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DREAMING: Hard Luck and Good Times in America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A bittersweet memoir about drug abuse and alcoholism in See's family for over fifty years, frank but also wryly optimistic, told with humor and grace. SIGNED on the title page by this award-winning novelist. Illustrated with photographs. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-679430261.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 44225More details Price: $28.00 -
I THINK YOU'RE TOTALLY WRONG: A Quarrel
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and artbeers included. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life . .. whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. [They] spend four days together at a cabin in the Cascade Mountains, playing chess, shooting hoops, hiking to lakes and an abandoned mine. . and talking about everything they can think of" SIGNED on the title page by David Shields. ISBN: 978-0385351942.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67903More details Price: $25.00 -
THE ZODIAC ARCH.
Edition: First printing.
London: John Murray, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, many on travel and writing, but touching on other topic also, and even including three short fiction pieces (she compares this book to a patchwork quilt), together with Stark's commentary on each piece. Illustrated with a frontispiece self portrait and woodcuts by Reynolds Stone, list of sources. 230 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (offsetting to the front endpapers from the dust jacket flaps, lower corner of front flap is clipped with new publisher' price attached.)
Book ID: 63659More details Price: $45.00 -
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.
Condition: Near fine in very good+ dust jacket (neat prev owner's name, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 32398More details Price: $18.00 -
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32313More details Price: $24.00 -
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32312More details Price: $30.00