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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. 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: 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: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. ASTONISHING: INDISPENSABLE: RADIANT: TOUCHING: INTIMATE: INTELLIGENT: OBSERVANT: WRY: "OUR GREATEST NATIONAL TREASURE" NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2008) Third Printing (c. 2016): NEW mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $40.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE patterned white-on-blue LOA card-stock end-papers, NEW binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free lightweight-opaque archival paper * Chronology (905), Biographical Notes (920), Note on the Texts (924), Notes (932), Index of Poem Titles & First Lines (961), Index (966) * 5.06" x 8.12" x 1.36", 0.66 kg, xviii+980 (998) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" & called her "our greatest national treasure". Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody else's". Long before a wider public was aware of Bishop's work, her fellow poets expressed astonished admiration of her formal rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, & sometimes eccentric flights of imagination. Today she is recognized as one of America's great poets of the 20th century. This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate & reticent, adventurous & perfectionist. It presents all the poetry that Elizabeth Bishop published in her lifetime, in such classic volumes as "North & South", "A Cold Spring", "Questions of Travel", & "Geography III". In addition it contains an extensive selection of unpublished poems & drafts of poems (several not previously collected), as well as all her published poetic translations, ranging from a chorus from Aristophanes' "The Birds" to versions of Brazilian sambas. "Poems, Prose, and Letters" also brings together most of her published prose writings, including stories; reminiscences; travel writing about the places (Nova Scotia, Florida, Brazil) that so profoundly marked her poetry; & literary essays & statements, including a number of pieces published here for the first time. The book is rounded out with a selection of Bishop's irresistibly engaging & self-revelatory letters. Of the 53 letters included here, written between 1933 & 1979, a considerable number are printed for the first time, & all are presented in their entirety. Their recipients include Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell, Anne Stevenson, May Swenson, & Carlos Drummond de Andrade * ABOUT THE EDITORS: ROBERT GIROUX was chairman of the editorial board of Farrar, Straus and Giroux & Elizabeth Bishop's longtime editor. He edited her "Collected Prose" (1984) & "One Art" (1994), her selected letters. LLOYD SCHWARTZ is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, classical music editor of The Boston Phoenix, & a regular reviewer for NPR's Fresh Air. In 1994 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His most recent poetry collection is "Cairo Traffic" * LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. RADICAL: INNOVATIVE: BRILLIANT: SUPERB: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1998) First Printing, NEW cream laminate-paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double gilt-rule-bordered front panel displaying gilt-stamped LOA-logo at top center, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive 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 acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.26", 0.62 kg, 941 pp. Slip-case: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.30", 0.71 kg * CONTENTS: Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932: Q.E.D. (1), Three Lives (65), Portraits & Other Short Works (275), The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (653); Chronology (917), Note on the Texts (928), Notes (935) * ABOUT THE BOOK: The most radical innovator in 20th-century literature, Gertrude Stein proposed nothing less than a reinvention of language from the ground up. Covering the first 30 years of the 4 decade-long expanse of her literary production, this is the first volume of a superb Library of America 2-volume edition which presents a full-scale gathering of Stein's achievements. Breaking decisively w/ all previous literary traditions & grammatical norms, Gertrude Stein forged a unique idiom (abstract & down-to-earth, playful & subversive, philosophical & erotic by turns) which influenced writers as varied as Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Thornton Wilder, & John Ashbery. This LOA volume, along w/ its companion, surveys a literary trajectory that from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of World War II marked her as a fearless & uncompromising experimenter. She was also a master of anecdote & aphorism, many of whose phrases (from "rose is a rose is a rose" to "there is no there there" & "when this you see remember me") have passed into the language. This first volume, containing works written between 1903 & 1932, takes Stein from her first, more traditional fictional works to the exuberant & astonishing experiments of the early Paris years. She was a devoted student of William James, w/ whom she studied psychology at Radcliffe in the 1890s, & took an early interest in memory & the function of repetition in human character. In her early works, she sought a new kind of realism exemplified here by "Q.E.D." (written 1903, published posthumously), a novel about lesbian entanglements at college, & the modern classic "Three Lives" (1909), a set of novellas about the lives of 3 ordinary women, described in the simplest & most direct of prose. In her brilliant abstract "portraits" Stein uses an extraordinary array of verbal techniques to evoke those friends & collaborators (Matisse, Picasso, Apollinaire, Juan Gris, Satie, Mabel Dodge, Carl Van Vechten, Sherwood Anderson, Virgil Thomson) w/ whom she shared decades of revolutionary ferment in the arts. Her play "Four Saints in Three Acts" (1927), which became the basis for an opera by Virgil Thomson, is written for a freewheeling theater of the mind where everything becomes possible. In "Lifting Belly" & other works she joyously celebrates her lifelong relationship w/ Alice B. Toklas, one of the most famous domestic partnerships of that century. "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" (1933), Stein's oblique & playful memoir, became an immediate bestseller & sealed Stein's international celebrity. * 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. AUTHORITATIVE: DARING: HONEST: RAW: INSIGHTFUL: POETIC: GENEROUS: UNCOMPROMISNG: REVOLUTIONARY: NEW LOA hardcover, First Edition (orig. 2000) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ gilt LOA logo at center & double-ruled gilt borders on front panel, NEW rust-crimson silk-finish Brillianta linen-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-purple LOA patterned end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite paper * 5.00" x 8.12" x 1.42", 0.63 kg, 999 pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.68", 0.72 kg * Chronology (963), Note on the Texts (982), Notes (991) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Exploring human passion w/ daring and unflinching honesty, Tennessee Williams forged a poetic theater of raw psychological insight that fused realism & expressionism. Now, in an authoritative 2-volume edition, LOA collects the plays that reveal a prophetic figure in American life & letters: a writer of generous sympathies & uncompromising frankness who reached wide audiences w/ plays that revolutionized the themes & styles of the modern theater. This 2nd volume traces Williams' career as it evolved in his adventurous & sometimes shocking later works, including "Orpheus Descending", "Suddenly Last Summer", & "Sweet Bird of Youth", plays that stirred controversy when first produced because of their concern w/ acts of horrific violence; the satiric marital comedy "Period of Adjustment"; "The Night of the Iguana", a moving drama set in Mexico that contains some of Williams' most lyric writing, & "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale", a re-imagining of the earlier "Summer & Smoke". "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore", w/ its use of Kabuki-like stylization, began a more experimental phase of Williams' writing, represented here by "Kingdom of Earth" (also known as "The Seven Descents of Myrtle"), "The Mutilated", "Small Craft Warnings", & "Out Cry". In late plays such as "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" & the autobiographical "Vieux Carré", Williams returned to many of his earlier themes & settings. This edition includes a newly researched chronology of Tennessee Williams' life, explanatory notes (including cast lists of many of the original productions), & an essay on the texts. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: MEL GUSSOW(1933-2005), who was a drama critic, a cultural writer at The NYT, & author of several books including "Edward Albee: A Singular Journey". KENNETH HOLDICH is professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans, editor since 1989 of the Tennessee Williams Journal, & the author of "In Old New Orleans". * 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. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: IMPECCABLE: 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. * ABOUT MARK TWAIN: 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: New. 1st Edition. AUTHORITATIVE: BRILLIANT: ORIGINAL: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1998) First Printing, NEW cream laminate-paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double rule-borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-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 unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.50", 0.70 kg, 829 pp. Slip-case: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.62", 0.80 kg * CONTENTS: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1), Miss Lonelyhearts (55), A Cool Million (127), The Day of the Locust (239), Other Writings (393), Unpublished Writings & Fragments (411), Letters (769); Chronology (803), Note on the Texts (813), Notes (820) * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this volume LOA offers the most complete literary portrait ever published of Nathanael West. Along w/ the 4 novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gathers his work in other genres, including stories, poetry, essays & plays, film scripts & treatments, & letters. When West died in a California highway accident in 1940 at the age of 37, his originality & brilliance were little known outside an intensely admiring circle of fellow writers: William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, S. J. Perelman, & others. Not until West's 4 novels were reissued in the late 1950s was he acknowledged as one of the most gifted writers of his generation. His masterpieces "Miss Lonelyhearts" & "The Day of the Locust", w/ their blending of manic farce & despairing compassion, & their vision of an America awash in its own mass-produced fantasies, read like a prophecy of much that was to come in American literature & life. Each of West's novels is distinct in style & theme. In the Dada-inspired "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" (1931), he freely mixes high-flown literary & religious allusions w/ erotic & scatological humor. "Miss Lonelyhearts" (1933) presents, in a series of grotesque, starkly etched episodes, the spiritual breakdown of a newspaper columnist overwhelmed by his readers' suffering. By contrast, "A Cool Million" (1934) reduces the eternal optimism of Horatio Alger's novels to a brutal, cartoonish farce. In his last work, "The Day of the Locust" (1939), West renders w/ hallucinatory precision the reverse side of the Hollywood dream, as he choreographs a cast of failures, has-beens, & deluded glamour-seekers in what becomes an apocalyptic dance of death. Also included is a generous sampling of West's other surviving work, ranging from freewheeling improvisations & grotesque comic tales to more mainstream work written w/ Hollywood or Broadway in mind, & including his anti-war satire "Good Hunting" & his adaptation of Francis Ile's famous crime novel "Before the Fact". The uncollected West shows him as a writer who embodied the contradictions & crazy-quilt exuberance of American culture, & raises the question of how he might have developed had his career not been cut short. Selected correspondence w/ William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Malcolm Cowley, Bennett Cerf, & others rounds out the volume & sets West's literary life in fuller context. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: SACVAN BERCOVITCH (1933-2014) was the 2007 recipient of the Bode-Pearson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in American Studies, author of "The Puritan Origins of the American Self", & editor of the multi-volume Cambridge History of American Literature. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. AUTHORITATIVE: BRILLIANT: ORIGINAL: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1998) First or Later Printing (under pub. orig. shrink-wrap): NEW cream laminate-paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double rule-borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-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 unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.50", 0.70 kg, 829 pp. Slip-case: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.62", 0.80 kg * CONTENTS: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1), Miss Lonelyhearts (55), A Cool Million (127), The Day of the Locust (239), Other Writings (393), Unpublished Writings & Fragments (411), Letters (769); Chronology (803), Note on the Texts (813), Notes (820) * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this volume LOA offers the most complete literary portrait ever published of Nathanael West. Along w/ the 4 novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gathers his work in other genres, including stories, poetry, essays & plays, film scripts & treatments, & letters. When West died in a California highway accident in 1940 at the age of 37, his originality & brilliance were little known outside an intensely admiring circle of fellow writers: William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, S. J. Perelman, & others. Not until West's 4 novels were reissued in the late 1950s was he acknowledged as one of the most gifted writers of his generation. His masterpieces "Miss Lonelyhearts" & "The Day of the Locust", w/ their blending of manic farce & despairing compassion, & their vision of an America awash in its own mass-produced fantasies, read like a prophecy of much that was to come in American literature & life. Each of West's novels is distinct in style & theme. In the Dada-inspired "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" (1931), he freely mixes high-flown literary & religious allusions w/ erotic & scatological humor. "Miss Lonelyhearts" (1933) presents, in a series of grotesque, starkly etched episodes, the spiritual breakdown of a newspaper columnist overwhelmed by his readers' suffering. By contrast, "A Cool Million" (1934) reduces the eternal optimism of Horatio Alger's novels to a brutal, cartoonish farce. In his last work, "The Day of the Locust" (1939), West renders w/ hallucinatory precision the reverse side of the Hollywood dream, as he choreographs a cast of failures, has-beens, & deluded glamour-seekers in what becomes an apocalyptic dance of death. Also included is a generous sampling of West's other surviving work, ranging from freewheeling improvisations & grotesque comic tales to more mainstream work written w/ Hollywood or Broadway in mind, & including his anti-war satire "Good Hunting" & his adaptation of Francis Ile's famous crime novel "Before the Fact". The uncollected West shows him as a writer who embodied the contradictions & crazy-quilt exuberance of American culture, & raises the question of how he might have developed had his career not been cut short. Selected correspondence w/ William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Malcolm Cowley, Bennett Cerf, & others rounds out the volume & sets West's literary life in fuller context. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: SACVAN BERCOVITCH (1933-2014) was the 2007 recipient of the Bode-Pearson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in American Studies, author of "The Puritan Origins of the American Self", & editor of the multi-volume Cambridge History of American Literature. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: INDISPENSABLE: NEW: First Edition (Orig 1993) First Printings: COLLECTIBLE: COMPLETE 2-vol hardcover set: Both vols in NEW LOA jackets w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & ea. showing orig. $35.00 & housed in NEW LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW burgundy Brillianta linen-over-boards covers w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophons handsomely gilt-stamped on spines, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exteriors, NEW sewn bindings w/ tight signatures & burgundy & white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & burgundy silk page-marker ribbons, IMPECCABLE white on burgundy end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interiors handsomely printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * Volume One (ISBN: 0940450429) First Edition (Orig. 1993) First Printing: 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.46", 0.76 kg, xxii+1214 (1236) pp. Volume Two: First Edition (Orig. 1993) First Printing: 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.44", 0.72 kg, xxii+1175 (1197) pp. Volumes One & Two Slip-cased together): 5.36" x 8.52" x 3.08", 1.72 kg, 2433 pp. * CONTENTS: VOLUME (PART) ONE: Debates in the Press and in Private Correspondence, September 17, 1787-January 12, 1788 (3); Debates in the State Ratifying Conventions (789): Pennsylvania, November 20-December 15, 1787 (791), Connecticut, January 3-9, 1788 (877), Massachusetts, January 9-February 7, 1788 (889); Appendix (947): The Declaration of Independence (949), The Articles of Confederation (954), Letter from the Constitutional Convention to the President of Congress (965), Resolutions of the Convention Concerning the Ratification & Implementation of the Constitution (967), The Constitution (968); Biographical Notes (995), Chronology of Events 1774-1804 (1055), Notes on State Constitutions, 1776-90 (1117), Note on the Texts (1123), Notes (1137), Index (1195). CONTENTS: VOLUME (PART) TWO: Debates in the Press and in Private Correspondence, January 14, 1788-August 6, 1788. Debates in the State Ratifying Conventions: South Carolina, May 12-24, 1788; Virginia, June 2-27, 1788; New York, June 17-July 26, 1788; North Carolina, July 21-August 4, 1788; Appendix (919): The Declaration of Independence (921), The Articles of Confederation (926), Letter from the Constitutional Convention to the President of Congress (937), Resolutions of the Convention Concerning the Ratification & Implementation of the Constitution (939), The Constitution (940); Biographical Notes (967), Chronology of Events, 1774-1804 (1025), Notes on State Constitutions, 1776-90 (1087), Note on the Texts (1093), Notes (1105), Index (1159). * ABOUT THE SET: When the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia ended its secret proceedings on September 17, 1787, few Americans were prepared for what emerged from it. Instead of revising the Articles of Confederation, the framers had created a fundamentally new national plan that placed over the states a supreme government w/ broad powers. They proposed to submit it to conventions in each state, elected "by the people thereof," for ratification. Immediately, a fierce storm of argument broke out. Federalist supporters, Antifederalist opponents, & seekers of a middle ground strove to balance public order & personal liberty as they praised, condemned, challenged, & analyzed the new Constitution. "The Debate on the Constitution" captures in two volumes (both superbly edited by the great Harvard historian Bernard Bailyn) on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, the extraordinary energy & eloquence of our first national political campaign. Each volume presents press polemics & private commentaries together w/ speeches from the state conventions by "founding fathers" & many other voices that are lesser known today. Informative notes, biographical profiles of all writers & speakers, detailed chronologies of relevant events, appendices & a detailed index enrich each volume w/ fascinating background.