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New York: Random House, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Author's second book (Fan's Notes was his first). The death of Edmund Wilson precipitates an odyssey through the distorted literary landscape of America in search of Wilson's essence as the pre-eminent man of letters and the author's own creative wellsprings.
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PAGES FROM A COLD ISLAND. An Autobiography
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PAINTED HORSES. A Novel
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New York: Grove Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. A nearly fine copy with one tiny nudge to top front corner in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed on the title page and dated in the year of publication. The author' debut novel. In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of love and fate, and of heritage threatened by progress. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana with a huge task before her--a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove that nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar--the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut…
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PAINTED TURTLE: Woman With Guitar. A Novel (first published in 1988)
by Major, Clarence
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Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1988. First edition thus. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The Zuni folksinger Painted Turtle first made her appearance in Clarence Major's award-winning and critically acclaimed novel, My Amputations (1986). In this simply told new work, Painted Turtle is at the center of a lyrical tale narrated by Baldy, a Navajo guitar player. She tells of her struggles, from her childhood experiences living on the Zuni reservation to the time of her performances on the grimy cantina circuit throughout the American Southwest. Baldy's story is a quiet love story, a tale of wonderment. But it is also a tale of a quest for self-realization, the quest of an unwed mother of twin boys who finds herself an outsider and the cause of conflict among her family, her clan, her tribe. Against all odds, Painted Turtle struggles desperately to keep her integrity while remaining in touch with the deep rhythms of her heritage. And through her music seeks a cure for the…
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THE PAINTER DREAMING IN THE SCHOLAR'S HOUSE
by Nemerov, Howard
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New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. First edition. Paperback. A near fine copy. Oblong 24mo. Being #70 of 100 copies (plus 26 lettered copies not for sale). String tied wrappers, unpaginated with a wonderfully decorated dust jacket with French flaps. In memory of the painters Paul Klee and Paul Terence Feeley. Measures 5 1/2 inches by 7 1/4 inches. In 4 four parts.
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PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER. Three Short Novels
by Porter, Katherine Anne
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. A very good copy bound in light green cloth (spine sunned) lacking the dust jacket. This fourth printing copy has the ownership signature of "Madeleine L'Engle Camp / March 4, 1941 / Bird-in-Hand-Court" to the front pastedown in black ink. The three short novels are: Old Mortality, Noon Wine, and Pae Horse, Pale Rider. From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider', where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her fiancé on his way to war, and 'Noon Wine', a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas. In all of the compelling stories collected here, harsh and tragic truths are expressed in…
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THE PAPER NEGATIVE
by Lyon, Danny
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Bernalillo: Bleak Beauty, 1980. First edition. Paperback. A near fine copy. Signed by the photographer. Bound in illustrated wrappers with a minor bump to the front corner.
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PARADISE
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New York: Knopf, 1998. First edition. Paperback. A fine copy, as issued. Proof. In this powerful work, four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the 1970s. Each of singular provenance, they together suggest the vicissitudes of the era, of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the counter culture, generational conflict. The inexorableness of the attack and the efforts to avert it lie at the heart of this book. In the original perfect bound wrappers, as issued. Publication date of January 15, 1998. Her first novel since winning the Nobel Prize and the third and final novel of the trilogy that included Beloved and Jazz.
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PARE LORENTZ And The Documentary Film. Inscribed by Pare Lorentz
by Snyder, Robert L.
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine sharp copy of the book bound in brown cloth with black and white stamping to the spine, in a very good clean dust jacket with a chip to the top of the rear spine fold. Inscribed by Pare Lorentz to Harris Liechti founder of the International Film Series on the front endpaper. "To Harris / Best Wishes for more / high low comedy / (signed) Pare Lorentz / Oshkosh, November 23, 1971." Ownership signature of Harris Liechti above the inscription. ALS laid in from William Sloan to Mr. Leichti, dated October 27, 1969 on 'Film Library Information Council' letterhead, reads, " Dear Mr. Leichti / Your fine review of the / Lorentz book is on p.53 of the / Film Library Quarterly which is / just out today. Please send me / your exact address and I'll see / that we get a copy of the book to you. / Also, we'd be happy to have you / review for us whenever you have the / time to take it on. You can have / more copies of the FLQ if you…
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THE PASSENGER / STELLA MARIS. Two Volume Set
by McCarthy, Cormac
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New York: Knopf, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. Both fine copies in fine jackets in a fine illustrated slipcase still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. The two new books by Cormac McCarthy in an illustrated slipcase both books in dust jackets. Still in the original shrinkwrap. A beautiful design makes this set stand out. The books; those who follow McCarthy had been waiting for his masterpiece for years, THE PASSENGER. The companion volume, STELLA MARIS, is a tightly controlled coda, told entirely in dialogue. Together they related the thrilling story of a brother and sister haunted by loss, pursued by conspiracy and longing for a death that cannot be reconciled with God.
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THE PASSENGER
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New York: Knopf, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. A fine unread copy in a fine dust jacket. 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spiritâby men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Â Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human…
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PATRICK O'BRIAN: Critical Essays and a Bibliography
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New York: Norton, 1994. First American Edition, 1st Printing. hardcover. A fine crisp copy in blue cloth over boards in a fine crisp dust jacket. Erratum slip laid in. This compilation of essays is an appreciation of Patrick O'Brian's writing life. As well as an autobiographical essay it also includes Samphire, one of Patrick O'Brian's best-known short stories. It includes contributions from eminent academics such as N.A.M. Rodger and Brian Lavery. Historian and author Richard Ollard adds a wide-ranging overview of Patrick O'Brian's writing, and the book contains other appreciations from admirers and critics including the actor and director Charlton Heston. The bibliography is a comprehensive and authoritative account of all Mr. O'Brian's writing to date.
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PAYING FOR IT. A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John. Introduction by Robert Crumb
by Brown, Chester
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Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Chester Brown. Chester Brown has never shied away from tackling controversial subjects in his work. In his 1992 book, The Playboy, he explored his personal history with pornography. His bestselling 2003 graphic novel, Louis Riel, was a biographical examination of an extreme political figure. The book won wide acclaim and cemented Brown's reputation as a true innovator. Paying for It is a natural progression for Brown as it combines the personal and sexual aspects of his autobiographical work with the polemical drive of Louis Riel. Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topicsâprostitution. While this may appear overly sensational and just plain implausible to some, Brown's story stands for itself. Paying for It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex workâfrom the timid john who…
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THE PEACOCK'S EGG. Love Poems From Ancient India. Translated by W. S. Merwin and Moussaieff Masson
by Merwin, W. S. and J. Moussaieff Masson
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Berkeley: North Point Press, 1981. Advance Page-Proof Copy. strip bound. A near fine copy. Oblong strip bound page proof measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches. With an introduction by J. Moussaieff Masson. Publisher's press release laid in. This book is a fruition of a long and successful collaboration between Sanskrit scholar J. Moussaieff Masson and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W. S. Merwin. Over 200 pages of love poems from the Classical Sanskrit (500BC--1000AD), many of which have never before been translated into English. J. Moussaieff Masson has provided for each poem a transliteration from the original, and brief, informative notes. This anthology reflects the art and care with which the translators have selected from the wide range of Sanskrit poetry. They have searched out unusual sources to offer poems from outside the traditional canon of Sanskrit literature, poems by lesser-known, and women poets, and poems which blend love with such other themes as melancholy, poverty, aestheticism, and pure…
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THE PEEPING TOM POEMS
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Livingston: Clark City Press, 2003. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Russell Chatham. This copy is signed on the title page by Levendosky. These poems offer an insightful examination of the human psyche's longing for the kind of intimacy which is so often elusive. And we are introduced to Raven, a symbolic alter ego who is humankind's dark witness, whose home is the sky, and whose gift is charity. This work was completed with a grant from the Wyoming Arts Council. The literary magazine Prairie Schooner, bestowed upon this oeuvre its Edward Stanley Award for Poetry. 85 pages.
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PELOSI
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New York: Holt, 2020. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by award-winning political journalist Molly Ball. 345 pages with index. Illustrated from photographs.
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PEOPLE OF THE BOOK. A Novel
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New York: Viking Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient bindingâan insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hairâshe begins to unlock the book's mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from its salvation back to its creation. In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the…
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PEREZ CELIS
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Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Hombre Nuevo, 1973. First edition. hardcover. A very good copy in a very good solid dust jackt. Small 4to. A monograph of the Argentinian artist. Introductory text in Spanish by Rafael Squirru. All captions, the biography, and the bibliography are in Spanish. Sharp illustrations printed on heavy stock. 134 pages. Three-fold color brochure laid in measuring 8 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches from 1974.
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PERFECT FROM NOW ON. How Indie Rock Saved My Life
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Signed by Sellers on the title page. A fan's memoir overflowing with humor, self-deprecation encyclopedic knowledge of musical minutiae, and "you should have been there" personal anecdotes. Vowing never to get caught up in music, he found himself powerfess to resist the lure of indie rock, the genre that begat the likes of Sonic Youth, Pavement, Built to Spill, and Modest Mouse. When his favorite band, Guided by Voices, called it quits in 2004, Sellers examined his own listening habits, caught a few mind-blowing shows, got drunk with his heroes, and wrote this book. 214 pages with acknowledgements.
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PERSONAL EXPOSURES. #36/150, Book with Print from THE MISFITS. Signed by Erwitt
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New York: Norton, 1988. First edition. A fine copy in red cloth in a near fine matching slipcase. 4to. Limited to 150 numbered copies with the famous print by Elliott Erwitt of the cast of the film directed by John Huston, THE MISFITS. Erwitt, a French born, American photographer and filmmaker, is known for his uncanny ability to capture, on film, the humor and irony, of everyday life. Erwitt was hired through Magnum to document film production on films such as âOn the Waterfront'(1955) and âThe Seven Year Itch'(1954). He was one of many Magnum photographers on the set of the film âTHE MISFITS' (1960), and it was he who captured the magic of the cast in one shot from his Leica. This is the print that accompanies this signed limited book. Both the print and the book are signed by Erwitt. The print is framed, the image measures 7 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, overall measures 15 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches.
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THE PET SHOP BOYS VERSUS AMERICA. Photographs by Pennie Smith
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London: Viking Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An English synth-pop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and are listed as the most successful duo in UK music history by The Guinness Book of Records. No other pop group in recent years has faced celebrity with such intelligence, humour and prudence as the Pet Shop Boys Nowhere else is celebrity more glorious or more preposterous than in America. So when the Pet Shop Boys met America head-on, it was always going to be a fascinating collision. 250 pages filled with great black and white photographs that document, with precision, the tour as it unfolds.
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