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Harper Collins, NY, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before. Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people. The two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded tribal secrets, on a sinister trail of blood that links a runaway, a holy artifact, corrupt Indian traders, and a pair of dead bodies." [Pub. Info] STATED FIRST EDITION

Longman, London, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Collects both popular and lesser known quotations from a variety of contemporary sources, with commentary on each quotations context and meaning."" [Pub. Info] 857 pages. Major selection of quotations. 1ST EDITION

HarperCollins, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. This book... is the first to analyze frankly the meaning as well as the events of Fitzgerald's life."" [Pub. Info] Definitive biography.

George Brazziller NY, 1954. Hardcover. Fine /Fair-General wear to the extremities. "Almost inevitably... [O'Casey] became a stranger when the English-speaking theatre became constricted in heart and imagination just as he was growing more impassioned and imaginative. It is a stimulating experience in these days of humdrum theatre to read O'Casey's plays, the most exciting dramatic writing since Shaw completed 'Saint Joan', if not indeed since the disappearance of the Elizaabethan stage." [Dust Jacket] Contains nine plays, including: "Juno and Paycock", as well as "The Plow" and "The Stars." The book also contains a chronology. 800 pages. "A Word from O'Casey" on play writing. Brooks Atchinson: "The most magnificent prose writer in the modern theater." Book jacket has minor wear to the extremities. Slight staining on the front cover of the book. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST THUS.

Black Dog & Leventhal, New York, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. Introductory G2:G70interview with Philip Johnson, noted American architect. Essays on buildings and profiles of nearly 100 skyscrapers around the world. List of the 100 tallest skyscrapers in the world. Large format book, unusual dimensions; will ship media mail. 1ST EDITION, LATER PRINTING

Random House, NY, 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. " 'A Son of the Circus' is comic genius...Get ready for Irving's most raucous novel to date." [The Boston Globe] "Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture or religion to call his own...." [NY Newsday] "[Irving] spills characters from his imagination as agilely as improbable numbers of clowns pile out of a tiny car... [H]is Indian characters are vibrant and convincing." [The Wall Street Journal] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US TRADE EDITION.

Wayne State University , 1962. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. There is a protective mylar cover.

G. P. Putnam, Hurd and Houghton, NY, 1866. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No jacket. Arranged and edited by Pierre M. Irving. Scarce first of two volumes. Prior owner's signature. Chipping to top of spines. 1st edition.

Viking, NY, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "A critical biography of Kipling focuses on the writer's literary and peripatetic searches for a refuge to replace the lost Indian Eden of his childhood." [Pub Info] Definitive biography. 397 pages. 1ST US EDITION.

Viking, NY, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. "A collection of work by Henry Green is introduced by John Updike and includes never-before-published short stories, pieces on London during the Blitz, journalism, book reviews, a play, and more." [Pub. Info] Wrote 10 novels between 1926 and 1952 that were acclaimed by other authors. After his death, his grandson edited this collection of unpublished work. Green's work is worth considering with other modernist writers. There is a protective mylar cover. IST US EDITION.