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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. black-&-white illustrations (illustratore). pp. 288.,8vo,Near fine condition in very sl. shelfworn, else vg slipcase, First published by The Folio Society in 2000, this is a later Folio Socoety printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Paul Cox (illustratore). An entertaining anthology, issued with decorated white hardcover boards and a maroon slip-cover case. Minimal shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Paul Cox (illustratore). About As New in near fine slipcase. Clean and unmarked. Looks to be unopened, unread. Stories by Mark Twain; Charles Dickens, Evelyn Waugh, Groucho Marx, and so many others. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An on-line bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Hardcover. Cox, Paul (illustratore). Sixth printing. pp. 268. 8vo. Bound in full white illustrated buckram. Black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good in lightly shelfworn, very good slipcase. With illustrations by Paul Cox.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Illustrations By John Lawrence (illustratore). Fifth Printing. With a Preface by Sheridan Morley. Orange cloth with white background area to black lettering on spine, black sketches on covers. 288 pages.

Condizione: Good. 2012. Twelfth Printing. 268 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Red slipcase over white pictorial cloth. Includes work by various writers. Illustrated in B&W by Paul Cox. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Slipcase has some minor rub marks, slight scratches, other small marks and subtle wear to corners.

Condizione: Very Good. 2003. 2nd Printing. 268 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Pictorial cloth with slipcase. Black and white illustrations throughout. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor markings to panels.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. A fine copy in a near fine slipcase of the first Folio Society printing. The copper-colored illustrated cloth binding is clean and bright, showing no signs of wear. Everything is square and tight with unbumped edges and sharp corners. Inside the contents are immaculate with no ownership inscriptions or other markings of any kind. The brown slipcase shows only the mildest shelfwear, with no damage or splitting. "The Folio Society's formula for success is publishing books with exceptional typography, illustrations, paper and bindings. The Society sources new introductions from literary experts to accompany classic texts and uses skilled designers and master printers to produce memorable fine books. Fiction and non-fiction is published and you will be familiar with many of the titles and authors. These books are often housed in beautiful slipcases". (AbeBooks).

Condizione: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Hbk, in slipcase, xvii, 262 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. A clean unmarked copy in fine condition. [English fiction Short stories] d1124.

Condizione: Very Good. 2012. 12th Printing. 268 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. White cloth with decorations and slipcase. Black and white illustrations throughout. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor markings to panels.

Condizione: Good. VG condition book with slipcase. Content is clean and bright throughout. Free from inscriptions or markings. VG slipcase with little to no wear.

Condizione: Good. VG condition book with slipcase. Content is clean and bright throughout. Free from inscriptions or markings. VG slipcase with little to no wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. John Lawrence. (illustratore). Reprint. 288pp, illustrations. With a Preface by Sheridan Morley. Pictorial cloth in a slipcase. Lightly rubbed on the spine title Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condizione: Good. VG condition book with slipcase. Content is clean and bright throughout. Free from inscriptions or markings. VG slipcase with little to no wear.

Cloth - Hard Cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. New copy in slipcase, still sealed in cellophane wrapping. Thus, printing and date are unknown though believed to be circa 2003. Approx. 268 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Card Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Folio Society edition. Binding is white cloth with dark read illustration. Burgundy slip case.

Condizione: Good. Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards with light wear. Book has clean and bright contents. No slipcase.

Hardcover. PublicAffairs. xxii, 540 pp. LCC: 2001048469 Very good condition; black ink mark on bottom edges of papers; previous owner's name on inside of front cover.

As new copy. Bronze boards with black design to front and spine, black titles to spine, and peach endpapers. A tight, bright, and clean copy, with no inscriptions and no foxing to text or edges. Corners are sharp, no bumping. A superb condition book. 288pp. (15x23cm). Please contact us for any more information.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. COX, Paul (illustratore). 4th Printing, 268pp, with cartoon illustrations by Paul Cox, hard cover bound in white pictorial cloth boards decorated with maroon illustrations, binding tight, maroon endpapers, with accompanying maroon slip case, both in very good condition with no markings or annotations, Folio Society, 2004.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. COX, Paul (illustratore). 268pp, with cartoon illustrations by Paul Cox, hard cover bound in white pictorial cloth boards decorated with maroon illustrations, binding tight, maroon slip case, Folio Society, 2004.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. photographic re-creations by Tim Stephens (illustratore). Firmly bound, gray illustrated boards brown cloth spine. In a yellow slipcase in good condition except for a tear across the entire top edge. Second impression of an edition first published in 1977.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean. Slipcase has a few marks.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: NEW Library of America 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", 0.67 kg, 1068 pp. With slipcase: 5.46" x 8.50" x 1.42", 0.77 kg * CONTENTS: Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night (1), Come Back to Sorrento (205), Turn, Magic Wheel (371), Angels on Toast (557), & A Time to Be Born (767); Chronology (1045), Note on the Texts (1057), Notes (1061) * 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, the 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-vol. 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 2 very different worlds: small-town Ohio where she grew up & 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 w/ rich characterization & 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 first of the two volumes published by LOA, this volume contains "Dance Night" (1930), Powell's own favorite among her works; "Come Back to Sorrento" (1932), originally published as "The Tenth Moon", a compelling study of frustrated aspirations; "Turn, Magic, Wheel" (1936), a whirlwind tour of Manhattan's literary life; "Angels on Toast" (1940), whose farcical pace recalls screwball comedy; and "A Time To Be Born" (1942), with its evocation of wartime mass media. * "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 * 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, and 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).* 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 charge & via USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international destinations.

Hard Cover. Condizione: As New. Paul Cox (illustratore). AS NEW hardcover in AS NEW slipcase, "Eighth printing 2008", 268 pages including many illustrations throughout. See also our other Folio Society listings, all acquired from the same estate in AS NEW condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Illustrated by Paul Cox (illustratore). First edition. Fine in a fine slipcase.