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DARK LAUGHTER
by SHERWOOD ANDERSON
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1970
- Condition
- Good+
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$17.50
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good + (1970), 318pp, No shelf wear to cover, no edgewear, contents unmarked and clean.
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A MOVEABLE FEAST
by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1964
- Edition
- First
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$85.00
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Very good clean hardcover collectible copy of first British edition of Hemingway's A Moveable Feast in gilt lettered maroon boards . Published posthumously, it remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. A classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s filled with portraits of American expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, and tender memories of his… Read more
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$85.00

LAST OPERAS AND PLAYS
by GERTRUDE STEIN
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1949
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- FIRST
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$110.00
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Very Good copy of.first edition of Gertrude Stein's Last Opera and Plays edited and with introduction by Carl Van Vechten, Stein's literary executor and lifelong friend. Includes original uncut versions of The Mother of Us All, Four Saints in Three Acts and Yes Is for a Very Young Man and frontispiece 1934 photo of Gertrude Stein by Carl Van Vechten.… Read more
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$110.00

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Mark J Twain
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 2004-09
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN
- 9781593081577
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$14.50
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Very good edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain in the Barnes & Noble Classics series. Including new scholarship and thoughtful design - in clean dust jacket. No shelfwear. No markings.
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THE BENEFACTOR
by SUSAN SONTAG
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 2002
- Condition
- V
- Edition
- FIRST
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$7.50
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First American Picador Ed, 2001. Paperback. Condition: Very Good - . No wear, no markings or highlighting.
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$7.50

IN AMERICA
by SUSAN SONTAG
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 2001
- Edition
- First
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$8.50
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First Picador USA Ed, 2001, Used-Very Good - condition. Pages and cover intact. No signs of shelf wear.
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CREOLE STORIES
by George W. Cable
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1954
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- FIRST
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$13.50
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Harmanson Publisher, New Orleans, LA, 1954. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 18 Pen and Ink Sketches by Wiley Churchill (illustrator). 94 pages; No wear, inside intact. No wraps.
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1939
- Condition
- Very Good
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$75.00
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First Modern Library Edition, 1939. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with light spotting, Not price clipped. $1.25. 619 pages. Pages intact. No wear. Dust jacket illustration by Thomas Hart Benton.
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$75.00

THE PLACE WITHIN
by JODI DAYNARD, ED.
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1997
- Edition
- FIRST
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$11.50
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New York: W W Norton & Co, 1997, 1997. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. First Edition. Portraits of the American Landscape by 20 Contemporary Writers. including Harry Crews, Roriguez, Ackerman, Early, Robert Finch, Donald Hall, et al.
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LOVE HERE IS MY HAT AND OTHER ROMANCES
by WILLIAM SAROYAN
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1938
- Edition
- FIRST
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$750.00
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Signed First Edition, Modern Age Books, 1938, Paper, with the following inscription to noted Patron of the Arts, "To Henry Church, whom I have never had the pleasure of meeting, but with sincere greetings, nevertheless - William Saroyan, S.F. Aug. 1938." Bound in original pink pictorial wrappers, a very bright, fresh copy - lettering a bit faded at spine with… Read more
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$750.00

MONEY AND HOW IT GETS THAT WAY
by HENRY MILLER
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1938
- Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- FIRST
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$1,150.00
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Booster Publications (1938), Paris, 1938. First edition. Inscribed to Henry Church "with best monetary wishes." One of 495 copies. Octavo (18.5cm); in black wrappers, with titles printed in gold on spine and front cover. Some fading to titles. Two white scratches on lower right corner of cover. Spine partly unglued though pages remain intact.
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$1,150.00

THE PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA
by HENRY JAMES
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1948
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$45.00
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First Printing of Decorative Hard Cover Edition in Very Good Condition With introduction by Lionel Trilling.Two volumes with marbled boards with black spine featuring gilt titles. Slipcase intact. Slipcase is covered by green paper, with printed label on front panel. Books are tight and clean. Size: 12mo.
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$45.00

J,B,
by ARCHIBALD MacLEISH
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1958
- Edition
- First Edition, Tenth Printing
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$20.00
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Very good copy of 1959 Pulitzer Prize winning drama on a modern story of Job. Some soiling and chipping to front and back panel of DJ. Text is clean and unmarked.
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$20.00

THE AMERICAN SCENE
by HENRY JAMES
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1907
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- FIRST
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$125.00
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Harper & Brothers, New York, 1907. Very good copy of first American Edition of a book of travel writing by Henry James about his trip through the United States in 1904-1905. Ten of the fourteen chapters of the book were published in the North American Review, Harper's and the Fortnightly Review in 1905 and 1906.. Dark blue cloth with gilt… Read more
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$125.00

The Path of Least Time & Other Stories
by Antoine J Polgar
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 2018
- Edition
- First
- ISBN
- 9780578210322
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$14.95
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"…An intelligent exploration of the human condition; our vices, desires, ambitions and fantasies…Polgar's writing is intelligent and this is evident across all nine of the short stories in the collection. His historical and socio-political knowledge is vast and attuned to the human condition; these stories explore the headiness of love, base human desire, our past and the way it defines… Read more
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Light in August
by William Faulkner
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1932
- Edition
- First
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$350.00
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Very Good copy. No dust Jacket. Third printing. (October 1932) Brown Tweed over intact boards with blue lettering on front cover and on spine with top page edges tinted red. Spot on cover board. No shelf wear. No tears. Fresh clean copy.
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$350.00

Opus Posthumous
by Wallace Stevens
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1957
- Edition
- First
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$275.00
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Fine First edition in chocolate brown cloth stamped in silver and gold at spine and on front cover, in a very good green and grey dustwrapper, Edited with an Introduction by Samuel French Morse. 301pp with index. From Collection of Barbara Church.
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$275.00

CHILLS & FEVER
by John Crowe Ransom
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1924
- Edition
- First
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$175.00
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Item Description: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924., Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 95 pp. Original quarter cloth binding with decorated (first binding) striped boards and printed paper spinal label.
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$175.00

Now With His Love
by John Peale Bishop
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 1933
- Edition
- First
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$30.00
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Charles Scribner's Sons,, New York:, 1933. Very good copy of first edition. Contents immaculate with no ownership inscription other than bookseller's label (Shakespeare & Co.) on inside back cover. No wear. Only defect white specks on front cover. Tall octavo, cloth, pp. ix, 89.
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Chronicles & Elegies
by Antoine J Polgar
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- Varennes Books
- Published
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First
- ISBN
- 9780692321713
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$16.95
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Poetry by French-born American poet in which an anachronistic narrative of transatlantic memoir, nostalgia and a Euro-American sensibility is forged out of attempts to fashion a convergence of poetic genres and forms – such as the epic of contemporaneity, the lyric of experience and elegiac allusion - through the use of classical rhetorical instruments of apostrophe, imprecation and synecdoche, shaped… Read more
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