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  • A LONG THE RIVERRUN: Selected Essays by Ellmann, Richard
    Ellmann, Richard
    A LONG THE RIVERRUN: Selected Essays

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous collection of twenty essays - articles, prefaces, and reviews covering a span of thirty years, and including a previously unpublished study of James Joyce's play "Exiles." In addition to several pieces on William Butler Yeats, and Oscar Wilde, this also includes essays on Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, Washington Irving ("Love in the Catskills"), George Eliot ("Dorothea's Two Husbands") , Henry James, Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway, Frank O'Connor, Samuel Becket, Henri Michaux, Joseph Conrad and more. Index. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-39457768X.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 36303
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  • A LONG THE RIVERRUN: Selected Essays by Ellmann, Richard
    Ellmann, Richard
    A LONG THE RIVERRUN: Selected Essays

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous collection of twenty essays - articles, prefaces, and reviews covering a span of thirty years, and including a previously unpublished study of James Joyce's play "Exiles." In addition to several pieces on William Butler Yeats, and Oscar Wilde, this also includes essays on Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, Washington Irving ("Love in the Catskills"), George Eliot ("Dorothea's Two Husbands") , Henry James, Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway, Frank O'Connor, Samuel Becket, Henri Michaux, Joseph Conrad and more. Index. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-39457768X.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (creasing to edges of back cover of dj.)

    Book ID: 42295
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  • Harper, Howard M. Jr. and Edge, Charles, editors.
    THE CLASSIC BRITISH NOVEL.

    Edition: First printing.

    Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essaysby Louis Rubin, Jr, Weldon Thornton, William A. West, Harper, Edge and others on novels and writers such as Austen's 'Emma', Conrad's 'Nostromo', Fielding's 'Tom Jones,' James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and more. 239 pages. ISBN: 0-8023-02813.

    Condition: Ex-library with missing front endpaper, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.

    Book ID: 17719
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  • Hunt, Violet [Isabel, 1862-1942.]
    I HAVE THIS TO SAY: The Story of My Flurried Years.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Hardcover first edition - Surprisingly uncommon later autobiographical work - this covers the period from 1908 to 1915 with many digressions. Beginning with the preface where she describes walking as a little girl with John Ruskin, this is a glimpse into the lives of many important literary figures of the era, including D. H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Henry James, Rebecca West and Joseph Conrad. Suffragettes, 'wild English women,' exile in Germany and life under wartime conditions, are all touched upon. Lively and entertaining. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 12 sepia toned plates. 306 pp.

    Condition: Very good in teal cloth covers with lighter turquoise lettering, lacking the dustjacket (missing front endpaper - as a substitute, the frontispiece was affixed to the blank prelim to give more stability to this first page, outer edges of boards slightly bumped.) Still a reasonably attractive copy of a title which is very difficult to find.

    Book ID: 33409
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  • THE RETURN OF EVA PERON with THE KILLINGS IN TRINIDAD. by Naipaul, V. S.
    Naipaul, V. S.
    THE RETURN OF EVA PERON with THE KILLINGS IN TRINIDAD.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 4 essays by this Nobel prize winning author who was himself born in Trinidad to Indian parents. In addition to the title piece, it includes Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad; A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa and Conrad's Darkness. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-394509684.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (short closed tear at fold of dj.)

    Book ID: 64214
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  • THE RETURN OF EVA PERON with THE KILLINGS IN TRINIDAD. by Naipaul, V. S.
    Naipaul, V. S.
    THE RETURN OF EVA PERON with THE KILLINGS IN TRINIDAD.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 4 essays by this Nobel prize winning author who was himself born in Trinidad to Indian parents. In addition to the title piece, it includes Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad; A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa and Conrad's Darkness. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-394509684.

    Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some wear to the upper edge of the dj.)

    Book ID: 71864
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  • BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: African Literature and Literary Theory. by Schipper, Mineke.
    Schipper, Mineke.
    BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: African Literature and Literary Theory.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    London: Allison & Busby, (1989.). First edition - A fresh look at African literature by a writer who many years in Africa and has written many books on the subject - the book is both an exploration of how the African novel was influenced by African oral tradition, the western novel and the political realities of Africa and an appeal for the reader to be willing to explore beyond one's cultural boundaries. Notes, bibliography and index of authors and works discussed. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-85031-8548.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 40009
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  • Schipper, Mineke.
    BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: Text and Context in African Literature.

    Edition: First US printing.

    Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A fresh look at African literature by a writer who many years in Africa and has written many books on the subject - the book is both an explorationof how the African novel was influenced by African oral tradition, the western novel and the political realities of Africa and an appeal for the reader to be willing to explore beyond one's cultural boundaries. Notes, bibliography and index of authors and works discussed. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-929587-367.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 40010
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  • SECOND CHANCES. by Shwartz, Susan.
    Shwartz, Susan.
    SECOND CHANCES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which is a homage to Joseph Conrad - "think of Lord Jim in space. Just as Conrad explored in great depth the perplexing, ambiguous problem of lost honor and guilt, expiation and heroism, Shwartz has created in her Jim a man haunted by guilt over an act of supposed cowardice and his lifelong efforts to somehow atone for that action - whether or not he merited the disgrace." 382 pp. Dust jacket art by David Seeley. ISBN: 0-312873425.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83286
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  • THE HOUSES THAT JAMES BUILT and Other Literary Studies. by Stallman, Robert W.
    Stallman, Robert W.
    THE HOUSES THAT JAMES BUILT and Other Literary Studies.

    Edition: First printing.

    [Lansing, MI]: Michigan State University Press, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - Critical essays on the works of Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Bibliographical Note,xii, 254 pp.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (penciled notations on a few pages, corners slightly bumped, some edgewear to dj.)

    Book ID: 46573
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  • SAILORS ON THE INWARD SEA. by Thornton, Lawrence.
    Thornton, Lawrence.
    SAILORS ON THE INWARD SEA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Free Press (Simon & Schuster), (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An absorbing new novel by the award-winning author of 'Imaging Argentina.' As Michael Cunningham states, it 'begins with a fascinating premise - the unacknowledged source of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels (that is, the tragic accidental encounter at sea between a British minesweeper and a German submarine) - and takes it to considerable heights. By the novel's end, Thornton has cast a light not only onto Conrad's genius but onto the mystery of inspiration itself. SIGNED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-7432-60074.

    Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (bottom edge of textblock slightly bumped with light creasing to lower corner of first several pages.)

    Book ID: 29560
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  • SAILORS ON THE INWARD SEA. by Thornton, Lawrence.
    Thornton, Lawrence.
    SAILORS ON THE INWARD SEA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Free Press (Simon & Schuster), (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An absorbing new novel by the award-winning author of 'Imaging Argentine.' As Michael Cunningham states, 'begins with a fascinating premise - the unacknowledged source of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels (that is, the tragic accidental encounter at sea between a British minesweeper and a German submarine) - and takes it to considerable heights. By the novel's end, Thornton has cast a light not only onto Conrad's genius but onto the mystery of inspiration itself. SIGNED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-7432-60074.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 70269
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