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Library of America Holdings. Nearly 350 Books in Series, Bookcellar Has About 175 Library of America holdings. Nearly 350 books in series, BookCellar has about 175. New, boxed, many in original shrink wrapping. $6 ea. 32 Henry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations of James Madison (1809–1817) 31 Henry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809) 14 Henry Adams: Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education 160 James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism 159 James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, and Shorter Fiction 156 Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys 123 The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence 1775–1783 113 John James Audubon: Writings & Drawings 97 James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories 98 James Baldwin: Collected Essays 84 William Bartram: Travels and Other Writings 141 Saul Bellow: Novels 1944–1953 169 Saul Bellow: Novels 1956–1964 134 Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House 135 Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings 152 Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies 103 Charles Brockden Brown: Three Gothic Novels 247 William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings 57 Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, & Other Writings 35 Willa Cather: Early Novels & Stories Page 1 of 7 49 Willa Cather: Later Novels 80 Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings 79 Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels 136 Kate Chopin: Complete Novels & Stories 138 Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1963–1973 137 Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941–1963 27 James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume Two 26 James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume One 168 Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters 18 Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry 94 Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s 95 Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s 147 Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America 63 The Debate on the Constitution: Part Two: January to August 1788 62 The Debate on the Constitution: Part One: September 1787 to February 1788 173 Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s 85 John Dos Passos: U.S.A. 143 John Dos Passos: Travel Books & Other Writings 1916–1941 142 John Dos Passos: Novels 1920–1925 68 Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies 36 Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men 34 W.E.B. Du Bois: Writings 15 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays & Lectures 70 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems & Translations 148 James T. Farrell: Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy 164 William Faulkner: Novels 1926–1929 25 William Faulkner: Novels 1930–1935 48 William Faulkner: Novels 1936–1940 73 William Faulkner: Novels 1942–1954 Page 2 of 7 112 William Faulkner: Novels 1957–1962 54 James Fenimore Cooper: Sea Tales 117 F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels & Stories 1920–1922 37 Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, & Later Writings 81 Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays 50 Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters 129 Alexander Hamilton: Writings 110 Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels 125 Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings 10 Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales & Sketches 161 Richard Henry Dana, Jr. : Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages 8 William Dean Howells: Novels 1875–1886 44 William Dean Howells: Novels 1886–1888 75 Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings 74 Zora Neale Hurston: Novels & Stories 146 Washington Irving: Three Western Narratives 52 Washington Irving: Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra 16 Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches 274 Henry James: Autobiographies 13 Henry James: Novels 1871–1880 29 Henry James: Novels 1881–1886 43 Henry James: Novels 1886–1890 139 Henry James: Novels 1896–1899 162 Henry James: Novels 1901–1902 215 Henry James: Novels 1903-1911 65 Henry James: Collected Travel Writings: The Continent 64 Henry James: Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America 106 Henry James: Complete Stories 1874–1884 Page 3 of 7 82 Henry James: Complete Stories 1892–1898 83 Henry James: Complete Stories 1898–1910 23 Henry James: Literary Criticism: French Writers, Other European Writers, Prefaces to the New York Edition 22 Henry James: Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers 58 William James: Writings 1878–1899 38 William James: Writings 1902–1910 17 Thomas Jefferson: Writings 174 Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957–1960 59 Sinclair Lewis: Main Street & Babbitt 133 Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth 45 Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858 46 Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859–1865 7 Jack London: Novels and Social Writings 6 Jack London: Novels and Stories 155 H. P. Lovecraft: Tales 109 James Madison: Writings 128 Carson McCullers: Complete Novels 1 Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi 9 Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick 24 Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Billy Budd, Uncollected Prose 163 Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944–1961 92 John Muir: Nature Writings 87 Vladimir Nabokov: Novels & Memoirs 1941–1951 88 Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955–1962 89 Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1969–1974 114 Slave Narratives 33 Frank Norris: Novels & Essays 39 Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works Page 4 of 7 40 Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays 1913–1920 41 Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays 1920–1931 42 Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays 1932–1943 53 Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac 11 Francis Parkman: France and England in North America: Volume One 12 Francis Parkman: France and England in North America: Volume Two 19 Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry & Tales 20 Edgar Allan Poe: Essays & Reviews 178 American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 66 American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume One: Freneau to Whitman 67 American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Melville to Stickney, American Indian Poetry, 115 American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker 116 American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson 144 Ezra Pound: Poems & Translations 126 Dawn Powell: Novels 1930–1942 127 Dawn Powell: Novels 1944–1962 153 Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders, An Autobiography 154 Theodore Roosevelt: Letters & Speeches 157 Philip Roth: Novels & Stories 1959–1962 175 Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy & Epilogue 1979–1985 158 Philip Roth: Novels 1967–1972 165 Philip Roth: Novels 1973–1977 51 William Tecumseh Sherman: Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman 150 Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories: A Friend of Kafka to Passions 151 Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories: One Night In Brazil to The Death Of Methuselah Page 5 of 7 149 Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer 171 Capt. John Smith: Writings, with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement 166 American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War 100 Gertrude Stein: Writings 1932–1946 99 Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903–1932 72 John Steinbeck: Novels and Stories 1932–1937 86 John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941 132 John Steinbeck: Novels 1942–1952 170 John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947–1962 96 Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose 4 Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels 28 Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod 124 Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays & Poems 90 James Thurber: Writings & Drawings 200 Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels 71 Mark Twain: Historical Romances 60 Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852–1890 61 Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1891–1910 130 Mark Twain: The Gilded Age & Later Novels 5 Mark Twain: Mississippi Writings 21 Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It 104 Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959–1969 105 Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1969–1975 118 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings 91 George Washington: Writings Page 6 of 7 145 James Weldon Johnson: Writings 102 Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoir 101 Eudora Welty: Complete Novels 93 Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings 121 Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1891–1910 122 Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1911–1937 30 Edith Wharton: Novels 47 Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings 3 Walt Whitman: Poetry & Prose 172 Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater 119 Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937–1955 120 Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957–1980 176 Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s 177 Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 40s 78 Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1944–1946 77 Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938–1944 55 Richard Wright: Early Works 56 Richard Wright: Later Works Page 7 of 7.
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