Retired school library book. Interior pages are in good condition. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Henry D. Thoreau

University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers

Thomas Parkes

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

New York

A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar by the Great American Writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow

An entertaining collection features short stories from the past two hundred years, and includes the world of Washington Irving, Truman Capote, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, and more.

American Short Story

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Best Short Stories by American Women Since 1945

A collection of twenty-six of the finest stories by the finest women writers to come out of the U.S. and Canada in the past fifty years. Organized by publication date, authors include Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Ann Tyler, Tama Janowitz, Sandra Cisneros, Mary Gordon, and Alice Walker.

We Are the Stories We Tell

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Herman. Melville

Massachusetts

Difinited, annotated text

19th century classic. Thoroughly annotated.

Billy Budd, Sailor

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Some annotations but pages in great shape. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Portrait of a Lady

Jonathan Bate

First U.S. edition and first printing, 2021.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

This immensely pleasurable biography of two interwoven, tragic figures, John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, "unabashedly, cheerfully celebrates the lasting power of literature." (Christoph Irmscher, Wall Street Journal) In this radiant dual biography, Jonathan Bate explores the fascinating parallel lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, writers who worked separately--on different continents, a century apart, in distinct genres--but whose lives uncannily echoed. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender is the Night and other works from the poet's lines, but the two shared similar fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation, and decadence. Both were outsiders and Romantics, longing for the past as they sped blazingly into the future. Using Plutarch's ancient model of "parallel lives," Jonathan Bate recasts the inspired lives of two of the greatest and best-known Romantic writers. Commemorating both the bicentenary of Keats' death and the centenary of the Roaring Twenties, this is a moving exploration of literary influence.

Bright Star, Green Light (1st edition 1st printing)

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

South Carolina

American Women Writers

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Marion Meade

The front corners are a tiny dinged due to sitting on the shelf. I have ever read the book. Looking to send it to a great home!

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

What Fresh Hell Is This?

Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lillian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker. This edition features a new afterword by Marion Meade.

Dorothy Parker

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1952 hardback is in great condition. Dust over shows wear. 

Chronicle of American Writers from 1607 to 1952

Literary America 

Caroline Fraser

First edition and first printing, 2017. 
Has a small pen mark on top edge and a bookstore sticker on back of dust jacket. 
The gold "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize" sticker on the front is an actual sticker, not printed on the dust jacket.

The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

"This book, written by the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House books, is a thoroughly researched biography of not only Laura Ingalls Wilder, but of her daughter, Rose. Using unpublished manuscripts, letters, financial records, and more, Fraser gives fresh insight into the life of a woman beloved to many. Intensively researched, this is definitely a fascinating read, and one that I plan on reading again -- maybe the next time I re-read the Little House series. -- Jennifer Ohzourk for LibraryReads,"--Novelist.

Prairie Fires (1st edition 1st printing)

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Alfred Kazin

Back cover has a visible tear that turns into a crease. Front cover has some creases near the bottom of the spine. Edges have some light shelf wear. Spine is cracked because this is a reading copy. 

Indiana

An American Procession (1984 Printing)

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Hugh Ford

American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939

"Professor Ford tells how writers who are now heros of twentieth-century English literature first got their works into print: James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett - and countless others. Private publishers joined with these writers, gambling with time and money, in order to produce, distribute and sell their publications. Many of these books had been rejected by more affulent, but less adventurous, publishers in Britain and America, and those publishers in Paris who were brave enough to transform the manuscripts into books frequently had to battle against printers, distributors and censors. Among the ranks of the publishers discussed in this book are Syvia Beach, Nancy Cunard, Robert McAlmon, Bill Bird, Samuel Putnam, Jack Kahana, Edward Titus, and Harry and Caresse Crosby. An extremely useful appendix gives a list of private press publications, periodicals and newspapers published in Paris between the wars." - Dust jacket.

Published in Paris

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Eric Jerome Dickey

First edition and second printing, 2021. Has a small red pen mark on the bottom edge of the pages (see photos). Otherwise in excellent condition.

A Novel

Named in USA Today's "5 books not to miss," and New York Post's "The best new books to read" From New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey—named one of USA Today’s 100 Black Novelists and Fiction Authors You Should Read—comes his final work: an unflinchingly timely novel about history, hearts, and family. It’s the summer of 2019, and Professor Pi Suleman is a Black man from Memphis with a lot to endure—not only as a Black man in Trump’s America but in his hard-earned career as an adjunct professor. Pi is constantly forced to bite his tongue in the face of one of his tenured colleague’s prejudices and microaggressions. At the same time, he’s being blackmailed by a powerful professor who threatens to claim he has assaulted her, when in fact the truth is just the opposite, trapping him in a he-said-she-said with a white woman that, in this society, Pi knows he will never win. When he meets Gemma Buckingham, a sophisticated entrepreneur who has just moved to Memphis from London to escape a deep heartbreak, things begin to look up. Though Gemma and Pi hail from separate cultures, their differences fuel a fiery and passionate connection that just may consume them both. But Pi’s whirlwind romance is interrupted when his absentee father, a celebrated writer, passes away and Pi is called to Los Angeles to both collect his inheritance and learn about the man who never acknowledged him. With the complicated legacy of his famous father to make sense of, Gemma’s visa expiration date looming, and the threats of his colleague becoming increasingly intense, Pi must figure out who he is and what kind of man he will become in his father’s shadow. In The Son of Mr. Suleman, Eric Jerome Dickey takes readers on a powerful journey exploring racism, colorism, life as a mixed-race person, sexual assault, microaggressions, truth and lies, cultural differences, politics, family legacies, perceptions, the impact of enslavement and Jim Crow, code-switching, the power of death, and the weight of love. It is an extraordinary story, page-turning and intense, and a book only Dickey could write.

The Son of Mr. Suleman (1st Edition 2nd Printing)

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Dell Books; First Dell Printing edition (January 1, 1962)

A strange assortment of people have gathered on a yacht belonging to a New York matron. They are not sure why they are there, and most have come against their better judgment, but nevertheless they plan to frolic and enjoy.Using satirical humor, the author, better known as the grim master of novels such as SOLDIER'S PAY and THE SOUND AND THE FURY, weaves a sparkling and compelling story. Though humor is a change for Faulkner, he adheres to his own high standards of excellence and we find that he is more than up to the challenge.



Mosquitoes

Excellent edition of William Faulkner’s Sanctuary from the 50s! No dust jacket. 

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Iowa

Sanctuary

Wear and stains on cover. Pages and binding in very good condition. 

Ohio

English

A Quarter Century of American Fiction

Collected reviews of fifteen American writers who most represent the postwar period.

Literary Horizons

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