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Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. 404 pp, 11 1/4" H. Medium blue boards with dark blue title blocks/gilt lettering on spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers, b&w photographs, reproductions (including some signatures). Includes the Cumulative Index Volumes 1-6. The seventy entries in this book supplement "American Novelists Since World War II, First Series', further documenting the growth of a body of literature still in the making." Contains bio-bibliographical information about: Paul Bowles; Frederick Busch, Pat Conroy; Don DeLillo; J.P. Dunleavy; A.B. Guthrie, Jr.; Earl Hamner, John Hersey, John Irving; Shirley Jackson; John Knowles, Harper Lee; Peter Matthiessen, Cormac McCarthy; James A. Michener; Toni Morrison; Josephine Pinckney; Sylvia Plath; Mario Puzo; Mary Lee Settle; Irwin Shaw; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Anne Tyler; Gore Vidal; Alice Walker; Joseph Wambaugh, etc. Light wear and wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, a few tiny dents on bottom edge of boards, light wear…
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AMERICAN NOVELISTS SINCE WORLD WAR II. SECOND SERIES. DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, VOLUME SIX.
by Kibler, James, E., Jr., editor. Foreword by william Targ.
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BEYOND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1987. 300 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). This, the second volume of George Woodcock's autobiography, "deals with the period between 1949 and 1977. (It) details Woodcock's life in the British Columbia bush, his close and longstanding relationship with the Doukhobors, his battles with US immigration officials. We learn of the founding of the influential 'Canadian Literature' review, and we follow Mr. Woodcock on his extended and beautifully-described tours of India and the South Seas. George Woodcock is not only a revered literary critic. He is also a gifted and witty raconteur. (This book) allows us further insights into the life of this fascinating man." ***Pages 268/9 were not printed/published - they concluded a chapter on a controversy concerning a libel suit brought by Margaret Atwood against "a young writer called Wigle, in which (she) was unflatteringly introduced as a character drawn from real life."***…
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BEYOND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1987. 300 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). This, the second volume of George Woodcock's autobiography, "deals with the period between 1949 and 1977. (It) details Woodcock's life in the British Columbia bush, his close and longstanding relationship with the Doukhobors, his battles with US immigration officials. We learn of the founding of the influential 'Canadian Literature' review, and we follow Mr. Woodcock on his extended and beautifully-described tours of India and the South Seas. George Woodcock is not only a revered literary critic. He is also a gifted and witty raconteur. (This book) allows us further insights into the life of this fascinating man." ***Pages 268/9 were not printed/published - they concluded a chapter on a controversy concerning a libel suit brought by Margaret Atwood against "a young writer called Wigle, in which (she) was unflatteringly introduced as a character drawn from real life."***…
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BLISS CARMAN AND THE LITERARY CURRENTS AND INFLUENCES OF HIS TIME.
by Cappon, James.
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Toronto: Ryerson, 1930. 340 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H) - maroon boards with gold lettering on spine/front cover. Contents: Beginnings; Behind The Arras; Songs From Vagabondia; Memorial Verse, Elegies and Ballads; The Third Vagabondia Volume; The Pipes of Pan; The Sappho Lyrics; The Prose Essays; Later Poems; Shifting Currents; The Tradition of Emerson and Whitman in American Literature; New Systems of Verse - Whitman and Claudel. Interior - pages browning, gift inscription on front free endpaper, moderate browning in page 172/3 from laid-in Christmas gift label. Exterior - minor edgewear, light wear and wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, dakening to top of text block - moderate browning on other edges of text block.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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BLISS CARMAN: QUEST & REVOLT.
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St. John's, Newfoundland: Jesperson Press, 1985. 304 pp., 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "In this colourful and lively biography, we are urged to a new appreciation of the romantic and mythical vision of one of Canada's most important poets. In his lifetime, Bliss Carman enjoyed wide popularity in Canada, the United States and Europe, and the author shows a sensitive and knowledgeable understanding in her approach to the poet's life and work - his early years at home in New Brunswick, education in England and Scotland and his search for attention and recognition in the United States. Miller provides a lucid account of the world as it is seen through the poet's eyes and a rare look at the writing and publishing community as both struggled for survival in Carman's time." Very light browning to edges of text block, light wear at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor rubbing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+.
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BLOKES: THE BAD BOYS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
by Castronovo, David.
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New York: Continuum, 2009. 197 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H). "They came from unpromising places and unglamorous backgrounds. They crashed the Establishment party in one generation, raided the citadels of culture, and brought their idioms, themes, and passions to the center of British life. The blokes were writers who revitalized British drama, fiction, poetry, and criticism. This is the story, told in a series of profiles, of New Britannia. The cast of characters includes playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker, novelist Kingsley Amis, critic Kenneth Tynan, poet Philip Larkin, fiction writer Alan Sillitoe, plus lesser-known figures such as John Braine, David Storey, Stan Barstow, and Keith Waterhouse - up to more contemporary writers like Martin Amis and Nick Hornby. The central idea of this book is how these writers, and others, transformed British heritage - how they worked with the materials of their own backgrounds, the class system, tradition, and artistic convention to make new art.…
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BONFIRES IN THE RAIN.
by Edmond, Lauris.
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Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams, 1991. 241 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w photographs. The second volume of New Zealand poet Lauris Edmond's autobiography. "For Lauris Edmond this was married life in its time of greatest fulfilment, with six children in a small New Zealand country town in the fifties. They were rich years, full of laughter and friendship and solidity - the way, she supposed, women's lives were meant to be. But dreams and expectations change, the experiences of loss and uncertainty impinge, and as the sixties became the seventies the world shifted on its axis. Women everywhere were questioning the old, familiar loyalties; for Lauris there was no ignoring the promptings of a talent - and a way of being - too long supressed. (A) remarkable account of a woman's journey from conformity to a tentative and painful independence; of the growth and death of a marriage, and the questioning and discovery of self. Eloquent and assured, this is autobiography at its…
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CHARLES' GIFT: SALUTE TO A MARYLAND HOUSE OF 1650. WITH SIGNED LETTER.
by Footner, Hulbert - inscribed. (William Hulbert Footner.)
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. 290 pp, 8 7/8" H. Dark blue cloth spine (with gilt lettering/decoration) and corners, light blue paper-covered boards and endpapers. B&w photographs by Paul Braun, Arthur Mooney and others. Inscribed on half title page: "Norah and Chew Atkins / their book inscribed in / memory of old times by / Hulbert Footner / Jan 22nd 1940". Also included, an autograph letter signed by Footner, on Charlesgift notepaper, referring to a possible visit and mentioning that "For August everything too, is uncertain. I have a lot of theatrical business coming to a head, and it may be necessary for me to be in New York at that time." (Footner uses small x's instead of periods in the text.) The envelope is postmarked Solomons, MD, 1916. During the 1916-17 season, Footner's play "Shirley Kaye" had a reasonably successful run at the Hudson Theatre, New York and the proceeds helped in the restoration of Charles' Gift. Also laid in…
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THE COLOPHON: A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN. NEW SERIES - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1: SUMMER 1935, NUMBER 2: AUTUMN 1935, NUMBER 3: WINTER 1936 & NUMBER 4: SPRING 1936 - 4 BOOKS IN TOTAL.
by Anderson, Sherwood; Cohn, Louis Henry; Carter, John; Coleman, Carroll D.; Jackson, William Alexander; Newton, A. Edward; Adams, Frederick B., Jr.; Rockwell, Norman; Kent, Rockwell; Winterich, John T., et al.
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New York: Pynson Printers, 1935. 4 volumes, consecutively paged - No. 1, pp.1-160 / No. 2, pp.161-316 / No. 3, pp.317-480 / No. 4, pp.481-644, 9 1/2" H. Cream-coloured, paper-covered boards with series decoration on front boards, varying in colour (teal, pink, blue, beige). Some b&w illustrations. Articles of interest to bibliophiles, including: America's First Bibles, by Randolph G. Adams; Herman Melville as I Recall Him, by Oscar Wegelin; A Note on Ernest Hemingway, by Louis Henry Cohn; Frank Holme: Newpaper Artist and Designer of Books, by Rudolph Gjelsness; A Frontier Bibliophile, by Howard C. Rice; Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, by William Alexander Jackson; The Haunted Book: Concerning Huckleberry Finn, by Irving S. Underhill; The St. Mary's City Press: A New Chronology of American Printing, by Lawrence C. Wroth; The Collier-Cruickshank Punch and Judy, by Paul McPharlin; The 1866 Appleton "Alice", by Flodden W. Heron; Book Collector,…
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A CROWN OF LIFE: THE WORLD OF JOHN McCRAE.
by Graves, Dianne. (John McCrae.)
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St Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell, 1997. 300 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, drawings, photographs. "Born in Canada, (John) McCrae served in the South African War before carving out a career as an eminent doctor. It was during the Great War, whilst serving in 1915 as both an artillery and medical officer in the Second Battle of Ypres, that he wrote his famous poem (In Flanders Fields). Set against a background of nearly half a century of history, (the author) brings alive in fascinating detail John McCrae and his world; some of the people he knew and met - amongst them Rudyard Kipling, Leo Amery, Sir Alexander Fleming, and Stephen Leacock; the threads that linked their lives; and the story of four people who, after the war, were instrumental in the events that led to poppies being manufactured and sold to raise funds." Book is in Fine condition. Dust jacket has minor rubbing on rear panel, minor wrinkling at the top of the flap-folds... Not Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+.
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A CROWN OF LIFE: THE WORLD OF JOHN McCRAE.
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St Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell, 1997. 300 pp, lg.8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w maps, drawings, photographs. "Born in Canada, (John) McCrae served in the South African War before carving out a career as an eminent doctor. It was during the Great War, whilst serving in 1915 as both an artillery and medical officer in the Second Battle of Ypres, that he wrote his famous poem (In Flanders Fields). Set against a background of nearly half a century of history, (the author) brings alive in fascinating detail John McCrae and his world; some of the people he knew and met - amongst them Rudyard Kipling, Leo Amery, Sir Alexander Fleming, and Stephen Leacock; the threads that linked their lives; and the story of four people who, after the war, were instrumental in the events that led to poppies being manufactured and sold to raise funds." Book is in Fine condition. Dust jacket has very minor rubbing on rear panel, small area of laminate loss on front panel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+.
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CUPID AND THE JACARANDA.
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London: Macmillan, 1952. 217 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). "(R)anges the wide field between fact and fiction. Partly, in its beginnings, it is Mr. Sitwell's autobiography in terms of what he has described and seen. An American critic has written of him: 'Perhaps no writer has ever covered a wider range in the arts that make life beautiful. Particularly impressive is the sum and volume of his writings on architecture, painting and sculpture.' The same critic continues: 'But his passion for music and the theatre is almost as constant,' and of this enthusiasm there is full evidence in this new work, which contains particularly beautiful passages on dancing. A good deal of the last part of the book is taken up with flower descriptions, and here the author writes with all the fire he devoted to 'The Kingdom of the Birds'. Mr. Sitwell has never trodden the beaten track, and 'Cupid and the Jacaranda' is unlike any other book. It shows him at his best, and will not fail to…
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DEEP CURRENTS: RODERICK AND ANN HAIG-BROWN.
by Haig-Brown, Valerie. Foreword by Steve Raymond.
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Victoria, B.C.: Orca, 1997. 215 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "Roderick Haig-Brown's fame as a writer, a conservationist and judge made him a widely recognized public figure. His books on fly fishing brough him an international reputation and visitors from all over the world. His wife Ann shared in many aspects of Roderick's public life, while also establishing her own more local, but nonetheless significant, reputation as an inspirational librarian and teacher, and a community activist. Now their eldest daugher Valerie has written an intimate biography of her parents that reveals the private lives behind the public figures - their intense devotion to each other, their mutual love of books, the daily delights and frustrations of life on a small farm while juggling careers of writing, teaching, judging and raising four children. Much of the book is based on private correspondence between Ann and Roderick, both before and during their marriage, as well as Roderick's early…
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DICKENS IN EUROPE.
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London: Folio Society, 2010. 212 pp, large 8vo (9" H). Dark brown cloth spine with gold lettering, black illustration of Dickens' Swiss Chalet on the mid brown paper covered front and rear covers. Map endpapers, b&w interior illustrations. Dark brown slipcase. Chapter headings: Crossing the Channel (July 1837); The First Visit to Italy (1844-45); Genoa (1844); The Adventure of 'The Chimes' (1844-45); Towards Rome (Spring 1845); Rome (1845); Naples (1845); A Secret Expedition (1845); Goodbye to Italy (June 1845); In Switzerland (1846); Paris (1851); In Provincial France (1853 and later); Switzerland and Italy (1853); Hommage a l'illustre ecrivain d'Angleterre (1855-65); Return Via Staplehurst (June 1865); At Home in the Swiss Chalet). Minor rubbing on slipcase.. Third impression.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.
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E. NESBIT: A BIOGRAPHY. REVISED WITH NEW MATERIAL.
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Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1966. 313 pp, 8 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "Publication of this first biography ever written about E. Nesbit (1858-1924), whose books for children have delighted readers young and old, is a literary event of major importance. Mrs. Langley Moore has written a new introduction to the present edition, telling a number of things that had to be omitted from the original work, when so many of E. Nesbit's contemporaries or members of her family were still alive. Also, the entire book has been revised and relevant material that either had to be left out originally, or has been discovered since, has been added. Edith Nesbit married Hubert Bland, a young journalist and enthusiastic Socialist, in 1880. He took the chair at the first meeting of the Fabian Society and both were active in the Fabian movement. When Bland, while ill, was defrauded by a business partner, Edith Nesbit was forced to earn the family's living. She began to write poems, short stories, and…
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ECW'S BIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO CANADIAN POETS.
by Woodcock, George; Cogswell, Fred; Barbour, Douglas; Jewinski, Ed, et al.
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Toronto: ECW Press, 1993. 282 pp, 8vo (9" H). B&w portrait sketches. Contents: Charles Heaveysege; Charles Sangster; Charles Mair; Isabella Valancy Crawford; William Wilfred Campbell; Charles G.D. Roberts; Bliss Carman; Archibald Lampman; Duncan Campell Scott; E.J. Pratt; W.W.E. Ross; Raymond Knister; F.R. Scott; Robert Finch; A.J.M. Smith; Earle Birney; Leo Kennedy; Ralph Gustafson; A.M. Klein; Dorothy Livesay; Anne Wilkinson; Irving Layton; P.K. Page; Miriam Waddington; Margaret Avison; Louis Dudek; Al Purdy; Raymond Souster; Eli Mandel; Milton Acorn; James Reaney; Robert Kroetsch; Phyllis Webb; D.G. Jones; Jay Macpherson; Alden Nowlan; Joe Rosenblatt; Leonard Cohen; George Bowering; John Newlove; Margaret A twood; Bill Bissett; Patrick Lane; Dennis Lee; Gwendolyn MacEwen; Daphne Marlatt; Michael Ondaatje; B. P. Nichol. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very clean and bright with just a couple of very minor edge creases on the front cover.. Not…
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EXPATRIATES AND PATRIOTS: AMERICAN ARTISTS, SCHOLARS, AND WRITERS IN EUROPE.
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Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1968. 310 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). "A considerable amount of our literary and social criticism has been based on the premise that during much of our history the United States has been inhospitable to the intellectual and the artist. The term 'exile' has been used frequently and Henry James has been pictured as the prime victim. The present study is a detailed examination of a selected number of representative writers, artists, and intellectuals who spent a considerable amount of time abroad. Its purpose is to determine the extent to which they were 'exiled', and especially to learn what they had to say about the contrast between the American and European scenes. Those discussed are Irving, Ticknor, Bancroft, Cogswell, Cooper, Morse, Greenough, Powers, Allston, Story, Fuller, Hawthorne, James, Frederic, and Wharton. In a special chapter devoted to the unique problems of the expatriates of the 1920's, such figures as Stein,…
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FRANK HARRIS. TWAYNE'S ENGLISH AUTHORS SERIES 103.
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Twayne, New York, 1970. 196 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Frank Harris was one of the strangest and yet one of the finest of the transatlantic men of letters. His recent fame has been based on his monumental book of reminiscences, 'My Life and Loves', w hich was sold on the underground market for many years, and was issued in a blaze of publicity by Grove Press in 1963....Pearsall's book will go far toward rectifying the wrong image of Harris as a crook, philanderer, and literary freak. T h e H a r r i s he presents is charged with finer accomplishments. He was one of the ablest editors in London, and one of the finest conversationalists. He was the friend of poets, novelists, critics, scientists, and statesmen. His work as a bi og ra p hi ca l es sa yi st made George Bernard Shaw call him 'a greater Plutarch'. His stories were anthologized everywhere, and his criticism could make or break a new reputation. And best of all, his own creative…
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FROM QUILL TO BALLPOINT, 1591-1988.
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Owen Sound: Dorothy Vick, 1979. 376 pp, 11 1/8" H. Maroon simulated leather with gold lettering on spine and front board. B&w photographs. An alphabetical listing of authors with links to Grey and Bruce counties, Ontario. Biographical sketches vary from a few lines to a few pages and publications to date are noted. 3" light scratch on rear board.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - (as issued).
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HART CRANE: AN ANNOTATED CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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New York: David Lewis, 1970. 276 pp, 8 7/8" H. "Many distinguished scholars and critics are in substantial agreement that Hart Crane is one of the most important American poets of the first half of the twentieth century, ranking along with T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Frost. Professor Schwartz has included in his bibliography not only the books and articles exclusively about Crane, but also those which make only brief or passing references to Crane or his work. This is the first annotated critical bibliography of Hart Crane. The appendix is a chronological index of all works about Crane arranged by year of publication. This important bibliographical work should be of great use to student and scholar." Contents: Preface; Hart Crane Chronology; Published Writings of Hart Crane; Bibliography; Biography and Criticism; Addendum; Appendix. 1" dia area of surface paper loss on front pastedown, wrinkling at bottom of spine, light toning to edges of text block,…
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