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Click to view full description | 1. | Buitenhuis, Peter. (Henry James.) THE GRASPING IMAGINATION: THE AMERICAN WRITINGS OF HENRY JAMES.
University of Toronto Press, (Toronto, 1973), reprint.
288 pp, 8vo, soft cover. ''There has been almost no study of the American writings of Henry James, that is, the fiction, essays, and travel literature with an American setting. The great bulk of Jamesian criticism deals with the international novel s, particularly his late works. This study places James's career in a new perspective by discussing its American aspect. It gives the critic an opportunity to come to grips with the evolution of James's technique from his second short story to his penultimate, unfinished novel, 'The Ivory Tower'...'' Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor rubbing, tiny brown mark on spine edge, spine flat and uncreased. VG+
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| 2. | Hitchcock, Alfred. (Fletcher Flora, James Holding, Stanley Abbott, Robert Edmond Alter, Donald Honig, Hal Dresner, Richard Curtis, Helen Nielsen, Henry Slesar, C.B. Gilford, Arthur Porges, Bryce Walton, Richard Hardwick, Jack Ritchie.) ANTI-SOCIAL REGISTER.
Dell, (New York, 1965), Ist Dell printing.
206 pp, PB. A collection of 14 short stories introduced by Alfred Hitchcock. Interior - pages browning, previous owner's inscription at top of first page - otherwise clean and tight. Exterior - minor edgewear/rubbing, spine flat and uncreased. V G
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| 3. | Kaye, Marvin, selected by. Cover art by Edward Gorey. (Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ogden Nash, H.P. Lovecraft, Edward D. Hoch, Henry James, Donald A. Wollheim, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Richard Matheson, Robert E. Howard, L. Frank Baum, et al.) HAUNTED AMERICA: STAR-SPANGLED SUPERNATURAL STORIES.
Guild America, Garden City, New York, (1990), book club edition.
582 pp, 8vo (8 1/2'' H), hard cover in dust jacket. A collection of 47 ''blood-red, bone-white, and cold-blue stories...The all-star authors include Isaac Asimov, L. Frank Baum, Willa Cather, Helen Eustis, H.P. Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Kuttner, Fritz Leiber, Washington Irving, Richard Matheson, Ogden Nash, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton. These classic and contemporary tales are drawn from five broad regions of the United States: New England, the East, the South, the West, and the Midwest. There's also 'The Midnight Tourist's Guide to Haunted America', a specially compiled directory to haunted sites in each of the fifty states.'' Small store label on front free endpaper, minor wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, tiny dint on fore-edge of textblock. VG/VG
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 | 4. | Lewis, Albert L., ed. (James Peck, Herman Salmon, Douglas Rolfe, William Suda, Alfred Owles, E.W. Evans, Charles Hollinger, Jerry Brofman, H.A. Thomas, Walter Musciano, Robert Brown, Henry Struck, Harvey Robbers, C.D. Calkins, J.F. Conway.) AIR TRAILS PICTORIAL. FEBRUARY, 1949. VOL. XXXI, NO. 5.
Street & Smith, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1949.
110 pp, 11 3/16" H, soft cover (magazine format). Profusely illustrated, predominantly in b&w, with photographs, drawings, plans (2 fold-outs), advertisements. Contents: Behemoth (Consolidated XC-99); The Reds Aren't Stallin' (Soviet Air Force); We Fly the Minnow; Dallas School; Air Progress: Gun Turrents; Jet Propulsion Isn't New!; Photo Competition; C.A.P. News; Skystreak; Goodyear Round Up - Part I; Jaguar; Aeronca C-3; XC-99; Albatros; "Pete" (Sterling Pete); Flying Wing Airfoils; Jetex Job; Record Riser; Accident Prevention Code for Clubs; Twin-Engine Technique. Departments: Showcase; Development Highlights; Air Notes; Solo Club; Sketchbook; Dope Can; Airmen of Vision; The Last Word. Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light wear at top/bottom of spine, a few small wrinkles on spine. light browning to edges of textblock, very light browning on spine and rear cover, minor rubbing/edge wear, small corner crease on rear cover - migrates into last few pages. Very Good
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| 5. | Lewis, Albert L., ed. (John Mackenzie, Douglas Rolfe, Sid Goldin, James Peck, Henry Clark, J.C. Yates, Alexander Lippisch, Bob Thomas, Wally Wallick, William Winter, Frank Tinsley.) AIR TRAILS PICTORIAL. APRIL, 1950. VOL. XXXIV, NO. 1.
Street & Smith, Elizabeth, N.J., 1950.
98 pp, 11 1/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps - magazine format). Profusely illustrated, predominantly in b&w, with photographs, drawings, plans, advertisements. Contents: Air Racing; King of the Midget Racers (William Brennand); What's Wrong With the Lightplane Picture?; Air Progress: Curtiss JN-4D Biplane; We Fly the Emigh Trojan; Sub Sinkers; So You Know Your Planes?; Alpine Eagles; C.A.P. Newsletter; Typical Club: Flying Maniacs; Stearman PT-17; Wing Sections for Model Planes - Part I; Orange Crate; Velie Monocoupe; North American AJ-1; PAA-Load Event Winners; Motor of the Month: McCoy "9"; Model of the Month: Waco; Curtis JN-4D in Plan Form. Departments: Showcase; Advance Word; Development Highlights; Air Notes; Airmen of Vision; Solo Club; Dope Can; Sketchbook; Contest Calendar. Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light wear at top/bottom of spine - minor on spine, light browning to edges of textblock, minor browning on spine and rear cover, minor rubbing. Very Good
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| 6. | Manguel, Alberto, ed. (Charles Darwin, R.B. Cunninghame Graham, Thomas Belt, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Priscilla Wakefield, John James Audubon, Philip Henry Gosse, Grant Allen, Charles Hall, Charles Abbot, Herman Melville, Annie Dillard, et al.) BY THE LIGHT OF THE GLOW-WORM LAMP: THREE CENTURIES OF RELFECTIONS ON NATURE.
Plenum Trade, New York, 1998, first edition.
373 pp, large 8vo (9 1/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0306459914 "(This book) represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over three dozen works from the past three centuries. Echoing the pastoral lyrics of Theocritus and Virgil, nature writing crosses the Middle Ages and Renaissance under changing guises, and comes into its own, first during the Romantic era and then in the nineteenth century when Charles Darwin burst onto the scene. Today, the genre has been revived by a wide and diverse group of imaginative writers - scientists, naturalists, and adventurers among them. Alberto Manguel, a great reader and literary connoisseur, serves as our guide. First outlining a 'literary' history of nature writing, he has organized this anthology into four sections: Landscape, Birds, Beasts, and Insects and Fish. He has included authors who did not train as scientists (D.H. Lawrence and Vladimir Nabokov). There are zoologists (John James Audubon), conservationists (Rachel Carson), the great classic figures (Charles Darwin and J.H. Fabre), and well-known contemporary writers (Diane Ackerman, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez). A cornucopia of the marvelous and the earthbound, (it) will take its place alongside the more popular prose anthologies of our time." Minor rubbing, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling. Very Good+/Very Good+
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| 7. | Morrison, Helen Barber, ed. (Napoleon Bonaparte, Lord Byron, Charles Burney, Thomas Carlyle, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Heinrich Heine, Henry James, James Russell Lowell, Macaulay, et al.) THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL: LITERARY IMPRESSIONS OF THE GRAND TOUR.
Andrew Melrose, London, 1953, first edition.
271 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Maps. "....the warmly personal views and comments of a host of famous figures as they journeyed up and down England, Scotland, Italy, France, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Bohemia in the 18th and 19th centuries taking the then fashionable Grand Tour. Here the foremost artists, statesmen and scholars of their day mark, in charming 'off-the-record' moments their pleasures, joys, furies and irritations. Shelley writes about Lake Geneva; Thackeray tells why he was refused a good room in a hotel; William James airs his views on Berlin; Chopin speaks about Edinburgh; Mozart comments on Paris; and Dickens tells a hair-raising story about an ascent of Vesuvius....And, for additional company, there is Voltaire, Beethoven, Henry James, Carlyle, Madame de Stael, R.L. Stevenson, Emerson, Dumas, Robert Burns and many more. This masterly selection has humour in abundance, originality and insight and learning - in short, all the qualities that make good travel-writing durable however much travel may change." Small business label on front pastedown, very light browning and a few light foxing marks on endpapers, tiny foxing marks on fore-edge of textblock, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear, moderate edge wrinkling, a few tiny/small chips, small hole on rear hinge - near bottom, light browning, light soiling/rubbing, a few faint foxing marks. Very Good/Good
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| 8. | Smith, Henry Wentworth, editor. (James Lorimer Keirstead - Signed). KEIRSTEAD.
Kingston, Ontario, 1973, number 1331 of an edition of 2,000 copies.
127 pp, square 8vo (8 3/4" x 8 3/4"), hard cover in dust jacket. SIGNED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, "JAMES L. KEIRSTEAD". "This reference book on the work of James Lorimer Keirstead will in itself be a collector's item and a valuable addition to your art and art history collection. It covers the period 1961 to the present (1973) with excellent examples of subject matter and media. It illustrates the artist's inventiveness and willingness to experiment and explore. Keirstead has been described as a genius of technique." Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling, minor edge wear, tiny chip at bottom of flap-folds, soft crease on front panel, three small closed tears, tiny dint on front hinge, several small to very small light stains on p anels, minor soiling. NF/VG-
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| 9. | Swwetman, John. (FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, First Baron Raglan.) RAGLAN: FROM THE PENINSULA TO THE CRIMEA.
Arms and Armour, (London, 1993).
384 pp, large 8to (9 1/2'' H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates, maps. ''Commisioned into the army in 1804, Lord FitzRoy Somerset began his life of public service in 1807, accompanying Sir Arthur Paget on a diplomatic mission to Turkey. The following year, still only nineteen, he saw military action with Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington), remaining with him throughout the Peninsular War and losing an arm at Waterloo. Two spells in the British Embassy in Paris (1814-15 and 1816-19) were followed by eight years as Secretary to the Master-General of the Ordnance (Wellington) and 25 years as Military Secretary at the Horse Guards. Given the indifferent health of both commanders-in-chief during this period - Hill and Wellington - his influence on the conduct of the British Army was profound. He also served as Master-General of the Ordnance before assuming command of the Expeditionary Force to the Crimea...No full biography of Raglan has yet been written. In redressing this omission, John Sweetman has researched Raglan's surviving military and private papers, extensive contemporary correspondence, official records and reports...'' Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling, minor rubbing. NF/VG+
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