Valmy Publishing imprint: 73 books

by Henry Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

America’s Most Unusual Writer… In this fascinating volume, devoted to the work of one of the most dynamic, controversial and unusual living American writers, you will find many eloquent and moving tales by Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and many other...
by Louise DeKoven Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

Louise de Koven Bowen grew up in a Chicago caught between frontier and urbanity—a young city struggling to wipe the mud from its boots. Born into privilege and comfort, she demonstrated from an early age an extraordinary sense of social responsibility and alertness to how she could improve the circumstances...
by Clement Wood
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

Originally published in 1926, this book by Clement Wood is a critical study of the creative work and influence of noted American poet Amy Lawrence Lowell (1874-1925), whose “glittering verses, her militant prefaces and critical studies, her constant packed platform appearances had elevated her to...
by Van Wyck Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

In this volume, first published in 1947, Pulitzer Prize winning author Van Wyck Brooks gives a superb recreation of a segment of American literary history, namely the period from approximately the 1840’s through to the 1890’s. Those were the days of Melville, Whitman, Mark Twain, Lanier, Bret...

Stern:

A Novel

by Bruce Jay Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

First published in 1962, Bruce Jay Friedman’s acclaimed first fiction novel, Stern, tells the story of a young Jewish man who relocates his family from the city to the suburbs, where they are besieged by voracious caterpillars and a bigotry that ranges from the genteel snub to outright confrontation. “An...
by Cardinal Francis Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

First published in 1951, this is the simple, heart-warming story of a baby left by its mother in a great cathedral in New York, and of the man who found it. Opening immediately after World War I, the story centers on Paul Taggart, a returned soldier, who had lost an arm in the war and who also carried...

Ohio Town

A Portrait of Xenia

by Helen Hooven Santmyer
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

“I wanted to tell the truth about the small town.” Xenia, Ohio: The young among us sometimes rebel in their inexperience, saying “nothing ever happens here.” They say it because they do not know the old houses. If they live long enough they will learn that everything has happened here,...

The Magnolia Jungle

The Life, Times, and Education of a Southern Editor

by P. D. East
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

First published in 1960, this book tells of author P. D. East’s trials and tribulations as a liberal editor during the times of the civil rights movement in the Deep South. It is also the story of his struggle to find his own identity and maturity out of a confused, poverty-ridden childhood in rough...
by Llewelyn Powys
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

First published in 1923, this book is a wonderful collection of short stories and sketches from the British novelist Llewelyn Powys—who also happens to be the younger brother of John Cowper Powys, another renowned British novelist of the twentieth century. “When Llewelyn Powys puts pen...
by Harriet Lane Levy
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

First published in 1947, Harriet Lane Levy’s autobiography, 920 O’Farrell Street, chronicles her childhood in an upper-middle-class San Francisco neighborhood during the mid-late nineteenth century—a period in which young women such as Levy were expected to marry well-off men, generating additional...
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

What was Lady Inverlake’s secret that caused her to go to such extremes? Even the cleverest of rogues commit a fatal error, thereby causing their downfall. Author William Le Queux has exemplified this with cunning and skill, and leads the reader spellbound among those who worm their way into society,...
by Hesketh Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018

‘You are a genuine soaker in Shakespeare, and have not read him as a task. You have him by heart.’—Bernard Shaw wrote in a letter to Hesketh Pearson. Before he became a well-known biographer, Hesketh Pearson was an actor. Few facts are known about Shakespeare, but with an actor’s eye...

The “Cutty Sark”:

The Last of the Famous Clippers [Combined Edition of Two Volumes]

by Dr. C. Nepean Longridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

Originally published in two volumes in 1933, this amalgamated edition provides an in-depth description of the hull, deck fittings, and rigging of this famous ship, together with a detailed account of the building of a scale model, which was added to the collection at the Science Museum in South Kensington,...
by Charmian Clift, George Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

A POWERFUL NOVEL OF ELEMENTAL LOVE AND FURY ON A DOOMED, ENCHANTED ISLAND WORLD…. In the cradle of civilization, rocked by the waters of the blue Aegean, lies the tiny, barren island of Kalymnos. It is cloaked in antiquity and rich with the vibrant life of a proud and passionate people who...
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