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Patterson, John L. The Song of Songs Arranged Conjecturally as a Lyrical Drama. Together with an Interpretative Introduction and Expository Notes. 40 pp. Standard Printing Co. Louisville. 1932. ( 1932 ) ( Hardback) Very good condition, light smudge to covers. No dustjacket. ( According to the preface the work was written in 1921 and sent to a publisher who went bankrupt before they got it printed. The author retrieved the manuscript and had it published later, that is, 1932 ) ( From the preface: The text is presented here as a lyrical drama with the verses distributed in a certain way among he speakers, with scenes suggested. ) LTDE10048 $35.00
Pearson, Hesketh. Beerbohm Tree. NY: Harper & Bros. (1956) (hardback) 250pp index, several photo illustrations. Very good condition in tattered, heavily worn dust jacket. (First biography of one the theater's richest, most humorous characters here portrayed as lover, actor, producer and personality). LTDE10101 $7.00
Pearson, John. The life of Ian Fleming. NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., (1966) Book Club Edition (hardback) 366 pp. index. Photo illustrated. Very good condition in edge worn, chipped dust jacket. ("In this fascinating book, which is a profound psychological study, pearson separates the creator, Fleming from the created, Bond') LTDE10189 $4.75
Pepys, Samuel. Life and notes by Orchard Lord Braybrooke. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys. Four volumes. First American from the Fourth London edition. xxxvi, 427, 484, 481, 470 pp. J. B. Lippincott. Philadelphia 1855 (Hardback, cloth binding) Good condition, sturdy, fraying at spine ends. Covers faded to a dirty brown color. Spines lettering hardly readable. Page edges toned. light to medium scattered foxing and some tide marks. LTDE10358 $95.00
Perkins, Dexter. Yield of the Years. An Autobiography. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1969) 1st edition. (hardback) 245 pp. index. Very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10271 $5.00
Peters, Arthur King. Jean Cocteau and Andre Gide. An Abrasive Friendship. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press (1973) (hardback) 426 pp. index. Frontispiece. Very good condition in edge worn, chipped Dust jacket. (Gide & Cocteau were rivals and competitors in the world of French art and letters in the first half the 20th century) LTDE10190 $9.00
Phelps, William Lyon. Autobiography with Letters. NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1939 (1939) 8th printing. (hardback) frontispiece and other illustrations. 982 pp. index. Minor corner bump else very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10212 $3.95
Philipson, Morris. The Count Who Wished He Were a Peasant. A Life of Leo Tolstoy. NY: Pantheon Books, (1967) 1st printing. (hardback) 170 pp. frontispiece & other photo illustrations. Bibliography. Very good condition. No dust jacket. (Tolstoy was born a member of the land-owning nobility, yet he dedicated his genius to crusade against inequality, slavery, and immorality of all kinds - social, political and economic) LTDE10298 $8.00
Plagemann, Bentz. An American Past. An Early Autobiography. NY: William Morrow & Co., (1990) 1st edition (hardback) 247 pp. index. Very good condition in dust jacket. (This author was born in Springfield, Ohio, educated at a Catholic high school in Cleveland, had a succession of jobs as a bookstore clerk until being hired by Carl Kroch the legendary Chicago bookseller. As a young bohemian aspiring to become a writer moved to New York and became the portage of another legendary bookman, Arthur Brentano, Sr. Then came W.W.II and polio and his recovery.. In telling his story, he recaptures not only his past but the vanished American past as well) LTDE10213 $5.00
Priestley, J. B. Instead of the Trees. A Final Chapter of Autobiography. NY: Stein & Day, (1977) (hardback) 151 pp. Very good condition in dust jacket. LTDE10215 $4.95
Pritchett, V. S. The Gentle Barbarian. The Life and Work of Turgenev. Random House, NY, (1977) 1st. edition. (hardback) 243 pp. photo illustrated. Very good condition. Dust jacket has minor tear at top. (In this sensitive and original portrait, Pritchett seeks to enlarge our understanding of the Russian master Ivan Turgenev through an examination of his life and his art) LTDE10216 $5.00
Pyron, Darden Asbury. Southern Daughter. The Life of Margaret Mitchell. NY: Oxford Univ. Press (1991) (hardback) 533 pp. index. photo illustrated. Very good condition in dust jacket. (absorbing biography of Mitchell, author of the American classic, Gone With the Wind) LTDE10272 $15.00
Quennell, Peter. The Marble Foot. An Autobiography 1905-1938. NY: Viking Press.(1977) (hardback) 254 pp. index. Very good condition in lightly edge worn dust jacket. (Quennell, biographer, historian novelist, essayist, poet, a true man of letters, turns from biographies of others to creating a self-portrait in this elegant memoir.) LTDE10217 $5.00
Ray, Gordon N. H. G. Wells & Rebecca West. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press 1974 (1974) (hardback) 215 pp. index. few illustrations. Square patch where clipping had been glued to endpaper else very good condition in dust jacket. (the story of a love affair between 2 greatly gifted people, 2 strong personalities interacting in a memorable but inevitably fragile union) LTDE10337 $5.50
Reeder, Roberta (translator & editor) Down Along the Mother Volga. An anthology of Russian Folk Lyrics. Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn. Press. (1975) (hardback) 246 pp. index. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Introductory Essay by V.Ja. Propp. Some of these songs were imitated by or appear in the works of many of Russia's major writers, such as Pushkin and Nekrasov. Many of these lyrics have not been translated before) LTDE10103 $7.00
Rhodes, Richard. A Hole in the World. An American Boyhood. NY: Simon & Schuster, (1990) 1st. edition. (hardback) 271 pp. photo illustrations. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Author of the Pulitzer prize-winning THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.) LTDE10218 $4.50
Rice, Edward. Journey to Upolu. Robert Louis Stevenson, Victorian Rebel. NY: Dodd, Mead & Co., (1974) (hardback) 145 pp. photo illustrated. Some cover discoloring else good + to very good condition. No dust jacket. (The biography of not only RLS but also of his wife, Fanny Van der Grift Osbourne, as well as her children Lloyd and Belle.) LTDE10299 $5.00
Robinson, Helen M., Marion Monroe, A. Sterl Artily, Charlotte S. Huck. Sally Dick and Jane. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Co., (1962) first of the 3 pre-primers in The New Basic Reading Program. (Softcover) 48 pp. Fully illustrated. Unobtrusive school stamps on front & rear covers else fine condition. (See scarce book. Buy Buy Buy) LTDE10355 $75.00
Rollins, Hyder E. Ph.D. A Pepysian Garland. Black-Letter Broadside Ballads of the Years 1595-1639. Chiefly from the Collection of Samuel Pepys. Cambridge: University Press 1922 (hardback) 489 pp. index. Illustrated. Spine darkened. Paper toning else good + condition. No dust jacket. (Perhaps the most important of all the treasures-apart from the inimitable DIARY-in the library bequeathed by Samuel Pepys to Magdalene College, Cambridge, is his collection of broadside ballads. These were loosely grouped according to subject-matter and provided with title pages and descriptive headings in Pep's own hand before being bound into 5 large folio volumes.) LTDE10220 $35.00
Rousseau, J. J. Emile ou De L'Education. 4 volume set. Volume: 1) viii, [2], 466 pp. 1 plate. 2) 404 pp. 1 plate. 3) 381 pp. 1 plate. 4) 454, 112 pp. 2 pages. 112 pp. supplement. Amsterdam, Jean Neaulmle. 1762 (Leather bindings, gilt decorations on spine. 6-1/2 inches tall. Title pages in red and black.) Interiors clean but for a few worn holes not affecting text. Covers scuffed on edges. Most of the spine gilt is worn away. Most outer hinges are cracked but the chords are holding. (Errata in volume one lists one error in volume two) (This work caused a forceful reaction in religious and philosophical circles when it first appeared.) LTDE10354 $300.00
Rubin, Louis D. Jr. George W. Cable. The Life & Times of a Southern Heretic. NT: Pegasus Press, (1969) (hardback) 304 pp. index. Frontispiece portrait of Cable. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Cable, a pioneering realist in Southern literature, was the first Southern novelist to deal directly and honestly with the racial dilemma that emerged from the ruins of the post-Civil War South.) LTDE10104 $6.00
Rubin, Louis D. Jr. Thomas Wolfe. The Weather of His Youth. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, (1955) 183 pp. index. Very good condition in lightly edge worn dust jacket. (In this full-length critical appraisal, Rubin presents a new and fresh interpretation of the novelist and his work) LTDE10338 $5.50
Sagan, Francoise. Night Bird. Conversations with Franchise Saigon. NY: Clarks N. Potter Inc., (1974)(1979)(1980) 1st American Edition. Translated by David Mace. (hardback) 157 pp. bibliography. photo illustrated. Very good condition in slightly edge worn dust jacket. LTDE10221 $5.00
Salisbury, Harrison E. A Journey for Our Times. A Memoir. NY: Harper & Row. A Cornelia & Michael Beside book (1983) 1st edition. (hardback) 546 pp. index. photo illustrations. Gift notation on the 1/2 tile page else very good condition. Dust jacket slightly edge worn. ("I have spend my life as a reporter, correspondent, editor, writer, mostly on the fault lines of the world-Russia, the Communist countries, China, Southeast Asia, behind the lines in Hanoi but also in the turbulent zones of America-Campaign's Chicago Hey Lounge's Louisiana...") LTDE10222 $5.00
Salzman, Jack. Albert Maltz. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., Twayne Publisher. (1979) 1st edition. Twayne's United States authors series: 311 (hardback) 160 pp. bibliography index. Page 50 and a little part of the fore-edge lightly soiled else very good condition. No dust jacket. (Matlz was one of the Hollywood 10 blacklisted screenwriters) LTDE10273 $15.00
Sandburg, Helga. Where Love Begins. NY: Donald I Fine Inc.(1989) 1st edition.(hardback) 368 pp. index. photo illustrated. Very good condition in dust jacket. (A portrait of Carl Sandburg and his family as seen through the eyes of his youngest daughter) LTDE10301 $5.95
Sandburg, Margaret (editor) The Poet and the Dream Girl. The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen & Carl Sandburg. Urbana & Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press. (1987) 1st edition. (hardback) 273 pp. index. Very good condition. Dust jacket lightly edge worn. (These letters were written during the first six months of 1908. The correspondence traces the budding relationship from the pair's first meeting to their June wedding.) LTDE10144 $6.00
Sarton, May. At Seventy. A Journal. NY: W. W. Norton & Co., (1984) 1st edition. (hardback) 334 pp. photo illustrated. Very good condition. Dust jacket slightly edge worn. (This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, Sarton's 70th birthday) LTDE10223 $7.00
Sarton, May. I Knew a Phoenix. Sketches for an Autobiography. NY: Rinehart & Co., (1954, 1956, 1959) (hardback) 222 pp. Good + condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10191 $12.00
Sartre, Jean-Paul The War Diaries of Jean-Paul Sartre. November 1939-March 1940. NY: Pantheon Books (1984) 1st American Edition. translated by Quintin Hoare (hardback) 366 pp. index. Very good condition. Dust jacket light edge worn & rubbed. (The discovery & publication in France of Sartre's hitherto unknown war diaries was an event of major importance. Not only did the book become an immediate best-seller, but its readers discovered a totally new and very human side of their great philosopher and novelist.) LTDE10224 $5.75
Schom, Alan. Emile Zola. A Biography. NY: Henry Holt & Co., (1987) 1st edition. (hardback) 303 pp. index. photo illustrated. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Zola was a radical and a rebel, a towering man of letters who left his mark on the fiction tradition of every major European literature, but also a highly controversial journalist who scandalized the France of his day) LTDE10340 $9.00
Seitz, Don C. Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne). A Biography and Bibliography. NY: Harper & Bros.. Pub. (1919) (hardback) 338 pp. T.E.G (top edge gilt) bibliography. Slight wear at spine ends else very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10302 $10.00
Seymour-Smith, Martin. Kipling. A Biography. NY: St. Martin's Press. (1989) 1st edition. (hardback) 375 pp. index. Illustrated. Very good condition in dust jacket. (controversial new biography subjects of one of the most popular British authors of all time to the psychological scrutiny and the personality that emerges is quite different from the traditional image of the Laureate of the Empire portrayed by past critics) LTDE10193 $9.00
Shapiro, Karl. Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts. Vol. 1. The Younger Sons. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books 1988 (1988) 1st edition. (hardback) 287 pp. photo illustrated. Nearly new condition in dust jacket. (The youth and war years of a distinguished American poet) LTDE10303 $9.00
Sharansky, Nathan. Fear No Evil. NY: Random House (1988) 1st edition. (hardback) 437 pp. index. photo illustrated. Very good condition in dust jacket. Minor chip at bottom of dust jacket. (Sharansky is world-renowned for his defiance of the Kremlin. This is the remarkable story of his 9 years as a KGHB prisoner) LTDE10227 $10.00
Shepard, Ernest H. Drawn from Life. NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., (1961)(1962) 1st American Edition. (hardback) 217 pp. Frontispiece & Illustrated with Shepard's drawings. 4 pages have some sort of stain (coffee?) else very good condition in dust jacket. (Shephard continues his biography which began with DRAWN FROM MEMORY) LTDE10229 $7.50
Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene. Vol. I. 1904-1939. NY: Viking Press. (1989) 1st edition. (hardback) 783 pp. Photo illustrated. Paper toning else very good condition in dust jacket. LTDE10146 $12.50
Shnayerson, Michael. Irwin Shaw. A Biography. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1989) (hardback) 47 pp. index. bibliography. photo illustrated. Very good condition in dust jacket. (One of America's greatest story-tellers-novels, essays, dramas, screenplays, and some of the finest short stories of our century: in 71 years crowded with accomplishment and contradiction, Irwin Shaw wrote them all) LTDE10230 $4.40
Spender, Stephen. World within World. NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1948, 1949, 1951) (hardback) 312 pp. index. Very good condition in dust jacket. ("A remarkable performance...extraordinarily candid...His discussions of poetry and the literary life are lively and perceptive...An unusually complete self-portrait" - Orville Prescott: NY Times) LTDE10304 $16.50
Struve, Gleb. Soviet Russian Literature 1917 - 1950. 414 pp. University Oklahoma Press (1951, First edition) Good condition, page edges lightly toned. Dust jacket with considerable rubbing about the edges and somewhat faded. LTDE10361 $12.00
Swanberg, W. A. Norman Thomas. The Last Idealist. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1976) 1st edition (hardback) 528 pp. index. photo illustrated. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket. (Swanberg recounts in fascinating detail the career of an extraordinary man, a man who believed that a better world was possible and who fought throughout his life to bring that world into being) LTDE10305 $5.50
Thomas, Caitlin. Leftover Life to Kill. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1957) 2nd printing (hardback) 262 pp. Some corner wear and minor scuff to back of cover else good + to very good. No dust jacket. (One of the most daring and uninhibited confessions ever written by a woman. The widow of the poet Dylan Thomas candidly describes their turbulent marriage, and she sheds further light on one of the great tragic stories of our time) LTDE10308 $5.00
Thurber, Helen & Edward Weeks. Selected Letters of James Thurber. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1980, 1981) 1st edition (hardback) 274 pp. index. illustrated with Thurber drawings. Very good to fine condition in edge worn, slightly chipped dust jacket. (The creator of Walter Mitty and the Thurber Dog, of the Seal in the Bedroom and the Unicorn in the Garden counted among his friends many of the most distinguished literary and theatrical figures of his time. He wrote hugely entertaining letters to and about them, the best of which are gathered here.) LTDE10309 $5.50
Turnbull, Andrew. Scott Fitzgerald. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1962 )BOMC (hardback) 364 pp. index. photo illustrated. Very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10341 $5.00
Turner, Arlin. George W. Cable. A Biography. Durham: Duke Univ. Press. 1956 (1956) (hardback) 391 pp. index. photo illustrations. Signed by the author. Very good condition in edge worn dust jacket. LTDE10105 $15.00
Tuve, Rosemond. A Reading of George Herbert. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. (1952) (hardback) 215 pp. Very good condition in lightly edge worn dust jacket. (examines Herbert's poetry which is informed by the ancient traditions of Christian symbolism) LTDE10195 $25.00
Valtin, Jan. Out of the Night. NY: Alliance Book Corp. (1941) (hardback) 749 pp. Very good condition in edge worn, chipped dust jacket. (A ruthless autobiography) LTDE10142 $7.50
Van Doren, Carl. James Branch Cabell. NY: Literary Guild 1932 (1925 by Robert M. McBride & Co.) (Hardback) 89 pp. bibliography. Little spine end wear else very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10107 $10.00
Van Doren, Mark. Carl Sandburg. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry & Literature Fund. 1969 (1969) Softcover, 83 pp. Very good condition. (bibliography of Sandburg materials in the collections of the Library of Congress including poems, introductions & prefaces, articles, compilations, interviews & conversations, manuscripts, musical settings, phonorecords and motion pictures) LTDE10232 $3.00
Waldron, Randall H. Mattie. The Letters of Martha Mitchell Whitman. NY: New York Univ. Press 1977 (1977) (hardback) 101 pp. index. photo illustrated,. bibliography. Very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10342 $9.00
Walsh, John Evangelist. Into My Own. The English Years of Robert Frost 1912 - 1915. NY: Grove Press(1988) 1st edition. (hardback) 286 pp. index. Photo illustrations. Very good condition in dust jacket. (At age 38, Frost mad one last attempt to fulfill his dream of becoming a successful poet by traveling to England. Walsh recreates the years between 192 and 1915, when, far from his Yankee roots, the quintessentially American writer dramatically realized his ambition) LTDE10148 $6.00
Ward, H. Snowden. The Canterbury Pilgrimages. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. 1905 (hardback) 321 pp. index. illustrated. fold-out maps. TEG. Bottom rear left corner has white spot else very good condition. LTDE10108 $12.00
Weeks, Donald. Corvo. Saint or Madman? A New Biography of Frederick William Rolfe. NY: McGraw-Hill Co., (1971) (hardback) 449 pp. index. Photo illustrated. Very good condition in repaired dust jacket. LTDE10158 $4.75
Wells, H. G. Experiment in Autobiography. Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866) Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1967 (1934)(1962) (hardback) pp. index. frontispiece and illustrated with drawings. Very good condition in lightly edge worn dust jacket. ("Certainly it is a book no one concerned with Mr. Wells' ideas...or modern social thought, can leave unread") LTDE10343 $6.75
Welty, Eudora. One Writer's Beginnings. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 1984 (1983, 1984) 5th printing (hardback) 104 pp. photo illustrated. Couple of pages have light foot? print else very good in dust jacket. (In a "continuos thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how here family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing) LTDE10344 $5.00
West, Jessamyn. Hide and Seek. A Continuing Journey. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1973) 1st edition (hardback) 310 pp. Very good condition in slightly edge worn dust jacket. LTDE10345 $5.00
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. My Garden of Memory. An Autobiography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., (1923) 4th printing 1923. (hardback) 465 pp. index. photo illustrated. Spine sunned. interior hinges repaired. Binding tight & solid. Good + condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10311 $5.00
Williams, Dakin & Shepherd Mead. Tennessee Williams. An Intimate Biography. NY: Arbor House (1943) 1st edition (hardback) 352 pp. index. photo illustrated. Very good condition in dust jacket. (the set-the-record-straight story of the tempestuous life and career of the man who was widely considered the world's most illustrious playwright by his brother) LTDE10346 $6.00
Wilson, Edmund. The Bit Between My Teeth. AS Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1965) 1st edition. (hardback) 694 pp. index. From page 653 to end of the book is a minor edge stain (coffee?) at the fore-edge near the bottom of the book else very good condition in dust jacket. (contains a selection of 44 pieces written, with a few exceptions, between 1950 and 1965) LTDE10347 $7.00
Winwar, Frances. Oscar Wilde and the Yellow 'Nineties. NY: Harper & Bros. (1940) 1st edition (hardback) 381 pp. index. bibliography, illustrated. Minor scuff to covers else very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10348 $6.50
Wolfe, Thomas. A Western Journal. A Daily Log of the Great Parks Trip. June 20 - July 2, 1938. 72 pp. Endpaper maps. Bound in bright red cloth. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1951 ( 1951 ) ( Hardcover ) Good condition, Spine dulled, covers dulled on edges. All gold lettering readable. light toning to page edges. Cover corners very slightly bent. No dustjacket. LTDE10049 $25.00
Wood, T. Martin. George Du Maiurier. The Satirist of the Victorians. A Review of His Art and Personality. NY: McBride, Nast & Co., 1913 (hardback) Top-edge-gilt, 198 pp. 41 illustrations. Small rub on back cover else very good condition. No dust jacket. LTDE10143 $40.00
Wyatt, Will. The Secret of the Sierra Madre. The Man Who Was B. Traven. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1980 (1980) 1st edition. (hardback) 369 pp. bibliography. Very good condition in edge worn, soiled dust jacket. (There are those who write fiction-and those who live it. The man known as B. Travern fell dramatically into both camps) LTDE10313 $5.98
Yoo, Edward Yushin. Illustrated by Demi. Bong Nam and the Pheasants. 20 pp. Prentice-Hall. (1979, First edition) Illustrated boards, standard case binding. Hardcover. Good condition and sturdy, but boards scuffed and soiled. Illustrated by Demi. LTDE10036 $5.00
Zeiger, Henry A. Ian Fleming. The Spy Who Came in With the Gold. NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1965) 1st edition. (hardback) 150 pp. photo illustrated. Family Xmas notation to former owner frt. flyleaf. Very good condition in edge worn dust jacket. (Journalist, foreign correspondent, director of a top-secret unit of British Naval Intelligence, bon vivant, and fantastically successful author, Fleming's own career sometimes reads like a working script for one of his novels) LTDE10196 $8.00
Zhewen, Zhou. Seal Engravings of Forty-Three Poems by Mao Zedong. [12] 140 pp. Plus a fold out with English description and index. Peoples Fine Arts Publishing House. Beijing. (1980) (Hardback, 7-1/2 by 13-3/4 inches.) Very good condition, in slip case LTDE10359 $30.00

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