Guilty Pleasures
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-165, [1] pp. Yellow cloth with black lettering on the spine; black topstain. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. More
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The Toynbee Convector
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 275 pp. Price of $17.95 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good book with small damp stains at top and bottom of the spine with some corresponding discoloration on the reverse of the jacket. More
Essays; First Series
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-445, [3] pp. Bound in maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Emerson and two additional plates. A later printing of the Concord Edition of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo..... More
Faulkner at West Point
New York: Random House [1964], 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [2], 3-136, [6] pp. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine and a blue decoration on the front board; yellow topstain. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by 15 black and white photographs..... More
Selected Letters of Robert Frost
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1964], 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], v-lxiv, [2], 3-645, [3] pp. Brick colored cloth with gold lettering and black decorations on the spine. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a few black and white photographs..... More
Victory Over Japan
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. 277 pp. Price of $15.95 on front flap of jacket. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket with few traces of edge wear and a couple of small closed tears. More
The Best of Abbie Hoffman
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows (1989), 1989. First printing. Hardcover. 421 pp. Price of $21.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Foreword by Norman Mailer. Edited by Daniel Simon and Abbie Hoffman. A collection of Hoffman's works, an important body of work from one of America's counterculture..... More
Mystery and Manners; Original Prose, selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], v-ix, [3], 3-237, [7] pp. Quarter blue cloth over green paper boards with gold and silver lettering on the spine; light orange topstain. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. A very attractive copy of this..... More
Stranger than Fiction; True Stories
New York: Doubleday, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. 233 pp. Price of $23.95 on front flap of jacket. More
Things Themselves; Essays and Scenes
New York: Atheneum, 1972. First printing. Hardcover. 269 pp. Bound in patterned white cloth with gold lettering on the spine and the front board, dark brown topstain. Price of $8.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 012a. More
Shifting Landscape: A Composite, 1925-1987
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society Of America, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. 301 pp. Price of $19.95 on rear panel of dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Mario Materassi. Ahearn APG 003b. Very Good book with traces of wear to boards and a tiny bit of separation between backstrip and..... More
The Sound of Mountain Water
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 286 pp. Price of $5.95 printed on front flap of dust jacket. Second issue (with credits on the tipped in copyright page, as per Colberg). A Near Fine book with minor hints of foxing to the tops of the..... More
Generation of Swine; Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's
New York: Summit Books (1988), 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 304 pp. Price of $18.95 on front flap of jacket. '100' written on front pastedown; jacket has some mild mild age toning to rear panel and the flaps. More
Pigeon Feathers
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. 279 pp. Price of $4.00 on front flap of dust jacket. A collection of 19 short stories by Updike, his fifth book. Ahearn APG 006a. A Very Good book with a slight lean and fading to the topstain in a Very..... More
Living By the Word:; Selected Writings 1973-1987
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers [1988], 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], xv-xxi, [3], 196, [2] pp. Quarter beige cloth over purple paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of poignant essays from Alice Walker..... More
The Eye of the Story; Selected Essays and Reviews
New York: Random House [1978], 1978. First printing. Hardcover. 355 pp. Price of $10.00 on front flap of jacket. Polk A22. A Fine book in a very near Fine dust jacket with a small crease to the front flap. More
Walt Whitman: The Correspondence Volume IV: 1886 - 1889
New York: New York University, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 458 pp. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with mild age toning to the spine panel and to the edges. More
Collected Stories
New York: New Directions (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 574 pp. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Introduction by Gore Vidal, cover painting by Andy Warhol. A Very Good book with some age toning and a few faint spots of discoloration..... More
The Purple Decades
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. First printing. Hardcover. 396 pp. Price of $17.50 on jacket flap. Traces of fading to edges of boards, slight edge wear and some mild age toning to jacket. More
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