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Doubleday, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Owner's signaure. There is some chipping to the dust jacket. There is a protective mylar cover.

W W Norton, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "The Broken Tower' reads with all the drama of a psychological novel and the inexorable force of a Greek tragedy. Few poets have lived as extraordinary and fascinating a life as Hart Crane, the American poet who made his meteoric rise in the late 1920s and then as suddenly flamed… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "There is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Maddox Ford. There is no denying his importance in the literary firmament of the first thirty years of the twentieth-century. What Judd rightly emphasizes is that Ford was a giver, believing that the preservation and… Read more about this item

Bonanza, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "This large volume catalogs and presents data on the American residences of more than six hundred persons whose lives had major effects on national society and history; who they were and why they became such notable figures. A practical tour guide; a unique form of social history."" [Pub. Info] 1ST EDITION

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1982. Hardcover. Fine. "A critical examination of the lives and works of leading thinkers of the period. A critical examination of the lives and works of leading thinkers of the period."" [Pub. Info] 500 entries by 200 experts. 709 pages. 1ST EDITION

Harper & Row, NY. Hardcover. Fine. "Mini-biographies of nearly everybody: scientists, inventors, thinkers, writers, entertainers, who made a difference in the 20th century, until about 1990, when it was published."" [Pub. Info] 2000 entries by 300 contributors. 60 subject categories. 865 pages. 1ST EDITION

HarperCollins, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. This book... is the first to analyze frankly the meaning as well as the events of Fitzgerald's life."" [Pub. Info] Definitive biography.

Doubleday, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. 865 pages. Detailed index. Definitive biography. 1ST EDITION.

Viking, NY, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "A critical biography of Kipling focuses on the writer's literary and peripatetic searches for a refuge to replace the lost Indian Eden of his childhood." [Pub Info] Definitive biography. 397 pages. 1ST US EDITION.

Cambridge University Press, UK, No date. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The book and dust jacket are in Fine condition.

Farrar, Straus, Giroux, NY, 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. On October 29,1857, Henry Thoreau wrote in his journal of a dream that had come to him fo perhaps the twentieth time. He saw a mountain standing east of Concord, where the land is low and flat, and climbed to its summit: 'And are there not such mountains,… Read more about this item

Little Brown, NY, 1974. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. [This] dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of... Flexner's definitive four-volume biography 'George Washington,' (Pulitzer Prize citation)… has itself become an American classic. [it] explores the Father of Our Country - sometimes an unpopular hero, a man of great contradictions, but always a towering historical figure... 'a fallible human being… Read more about this item

Random House, NY , 2004. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs... [This] seemingly straightforward decision would profoundly alter... the course of American literature... [The] two men became close friends and intimate collaborators. Grant raced against the spread of… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury Press, NY, Berlin, London, Sydney, 2012. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Master historian Peter Clarke…finds a fresh perspective on one of the most written-about figures in history. When Churchill received the Nobel Prize in 1953, it was not for his role as a world leader, but for literature… Churchill was a gifted and successful writer long before he… Read more about this item

Appleton-Century, NY , 1965. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The best novels of Edith Whartton are classics. Such books as 'Ethan Frome' and the Pulitzer Prize-winner 'The Age of innocence', have proved to be of unique importance in American letters… Born into New York's 'Four Hundred' she shocked her set by putting them into novels so penetrating that they… Read more about this item

The Bobs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, Hardcover. Fine /General wear to extremities; large chip with paper loss at bottom right corner of cover; small tear at top left of front cover. Chipping with paper loss at top and botrtom of spine, small tear also at top; small tear at top of back cover.. "This is the stuff of which legend… Read more about this item

Little, Brown and Company, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Dumas Malone's classic six-volume biography 'Jefferson and His Time' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson's life. This the final volume provides an all-encompassing account of Jefferson's accomplishments, friendships, and family difficulties in his last seventeen years, revealing his shift from the… Read more about this item

Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, No date. Hardcover. Fine/ Fine Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. "Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English Folklore, a highly skilled archer and swordsman. Although such behaviour was was not part of his original character, since the beginning of the 19th century he has been known for robbing the rich and giving to the… Read more about this item

Harper & Row, 1972. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Fine. "...Emile Durkheim, one of the great founding fathers of sociology. Durkheim remains one of the most widely read thinkers in the social sciences and every student of sociology, anthropology and related subjects must study his now-classic books. He brought about a revolution in the social sciences: the defence of… Read more about this item

Little, Brown & Co. NY [vols: 1983, 1988, 2012], 1983. 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Born at the end of the 19th century when Imperial Britain still stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power, Churchill would witness the shift a few years later as the Empire hovered on the brink of a catastrophic new era. One of the greatest… Read more about this item