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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of twenty essays - articles, prefaces, and reviews covering a span of thirty years, and including a previously unpublished study of James Joyce's play "Exiles."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: 36303More details Price: $18.00 -
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of twenty essays - articles, prefaces, and reviews covering a span of thirty years, and including a previously unpublished study of James Joyce's play "Exiles."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: 42295More details Price: $14.00 -
SULFUR 1: A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art.
Edition: First printing.
Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology. 1980. First edition - The first issue of this literary journal. Includes an unpublished excerpt from Ezra Pound's Canto, correspondence in 'The Early Years (1936-1948)' between Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg (their ), and contributions from John Ashbery, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, Paul Blackburn, Gustaf Sobin, Gerrit Lansing, Jonathan Williams, Bruce McClelland, James Hillman, Thomas Meyer, Lyn Hejinian, Eliot Weinberger, Aime Cesaire, Michael Palmer, Jed Rasula, Charles Stein, Diane Wakoski, Michael Davidson, Hayden Carruth, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and Eshleman and more. Book reviews. 254 pp plus ads. Square format. Cover by the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta,
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74578More details Price: $19.50 -
ALIAS S. S. VAN DINE: The Man Who Created Philo Vance.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fascinating biography of Willard Huntington Wright (1887-1939), a writer who helped create the modern detective novel, although this was not what he wanted to be known for (thus the alias). In his early career, before he turned to popular fiction, he was editor briefly of the "Smart Set," friends with Mencken and Dreiser, and involved in the world of modern art through his brother Stanton MacDonald-Wright. INSCRIBED on the title page "To ___ A special friend of the special aunt of the author" and dated in December 1992, in the year of publication. Photographs. Source notes, bibliography, index. xxii, 296 pp. ISBN: 0-684-193582.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 59240More details Price: $40.00