Search Results: AMERICAN LITERATURE from Varennes Books

Harper & Brothers, New York, 1907. Very good copy of first American Edition of a book of travel writing by Henry James about his trip through the United States in 1904-1905. Ten of the fourteen chapters of the book were published in the North American Review, Harper's and the Fortnightly Review in 1905 and 1906.. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front panel. No shelf wear to spine and no soiling to back panel. No DJ. Textblock tight and square, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Very good edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain in the Barnes & Noble Classics series. Including new scholarship and thoughtful design - in clean dust jacket. No shelfwear. No markings.

Very good copy of first hardcover cloth 1957 Trade Edition of collection of fourteen unpublished short stories and essays originally published under the sponsorship of the Friends of the Princeton University Library. With an Introd. and Notes by Arthur Mizener. DJ torn and chipped. No wear to Interior.

Very good unsigned copy of Aller Retour New York, #114 of five hundred copies printed for private circulation in 1945, an account of a round-trip voyage as recorded in a letter to Miller's friend Alfred Perlès. Some wear to gilt lettering on spine and front cover and some scuffing on front and rear boards.

First American Picador Ed, 2001. Paperback. Condition: Very Good - . No wear, no markings or highlighting.

Item Description: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924., Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 95 pp. Original quarter cloth binding with decorated (first binding) striped boards and printed paper spinal label.

No. 133 of privately printed First Edition of 1250 numbered copies of Waldo Frank's fictional portrait of a New York neighborhood, in a series of short-stories on the characters of a City Block which epitomize Frank's aesthetic of transcendental "oneness" which in the tradition of Winesberg, Ohio expresses the loneliness of its inhabitants. Linen-backed boards, stamped in black on spine and front cover; 320pp. Some soiling to linen spine, bumping to corners. No DJ issued. An internally fine copy of a neglected work.

First paperback edition of The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara. Clean used copy in good+ condition, no shelf wear. Spine intact. No markings. Collection reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest experimental verses he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) was a leader of the "New York School" of poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. O'Hara's poetry was engaged with the worlds of music, dance, and painting. From these associations he devised an idea of poetic form that allowed the inclusion of many kinds of events, including everyday conversations and notes about New York advertising signs. Since his death in 1966 at age forty, the depth and richness of his achievements as a poet and art critic have been recognized by an international audience.

Harmanson Publisher, New Orleans, LA, 1954. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 18 Pen and Ink Sketches by Wiley Churchill (illustrator). 94 pages; No wear, inside intact. No wraps.

Poetry by French-born American poet in which an anachronistic narrative of transatlantic memoir, nostalgia and a Euro-American sensibility is forged out of attempts to fashion a convergence of poetic genres and forms – such as the epic of contemporaneity, the lyric of experience and elegiac allusion - through the use of classical rhetorical instruments of apostrophe, imprecation and synecdoche, shaped by the historical imagination.

Edited with an Introduction by Waldo Frank. Large octavo, dark maroon cloth stamped in gold, Spine gilt lettering is dulled, one small chip on spine, some faint scratches on lower righthand edge of front board, otherwise a near fine copy in very good condition, dust jacket missing.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good + (1970), 318pp, No shelf wear to cover, no edgewear, contents unmarked and clean.

16th printing of 1931 edition of sonnets inspired by Millay's relationship with poet George Dillon Editor of Poetry Magazine for many years) whom she met in 1928 at the University of Chicago where he was a student. label on spine torn; half black cloth with grey paper over boards, Letter-pressed onto slightly textured paper with rough cut edges The binding is tight, clean bright interior.

First Modern Library Edition, 1939. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with light spotting, Not price clipped. $1.25. 619 pages. Pages intact. No wear. Dust jacket illustration by Thomas Hart Benton.

First Picador USA Ed, 2001, Used-Very Good - condition. Pages and cover intact. No signs of shelf wear.

Very good copy of 1959 Pulitzer Prize winning drama on a modern story of Job. Some soiling and chipping to front and back panel of DJ. Text is clean and unmarked.

Very Good copy of.first edition of Gertrude Stein's Last Opera and Plays edited and with introduction by Carl Van Vechten, Stein's literary executor and lifelong friend. Includes original uncut versions of The Mother of Us All, Four Saints in Three Acts and Yes Is for a Very Young Man and frontispiece 1934 photo of Gertrude Stein by Carl Van Vechten. No wear to interrior. Slight chipping at edges of dust jacket.

British Edition of 1900 David McKay American Edition of Leaves of Grass including a Facsimile Autobiography, Variorum Readings of the Poets and A Department of Gathered Leaves. Very good copy in green cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. With facsimile inscribed photograph of Whitman with tissue guard opposite title page. Also pull-out facsimile of manuscript pages. Internally immaculate, three tiny indentations on back boards. Some edgewear to boards.

Signed First Edition, Modern Age Books, 1938, Paper, with the following inscription to noted Patron of the Arts, "To Henry Church, whom I have never had the pleasure of meeting, but with sincere greetings, nevertheless - William Saroyan, S.F. Aug. 1938." Bound in original pink pictorial wrappers, a very bright, fresh copy - lettering a bit faded at spine with slight rubbing to corners.

The book is a record of the correspondence between Miss Marianne Moore, one of America's foremost poets and the Ford Motor Company on the name for a new car. Among Miss Moore's many honors were the Bollingen prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. The limited edition of this book printed at the Spiral Press of New York with an engraving by Leonard Baskin, consisted of five hundred fifty copies, four hundred of which were reserved for the Fellows of The Pierpont Morgan Library and one hundred fifty copies are offered for sale. This is one of the one hundred fifty copies. Unpaginated slim volume in a matching slipcase in fine condition. Spine is of crimson cloth with blind-stamped, bright gilt lettering along the spine and vertically along the cloth portion of the spine on front cover. Some discoloration to matching slipcase of stiff, gray paper over crimson cloth edges.