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Guth, Dorothy Lobrano. Letters of E. B. White. NY: Harper & Row, Pub. (1976) 1st edition (hardback) 686 pp. index. photo illustrated. Very good condition. Edge worn, small tears to dust jacket. (Framed with commentary by the author as well as the editor's notes, these letters, written between 1908 and 1976, and including those that recently persuaded the Xerox Corp. to abandon the underwriting of magazine articles, are at once an autobiography and the history of an era) LTDE10326 $12.00
Hagstrum, Jean H. Samuel Johnson's Literary Criticism. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. (1952) (hardback) 212 pp. index. Very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10248 $10.00
Hailey, Sheila. I Married a Best Seller. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1978 (1978) 1st edition. (hardback) 287 pp. Very good condition in dust jacket. (An affectionately indiscreet memoir about live with Arthur Hailey) LTDE10167 $5.00
Hall, James Norman. My Island Home. An Autobiography. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1952) 1st edition (hardback) 374 pp. Photo illustrated. Ex-library with usual markings and pocket. Pull at top of spine else good to good + condition. (author drew upon his experiences in the South Seas and as a German prisoner of war to add authenticity to his books. He partnered with Charles Nordhoff to write dozen more.) LTDE10168 $7.00
Hardy, Florence Emily. The Early Life of Thomas Hardy 1840 - 1891. NY: Macmillan Co., 1928 (1928) (hardback) 327 pp. index. Frontispiece and other illustrations. Very good condition. No dust jacket. (Compiled largely from contemporary notes, letters, diaries, and biographical memoranda, as well as from oral information in conversations extending over many years) LTDE10170 $25.00
Hardy, Florence Emily The Later Years of Thomas Hardy 1892-1928. NY: Macmillan Co., 1930 (1930) 1st edition. 289 pp. index. Frontispiece and other photoengraved illustrations. Spine sunned else Very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10131 $12.00
Harper, Henry H. Letters of Mary W. Shelley (Mostly Unpublished) Minneapolis: Edmund D. Brooks 1918 . (Hardback) 191 pp. Corners well worn. General cover soiling. Binding tight. No dust jacket. (one of 150 copies printed by the Bibliophile Society for the Owner of the original manuscript letters, being subsequent to the edition printed for the members) LTDE10090 $25.00
Harper, Henry Howard. Bryon's Malach Hamoves (Revised Edition) Boston: Privately Printed 1933 (1933) (hardback) 65 pp. deckled edges. 2 1/2" x 1" ink smear front cover. General cover soiling else Good condition. No dust jacket. (A Commentary on Leigh Hunt's work entitled Lord Bryon and Some of His Contemporaries) LTDE10091 $15.00
Harris, Julia Collier. Joel Chandler Harris. Editor and Essayist. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1931 (1931) (hardback) 429 pp. index. Frontispiece & other illustrations. Pocket in rear but no other signs of library markings. Very good condition. No Dust jacket. (Miscellaneous Literary, Political, and Social Writings) LTDE10171 $25.00
Harris, W. T. The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1896 (1889, 1896) (hardback) TEG (top edge gilt) 193 pp. Light wear at top of spine else very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10132 $14.95
Haskell, Molly. Love and other Infectious Diseases. A Memoir. NY: Wm. Morrow & Co., (1990) 1st edition. (hardback) 302 pp. Very good condition in lightly edge worn dust jacket. ("An admirably forthright chronicle of a closely bonded 20 year marriage threatened by illness. Haskell speaks for all women as she confronts, with great intelligence, compassion and with the unspoken fears and ambivalence of marital love") LTDE10172 $9.00
Haugaard, Erik. Portrait of a Poet. Hans Christian Andersen and His Fairytales. Washington, DC: Library of Congress 1973. (Softcover) 17 pp. Very good condition. (Lecture delivered Mar. 5, 1973, under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, as part of the 10th anniversary program of the Children's Book Section) LTDE10093 $6.00
Hellman, Lillian. An Unfinished Woman - a memoir. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1969) 1st edition (hardback) 280 pp. Photo illustrated. Very good condition in chipped, dust jacket. (Hellman offers a detailed, unsparing self-scrutiny and a passionate, sometimes comic, always candid account of her experience in New York, New Orleans, Hollywood, Spain during the Civil War, Moscow & Leningrad during the Second World war and 20 years later) LTDE10173 $6.50
Hellman, Lillian. (intro. by Garry Wills) Scoundrel Time. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1976) 1st edition (hardback) 155 pp. Photo illustrated. Neat gift note by previous owner on title page. Very good condition in edge worn dust jacket. (Hellman's memoir of the witch-hunting, black- listing years of the 1950s, and her involvement with them) LTDE10174 $7.50
Hersey, John. Life Sketches. NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1989 (1989) 1st Trade edition. (hardback) 377 pp. Photo illustrated. Very good in dust jacket. (This collection brings together the most memorable of the non-fiction pieces that John Hersey has written over the past 50 years) LTDE10175 $10.00
Holmes, Charles S. The Clocks of Columbus. The Literary Career of James Thurber. NY: Atheneum 1972 (1972) 1st edition (hardback) 360 pp. index. bibliography. Photo illustrated. Very good to fine condition in slightly edge worn dust jacket. (Fascinating literary portrait of Thurber, the greatest American humorist of the 20th century. From his beginnings in Columbus, Ohio to the tempestuous early years of THE NEW Y0RKER, under the legendary Ross, which he helped to make one of the most important magazines in American history) LTDE10290 $5.00
Holmes, George. Dante. NY: Hill and Wang. Past Masters Series. (1980) 1st American Edition. (Softcover) 104 pp. index. Very good condition. LTDE10133 $6.50
Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey and the Bloomsbury Group: His Work, Their Influence. London: Penguin (1967, 1968, 1971) revised. (Softcover) 400 pp. index. photo illustrated. Bibliography. Paper browning. Minor cover rub and very little spine crease. Very good condition. (In this volume are assembled the critical analysis and comment on EMINENT VICTORIANS, QUEEN VICTORIA, ELIZABETH AND ESSEX and his other writings) LTDE10291 $5.00
Howe, Helen. The Gentle Americans 1964-1960. Biography of a Breed. NY: Harper & Row, (1965) 1st edition. (hardback) 458 pp. index. Photo illustrated. Ex-library with stamps, blacked out library name, pocket removed. Covers have tape shadows. No dust jacket. Good to good + condition. (Biography of M. A. DeWolfe and family) LTDE10177 $5.00
Hoyle, Fred. The Black Cloud. 200 pp. The Easton Press. (1957). Leather Bound with gilt decorations, ribbon bookmark, AEG. Fine Masterpieces of Science Fiction -Collector's notes laid in LTDE10026 $50.00
Hudson, Derek. An Unrepentant Victorian. The Rise an Fall of Martin Tupper. 342 pp. Constable. London (1949 ) ( Hardback ) Good condition, dustjacket tattered and soiled, now in plastic protector. ( Author of Proverbial Philosophy, a very popular work, first published in 1838 ) LTDE10051 $12.00
Hunt, John Dixon. The Wider Sea. A Life of John Ruskin. NY: Viking Press (1982) (hardback) 512 pp. index. Frontispiece and other illustrations. bibliography. Very good condition. Dust jacket slightly edge worn. (When the darkness of mental illness closed over his last 11 years, Ruskin, the writer, art critic, and social reformer, had established himself as an extraordinary presence in Victorian England. This prominence, and its attendant private troubles and anxieties, form the center of this absorbing new biography) LTDE10204 $5.00
Huntley, H. Robert. The Alien Protagonist of Ford Madox Ford. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. (1970) (hardback) 194 pp. index. Very good condition. No dust jacket. (This book focuses on the problem of that oft-noted similarity between so many of Ford's protagonists, men whose peculiarly alien temperaments and ethics lead them into inevitable conflict with their particular milieu) LTDE10178 $7.00
Hurst, Fannie. Anatomy of Me. An Autobiography of the Author of "Back Street'. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1958 (1958) (hardback) 366 pp. Very good condition in edge worn dust jacket. (Hamilton, OH author) LTDE10179 $7.00
Johnson, Diane. Dashiell Hammett. A Life. NY: Random House, (1983) 1st edition. (hardback) 344 pp. index. Photo illustration. Very good condition in worn, torn dust jacket. (the definitive biography of one of the most fascinating and most enigmatic 20th century writers. First book written with the full cooperation of of longtime friend Lillian Hellman, Hammett's late wife Josephine and his daughters) LTDE10180 $7.00
Josephson, Matthew. Stendhal or The Pursuit of Happiness. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1946 (1946) 1st edition (hardback) 489 pp. index. Frontispiece. Tape remnants inside covers else very good condition. No dust jacket. (Stendhal is a pivotal figure in world literature; his influence shaped the modern conception of the novel) LTDE10292 $4.25
Kaplan, Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. A Biography. NY: Simon & Schuster, (1966) 3rd printing. (hardback) 424 pp. index. Photo illustrated. Very good condition in edge worn, discolored dust jacket. ("The richest, most subtle, and best sustained analysis of Mark Twain) LTDE10134 $6.00
Keller, John E. & L. Clark Keating. The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio. University Press of Kentucky (1977) (Hardback) 201 pp. Stamped "Withdrawn From NKU Steely Library" but no other library markings. Very good condition. No dust jacket. A Translation of Don Juan Manuel's EL CONDE LUCANOR) LTDE10095 $50.00
Kelley, Robert E. & O. M. Brack, Jr. Samuel Johnson's Early Biographers. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, (1971) (hardback) 159 pp. Frontispiece & other illustrations. Very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10251 $20.00
Kesten, Hermann (selection & foreword by) Thomas Mann Diaries 1918-1939 NY: Harry N. Abrams (1977,1978,1979,19080) (1982) English translation by Richard & Clara Winston 4to. (hardback) 471 pp. index. bibliography. photo illustrations. Very good condition in repaired dust jacket. (highly personal meditations of a very private man) LTDE10252 $7.00
Kingsmill, Hugh. The Life of D. H. Lawrence. NY: Dodge Publisher. Co., (1938) 1st edition. (hardback) 255 pp. index. Corners lightly bumped. Good + to very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10254 $20.00
Knies, Earl A. The Art of Charlotte Bronte. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 1969 (1969) (hardback) 234 pp. index. Spine sunned else very good condition in dust jacket. (Dr. Knies has rendered a service to criticism by re-evaluation of the discipline and development of Charlotte Bronte as a novelist). LTDE10096 $5.95
L'Amour, Louis. The Sackett Companion. A Personal Guide to the Sackett Novels. NY: Bantam (1988) 1st edition. (hardback)341 pp. index. Illustrations and maps. Very good condition in dust jacket. (L'Amour takes us on a guided tour of his imagination to introduce us to the never before-told sources and inspirations for Sackett Saga stories) LTDE10255 $10.00
Langner, Lawrence. G. B. S. and the lunatic. NY: Atheneum, 1963 (1963) 1st edition.(hardback) 313 pp. index. photo illustrated. bibliography. Very good condition in edge worn dust jacket. (Reminiscences of the long, lively and affectionate friendship between George Bernard Shaw and the Author) LTDE10208 $5.25
Lehmann, John. Virginia Woolf and Her World. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. A Harvest Book (1975) 1st Harvest edition 1977 (Softcover) 128 pp. index. photo illustrated. Very good condition. (a straightforward, urbane, and sympathetic account of a life whose fascination remains undimmed.) LTDE10329 $5.00
Lewis, D. B. Wyndham. Francois Villon. A Documented Survey. NY: Literary Guild of America 1928 (1928) (hardback) Preface by Hilaire Belloc, 407 pp. frontispiece. Slight fray at top of spine else good+ condition. Binding tight and solid. No dust jacket. LTDE10293 $4.00
Lid, R. W. Ford Madox Ford. The Essence of His Art. Berkeley & LA: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1964 (1964) (hardback) 201 pp. Ford bibliography. Stain on dust jacket where sticker fell off else very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket. (This study of Ford's principals novels is intended for the general read as well as for the serious student.) LTDE10150 $6.00
Lieberson, Jonathan. Varieties. NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988) 1st edition. (hardback) 351 pp. Very good condition in dust jacket. (part social commentary, part philosophical critique, but always provocative, stimulating, delightful.) LTDE10181 $4.95
London, Jack. Before Adam. 140 pp. The Easton Press. (1987). Leather Bound with gilt decorations, ribbon bookmark, AEG. Illustrations by Frank Mayo. Fine Masterpieces of Science Fiction Collector's notes laid in LTDE10029 $55.00
Lozynsky, Artem. Richard Maurice Bucke, medical mystic. Letters of Dr. Bucke to Walt Whitman and His Friends. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. 1977 (1977) (hardback) 203 pp. index. frontispiece. Very good condition in repaired dust jacket. (Bucke, a pioneer psychiatrist and mystic, was one of the most remarkable Canadians of the 19th century. He perceived in Whitman the supreme example of what he called "cosmic consciousness") LTDE10330 $9.75
Lucas-Dubreton, J. (translated from the French by Maida Castelhun Darnton) The Fourth Musketeer. The Life of Alexander Dumas. NY: Coward-McCann Inc., (1928) (hardback) 276 pp., bibliography. Good + to very good condition in heavily worn, badly chipped dust jacket. (Dumas' life is so mad, so grotesque in itself, that the biographer has no difficulty in finding theatrical incidents, humorous anecdotes, and brilliantly colored adventures to adorn his tale) LTDE10137 $8.50
Ludwig, Emil Goethe. The History of a Man 1749-1832. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1928 (1928) 4th printing. translated from the German by Ethel Colburn Mayne. (hardback) 647 pp. index. Illustrated. Slight edge corner wear. Tiny pull top of spine else good + condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10182 $9.00
Lyngstad, Alexandra & Sverre Lyngstad. Ivan Goncharov. NY: Twayne Pub., (1971) TWAS 200. (hardback) 184 pp. index. Stain in margin of page 25 else very good condition in dust jacket. LTDE10183 $7.00
Mackay, Agnes Ethel. La Fontaine and His Friends. A Biography. NY: George Braziller (1972) (hardback) 227 pp. index. Illustrated. Very good condition. Dust jacket edge worn & lightly soiled. (Only complete biography of La Fontaine that has ever been published in English. Widlely known as the author of the famous CONTES and those FABLES) LTDE10257 $5.50
Maclean, Catherine MacDonald. Born Under Saturn. A Biography of William Hazlitt. NY: Macmillan Co., 1944 (1944) 1st edition. (hardback) 631 pp. index. Few Illustrations. Very good condition in worn, torn dust jacket. (Maclean work is the final word on William Hazlitt. One of the most remarkable figures of the early 19th century, a great writer and great man) LTDE10184 $9.50
Malraux, Andre Anti-Memoirs. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1968) 2nd edition. (hardback) 420 pp. index. Spine and top edge of front cover sunned. Very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10260 $4.50
Mann, Katia. (edited by Elisabeth Plessen & Michael Mann) Unwritten Memoirs. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975 (1975) 1st edition (hardback)165 pp. glossary. Photo illustrated. Translated from the German by Hunter & Hildegarde Hannum. Front fly stamped Withdrawn for NKU Steely Library, but was never put in the library. No markings or any other stamps. Never had pocket. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Thomas Mann's wife of over 50 years. breaks her long silences, recounting their life together) LTDE10261 $20.00
Maurois, Andre. Lelia. The Life of George Sand. NY: Harper & Row (1953) (hardback) 482 pp. index. Illustrated. Very good condition in heavily worn, chipped, taped dust jacket. (Portrait of a brilliant and bewitching woman who was at once the scandal and glory of her age) LTDE10209 $5.00
Maurois, Andr�. translated by Norman Denny. Prometheus. The Life of Balzac. NY: Harper & Row, Pub. (1965) (Hardback) 573 pp. index. photo illustrated. Very good condition in edge worn dust jacket. LTDE10097 $5.00
Maurois, Andre. (translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins) Olympio. The Life of Victor Hugo. NY: Harper & Bros. (1956) 1st edition. (hardback) 498 pp. index. Illustrated. Very good condition in well worn, chipped Dust jacket. ("magnificent, full-blooded biography") LTDE10185 $10.00
Maxwell, William. The Outermost Dream. Essays and Reviews. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989 (1989) 1st edition (hardback) 140 pp. index. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Maxwell brings together in this volume essays and reviews he has published over the past several decades. Most of them appeared in the Books department of THE NEW YORKER.) LTDE10263 $5.95
Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the Nineteenth Century Theater. NY: Limelight Editions, (1984) (Softcover) 477 pp. index. few illustrations. Very good condition. (Originally published by Princeton Univ. in 1963. One of the most important works of dramatic scholarship to have appeared since the war; not only does it add to our understanding of Shaw, but it also lights up a vanished tract of British stage history) LTDE10294 $6.00
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley Her Life, Her Fiction, Here Monsters. NY: Methuen, (1988) (hardback) 276 pp. index. bibliography. Frontispiece and other illustrations. Nearly new condition in dust jacket. ("The fullest account of Mary Shelley we have or are likely to have...will quickly become the standard account of Mary Shelley" - Nina Auerbach, author) LTDE10295 $15.00
Meyer, Bernard C. MD Joseph Conrad. A Psychoanalytic Biography. Princeton: Princeton Univ. press. 1967 (1967) (hardback) 396 pp. index. Illustrated. Very good condition. Lightly worn dust jacket. (Starting from the facts of Conrad's unusual history & his creative work, Meyer has used his psychoanalytic insight to give us not only a 'vision of a personality' but a deeper understanding of Conrad's writings) LTDE10145 $12.50
Michener, James A. Pilgrimage. A Memoir of Poland and Rome. Emmaus: Rodale Press (1990) (hardback) 119 pp. Photo illustrated. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Michener 0n a two week trip to Poland and Rome in 1988 finds every moment filled with political, spiritual and personal meanings.) LTDE10264 $5.00
Mizener, Arthur. The Saddest Story. A Biography of Ford Madox Ford. NY": World Pub. Co., (1971) 1st edition (hardback) 616 pp. index. Very good condition in lightly worn slipcase. (A sympathetic but realistic view of a controversial figure). LTDE10149 $8.00
Morgan, Ted. Maugham. A Biography. NY: Simon & Schuster, (1980) 711 pp. index. Bibliography. Very good condition in dust jacket. (the definitive biography of Maugham, one of the most remarkable and secretive literary figures of the 20th century) LTDE10265 $4.75
Mumford, Lewis. Herman Melville. NY: The Literary Guild of America 1929 (1929 Book Club. (hardback) 377 pp. index. Some corner bump else very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10266 $4.75
Murry, J. Middleton. Journal of Katherine Mansfield. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946 (1927) 13th printing (hardback) 255 pp. Illustrated. Very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10186 $12.00
Murry, John Middleton. Son of Woman. The Story of D. H. Lawrence. NY: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1931) 1st Amer. Edition. (hardback) 367 p. few illustrations. Small pull at top of spine. Spine heavily sunned. Good condition. No dust jacket LTDE10268 $15.00
Nersoyan, H. J. Andre Gide. The Theism of an Atheist. Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press. (1969) (hardback) 210 pp. index. Very good condition in lightly edge worn, rubbed Dust jacket. LTDE10187 $7.50
Newcombe, Jack. A Christmas Treasury. NY: Viking Press. (1982) (hardback) 474 pp. Very good condition in protected dust jacket. American & European writers spanning the past 4 centuries) LTDE10269 $12.00
Nicolson, Nigel & Joanne Trautmann (editors) The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Vol. III: 1923 - 1928 NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977)(1978) 1st American Edition. (hardback) 600 pp. Illustrated. Stain on dust jacket where sticker fell off else very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket. LTDE10157 $15.00
Norman, Charles. The Muses' Darling. The Life of Christopher Marlowe. NY: Rinehart & Co., (1946) (hardback) 272 pp. index. Illustrated. Book is very good condition. Dust jacket worn, torn, taped & soiled. Obviously did its job of protecting the book. (To rescue Shakespeare's greatest contemporary from the scholars in whose archives he has been buried, Norman has presented Marlowe, his friends and enemies against the background of their times.) LTDE10270 $8.50
Norton, Charles Eliot (translator) The New Life of Dante Alighieri. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1892 (1867, 1892) (hardback) TEG (top edge gilt) 168 pp. Light wear at spine ends else very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10138 $15.00
Nowell, Elizabeth. Thomas Wolfe. A Biography. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1960 (1960) (hardback) 456 pp. index. Very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10332 $5.50
Nowell, Elizabeth. Thomas Wolfe. A Biography. Garden City: Doubleday & Co. (1960) (1960) (hardback) 456 pp. index. frontispiece. Very good condition in edge worn dust jacket. (Elizabeth Nowell was Wolfe's literary agent and close friend and spent many years compiling the material for this book) LTDE10334 $6.50
Ollard, Richard. Pepys. A Biography. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. (1974) (hardback) map endpapers, 368 pp. index. illustrated. Very good condition in lightly edge worn dust jacket. ("a one-volume biography bringing [Pepys's] character and career into perspective was badly needed. Here it is and it could hardly be bettered"-C. V. Wedgewood) LTDE10211 $5.00
Osbourne, Lloyd. An Intimate Portrait of R. L. S. by His Stepson. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924 (1924) (hardback) 155 pp. Some wear to top of spine. Corners well worn else tight, solid binding. Good to good + condition. No dust jacket LTDE10297 $10.00

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