350828New York: E.P. Dutton 1986. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 20x20x20. First trade edition following the Franklin Library first edition. Minor discoloration to jacket spine head small portion of bottom edge lightly foxed. 1986 Hard Cover. 310 pp. 8vo. A novel by the prolific award-winning American author. A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles of 1950s New York City and her struggle to understand and overcome the trauma of her past. Growing up in the confines of Innisfail a bleak town in upstate New York bright and curious Marya endures abandonment betrayal and loneliness. A college scholarship offers escape taking her to New York City where she makes a name for herself in academic and literary circles. But success cannot overcome the damage of her childhood pain that haunts Marya's personal professional and romantic relationships and has left her unmoored. Psychologically nuanced rich in insight and emotional complexity told with the unsettling power of Joyce Carol Oates's gothic novels Marya: A Life is an intense look into the psyche of a young woman and an illuminating exploration of how the past reverberates throughout our lives. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1979ref. 2348482New York: The Vanguard Press Inc 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x1. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Endpapers lightly toned otherwise an excellent copy. 1979 Hard Cover. 335 pp. 8vo. A novel about the lives of teachers and students at a private school. Looks at the lives of the men and women of a prestigious upstate college including Albert St. Dennis Professor of Poetry and the people he meets: Brigit a divorcee and Alexis a pianist and composer. The Vanguard Press, Inc hardcover books
1983ref. 2348950Concord New Hampshire: William B. Ewert 1983. Broadside. Near Fine. Hayden Mary Ann. Signed by author. Signed by illustrator. Signed by author and illustrator without inscriptions. One of 100 copies. Faint smudge along right side light crease on bottom corner. 1983 Broadside. Measures roughly 11 1/4 x 19 inches. Illustrated by Mary Ann Hayden. "The smallest of hymns in praise of silk--cornsilk--spiderweb silk--those creatures who slip mere silhouettes through the cracks of this moment--and this--and the next. William B. Ewert unknown books
ref. 2349200Princeton: Bollingen Series / Princeton University Press 1963. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 6x1x9. 1966 fourth printing incorporating the 1963 corrections to the second printing. Includes publisher's slipcase and jacket. Some ink underlining highlighting and marginalia front jacket panel smudged minor wear to jacker corners with small chip from jacket spine base slipcase edges faded ink name and date inside slipcase opening ink number on rear slipcase panel ink name on front endpaper. xxv 1743 pp. This was at the time of its publication the only complete one-volume edition of Plato in English translation. Contents include: Editorial Note; Introduction; Socrates' Defense Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Charmides; Laches; Lysis; Euthyphro; Menexenus; Lesser Hippias; Ion; Gorgias; Protagoras; Meno; Euthydemus; Cratylus; Phaedrus; Symposium; Republic; Theaetetus; Parmenides; Sophist; Statesman; Philebus; Timaeus; Critias; Laws; Appendix: Epinomis; Greater Hippias; Letters; Index. Bollingen Series / Princeton University Press hardcover books
1986ref. 2343934Concord New Hampshire: William B. Ewert Publisher 1986. Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Azarian Mary. Signed by author. Signed by illustrator. Limited edition #45 of 100 copies. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates and Mary Azarian on limitation page. Faint stain to front panel of jacket. 1986 Soft Cover. Unpaginated. A fine press poem about the birth of Jesus Christ by the prolific award-winning American author originally published in The New York Times Magazine. This limited edition of 100 numbered copies designed by John Kristensen includes original woodcuts by Mary Azarian printed directly from the blocks. It was printed from Monotype Bembo on Lana Laid paper and handsewn in wrappers at the Firefly Press Somerville Massachusetts in November 1986. The publisher William B. Ewert of Concord New Hampshire specialized in limited edition fine press material mainly poetry and broadsides for nearly 25 years and his efforts are memorialized at the University of New Hampshire which maintains an impressive collection of his work. William B. Ewert, Publisher paperback books
1998ref. 2343912William B. Ewert 1998. Limited Edition. Broadside. Near Fine. Signed by author. Signed by author. An exceptional copy. 1998 Broadside. 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Deckled bottom edge. "If opening that drawer quickly you hear your life rattle like hollow dice--we understand each other perfectly. William B. Ewert unknown books
1994ref. 2343935William B. Ewert 1994. Limited Edition. Broadside. Near Fine. Signed by author. Signed by author without inscription. One of 150 copies. An exceptional copy. 1994 Broadside. 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches. Deckled bottom edge. Title and author name in magenta; rest of text in purple. "Shall we tell them thanks but why reward us who as children filled in time by filling in coloring books' Or shall we lie' O Crayola!--Even the taste was good. William B. Ewert unknown books
1974ref. 2344916New York: The Vanguard Press Inc 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x1. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. An excellent copy. 1974 Hard Cover. 307 pp. 8vo. Oates's second volume of literary criticism examining the conflict between innovation and relatability when it comes to writing. The Vanguard Press, Inc hardcover books
2008ref. 2346102New York: Signet Classics 2008. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 4x0x6. New. An exceptional copy. 2008 Mass Market Paperback. xx 168 pp. Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates afterword by Vince Passaro. In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling disturbing and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the twentieth century. Heart of Darkness is a devastating commentary on the corruptibility of humanity. Based on Conrad's own 1890 trip up the Congo River the story is told by Marlow the novelist's alter ego. It is a journey into darkness and horror - both literally as the narrator descends into a sinister jungle landscape and metaphorically as he encounters the morally depraved Mr. Kurtz. The Secret Sharer is the tale of a young sea captain's first command as he sails into the Gulf of Siam - and into an encounter with his mysterious “double” the shadow self of the unconscious mind. Joseph Conrad boldly experimented with the novella and novel forms filled his writing with the exotic places he himself had traveled and concerned himself with honor guilt moral alienation and sin. Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer encapsulate his literary achievements - and his haunting portrayal of the dark side of man. Signet Classics paperback books
