Birthright: The True Story of the Kidnapping of Jemmy Annesley
New York: W.W. Norton, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Advance Reading Copy of the story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped."
Literary History
Arnold's Poetic Landscapes
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969. Hardback. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Alan Roper studies the degree to which Arnold achieved a unity of human significance and literal landscape. Roper adds a critical dimension to Arnold scholarship by focusing on the ways that Arnold and, to.....
The Letters of Noel Coward
New York: Knopf, 2007. Hardcover. Photographs, index. Edited with commentary by Barry Day.
Saul Bellow: Letters
New York: Penguin, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof.
The Dude Magazine
New York: Mystery Publishing, 1959. Softcover. Vintage men's magazine.
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2017. First Edition. Hardbound. Pulitzer Prize winner, National Book Critics Circle Award winner and a New York Times Top 10 Books of the Year. The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the Little House on the Prairie books.
Reminiscences of Tolstoy
New York: Century, 1914. Hardback. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. Lacking the scarce dust jacket.
Salinger
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. First Edition. Hardbound. 698 pages.A definitive search for one of the most reclusive figures I n American literature. With more than 175 photographs, including drawings by Joyce Maynard and 200 intimate recollections of Salinger.
Alcohol and the Writer
Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. A look at the alcoholism of eight celebrated writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Eugene O'Neill, Edgar Allan Poe, Georges Simenon, and Malcolm Lowry.
The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. Hardcover. 557 pp. Frontispiece is photograph of Edmund Wilson in 1920. Preeminent 20th century literary critic Wilson provides perhaps the largest authentic document of the 1920s delivered through the observations of one of the principal actors in the American twenties. Covers Hollywood, the.....
A Writer's Eye
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. Hardcover. 312 pp. 6" x 9." Although known primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Welty was notable as an astute literary critic. Her essays on the art of fiction and on the writers who enlarged the range of the short.....
The Selected Letters of Flaubert
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953. Hardcover. 281 pp., Index. One on The Great Letters Series of titles.
A Marriage of True Minds: An Intimate Portrait f Leonard and Virginia Woolf
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Hardcover. The first book to ever be devoted fully to both Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Spater and Parsons tell the story of the Woolf's lives together from their early courtship until her eventual suicide;.
Capote A Biography
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. First Edition. Hardbound. Authorative biography. And basis for the award winnng film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Papa: A Personal Memoir
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. Hardcover.
Walt Whitman's New York: From Manhattan to Montauk
New York: Macmillan, 1963. First Edition. Hardback. First edition.
John Barleycorn: or, Alcoholic Memoirs
New York: Century, 1915. Edition. Hardcover. Later printing of London's autobiographical classic account of his own drinking bouts and alcoholism. Illustrated by H. T. Dunn.
Inside the Volcano: My Life With Malcolm Lowry
New York: Talese, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Intimate memoir of the tempestuous marriage between Jan Gabriel, a young, aspiring American writer and Lowry.
James Agee: A Life
New York: Dutton, 1984. Hardcover.
Shakespeare's England
Hardcover. 120 pp. With color and black and white photos throughout and Index. A guide to places of interest in and near Stratford, illustrated with maps and drawings of such sites as Shakespeare's birthplace and Anne Hathaway's cottage. Fox directed the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust from 1945 to 1989 and was.....
Images of the Southern Writer
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second printing. Condition: Fine. Oblong quarto. Foreword by Erskine Caldwell. An attractive collection of photographs of Southern writers in their native habitats, along with the photographer's reminiscences of his acquaintance with his subjects. A nice collection of images by the South.....
Hemingway in Idaho: A Guide
Ketchum: The Computer Lab, 1986. Softbound. Recollection of the author's time in Idaho. With b&w photos.
Virginia Woolf
Routledge & Kegan Paul: London, 1979. Hardcover. 8 vo. 277 pp. Well-regarded biography.
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking
New York: Picador, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver.
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
New York: Knopf, 2011. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Compelling history of Hemingway's relationship with his 38-foot Wheeler power boat, Pilar, that allowed him to relax, fish, escape the pressures of notoriety and hunt German submarines during World War Two. The Pilar serves as the motif by which Hendrickson.....