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A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Kay Ryan is acclaimed for her highly intelligible, deeply insightful poems and her signature swift, lucid, lyrical style. At once witty and melancholy, playful and heartfelt, Ryan examines enormous subjects?existence, consciousness, love, loss?in compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance.
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The Wanderer: Under the Autumn Star & On Muted Strings.
A Fine, tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Knut Hamsun was a pioneer in psychological literature with techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue, as found in material by James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf. A theme to which Hamsun often returned is that of the perpetual wanderer, an itinerant stranger (often the narrator) who shows up and insinuates himself into the life of small rural communities. This wanderer theme is central to many of his novels including these two closely related novels. A Moveable Feast: Sketches of the Author’s Life in Paris in the Twenties.
[Paris in the 20s] Hemingway, Ernest. A Fine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket.with wear to the front panel and a faint water stain to the real panel that does not affect the binding or the text. A Moveable Feast is a memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as an expatriate writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book describes Hemingway's apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife, Hadley. Other people featured in the book include Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Evan Shipman, Hilaire Belloc, Pascin, John Dos Passos, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Hermann von Wedderkop. The book was not published during Hemingway's lifetime, but edited from his manuscripts and notes by his fourth wife and widow, Mary Hemingway. It was published posthumously in 1964, three years after Hemingway's death. The Reno Court of Inquiry. Abstract of the Official Record orf Proceedings.
[Little Big Horn] Graham, USA, Retired, Col. William A. A Very Good plus copy in a Fine dust jacket. This is a condensed version of the substance of the evidence given in the the language of the witnessesat a Court of Inquiry regarding the disaster on the Little Big Horn. Twenty-three witnesses gave testimony and numerous exhibits were provided to determine an official account of the massacre. The major objective was to present a word picture pf the combat by those with first-hand knowledge. The Reno Court of Inquiry. Abstract of the Official Record orf Proceedings.
[Little Big Horn] Graham, USA, Retired, Col. William A. A Very Good plus copy in a Fine dust jacket. This is a condensed version of the substance of the evidence given in the the language of the witnessesat a Court of Inquiry regarding the disaster on the Little Big Horn. Twenty-three witnesses gave testimony and numerous exhibits were provided to determine an official account of the massacre. The major objective was to present a word picture pf the combat by those with first-hand knowledge. The Passenger. Stella Maris. Two Volumes.
McCarthy, Cormac. Both volumes are Fine tight copies in Fine dust jackets in a Fine slipcase. The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Road returns with a two-volume masterpiece in an artfully designed box set. The Passenger is a fast-paced and sprawling novel while Stella Maris is a tightly controlled coda, told entirely in dialogue. Together they relate the thrilling story of a brother and sister, haunted by loss, pursued by conspiracy, and longing for a death they cannot reconcile with God. The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh. Selected and Edited by Ronald de Leeuw.
[Literary Letters] Van Gogh, Vincent. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Besides being one of the most important modern painters, Van Gogh was also an accomplished and literate letter writer. Through his correspondence, he created an intimate self-portrait in words as well as commenting on the contemporary cultural scene, his painting colleagues, his religious foundation, his friendships and creative passions. This selection of Van Gogh's letters provides an intimate look at his most provocative thinking and intimate observations.- $75
- $75
The Angler’s Coast. Introduction by Thomas McGuane.
Chatham, Russell. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by Russell Chatham. Chatham dishes out fourteen tales of fishing in the Pacific Northwest, accompanied by numerous of his illustrations. Like Roderick Haig-Brown and other notable angler-writers, he is a fly-fisherman; he doesn't drop a line in the water, he seeks action. There are recollections of casting for salmon in British Columbia rivers; of a chance encounter with herring off the California coast, the titular locale; of steelhead trout biting on the North Umpqua, in Oregon, and the pursuit of shad in California's Central Valley.- $375
- $375
We Were Soldiers Once.and Young. Ia Drang–The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam.
[Vietnam War Literature] Moore, Lt. Gen. Harold G. (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. On Nov. 14, 1965, the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry, commanded by Lt. Col. Moore and accompanied by UPI reporter Galloway, helicoptered into Vietnam's remote Ia Drang Valley and found itself surrounded by a numerically superior force of North Vietnamese regulars. Moore and Galloway here offer a detailed account, based on interviews with participants and on their own recollections, of what happened during the four-day battle. Much more than a conventional battle study, the book is a frank record of the emotional reactions of the GIs to the terror and horror of this violent and bloody encounter. Both sides claimed victory, the U.S. calling it a validation of the newly developed doctrine of airmobile warfare. Supplemented with maps, the memoir is a vivid re-creation of the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War. Photos.- $150
- $150
The Witches. Salem, 1692.
[Witchery] Schiff, Stacy. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. It began in 1692 when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story -- the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.- $65
- $65
The Portable Jack Kerouac. Edited by Ann Charters.
[Beat Literature] Kerouac, Jack. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. This anthology of Kerouac's writing includes excerpts from the numerous volumes that tell the Legend of Duluoz, a selection of his poetry, his writings on Spontaneous Prose, Bop jazz and the Beats, his views on Buddhism, and several letters to important members of the Beat movement. 624 pages.- $125
- $125
Plume.
A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by Flenniken. This is the poet's second collection of poetry which won the 2013 Washington State Book Award. The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Plume traces the American betrayal concerninbg the effects of developing nuclear weapons and explores the human capacity to hold truth at bay when it threatens one's fundamental identity.
The Journals of Patrick Gass: Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Edited and Annotated by Carol Lynn MacGregor.
[Lewis & Clark Expedition] Gass, Patrick. A Near Fine copy with remainder mark to top edge in a Fine dust jacket. Sergeant Patrick Gass was one of the few members of the Lewis and Clark expedition to keep a continuous log of the entire epic journey. His simple and direct writing style, along with his emphasis on the daily activities of the trip, made Gass's journal more accessible to the general reader than other firsthand accounts and revealed the optimistic spirit of the expedition. In this new edition, Carol MacGregor's thorough annotation of the journal and the inclusion of Gass's recently discovered personal account ledger lend new insight into the life and work of PatrIck Gass. The Journals of Patrick Gass represents a significant contribution to the study of the Lewis and Clark expedition, essential for everyone interested in the history of Western expansion.- $95
- $95
The Northwest Coast; or, Three Years’ Residence in Washington Territory.
[Northwest History] Swan, James G. A Very Good copy in brown cloth binding. The backstrip has been repaired and the FFEP replaced. Facsimile map tipped in. In 1852 Swan, originally from New England, settled for the first time in Washington, on the shore of Willapa Bay, then known as Shoalwater Bay. Swan's friend Charles J. W. Russell had settled there in 1851 to harvest oysters from the Bay's rich tidelands for shipment to San Francisco, and in 1852 he invited Swan to join him. Swan lived on Shoalwater Bay until 1855. In 1857 he described the Bay and his experiences there in The Northwest Coast, Or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory, one of the earliest books about life in Washington.- $200
- $200
Becoming O’Keeffe: The Early Years.
[Artist Biography] Peters, Sarah Whitaker. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. By examining the period from 1915 to 1930, with flashbacks to O'Keeffe's little-known studies in Chicago and New York, Becoming O'Keeffe casts a clear new light on how a fiercely independent art student became the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. The careful scholarship and persuasive arguments of Dr. Peters's text?supported with forceful clarity by her choice and juxtapositions of images?reveal not only unexpected complexity in O'Keeffe's own work but also previously unexplored connections with work by her colleagues, particularly her dealer and husband, Alfred Stieglitz, and the photographers Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, and Edward Steichen.- $95
- $95
The Journals of Lewis and Clark. Abridged by Anthony Brandt with an afterword by Herman J. Viola.
Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. The journals of Lewis and Clark constitute the first American epic presenting a rich tapestry of the West's natural wonders, high adventure and the challenging daily toil of leading an expedition across the expansive western regions of the United States.- $75
- $75
Plume.
[Poetry] Flenniken, Kathleen. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by Flenniken. This is the poet's second collection of poetry which won the 2013 Washington State Book Award. The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Plume traces the American betrayal concerninbg the effects of developing nuclear weapons and explores the human capacity to hold truth at bay when it threatens one's fundamental identity.- $25
- $25
The United States Marine Corps in World War II, Compiled and Edited by S. E. Smith.
A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning to the edges. This monumental compilation covers the whole pageant of the U.S.Marines in World War Two from Wake Island to the Japanese suurender in China. More than fifty of the best writers and military minds and combatants have contributed to this impressive history of the Marine's history in the Pacific war.
Handwriting: Poems.
A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. The poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes, and language, as the poet contemplates scents and gestures and evokes a time when "handwriting occurred on waves, / on leaves, the scripts of smoke" and remembers a woman's "laughter with its / intake of breath. Uhh huh." First Printing of the First Canadian Edition.
Drawn Together. The Complete Works–Contains Shocking Material for Adults Only!
A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In 1972 laid up in her house with a broken foot, Aline Crumb was persuaded by R. Crumb, her nerdy, neurotic boyfriend at the time, to pass the time drawing together a "two-man" comic. The result is a jaw-dropping yet tender account, not only of the joys and challenges of a legendary marriage but also of the obstacles faced by struggling female artists. In Drawn Together, our foremost male-female cartooning couple recall their success at shocking America with Weirdo Magazine, the life-altering birth of their precocious daughter Sophie, and their astonishing move to the safe haven of France.
Handwriting: Poems.
A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes, and language, as the poet contemplates scents and gestures and evokes a time when "handwriting occurred on waves, / on leaves, the scripts of smoke" and remembers a woman's "laughter with its / intake of breath. Uhh huh."
The Passenger.
A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. It blends the rowdy humor of some of McCarthy s early novels with the parched tone of his more apocalyptic later work.
The Once Upon a Time World. The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Roviera.
A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. In Once Upon a Time World, Jonathan Miles presents the remarkable story of the small strip of French coast that lured the world to its shores. It is a wild and unforgettable tale that follows the Riviera's transformation from paradise and wilderness to a pollution imperiled concrete jungle.
