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William Faulkner/ Absolom, Absolom
Ernest Hemingway/ Islands in the Stream
Jay O. Conger/The Necessary Art of Persuasion
Robert Graves/Claudius the God
Patrick French/The World is What it Is
Sarah Vowell/The Wordy Shipmates
Christoper Buckley/ Losing Mum and Pup
Ford Maddox Ford/ The Good Soldier
Prince Guiseppe di Lampedusa/The Leopard
Jonathan Alter/ The Defining Moment
Jon Meacham/ American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the Presidency
Donna Tartt/Secret History
Gabriel Garcia Marquez/ Love in the Time of Cholera
John Cheever/ The Stories of John Cheever
Raymond Carver/Where I'm Calling From
Laclose/ Les Liaisons Dangereuse
Stewart O'Nan/ Last Night at the Lobster
Christopher Buckley/ Thank you for smoking
Nick Hornby/ Shakespeare Wrote for Money

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The Charterhouse Of Parma by Richard; Illustrations by Parker Howard, Robert Andrew Stendahl; Translated fro

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Paul Auster: Collected Poems

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Auggie Wren's Christmas Story by Paul Auster

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Timbuktu A Novel by Paul Auster

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Travels In the Scriptorium by Paul Auster

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The Invention of Solitude. 1988. soft cover. by Paul, AUSTER

The Strand Bookstore in New York, which has an online service, sometimes has new copies of the Sunday Press "Nemo" books at a reduced price.

posted by Lloydville at 3:15 am (EST) on Jun 23, 2009

I've always loved "Little Nemo In Slumberland" -- I consider it one of the greatest achievements in the history of American graphic art. But these Sunday Press books take my appreciation of the strips to a new level. They are presented FULL SIZE -- that is, the size of an old-fashioned newspaper comics page -- making for a book that's very hard to fit on a shelf. On the positive side, you feel like you're inside Slumberland when you open them. The strips have been cleaned-up digitally, to correct for printing errors and fading, but they haven't been re-colored or altered in any other way -- it's like looking at the pages as they first rolled off the presses.

It's just a magical feat of publishing, truly worthy of McCay's genius. They're expensive but I can honestly say I would have paid twice what they cost just to have them in my life.

Here's a post from my web site about the first volume:

http://www.mardecortesbaja.com/blog/_arc...

posted by Lloydville at 2:51 am (EST) on Jun 19, 2009

Thank you for the interesting messages re the Vachel Lindsay connection. These personal links are always amazing, and the identification of Lindsay's Trust Officer with the "they" Lindsay claimed were out to get him before his suicide is tantalizing.

I disagree with the grandson's assertion that Lindsay's life would not make an interesting film--he was a very complex person, but also as much an icon of a certain American type of his time as George Babbitt.

Incidentally, now I am on the lookout for Masters' biography, thanks to you. One of my prize books is the Limited Editions Club [Spoon River Anthology], signed by Masters.

posted by Django6924 at 12:53 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2009

Thanks for attempting to resurrect the LoA group--apparently we're readers and not talkers.

Charlie

posted by BrainFlakes at 9:23 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2009

Thanks for the invite to join the LOA group. I have it in my "watch" list so I am half there. But will accept your invite.

posted by tames at 7:24 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2009

OK
--BJ

posted by billiejean at 8:51 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2009

Glad it was helpful.

However, your topics sounded interesting; consider posting them there?

Os.

posted by Osbaldistone at 6:58 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2009

Thanks for the invitation to join your group! :) I joined it. I am a lover of those Library of America books. I look forward to joining in discussions about LOA. Thanks again!
--BJ

posted by billiejean at 1:44 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2009

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