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Hardcover. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. DARK: BRILLIANT: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1984) Third Printing (c. 1992): NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW navy-blue Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, EXCELLENT NEW LOA-logo patterned white-on-blue card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Olin Nyalite archival paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.78", 0.90 kg,1488 pp * CONTENTS: Pierre, or 'The Ambiguities' (1), Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (423), The Piazza Tales (617), The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (835), Uncollected Prose (1113), Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative (1351); Chronology (1437), Note on the Texts (1442), Notes (1450) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Herman Melville's dark & brilliant late works contain some of his most powerful writing. After "Moby-Dick" he turned from the high seas to record his keen, bleak vision of life at home in America. "Pierre," "Israel Potter," & "The Confidence-Man," satirical dissections of moral breakdown & social hypocrisy, anticipate modernist fiction w/ their black humor/formal experimentation. Included w/ these in this splendid volume are "The Piazza Tales" (including "Bartelby the Scrivener", "The Encantadas" & "Benito Cereno"), together w/ the haunting, posthumously published masterpiece, "Billy Budd, Sailor". Rounding out this 3rd volume of Melville's complete prose in the Library of America are many pieces rarely collected, including magazine stories, comic sketches, & reviews of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Francis Parkman, & James Fenimore Cooper. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: HERMAN MELVILLE was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only 12 when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, & as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti & Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend & neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne) & was hard at work on his masterpiece "Moby-Dick". Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, & where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, "Billy Budd, Sailor", was left unfinished & uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery & publication in 1924. * 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 w/ great care for FREE secure shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ shipment via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee & shipment to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: CLASSIC: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1985) First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $27.50 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 Olin 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. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: 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. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. MONUMENTAL: A TREASURE: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) First Printing, EXCELLENT LOA slipcase, NEW sand-tan silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ tan silk page-marker ribbon, NEW white-on-brown LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Olin Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 2.06", 1.02 kg, x+1620 (1630) pp. * CONTENTS: Count Frontenac & New France under Louis XIV (1), A Half-Century of Conflict (329), Montcalm & Wolfe (829); Chronology (1505), Note on the Texts (1511), Notes (1514), Index (1517) * This is the 2nd of 2 vols. which together incorporate 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 nervous disorders that affected his eyes. The last volume of what he called his "history of the American forest" appeared almost 30 years after the 1st. 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 with colonizing the Mississippi Valley, & Frontenac, determined to bolster France's tottering position in the New World. Here for the 1st time Parkman's massive complete epic appears in a compact form. It tells a story of great empires maneuvering in an unfamiliar & hostile terrain w/ all the guile, sophistication & ingenuity learned from centuries of European rivalry. "Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV" tells how France might have won her imperial struggle w/ England. Frontenac, a courtier made governor of New France by that most sagacious of monarchs, oversaw the colony's brightest era of growth & influence. Had Canada's later governors possessed his administrative skill & personal force, his sense of diplomacy & political talent, or his grasp of the uses of power in a modern world, the English colonies to the south might have become part of what Frontenac saw as a continental scheme of French dominion. England's American colonies flourished, while France, in both the Old World & the New, declined from its late 17th century greatness. Conflict over the developing western regions of North America erupted in a series of colonial wars. As narrated by Parkman in "A Half-Century of Conflict", these American campaigns, while only part of a larger, global struggle, prepared the Colonies for the American Revolution. In "Montcalm & Wolfe" Parkman describes the fatal confrontation of the 2 great French & English commanders whose climactic battle marked the end of French power in America. As the English Colonies cooperated for their own defense, they began to realize their common interests, their relative strength, & their unique position; & in this imperial war of European powers we begin to see American figures (Benjamin Franklin, George Washington) soon to occupy a historical stage of their own. Parkman's chronicle, concluding on the Plains of Abraham after nearly 250 years 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 a treasure of our national & of world 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. DARK: BRILLIANT: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1984) Third Printing (c. 1992): NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW navy-blue Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, EXCELLENT NEW LOA-logo patterned white-on-blue card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Olin Nyalite archival paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.78", 0.90 kg,1488 pp * CONTENTS: Pierre, or 'The Ambiguities' (1), Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (423), The Piazza Tales (617), The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (835), Uncollected Prose (1113), Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative (1351); Chronology (1437), Note on the Texts (1442), Notes (1450) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Herman Melville's dark & brilliant late works contain some of his most powerful writing. After "Moby-Dick" he turned from the high seas to record his keen, bleak vision of life at home in America. "Pierre," "Israel Potter," & "The Confidence-Man," satirical dissections of moral breakdown & social hypocrisy, anticipate modernist fiction w/ their black humor/formal experimentation. Included w/ these in this splendid volume are "The Piazza Tales" (including "Bartelby the Scrivener", "The Encantadas" & "Benito Cereno"), together w/ the haunting, posthumously published masterpiece, "Billy Budd, Sailor". Rounding out this 3rd volume of Melville's complete prose in the Library of America are many pieces rarely collected, including magazine stories, comic sketches, & reviews of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Francis Parkman, & James Fenimore Cooper. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: HERMAN MELVILLE was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only 12 when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, & as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti & Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend & neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne) & was hard at work on his masterpiece "Moby-Dick". Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, & where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, "Billy Budd, Sailor", was left unfinished & uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery & publication in 1924. * 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 w/ great care for FREE secure shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ shipment via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee & shipment to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: CLASSIC: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1989) First Printing (?) Uncertain & unverifiable because we wish to maintain the orig. pub. shrink-wrap, EXCELLENT NEW cream 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 handsome 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 unblemished Olin-Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.62", 0.82 kg, 1296 pp. Slipcase: 5.36 x 8.54" x 1.74", 0.92 kg, 1296 pp. * CONTENTS: Henry James: Novels 1886-1890: The Princess Casamassima (1), The Reverberator (555), The Tragic Muse (701); Chronology (1257), Note on the Texts (1273), Notes (1281) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This fine offering of 3 novels from James' brilliant "middle period" explores historical & social dilemmas as relevant to his time as to today's, in London, Paris, Venice, beauty, wealth, sexual passions & betrayals, secrets within families, the conflicts between art & politics, & much more. * 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). * 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 below-cost additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: CLASSIC: SUPERB: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) Second Printing (c. 1998): NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showig $27.50 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue Brillianta silk-finish linen-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-blue LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Olin-Nyalite opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.78", 0.90 kg, 1252 pp. * CONTENTS: Democracy (1), Esther (185), Mont Saint Michel & Chartres (337), The Education of Henry Adams (715), Poems (1193); Chronology (1209), Note on the Texts (1217), Notes (1229) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This LOA volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful & original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil War to WW I. Here for the first time in a single volume, these works show the many forms (fiction, poetry, autobiography, philosophical & historical speculation) in which Adams gave expression to his vision of the meaning of the unsettling changes in American life & values. Each of the 2 novels, "Democracy" & "Esther", chooses a woman on whom to center the effects of social change. In "Democracy", Madeleine Lee, an emancipated & idealistic young widow, moves to Washington to learn the nature of political power & is disillusioned upon discovering the intrigues of rampant corruption. The free-thinking heroine in "Esther", caught in the warfare between science & religion, finds that she cannot surrender her moral independence, even to marry a clergyman. Adams, though a man of the modern world, remained in temperament a child of the 18th century, his political ideals shaped by his presidential ancestors, great-grandfather John Adams & grandfather John Quincy Adams. The failure of those ideals to withstand the challenges of an industrialized America drove him to seek refuge in the study of the medieval age of faith in France. Out of it came his skeptic's "Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres". Her presence dominates the book that followed: "Mont Saint Michel & Chartres". In evocative & sensitive prose Adams moves from the architecture, sculpture, & stained glass of Chartres to the religion, literature, politics, social order, & crusades of the 11th, 12th, & 13th centuries. Adams translates the poetry of courtly love & recounts the drama of Eleanor of Aquitaine's life & the timeless love of Abelard & Heloise. The narrative rises at the end to the brilliantly re-enacted drama of St. Thomas Aquinas' victory over the rival philosophers. If "Mont Saint Michel" portrayed a world unified by a common faith, "The Education of Henry Adams" portrayed a world irresistibly moving toward chaos. The world once unified by the Virgin was now ruled by the impersonal Dynamo & already confronted by the "metaphysical bomb" of radium & the prospect of infinite energy for man's use. Adams balances, w/ extraordinary urbanity & wit, the rival claims he found as much in himself as in modern civilization. Together, these 2 works still pose an urgent question: Can the human mind ultimately control the monstrous aggregates of power which it has wrung from nature? * ERNEST SAMUELS (1903-1996), volume editor, was emeritus professor of English at Northwestern University & author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 3 vol. biography of Henry Adams. JAYNE N. SAMULES, co-editor, was an assistant editor of the Letters of Henry Adams. * 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. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: AUTHORITATIVE: SUPERB: AS-NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1982) Printing Unstated (Assumed First), NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $25.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW maroon 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 LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished Olin Nyallite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.84", 0.92 kg, 1493 pp * CONTENTS: Tales & Sketches (1), A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys (1159), Tanglewood Tales for Girls & Boys (1303), Chronology (1471), Note on the Texts (1477), Notes (1483) * ABOUT THE BOOK: 'Tales & Sketches' offers what no reader has ever been able to find: an authoritative edition of Hawthorne's complete stories in a single comprehensive volume. Here is everything for his three collections: 'Twice-Told Tales', 'Mosses from an Old Manse', 'The Snow-Image, & Other Twice Told Tales', & 16 uncollected stories. The unique arrangement by order of publication charts Hawthorne's evolution into one of the most powerful & experimental writers of American fiction. From familiar but always surprising works like "Young Goodman Brown," to masterly fables like "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," to lesser-known gems like "The Wives of the Dead", these haunting stories of love & guilt, of duty & license, of the fateful ties of family & nation, show why Hawthorne is a great artist, & an astonishingly contemporary one. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: Roy Harvey Pearce is emeritus professor of American literature at the University of California at San Diego. He has published extensively on 19th-century American literature & intellectual history & served on the editorial board of the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. * 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 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. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2005) First Printing: EXCELLENT NEW LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & double-gilt-rule borders on front panel w/ LOA logo gilt-stamped at center-top, NEW blue Brillianta 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-blue patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Domtar Literary Opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.06" x 1.18", 0.60 kg, 926 pp / In slipcase: 5.36 x 8.50" x 1.30", 0.70 kg * ABOUT THE BOOK: This volume collects 3 sea-going travel narratives by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that span 25 years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam. Suffering from persistent weakness in his eyes, Dana left Harvard at age 19 & sailed from Boston in 1834 as a common seaman. "Two Years Before the Mast" (1840) is the classic account of his voyages around Cape Horn & time ashore in California in the decade before the Gold Rush. Written w/ an unprecedented realism that challenged the romanticism of previous maritime literature, Dana's narrative vividly portrays the daily routines & hardships of life at sea, the capriciousness & brutality of merchant ship captains & officers, & the beauty & danger of the southern oceans in winter. Included in an appendix is "Twenty-Four Years After" (1869), in which Dana describes his return to California in 1859-1860 & the immense changes brought about by American annexation, the frenzy of the Gold Rush, & the growing commerce of "a new world, the awakened Pacific." Dana first visited Cuba in the winter of 1859 while the possible annexation of the island was being debated in the U.S. Senate. "To Cuba and Back" (1859) is his entertaining & enthusiastic account of his trip, during which he toured Havana & a sugar plantation; attended a bullfight; visited churches, hospitals, schools, & prisons; & investigated the impact on Cuban society of slavery & autocratic Spanish rule. "Journal of a Voyage Round the World, 1859-1860" records the 14-month circumnavigation that took Dana to California, Hawaii, China, Japan, Malaya, Ceylon, India, Egypt, & Europe. Written w/ unflagging energy & curiosity, the journal provides fascinating vignettes of frontier life in California, missionary influence in Hawaii, the impact of the Taiping Rebellion & the Second Opium War on China, & the opening of Japan to the West, while capturing the transition from the age of sail to the faster, smaller world created by the steamship & the telegraph. * 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 Library of America 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 paper that will last for centuries. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: Thomas Philbrick is professor emeritus of English at the University of Pittsburgh. * 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 below-cost additional fee & shipment of all international orders via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at rates quoted on request.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: NEW Library of America hardcover First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1990) Second Printing: EXCELLENT LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & double-gilt-rule borders on front panel w/ LOA logo gilt-stamped at center-top, IMMACULATE unblemished smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW rust-crimson silk-finish Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE white-on-purple 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 * 5.24" x 8.12" x 1.38", 0.70 kg, 1117 pp. / In slipcase: 5.36 x 8.36" x 1.64", 0.82 kg * CONTENTS: Faulkner: Novels 1936-1940: Absalom, Absalom! (1), The Unvanquished (317), If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem [The Wild Palms] (493), The Hamlet (727); Chronology (1077), Note on the Texts (1106), Notes (1115) * ABOUT THE BOOK: These four novels from the 1930s show Faulkner at the height of his powers & fully demonstrate the range of his genius. They explore the tragic & comic aspects of a South haunted by its past & uncertain of its future. In the intricate, spellbinding masterpiece "Absalom, Absalom!" (1936), Quentin Compson descends into a vortex of images, voices, passions & doomed desires as he & his Harvard roommate recreate the story of Thomas Sutpen & the insane ambitions, romantic hopes, & distortions of honor & conscience that trap Sutpen & those around him, until their grief & pride & fate become the inescapable & unbearable legacy of a past that is not dead & not even past. In seven episodes, "The Unvanquished" (1938) recounts the ordeals & triumphs of the Sartoris family during & after the Civil War as seen through the maturing consciousness of Bayard Sartoris. The indomitable Granny Millard, the honor-driven patriarch Colonel Sartoris, the quick-witted & inventive Ringo, the ferociously heroic Drusilla, and the scheming, mendacious Ab Snopes embody the inheritance that Bayard must reconcile with a new, but diminished, South. "If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem" (published in 1939 as "The Wild Palms") tells of desperate lovers fleeing convention & of a convict escaping the chaos of passion. In "The Wild Palms", an emotional & geographic odyssey ends in a Mississippi coastal town. In counterpoint, "Old Man" recounts the adventures of an inarticulate "tall convict" swept to freedom by a raging Mississippi flood, but who then fights to return to his simple prison life. In "The Hamlet" (1940), the first book of the great Snopes family trilogy, the outrageous scheming energy of Flem Snopes & his relatives is vividly & hilariously juxtaposed w/ the fragile communal customs of Frenchman's Bend. Here are Ike Snopes, in love w/ a cow, the sexual adventures of Eula Varner Snopes, & the wild saturnalia of the spotted horses auction, a comic masterpiece. * The Library of America edition of Faulkner's work publishes new, corrected texts: manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, and published editions have been collated to produce versions that are faithful to Faulkner's intentions and free of the changes introduced by subsequent editors. * Editors for this volume are Joseph Blotner, author of the two-volume "Faulkner: A Biography", & Noel Polk, editor of the critical edition of "The Sound & the Fury" & of "Sanctuary:The Original Text". * The LIBRARY of AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing 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).

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: VIVID: SHOCKING: TRAILBLAZING: EPIC: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1986) First Printing, EXCELLENT virtually AS-NEW LOA SLIPCASE w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & double-gilt-rule borders on front panel w/ LOA logo gilt-stamped at center-top, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW rust-crimson silk-finish Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE white-on-purple LOA patterned card-stock end-papers on heavy stock, 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 1.52", 0.78 kg., 1232 pp / Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.48" x1.64", 0.90 kg * CONTENTS: Vandover & the Brute (1), McTeague (261), The Octopus (573), Essays (1099); Chronology (1211), Note on the Texts (1217), Notes (1223) * ABOUT THE BOOK: In his brief career (he died at 32), Frank Norris introduced fresh & sometimes shocking elements into American fiction. Inspired by the naturalistic "new novel" developed in France by Zola & Flaubert, he adapted it to American settings, adding his own taste for exciting action & a fascination w/ the emerging sciences of economics & psychology. Vandover & the brute, set in a vividly described San Francisco, captures w/ harsh realism the dissipation & decline of a fashionable playboy into virtual bestiality. McTeague (source for Erich von Stroheim's classic film Greed) was a radical departure for its time in its frank treatment of sex, domestic violence & pathological obsession, revealing the dark underside of San Francisco's new middle class. The octopus depicts the epic struggle of strong, ruthless California ranchers w/ the railroad monopoly & its political machine. Twenty-two essays address theories of literature, the state of American fiction, & the social responsibilities of the artist. The New York Times said, "An opportunity to read, or re-read, in an authentic new edition, the work of one of the trailblazers in American literature." * The selection of essays presents: Theory and reality, Zola as a romantic writer, The "English Courses" of the University of California, An opening for novelists, Fiction is selection, Perverted tales, Frank Norris' weekly letter (June 22, 1901), Frank Norris' weekly letter (August 3, 1901), Frank Norris' weekly letter (August 24, 1901), The true reward of the novelist, Novelists of the future, The need of a literary conscience, The mechanics of fiction, A plea for romantic fiction, Fiction writing as a business, "The literature of the West", The great American novelist, The frontier gone at last, Story-tellers vs. novelists, The novel with a "purpose", A neglected epic, & The responsibilities of the novelist * 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. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: A REVELATION: NEW Library of America First edition hardcover (orig. 2001) First printing, NEW LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, 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 archival paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.24", 0.57 kg, 637 pp. * CONTENTS: Poems-1847 (1), May-Day & Other Pieces-1867 (127), from Selected Poems-1876 (219), Other Published Poems & Translations (237), Manuscript Poems & Translations (271); Chronology (553), Note on the Texts (570), Notes (590), Index of Titles & First Lines (625) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Emerson's incomparable brilliance as a prose writer has often overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a poet. Gathering both published & unpublished work, this LOA edition makes available for the first time to general readers the full range of Emerson's poetry, including many poems left in manuscript at his death that have hitherto been available only in drastically edited versions or specialized scholarly texts. Displacing all previous editions in its comprehensiveness & textual authority, this volume reveals the ecstatic, mystical, & private meditative sides of one of the greatest of all American writers. All the poetry Emerson published during his lifetime is included in this single volume. His collections, "Poems" (1847), "May-Day and Other Pieces" (1867), & "Selected Poems" (1876), as well as other pieces written for magazines, fuse close observations of the New England landscape w/ far-reaching spiritual explorations. His familiarity w/ botany & geology, Greek philosophy, Persian poetry, & anti-slavery politics gives his writing an intellectual breadth, & a challenging continuing modernity unique among American poets of his time. More than half the volume is devoted to a generous selection of poetry from Emerson's journals & notebooks, ranging from his childhood to his final years as a writer. This work (printed here as Emerson wrote it, w/o the revisions imposed by earlier editors) is a revelation: a bounty of formal experimentation & speculative thought that displays, as in a painter's sketchbook, the creative process at work. Also included are Emerson's little-known poetic translations, chiefly from the Persian poets Hafiz & Saadi, whose fusion of sensuality & mysticism so profoundly influenced his poetic thinking. W/ them is the complete "La Vita Nuova" (The New Life), Dante's meditation on love that Emerson translated into English for the first time.* 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. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: CLASSIC: FUNDAMENTAL: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (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 unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyallite archival paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.36", 0.71 kg, 1108 pp. With slipcase: 5.30" x 8.48" x 1.54", 0.81 kg * CONTENTS: Hamilton: Writings (1); Appendices (1027), Chronology (1035), Note on the Texts (1052), Notes (1056), Index (1090) * ABOUT THE BOOK: One of the most vivid, influential & controversial figures of the American founding, Alexander Hamilton was an unusually prolific & vigorous writer. As a military aide to George Washington, forceful critic of the Articles of Confederation, persuasive proponent of ratification of the Constitution, first Secretary of the Treasury, & leader of the Federalist party, Hamilton devoted himself to the creation of a militarily & economically powerful American nation guided by a strong republican government. His public & private writings demonstrate the perceptive intelligence, confident advocacy, driving ambition & profound concern for honor & reputation that contributed both to his rise to fame & to his tragic early death. Arranged chronologically, "Writings" contains more than 170 letters, speeches, essays, reports, & memoranda written between 1769 & 1804. Included are all 51 of Hamilton's contributions to "The Federalist", as well as subsequent writing calling for a broad construction of federal power under the Constitution; his famous speech to the Constitutional Convention, which gave rise to accusations that he favored monarchy; early writings supporting the Revolutionary cause & a stronger central government; his visionary reports as Treasury secretary on the public credit, a national bank, & the encouragement of American manufactures; a detailed confession of adultery made by Hamilton in order to defend himself against charges of official misconduct; & his self-destructive attack on John Adams during the 1800 campaign. An extensive selection of private letters illuminates Hamilton's complex relationship w/ George Washington, his deep affection for his wife & children, his mounting fears during the 1790s regarding the Jeffersonian opposition & the French Revolution, & his profound distrust of Aaron Burr. Included in an appendix are conflicting eyewitness accounts of the Hamilton-Burr duel. * ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1757-1804) was born in the West Indies & served during the War of Independence as a captain. His military brilliance was recognized, & he was sent on several important military commissions. He was George Washington's secretary & aide-de-camp & in 1787 become a Member of the Constitutional Convention. From 1789 to 1795 he was the first Secretary of the Treasury, & in 1801 he held the casting vote against Burr & for Jefferson. He fought a duel w/ Burr & died the next day. * 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.