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84, Charing Cross Roadby Helene Hanff, Frank Doel, Marks & CoISBN 1559211407 (1-55921-140-7)
Hardcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: '84, Charing Cross Road'Book summary:84, Charing Cross Road is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carried on an increasingly touching correspondence. In her first letter to Marks & Co., Helene Hanff encloses a wish list, but warns, "The phrase 'antiquarian booksellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive." Twenty days later, on October 25, 1949, a correspondent identified only as FPD let Hanff know that works by Hazlitt and Robert Louis Stevenson would be coming under separate cover. When they arrive, Hanff is ecstatic--but unsure she'll ever conquer "bilingual arithmetic." By early December 1949, Hanff is suddenly worried that the six-pound ham she's sent off to augment British rations will arrive in a kosher office. But only when FPD turns out to have an actual name, Frank Doel, does the real fun begin.
Two years later, Hanff is outraged that Marks & Co. has dared to send an abridged Pepys diary. "i enclose two limp singles, i will make do with this thing till you find me a real Pepys. THEN i will rip up this ersatz book, page by page, AND WRAP THINGS IN IT." Nonetheless, her postscript asks whether they want fresh or powdered eggs for Christmas. Soon they're sharing news of Frank's family and Hanff's career. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969, the firm's secretary informed her that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, "If you happen to pass by 84, Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much." [via]
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- 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 1559210540 (1-55921-054-0)
Hardcover, M. Bell - 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 0140143505 (0-14-014350-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 0670290734 (0-670-29073-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 0670290742 (0-670-29074-2)
Hardcover, Grossman - 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 074517115X (0-7451-7115-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 1559211407 (1-55921-140-7)
Hardcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
- 84, Charing Cross Road: ISBN 1559210540 (1-55921-054-0)
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Alexandriaby Nick BantockISBN 081183140X (0-8118-3140-X)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexandria'Book summary:Alexandria will continue to delight the 3 million readers who fell in love with the epistolary romance of Griffin & Sabine. Awash with gorgeous artwork, the mystery of Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem now entwines Matthew Sedon, an archaeologist steeped in Egyptian antiquity, and Isabella de Reims, a student in Paris whose vision holds the key to a new reality. Intrigue turns to danger and romance turns to passion as Matthew and Isabella struggle to make sense of a world-and feelings-beyond experience. Only the guidance of Griffin and Sabine, expert navigators of myth and reality, can keep them safe. Author and artist Nick Bantock brings a new sensuality and romance to his vivid dreamscapes and unique visual perspective. Alexandria is a breathtaking new chapter in a saga that has captured hearts, minds, and imaginations the world over. [via]
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Besessenby A. S. ByattISBN 3518388762 (3-518-38876-2)
Softcover, Intl Book Import Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Besessen'Book summary:Frankfurt 1994, ill. kartonierter Originaleinband, 631 Seiten, Kl.-8°, Schnitt leicht gebräunt, ansonsten gutes Exemplar, ungelesen, [via]
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Briefe 1925 Bis 1975: Und Andere Zeugnisseby Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Ursula LudzISBN 3465029658 (3-465-02965-8)
Hardcover, V. Klostermann
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The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classicsby C. S. LewisISBN 0060506083 (0-06-050608-3)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics'Book summary:For the first time ever, these seven essential volumes by C. S. Lewis are available in a single edition. This remarkable book presents the classic works Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, and Lewis's prophetic examination of universal values, The Abolition of Man. Beautiful and timeless, this is a vital collection by one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Lewis reached a vast audience during his lifetime, and books such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters continue to be regarded as among the best spiritual writing of all time. With his uncanny grasp of human nature, Lewis offers a refreshing antidote to the modern world's consumerism and moral relativism. This new edition of his most celebrated books highlights Lewis's compassion for humanity and his relevance for the twenty-first century. [via]
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Confessionsby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 1853264652 (1-85326-465-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state. [via]
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The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbesby Christopher KellyISBN 0874518369 (0-87451-836-9)
Softcover, Dartmouth College
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The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbesby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Roger D. Masters, Christopher Kelly, Peter G. Stillman, Chretien Guillaume De Lamoignon De MalesherbesISBN 0874517079 (0-87451-707-9)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of New England
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The Confessions of J. J. Rousseauby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 141421510X (1-4142-1510-X)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau'Book summary:The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau [via]
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Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseauby Edmund Wilson, Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 1417926856 (1-4179-2685-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau'Book summary:1923. Translated from the French. With a preface by Edmund Wilson. Rousseau, philosopher and Father of the Romantic Movement, The Confessions is his landmark autobiography. Both brilliant and flawed, it is nonetheless beautifully written and remains one of the most moving human documents in all of literature. In this work, Rousseau frankly and sincerely settles accounts with himself in an effort to project his true image to the world. In so doing he reveals the details of a man who paid little regard to accepted morality and social conventions. [via]
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The Duchess of Bloomsbury Streetby Helene HanffISBN 155921144X (1-55921-144-X)
Softcover, Moyer Bell
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street'Book summary:A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends from 84, Charing Cross Road. [via]
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The Elements of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell 1938-1978by W. M. MaxwellISBN 1582432473 (1-58243-247-3)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell 1938-1978'Book summary:An instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her New Yorker editor. For forty years, until her death in 1978, Sylvia Townsend Warner (poet, novelist, and short-story writer) and her New Yorker editor William Maxwell (himself a fiction writer of great distinction) exchanged more than 1,300 letters. Their formal relationship quickly grew into a real, unshakable love, and their letters back and forth became the most significant and longest-lasting correspondence of their lives. As Maxwell told the editor of these letters, "Sylvia needed to write for an audience, a specific person, in order to bring out her pleasure in enchanting," and Maxwell was that person, both as editor and as correspondent. Warner brought out the best in Maxwell too. "I suspect that of all the writers I edited, I was most influenced by Sylvia...I think that what you are infinitely charmed by you can't help unconsciously imitating. " In these letters they wrote about everything that amused, moved, and perplexed them-the physical world, personal relationships, the New York City blackout, the Cuban missile crisis, their ceaseless reading, the coming of old age. Gratitude and love are on every page. Not to mention pleasure and delight. [via]
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Ethical Writings: His Ethics or "Know Yourself" and His Dialogue Between a Philosopher, a Jew and a Christianby Peter Abelard, Paul Vincent SpadeISBN 0872203220 (0-87220-322-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Galileo's Daughterby Dava SobelISBN 0802713432 (0-8027-1343-2)
Hardcover, Walker & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galileo's Daughter'Book summary:Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling Longitude) tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me." Their loving correspondence revealed much about their world: the agonies of the bubonic plague, the hardships of monastic life, even Galileo's occasional forgetfulness ("The little basket, which I sent you recently with several pastries, is not mine, and therefore I wish you to return it to me").
While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste--whose adopted name was a tribute to her father's fascination with the heavens--provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today ... to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it." With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Loveby Dava SobelISBN 0140280553 (0-14-028055-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love'Book summary:Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling Longitude) tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me." Their loving correspondence revealed much about their world: the agonies of the bubonic plague, the hardships of monastic life, even Galileo's occasional forgetfulness ("The little basket, which I sent you recently with several pastries, is not mine, and therefore I wish you to return it to me").
While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste--whose adopted name was a tribute to her father's fascination with the heavens--provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today ... to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it." With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Golden Meanby Nick BantockISBN 0811802981 (0-8118-0298-1)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Mean'Book summary:With potent, dreamlike art and compelling prose, the first two volumes of this extraordinary trilogy have captured the creative imaginations of readers and literary reviewers around the world. USA Today called Griffin & Sabine "wondrous, ingenious" and "gorgeous." The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "The somewhat conspiratorial thrill of reading other people's mail....becomes so infectious, it's impossible to stop until the book's end." Now, in this final volume, the two artists' haunting correspondence comes to an astonishing conclusion. [via]
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Griffin & Sabineby Nick BantockISBN 0877017883 (0-87701-788-3)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Griffin & Sabine'Book summary:With three million copies in print, the Griffin & Sabine Trilogy has captivated readers worldwid with the saga of two unlikely lovers and the conspiratorial thrill of reading their private correspondence. It has been said that Nick Bantock's innovative fusion of lush illustration, creative storytelling, and pioneering paper technology created a new genre of fiction. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of this landmark publication, Chronicle Books and Nick Bantock have created this limited edition of Griffin & Sabine, available only while supplies last. It includes never-before-seen artwork, a special postcard, and a letter from Nick Bantock himself, all in a new binding. Whether reading it for the first time or the first time in ten years, the magic of Griffin & Sabine continues to weave its spell. A tribute to a legacy, Griffin & Sabine: Tenth Anniversary Limited Edition is destined to become a collector's item.
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Griffin & Sabine Deluxeby Nick BantockISBN 0811845087 (0-8118-4508-7)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Griffin & Sabine Deluxe'Book summary:The six titles of the Griffin & Sabine saga are now featured in a deluxe wooden case that includes a special keepsake print. Griffin & Sabine Deluxe Boxed Set features the six beloved titles in the Griffin & Sabine saga: Griffin & Sabine, Sabine's Notebook, The Golden Mean, The Gryphon, Alexandria, and The Morning Star. The books are housed in a handsome wooden case, which also includes a special keepsake print suitable for framing. The Griffin & Sabine books have spent a combined 100 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. They are renowned for Nick Bantock's distinctive artwork, selling over 3 million copies. The six books tell the story of a mystical romance through correspondence, featuring lavishly illustrated postcards and letters that can be pulled from real envelopes. [via]
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The Gryphonby Nick BantockISBN 0811831620 (0-8118-3162-0)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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The Habit of Beingby Flannery O'Connor, Sally FitzgeraldISBN 0394742591 (0-394-74259-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Habit of Being: Lettersby Flannery O'Connor, Sally FitzgeraldISBN 0374167699 (0-374-16769-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connorby Sally FitzgeraldISBN 0374521042 (0-374-52104-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Handcrafted Letterby Diane V. Maurer-Mathison, Giles D. PrettISBN 1580173608 (1-58017-360-8)
Hardcover, Storey Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handcrafted Letter'Book summary:The convenience of today's technology often costs us in unseen ways; all the e-mails that stream our way can't begin to replace the magic of one handwritten letter. Paper artist extraordinaire Diane Maurer-Mathison knows this well, and has set about redressing the situation in her exquisite The Handcrafted Letter.
From improving our handwriting to getting over writer's block, Maurer-Mathison helps us hone our skills and overcome excuses for not writing. Then she inspires us with dozens of ideas for beautiful missives to friends, lovers, children; inventive thank-you cards, congratulatory cards, travel postcards; and unique holiday and special-occasion cards. A mixture of artful papers and attractive, mostly easy techniques (stenciling, embossing, collage, spatter painting, leaf printing, quilling, paper weaving) yield an array of correspondence that anyone would be thrilled to receive.
Along with project directions and gorgeous photographs, the author provides suggestions for such thoughtful extras as special enclosures (a prepaid phone card, a favorite recipe, a lottery ticket, a packet of scented bubble bath, for example) and artful envelope designs. A brief rundown on making your own decorative paper and a good source list are also included. More than just the decorative veneer that many card-making books address, this guide teaches us how to put real meaning into visually appealing messages. --Amy Handy [via]
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Jane Austen's Lettersby Jane AustenISBN 1414500084 (1-4145-0008-4)
Softcover, Pavilion Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen's Letters'Book summary:Jane Austen famously labeled her literary ambit a "little bit (two inches wide) of ivory." Luckily, her personal travels and those of her family were slightly more extensive, otherwise we should be without her letters. Not only should every Janeite possess them, but also every connoisseur of correspondence. Austen's wit is ubiquitous--even though some protest it edges into waspishness. E. M. Forster, for example, described the letters between Austen and her beloved sister, Cassandra, as "the whinnying of harpies."
On September 18, 1796, she tells Cassandra, "What dreadful Hot weather we have!--It keeps one in a continual state of Inelegance.--If Miss Pearson should return with me, pray be careful not to expect too much Beauty..." The dashes and capitalization alone make one long for the days before stylistic rules had so cemented. As for the sentiments! Austen paces her monologues to perfection, making the comic and ironic most out of the smallest incidents. Still, her frustration does occasionally emerge. "I am forced to be abusive," she implodes to Cassandra, "for want of a subject, having nothing really to say." Jane Austen has more than enough to say for lovers of literature and the cultural pinprick. [via]
Joseph Cornellby Kynaston McShine, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)ISBN 0870702726 (0-87070-272-6)
Softcover, Museum of Modern Art
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Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp --in Resonanceby Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, Philadelphia Museum of ArtISBN 0939594471 (0-939594-47-1)
Softcover, Cantz
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Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp...Resonanceby Ann Temkin, Walter Hopps, Susan Davidson, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, Ecke Bonk, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Anne D'HarnoncourtISBN 3893224319 (3-89322-431-9)
Hardcover, Hatje Cantz Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp...Resonance'Book summary:Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp... In Resonance is a beautiful catalog of works by both of the artists, accompanied by eight essays that explore their work and their relationship. These essays include marvelous anecdotes and information about both the personal and artistic lives of the artists and how deeply they influenced one another. Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was a somewhat reclusive American artist from Queens, New York, who was known for his small theatrical box constructions. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was born in France and was an integral part of the avant-garde art world--he is often called the father of contemporary art. The focus of the book revolves around the "Duchamp Dossier," a varied collection of objects from Duchamp that Cornell collected. "There's no way of knowing whether the dossier was made in collaboration with Duchamp or whether Duchamp knew of it at all, although it seems likely that he may have suspected it existed. It contained various things that Duchamp had clearly given to Cornell." The complete contents of the dossier are reproduced in this volume at 60 percent of their actual size.
What is so fascinating about the dossier is that it is something of a physical map of the interactions between Cornell and Duchamp. Along with the photo reproductions there is a complete and extremely detailed inventory of the dossier, including such information as the text of letters and type of postage. Also in the book is a comprehensive chronology of the lives of both artists. The book, a hefty 344 pages, includes 126 color plates and 320 halftone images. --Jennifer Cohen [via]
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Letters from Prisonby Sade, Richard SeaverISBN 155970411X (1-55970-411-X)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950-1963by Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober PlathISBN 0060974915 (0-06-097491-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Lettersby Andrew CarrollISBN 1568361963 (1-56836-196-3)
Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Letters of a Woman Homesteaderby Elinore Pruitt Stewart, N. C. WyethISBN 1417934344 (1-4179-3434-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters of a Woman Homesteader'Book summary:1914. Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she'd need to know about homesteading a place for herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde Stewart, whose ranch was near Burnt Fork, Wyoming, and within six weeks she married him. Her delightful letters written from the time of her arrival until 1913, authentically depict an Old West that has been progressively obscured by those who portray it most often. [via]
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Letters of Abelard and Heloiseby Michael Clanchy, Betty Radice, Peter Abelard, HeloiseISBN 0140448993 (0-14-044899-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters of Abelard and Heloise'Book summary:Abelard and Heloise are nearly as famous a pair of tragic lovers as the fictional Romeo and Juliet; their shared passion for knowledge, religious faith, and one another sealed their destiny. Abelard was a well-respected, 12th-century Parisian scholar and teacher, and Heloise was his talented young student. The two relate their story through a set of letters to one another and intimate acquaintances. Their ardor is unmistakable; as Abelard writes to his love, "So intense were the fires of lust which bound me to you that I set those wretched, obscene pleasures, which we blush even to name, above God as above myself..." This forbidden lust resulted in a pregnancy and secret marriage, and when their union could no longer withstand the challenges in its path, each lover sought refuge in the church--Abelard became a monk and Heloise an abbess. Their correspondence continued as both achieved success in their new careers but continued to struggle with their feelings for one another; the set of letters powerfully articulates the wide range of emotions they experienced. So timeless is their love story that--after eight centuries--their passion, their devotion, and their struggle still resonate with readers. [via]
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloiseby Pierre AbailardISBN 0140442979 (0-14-044297-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkienby Humphery CarpenterISBN 0395315557 (0-395-31555-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien'Book summary:Scholars and fans of the great mythologist will find a rich vein of information in Humphrey Carpenter's The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien was a prodigious letter writer all his life; the sheer mass of his correspondence would give pause to even the most stalwart archivist (one shudders to think what he would have done with e-mail). But with the able assistance of Tolkien's son Christopher and a healthy dose of determination, Carpenter manages find the cream of the crop--the letters that shed light on Tolkien's thoughts about his academic and literary work, as well as those that show his more private side, revealing a loving husband, a playful friend, and a doting father. The most fascinating letters are, of course, those in which he discusses Middle-Earth, and Carpenter offers plenty of those to choose from. Tolkien discussed the minutia of his legend--sometimes at great length--with friends, publishers, and even fans who wrote to him with questions. These letters offer significant insights into how he went about creating the peoples and languages of Middle-Earth.
I have long ceased to invent (though even patronizing or sneering critics on the side praise my 'inventions'): I wait till I seem to know what really happened. Or till it writes itself. Thus, though I knew for years that Frodo would run into a tree-adventure somewhere far down the Great River, I had no recollection of inventing Ents. I came at last to the point, and wrote the 'Treebeard' chapter without any recollection of any previous thought: just as it is now. And then I saw that, of course, it had not happened to Frodo at all.
This new edition of letters has an extensive index, and Carpenter has included a brief blurb at the beginning of each letter to explain who the correspondent was and what was being discussed. Still, we strongly recommend buying the companion volume, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, in order to better understand the place these correspondents had in Tolkien's life and get a better context for the letters. --Perry M. Atterberry [via]
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selectionby Humphrey Carpenter, J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0618056998 (0-618-05699-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selection'Book summary:Scholars and fans of the great mythologist will find a rich vein of information in Humphrey Carpenter's The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien was a prodigious letter writer all his life; the sheer mass of his correspondence would give pause to even the most stalwart archivist (one shudders to think what he would have done with e-mail). But with the able assistance of Tolkien's son Christopher and a healthy dose of determination, Carpenter manages find the cream of the crop--the letters that shed light on Tolkien's thoughts about his academic and literary work, as well as those that show his more private side, revealing a loving husband, a playful friend, and a doting father. The most fascinating letters are, of course, those in which he discusses Middle-Earth, and Carpenter offers plenty of those to choose from. Tolkien discussed the minutia of his legend--sometimes at great length--with friends, publishers, and even fans who wrote to him with questions. These letters offer significant insights into how he went about creating the peoples and languages of Middle-Earth.
I have long ceased to invent (though even patronizing or sneering critics on the side praise my 'inventions'): I wait till I seem to know what really happened. Or till it writes itself. Thus, though I knew for years that Frodo would run into a tree-adventure somewhere far down the Great River, I had no recollection of inventing Ents. I came at last to the point, and wrote the 'Treebeard' chapter without any recollection of any previous thought: just as it is now. And then I saw that, of course, it had not happened to Frodo at all.
This new edition of letters has an extensive index, and Carpenter has included a brief blurb at the beginning of each letter to explain who the correspondent was and what was being discussed. Still, we strongly recommend buying the companion volume, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, in order to better understand the place these correspondents had in Tolkien's life and get a better context for the letters. --Perry M. Atterberry [via]
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Letters of J.R.R. Tolkienby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0890112797 (0-89011-279-7)
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolfby Louise DeSalvo, Mitchell A. LeaskaISBN 1573441961 (1-57344-196-1)
Softcover, Cleis Press
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfby Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Louise Desalvo, Mitchell Alexander LeaskaISBN 1573441368 (1-57344-136-8)
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Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria Rilke, Joan M. Burnham, Franz Xaver Kappus, Kent NerburnISBN 1577311558 (1-57731-155-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Young Poet'Book summary:It would take a deeply cynical heart not to fall in love with Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.
The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:
Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]More editions of Letters to a Young Poet:
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Letters to a Young Poetby Stephen Mitchell, Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0679642323 (0-679-64232-3)
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Letters to a Young Poet/the Possibility of Beingby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 1567315208 (1-56731-520-8)
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Letters to Olga: June 1979-September 1982by Vaclav Havel, Paul WilsonISBN 0805009736 (0-8050-0973-6)
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller 1932-1953by Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 015652791X (0-15-652791-X)
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The Morning Starby Nick BantockISBN 081183199X (0-8118-3199-X)
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Oeuvres Completesby Arthur RimbaudISBN 2070104761 (2-07-010476-1)
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Sabine's Notebookby Nick BantockISBN 0811801802 (0-8118-0180-2)
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Sabine was supposed to be imaginary, a friend and lover that Griffin had created to soothe his loneliness. But she threatens to become embodied, to appear on his doorstep, in fact. So he runs.
Griffin & Sabine, the most creative and talked-about bestseller of 1991, left readers on the edge of a precipice. With Sabine's Notebook, they beginalong with Griffinthe fall. Once again, the story is told through strangely beautiful postcards and richly decorated letters that must actually be pulled from their envelopes to be read. But this volume is also a sketchbook and diary kept by the possibly unreal Sabine, who is living in Griffin's house in London while he wanders through Europe, North Africa, and Asia, backwards through layers of ancient civilizationsand of himself.
Filled with her delicately macabre drawings and notations, the notebook adds a darker element of visual intrigue to their complex and mysterious world. For the thousands who finished Griffin & Sabine and asked, "What happened next?," this second volume in the trilogy provides the answersbut raises new and even more haunting questions of its own. [via]
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 1557481423 (1-55748-142-3)
Softcover, Spring Arbor Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toastby C. S. LewisISBN 0809436590 (0-8094-3659-0)
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The Screwtape Letters/Book & Study Guideby C. S. LewisISBN 0800783360 (0-8007-8336-0)
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Thomas Jefferson Writings Autobiography a Summary View of the Rights of British Columbia Notes on the State of Virginia Public Papers Addresses Messaby Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. PetersonISBN 094045016X (0-940450-16-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Venetian's Wifeby Nick BantockISBN 0811811409 (0-8118-1140-9)
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West from Homeby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roger Lea MacBride, Almanzo WilderISBN 0064400816 (0-06-440081-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco 1915by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roger Lea MacBrideISBN 0060241101 (0-06-024110-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco 1915'Book summary:A selection of letters written by the author of the Little House books to her husband, Almanzo Wilder, describes the highlights of her visit to the West Coast in 1915 and her impressions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Reissue. [via]
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Within Heaven's Gatesby Rebecca SpringerISBN 0883681250 (0-88368-125-0)
Softcover, Whitaker House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Within Heaven's Gates'Book summary:Rebecca Springer shares the wonders and joys of her glorious vision of heaven as she offers hope for the future of mankind. Through this uplifting book, get a glimpse of the eternal home that awaits believers as well as inspiration to continue in your spiritual walk. Come venture Within Heaven's Gates! [via]
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Cartas a milenaby Franz KafkaISBN 8420633542 (84-206-3354-2)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cartas a milena'Book summary:Cartas a Milena reune la correspondencia que entre 1920 y 1922 Franz Kafka (1883-1924) dirigio a Milena Jesenska, mujer residente en la Viena mitica que encarnaba todas las contradicciones del moribundo imperio de los Habsburgos y que acometio la traduccion de sus primeros escritos al checo. Procedente de una familia praguense de elevada posicion social y casada con un intelectual de vida bohemia, la correspondencia de Kafka con esta mujer de vivo temperamento y amplia cultura no solo muestra la transicion de una amistad basada fundamentalmente en razones literarias a una relacion sentimental de particular intensidad, sino que revela de forma excepcional la sensibilidad e intimidad emocional del autor de La metamorfosis. [via]
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Cartas a Un Joven Poeta/ Letters for a Young Poetby Rainer M¬ RilkeISBN 842063445X (84-206-3445-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Cartas Del Diablo a Su Sobrinoby C. S. Lewis, Miguel MariasISBN 006114004X (0-06-114004-X)
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Esta clásica obra maestra de sátira ha entretenido e iluminado a lectores alrededor del mundo con su irónica y astuta representación de la vida y las debilidades humanas desde el punto de vista de Escrutopo, el asistente de alto rango de "Nuestro Padre de Abajo." En este divertidísimo, muy serio y excepcionalmente original libro, C. S. Lewis comparte con nosotros la correspondencia entre el viejo diablo y su sobrino Orugario, un novato demonio encargado de asegurarse de la condenación de un joven hombre.
Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino es la historia más atractiva acerca de la tentación -- y el triunfo sobre ella -- jamás escrita.
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Posesion/ Possessionby A. S. ByattISBN 8433966855 (84-339-6685-5)
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Lettres Des Deux Amants: Attribuees a Heloise Et Abelardby Ewald Konsgen, Heloise, Peter Abelard, Sylvain PironISBN 207077371X (2-07-077371-X)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers Briefwechsel, 1926-1969by Karl Jaspers, Hannah Arendt, Lotte Kohler, Hans SanerISBN 3492028845 (3-492-02884-5)
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