Hospital Sketches.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960. Hardcover. First Edition. 91 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has very light scuffing, price clipped and in mylar cover. Clean within. Fine / Fine. More
Literary Biography
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The Diary of a Dude-Wrangler.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Hardcover. First Edition. 331 pp. 8vo. Green cloth boards with profile of cowboy and horse printed in black on the cover, black titling to spine. Slight bumping to corners, minor scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within.
Struthers Burt (1882-1954) was a short story writer, poet, and novelist who was also instrumental in the establishment of Grand Teton National Park. This memoir chronicles some of his time in the American West. Very Good. More
Beats & Company: A Portrait of a Literary Generation.
Garden City, NY: Dophin/Doubleday, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. 159 pp. Folio. Some wear and scuffing to udst jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Fine / Very Good. More
Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White.
New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1987. Hard Cover. First Edition. xiii, First Printing. Dust Jacket and cover boards have slight bumping to corners, otherwise clean and crisp. Very Good / Very Good. More
James A. Michener: The Beginning Teacher and His Textbooks.
Albuquerque, NM: The Book Stops Here, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 103 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Pitch Uncertain: A Mid-Century Middle Daughter Finds Her Voice.
Cambridge, MA: TidePool Press, 2011. Hard Cover. First Edition. x, 210 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed to a previous owner by the author on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent (In Russian).
Russia: Mockba, 1965. Hard Cover. First Edition. Second Printing, 1966. 647 pp. 8vo. Only Russian Edition of Rockwell Kent's autobiography first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1955. Dust jacket has minor chips and tears, scuffing, now in mylar cover. Slight bumping to cover boards, minor soiling at edges. Inscription on first free endpaper and note on rear pastedown, both in Russian.
Filled with Kent's illustrations and reproductions of color paintings that supplement the text. A stunning work when it was published in 1955 in the United States. Republished in the Soviet Union in 1965, with the new Russian text working almost seamlessly with the original illustrations [Libman 2875]. It is an extremely rare edition with none appearing in library holdings via OCLC. Very..... More
Michener's South Pacific.
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 175 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Ezra Pound: Poet (3 Volumes: The Young Genius 1885-1920; The Epic Years 1921-1939; The Tagic Years 1939-1972.
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2007/2014/2015. Hardcover. First Edition. Volume I: First Printing. xv, 507 pp.; Volume II: First Printing. xvii, 421 pp.; Volume III: First Printing. xxii, 654 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copies with dust jackets in mylar cover. Small "OUP" stamp at head of text block of Volume I.
A. David Moody's extensive biography of the controversial poet, Ezra Pound. Rare as a set in first printings. FIne / Fine. More
Herman Melville: A Biography. Volume 1, 1819-1852; Volume 2, 1851-1891 (2 Volumes).
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996/2002. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printings. xx, 941, xvii, 997 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jackets of each volume, overall sunning to jacket of Volume 2, now in mylar covers. Previous owner's name in ink on the first free endpaper of Volume 1, clean within.
The definitive biography of the American author Herman Melville. Very Good / Very Good. More
Beat Culture adn the New America: 1950-1965.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996. Wraps. First Edition. 279 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
Heavily illustrated catalog from the exhibition of the same name. Fine. More
"Next to Mother's Milk..." An Engelhard Lecture on the Book.
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1987. Wraps. First Edition. First Printing. 25 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with light age toning at the spine on outer wraps.
A wonderful address by Powell on the joys of books and libraries. Fine. More
"Next to Mother's Milk..." An Engelhard Lecture on the Book.
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1987. Wraps. First Edition. Second Printing, 1989. 25 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with light age toning along spine on rear panel.
A wonderful address by Powell on the joys of books and libraries. Designed by his lifelong friend and collaborator Ward Ritchie and bawdily inscribed to Ritchie's companion, actress and fine press printer Gloria Stuart. Powell grew up with Ward Ritchie (fellow bookman and printer extraordinaire) in Southern California where the two of them were part of an intimate group in the late 1920s and early 1930s that included M.F.K. Fisher, Gloria Stuart and her first husband, sculptor Gordon Newell. Fine. More
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986. Trade paperback. First Edition. First Trade Paperback Edition. Tenth Printing. x, 455 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.Small black remainder dot at base of text block. Very Good. More
Growing Up With Lawrence Clark Powell.
Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 1987. Wraps. Limited Edition. 18 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy that has never been read. One of 1,000 copies.
The 1986 Coulter Lecture by Ward Ritchie. Fine. More
"Constantly Risking Absurdity" The Writings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Troy, NY: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 95 pp. 8vo. Light pencil underlining and short notes throughout. Very Good. More
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