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Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. PIONEERING: INNOVATIVE: HONEST: POWERFUL: HARSH: BITTER: SEERING: NEW Library of America hardcover, First Edition (Orig. 1985) First Printing, NEW cream-white LOA slipcase w/ LOA logo gilt stamped at top center of double-gilt-bordered front panel w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green Library of America patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyallite archival paper * 5.24" x 8.12" x 1.62", 0.60 kg, x+940 (950) pp / w/ Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.36" x 2.12", 0.70 kg * CONTENTS: Stories, Novels, & Essays: The Conjure Woman (1); The Wife of His Youth & Other Stories of the Color Line (97); The House Beyond the Cedars (267); The Marrow of Tradition (463); Uncollected Stories (721); Essays (837); Chronology (915), Note on the Texts (924), Notes (929) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Before Langston Hughes & Zora Neale Hurston, before James Weldon Johnson & Nella Larsen, Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature w/ searching explorations of the meaning of race & innovative use of African-American speech & folklore. Rejecting genteel Victorian hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, & "passing", Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of Jim Crow w/ novels & stories of formal clarity: creating, in the process, the modern African American novel. Here is the best of Chesnutt's work in the largest & most comprehensive edition ever published, presenting for the first time the full range of his achievement as a writer & social critic. "The Conjure Woman" (1899) introduced Chesnutt to the public as a writer of "conjure" tales, stories that explore black folklore & supernaturalism. That same year, he published "The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line", stories set in Chesnutt's native North Carolina that dramatize the legacies of slavery & Reconstruction at the turn of the century. His first novel, "The House Behind the Cedars" (1900) tells, as no previous novel ever had, of racial passing. "The Marrow of Tradition" (1901), Chesnutt's masterpiece, is a powerful & bitter novel about the harsh reassertion of white dominance in a southern town at the end of the Reconstruction era, based largely on the Wilmington race riot. Nine uncollected short stories, including conjure tales omitted from "The Conjure Woman", round out a selection of the author's fiction. Eight essays highlight Chesnutt's prescient views on the paradoxes of race relations in America & the definition of race itself. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: WERNER SOLLORS teaches Afro-American Studies & English at Harvard University. His most recent book is "Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature". * ABOUT LIBRARY OF AMERICA: Library of America is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, & keeping permanently in print, America's best & most significant writing. The LOA series includes hundreds of volumes, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, & ribbon markers, & are printed on premium acid-free archival paper that will last for centuries. * 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: 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: 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: 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. Condizione: 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. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: CLASSIC: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1985) Third Printing: 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 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 white-on-maroon patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & maroon-white-checked banding at spine-caps w/ a maroon silk page-marking ribbon bound from the top, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.68", 0.84 kg, 1328 pp * CONTENTS: The House of Mirth (1), The Reef (349), The Custom of the Country (621), The Age of Innocence (1015); Chronology (1303), Note on the Texts (1321), Notes (1325). * ABOUT THE BOOK: Superb editions of Edith Wharton's 4 acutely-observed classic novels, rich in detailed social portraiture, mordant satire, & emotionally-charged tragedy, elegantly presented in this handsomely-designed single volume. * 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: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: ORIOUS BOUQET OF MASTERPIECES: AS-NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1996) First Printing: NEW unclipped mylar-protected handsome LOA gloss-laminated jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, EXCELLENT smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED w/ slightest shelf-dusting of top-edge, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE white-on-dark-tan LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & silk tan page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-fee Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.12", 0.60 kg, 946 pp * CONTENTS: Complete Stories 1898-1910 (Volume V of V): John Delavoy (1), The Given Case (36), "Europe" (62), The Great Condition (81), The Real Right Thing (121), Paste (135), The Great Good Place (152), Maud-Evelyn (178), Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie (206), The Tree of Knowledge (220), The Abasement of the Northmores (235), The Third Person (255), The Special Type (287), The Tone of Time (306), Broken Wings (326), The Two Faces (345), Mrs. Medwin (360), The Beldonald Holbein (382), The Story in It (403), Flickerbridge (421), The Birthplace (441), The Beast in the Jungle (496), The Papers (542), Fordham Castle (639), Julia Bride (661), The Jolly Corner (697), "The Velvet Glove" (732), Mora Montravers (760), Crapy Cornelia (818), The Bench of Desolation (847), A Round of Visits (925); Chronology (925), Note on the Texts (940), Notes (943) * ABOUT THE BOOK: "We work in the dark--we do what we can--we give what we have. The rest is the madness of art." These words, spoken by a dying novelist in "The Middle Years," sum up Henry James' credo as a writer. In more than 100 stories, ranging from brief anecdotes to richly developed novellas, James displayed the unwavering intensity of his aesthetic vision ? and he did so with an astonishing variety of invention. The LOA makes this body of writing available in its entirety in a new, authoritative edition of James' world-famous stories, complete in five volumes. The thirty-one stories presented in Volume V are the culmination of James' glorious final period. Among them are the extraordinary fantasies "The Great Good Place" and "The Jolly Corner," in which supernatural motifs are used hauntingly to express undercurrents of yearning & dislocation; "Julia Bride," a character portrait akin to "Daisy Miller," in which a young American woman experiences the social pleasures & vicissitudes of the marriage market; "Crapy Cornelia," a story whose sense of the compelling power of nostalgic memory owes much to James' 1904 return visit to New York City; "The Birthplace," a comic tale about the commercialization of genius that has lost none of its satiric edge; "The Tree of Knowledge," a sly dissection of the family life of a pampered sculptor; "The Beast in the Jungle," one of James' masterpieces, the harrowing account of a man's confrontation w/ his own lost opportunities that has been seen as foreshadowing many of the dominant themes of 20th-century literature; and "A Round of Visits," James' last story, about the need to confide & the limits of sympathy.* 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. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1992) First Printing, NEW LOA jacket w/ sharp new edges & corners & showing $35.00 orig. pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue rayon-weave 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, NEW 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 Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42, 0.70 kg, 1050 pp. * CONTENTS: Selections presented year-by-year (1-938); Appendix: More Maxims of Mark (939), Chronology (949), Note on the Texts (998), Notes (1016), Index of Titles (1049) * ABOUT THE BOOK: A collection of Twain's writings from his later years includes first-rate pieces that should be better known, as well as previously uncollected works that reflect the inner workings of one of the keenest minds in American history. * Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, & died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person & in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at 12 when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, & Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, & publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, & sentimental, & also pessimistic, cynical, & tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called "the Lincoln of our literature." * TheIBRARY 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. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: CLASSIC: AS-NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) Fourth Printing (c. 2005), EXCELLENT cream-tan paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double gilt-rule-bordered front panel displaying gilt-stamped LOA logo at top center, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE white-on-tan LOA-patterned end-papers on heavy stock, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & silk tan page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.68", 0.82 kg, 1287 pp. In slipcase: 5.36" x 8.50 x 1.76", 0.92 kg * CONTENTS: Novels 1871-1880: Watch & Ward (1), Roderick Hudson (163), The American (513), The Europeans (873), Confidence (1039); Chronology (1253), Note on the Texts (1269), Notes (1279). * ABOUT THE BOOK: The first five novels of Henry James, presented complete in this volume, feature sparkling dialog, masterfully timed suspense, & the romance of youthful artistic aspirations. The contrast between Europe & America, which gives a special dimension to all of James' cultural observations, is brilliantly deployed in these early works. "Watch and Ward," written when James was 28, is a Bostonian version of the Pygmalion story. In "Roderick Hudson," a headstrong & gifted young American sculptor loses his way among the temptations of Italy. "The American" was written in Paris & dramatizes a confrontation between the expatriate culture of American tourists & the protected world behind the barriers of old families & traditions. "The Europeans," by contrast, places 2 visiting European cousins in a pristine & conservative New England village. The little-known & charming "Confidence" is a light drawing-room comedy about the romantic entanglements of Americans traveling through Europe. * Henry James (1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., & brother of eminent psychologist & philosopher William James. He spent his early life in America & studied in Geneva, London & Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law School, & in 1864 began to contribute both criticism & tales to magazines. In 1869, & then in 1872-74, he paid visits to Europe & began his first novel, "Roderick Hudson". Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, & Zola, & wrote "The American" (1877). In December 1876 he moved to London, where 2 years later he achieved international fame w/ "Daisy Miller". Other famous works include "Washington Square" (1880), "The Portrait of a Lady" (1881), "The Princess Casamassima" (1886), "The Aspern Papers" (1888), "The Turn of the Screw" (1898) & 3 large novels of the new century, "The Wings of the Dove" (1902), "The Ambassadors" (1903) & "The Golden Bowl" (1904). In 1905 he revisited the United States & wrote "The American Scene" (1907). During his career he also wrote many works of criticism & travel. Although old & ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, & in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1916 King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. He died in London in February 1916. * 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. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. DEFINITIVE: INDISPENSABLE: BOLD: HILARIOUS: BIZARRE: POIGNANT: BLISTERING: NEW: First Edition hardcover(2006) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ double-rule gilt borders & LOA logo gilt-stamped on front panel, NEW rayon-weave Brillianta green fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & green-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ green silk ribbon page-marker bound-in from top, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Domtar Literary Opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.08" x 1.22", 0.57 kg, 912 pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.42", 0.67 kg * CONTENTS: The Great American Novel (1), My Life as a Man (379), The Professor of Desire (679); Chronology (873), Note on the Texts (884), Notes (885) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This 3rd volume of the definitive LOA edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents 3 markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution of one of America's indispensable novelists. In "The Great American Novel" (1973), a hilarious, bizarre, strangely poignant tall tale of American pieties & American lunacy, Roth lifts the lid on the suppressed history of the homeless Ruppert Mundys of baseball's despised & vanquished 3rd major league, turning the national pastime into unfettered picaresque farce. The cast of improbable characters includes: Gil Gamesh, the pitcher who actually tried to kill the umpire; John Baal, the ex-con first baseman, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House", who never hit a home run sober; & the House Un-American Activities Committee. "My Life as a Man" (1974) is Roth's most blistering novel, the savage, sometimes lurid account of the all-out battle waged between the young writer Peter Tarnopol & the wife who is his nemesis, his demon, & his muse. This is the treacherous world of Strindberg nearly a century later: the story of a fierce marital tragedy of obsession & blindness & desperate need. The volume closes with "The Professor of Desire" (1977), which charts the 2nd sexual metamorphosis of David Kepesh, protagonist of "The Breast". Roth follows Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence & feeling, into a vast wilderness of erotic possibility. "The Professor of Desire" is the troublingly affecting novel about the dilemmas of desire that prompted Milan Kundera to proclaim Roth "a great historian of modern eroticism." * ABOUT THE EDITOR: ROSS MILLER is Professor of English & Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. His criticism has appeared in scholarly journals, The WSJ, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. He is the author of "American Apocalypse: The Great Fire & the Myth of Chicago" & "Here's the Deal: The Buying and Selling of a Great American City". * 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. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: CLASSIC: AS-NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) Second Printing (c. 1985), EXCELLENT cream-tan paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double gilt-rule-bordered front panel displaying gilt-stamped LOA logo at top center, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE white-on-tan LOA-patterned end-papers on heavy stock, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & silk tan page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.68", 0.82 kg, 1287 pp. In slipcase: 5.36" x 8.50 x 1.76", 0.92 kg * CONTENTS: Novels 1871-1880: Watch & Ward (1), Roderick Hudson (163), The American (513), The Europeans (873), Confidence (1039); Chronology (1253), Note on the Texts (1269), Notes (1279). * The first five novels of Henry James, presented complete in this volume, feature sparkling dialog, masterfully timed suspense, & the romance of youthful artistic aspirations. The contrast between Europe & America, which gives a special dimension to all of James' cultural observations, is brilliantly deployed in these early works. "Watch and Ward," written when James was 28, is a Bostonian version of the Pygmalion story. In "Roderick Hudson," a headstrong & gifted young American sculptor loses his way among the temptations of Italy. "The American" was written in Paris & dramatizes a confrontation between the expatriate culture of American tourists & the protected world behind the barriers of old families & traditions. "The Europeans," by contrast, places 2 visiting European cousins in a pristine & conservative New England village. The little-known & charming "Confidence" is a light drawing-room comedy about the romantic entanglements of Americans traveling through Europe. * Henry James (1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., & brother of eminent psychologist & philosopher William James. He spent his early life in America & studied in Geneva, London & Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law School, & in 1864 began to contribute both criticism & tales to magazines. In 1869, & then in 1872-74, he paid visits to Europe & began his first novel, "Roderick Hudson". Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, & Zola, & wrote "The American" (1877). In December 1876 he moved to London, where 2 years later he achieved international fame w/ "Daisy Miller". Other famous works include "Washington Square" (1880), "The Portrait of a Lady" (1881), "The Princess Casamassima" (1886), "The Aspern Papers" (1888), "The Turn of the Screw" (1898) & 3 large novels of the new century, "The Wings of the Dove" (1902), "The Ambassadors" (1903) & "The Golden Bowl" (1904). In 1905 he revisited the United States & wrote "The American Scene" (1907). During his career he also wrote many works of criticism & travel. Although old & ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, & in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1916 King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. He died in London in February 1916. * 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. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: URBANE: SCINTILLATING: WILDLY ENTERTAINING: AS-NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) First Printing MARRED Only by the Name of a Prominent Connecticut literary family w/ place & date inscribed at bottom-right of first inside-front title page, EXCELLENT LOA slipcase w/ gilt LOA logo at center & double-ruled gilt borders on front panel, NEW crimson Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-crimson LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ crimson-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & crimson silk page marker, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotype Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Olin Nyalite archival paper * 5.00" x 8.12" x 1.36", 0.70 kg, 1126 pp. / With slipcase: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.50", 0.83 kg * CONTENTS: History, Tales & Sketches: Letters Jonathan Oldstyle, Gentleman (1); Salmagundi, or, The Whim-Whams & Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others (45); A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (363); The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentleman (731); Chronology (1093), Note on the Texts (1103), Notes (1109). * ABOUT THE BOOK: Washington Irving's career as a writer began obscurely at age 17, when his brother's newspaper published his series of comic reports on the theater, theater-goers, fashions, balls, courtships, duels, & marriages of his contemporary New York, called "Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent." written in the persona of an elderly gentleman of the old school, these letters captured his fellow townsmen at play in their most incongruous attitudes of simple sophistication. Irving's next work, "Salmagundi", written in collaboration with his brother William & James Kirke Paulding, & published at irregular intervals in 1805-06, continued this roguish style of satire & burlesque. "A History of New York", publicized by an elaborate hoax in the local newspapers concerning the disappearance of the elderly "Diedrich Knickerbocker", turned out to be a wild & hilarious spoof that combined real New York history w/ political satire. Quickly reprinted in England, it was admired by Walter Scott & Charles Dickens (who carried his copy in his pocket). In later years, as Irving revised & re-revised his History, he softened his gibes at Thomas Jefferson, the Dutch, & the Yankees of New England; this Library of America volume presents the work in its original, exuberant, robust, & unexpurgated form, giving modern readers a chance to enjoy the version that brought him immediate international acclaim. "The Sketch Book" contains Irving's 2 best-loved stories, "Rip Van Winkle" & "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". It also includes many sketches of English country & city life, as well as nostalgic portraits of vanishing traditions, like the old celebrations of Christmas. A writer of great urbanity & poise, acutely sensitive to the nostalgia of a passing age, Washington Irving was a central figure in America's emergence on the international scene. * 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. GREATNESS !!! FUNDAMENTAL: AS-NEW First Edition (orig.1988) First Printing LOA hardcover, EXCELLENT LOA slipcase w/ double-ruled gilt borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel & w/ VERY GOOD edges & corners but w/ some slight remaining traces of sticker-labels, NEW British-green Brillianta silk-finish rayon-weave 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, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.52", 0.76 kg, 1192 pp / Slipcase: 5.36 x 8.36" x 1.68"; 0.88 kg * CONTENTS: Complete Plays: Eugene O'Neill: Volume I of III: 1913-1920: A Wife for a Life (1), The Web (13), Thirst (29), Recklessness (53), Warnings (75), Fog (95), Bread & Butter (113), Bound East for Cardiff (185), Abortion (201), The Movie Man (221), Servitude (235), The Sniper (293), The Personal Equation (309), Before Breakfast (389), Now I Ask You (399), In the Zone (469), Ile (489), The Long Voyage Home (507), The Moon of the Caribbees (525), The Rope (545), Beyond the Horizon (571), Shell Shock (655), The Dreamy Kid (673), Where the Cross is Made (693), The Straw (713), Chris Christopherson (795), Gold (891), "Anna Christie" (957), The Emperor Jones (1029); Chronology (1063), Note on the Texts (1085), Notes (1095) * ABOUT THE BOOK: The only American dramatist awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Eugene O'Neill wrote w/ poetic expressiveness, emotional intensity, & immense dramatic power. This LOA volume (the 1st in a 3-volume set) contains 29 plays he wrote between 1913, when he began his career, & 1920, the year he first achieved Broadway success. Many of O'Neill's early plays are one-act melodramas whose characters are caught in extreme situations. 'Thirst' and 'Fog' depict shipwreck survivors, 'The Web' a young mother trapped in the New York underworld, and 'Abortion' the aftermath of a college student's affair with a stenographer. His first distinctive works are 4 one-act plays about the crew of the tramp steamer Glencairn that render sailors' speech w/ masterful faithfulness. 'Bound East for Cardiff', 'In the Zone', 'The Long Voyage Home' & 'The Moon of the Caribbees' portray these "children of the sea" as they watch over a dying man, sail though submarine-patrolled waters, take their shore leave in a London dive, & drink rum in a moonlit tropical anchorage. In 'Beyond the Horizon' Robert Mayo begins a tragic chain of events by abandoning his dream of a life at sea, choosing instead to marry the woman his brother loves & remain on his family farm. The sea in 'Anna Christie' is both "dat ole devil" to coal barge captain Chris Christopherson & a source of spiritual cleansing to his daughter Anna, an embittered prostitute. When a swaggering stoker falls in love with her, Anna becomes the apex of a 3-sided struggle full of enraged pride, grim foreboding, & stubborn hope. Both of these plays won the Pulitzer Prize & helped establish O'Neill as a successful Broadway playwright. 'The Emperor Jones' depicts the nightmarish journey through a West Indian forest of Brutus Jones, a former Pullman porter turned island ruler. Fleeing his rebellious subjects, Jones confronts his violent deeds & the tortured history of his race in a series of hallucinatory episodes whose expressionist quality anticipates many of O'Neill's later plays. * 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 is 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: Free Domestic USPS MEDIA MAIL.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. MONUMENTAL: PROFOUNDLY INFLUENTIAL: NEW First Edition Library of America hardcover (Orig. 1982) Twelfth Printing (c.2002): EXCELLENT NEW LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & brown-white-checked cloth banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Domtar Literary Opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12", 0.93 kg, 1478 pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: Described by Henry James as "much less a book than a state of vision," 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is probably the most influential work of fiction in American history. Stowe's moving Christian epic turned millions of Americans against slavery, bringing the "peculiar institution" immeasurably closer to its fiery destruction. In this LOA volume are the best and most enduring works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the little woman," as Abraham Lincoln said when he met her in 1861, "who wrote the book that made this great war." He was referring, w/ rueful exaggeration, to 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852), which during its first year had sold over 300,000 copies. Contemporary readers can still appreciate the powerful effects of its melodramatic characterizations & its unapologetic sentimentality. They can also recognize in its treatment of racial violence some of the brooding imagination & realism that anticipates Faulkner's rendering of the same theme. Stowe was charged w/ exaggerating the evils of slavery, but her stay in Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father (the formidable Lyman Beecher, head of the Lane Theological Seminary) gave her a close look at the miseries of the slave communities across the Ohio River. People in her circle of friends were continually harboring slaves who escaped across the river from Kentucky on the way, they hoped, to Canada. Two other novels, along w/ 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', show the range & variety of her literary accomplishment. 'The Minister's Wooing' (1859) is set in Newport, Rhode Island, after the Revolution. It is a romance based in part on the life of Stowe's sister, and it traces to a happy ending the conflicts in a young woman between adherence to Calvinistic rigor & her expression of preference in the choice of a marital partner. The third novel, 'Oldtown Folks' (1869), confirms Stowe's genius for the realistic rendering of ordinary experience, her talent for social portraiture w/ a keen satiric edge, & her subtlety in exploring a wide group of themes, from child-rearing practices & religious controversy to romantic seduction & betrayal. But finally, it is the old town & a way of life that no longer exists that is the true subject of this elegiac novel. * 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. CLASSIC: COMPELLING: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1982) Fourth Printing (c 1988), NEW slipcase w/ double-ruled borders & LOA-logo on front panel & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW blue Brillianta fabric over boards cover w/ excellent NEW edges & corners, titles & Library of America colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-blue patterned end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Olin Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.48", 0.68 kg, 1084 pp; w/ slipcase: 5.36" x 8.46" x 1.54", 0.81 kg, 1084 pp. * CONTENTS: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1), Life on the Mississippi (217), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (617), Pudd'nhead Wilson (913), Chronology (1057), Note on the Texts (1065), Notes (1071) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Mark Twain is perhaps the most widely read & enjoyed of all our national writers. This LOA collection presents his best-known works, together for the first time in one volume. 'Tom Sawyer' "is simply a hymn", said its author, "put into prose form to give it a worldly air", a book where nostalgia is so strong that it dissolves the tensions & perplexities that assert themselves in the later works. Twain began 'Huckleberry Finn' the same year 'Tom Sawyer' was published, but he was unable to complete it for several more. It was during this period of uncertainty that Twain made a pilgrimage to the scenes of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a trip that led eventually to 'Life on the Mississippi'. The river in Twain's descriptions is a bewitching mixture of beauty & power, seductive calms & treacherous shoals, pleasure & terror, an image of the societies it touches & transports. Each of these works is filled w/ comic & melodramatic adventure, w/ horseplay & poetic evocations of scenery, & w/ characters who have become central to American mythology (not only Tom Sawyer Huck Finn, but also Roxy, the mulatto slave in 'Puddn'head Wilson', one of the most telling portraits of a woman in American fiction. W/ each book there is evidence of a growing bafflement & despair, until w/ 'Puddn'head Wilson', high jinks & games, far from disguising the terrible cost of slavery, become instead its macabre evidence. Through each of 4 works, too, runs the Mississippi, the river that T. S. Eliot, echoing Twain, was to call the "strong brown god." For Twain, the river represented the complex & often contradictory possibilities in his own & his nation's life. The Mississippi marks the place where civilization, moving west w/ its comforts & proprieties, discovers & contends w/ the rough realities, violence, chicaneries, & promise of freedom on the frontier. It is the place, too, where the currents Mark Twain learned to navigate as a pilot (an experience recounted in 'Life on the Mississippi') move inexorably into the Deep South, so that the innocence of joyful play & boyhood along its shores eventually confronts the grim reality of slavery. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Guy Cardwell (1906-2005) was emeritus professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, & was the author of numerous books & articles about Mark Twain. * 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: 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. GREATNESS !!! FUNDAMENTAL: NEW First Edition (Orig. 1988) First Printing LOA hardcover, EXCELLENT LOA slipcase w/ double-ruled gilt borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel & w/ VERY GOOD edges & corners but showing slight shelf-dust soiling, NEW British-green Brillianta silk-finish rayon-weave 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, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42", 0.65 kg, 1007 pp. Slipcase: 5.36 x 8.36" x 1.68"; 0.76 kg * CONTENTS: Complete Plays: Eugene O'Neill: Volume III of III: 1932-1943: Ah, Wilderness! (1), Days Without End (109), A Touch of the Poet (181), More Stately Mansions (283), The Iceman Cometh (561), Long Day's Journey into Night (713), Hughie (829), A Moon for the Misbegotten (853), Appendix: Tomorrow (947), Chronology (969), Note on the Texts (991), Notes (998) * ABOUT THE BOOK: The third & final volume of the first complete collection of Eugene O'Neill's dramatic writings (available exclusively from The LOA) contains 8 plays written between 1932 and 1943, when illness forced him to stop writing. They represent the crowning achievements of his career. O'Neill described 'Ah, Wilderness!' as "the way I would have liked my boyhood to have been." Set in the summer of 1906, it affectionately depicts the warm, close family of 16-year-old Richard Miller & the innocence w/ which he faces the trials of first love, strong drink, & sexual temptation. John Loving, hero of 'Days Without End', is split by his lack of faith into two selves: John & his Mephistophelian double Loving, who wears John's death mask & plots his destruction. Burdened by guilt but desperately wanting to love, John struggles with Loving's nihilistic hatred in what O'Neill termed his "modern miracle play." In 'A Touch of the Poet', Irish tavern-keeper Con Melody is drawn by his proud past as a Byronic cavalry hero of the Napoleonic Wars toward a fatal confrontation w/ his wealthy Yankee neighbors, the Harfords. Throughout 'More Stately Mansions', the idealistic yet cunning Simon Harford, his wife, Sara Melody Harford, & his mother, Deborah, continually shift roles & alliances as they engage in an eerie psychological & sexual battle for possession of each other & their own maddeningly elusive dreams. This volume presents the never-before-published complete text of the revised typescript for this unfinished play. The derelict inhabitants of Harry Hope's saloon in 'The Iceman Cometh' find solace in their comradeship until their drifting calm is destroyed by the visiting salesman Theodore Hickey, who insists that they abandon all "pipe dreams" & face the truth about their lives. O'Neill carefully orchestrates the voices of over a dozen characters to form a chorus of overwhelming despair & surprising compassion. 'Hughie' is a one-act dialogue between a reminiscing gambler & a weary hotel night clerk about the promise & loneliness of city life. 'Long Day's Journey into Night' unsparingly dissects the pain, rage, guilt, & love that drive a wounded family apart & bind it together. In their summer home the four Tyrones (James, a proud actor haunted by poverty, his devout, morphine-addicted wife, Mary, & their sons, Jamie, a cynical drunkard, & Edmund, an aspiring poet) slowly unveil the truth about their lives until they can no longer hope either to save or to escape one another. Published and produced posthumously, it won O'Neill his 4th Pulitzer Prize. In its elegiac coda, 'A Moon for the Misbegotten', Jamie Tyrone seeks the peace that has long eluded him in the arms of sharp-tongued Josie Hogan. The volume concludes w/ "Tomorrow" (1917), O'Neill's only published short story. * SHIPPING: Free Domestic USPS MEDIA MAIL.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: NEW First Edition Library of America hardcover (Orig. 1992) First Printing, EXCELLENT slipcase w/ double-ruled borders & LOA-logo on front panel & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW sand-tan Brillianta linen-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-rich-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 1.08", 0.58 kg, 898 pp; w/ slipcase: 5.36" x 8.36" x 1.74", 0.69 kg * CONTENTS: Main Street (1), Babbitt (487); Chronology (845), Note on the Texts (882), Notes (885). * ABOUT THE BOOK: Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to explore middle-class life in America as no writer had done before. These remarkable novels combine biting satire w/ a lingering affection for the men and women who, as he wrote of Babbitt, want to "seize something more than motor cars & a house before it's too late." "Main Street" was a phenomenal event in American publishing & cultural history; it is a wry, sad, funny account of a woman who attempts to challenge the hypocrisy & narrow-mindedness of her Midwestern community where the romance of the frontier has dwindled to drab reality. "He is America incarnate, exuberant & exquisite," H.L. Mencken said of George Babbitt. With this boisterous, vulgar, gadget-loving real estate man, Lewis fashioned a new & enduring figure in American literature, the total conformist, & captured the noisy restlessness of American commercial culture. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, & graduated from Yale University in 1908. His college career was interrupted by various part-time occupations, including a period working at the Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair's socialist experiment in New Jersey. He worked for some years as a free lance editor & journalist, during which time he published several minor novels. But w/ the publication of "Main Street" (1920), which sold half a million copies, he achieved wide recognition. This was followed by the two novels considered by many to be his finest, "Babbitt" (1922) & "Arrowsmith" (1925), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, but was declined by Lewis. In 1930, following "Elmer Gantry" (1927) & "Dodsworth" (1929), Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for distinction in world literature. This was the apogee of his literary career, & in the period from "Ann Vickers" (1933) to the posthumously published "World So Wide" (1951) Lewis wrote 10 novels that reveal the progressive decline of his creative powers. "From Main Street to Stockholm", a collection of his letters, was published in 1952, & "The Man from Main Street", a collection of essays, in 1953. During his last years Sinclair Lewis wandered extensively in Europe, & after his death in Rome in 1951 his ashes were returned to his birthplace. * 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: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: VIGOROUS: VIVID: ORIGINAL: BOLD: AS-NEW virtually NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1991) First Printing, MARRED Only by the name of a prominent Connecticut literary family w/ date & place & LOA volume no. neatly inscribed at bottom-right of the first title page, 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 unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyallite archival paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.24", 0.59 kg, 902 pp. With slipcase: 5.46" x 8.50" x 1.36", 0.69 kg * CONTENTS: Sea Tales: The Pilot (1), The Red Rover (423); Chronology (869), Note on the Texts (882), Notes (886) * ABOUT THE BOOK: In "The Pilot" (1824) & "The Red Rover" (1828), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Collected here in a single Library of America volume, they are among his finest works. Bold, vigorous, original, each is a tale of high adventure that vividly captures the majesty & power of the seafaring life. Contemporary writers at home and abroad (Francis Parkman, Herman Melville, & Balzac among them) gave Cooper's sea novels high praise. Cooper drew on his direct knowledge of ships & sailors to present a truer picture of life on the sea than had ever before achieved in literature. As a boy of 17 he had sailed before the mast on a merchantman bound from New York to London & then to Spain. On board he experienced the life of a common seaman, learned the craft of sailing, encountered terrifying storms, was chased by pirates, & watched the impressment of crew members by a British man-of-war. He later served as an officer in the United States Navy. "The Pilot" is loosely based upon stories of John Paul Jones' daring hit-and-run tactics during the Revolutionary War. The shadowy hero, modeled on Jones, leads a squadron of the infant American navy in a series of raids on the English coast, braving fierce storms & the guns of hostile warships, yet never revealing his identity. In this novel Cooper introduced the character of the "old salt", the seasoned deckhand happy only aboard ship. Long Tom Coffin, w/ his briny conversation & shrewd nautical advice, is the first of Cooper's memorable portraits of common seamen. A ghostly ship, an uncanny hero, a heroine kidnapped by pirates, revelations of mistaken identity, & the reunion of long-lost relatives (scenes of romance & adventure) fill the pages of "The Red Rover", Cooper's most theatrical novel. Set in the mid-18th century, the tale recounts the exploits of a noble outcast & visionary who foresees America's destiny as a sovereign nation. Forced into a life of piracy, the Rover conducts his private war of independence in a story that equates the free & daring life w/ the American dream of self-reliance & liberty from British rule. * 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 international destinations 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.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: CLASSIC: FINE LOA First edition hardcover (Orig. 1984) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ double-rule gilt borders & gilt LOA-logo on front panel, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE white-on-tan distinctive LOA-patterned front & back card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & silk tan page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Olin Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.84", 0.88 kg, 1408 pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.48" x 2.04", 0.98 kg * CONTENTS: Literary Criticism: French Writers (1), Other European Writers (901), The Prefaces to the New York Edition (1035); Chronology (1343), Notes on the Texts (1359), Notes (1371), Index (1383). * ABOUT THE BOOK: Henry James, renowned as one of the world's great novelists, was also one of the most illuminating, audacious, & masterly critics of modern times. This is one of two LOA volumes of the most extensive collection of his critical writings ever assembled, w/ many pieces never before available in book form. It includes reviews of a great number of European writers, especially French writers, along w/ more general essays & the Prefaces Henry James wrote for the New York Edition of his works, published between 1907 & 1909. The collection attests to James' nearly unparalleled creative energy & to the reach of his theoretical & interpretive curiosity. His unique authority as a commentator draws upon the European-American contrast that is a central circumstance of his own fiction. A member of intellectual circles on both continents, he became the foremost interpreter to American readers of the literary & cultural life of Europe. More than 100 reviews and essays are gathered by author, so that readers can trace the development of James' complex, meditative, & highly volatile attitudes toward a wide spectrum of literature. James reviews the formidable Honoré de Balzac (w/ his "huge, all compassing, all desiring, all devouring love of reality"), Gustave Flaubert ("a pearl-diver, breathless in the thick element while he groped for the priceless word"), & Ivan Turgenev, the Russian visitor in Paris, w/ whom James felt great personal affinity, even though Tugenev "lacked the immense charm of absorbed inventiveness." James delivers his critical judgments w/ great elegance & point, especially when he discusses the performance of other critics like Hippolyte Taine & Augustin Sainte-Beuve, &, of course, he can be wonderfully acerbic. An early moralistic essay on Baudelaire finds Poe "vastly the greater charlatan of the two, and the greater genius." James brings his critical zest, exhilaration, & independence of judgment to bear on writers as diverse as Alphonse Daudet, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, Théophile Gautier, J.W. von Goethe, & Gabriele D'Annunzio. Readers will find, in the complete collection of the Prefaces, one of literature's most revealing artistic autobiographies, a wholly absorbing account of how writing gets written, & a vision of the possibilities for fiction which critics & novelists of later times will find immensely instructive & liberating. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: Leon Edel (1907-1997) was emeritus professor of English at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. His 5-volume biography of Henry James received both a Pulitzer Prize & a National Book Award. Mark Wilson, associate editor, was professor of English at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. * 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 in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: FREE Domestic USPS MEDIA MAIL.

Hardcover. Condizione: 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. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: COMPELLING: IMPECCABLE: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1982) Fifteenth Printing (c. 2022), NEW mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing $30.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW blue Brillianta fabric over boards cover w/ excellent NEW edges & corners & titles & Library of America colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-blue LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.48", 0.72 kg, 1084 pp * CONTENTS: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1), Life on the Mississippi (217), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (617), Pudd'nhead Wilson (913), Chronology (1057), Note on the Texts (1065), Notes (1071) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Mark Twain is perhaps the most widely read & enjoyed of all our national writers. This LOA collection presents his best-known works, together for the first time in one volume. 'Tom Sawyer' "is simply a hymn", said its author, "put into prose form to give it a worldly air", a book where nostalgia is so strong that it dissolves the tensions & perplexities that assert themselves in the later works. Twain began 'Huckleberry Finn' the same year 'Tom Sawyer' was published, but he was unable to complete it for several more. It was during this period of uncertainty that Twain made a pilgrimage to the scenes of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a trip that led eventually to 'Life on the Mississippi'. The river in Twain's descriptions is a bewitching mixture of beauty & power, seductive calms & treacherous shoals, pleasure & terror, an image of the societies it touches & transports. Ea. of these works is filled w/ comic & melodramatic adventure, w/ horseplay & poetic evocations of scenery, & w/ characters who have become central to American mythology (not only Tom Sawyer Huck Finn, but also Roxy, the mulatto slave in 'Puddn'head Wilson', one of the most telling portraits of a woman in American fiction. W/ each book there is evidence of a growing bafflement & despair, until w/ 'Puddn'head Wilson', high jinks & games, far from disguising the terrible cost of slavery, become instead its macabre evidence. Through each of 4 works, too, runs the Mississippi, the river that T. S. Eliot, echoing Twain, was to call the "strong brown god." For Twain, the river represented the complex & often contradictory possibilities in his own & his nation's life. The Mississippi marks the place where civilization, moving west w/ its comforts & proprieties, discovers & contends w/ the rough realities, violence, chicaneries, & promise of freedom on the frontier. It is the place, too, where the currents Mark Twain learned to navigate as a pilot (an experience recounted in 'Life on the Mississippi') move inexorably into the Deep South, so that the innocence of joyful play & boyhood along its shores eventually confronts the grim reality of slavery. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Guy Cardwell (1906-2005) was emeritus professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, & was the author of numerous books & articles about Mark Twain. * 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. 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. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: VIVID: FASCINATING: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1991) Second Printing (c. 1994), EXCELLENT matte-cream LOA slipcase w/ gilt-ruled borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel, NEW sand-tan silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ tan silk page-marker ribbon bound-in from top, NEW white-on-brown LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.22", 0.62 kg, 951 pp. In Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.48" x 1.52", 0.73 kg * CONTENTS: The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie & Rocky-Mountain Life (1); The Conspiracy of Pontiac: Volume I (343) & Volume II (613); Chronology (919), Note on the Texts (931), Notes (936) * ABOUT THE BOOK: "From boyhood," wrote Francis Parkman, "I had a taste for the woods & the Indians." His lifelong fascination w/ these American subjects are brilliantly recorded in "The Oregon Trail" & "The Conspiracy of Pontiac", his two earliest works. Parkman began his travels to the northern wilderness during his student years at Harvard in the 1840s, then went west after graduation. His first & most famous book, "The Oregon Trail", is a vivid account of his adventures on the open frontier & his encounters w/ Plains Indians in their last era of free, nomadic life. "The Conspiracy of Pontiac & the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada", Parkman's first historical work, portrays the fierce conflict that erupted along the Great Lakes in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War & chronicles the defeats in which both the eastern Indians & their forest "received their final doom". * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: FRANCIS PARKMAN, Jr. (September 16, 1823-November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie & Rocky-Mountain Life" & his monumental 7-volume "France & England in North America". These works are still valued as historical sources & as literature. He was also a leading horticulturist, briefly a Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University & author of several books on the topic. ABOUT THE EDITOR: WILLIAM R. TAYLOR, editor of this volume, is professor emeritus at the SUNY (Stony BrooK) & former program director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of "Cavalier and Yankee" and "In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce in New York". * 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 international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. MAGNIFICENT: A TREASURE: FINE LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) Fifth Printing (c. 1998): EXCELLENT LOA slipcase, NEW tan silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, VG smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED Only w/ slight rust spotting, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & w/ tan silk page-marker ribbon, IMPECCABLE LOA card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished Olin Nyalite Opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.78", 0.91 kg, 1504 pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.40" x 1.96", 1.00 kg * ABOUT THE BOOK: This LOA volume, along w/ its companion, incorporates, for the first time in compact form, 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 disorders that affected his eyes. The last volume of what he called his "history of the American forest" appeared almost 30 years after the first. 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 w/ colonizing the Mississippi Valley, & Frontenac, determined to bolster France's tottering position in the New World. He tells a story of great empires maneuvering in an unfamiliar & hostile terrain w/ all the guile, sophistication, & ingenuity learned from centuries of European rivalry. "Pioneers of France in the New World" (1865) begins w/ the early & tragic settlement of the French Huguenots in Florida, then shifts to the northern reaches of the continent & follows the expeditions of Samuel de Champlain up the St. Lawrence River & into the Great Lakes as he mapped the wilderness, organized the fur trade, promoted Christianity among the natives, & waged a savage forest campaign against the Iroquois. "The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century" (1867) traces the zealous efforts of the Jesuits & other Roman Catholic orders to convert the Native American tribes of North America. Jean de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, Marguerite Bourgeoys, Marie de l'Incarnation, & Joseph Bressani represent only a few of that resolute company, many of whom suffered captivity, torture, & martyrdom in the far corners of the wilderness. "La Salle & the Discovery of the Great West" (1869) records that explorer's voyages on the Ohio & Mississippi Rivers & his treks, often alone, across the vast western prairies & through the labyrinthine swamps of Louisiana. Although he won the respect & admiration of the Native Americans, La Salle often distrusted & alienated his associates. He survived 2 attempts to poison him before he was finally assassinated by his own men in a lonely Texas outpost. "The Old Régime in Canada" (1874) recounts the political struggles among the religious sects, colonial officials, feudal chiefs, royal ministers, & military commanders of Canada. Their bitter fights over the monopoly of the fur trade, the sale of brandy to the natives, the importation of wives from the orphanages & poorhouses of France, & the bizarre fanaticism of religious extremists & their "incessant supernaturalism" animate this pioneering social history of early Canada. Parkman's chronicle of nearly two & a half centuries 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 itself one of the still-undiscovered treasures of our national & of world literature.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: URBANE: SCINTILLATING: NEW First edition hardcover (Orig. 1991) First Printing MARRED Only by the Name of a Prominent Connecticut literary family w/ place & date inscribed at bottom-right of first inside-front title page, EXCELLENT NEW LOA slipcase w/ gilt LOA logo at center & double-ruled gilt borders on front panel, NEW crimson Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ as-new edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-crimson LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ crimson-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & crimson silk page marker, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotype Galliard on superb acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12", 0.70 kg, 1104 pp. CONTENTS: Bracebridge Hall (1), Tales of a Traveler (379), The Alhambra (719); Chronology (1051), Note on the Texts (1079), Notes (1085). * ABOUT THE BOOK: Three story collections of great urbanity and poise from the first American author to burst onto the international literary scene. "The Alhambra," Irving's "Spanish Sketchbook," was inspired by his 1829 residence at the ancient Moorish palace at Granada; weaving history, legend, and description, it remains the best guidebook to this haunting place. Over 120 tales in all. * 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. 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.