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hardcover. Condizione: New. Alice Englander; Cover Illustrations By Claudio Munoz (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Illustrated by Portrait of Author Frontis (illustratore). Original ed. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid,bright; black & white titles on red & blue paper covers. ; 132 pages; "Sappho to Philaenis" "to his mistress going to bed (elegy).

Trade paperback. Condizione: Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 440 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. SC 323.

Paperback. 228p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. Scott Idleman (Cover Design); Pete Ivey (Interior Design); Phyllis Christopher (Cover Photo) (illustratore). 1st Edition. 197 pp. Book in essentially flawless condition with clean and crisp pages. Smooth cover. Very mild shelf wear. Stated first edition and first printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: VIVID: EPIC: AS-NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1985) First Printing: AS-NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $27.50 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, AS-NEW green silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, EXCELLENT smooth-cut text-block exterior marred ONLY by slightest rust-dust soiling on smooth-cut top edge, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Olin Nyallite archival paper * 5.24" x 8.12" x 1.62", 0.88 kg, 1347 pp. * CONTENTS: The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale (1); The Last of the Mohicans, A Narrative of 1757 (467); The Prairie, A Tale (879); Chronology (1319), Note on the Texts (1332), Notes (1338). * ABOUT THE BOOK: James Fenimore Cooper's epic of the American frontier follows the exploits of the scout Natty Bumpo, "Leatherstocking", from the French & Indian Wars to the early 19th century; here the five novels are gathered for the first time in two volumes in the order of their original publication. Leatherstocking first appears in "The Pioneers" as an aged hunter caught-up in the struggle to determine what kind of civilization will replace the vanishing wilderness. "The Last of the Mohicans" is a pure, unabashed adventure story, in which Natty & his Indian companions Chingachgook & Uncas attempt a daring rescue while the French threaten to invade the American colonies. In "The Prairie", Natty, in his 80s, is driven to refuge on the Great Plains, where Sioux, Pawnee, outlaw whites, & members of the Lewis & Clark expedition enact a fateful drama. A companion volume gathers "The Pathfinder" & "The Deerslayer". * 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. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. MONUMENTAL: A TREASURE: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) 7th Printing (c. 2010): NEW LOA jacket, NEW sand-tan silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ tan silk page-marker ribbon, NEW white-on-brown LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Olin Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 2.06", 1.02 kg, x+1620 (1630) pp * CONTENTS: Count Frontenac & New France under Louis XIV (1), A Half-Century of Conflict (329), Montcalm & Wolfe (829); Chronology (1505), Note on the Texts (1511), Notes (1514), Index (1517) * This is the 2nd of 2 vols. which together incorporate all 7 titles of Francis Parkman's monumental account of France & England's imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Parkman conceived the project in 1841, when he was a Harvard sophomore, & persisted in it despite chronic nervous disorders that affected his eyes. The last volume of what he called his "history of the American forest" appeared almost 30 years after the 1st. Deservedly compared as a literary achievement to Gibbon's "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire", Parkman's accomplishment is hardly less awesome than the explorations & adventures he so vividly describes. His own indomitable spirit is reflected in 2 of the history's most fiercely resolute figures: La Salle, obsessed with colonizing the Mississippi Valley, & Frontenac, determined to bolster France's tottering position in the New World. Here for the 1st time Parkman's massive complete epic appears in a compact form. It tells a story of great empires maneuvering in an unfamiliar & hostile terrain w/ all the guile, sophistication & ingenuity learned from centuries of European rivalry. "Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV" tells how France might have won her imperial struggle w/ England. Frontenac, a courtier made governor of New France by that most sagacious of monarchs, oversaw the colony's brightest era of growth & influence. Had Canada's later governors possessed his administrative skill & personal force, his sense of diplomacy & political talent, or his grasp of the uses of power in a modern world, the English colonies to the south might have become part of what Frontenac saw as a continental scheme of French dominion. England's American colonies flourished, while France, in both the Old World & the New, declined from its late 17th century greatness. Conflict over the developing western regions of North America erupted in a series of colonial wars. As narrated by Parkman in "A Half-Century of Conflict", these American campaigns, while only part of a larger, global struggle, prepared the Colonies for the American Revolution. In "Montcalm & Wolfe" Parkman describes the fatal confrontation of the 2 great French & English commanders whose climactic battle marked the end of French power in America. As the English Colonies cooperated for their own defense, they began to realize their common interests, their relative strength, & their unique position; & in this imperial war of European powers we begin to see American figures (Benjamin Franklin, George Washington) soon to occupy a historical stage of their own. Parkman's chronicle, concluding on the Plains of Abraham after nearly 250 years of conflict, will permanently transform our image of the American landscape. Written w/ verve, suppleness & wit, this grand narrative history of political & theological conflict, of feats of physical endurance, of courtly manners practiced w/ comic disproportion against the backdrop of a looming wilderness, is a treasure of our national & of world literature. * 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.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. A TREASURE: LABOR OF LOVE: COMPREHENSIVE: AUTHORITATIVE: UNPRECEDENTED: ENRICHING: SPLENDID: FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition two-volume hardcover boxed set (Orig. 1993) First Printings, EXCELLENT LOA box showing the slightest signs of wear w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, AS-NEW blue Brillianta linen-over-boards covers w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & LOA-logo & titles gold-stamped on uncreased spines, EXCELLENT mylar-protected jackets w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners BUT w/ c. 1.0" long open tear from top spine-cap of the jacket of Vol. I, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exteriors, AS-NEW Smyth-sewn bindings w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interiors handsomely printed on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta-Nyalite archival paper * Both volumes: 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.50"; Volume I: 0.74 kg, 1099 pp; Volume II: 0.70 kg, 1050 pp; 2-vol. set w/ slipcase: 1.66 kg, 2149 pp. * ABOUT THE TWO-VOUME SET: From the lyrics of Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson to folk ballads & moving spirituals, one of our greatest cultural legacies is the distinctly American poetry that arose in the 19th-century United States. Embracing over 1,000 poems by nearly 150 poets, 'American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century' reveals for the first time the full beauty & diversity of that tradition. UNPRECEDENTED in its COMPREHENSIVE sweep & in its textual AUTHORITY, this two volume anthology reassesses & restores America's poetic heritage. The century's greatest poets are here presented in generous selections: Dickinson, Poe, Emerson, Melville, & Whitman. Alongside these are the currently undervalued achievements of Whitter, Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, & Holmes, as well as poems only now finding full recognition: mystical sonnets by Jones Very, the Romantic fantasies of Maria Gowen Brooks, the exquisite fin de siecle verse of Trumbull Stickney. Special features include American Indian poetry in 19th-centuery versions, & a rich gathering of anonymous folk songs, ballads, & hymns whose lyrics echo in our American language more than a century later. * 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. Created w/ support form the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, and hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is dedicated to restoring & preserving America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine two-volume boxed set for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & to international destinations via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL at our posted rates.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. Scott Idleman (Cover Design); Pete Ivey (Interior Design); Phyllis Christopher (Cover Photo) (illustratore). 1st Edition. 197 pp. Book in essentially flawless condition with clean and crisp pages. Smooth cover. Very mild shelf wear. Stated first edition and first printing. Creased back cover.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. Scott Idleman (Cover Design); Pete Ivey (Interior Design); Phyllis Christopher (Cover Photo) (illustratore). 1st Edition. 197 pp. Book in essentially flawless condition with clean and crisp pages. Smooth cover. Very mild shelf wear. Stated first edition and first printing.

Paperback. xx, 212p., very good first edition, first printing stated trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. Enid Farber (Cover Photo) (illustratore). 1st Edition. 194 pp. Stated first edition and first printing! Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. Enid Farber (Cover Photo) (illustratore). 1st Edition. 194 pp. Stated first edition and first printing! Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Decorative Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Peter Theodosiou (Cover Design) (illustratore). 1st Published in the UK: 1984. 94 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Occasional pencil underlining on text. No dust jacket.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Like New. Richard Powers (Cover Drawing) (illustratore). 4th Printing March 1967. 159 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Moderate foxing around edges of pages.

An excellent series guided by its general editor Philip Roth. Near fine pictorial stiff wraps with strong spine and the usual age toning.

Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 96pp, 6 x 8 inches, ex-lib.

Hardcover. Condizione: 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.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: THRILLING: AS-NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (orig. 1982) Second Printing, AS-NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW rayon-weave British-green Brillianta silk-finish fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMMACULATE white-on-green LOA patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Olin Nyallite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.28", 0.66 kg, 1021 pp * CONTENTS: The Call of the Wild (1), White Fang (87), Selected Klondike Short Stories (285), The Sea-Wolf (479), Selected Short Stories (773), Chronology (991), Note on the Texts (995), Historical & Geographical Note (1001), Maps (1005), Notes (1008) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence: these are the qualities that made Jack London phenomenally popular in his own day & continue to make him, both at home & abroad, among the most widely-read of American authors. 'The Call of the Wild', perhaps the best novel ever written about animals, traces a dog's education for survival in the ways of the wolf pack. 'White Fang', in which a wolf-dog becomes domesticated out of love for a man, is an unforgettable portrayal of a world of "hunting & being hunted, eating & being eaten, all in blindness & confusion." In 'The Sea Wolf', the primitive takes human form in the ruthless, indomitable Wolf Larsen, captain of a crew of outcasts on the lawless Alaskan seas. Set in the Klondike, California, Mexico, & the South Seas, the short stories collected here (many for the first time) reveals London as one of America's greatest storytellers. * ABOUT 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 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.

Hardcover. Condizione: 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).

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. SCINTILLATING: CLASSIC: FINE virtually AS-NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1990) First Printing, FINE unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners showing orig. $35.00 list price at bottom right inside front flyleaf, NEW burgundy silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & Library of America colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior showing slightest shelf-dust soiling on top edge, IMPECCABLE white-on-burgundy Library of America patterned end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.24" x 8.12" x 1.48", 0.74 kg, 1137 pp. * CONTENTS: Madame De Treymes (1), Ethan Frome (61), Summer (157), Old New York (315), The Mother's Recompense (551), A Backward Glance (767), Appendix: Life & I (1069), Chronology (1097), Note on the Texts (1116), Notes (1123) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Collected here in one volume are 6 works that represent nearly a quarter century in the productive life of one of the most accomplished & admired of American writers. They explore the private worlds of our "Gilded Age." A once free-spirited American woman in Paris tries to extricate herself from her marriage to a French aristocrat in "Madame de Treymes." A divorced mother finds herself in a strange romantic triangle in "The Mother's Recompense." Repressed passions smolder in small town New England in the classic "Ethan Frome," a tale of unhappy marriage & desperate love which erupts in an act of shattering violence. In "Summer", which Wharton called "the Hot Ethan", she tells the story of a young women's initiation into the intricate sexual & social mores of a small town. Also included here are "Old New York," four linked novellas set in succeeding decades from the 1840s to the 1870s, Wharton's renowned autobiography "A Backward Glance," & "Life and I," a fascinating autobiographical fragment published here for the first time. * ABOUT The LIBRARY of AMERICA, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. * 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. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1992) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE front & back tan-brown distinctively LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on superb Ecusta Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.24", 0.63 kg, x+1040 (1050) pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.48" x 1.50", 0.78 kg * CONTENTS: Texts (1-978); Alphabetical List of Titles & Authors Reviewed (979), Chronology (983), Note on the Texts (1003), Notes (1010) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Willa Cather, one of the great American novelists of the 20th century, also wrote some of America's best short fiction. From her haunting first story, "Peter," the tale of a Bohemian immigrant who brought his violin to the raw western frontier, to her posthumously published "The Best Years," the stories included here span the 50 years of Cather's writing life. In these tales of pioneers & farmers, artists & youthful lovers, immigrants & their striving children, she creates both a new, never-surpassed portrait of the land & people of the American West & a lively & contemporary picture of life in eastern cities. Many of her finest stories, among them "Coming, Aphrodite!" (a New York tale of passion & ambition) & the subtly constructed "Old Mrs. Harris," are unfamiliar to most readers. Her earliest, uncollected stories are steeped in memories of prairie childhood. "On the Divide," "The Enchanted Bluff," "Eric Hermannson's Soul," & others contain many of the themes of her later work, evoking the loneliness & hardship as well as the beauty & challenge of pioneer life "on the bright edges of the world." In the stories of "Youth and the Bright Medusa" (1920), which includes "The Sculptor's Funeral," "The Diamond Mine," & the well-known "Paul's Case," artists & other sensitive spirits struggle to preserve their integrity in a society ruled by convention & routine. "Obscure Destinies" (1932) presents 3 moving tales set in the western landscapes Cather loved. Her characters are endowed w/ some of the meditative solidity found in the portraits of Rembrandt, like the old farmer in "Neighbor Rosicky" who has only "one tap root that goes down deep." "The Old Beauty and Others" (1948), published shortly after Cather's death, includes "The Best Years," a Nebraska story that has a mournful charm unlike anything else she wrote. Cather's distinctive, lyrical prose can be found not only in her fiction but also in her "occasional" pieces: an appreciation of Sarah Orne Jewett, luminous reminiscences of Mrs. James Fields & her house in Boston, an account of meeting Flaubert's niece in Aix-les-Bains. Her critical essays, such as "The Novel Démeublé" & "On the Art of Fiction," which appear in "Not Under Forty" (1936), & her reviews of authors from Mark Twain to Frank Norris, as well as her appraisals of her own work, cast a discerning light on the creative role of the artist. This volume also contains Cather's first novella, "Alexander's Bridge" (1912), "My Mortal Enemy" (1926), a powerful novella in which a strong-willed woman brings about her own ruin, and Cather's only book of poetry, "April Twilights & Other Poems" (1933). * LIBRARY OF AMERICA, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving America's best and 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.

Some random markings on the front end paper, but the interior pages are clean and unmarked. Minor wear around the edges and corners. Pages slightly age tanned.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Reprint. 12mo in edgeworn, heavily chipped DJ with darkening, damp stains. Spine sun tanned. Flap not clipped. Light green cloth covered boards with spotting, dust stains & discoloration. Top textblock edge tinted reddish brown, though discolored & muddied from age. A previous reader has affixed (upside down] a bookplate on the rear free end page. [336 pages].

Decorative Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket/Not Issued. Peter Theodosiou (Cover Desgin) (illustratore). 1st Published in the UK in 1984 by Spell. 94 pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy with minimal external and overall wear and use. Copy with crisp and bright pages. Pencil underlining and marginalia throughout text. No dust jacket.

PAPERBACK. Condizione: VG. First Edition.

kart. Condizione: Gut. Profusely Illustrated (illustratore). 27,5 cm ; Großformmatige englischsprachige Paperbackausgabe, 223 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Gutes Exemplar (good Condirtion). hw1088 ISBN: 089134621X.