Category: Literary History/Biography

F. Scott Fitzgerald at 100: Centenary Tributes by American Writers

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rockville MD, Quill & Brush : 1996

Seller ID: 24660

ISBN-13: 9781883060084

Condition: Near Fine

[nearly perfect condition, nice and clean with just a touch of wear to the spine extremities]. The following writers give their one- or two-page opinions on FSF: Alice Adams, Frederick Busch, Hortense Calisher, Thomas Caplan, Alan Cheuse, Nicholas Delbanco, Don DeLillo, Nelson DeMille, Thomas Flanagan, George Garrett, Herbert Gold, Allan Gurganis, A.R. Gurney, Joe Haldeman, Alfred Kazin, Edmund Keeley, John McPhee, James Alan McPherson, Arthur Miller, Hugh Nissenson, Reynolds Price, E. Annie Proulx, Budd Schulberg, Carolyn See, Anne Rivers Siddons, Elizabeth Spencer, Christopher Tilghman, Joh...
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Mary Austin On the Art of Writing; A letter to Henry James Forman

By: Austin, Mary (introduction by James E. Phillips)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, The Friends of the UCLA Library : 1961

Seller ID: 15903

ISBN: NO

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Near Fine

[lovely clean copy, with the slightest bit of bumping to the bottom corners, a trace of rust on the staples]. Small booklet (in grey printed wrappers) reprinting a letter from Austin to journalist/editor Forman, dated September 17, 1918, which is described in the introduction as "a valuable index to her basic concept of the artistic process, as well as a remarkable revelation of her frank and forthright personality." Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena, in linotype Aldus and monotype Centaur, September 1961.
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Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler

By: Bauer, Paul J., and Mark Dawidziak

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Kent OH, The Kent State University Press : (c.2011)

Seller ID: 27086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[tiny smudge on top edge of text block, otherwise a nice, as-new copy; jacket similarly nice, with just a touch of wrinkling at the base of the spine]. (B&W photographs) A deeply-researched biography of the best hard-boiled writer you've never heard of -- unjustly so. A very big deal in his day, Tully (1886-1947) is today virtually forgotten. He lived a hardscrabble early life, spending much of his youth as a "road kid" -- "scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries," all the while harboring "wild a...
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My War with the United States

By: Bemelmans, Ludwig

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library : 1941 (c.1937)

Seller ID: 28105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear only to book; the jacket is somewhat age-toned along the spine and edges, with a couple of tiny scuff marks at the right edge of the front panel]. (Modern Library, No. 175) Series (pen and ink drawings) Bemelmans's ___ book, an account of his experiences as a then-recent immigrant during World War I. The author states in his Foreword that "the chapters of this book were translated from the pages of my German Diary which I kept during my service in the United States Army." *NOTE: Although the book itself is stated as the "First Modern Library Edition, 1941," the titles liste...
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Boris Vian

By: Boggio, Philippe

Price: $10.00

Publisher: (n.p.), Flammarion : (c.1993)

Seller ID: 17806

ISBN-13: 9782080667342

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[minor surface- and edge-wear to covers, faint diagonal crease at bottom of rear cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Biography of the French novelist/playwright/poet/critic/jazz musician/actor/singer, best known today (to the extent that he's known at all) for his surrealistic fiction, not all of which has been translated into English, and for a quartet of scandalous crime novels written in the late 1940s under the pseudonym "Vernon Sullivan." Text in French; includes bibliography.
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Thornton Wilder

By: Castronovo, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Ungar Publishing Co. : 1986

Seller ID: 5285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fine dj

(but price-clipped) [ex-library, but you'd hardly know it: the book appears to have never been opened, and the jacket is unblemished except for the price-clipping; top front corner of book is bumped, and there is some minimal stamping on the title page, a "Withdrawn" stamp on the ffep, and the remnants of a formerly glued-down jacket protector on both pastedowns]. (Literature and Life: American Writers) Series
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A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway [limited/numbered edition]

By: Cohn, Louis Henry

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1931

Seller ID: 20299

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [a little shelfwear to bottom edge and spine ends, a few tiny white smudges on covers and spine; fold-out has some creasing at leading edge due to careless re-folding over time; book protected with a new mylar jacket]. (facsimiles) The first bibliography of Hemingway's work, graced with a facsimile reproduction of an E.H. holograph page (reproduced as a fold-out frontispiece), on which Hemingway has typed a note advising Cohn of his belief that "it is all balls to publish bibliographies of living writers."
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Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante [SIGNED]

By: Cooper, Stephen

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, North Point Press : 2000

Seller ID: 15539

ISBN-13: 9780865475540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[very nice copy, tight and clean with only light shelfwear; jacket slightly faded at spine, minor surface wear]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("For _____ / Friends in John Fante") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, dated in the year of publication. "In the first comprehensive biography of John Fante, one of the great outsider figures of twentieth-century literature, [the author] untangles the enigma of an authentic American original. .... Exacting in his scholarship, Cooper artfully traces the resemblance between author and Arturo, the hero of Fante's famed autobiographical wor...
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Future Indefinite

By: Coward, Noel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. : 1954

Seller ID: 24697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket) [a very nice clean copy, the teensiest bump to the top front corner of the front cover, and a very slight rubbed-through spot to the cloth at the lower rear joint]. (B&W photographs) The second of Coward's memoirs. The first, "Present Indicative," had been published in 1932; the third, "Past Conditional," unfinished at the time of his death, was issued posthumously in 1986.
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The Changing Face of Horror: A Study of the Nineteenth-Century French Fantastic Short Story

By: Cummiskey, Gary

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York/San Francisco, Peter Lang : (c.1992)

Seller ID: 20780

ISBN-13: 9780820417752

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(laminated boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy, bottom corners bumped and very slightly split, but no other significant wear]. (The Age of Revolution and Romanticism: Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 3) Series From the author's introduction: "The fantastic short story was popular in France during two periods in the nineteenth century -- first, in the Romantic period, during the 1830's and early 1840's, and again during the last quarter of the century. The fantastic stories of the two periods are quite distinct in a number of ways (e.g., density, the nature of the fantastic ...
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Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from Its Beginnings to the Present Day [SIGNED]

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, and Nancy J. Peters

Price: $50.00

Publisher: San Francisco, City Lights Books / Harper & Row : (c.1980)

Seller ID: 24419

ISBN-13: 9780062503251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[no significant wear to book, just slight fading to cloth along top edges of covers and at base of spine; jacket has slight wear to extremities, faint soiling, tiny nicks at several corners, tiny chip at top of spine]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (as simply "Ferlinghetti," signature only) on the title page. This well-illustrated chronicle "presents, in rare photographs and sharp commentary, the literary great and not-so-great who lived in, or left their mark on, San Francisco. [It covers] the full sweep of the city's literary history, from the oral tradition...
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Mike Gold: A Literary Anthology

By: Folsom, Michael, ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, International Publishers : 1972

Seller ID: 22583

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[good sound copy, very light wear to extremities, slight bumping to bottom corners; jacket shows a bit of wear at spine ends and a couple of corners, tiny tear to bottom right corner of front panel]. Anthology of "the most important of [Gold's] poems, stories, sketches, critical essays and journalism, [including] some hitherto unpublished manuscripts." From the editor's introduction: "Gold is a kind of legend now -- a devil or a saint, depending on your point of view -- and all the more legendary because his memory is obscured by fond rumor, ill will, and ignorance. Aside from [h...
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The Art of Taking a Walk: Flanerie, Literature, and Film in Weimar Culture

By: Gleber, Anke

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press : (c.1999)

Seller ID: 24045

ISBN-13: 9780691002385

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[nice clean as-new book, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) In this "deeply original and searching reassessment of the complex intersections among modernity, vision, and public space," the author "examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. Gleber examines this often elusive figure in the particular contexts of Weimar Ger...
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Image for The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of Its Criticism and a Guide for Its Study, with an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages from 1700 to 1800

The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of Its Criticism and a Guide for Its Study, with an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages from 1700 to 1800

By: Gove, Philip Babcock

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Octagon Books : 1975 (c.1941)

Seller ID: 19938

ISBN-13: 9780374932237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [ex-library with typical internal and external markings (including pocket on ffep, a couple of small labels on spine, stamp on top edge); moderate shelfwear, some residue and minor scarring at top of front cover from removed label, text clean]. Includes bibliography and index.
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Kenneth Rexroth: A Checklist of His Published Writings

By: Hartzell, James, and Richard Zumwinkle, comp.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Friends of the UCLA Library : 1967

Seller ID: 12632

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[very slight bleed-through (from rusty staples) on front cover, otherwise clean and flawless]. (B&W photo frontispiece, document facs.) Chronological bibliography, with 491 entries. Includes reproductions of several documents by or related to Rexroth. Foreword by (who else?) Lawrence Clark Powell.
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Rupert Hughes: A Hollywood Legend

By: Kemm, James O.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Beverly Hills CA, Pomegranate Press : 1997

Seller ID: 13561

ISBN-13: 9780938817499

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[lovely copy, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) Poorly-written biography of the "film pioneer, author, screenwriter, film director, composer, soldier, network radio commentator, wit and self-described 'poor uncle of a rich nephew'" (that being Howard Hughes).
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Another Country: Writings by and about Henry Kreisel

By: Kreisel, Henry (ed. by Shirley Neuman)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Edmonton, NeWest Press : (c.1985)

Seller ID: 22056

ISBN-13: 9780920316856

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[minimal wear, slight bend at top right corner of front cover, dark smudge mark on top edge]. (Western Canadian Literary Documents, no. 7) Series Trade PB "When Henry Kreisel was interned as an 'enemy alien' by the British in 1940 and sent to a camp in Canada, he began to keep a diary. [This volume] reprints his 'Diary of an Internment Camp' along with other personal writings that chronicle his transition from internee to Canadian novelist." Also includes poems, stories, personal essays, and letters. "An unpublished radio drama, two new stories, several critical essays about his n...
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Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading; being one of the last essays of Elia

By: Lamb, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Norwood, The Plimpton Press : 1910

Seller ID: 22822

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [some bumping and wear at top corners, slight discoloration along spine, minor cracking at top of spine]. "The Plimpton Press take pleasure in issuing separately this famous essay and in presenting it to their friends this Yuletide - MCMX - with heartiest good wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." An adorable little book (about 40 pages, 6-1/2" tall), full of gems like: "Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents, are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of moder...
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Alger: A Biography Without a Hero

By: Mayes, Herbert R.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Macy-Masius : 1928

Seller ID: 19615

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, the faintest bit of wear to book; jacket shows minor wear at extremities, light soiling to rear panel]. (frontispiece portrait, B&W plates) This "biography without a hero," the first ever published about the author whose name became synonymous with a peculiarly American type of rags-to-riches tale, was revealed a half-century after its initial publication to be a completely cooked-up fraud. Purporting to be based in large measure on Alger's diaries (which nobody had ever heard of because they, ahem, didn't exist), the book set out to debunk one myth (Alger as a grow...
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Joey; a loving portrait of Alfred Perls together with some bizarre episodes relating to the other sex

By: Miller, Henry

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, Capra Press : 1979

Seller ID: 23202

ISBN-13: 9780884961369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[light age-toning to top edge of text block, otherwise unworn and essentially as-new; jacket similarly nice but for a tiny closed tear at the top of the front panel]. (Book of Friends, Volume III) Series "Miller is at his Rabelaisian best in this memoir of his carousing friendship with Alfred (Joey) Perls, [who] was responsible for getting Miller a job as proof-reading for the Paris Chicago Tribune, enabling Miller to rent a typewriter and record his Villa Seurat days in 'Tropic of Cancer.' [This account] is accompanied by thirteen portraits of women whom Miller admired -- mostly from afar."...
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Category: Literary History/Biography