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NY, Random House [c1954]. 'First Printing'. Lyrics (only) of 103 Cole Porter songs written between 1919 (Hitchy Koo) and 1950 (Out of This World). Hard Cover. xxxii, 224 pages, index; 21 cm. Bound in half black paper over boards, half gold cloth spine stamped in red & black; no dj; minor wear; good+. stock#3005.
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103 Lyrics of Cole Porter. Selected with an Introduction and Commentary by Fred Lounsberry.
by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964. Lounsberry, Fred, editor.
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1876: A Novel
by Vidal, Gore 1925-2012
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4 p.l., 364 p.; 24 cm. The third of seven in Vidal's Narrative of Empire series. "The third volume of Gore Vidal's series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 explores the political scandals of the Grant administration and the intrigues of that year's presidential election." Effusive gift inscription on front fly leaf. Stock#48135.
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Acts of Recovery: Essays on Culture and Politics
by Hart, Jeffrey
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University Press of New England for Dartmouth College [1989].. Hard Cover. xiv, 242 p.; dj; fine. In Honor of Lionel Trilling; 'Out of It 'ere Night': The WASP Gentleman as Cultural Ideal; Empiricism, Metaphysics, and the Recovery of the Whole; Bloomsday; What the Hell Was Socialism?; Willmoore Kendall: American; Frost and Eliot; In Praise of Chesterton; Homage to C. S. Lewis; Wartime, I: The Nazi Hour; Johnson, Boswell, and Modernity; Herbert's 'The Collar' Re-read; Christ and Apollo: The Modern Debate; Reflections on Pornography; The Ivory Foxhole; Burke and Radical Freedom. 'These essays are tied together by Hart's central vision of a rational moral purpose in Western culture that is in the process of being forgotten.' Stock# 101,104. Literary criticism.
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The Alhambra. With an Introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Illustrated with Drawings of the Places Mentioned by Joseph Pennell.
by Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. Pennell, Joseph, illustrator. Pennell, Elizabeth Robins.
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London, Macmillan, 1921. Hard Cover. xx, 436 p., black & white illustrations throughout; 18.5 cm. First published 1832; a chronicle of Irving's visits to Granada in 1828 and 1829. Red cloth stamped in gold, all edges gilt; ; minor wear; VG+. Stock#101147.
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The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry
by Miller, Perry, 1905-1963, editor. Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000
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Garden City, NY, Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Soft Cover. xi, 346 p., illus., maps; 18 cm. "The Anchor Books edition is the first publication of The American Puritans, edited by Perry Miller." "Cover and typography by Edward Gorey." Good+, my former textbook with pencil underlinings in introduction, some use/ soft cover. Stock#NEU386. Vg / soft cover.
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The American Earthquake; A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties
by Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
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Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1958. Hard Cover. 576 p. 19.5 cm. "The material in this volume, a selection from my non-literary articles written during the twenties and thirties, runs more or less parallel to the literary material collected in my earlier volume, The Shores of Light." Stock# 36,843x. Vg/ no dj.
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American Mercury. Vol. 1, No.2. February 1924
by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1958 & Nathan, George Jean, 1882-1958, editors
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NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. Periodical. [viii], 255, [256-266] p., 26 cm. Contains a short play by Eugene O'Neill, a story by Sherwood Anderson, early biographical information on Walt Whitman, and Mencken's collection of American cultural oddities. Stock#47363. Good, covers sunned and worn.
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American non-fiction, 1900-1950 [by] May Brodbeck, James Gray [and] Walter Metzger
by Brodbeck, May, 1917-1983 /Gray, James, 1899- 1984/ Metzger, Walter P
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Chicago, Regnery, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. vii, 198 p. 22 cm. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Inscribed by Brodbeck with a one page letter from her. Her section, the first, is on Philosophy in America. Stock# 44,518. Vg /no dj.
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An American Childhood.
by Dillard, Annie.
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N.Y., Harper & Row [1987]. Book club edition. Hard Cover. 'Dillard's ecstatic interest in the world begins here in... an ordinary childhood. What is extraordinary is Dillard's distinctive irony and humor coupled with the power and depth of her probing. This is a sweeping and original book, a classic story of the dawning of an American consciousness.' 214 p., endpaper map; dj, 21.5 cm.; fine. 100818.
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American Fiction 1774-1850. A Contribution Toward a Bibliography.
by Wright, Lyle H.
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"In this complete revision and resetting of the 1948 'Wright I'-- as it is widely known-- 143 new titles have been added. Several hundred new editions of titles previously recorded have been located, eight of them earlier than before recorded. Authorship has been established for other entries, and a few unknown authors and their work have stepped forth from complete obscurity." xviii, 411 pages, chronological index, title index; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket (price clipped). Stock#ofc0346.
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The American Transcendentalists, Their Prose and Poetry. Edited by Perry Miller
by Miller, Perry 1905-1963. Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000
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Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1957. Soft Cover. xi, 388 p.; 18 cm. "Anchor A 119." "Cover and typography by Edward Gorey." Anthology in six categories of works by New England writers of the early 1800's. Stock#NEU379. Good+ / soft cover.
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Ann Vickers
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[ix], 562 p.; 19.5 cm. First published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Emboldened by his 1930 Nobel Prize, Lewis explored areas that tested the limits of censorship of his era. This novel concerns a woman who twice becomes pregnant outside marriage and then becomes a prison reformer --this being the message of Lewis' sermon. Stock#48101.
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Annual Melville Bibliography 1951.
by Sherman, Stuart C. (Capen), 1916-1983.
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Providence Public Library [1952]. Hard Cover. 1 leaf, 1-6 leaves, 28.5 cm. "Multilith." With Annual Melville Bibliography 1952-1957, 28 numbered leaves. Stock#44778. Vg / bound typescript.
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The Art of Thornton Wilder.
by Goldstein, Malcolm.
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Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [1965]. First Edition. Hard Cover. x, 179 p. , index, 21 cm. The chapters are: Outline of a Life - Beginnings: Undergraduate Plays and a Novel - Voyages into History - The American Present - Three Plays of the Human Adventure - Postwar Writing - For the Time Being. Bibliography: p. 171-173. Stock# 42,534. Vg . dj good+.
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The Art of the Novel, critical prefaces by Henry James; with an introduction by Richard P. Blackmur.
by James, Henry, 1843-1916 / Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965.
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New York / London, C. Scribner's sons, 1947 c1934.. Hard Cover. xli, 348 p. 20.5 cm. Written for the 16 volumes of the classic "New York" edition of the author's works, which he had rewritten and rethought. cf. Introd. cf/ Leon / Laurence A89. Stock# 42,701. Good+ / no dj.
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Articles on American Literature 1900-1950
by Leary, Lewis Gaston, 1906-1990
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Durham, NC, Duke UP, [1970] . Hard Cover. xxi, 751 pages 25 cm. Reprint of the 1954 edition. Bibliography of articles from a wide variety of general magazines, literary journals, periodicals of all sorts. The largest portion lists authors, followed by a smaller subject category. Stock #100,875. Vg/good. Reference American literature
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As You Were: A Portable Library of American Prose and Poetry Assembled for Members of the Armed Forces...
by Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943
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NY, Viking, 1943. Hard Cover. xiv, 655 p., illus. (facsim.); 17 cm. Title continues: "and the Merchant Marine. Edited by Alexander Woollcott." Three sections: American Fiction (19 short stories by Poe, Twain, Cather, etc.); American Verse (42 poems including Ogden Nash's scathing "The Japanese"); American Fact (27 documents). Stock#46495. Vg / no dj.
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Atlantic Harvest. Memoirs of the Atlantic, Wherein Are To Be Found Stories, Anecdotes and Opinions. Selections from Atlantic Monthly, 1864-1938. Compiled by Ellery Sedgwick
by Atlantic Monthly
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Boston, Little, Brown, 1947. Hard Cover. xxxviii, 682 p.; 23 cm. There are about 50 articles; authors include Mark Twain (2), John Buchan, William James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lafcadio Hearn, John Muir... Stock#44745. Vg/ dj vg.
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The Atlantic Monthly. April 2000. Nabokov's Butterflies
by Nabokov, Vladimir.
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Atlantic Monthly, 2000. Periodical. Singe issue, 136 p., illus. incl. color & adverts.; 26 cm. "Vladimir Nabokov was a distinguished lepidopterist, and butterflies dance among his writings in the form of images and metaphors and as the subject of enchanted scrutiny. We offer a treasury of unpublished work by Nabokov relating to butterflies, including "the last important unpublished fiction"." Other contents include Cullen Murphy, Notes & Comments: A Hand for the Head; Leslie Leyland Fields, Personal File: Our First Telephone; Mary Graham, Government: Regulations by Shaming; poetry by Donald Hall, Robert Pinsky, Steven Cramer; Charles Trueheart, A New Kind of Justice [Louise Arbour & the war-crimes tribunal]; Chuck Sudetic, The Reluctant Gendarme [the French in Bosnia]; David Rieff, Midnight in Sarajevo. Stapled in pictorial paper covers; VG. stock#44871x.
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks and illustrations by R. J. Holden
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
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NY, Heritage Press [1955]. Hard Cover. xvi, 281 p., halftone illustrations; grey cloth covers, 27 cm., spine stamped in maroon & gold, front- & rear-cover paste-on illustrations; spine slightly darkened; fine; with Sandglass; in black cardboard slipcase only a bit scuffed. Stock# 101,135, American literature; belles lettres.
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