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 H.L.M. The Mencken Bibliography Adler, Betty and Jane Wilhelm, Compilers Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins U.P., 1961, 1st Edition, Hard Cover, DJ with Mylar, Size=6.5"x9.5", 367pgs(Index), illus: 8 B/W Photos, Condition: Fine/Good DJ with Mylar, Long tapemend DJ tear from top front edge down top half of its front cover & across DJ front flap, o.w. clean, bright & tight. N o ink names, bookplates, etc. Price unclipped. DJ in a clear plastic protective cover. Subjects: H.L. Mencken; Bibliography; American Writers; Newspapermen; Journalism; University Press; Literature; (Book No. 237338) 29.50 | list price, you save $5.90 | 23.60 |  |
 H.L.M. The Mencken Bibliography Adler, Betty and Jane Wilhelm, Compilers Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins U.P., 1961, 1st Edition, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket, Size=6.5"x9.5", 367pp(Index), illus: 8 B/W Photos, Condition: Fine/VG+ w/Dust Jacket, 1/2" DJ tear bottom fore-edge, price clipped, DJ just slightly nicked head & foot of spine area, o.w. clean, tight & bright. NO ink names, bookplates, etc. Subjects: H.L. Mencken; Bibliography; American Writers; Newspapermen; Journalism; University Press; Literature; (Book No. 141718) 45.50 | list price, you save $9.10 | 36.40 |  |
 The Thunder and The Sunshine A Biography of Joseph Conrad Allen, Jerry New York, NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1958, 1st Edition, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket, Size=6"x8.5", 256pgs(Index), illus: Frontispiece, Condition: Fine-/VG w/Dust Jacket, DJ top edge tears, 1" (2), 1/2' (1), 1" coffee? stain on DJ rear cover, o.w. clean, tight & bright. No ink names, bookplates etc. Price unclipped. Subjects: Literary Biography; American Writers; American Novelists; (Book No. 159902) 14.00 | list price, you save $2.80 | 11.20 |  |
 The Thunder and The Sunshine A Biography of Joseph Conrad Allen, Jerry New York, NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1958, 1st Edition, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket, Size=6"x8.5", 256pp(Index), illus: Frontispiece, Condition: Fine/VG+ w/Dust Jacket, DJ just slightly nicked head & foot of spine & at fore-edge corners, 1/4" DJ chip head of spine,o.w. clean, tight & bright. No ink names, bookplates, etc. Subjects: Literary Biography; American Writers; American Novelists; (Book No. 135416) 16.50 | list price, you save $3.30 | 13.20 |  |
 Laughter's Gentle Soul The Life of Robert Benchley Altman, Billy New York, NY, W.W. Norton & Co., 1997, 1st Edition, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket, Size=6.5"x9.5", 382pp(Index), illus: Text Illus. & 32 B/W Photos, Condition: VG+/VG+ w/Dust Jacket, A 1/4" DJ tear top front fore-edge corner & 1" long thin black line across bottom page ends, o.w. clean, tight & bright. NO ink names, bookplates, etc. Price unclipped. ISBN 0393038335 Subjects: Biography; American Writers; Humorists; (Book No. 124490) 12.00 | list price, you save $2.40 | 9.60 |  |
 Laughter's Gentle Soul The Life of Robert Benchley Altman, Billy New York, NY, W.W. Norton & Co., 1997, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket, Size=6.5"x9.5", 382pp(Index), illus: Text Illus. & 32 B/W Photos, Condition: Fine/Fine- w/Dust Jacket, DJ rear cover rubbed, o.w. clean, bright & tight. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing etc. Price unclipped. ISBN 0393038335 Subjects: Biography; American Writers; Humorists; (Book No. 236600) 14.00 | list price, you save $2.80 | 11.20 |  |
 Love In Exile An American Writer's Memoir of Life in Divided Berlin Anderson, Edith South Royalton, VT, Steerforth Press, 1999, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket, Size=6.5"x9.5", 404pp(Index), illus: 16 B/W Photos, Condition: VG+/VG+ w/Dust Jacket, 3/8" coffee ? stain foot of DJ spine, ink owner name, date on front endpaper, o.w. clean, bright & tight. DJ not torn, etc. Price unclipped. ISBN 1883642671 Subjects: East Berlin; American Writer; Autobiography; Communism; Political History; Cold War; (Book No. 123091) 19.50 | list price, you save $3.90 | 15.60 |  |
 A Story Teller's Story A Critical Text Anderson, Sherwood Cleveland, OH, Case Western Reserve U.P., 1968, REISSUE Edition, Hard Cover, No Dust Jacket, Size=6.5"x9.5", 360pgs(Index), Condition: Fine No Dust Jacket, DJ flaps laid in. Clean, bright and tight. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing, etc. Edited with an Introduction by Ray Lewis White. Subjects: Autobiography; University Press; Literary Biography; American Novelists; Short Story Writers; (Book No. 245240) 11.00 | list price, you save $2.20 | 8.80 |  |
 A Story Teller's Story A Critical Text Anderson, Sherwood Cleveland, OH, Case Western Reserve U.P., 1968, 1st (As Such), Hard Cover, No Dust Jacket, Size=6.5"x9.5", 360pgs(Index), Condition: Fine No Dust Jacket, Clean, bright and tight. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing, etc. Subjects: Autobiography; University Press; Literary Biography; American Novelists; Short Story Writers; (Book No. 190744) 11.00 | list price, you save $2.20 | 8.80 |  |
 Whose Woods These Are A History of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 1926-1992 Bain, David Howard and Duffy, Mary Smyth Editors Hopewell, NJ, The Ecco Press, 1993, 1st Edition, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket, Size=9"x11.5", 378pgs(Index), illus: Many B/W Photos, Condition: NEW w/Dust Jacket, Stated "First Edition". Clean, bright & tight. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing etc. Price unclipped. ISBN 0880013230 Subjects: BREadloaf Writers; Literary Conference; Middlebury College; Vermont; American Authors; American Writers; (Book No. 258099) 37.50 | list price, you save $7.50 | 30.00 |  |
 Malcol Cowley The Formative Years Bak, Hans Athens, GA, U of Georgia Press, 1993, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Hard Cover, DJ with Mylar, Size=6.5"x9.5", 626pgs(Index), Condition: NEW DJ with Mylar, NEW. Clean, bright and very tight. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing, etc. ISBN 0820313238 Subjects: Literary Biography; University Press; American Novelists; American Poets; Literary Critics; Left-Wing Writers; (Book No. 243253) 25.00 | list price, you save $5.00 | 20.00 |  |
 John Jay Chapman The Selected Writings Barzun, Jacques (Editor and Introduction) New York, NY, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1957, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket, Size=6"x8.5", 294pp(Index), Condition: VG+/VG w/Dust Jacket, DJ slightly nicked head/foot of spine, DJ front cover lightly browned, a few dust foxing specks on fore-edge, bottom page ends, tiny white specks on top page ends, o.w. clean, tight & bright. NO ink names, bookplates etc. Price unclipped. Subjects: John Jay Chapman; American Writers; Essayists; Social Commentators; (Book No. 210423) 14.00 | list price, you save $2.80 | 11.20 |  |
 The Ideological Struggle and Literature A Critical Analsis of the Writings of US Sovietologists Belyaev, Albert Moscow, USSR, Progress Publishers, 1978, 1st Edition, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket, Size=5.5"x8.5", 308pgs(Index), Condition: Fine-/Fine- w/Dust Jacket, Clean, bright & tight. No ink names, chips, foxing etc. Subjects: Ideology; Literature; Soviet Ideology; Communist Ideology; Sovietologists; American Writers; (Book No. 232495) 18.50 | list price, you save $3.70 | 14.80 |  |
 Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Benelmans, Ludwig New York, NY, The Viking Press, 1943, 1st American Ed, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket, Size=5.5"x8.", 299pgs, Condition: VG+/VG- w/Dust Jacket, 1/4" DJ chip top front edge, head of spine (2), DJ nicked head and foot of spine, fore-edge corners, top rear edge, faint dust foxing specks on DJ white rear cover, blank owner bookplate (no name) inside front cover, small ink gift note on front endpaper, o.w. clean and tight. Text & book covers bright and in Near Fine condition. Subjects: Novels; Fiction; Austria-Hungarians; American Writer; Illustrators; (Book No. 228979) 14.00 | list price, you save $2.80 | 11.20 |  |
 No Gifts From Chance A Biography of Edith Wharton Benstock, Shari New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994, 1st American Ed, 1st Printing, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket, Size=6.5"x9.5", 546pgs(Index), illus: B/W Photos, Condition: NEW w/Dust Jacket, Clean, bright & tight. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing etc. Price unclipped. ISBN 0684192764 Subjects: Biography; Literary Biography; American Novelists; Women Novelists; Short Story Writers; Gilded Age; Pulitzer Winner; (Book No. 257666) 28.50 | list price, you save $5.70 | 22.80 |  |
 Transatlantic Mirrors Essays in Franco-American Literary Relations Braun, Sidney D. and Seymour Lainoff, Editors Boston, MA, Twayne Publishing Inc., 1978, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Hard Cover, No Dust Jacket, Size=6."x8.5", 271pgs(Biblio), Condition: VG+ No Dust Jacket, Stated "First Printing". Dark blue cloth. Only a very few faint & very tiny dust foxing specks on page ends, o.w. clean, tight and bright. No ink names, tears, chips, etc. Contents & covers in Fine condition. ISBN 080579008X Subjects: Literary Essays; French Writers; American Writers; French Essays; American Essays; (Book No. 224939) 66.50 | list price, you save $13.30 | 53.20 |  |
 The Journal of Gamaliel Bradford 1883-1932 Brooks, Van Wyck (Edited) Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Hard Cover, No Dust Jacket, Size=6.5"x9.5", 560pgs(Index), Condition: VG+ No Dust Jacket, Spine cloth slightly faded, o.w. clean, tight & bright. No ink names, bookplates etc. Text in Fine condition. Subjects: Journals; Diaries; American Writers; Massachusetts; American Literature; (Book No. 153198) 19.00 | list price, you save $3.80 | 15.20 |  |
 The Journal of Gamaliel Bradford 1883-1932 Brooks, Van Wyck, Editor Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933, Later Printing, Hard Cover, No Dust Jacket, Size=6.5"x9.5", 560pgs(Index), Condition: VG- No Dust Jacket, Ink owner name, date on both front endpapers, cloth frayed head and foot of spine, 1/8' cloth wear spot at fore-edge corner tips , o.w. a clean copy. Text pages bright and VG+ condition. Subjects: Journals; Diaries; American Writers; Massachusetts; American Literature; (Book No. 244612) 11.00 | list price, you save $2.20 | 8.80 |  |
 James Gould Cozzens A Life Apart Bruccoli, Matthew J. San Diego, CA, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983, 1st PB Edition, 1st Printing, Paperback, Size=6."x9.", 343pgs(Index), illus: B/W Illustrations, Condition: Fine- 1" long black line across bottom page ends at spine, o.w. clean, bright and tight. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing, etc. ISBN 0156459523 Subjects: Literary Biography; American Novelists; American Writers; Short Story Author; (Book No. 254520) 15.00 | list price, you save $3.00 | 12.00 |  |
 A Bibliography, 1953-73 Burroughs, William S. Charlottesville, VA, U.P. of Virginia, 1978, 1st Edition, Hard Cover, DJ Not Issued, Size=6.5"x9.5", 242pgs(Index), illus: Frontis, Condition: Fine- DJ Not Issued, Cover top fore-edge corner tips very lightly bumped, o.w. clean, bright and tight. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing, etc. Compiled by Joe Maynard and Barry Miles. ISBN 0813907101 Subjects: Bibliography; American Writers; American Artists; Beat Generation; Postmodernists; Novelists; Paronoid Fiction; (Book No. 249605) 17.00 | list price, you save $3.40 | 13.60 |  |
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