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August Strindberg


Lagercrantz, Olof

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609343


Price: $15.00 

 

Lytton Strachey by Himself - A Self Portrait by: Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. price clipped dust jacket shows wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 609344
Price: $12.00 

 

Eye of the Story - Selected Essays & Reviews, The


Welty, Eudora

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 2nd, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages. Previous owners bookplate on inside cover. Minor spot of soiling on top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609345


Price: $18.00 

 

World of John Lardner, The


Kahn (Editor), Roger

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Dust jacket worn, with tape repaired tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609347


Price: $12.00 

 

Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler by: MacShane (Editor), Frank

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, Reprint, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 501 pages. Some underlining in pen. Book shows standard wear overall - good research copy. Price clipped dust jacket with wear to edges. Record # 609352
Price: $12.00 

 

Downhill All The Way - An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939


Woolf, Leonard

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Record # 609355


Price: $12.00 

 

Continual Lessons - The Journals of Glenway Wescott 1937-1955


Phelps, Robert/Jerry Rosco

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 410 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609356


Price: $18.00 

 

Black Sun - The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby


Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 367 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Covers slightly bowed. Dust jacket worn along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609357


Price: $12.00 

 

Dylan Thomas - No Man More Magical


Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Top of spine chewed with similar damage at top of dust Jacket - Text and strength of spine not effected by damage. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609358


Price: $15.00 

 

Dreiser


Swanberg, W. A.

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 614 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with creases along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609359


Price: $12.00 

 

Jerzy Kosinski


Sloan, James Park

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 505 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609360


Price: $15.00 

 

Stranger on the Square


Koestler, Arthur/Cynthia Koestler

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. illustrated with black & white photographs. Red remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609361


Price: $12.00 

 

Colette - A Taste for Life


Mitchell, Yvonne

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with paper curling along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609362


Price: $15.00 

 

Little Wilson and Big God


Burgess, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 460 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609363


Price: $12.00 

 

Saul Bellow, Drumlin Woodchuck


Harris, Mark

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609367


Price: $12.00 

 

Henry Fielding


Thomas, Donald

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609370


Price: $12.00 

 

Maupassant


Lerner, Michael

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609371


Price: $12.00 

 

Letters of T. S. Eliot - Volume I - 1898-1922


Eliot (Editor), Valerie

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 639 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609372


Price: $15.00 

 

Jack - A Biography of Jack London


Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609375


Price: $12.00 

 

Malraux's Heroes and History


Greenlee, James W.

Hardcover. Dekalb, Northern Illinois University , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 609377


Price: $15.00 

 

D. H. Lawrence and America


Arnold, Armin

Hardcover. London, Linden Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609378


Price: $18.00 

 

Digital Barbarism - A Writer's Manifesto


Helprin, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609499


Price: $12.00 

 

Anton Tchekhov - Literary and Theatrical Reminiscences


Koteliansky (Editor), S. S.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1st UK, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Foxing to edges and some pages throughout. Covers show standard wear. Unmarked text.

Record # 609515


Price: $20.00 

 

Vladimir Nabokov - The American Years


Boyd, Brian

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 783 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609854


Price: $25.00 

 

Victorians Institute Journal - Volume 15 - 1987


Lawler (Editor), Donald

Softcover. Greenville, East Carolina University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610060


Price: $15.00 

 

Holy Ghosts - The male Muses of Emily and Charlotte Bronte


Tayler, Irene

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 342 pages. Dust jacket with fading, and light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610061


Price: $19.00 

 

Coherent Splendor - The American Poetic Renaissance - 1910-1950, A


Gelpi, Albert

Softcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 482 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610065


Price: $23.00 

 

Romantic Quest, The


Fairchild, Hoxie Neale

Hardcover. New York, Russell & Russell, Inc., Reprint, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 444 pages. Red cloth covers with fading to spine, and areas of spotting. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610068


Price: $19.00 

 

English Historical Novel - Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf, The


Fleishman, Avrom

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 2nd, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610071


Price: $15.00 

 

Bloomsbury Group - A Collection of Memoirs, Commentary, and Criticism, The


Rosenbaum, S. P.

Softcover. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 444 pages. Foxing to endpapers. Shallow crease across top left corner of cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610072


Price: $19.00 

 

Psychological Novel - 1900-1950, The


Edel, Leon

Hardcover. New York, Haskell House, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610075


Price: $15.00 

 

Defence of the Imagination, In


Gardner, Helen

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 197 pages. Dust jacket with fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610076


Price: $13.00 

 

Uses of Division - Unity & Disharmony in Literature, The


Bayley, John

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Dust jacket with darkening to paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610081


Price: $15.00 

 

Scott Bicentenary Essays - Selected Papers read at the Sir Walter Scott Bicentenary Conference


Bell (Editor), Alan

Hardcover. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 344 pages. 14 pages of black & white illustrations. Foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket worn with chipping along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610082


Price: $15.00 

 

Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson, The


Brack, Jr. (Editors), O. M./Robert E. Kelley

Hardcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages. Black cloth covers show standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610096


Price: $13.00 

 

Coleridge - Critic of Society


Colmer, John

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, Reprint, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 229 pages. Some minor margin notes in pencil. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges. Dust jacket shows standard wear.

Record # 610107


Price: $15.00 

 

Tatler - The Making of a Literary Journal, The


Bond, Richmond P.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 272 pages. 8 pages of black & white illustrations. Light foxing throughout. Dust jacket worn with fading and chipping.

Record # 610110


Price: $15.00 

 

Dickens - The Critical Heritage


Collins, Philip

Hardcover. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 641 pages. Foxing throughout. Dust jacket with wear along edges, and fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610112


Price: $75.00 

 

Hidden Life of Emily Dickinson, The


Walsh, John Evangelist

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages. Illustrated with 4 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket with darkening along edges, and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610145


Price: $15.00 

 

Dome and the Rock - Structure in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, The


Baird, James

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 334 pages. Dust jacket with fading along edges, and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610154


Price: $15.00 

 

Narrative Crossings - Theory and Pragmatics of Prose Fiction


Gelley, Alexander

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Front cover slightly bowed. Light fading to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610176


Price: $15.00 

 

Robert Frost and J. J. Lankes - Riders on Pegasus


Taylor, Welford Dunaway

Hardcover. Hanover, Dartmouth College Library, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Illustrated with black & white examples of woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 610235


Price: $100.00 

 

Retelling Tales - Essays in Honor of Russell Peck


Hahn (Editors), Thomas/Alan Lupack

Hardcover. Rochester, D. S. Brewer, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610279


Price: $38.00 

 

Poetry of Dylan Thomas, The


Olson, Elder

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 164 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner, and bookplate opposite half title page. Dust jacket with chipping at top and bottom of spine, closed tears along edges. Jacket now protected with plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611576


Price: $19.00 

 

Narration - Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein


Stein, Gertrude

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Fading to spine and along left edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611684


Price: $63.00 

 

Six Tennyson Essays


Tennyson, Sir Charles

Hardcover. London, Cassell & Co. Ltd. , 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 197 pages Hardcover. AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE PASTED BENEATH TITLE ON TITLE PAGE. Moderate rubbing to green cloth covers. Dust jacket with a degree of darkening along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612217


Price: $31.00 

 

William Hale White (Mark Rutherford) - A Critical Study


Stock, Irvin

Hardcover. London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages plus ads. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket with moderate wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612433


Price: $13.00 

 

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth - Volume 1 and 2


De Selincourt (Editor), E.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. , Reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Hardcovers. Volume 1 - 443 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Light pencil marginalia. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 444 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Light pencil marginalia. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612531


Price: $44.00 

 

Thrales of Streatham Park, The


Hyde, Mary

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, Second Printing, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 373 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing to edges. Dust jacket worn with some spots of soiling. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612710


Price: $38.00 

 

Noisiest Book Review in the Known World - The Best of Ralph: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities - 2 Slipcased Volumes, The


Lark (Editor), Lolita

Hardcover. San Diego, Mho & Mho Works, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 volumes in slipcase. Still in original publishers shrinkwrap. Slipcase corners square.

Record # 612727


Price: $50.00 

 

Call me Ishmael


Olson, Charles

Softcover. San Francisco, City Lights Books, Reprint, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Softcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613073


Price: $19.00 

 

Seamus Heaney


Vendler, Helen

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 188 pages. Hardcover. Degree of fading to front of dust jacket. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613080


Price: $15.00 

 

Norman Mailer - A Double Life


Lennon, J. Michael

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 947 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 24 pages of black & white photographs. Blue remainder mark on top edge. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613087


Price: $25.00 

 

Pain, Parties, Work - Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953


Winder, Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 265 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Small remainder dot on bottom edge. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613088


Price: $19.00 

 

Grit's Triumph - Essays on the Works of Harry Crews, A


Jeffrey (Editor), David K.

Hardcover. Port Washington, Associated Faculty Press, Inc., 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Hardcover. Ex-Library with usual marking, stamping on endpapers. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613107


Price: $100.00 

 

Briar Patch with Harry Crews (1935-2012) - A Memoir, In the by: Nagel, Edward

Softcover. New York, Quantum, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 613109
Price: $12.00 

 

Curious World - A New Yorker at Large by: Hamburger, Philip

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 613452
Price: $12.00 

 

English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century 1600-1660 - Second Edition


Bush, Douglas

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, Second edition , 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 680 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, revised. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613631


Price: $15.00 

 

'Dearest Emmie' - Thomas Hardy's Letters to His First Wife


Weber (Editor), Carl J.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. No dust jacket. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613632


Price: $19.00 

 

Evergreen Review Reader - 1957-1967 - A Ten Year Anthology of America"s Leading Literary Magazine


Rosset (Editor), Barney/Evergreen Review

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, Third Printing, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 792 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with repaired tears along edges. Standard wear. Book is quite heavy.

Record # 613904


Price: $44.00 

 

Nebuchadnezzar's Children - Conventions of Madness in Middle English Literature


Doob, Penelope B. R.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, First Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Hardcover. Wine boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Light foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 750884


Price: $19.00 

 

Marquis de Sade - Letters From Prison


de Sade, Marquis

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, First Edition, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 401 pages. Hardcover. Ivory cloth with red printed titles to black cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. TIght binding, sharp corners, clean unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750929


Price: $23.00 

 

Lives Like Loaded Guns - Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds


Gordon, Lyndall

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Group, First US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 491 pages. Hardcover. Grey boards with gilt titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750981


Price: $19.00 

 

Letters of Eric Gill


Gill, Eric/Walter Shewring (Editor)

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, First Edition, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Pink top edge. Light marginal sunfade to spine edge. Front hinge cracked, tender & held in place with light threads of cloth at bottom edge. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751230


Price: $19.00 

 

Art of Literary Research, The


Altick, Richard D.

Hardcover. New York, NY, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., First Edition, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with sepia toned illustration to endpapers & gilt titles to spine. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751248


Price: $13.00 

 

Paris Review, The - Summer, 1984


Plimpton (Editor), George/Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine

Softcover. Flushing, NY, Deborah S. Pease/The Paris Review, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations throughout, including an ads section. Features writers & interviews, Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine. Previous owner's signature lightly erased to preliminary page. Else, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751380


Price: $19.00 

 

Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation


Johnson (Editors), Ronna C./Nancy M. Grace

Softcover. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, First Thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Softcover. Bright illustrated wraps with light, marginal wear to edges. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751483


Price: $38.00 

 

Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by: Gresham, Douglas H.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, b & w photos, clean, tight copy, like new. Record # 800573
Price: $12.00 

 

The Intimate Journal of George Sand by: Howe, ed., Marie Jenney

Hardcover. New York, Loring & Mussey Publishers, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages, edited and translated by Marie Jenney Howe, clean, tight copy, light wear to edges of cover, small amount of white paint at bottom of spine. Record # 800581
Price: $12.00 

 

Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page


Freed, Lynn

Hardcover. Orlando, Harcourt, Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages, b & w photos, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800782


Price: $15.00 

 

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory


Hampl, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, remainder line on bottom edge, very clean, tight copy, like new, dust jacket covered with Mylar.

Record # 800799


Price: $18.00 

 

We Bombed in New Haven: A Play by: Heller, Joseph

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages, very clean, tight copy. Record # 800981
Price: $12.00 

 

Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow, The by: Raymond, John

Hardcover. London, England/U.K., The Bodley Head, 2nd, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, b&w illustrations, portrait of Gronow at frontispiece, dust jacket protected with Mylar, previous owner's book plates, clean, tight copy. Record # 801639
Price: $12.00 

 

Stephen Spender: A Literary Life


Sutherland, John

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, 627 pages. B/W photographs. Like new. Dust jacket pristine.

Record # 802371


Price: $13.00 

 

Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe


Fields, ed., Annie

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages. B/W photograph of bust of Stowe opposite title page. Green cloth covers with gold lettering on spine and front. Very minor foxing on end papers. Excellent condition for age.

Record # 802580


Price: $26.00 

 

Letters to Dead Authors


Lang, Andrew

Hardcover. 1st, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages. Etched portrait by S. J. Ferris. Green cloth covers with embossed gold and ivory portrait on front and gold lettering on spine. Some rubbing on bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Foxing on some pages but overall condition is excellent for age.

Record # 802587


Price: $16.00 

 

Romance of English Literature by: Turner, ed., W. J.

Hardcover. New York, Hastings House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. 125 B/W and 48 color illustrations. Introduction by Kate O'Brien. Previous owner's bookplate on front end pages. Soiled gold colored cloth covers. Pages very clean. Record # 802643
Price: $12.00 

 

Dickens' London by: Vallance, ed., Rosalind

Softcover. London, Folio Society, reprint, 1966, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages in black cardboard slipcase. Essays selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance. Engravings by George Cruikshank. Beige covers with brown cartoon on cover and brown and gold lettering on spine. Record # 802842
Price: $12.00 

 

House of Trees: Memoirs of an Australian GIrlhood by: Colebrook, Joan

Softcover. New York, Penguin Books, reprint, 1988, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF, color photograph on cover. Light wear to cover; a tight, clean copy. Record # 802993
Price: $12.00 

 

English Bible As Literature, The by: Dinsmore, Charles Allen

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1931, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Light edgewear and rubbing to corner. Minor scuffing and spots on back cover. Pages age toned. Pencil markings and underlines in book. Previous owner's pencil inscription on front inside cover and front fly leaf. Good. Record # 803089
Price: $12.00 

 

Homage to Theodore Dreiser: On the Centennial of His Birth


Warren, Robert Penn

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1971, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, color dust jacket. Very light wear to edges of dust jacket; book in excellent condition.

Record # 803266


Price: $13.00 

 

Literary Criticism in England 1660-1800 by: Chapman, Gerald Wester

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 618 pages. Dust jacket slightly faded. Record # 803350
Price: $12.00 

 

Essays of Elia, The


Lamb, Charles E., Illust. by: Charles E. Brock

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Burgundy cloth cover gilt design and titles. All edges gilt. Many b&w illustrations.

Record # 803397


Price: $18.00 

 

William Styron: A Life by: West III, James L. W.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 506 pages, b&w photographs, dust jacket with light soil. Record # 803400
Price: $12.00 

 

English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages by: Chambers, E. K.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, Reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Blue cloth, gilt titled spine. Record # 803424
Price: $12.00 

 

Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century by: Bennett, H. S.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, Reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Blue cloth, gilt titled spine. Record # 803425
Price: $12.00 

 

English Literature 1789 - 1815 by: Renwick, W. L.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Blue cloth, gilt titled spine. Mildew front cover. Foxed fore-edge. Record # 803427
Price: $12.00 

 

English Literature 1815 - 1832 by: Jack, Ian

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 643 pages. Blue cloth, gilt titled spine. Mildew back cover. Record # 803428
Price: $12.00 

 

More Stories from the Operas by: Davidson, Gladys

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company , 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Red cloth, black titles. Frontis illustration. Illustrated plates. Previous owner's signature, Previous owner's inscription. Record # 803431
Price: $12.00 

 

The Politics of Literature:Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English by: Kampf, Louis, Paul Lauter

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 429 pages. Edited by Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter. Includes index and biography of contributors. Gray cover. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Record # 803559
Price: $12.00 

 

Pact with Silence, A: Art and Thought in the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine by: Rubin, David Lee

Hardcover. Columbus, OH, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. White cloth, black lettering. Very good pictorial dust jacket is price clipped with faded spine. Record # 803587
Price: $12.00 

 

Satiric and the Didactic in Ben Jonson's Comedy, The by: Baum, Helena Watts

Hardcover. Richmond, VA, University of North Carolina , 1st, 1947, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Green cloth, gilt, minor rubbing. Good dust jacket in mylar is price clipped with edge wear and rubbing. Record # 803630
Price: $12.00 

 

Poetry & Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens


Bloom, Harold

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 293 pages. Dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Dark blue dust jacket w/ minor edgewear and marking/rubbing. Former owner's name/date in upper righthand corner of front flyleaf. Newspaper article (review of the book) tucked into front end papers, caused some browning on the endpapers. Pages in great shape.

Record # 803799


Price: $19.00 

 

A Map of Misreading


Bloom, Harold

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 206 pages. Blue cloth w/ gilt lettering on spine. Beige dust jacket w/ faded spine and minor edgewear. Previous owner's name/date on front flyleaf. Cut-out newspaper article (review of the book) tucked into endpapers.

Record # 803801


Price: $32.00 

 

Selected Letters of Henry James, The by: Edel, Leon

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Cudahy , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket with faded spine. Record # 803981
Price: $12.00 

 

Il Romanzo di Scampolo by: Niccodemi, Dario

Softcover. Milano, Fratelli Treves, Reprint, 1926, Book: Poor, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Front cover and spine missing. Signatures falling apart. Pages browned, especially around the edges. Edgewear. Record # 804000
Price: $12.00 

 

In Exile from the Land of Snows: The First Full Account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese Conquest by: Avedon, John F.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 383 pages w/ index. 1/4 gray cloth, dark gray boards. Pictorial dust jacket shows edgewear and chipping. Large tear on dust jacket along fold of back flap. Map end papers. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Brown spotting on top edge. Record # 804036
Price: $12.00 

 

Katherine Mansfield's Letters to John Middleton Murry 1913-1922


Murry, John. Middleton (ed)

Hardcover. London, Constable & Co., 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 701 pages. Brown cloth, faded spine, gilt. Pen writing on front fly leaf.

Record # 804083


Price: $16.00 

 

Stephen Crane: Letters


Stallman, R. W. & Gilkes, Lillian (ed)

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 366 pages. Good dust jacket with piece missing from back and general wear, in mylar. SIGNED BY EDITOR GILKES.

Record # 804114


Price: $32.00 

 

Genesis of Hamlet, The


Lewis, Charlton M.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Blue cloth, gilt. Faded spine, small bump to back board.

Record # 804120


Price: $32.00 

 

Auden in Love: The Intimate Story of a Lifelong Love Affair by: Farnan, Dorothy J.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, Reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages.Pictorial dust jacket with small tear to front in mylar. Remainder ink stamp bottom edge. Record # 804126
Price: $12.00 

 

Is Polite Society Polite? and Other Essays


Howe, Julia Ward

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Reprint, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Gray edge worn boards. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Previous owner's bookplate front pastedown. Uncut.

Record # 804340


Price: $64.00 

 

Harriet Monroe and the Poetry Renaissance: The First Ten Years of Poetry, 1912-22


Williams, Ellen

Hardcover. Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 8vo, brown cloth. (xiv), 312 pp. ISBN 0252004787. Story of the legendary Chicago editor and poet. Her little magazine, Poetry, was very influential in modernist literature. Some fade to dust jacket spine.

Record # 804506


Price: $10.00 

 

Poets Through Their Letters: From the Tudors to Coleridge


Seymour-Smith, Martin

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages.

Record # 804507


Price: $10.00 

 

History of Histories of German Literature 1835-1914, A by: Batts, Michael S.

Hardcover. Montreal & Kingston, McGill's & Queen University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 301 pages. Green cloth cover, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Book in great condition; a clean tight copy. Record # 804553
Price: $12.00 

 

American Literature


Abernethy, Julian W.

Hardcover. New York, Charles E. Merrill Co, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages. SIGNED BY ABERNETHY ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Green cloth covers, gilt stamped titles to spine, stamped borders, b&w illustrations throughout. Slight edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; a very clean, neat copy in great condition.

Record # 808278


Price: $35.00 

 

Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman


Coates, Thomas F. G. and R. S. Warren Bell

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Red cloth covers, gilt titles, tissue-protected b&w frontispiece, b&w plates throughout printed on stiff papers. Cocked spine, light edgewear and soiling to covers, bookplate to paste-down front endpaper, small dark stain to bottom edge of page block, inside of hinges partially cracked; otherwise a neat, tight copy.

Record # 808695


Price: $30.00 

 

Selected Writings in British Intellectual History


Stephen, Leslie

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Edited, and introduction by Noel Annan. Includes Series Editor's Preface by John Ciive. Internally clean copy. Normal wear to dust jacket. Overall tight and clean copy.

Record # 809200


Price: $12.00 

 

Barbara Pym: A Reference Guide


Salwak, Dale

Hardcover. Boston, MA, G. K. Hall & Co., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 162 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Very faint spotting to covers, else a neat, tight copy.

Record # 810096


Price: $12.00 

 

Kite-Flying and Other Irrational Acts: Conversations with Twelve Southern Writers


Carr (Ed.), John

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 810121


Price: $12.00 

 

Sherwood Anderson


Townsend, Kim

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 370 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 810124


Price: $12.00 

 

Method and Imagination in Coleridge's Criticism


Jackson, J. R. de J.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Gray dust jacket with some wear and soiling. Blue boards with gilt title to spine. Slight foxing to edges. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850416


Price: $15.00 

 

Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism


Aaron, Daniel

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 460 pages. Black boards with silver gilt title to spine, some wear. Soiling to all edges. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850428


Price: $12.00 

 

Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff 1917-1976


Hindus, Milton (Ed.)

Softcover. Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850759


Price: $12.00 

 

John Steinbeck, the Errant Knight: An Intimate Biography of his California Years


Valjean, Nelson

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages plus index, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket, spine faded; protected by mylar cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850779


Price: $18.00 

 

Happy Rock, The: A Book About Henry Miller


n/a

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Bern Porter, 1st, 1945, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, No. 260 out of 750 copies bound for distribution. 157 pages. Tan cover with wear and soiling. Shelving information on spine. Front hinge cracked. Ex-library. Different color pages throughout. Edges soiled. Interior very good.

Record # 850826


Price: $40.00 

 

Letters of Henry Adams 1892-1918


Ford, Worthington Chauncey (Ed.)

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 672 pages. Edge wear, small tears to dust jacket; spine yellowed, w/piece missing from top. Sticker on front flap. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850881


Price: $18.00 

 

Prince-Errant and Evocator of Horizons: A Reading of R. B. Cunninghame Graham


Haymaker, Richard E.

Hardcover. Kingsport, TN, Kingsport Press, limited, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited Edition. 374 pages, b&w frontispiece. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Ex-lib w/ stamp on top edge, pocket mark on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851061


Price: $15.00 

 

An Introduction to the French Poets


Brereton, Geoffrey

Hardcover. Fair Lawn, NJ, Essential Books, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Dark red top edge. Edge wear, light soiling to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851382


Price: $12.00 

 

Faulkner at West Point


Fant, Joseph L. and Robert Ashley

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st pr, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 136 pages, b&w photographs. Yellow top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to edges. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851383


Price: $20.00 

 

Faulkner at West Point


Fant, Joseph L. and Robert Ashley

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st pr, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 136 pages, b&w photographs. Yellow top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to edges. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851384


Price: $20.00 

 

Heroines of Fiction


Howells, W. D.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. 238 and 273 pages, b&w plates and frontispieces. Light green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Light rubbing to cover corners. Else very clean, tight copies.

Record # 851396


Price: $50.00 

 

Winnington Letters, The


Burd, Van Akin (Ed.)

Hardcover. Cambridge, Belknap Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 739 pages, several b&w plates. Light red top edge. Chipping, tear to dust jacket; spine faded. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851568


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Literature


Hearn, Lafcadio

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 393 pages. Red cloth covers w/ edgewear, rubbing. Top edge gilt. Rough cut pages. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851575


Price: $40.00 

 

Richard Crashaw: A Study in Baroque Sensibility


Warren, Austin

Hardcover. University, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. Seven b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Light foxing to edges. Decorative stain to top edge. LIght chipping and wear to dust jacket. Else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 851687


Price: $25.00 

 

French Critic 1549-1967, The


Fowlie, Wallace

Hardcover. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. Some edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 851713


Price: $12.00 

 

Second Thoughts: Reflections on Literature and on Life


Mauriac, Francois

Hardcover. Cleveland, The World Publishing Co, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Light edgewear to cover. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a clean tight copy.

Record # 851761


Price: $12.00 

 

Surrealism and the Novel


Matthews, J.H.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 189 pages. Pencil markings. Minor edgewear to cover. Edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851764


Price: $18.00 

 

Collection of Letters of Dickens, A


Dickens, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Charle's Scribner's Sons, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Brown cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Small stain on rear flyleaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851769


Price: $20.00 

 

Anthology of Russian Literature


Wiener, Leo

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 447 pages, b&w frontispiece. Top edge gilt. Edgewear, light rubbing to maroon cloth covers, dent to rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 852071


Price: $50.00 

 

Oxford History of English literature: English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century


Sutherland, James

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 589 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Edges of spine slightly bumped, otherwise no visible wear to cover. Some foxing on dust jacket, spine at front and rear endpage, and edges of pages. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Edited by Bonamy Dobree and Norman Davis.

Record # 852594


Price: $18.00 

 

Oxford History of English Literature: English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660.


Bush, Douglas

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 680 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and slight bumping on edges of spine. Minor foxing on dust jacket, along spine on front and rear endpages, and around all edges. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852595


Price: $15.00 

 

Mark Twain: An American Prophet


Geismar, Maxwell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 564 pages. Decorative red stain on top edge. Minor dust jacket edge wear and foxing on book edges. Otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 852773


Price: $20.00 

 

State Papers as Governor and President 1899-1909. by: Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 548 pages. Green cloth cover, cloth faded on spine. Some wear to corners and edges. Pages untrimmed on fore edge, top edge gilt. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Volume XV in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. Record # 852791
Price: $12.00 

 

Campaigns and Controversies. by: Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 403 pages. Green cloth cover, cloth faded on spine. Some wear to corners and edges. Pages untrimmed on fore edge, top edge gilt. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Volume XIV in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. Record # 852792
Price: $12.00 

 

American Problems by: Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 465 pages. Green cloth cover, cloth faded on spine. Some wear to corners and edges. Small chunk missing of cover and pages on botton right corner, but no text is missing. Pages untrimmed on fore edge, top edge gilt. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Volume XVI in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. Record # 852797
Price: $12.00 

 

Virginia Woolf, A Biography: Volume One Virginia Stephen 1882-1912, Volume Two Mrs. Woolf 1912-1941


Bell, Quentin

Hardcover. London, The Hogarth Press, 2nd (Vol. I), 1st (Vol. II), 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol. 1 230 pages, vol. 2 300 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, creases and rubbing. Frontispiece portrait of Woolf in both volumes. Clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852826


Price: $40.00 

 

Love-Hate Relations: English and American Sensibilities


Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 318 pages, decorative red top edge stain. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852828


Price: $12.00 

 

Mightier Than the Sword: Memories and Criticisms of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Stephen Crane, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Ivan Turgenev, W. H. Hudson, Theodore Dreiser, Algernon Charles Swinburne


Ford

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1st UK, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages, gilt tile on spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor corner and edge wear. Black pen line on bottom edge and slight ex-library residue on rear end paper. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 852839


Price: $20.00 

 

Sea Years of Joseph Conrad, The


Allen, Jerry

Hardcover. Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., reprint, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages, with b&w photographs. Dust jacket edgewear and price clipped. Otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 852998


Price: $12.00 

 

Contemporary Japanese Literature: An Anthology of Fiction, Film, and Other Writing Since 1945.


Hibbett (ed), Howard

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 468 pages. White and blue cloth cover, gilt lettering and design, faint foxing, smudges, and some edgewear. Dust jacket is worn and bumped on edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Minor foxing on edge wear, otherwise inside is bright and clean, a tight copy.

Record # 853000


Price: $15.00 

 

P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography


Donaldson, Frances

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 369 pages. Minor wear to cover, some wear to edges and corners of dust jacket. Section of b&w illustrations. Inside is clean and bright. A nice copy.

Record # 853152


Price: $12.00 

 

Words


Sartre, Jean-Paul

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages, translated from the French by Irene Clephane. Minor dust jacket fade and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853819


Price: $20.00 

 

William Allingham: The Diaries


Allingham, H., D. Radford

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages, with photographs, gilt decorated cover and title on green cloth with slicpcase. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 853824


Price: $20.00 

 

Early Novel of the Southwest, The: A Critical History of Southwestern Fiction 1819-1918


Gaston, Jr., Edwin W.

Hardcover. New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 318 pages. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, price clipped and minor foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853836


Price: $18.00 

 

Two Forewords


Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 pages, one of 950 limited release copies with slipcase and marbled cover. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853856


Price: $28.00 

 

Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell


Powell, Lawrence Clark

Hardcover. unspecified, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 246 pages, with introduction by William Targ. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, light foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853870


Price: $20.00 

 

Connecticut Wits and Other Essays, The


Beers, Henry A.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages, minor edge wear and corner bumps, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853966


Price: $30.00 

 

Kerouac: A Biography


Charters, Ann

Hardcover. San Francisco, Straight Arrow Books, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 419 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, light foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853998


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters of Emily Dickinson


Todd (Editor), Mabel Loomis

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 389 pages, with an introduction by Mark Van Doren. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854023


Price: $35.00 

 

Letters of John Cheever, The


Cheever (Editor), Benjamin

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854035


Price: $12.00 

 

Letters of Carl Van Vechten


Kellner (Editor), Bruce

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854052


Price: $12.00 

 

Jonathan Swift


Rowe, A. L.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 854053


Price: $12.00 

 

Literature of Modern Israel, The


Wallenrod, Reuben

Hardcover. New York, Ram's Horn Books, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, internal edge fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 854144


Price: $12.00 

 

Shelley: His Life and Work, Two Volumes


Peck, Walter Edwin

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Complete two volumes, gilt top edge, with frontispiece portraits of Shelley and illustrations. Minor corner and edge wear, previous owner's signature on front endpaper, light pencil marks on some pages, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 854300


Price: $35.00 

 

Secret Country of C. S. Lewis, The


Arnott, Anne

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, with illustrations by Patricia Frost. Minor dust jacket edge wear, price clipped and previous owner

Price: $12.00 

 

Life and Letters of John Keats, The


Richardson, Joanna

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages, with portraits throughout, marbled covers with gilt title on spine and beige slipcase. Small crease on front cover, otherwise, neat and tight copy.

Record # 854467


Price: $12.00 

 

Life of Monsieur de Moliere, The


Bulgakov, Mikhail

Hardcover. New York , Funk & Wagnalls, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 259 pages. Light wear, rubbing, tanning to pictorial dust jacket. Small stains to for-edge, slight scratch and tear (possible pub. error) to lower edge not disturbing text. A neat, tight copy.

Record # 854608


Price: $18.00 

 

Private Diaries of Stendhal, The by: Sage (Editor), Robert

Hardcover. Garden City, NEW YORK, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 570 pages, translated and edited by Robert Sage. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, clean and tight. Record # 854652
Price: $12.00 

 

Twenties, The: American Writing in the Postwar Decade


Hoffman, Frederick J.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 466 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge chip and rub, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 854674


Price: $12.00 

 

H. L. Mencken and the Debunkers (SIGNED)


Martin, Edward A.

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Geoorgia Press , 2nd printing, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Neatly SIGNED BY MARTIN on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 854845


Price: $20.00 

 

Lord Alfred Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, 2 Volumes


Tennyson , Hallam T.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Complete two volume set, with frontispiece portrait of Tennyson in both volumes. Light edge wear and foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 854869


Price: $31.00 

 

Method and Imagination in Coleridge's Criticism by: Jackson, J. R. de J.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 205 pages, dust jacket soil with edge wear and rub, price clipped, foxing on edges, otherwise, internally bright and clean copy. Record # 854873
Price: $12.00 

 

Samuel Butler 1612-1680: Characters


Daves (Editor), Charles W.

Hardcover. Cleveland, Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 330 pages, dust jacket edge wear and rub, foxing on edges, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 854876


Price: $15.00 

 

Carlyle


Cazamian, Louis

Hardcover. Archon Books, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 289 pages, translated by E. K. Brown. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, foxing on edges, minor pencil marks on margin, otherwise, clean and bright.

Record # 854877


Price: $15.00 

 

English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages


Chambers, E. K.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 247 pages, dust jacket edge wear and chip, price clipped, minor foxing on edges, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 854880


Price: $13.00 

 

New Light on Dr. Johnson: Essays on the Occasion of his 250th Birthday


Hilles (Editor), Frederick W.

Hardcover. Archon Books, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 348 pages, dust jacket edge wear with chipping, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 854891


Price: $13.00 

 

Flint and the Flame, The: The Artistry of Charles Dickens


Davis, Earle

Hardcover. Columbia, Missouri, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 333 pages, with two portraits of Dickens. Dust jacket edge wear and crease, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 854894


Price: $15.00 

 

Arnolds, The: Thomas Arnold and His Family


Trevor, Meriol

Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 206 pages, with illustrations. Dust jacket edge wear and rub, foxing on edges and preliminary pages, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 854895


Price: $13.00 

 

Arnold's Poetic Landscapes


Roper, Alan

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages, dust jacket edge wear and chip, price clipped, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 854896


Price: $15.00 

 

Wordsworth


Woodring, Carl

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 227 pages, dust jacket edge wear and spine fade, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 854973


Price: $13.00 

 

Emerson as Poet


Waggoner, Hyatt H.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 211 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 854975


Price: $15.00 

 

John Milton: Poet and Humanist


Hanford, James Holly

Hardcover. Cleveland, Press of Western Reserve University, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 286 pages, with a foreword by John S. Diekhoff. Dust jacket edge wear and chip, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 854982


Price: $15.00 

 

Thackeray: The Critical Heritage


Tillotson (Editors), Geoffrey, Donald Hawes

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 392 pages, dust jacket edge wear and chip, foxing on edges and preliminary pages, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 854986


Price: $15.00 

 

Notebooks for A Raw Youth, The


Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 570 pages, edited and with an introduction by Edward Wasiolek, translated by Victor Terras. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 854996


Price: $19.00 

 

Matthew Arnold: The Critic and France


Harding, F. J. W.

Softcover. Geneve, , Librairie Droz, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages, edge chip and fade, light foxing on edges, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 855009


Price: $15.00 

 

Novelists in a Changing World: Meredith, James, and the Transformation of English Fiction in the 1880's


Stone, Donald David

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 381 pages, dust jacket edgewear and rub, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 855011


Price: $13.00 

 

Englishman's Italian Books 1550 - 1700, The


Lievsay, John L.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 104 pages, light dust jacket edge wear and fade, small chunk missing from top spine edge, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 855012


Price: $13.00 

 

English Biography in the Eighteenth Century


Longaker, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Octagon Books, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 519 pages, light foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 855014


Price: $15.00 

 

Art of the Lyrical Ballads, The


Parrish, Stephen Maxfield

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 250 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing, fading to dust jacket spine. Faint foxing to edges. Internally very good.

Record # 855016


Price: $38.00 

 

Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977


Nabokov (Ed.), Dmitri & Matthew J. Bruccoli

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 582 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges. Neat, tight copy.

Record # 855151


Price: $31.00 

 

Neo-Pagans, The: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth


Delany, Paul

Hardcover. New York , The Free Press, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855228


Price: $15.00 

 

Verlaine


Petitfils, Pierre

Hardcover. Paris, Julliard, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 508 pages, b&w illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. Minor edgewear, tanning, chipping to dust jacket. Related articles in French laid in. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855314


Price: $38.00 

 

Spectatorial Essays


Strachey, Lytton

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 217 pages, light dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 855317


Price: $23.00 

 

Stankevich and his Moscow Circle 1830-1840


Brown, Edward J.

Hardcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1st , 1966, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 149 pages. Foxing along top edge. Price cut on inside flap of dust jacket. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855404


Price: $15.00 

 

Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorn, The: French Italian Notebooks by: Lathrop, George Parsons

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. , reprint, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 574 pages. Previous owner's name plate on front end paper. Gilt top edge. Uncut pages. Clean, tight copy. Record # 855445
Price: $12.00 

 

Yale Critics, The: Deconstruction in America


Arac, Jonathan; Godzich, Wlad; Wallace, Martin

Softcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Some light pen underlining. Otherwise, tight, bright copy.

Record # 855477


Price: $13.00 

 

K. F. Ryleev: A Political Biography of the Decembrist Poet


O'Meara, Patrick

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Fading to dust jacket spine with marker mark on back side. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855525


Price: $15.00 

 

Saint Genet: Actor and Matyr


Sartre, Jean-Paul

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 625 pgs. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket is price clipped. Sticker on back end paper. Dust jacket has some wear and fading. Otherwise, tight copy.

Record # 855581


Price: $25.00 

 

Life of Mayakovsky, The


Woroszylski, Wiktor

Hardcover. NY, Orion Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 559 pages. Blue cloth covers. Dust jacket has fading, rubbing, tape on back, small tear to bottom edge, and sticker on front flap. Remainder spray top edge. Slight foxing to back cover.Tight copy.

Record # 855600


Price: $23.00 

 

Esenin: A Life


McVay, Gordon

Softcover. NY, Paragon House, 1st pbk, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. B&W photographs. Slight tinting to covers. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855608


Price: $13.00 

 

Resistance to Theory, The: Theory and History of Literature Vol. 33


de Man, Paul

Softcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1st ed, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 137 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Small amount of sticker residue on back cover. Some fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855613


Price: $13.00 

 

Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction, The


Bethea, David M.

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Some rubbing to covers. Sticker on back cover. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855658


Price: $25.00 

 

Gogol from the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays


Maguire, Robert A.

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 415 pages. Pictorial covers. Foxing to edges. Some pen and pencil markings. Faded spine. Tinting to covers. Tight copy.

Record # 855783


Price: $25.00 

 

Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Volume 3, 1838-1842


Spiller, Robert E. & Wallace E. Williams

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume 3 only. 590 pages. previous owner's signature on front end paper, light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight sunning to spine. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Record # 855957


Price: $19.00 

 

Senses of Walden, The


Cavell , Stanley

Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 120 pages. Some sun-fading on dust jacket. Chipping along spine and along flaps of dust jacket. Small pencil marking on rear dust jacket and pen marking on front flap. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf, with pencil notes. Pencil markings and underlining throughout. Good reading copy.

Record # 856109


Price: $15.00 

 

Emergence of German as a Literary Language : 1700-1755


Blackall, E. A.

Hardcover. London, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 539 pages. Small closed tear on bottom of front dust jacket. Otherwise, only minor chipping. Some sun-fading along dust jacket flaps. Dust jacket price-clipped. Slight spotting on top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856110


Price: $44.00 

 

Society and the Lyric: A Study of the Song Culture of Eighteenth-century Scotland


Crawford, Thomas

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Light edgewear tom dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856195


Price: $13.00 

 

Mythical Bards and the Life of William Wallace


Schofield, William Henry

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages. Black cloth with spine label. No dust jacket. Slight stain along spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856213


Price: $23.00 

 

Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle


Shorter, Clement K.

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st thus, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 512 pages. Light wear and fade to maroon cloth covers. Foxing throughout text.

Record # 857062


Price: $38.00