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Hard Cover. Condición: vg+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: vg. 1st ptg. unpaginated; b/w photos; contents clean & tight; b/w photo il'd dj with light shelf wear at edges. Hardcover (dj).

Condición: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condición: New. Brand New.

Soft cover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. New York: Oxford University Press {2003). First edition. First printing. Trade paperback original. NEW. A pristine unread copy. Purchased new and never opened.

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1984) Seventh Printing (c 2000): NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior But MARRED by black stroke mark at heel, NEW Smythe-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ blue silk ribbon page-marker bound-in from top, NEW white-on-blue LOA-logo-patterned card-stock front & back end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed w/ remarkable clarity in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Olin Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42, 0.68 kg, 1031 pp. / Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.46" x 1.54", 0.78 kg * CONTENTS: The Innocents Abroad (1), Roughing It (525); Chronology (987), Note on the Texts (995), Notes (1001) * ABOUT THE BOOK: The great American humorist describes his adventures traveling in Europe, the Middle East, & the American West: Twain's 1st great popular successes, these semi-autobiographical travel books take in the grand tour of Europe & the Holy Land, & real & imagined adventures during the Civil War in the West (including stagecoach travel & Indian, Mormon & Chinese society on the frontier) * HIGH PRAISE: "A piece of American history that Twain saw with his own eyes." -Wall Street Journal "Generous glimpses of a raw talent being shaped & mastered." - LA Times * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for A below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. BILLIANT: CLASSIC: NEAR FINE Library of America stated First Edition hardcover (1987) First Printing, FINE mylar-protectedLOA jacket w/ portrait of Benjamin Franklin on front panel & w/ EXCELLENT edges & corners, NEW sand-tan Brillianta silk-finish rayon-weave fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, VG smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED Only with slight incidence of "spotting", NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & bronze silk ribbon page-marker, IMPECCABLE white-on-tan LOA-patterned front & back card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed w/ ELEGANT clarity in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB silk-finish acid-free Ecusta-Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42", 0.68 kg, x+816 (826) pp. W/ slipcase: 5.36 x 8.36" x 1.50", 0.77 kg * CONTENTS: Writings: Letters from London 1757-1775 (1), Paris 1776-1785 (169), Philadelphia 1785-1790 (371), Poor Richard's Almanack 1733-1758 (441), The Autobiography (565); Chronology (731), Note on the Texts (756), Notes (770), Index (791) * ABOUT THE BOOK: "Writing has been of Great Use to me in the Course of my Life," Benjamin Franklin said in his famous Autobiography. W/ characteristically calculated understatement, he attributed his enormous & varied successes to "my having learnt a little to scribble." This LOA collection of Franklin's works begins w/ letters sent from London (1757-1775) describing the events & diplomacy preceding the Revolutionary War. The volume also contains political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, & letters written in Paris (1776-1785), where he represented the revolutionary United States at the court of Louis XVI, as well as his speeches given in the Constitutional Convention & other works written in Philadelphia (1785-1790), including his last published article, a searing satire against slavery. Also included are the delightfully shrewd prefaces to "Poor Richard's Almanack" (1733-1758) & their worldly, pungent maxims that have entered our American culture. Finally, the classic "Autobiography", Franklin's last word on his greatest literary creation "his own invented personality" is presented here in a new edition, completely faithful to Franklin's manuscript. * THE LIRBARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Soft Cover. Condición: Good. Zimmermann, Karl and Cross, Michael Ilustrador. 80 pages. Illustrated. Size: 10.75 x 8.25. Railroads/Amtrak.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. 112 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 x 25 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, June 4 to August 28, 1988. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Profusely illustrated. *** Regionalist painter associated with New Hampshire. Size: 4to.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 464 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective," May 22 to September 16, 1980, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, with the collaboration of the Reunion des muses nationaux de France. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** An excellent catalogue documenting Picasso's life and art in exact chronological sequence. If I had to recommend one reference book on Picasso, this is it! Profusely illustrated with 758 illustrations (208 in colour). *** CONTENTS: Foreword, by Richard E. Oldenburg; Foreword, by Hubert Landais; Introduction, by Dominique Bozo; Genesis of an exhibition, by William Rubin; Chronology and Plates: 1881-1899; 1900-1901; 1902-1903; 1904-1906; 1907-1908; 1909-1911; 1912-1913; 1914-1915; 1916-1919; 1920-1924; 1925-1929; 1930-1932; 1938-1944; 1945-1953; 1954-1973. Size: 4to.

Paperback. Condición: Fine. 1st. 202 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 x 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "The book is structured around six locations where Goldsworthy has worked over recent years - the semi-desert of Santa Fe, the verdant landscape of New York State in which Cornell University is set, Nova Scotia, forest and coastal areas in Holland, a geological reserve in the south of France and, of course, the area around his home in south-west Scotland. Rich insights into his working methods are provided by the artist's diaries which deliberately document the failures as well as the successes and vividly evoke the ways in which he familiarises himself with a new locale and begins to 'touch' it. An erudite and fully illustrated chronology compiled by Dr. Terry Friedman provides an overall account of Goldsworthy's career to date, showing, among other things, how particular forms often take many years to become fully developed. With a selection of more than 500 illustrations, Time is destined to become the definitive reference source on Goldsworthy's sculpture." - Publisher. Size: Oblong.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. B&W illustrations. Condition: slight rubbing to spine ends; else near fine in fine DJ. 494 pages.

Paperback. Condición: Fine. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1980. 464 pages; numerous color and b&w illustrations of his work; b&w photos of his life. Sectioned chronologically, first with life commentary and illustration, then with plates of his work. . Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. Thick 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. Language: ENG.

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Very Good. The Library of America, 1982. Third printing. 1217 pages. 8 x 5.5", cloth, slipcase. Clean, tight, very good/very good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Second Printing (Stated). Immaculate, gift-quality copy, in a worn and rubbed vanilla-paper board slip-case, soiled across the bottom edge; no jacket (as issued); Cranberry-Red "brillianta" woven rayon cloth binding, with matching silk ribbon-marker sewn into the headband; printed and bound by R.R. Donnelley & Sons, acclaimed for their Lakeside Press editions; 1217p., including chronology and notes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.

Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Later Printing. [New York]: The Library of America 1982. Later Printing. Hardcover. Later [10th] printing. 1478 pages, ribbon marker [frayed at the end], chronology, notes on the texts, Near Fine copy in a very good Dust Jacket with a 1" tear [re-inforced with clear tape] to the top of the front flap fold . See Photos clph.

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: NEW Library of America First edition hardcover (2003) First Printing, NEW matt-cream LOA slipcase w/ double gilt-rule borders & gilt-LOA-logo stamped on front face, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW burgundy silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE white-on-maroon LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ crimson-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & crimson silk page-marker ribbon bound-in from top, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Domtar Literary Opaque pap. * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.08", 0.60 kg, 1062 pp. / With slipcase: 5.36" x 8.36" x 1.26", 0.70 kg * CONTENTS: Travel Books & Other Writings, 1916-1941: Rosinante to the Road Again (1), Orient Express (125), In All Countries (269), Selections from Journeys Between Wars (431), A Pushcart at the Curb (489), Uncollected Essays 1916-1941 (587), Letters & Diaries 1916-1920 (633); Chronology (803), Notes on the Texts (821), Notes (827), Index (850). * ABOUT THE BOOK: John Dos Passos witnessed the modern era's defining events & distilled their literary essence into an innovative, trademark pastiche style: "something like a multimedia event" in book form, wrote The New Yorker. As an ambulance driver during World War I, as an eyewitness to the Spanish Civil War, Italian Fascism, Mexican social upheaval, & post-revolutionary shifts in Russia & Central Asia, & as a participant in protests in the United States, Dos Passos charted cataclysms & his evolving response to them before the ink had dried in the history books. Now, The Library of America restores to print his vibrant travel books "Rosinante to the Road Again" (1922), "Orient Express" (1927), "In All Countries" (1934) & the Spanish Civil War material added to "Journeys Between Wars" (1938), American classics which Dos Passos wrote concurrently w/ his fictional masterpieces "Three Soldiers", "Manhattan Transfer", & "U.S.A." Featured in this edition are full-color reproductions of Dos Passos' own remarkably vivid Orient Express watercolors. This volume also restores to print the rare travel poems cycle "A Pushcart at the Curb" (1922); political & literary essays that dramatize his complicated relationship w/ communism; & a selection of early letters & diaries from World War I. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: TOWNSEND LUDINGTON (editor) is Boshamer Professor of English & American Studies at UNC (Chapel Hill), author of "John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey" & editor of "The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of Dos Passos". * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this splendid book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ Domestic USPS PRIORITY MAIL available for a nominal additional fee & shipment of all international orders via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Paperback. Condición: Good. 1st. 173 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 x 27 cm. Exhibition held September 1 to October 6, 1976 at the University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD; and other venues Good+. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's blind stamp/half-title page, age toning, otherwise unmarked. Age toning. Another copy available. Size: Oblong.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps. Stated first edition. Light shelf wear; pages with light foxing to the edges; interior clean and fresh. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: CLASSIC: NEW LOA hardcover First Edition (Orig. 1991) First Printing, NEW LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners showing $35.00 pub price inside bottom-front corner, NEW maroon silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-maroon LOA patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & maroon-white-checked banding at spine-caps w/ maroon silk page-marking ribbon bound from the top, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyallite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.22", 0.59 kg, 887 pp. Slipcase: 5.36 x 8.38" x 1.36", 0.70 kg * CONTENTS: Black Boy (American Hunger) (1), The Outsider(367); Chronology (843), Note on the Texts (868), Notes (875) * ABOUT THE BOOK: "Native Son" & "Black Boy" are classics of 20th-century American literature, & yet the novel & memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised & abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. The 2-volume LOA edition presents for the first time Wright's major works in the form in which he intended them to be read. The authoritative new texts, based on Wright's original typescripts & proofs, reveal the full range & power of this achievement as an experimental stylist & as a fiery prophet of the tragic consequences of racism in American society. Wright's wrenching memoir "Black Boy", an eloquent account of his struggle to escape a life of poverty, ignorance & fear in his native South, was an immediate bestseller when it appeared in 1945. But Wright's complete autobiography, published for the first time in this volume as "Black Boy" ("American Hunger") is a far more complex & probing work. Its original 2nd section, in which Wright chronicled his encounter w/ racism in the North, his apprenticeship as a writer, & his disillusionment w/ the Communist Party, was cut at the insistence of book club editors & was only published posthumously as a separate work. Now that the 2 parts of Wright's autobiography are finally printed together, "Black Boy" ("American Hunger") appears as a new & different work: a unique contribution to the literature of self-discovery & a searing vision of racism in Northern slums as well as Southern shanties. Richard Wright's novel "The Outsider" (1953) appears here in a text that restores the many stylistic changes & long cuts made by his editors w/o his knowledge. This text, based on Wright's final, corrected typescript, casts new light on his development of the style he called "poetic realism". The "outsider" of Wright's story is Cross Damon, a black man who works in the Chicago post office. When Damon is mistakenly believed to have died in a subway accident, he seizes the opportunity to invent a new life for himself. In this, his most philosophical novel, Wright reconsiders the existentialist themes of man's freedom & responsibility as he traces Damon's doomed attempts to lead a free life. Richard Wright was "forged in injustice as a sword is forged", wrote Ernest Hemingway. W/ passionate honesty & courage, he confronted the terrible effects of prejudice & intolerance & created works that explore the deepest conflicts of the human heart. This volume includes notes on significant changes in Wright's texts & a detailed chronology of his life. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: Arnold Rampersad is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. He has written biographies of Langston Hughes (a Pulitzer Prize nominee), Jackie Robinson, &, most recently, Ralph Ellison. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts, restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made." (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: POWERFUL: BELOVED: AS-NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1987) First Printing: VG slipcase w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners but MARRED w/ shelf-dust soiling, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior , NEW sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW handsome front-back tan-brown distinctively LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished Ecusta-Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.74", 0.84 kg, 1336 pp. SLIPCASE: 5.25" x 8.50" x 1.86", 0.96 kg * CONTENTS: The Troll Garden (1), O Pioneers! (133), The Song of the Lark (291), My Antonia (707), One of Ours (939); Chronology (1299), Note on the Texts (1319), Notes (1323). * ABOUT THE BOOK: "Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her powerful fiction the Nebraska frontier of her youth. The vast Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow & the sky is huge & open, mirrors the uniquely American ethic of her characters: their heroic aspirations & stoicism, their passion for creativity, their rebelliousness of spirit. This volume, the first in The Library of America's authoritative three-volume collected Cather, includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," her first work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O Pioneers!," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia" & "One of Ours," which earned a Pulitzer Prize. * LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: NEW LOA First edition hardcover (orig. 2001) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ double-ruled gilt borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel & sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW British-green rayon-weave silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA-colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & emerald silk page-marker ribbon bound-in from top, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.24", 0.62 kg, 967 pp. slipcase: 5.46" x 8.50" x 1.42", 0.72 kg * CONTENTS: Novels 1944-1962: My Home Is Far Away (1), The Locusts Have No King (241), The Wicked Pavilion (501), & The Golden Spur (725); Chronology (943), Note on the Texts (955), Notes (959) * ABOUT THE BOOK: American literature has known few writers capable of the comic élan & full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been a rediscovery of the novelist who was such a vital presence in literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1960s, a writer whom Gore Vidal has called "our best comic novelist" & whom Edmund Wilson considered to be "on a level w/ Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh & Muriel Spark." LOA has again made available in an excellent 2-volume edition the best of Powell's quirky, often hilarious, sometimes deeply moving fiction. Dawn Powell (a vital part of literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s through the 1960s) was the tirelessly observant chronicler of two very different worlds: the small-town Ohio where she grew up & a sophisticated Manhattan to which she gravitated. If her Ohio novels are more melancholy & compassionate, her exuberant & incisive Manhattan novels sparkle w/ a cast of writers, show people, businessmen & hustling hangers-on. All show rich characterization & a flair for the gist of complex social situations. A playful satirist & unsentimental observer of failed hopes & misguided longings, Dawn Powell is a literary rediscovery of rare importance. The 2nd of two LOA volumes devoted to Powell, this opens w/ "My Home Is Far Away" (1944), a fictionalized memoir of Powell's difficult childhood. "The Locusts Have No King" (1948), The Wicked Pavilion (1954) & The Golden Spur (1962) are brilliant comedies that extend her dissection of the follies & longings of a sophisticated cast of characters. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "Wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland & has a more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh, the writer to whom she's most often compared." - Lisa Zeidner, NYT * ABOUT THE EDTIOR: Tim Page (editor of this volume) is the author of "Dawn Powell: A Biography" & editor of "The Diaries of Dawn Powell" & "The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell". He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1997, & is a culture critic at the Washington Post. * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: BRILLIANT: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2005): NEW LOA slipcase w/ double-ruled gilt borders & LOA-logo on front panel & w/ sharp new edges & corners, NEW British-green silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & Library of America colophon handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ green-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & green silk page-marker ribbon bound in at top, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Domtar Literary Opaque archival paper MARRED ONLY by the name of a prominent Connecticut literary family (w/ date, place & volume no.) neatly penned at bottom-right first front title page * 5.00" x 8.12" x 1.14", 0.58 kg, 1051 pp. Slipcase: 5.42" x 8.50" x 1.18", 0.67 kg * CONTENTS: Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories (7), Letting Go (233); Chronology (897-907), Note on the Texts (908-909), Notes (910-913) * ABOUT THE BOOK: The title novella, "Goodbye, Columbus", the story of a summer romance between a poor young man from Newark & a rich Radcliffe co-ed, is both a tightly wrought tale of youthful desire & a satiric gem that takes aim at the comfortable affluence of the postwar boom. Here & in the stories that accompany it, including "The Conversion of the Jews" and "Defender of the Faith", Roth depicts Jewish lives in 1950s America w/ unflinching sharpness of observation. In "Letting Go", a sprawling novel set largely against the backdrop of Chicago in the 1950s, Roth portrays the moral dilemmas of young people cast precipitously into adulthood, & in the process describes a skein of social & family responsibilities as they are brought into focus by issues of marriage, abortion, adoption, friendship, & career. The novel's expansiveness provides a wide scope for Roth s gift for vivid characterization, & in his protagonist Gabe Wallach he creates a nuanced portrait of a responsive young academic whose sense of morality draws him into the ordeals of others with unforeseen consequences. * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ Domestic USPS PRIORITY MAIL available for a nominal additional fee of $14.00 & all international orders via Mandatory USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our below-cost posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. The DJ is browned around the edges and there is a triangular tear to the to pof the front cover with paper loss. There is a previous owner's name and address written in marker on the front free endpaper. There are a few pencilled notes throughout the text and some other markings ; American Fiction Series.

494pp. 8vo Illustrated in black and white. James M. Alfonte, Photographic Editor Violet cloth First printing. Opera Biography Series #9. Chronology of Performances by Thomas G. Kaufman. Bibliography by Andrew Farkas. Discography by Bill Park. Ex-library, else nice clean tight bright copy: VG+/VG+ dj 1-57467-019-0.

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. BILLIANT: CLASSIC: NEW LOA Stated First Edition hardcover (1987) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ double-ruled borders & LOA logo on front panel & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW sand-tan Brillianta silk-finish rayon-weave fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & bronze silk ribbon page-marker, IMPECCABLE white-on-tan LOA-patterned front & back card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed w/ ELEGANT clarity in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB silk-finish acid-free Ecusta-Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.92", 0.68 kg, x+816 (826) pp. In slipcase: 5.36 x 8.36" x 2.0", 0.78 kg * CONTENTS: Writings: Letters from London 1757-1775 (1), Paris 1776-1785 (169), Philadelphia 1785-1790 (371), Poor Richard's Almanack 1733-1758 (441), The Autobiography (565); Chronology (731), Note on the Texts (756), Notes (770), Index (791) * ABOUT THE BOOK: "Writing has been of Great Use to me in the Course of my Life," Benjamin Franklin said in his famous Autobiography. W/ characteristically calculated understatement, he attributed his enormous & varied successes to "my having learnt a little to scribble." This LOA collection of Franklin's works begins w/ letters sent from London (1757-1775) describing the events & diplomacy preceding the Revolutionary War. The volume also contains political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, & letters written in Paris (1776-1785), where he represented the revolutionary United States at the court of Louis XVI, as well as his speeches given in the Constitutional Convention & other works written in Philadelphia (1785-1790), including his last published article, a searing satire against slavery. Also included are the delightfully shrewd prefaces to "Poor Richard's Almanack" (1733-1758) & their worldly, pungent maxims that have entered our American culture. Finally, the classic "Autobiography", Franklin's last word on his greatest literary creation "his own invented personality" is presented here in a new edition, completely faithful to Franklin's manuscript. * THE LIRBARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: EPIC: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover(Orig. 1985) Ninth Printing (c. 2016), NEW LOA slipcase w/ double-gilt-ruled borders framing centered LOA logo on front panle & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW British-green silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, SUPERB white-on-green Library of America patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ green-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & green silk page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free lightweight opaque archival paper * 5.00" x 8.12" x 1.32", 0.68 kg, 1051 pp. W/ slipcase: 5.32" x 8.48" x 1.50", 0.68 kg * CONTENTS: The Pathfinder: or, The Inland Sea (1); The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path (483); Chronology (1031), Note on the Texts (1044), Notes (1049) * ABOUT THE BOOK: When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in 'The Pioneers', one early reader said of his departure, "I longed to go with him." American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in two Library of America volumes) &, 14 years after he portrayed the death of Natty Bumppo in 'The Prairie', Cooper brought him back in 'The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea' (1841). During the Seven Years War, just after the events narrated in 'The Last of the Mohicans', Natty brings the daughter of a British sergeant to her father's station on the Great Lakes, where the French & their Indian allies are plotting a treacherous ambush. Here, for the first time, he falls in love with a woman, before Cooper manages bring off Leatherstocking's most poignant, & perhaps his most revealing, escape. 'The Deerslayer' (1842) brings the saga full circle & follows the young Natty on his first warpath. Instinctively gifted in the arts of the forest, pious in his respect for the unspoiled wilderness on which he loves to gaze, honorable to friend & foe alike, stoic under torture, & cool under fire, the young Leatherstocking emerges as Cooper's noblest figure of the American frontier. Enacting a rite of passage both for its hero & for the culture he comes to represent, this last book in the series glows with a timelessness that readers everywhere will find enchanting. * ABOUT THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA: The Library of America is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ Domestic USPS PRIORITY MAIL available for a nominal additional fee & shipment of all international orders via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1987) Fourth Printing (c. 2012), NEW gloss-laminated unclipped jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing $40.00 publisher price printed at the bottom right of the front inside flyleaf, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta cloth-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine caps & tan silk page-marker ribbon, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, white-on brown LOA-pattermed front & back end-papers on heavy stock, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.52", 0.76 kg, 1168 pp. * CONTENTS: Sister Carrie (1), Jennie Gerhardt (457), Twelve Men (825); Chronology (1131), Note on the Texts (1159), Notes (1164) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Theodore Dreiser is arguably the most important figure in the development of American fiction in this century. According to H.L. Mencken, "American writing before & after his time, differed almost as much as biology before & after Darwin." "Dreiser's great first novel 'Sister Carrie' came to housebound & airless America like a great, free Western wind, & to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain & Walt Whitman," Sinclair Lewis declared in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1930. Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old small-town girl drawn to bustling Chicago, becomes the passionless mistress of a good-humored traveling salesman & then of an infatuated saloon manager Hurstwood who leaves his family & elopes w/ her to New York. Dreiser's brilliant, panoramic rendering of the two cities' fashionable theaters & restaurants, luxurious hotels & houses of commerce, alongside their unemployment, labor violence, homelessness, degradation & despair makes this the 1st American novel on a grand scale. In a 1911 review, H.L. Mencken wrote, "'Jennie Gerhardt' is the best American novel I have ever read, w/ the lonesome but Himalayan exception of 'Huckleberry Finn.' It has no more moral than a string quartet or the first book of Euclid." Beautiful, vital & generous, but morally naive & unconscious of social conventions, Jennie emerges superior to the succession of men who exploit her. There are no villains in the novel; in Dreiser's view, everyone is victimized by the desires the world excites but can never satisfy. Dreiser's embracing compassion is felt in "Twelve Men" (1919), a collection of portraits of men he knew & admired. They range from "My Brother Paul" (Paul Dresser, vaudeville musical comedian & composer of "On the Banks of the Wabash" & "My Gal Sal") to "Culhane, the Solid Man," a sanatorium owner & former wrestler. Dreiser recalls these anomalous individuals & the twists of fate that shaped their lives without sentiment but w/ honest emotion & respect for the bleak & unvarnished truth. * The LIBRARY of AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.