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Converations With Willie - Recollections of W. Somerset Maugham


Maugham, Robin

New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 188 pages. Black & white photographs. Stamp on bottom book edge.

Record # 204594


Price: $15.00 

 

Early Years of Alec Waugh, The


Waugh, Alec

New York, Farrar Straus, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages.

Record # 204600


Price: $20.00 

 

New York Jew


Kazin, Alfred

New York, Knopf, 2nd, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages. Cover soiled. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket has a few tears. Slight musty smell. Stamp on bottom book edge.

Record # 205000


Price: $15.00 

 

Good Boys and Dead Girls and Other Essays


Gordon, Mary

New York, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Remainder line on bottom book edge.

Record # 205805


Price: $12.00 

 

Dorothy Richardson - A Critical Biography


Rosenberg, John

New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 198 pages. Dust jacket has light chipping at spine edge. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Remainder stamp on bottom book edge.

Record # 206326


Price: $18.00 

 

The Novels of Robbe-Grillet


Morrissette, Bruce

Ithaca, Cornell University Press, rep, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 318 pages. Dust jacket has edgewear.

Record # 206628


Price: $15.00 

 

Hubert Crackenthorpe and English Realism in the 1890s


Crackenthorpe, David

Columbia, Missouri University Press , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 206656


Price: $15.00 

 

3 American Moralists - Mailer Bellow Trilling


Scott, Jr., Nathan A.

Notre Dame, University Press of Notre Dame, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 230 pages. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket spine faded.

Record # 206924


Price: $12.00 

 

Russian Literature Since the Revolution by: Kunitz (ed), Joshua

New York, Boni Gaer, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 932 pages. Front hinge cracked. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Record # 207264
Price: $12.00 

 

A Common Room - Essays 1954-1987


Price, Reynolds

Paperback. New York, Athenuem, 1st wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 405 pages. Paperback.

Record # 207605


Price: $12.00 

 

The Scribner Companion to the Brontes


Evans, Barbara and Gareth Lloyd Evans

New York, Scribner, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket spine faded.

Record # 207615


Price: $18.00 

 

Literary Criticism and Romantic Theory in the Work of Achim Von Arnim by: Liedke, Herbert R.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages. Cover has light edgewear. Record # 207714
Price: $12.00 

 

Readings


Birkerts, Sven

Paperback. Saint Paul, MN, Graywolf, 1st wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Paperback.

Record # 207987


Price: $12.00 

 

DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT, THE. A COLLECTIONS OF AMERICAN WRITINGS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY


Smith, Bernard, editor

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean.

Record # 219831


Price: $16.00 

 

GLIMPSES OF AUTHORS


Ticknor, Caroline

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 220722


Price: $18.00 

 

FOUR PLAYS. The Women Have Their Way. A Hundred Years Old. Fortunate. The Lady From Alfaqueque. English Versions by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker. by: Quintero, Serafin and Joaquin A.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. 12mo. Black cloth. White title labels. Good, edge worn dj. Front free end page inscribed by previous owner. Record # 220768
Price: $12.00 

 

Masks and Other One Act Plays by: Middleton, George

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. One act plays included are Masks, Jim's Beast, Tides, Among the Lions, The Reason, The House. Bumped corners but otherwise nice copy. Record # 220802
Price: $12.00 

 

Candor & Perversion - Literature, Education, and the Arts


Shattuck, Roger

Paperback. NY, Norton, Uncorrected Proof, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 415 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 220916


Price: $26.00 

 

Last Happy Occasion, the


Shapiro, Alan

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY SHAPIRO on title page.

Record # 220918


Price: $19.00 

 

Whose Woods These Are: A History of the Breadloaf Writers' Conference 1926-1992


Bain, David Howard

Hardcover. Hopewell, New Jersey, Ecco Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 378 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 220927


Price: $51.00 

 

Split : A Counterculture Childhood by: Michaels, Lisa

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Small remainder dot bottom edge. Poet and writer Lisa Michaels blends memoir with social commentary to tell a remarkable tale of growing up as a child of political activists during the early seventies. Michaels's upbringing was marked by communes, rallies, and road trips; as a young girl she traveled across the country with her mother and stepfather in a customized mail truck, complete with a wood stove, while her father spent two years in jail for his part in an antiwar protest. Record # 220928
Price: $12.00 

 

Split : A Counterculture Childhood by: Michaels, Lisa

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Poet and writer Lisa Michaels blends memoir with social commentary to tell a remarkable tale of growing up as a child of political activists during the early seventies. Michaels's upbringing was marked by communes, rallies, and road trips; as a young girl she traveled across the country with her mother and stepfather in a customized mail truck, complete with a wood stove, while her father spent two years in jail for his part in an antiwar protest. Record # 220929
Price: $12.00 

 

American Literature in Parody


Falk, Robert P. (Ed.)

NY, Twayne, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A collection of parody, satire, and literary burlesque. Dust jacket worn, chipped. 279 pgs.

Record # 300042


Price: $15.00 

 

Botteghe Oscure Reader


Garrett, George (Ed.)

Paperback. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1st wraps, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 475 pages. Paperback.

Record # 300202


Price: $15.00 

 

World Unsuspected, A - Portraits of Southern Childhood


N/A

Chapel Hill, NC, Univ. of North Carolina, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Writers talk about their childhoods, illustrated with b&w family snapshots. 237 pages

Record # 300214


Price: $30.00 

 

Robert Frost - The Early Years 1874-1915


Thompson, Lawrence

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light soil to edges, dust jacket otherwise very good. B&W photos, 641 pages

Record # 300308


Price: $35.00 

 

Robert Frost The Years of Triumph 1915-1938


Thompson, Lawrence

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Faint stain to fore-edge. Light soil to dust jacket otherwise very good. B&W photos, 744 pages

Record # 300309


Price: $35.00 

 

Robert Frost - A Pictorial Chronicle


Morrison, Kathleen

N.Y., Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY MORRISON (who was Frost's personal secretary-manager from 1938 until his death)

Record # 300311


Price: $50.00 

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Woodberry, George Edward

NY , Macmillan, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English Men of Letters Series. Ex-lib with bookplate, light stamping, spine label, top edge gilt. Very nice condition.

Record # 300705


Price: $15.00 

 

Artificial Wilderness, An - Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature


Birkerts, Sven

Paperback. Boston, Godine, Rep. wraps , 1990, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 430 pages.

Record # 301631


Price: $25.00 

 

Dante and Other Essays


Church, R. W.

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages and publisher's ads. Red cloth, gilt lettering dulled on spine.

Record # 301753


Price: $21.00 

 

Native Muse, The - Theories of American Literature, Vol. 1


Ruland, Richard (Ed.)

New York, Dutton, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 465 pages.

Record # 302032


Price: $20.00 

 

On Frost - The Best From American Literature


Cady, Edwin & Louis J. Budd

Durham, NC, Duke University, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. A collection of critical essays on the poet.

Record # 302033


Price: $20.00 

 

Critic's Notebook, The


Stallman, Robert Wooster

Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 303 pages.

Record # 302059


Price: $15.00 

 

Essays of Our Times by: Brown, Sharon (Ed.)

Hardcover. Chicago, Scott, Forbesman and Co. , Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages. Work by Beerbohm, Chesterton, Leacock, Virginia Woolf, 38 others. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Record # 302067
Price: $12.00 

 

Novel in English by: Knight, Grant C.

Hardcover. New York, Richard R. Smith, 2nd, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 395 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light stain to rear cover. Record # 302068
Price: $12.00 

 

Criticism of Literature, The


Nitchie, Elizabeth

New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small production flaw to page 183. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Minor pencil marking.

Record # 302070


Price: $15.00 

 

Les Maitres de la Litterature Francaise: Vol. I & II


Henriot, Emile

Paperback. Paris, Le Cercle du Livre de France, Wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol I: To the 18th Century, 379 pages; Vol. II: 19th &20th Century, 423 pages. Looks like new, pages uncut. Bright red wrappers.

Record # 302079


Price: $20.00 

 

Literary History of America, A


Wendell, Barrett

New York , Scribners, Rep., 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. A bit shaken,dusty. Still, a good reading copy.

Record # 302099


Price: $12.00 

 

Psyche As Hero - Female Heroism and Fictional Form


Edwards, Lee R.

Paperback. Middletown, CT., Wesleyan University Press, Rep. wraps, 1987 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Paperback.

Record # 302381


Price: $12.00 

 

Briefwechsel - Herausgegeben von Friedrich Hirth Erster Band


Heine, Heinrich

Hardcover. Muller, Geor, 1914, Munchen, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 643 pages. The first volume of Heine's letters; German text 3/4 leather; minor rubbing around edges. Overall clean and tightcopy.

Record # 302487


Price: $16.00 

 

Recognition of Robert Frost - Twenty-Fifth Anniversary


Thornton, Richard (Ed.), Illust. by: Illustrated

New York, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 302501


Price: $20.00 

 

Book of Common Praise, The


Boyers, Robert

Keene, NY , Ausable Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Short essays on contemporary writers. Actually introductions to their public readings and appearances at Skidmore College.

Record # 302632


Price: $18.00 

 

Charles Olson - The Allegory of a Poet's Life


Clark, Tom, Illust. by: Illustrated

Paperback. Berkeley, North Atlantic Books, Rep. wraps, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 405 pages. B&W illustrations. Remainder line on bottom edge. Paperback.

Record # 302795


Price: $12.00 

 

Assault on Mount Helicon - A Literary Memoir


Barnard, Mary, Illust. by: Illustrated

Berkeley, CA, University of California, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 331 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 302801


Price: $15.00 

 

Poetry and Repression- Revisionism from Blake to Stevens


Bloom, Harold

New Haven, CT., Yale University Press, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Light spotting to end papers, some pages with very light crease, otherwise very good.

Record # 302890


Price: $18.00 

 

Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath, A


Steiner, Nancy Hunter

New York, Harper's Magazine Press, Book Club, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 83 pages. Copyright states First Edition, but no price on flap. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 303554


Price: $12.00 

 

Regions of the Great Heresy - Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portrait


Ficowski, Jerzy

Paperback. New York, Norton, Advanced reading copy wraps. , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages, B&W illustrations. Paperback.

Record # 303600


Price: $15.00 

 

Polished Surface, The - Essays in the Literature of Worldliness


Kronenberger, Louis

New York, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 289 pages.

Record # 304795


Price: $19.00 

 

Italo Svevo - The Man and the Writer


Furbank, P. N.

Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages, B&W photos.

Record # 305248


Price: $12.00 

 

Selected Writings - Poetry and Criticism


Read, Herbert

London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages.

Record # 305249


Price: $15.00 

 

Guide to Trollope, A


Gerould, Winifred Gregory & James Thayer

London, Trollope Society, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. A Guide to all of Trollope's Works. Illustrated cloth. Issued without a dust jacket

Record # 305335


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters of George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron, The


Howarth, R. G. (Ed.)

London, J. M. Dent, 1st thus, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 471 pages. B&W illustrations. Hinges cracked. Spine frayed at top and bottom.

Record # 305340


Price: $12.00 

 

Heinrich Heine and the Occident - Multiple Identities, Multiple Receptions


Hohendahl, Peter Uwe & Sander L. Gilman (Ed.)

Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 235 pages, B&W illustrations.

Record # 305345


Price: $18.00 

 

There Was a Lad - An Essay on Robert Burns


Brown, Hilton

London, Hamish Hamilton, 2nd, 1949, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 305350


Price: $18.00 

 

Arthur Rimaud


Starkie, Enid

New York, New Directions, Reprint, 1961 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 491 pages.

Record # 305352


Price: $18.00 

 

George Eliot: The Emergent Self


Redinger, Ruby

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 515 pages and index. Burgundy cloth cover, "RVR" embossed on cover, title and author gilt on spine. Corners bumped. Purple decorative stain on top edge. Dust jacket has significant edgewear, rubbing.

Record # 401615


Price: $12.00 

 

Kipling Primer, A: Including Biographical and Critical Chapter, an Index to Mr. Kipling's Principal Writings and Bibliographies


Knowles, Frederic Lawrence

Hardcover. Boston, Brown and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages, red cloth cover. Tanning to edges and newspaper clipping inset pages, browning around newspaper clipping. Some slight edge wear to cover. Otherwise tight, clean copy.

Record # 401731


Price: $25.00 

 

Bernard Shaw: The Darker Side


Silver, Arnold

Hardcover. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 353 pages. B&W photographs throughout. Minor edge wear to dust jacket. Overall very tight and clean copy.

Record # 401910


Price: $12.00 

 

R.L.S. Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter


Ferguson, DeLancey & Marshall Waingrow

Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Includes a calendar of Stevenson's life. Writing in pencil on front endpaper. Light foxing on top edge. Otherwise, internally clean. Overall tight copy.

Record # 401914


Price: $15.00 

 

Harvest of Tragedy, The


Henn, T. R.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co. , reprint, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 304 pages, 6 b&w plates. Edge wear, soiling to dust jacket; tears along spine. Spine cocked. Foxing on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401917


Price: $15.00 

 

Italian Romance Writers


Kennard, Joseph Spencer

Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, reprint, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 472 pages, green cloth, gilt lettering on cover, spine, top edge gilt. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 402340


Price: $50.00 

 

Commencement Address, A by: Cooke, Alistair

Softcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages, cardboard covers with dust jacket. Record # 402390
Price: $12.00 

 

Dear Juliette: Letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley


Sherman (Ed.), Susan

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages, b&w photos.

Record # 402460


Price: $18.00 

 

Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever


Cheever, Susan

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages, b&w photographs. Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise very good in a very good jacket.

Record # 402499


Price: $18.00 

 

Millay in Greenwich Village


Cheney, Anne

Hardcover. University AL, University of Alabama Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 402535


Price: $12.00 

 

Literature of the Anglo-Saxons, The


Anderson, George K.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 431 pages, dust jacket with wear, chunks gone from edge. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise book is clean, very good.

Record # 402602


Price: $15.00 

 

William Faulkner: American Writer


Karl, Frederick R.

Hardcover. New York, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1131 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 402605


Price: $18.00 

 

Essays of Richard Steele


Steele (Ed.), L.E.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., reprint, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages, b&w frontispiece portrait. Bound in three-quarter red leather with gilt rules, raised spine bands with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt, Golden Treasury Series. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Record # 402716


Price: $28.00 

 

John Ruskin


Harrison, Frederic

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt design, top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Record # 402721


Price: $12.00 

 

Romantic Re-Vision: Culture and Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century American Painting and Literature


Wolf, Bryan Jay

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 402758


Price: $50.00 

 

Mark Twain's Four Weeks in England 1907


Lathem (Ed.), Edward Connery

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Mark Twain House & Museum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages, two-tone cloth with illustrated pastedown on front cover. Limited to 1,500 copies, like new condition, no dust jacket issued.

Record # 402845


Price: $35.00 

 

Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography from Shakespeare to Plath


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 402932


Price: $18.00 

 

From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative


Lu, Sheldon Hsiao-Peng

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages, in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 403116


Price: $20.00 

 

Petite Folie Collective


Corvin, Michel and Copi

Hardcover. Paris, Tchou, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, b&w cartoon drawings by Copi. White cloth covers with black design. A collection of quotes from writers of the Surrealist movement in France. Long preface by Corvin. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR (HIS WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD) to Roger Shattuck, author and chronicler of the period. Publishers complimentary card laid in. Small tan stain to cloth at top of front cover, otherwise very good.

Record # 403415


Price: $80.00 

 

Books Abroad: An International Literary Quarterly - Spring 1969


Sellin, Eric and others

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages, lead article by Sellin: Surrealist Aesthetics and the Theatrical Event. INSCRIBED BY SELLIN on cover to literary critic and historian Roger Shattuck. His former copy with light marking by him. Other articles on aspects of surrealism.

Record # 403473


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 2 Volumes


Stahr, Adolf and E.P. Evans (transl.)

Hardcover. Boston, William V. Spencer, 1st, 1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, brown cloth. Ex-lib copies with usual endpaper residue and stamping, marking to spine. Appears that each volume may have had a frontispiece, no longer there. Hinges cracked, light marking to vol. 1, good reading copies.

Record # 404082


Price: $50.00 

 

Talks to Writers


Hearn, Lafcadio and John Erskine (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages brown cloth covers with chipped paper label on spine. Light shelfwear.

Record # 404108


Price: $15.00 

 

Works of George Lord Lyttelton, Formerly printed separately, and now first collected together; with some other pieces never before printed Published by George Edward Ayscough


Lyttelton, George Lord and George Edward Ayscough

Hardcover. London, J. Dodsley, 1st, 1774, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 751 pages. 4to., full calf with red morocco spine label stamped in gilt, raised bands. Engraved frontispiece portrait. All covers with gilt rules, marbled endpapers, engraved coat of arms on title pages. Leather covers are cracked along exterior edges but expertly repaired.

Record # 404299


Price: $200.00 

 

Gorky: A Biography by: Troyat, Henri

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages, b&w illustrations. Translated from French by Lowell Bair. Record # 404544
Price: $12.00 

 

Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors: Robert Burns


Hubbard, Elbert

Hardcover. East Aurora NY, Roycrofters Press, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft brown suede covers with gilt lettering, pages with deckle edges, frontispiece portrait, color text and initial decorations by Samuel Warner. Ribbon marker.

Record # 404644


Price: $30.00 

 

Don't Tread On Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman


Crowther, Prudence

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages, b&w photographs, bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 404681


Price: $15.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 1


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 503 pages, b&w engraved portrait as frontispiece. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume one only of a six volume set.

Record # 404855


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 2


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 540 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. Small chip to bottom of spine. French text. This is volume two only of a six volume set.

Record # 404856


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 3


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 535 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume three only of a six volume set.

Record # 404857


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 4


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 535 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. Calf is separating from spine, clean and very repairable. French text. This is volume four only of a six volume set.

Record # 404858


Price: $31.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 6


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 520 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume four only of a six volume set.

Record # 404859


Price: $38.00 

 

Pageant of Tamil Literature, The


Meenakshisundaran, T.P.

Hardcover. Madras, Sekar Pathippagam, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 126 pages, blue boards with decorative pattern, green cloth spine. Dust jacket with edgewear. The author was a professor at Madurai University.

Record # 404872


Price: $75.00 

 

Tolstoy's Letters (2 Volumes)


Christian (Ed.), R.F.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes, 737 pages total. Blue cloth covers with gilt and red design on spine. Dust jackets with color fading to spines, otherwise bright and clean.

Record # 404903


Price: $38.00 

 

Tsvetaeva by: Schweitzer, Viktoria

Softcover. New York, Noonday Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 413 pages, bright, clean paperback edition. Record # 405016
Price: $12.00 

 

Anatomy of Satire, The


Highet, Gilbert

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 301 pages, b&w illustrations. Gray cloth covers, dust jacket with light soil, edgewear, fading to small area. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 405202


Price: $15.00 

 

Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry


Breit (Ed.), Harvey and Margerie Bonner Lowry

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 459 pages, b&w frontispiece photo. Light green boards with green cloth spine. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, with small closed tear.

Record # 405204


Price: $23.00 

 

Modern Language Notes: Volume 4 - 1889


Elliott (Ed.), A. Marshall

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, The Editors, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Eight issues from 1889 bound in one volume, 519 pages, green cloth covers with maroon and gilt spine labels. Ex-library with light stamping, bookplate, label residue at bottom of spines. Otherwise, clean and solid copy.

Record # 405377


Price: $63.00 

 

Le Recueil des Inscriptions 1558: A Literary and Iconographical Exegesis


Jodelle, Estienne, Victor Graham and W. McAllister Johnson

Hardcover. Toronto, University of Toronto Press , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 210 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear, minor soil.

Record # 405501


Price: $15.00 

 

Corneille et la Dialectique du Heros


Doubrovsky, Serge

Softcover. Paris, Gallimard, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 588 pages, softcover, tight and clean. French text.

Record # 405520


Price: $15.00 

 

Yellow Ruff and The Scarlet Letter, The: A Source of Hawthorne's Novel


Reid, Alfred S.

Hardcover. Gainesville, University of Florida Press , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 150 pages, yellow dust jacket with light soil otherwise very good.

Record # 405940


Price: $19.00 

 

On the Poet and His Craft: Selected Prose of Theodore Roethke


Mills Jr. (Ed.), Ralph J.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, University of Washington Press , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 154 pages, black cloth covers, lightly worn dust jacket with some mild soiling.

Record # 405946


Price: $25.00 

 

Faulkner-Cowley File, The: Letters and Memories 1944-1962


Cowley, Malcolm

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages, two-toned cloth covers, dust jacket with mild wear.

Record # 405985


Price: $25.00 

 

Forties, The


Wilson, Edmund and Leon Edel (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 369 pages, maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with minor soil, edgewear, closed tear to rear panel.

Record # 406009


Price: $19.00 

 

Treatment of Nature in Dante's Divina Commedia, The


Kuhns, L. Oscar

Hardcover. London, Edward Arnold, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. This is the original 1897 edition, not a reprint. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 406041


Price: $25.00 

 

Reporter Here and There, A by: Kahn, Jr. , E. J.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 364 pages, blue cloth with a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Record # 406065
Price: $12.00 

 

Organiz'd Innocence: The Story of Blake's Prophetic Books


Rudd, Margaret

Hardcover. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Unclipped dust jacket with only minor wear.

Record # 406123


Price: $25.00 

 

English Blake


Blackstone, Bernard

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages, navy blue cloth with gilt on spine, b&w illustrations. Light pencil marking to some pages.

Record # 406124


Price: $19.00 

 

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism


Wordsworth, Jonathan, Michael Jaye and Robert Woof

Softcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages with 185 illustrations in color and b&w. Softcover with illustrated wrappers. Exhibition brochure laid in. Crisp, clean copy.

Record # 406293


Price: $15.00 

 

Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters


Steinbeck, John

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 182 pages, color frontispiece, seven fold-out facsimile plates of Steinbeck's original manuscript. Limited to 600 copies, very good in a very good slipcase with light rubbing to rear panel. The glassine dust jacket is present, worn with a chunk gone from front panel.

Record # 406348


Price: $188.00 

 

Noteworthy Opinions, Pro and Con: Bacon vs. Shakspere (Shakespeare)


Reed, Edwin

Hardcover. Boston, Coburn Publishing Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 74 pages, gray boards with with cloth spine. Clean, no marking.

Record # 406403


Price: $38.00 

 

Writer's Recollections, A: Vol. 1 by: Ward, Mrs. Humphrey

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st US, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Four b&w illustrations. Volume one only. Clean, tight copy. Record # 406453
Price: $12.00 

 

Whole Thing's Laughable, The by: Boothroyd, Basil

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages, red cloth covers. Dust jacket edgeworn, spine faded. Clean. Record # 406465
Price: $12.00 

 

Stay Married Abroad by: Boothroyd, Basil

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 144 pages, blue cloth covers. Dust jacket edgeworn. Clean. Record # 406466
Price: $12.00 

 

Leslie Stephen: His Thought and Character in Relation to his Time by: Annan, Noel

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd US pr., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 342 pages, b&w illustrations. Black and rust cloth, dust jacket is worn, chipped. Record # 406786
Price: $12.00 

 

From Main Street to Stockholm: Letters of Sinclair Lewis 1919-1930 by: Smith (Editor), Harrison

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages, b&w frontispiece portrait of Lewis. Dust jacket with edge wear, corner chip. Otherwise clean. Record # 407069
Price: $12.00 

 

Young Mrs. Ruskin in Venice: Unpublished Letters of Mrs. Ruskin written from Venice between 1849-1852


Lutyens (Ed.), Mary

Hardcover. New York , Vanguard Press, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, b&w illustrations, in a price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 407308


Price: $31.00 

 

Mary Lavin: Irish Writers Series


Bowen, Zack

Hardcover. Lewisbug ME, Bucknell University Press , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 77 pages, dust jacket with light shelf wear. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 407850


Price: $23.00 

 

John Millington Synge - Twayne's English Authors Series


Gerstenberger, Donna

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, Revised Ed., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with minor wear, fade to spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 407860


Price: $19.00 

 

Eye of the Story, The: Selected Essays and Reviews (SIGNED COPY)


Welty, Eudora

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages, green boards and green cloth spine in a very good, unclipped dust jacket, with mild fade to spine. SIGNED BY WELTY on first blank page.

Record # 408883


Price: $188.00 

 

Critical Twilight, The : Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan


Fekete, John

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 300 pages, in a dust jacket with light wear.

Record # 411448


Price: $15.00 

 

Paris and Vienne: Translated from the French & Printed by William Caxton. Early English Text Society 234 (SIGNED COPY)


Leach, MacEdward

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. brown cloth stamped in gilt, 120 pages. INSCRIBED BY LEACH on the front fly leaf. Originally published by Caxton in 1485, Paris & Vienne marked a change in the style of Literature being written in Europe at the time. Instead of tales of Knightly Romance & Chivalry a move was made towards more realistic down to Earth tales, closer to actual life. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 411549


Price: $38.00 

 

Thoreau: A Glimpse


Jones, Samuel Arthur

Hardcover. Concord MA, Albert Lane/Erudite Press, 2nd Ed., 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray-green boards over green cloth spine, 35 pages, frontis portrait plus 3 halftone plates. First published in 1890, "It is a pious duty to his memory to correct the errors of fact that were ... reported in the first edition of the Glimpse 1890." Jones was part of the rehabilitation of Thoreau's reputation and appreciation. Previous owner's bookmark on inside front cover, Paper label on spine mostly gone, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 412415


Price: $38.00 

 

Personality of Thoreau, The


Sanborn, F.B.

Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Goodspeed, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 71 pages, number 410 of a 500. French hand-made paper, printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with one plate and two facsimiles of Thoreau's journal. Gray-green boards with a beige cloth spine with a paper label. Spine and covers darkening, light shelf wear.

Record # 412416


Price: $75.00 

 

Hubert Crackanthorpe and English Realism in the 1890's


Crackanthorpe, David

Hardcover. Columbia, Univ of Missouri Pr, June 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 450049


Price: $15.00 

 

Capote: A Biography


Clarke, Gerald

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 631 pages. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 450554


Price: $12.00 

 

Christina Stead: A Biography


Rowley, Hazel

Hardcover. 1st US, September 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 646 pages, b&w photographs. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 450742


Price: $18.00 

 

Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism


Leeming, David

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages, some b&w photographs, unclipped dust jacket. Light wear to cover. Clean and tight.

Record # 451160


Price: $15.00 

 

Through Nature to Eternity: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women


Rowe, Donald

Hardcover. Lincoln, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 218 pages. Light edge wear, soiling to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451281


Price: $25.00 

 

Dial, The: Arts and letters in the 1920's : an anthology of writings from The Dial magazine, 1920-29


No Author

Softcover. Worcester, Mass., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Faded wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451309


Price: $20.00 

 

Christina Stead: A Biography


Rowley, Hazel

Softcover. 1st, October 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 646 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451514


Price: $15.00 

 

Serpent in Eden: H.L. Mencken and the South


Hobson, Fred C.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, May 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. Light rubbing, edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451577


Price: $15.00 

 

Double Life Of Stephen Crane, The: A Biography


Benfey, Christopher

Hardcover. New York, 1st, September 1, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages, b&w photographs. Creases to front dust jacket flap. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451628


Price: $12.00 

 

Memoirs


Williams, Tennessee

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., 1st, October 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 264 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket; spine faded. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451629


Price: $15.00 

 

Travels in Hyperreality: Essays


Eco, Umberto

Hardcover. San Diego, 1st, May 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light soiling to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451638


Price: $20.00 

 

Charles Williams: Poet of Theology


Cavaliero, Glen

Hardcover. Grand Rapids, Mich., 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451740


Price: $18.00 

 

Conrad: The Moral World of the Novelist


Gekoski, R. A.

Hardcover. 1st, August 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Light edge wear, fading to dust jacket. Foxing to edges and end papers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451758


Price: $18.00 

 

Emily Dickinson


Wolff, Cynthia Griffin

Hardcover. New York, reprint, November 12, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 638 pages. Dark gray covers, color illustrated dust jacket. Light edge wear to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, previous owner's signature to front end paper corner; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451783


Price: $15.00 

 

Substantial Proofs of Being: Osip Mandelstam's Literary Prose


Isenberg, Charles

Softcover. Columbus, Ohio, 1st, September 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Light foxing to top and fore-edge. Light soiling to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451853


Price: $20.00 

 

Letters of Henry Miller and Wallace Fowlie, 1943-1972


Miller, Henry

Hardcover. New York, 1st pr, January 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. Light edge wear, fading to dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Else very good.

Record # 452323


Price: $18.00 

 

Reflections: Personal Essays by Thirty-Three Distinguished Educators by: Burleson, Derek L.

Softcover. Bloomington, Ind., Phi Delta Kappa Intl Inc, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 389 pages. Slight wear to wraps and edges. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Record # 452574
Price: $12.00 

 

Angela's Ashes by: McCourt, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 363 pages. Edgewear to price clipped dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. Record # 452961
Price: $12.00 

 

Paul Muldoon


Kendall, Tim

Softcover. Chester Springs, PA, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Small ink-mark to top edge, slight indentation to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453079


Price: $12.00 

 

H.L. Mencken and the Debunkers


Martin, Edward A.

Hardcover. Athens, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 251 pages. Dust jacket worn and sun faded with small tear to upper edge. Faint foxing to top edge.

Record # 453142


Price: $12.00 

 

American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South


Benfey, Christopher

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 453183


Price: $15.00 

 

American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South


Benfey, Christopher

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 453184


Price: $15.00 

 

Pisemsky: A Provincial Realist


Moser, Charles A.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, March 12, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. Minor shelf wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453406


Price: $15.00 

 

A decade of euphoria: Western literature in post-Stalin Russia, 1954-64


Friedberg, Maurice

Hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 371 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453592


Price: $18.00 

 

Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and His Literary Circle, 1895-1915


Seymour, Miranda

Hardcover. Houghton Mifflin, 1st Am, June 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages, b&w photographs, map endpapers. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453604


Price: $15.00 

 

William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius by: Holden, Anthony

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st Am, July 1, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages, b&w illustrations. Light foxing to top edge. Else very good. Record # 453606
Price: $12.00 

 

1920 Diary by: Babel, Isaac

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2nd printing, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages. Light wear, scuffing to dust jacket. Nice, tight copy. Record # 453649
Price: $12.00 

 

Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of Sorai Sensei Tomonsho by: Yamashita, Samuel Hideo

Hardcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages, Cocked spine, old price-sticker to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453733
Price: $12.00 

 

Dinghies to Divas by: Caplat, Moran

Hardcover. London, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1st, June 3, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 281 pages, several b&w photographs. Light edgewear, two small tears to dust jacket; sticker residue and hole on front cover. Light foxing to top edge. Else clean and tight. Record # 454037
Price: $12.00 

 

Marcel Proust and the Creative Encounter


Stambolian, George

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, November 30, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 454514


Price: $12.00 

 

Making Sense in Life and Literature


Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich

Softcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 455259


Price: $12.00 

 

Virginia Woolf & Her World


Lehmann, John

Hardcover. Harcourt, 1st U.S., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Gray cloth cover, minor wear. Dust jacket has light wear to edges. Many b&w photographs throughout. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 455884


Price: $15.00 

 

Writing from the Center


Sanders, Scott Russell

Softcover. Indiana University Press, 1st pbk, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456251


Price: $30.00 

 

Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, The


Lawrence, D. H.

Hardcover. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 524 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 456422


Price: $30.00 

 

Reviewing the Forties


Trilling, Diana

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456576


Price: $12.00 

 

Tennessee Williams: An Intimate Biography


Williams, Dakin

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456676


Price: $12.00 

 

Letters of Edith Wharton, The


Wharton, Edith

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 654 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456678


Price: $18.00 

 

"Make It New": The Rise of Modernism


Heinzelman, Kurt

Softcover. 1st, 2004, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 155 pages, illustrated throughout. Crease to cover and light edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456744


Price: $20.00 

 

A Traveller in Romance: Uncollected Writings 1901 - 1964


Maugham, W. Somerset

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456764


Price: $18.00 

 

But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop and Other Writings


Burgess, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 589 pages, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456770


Price: $15.00 

 

Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford


Mitford, Jessica

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 744 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456806


Price: $20.00 

 

Frost: Centennial Essays III


Tharpe, Jac L. (Editor)

Hardcover. University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 408 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, very light foxing on top and fore edges, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 456843


Price: $25.00 

 

Frost: Centennial Essays


Tharpe, Jack (Editor)

Hardcover. Jackson, Univ Pr of Mississippi, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 611 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and water stain on back bottom edge. Light spine cock and foxing on top and fore edge, otherwise, internally clean, bright and tight copy.

Record # 456844


Price: $30.00 

 

Theodore Dreiser: A Selection of Uncollected Prose


Dreiser, Theodore

Hardcover. Detroit, Wayne State Univ Pr, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 340 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456854


Price: $18.00 

 

Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn


Moorehead, Caroline

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages. Dust jacket is price clipped with light wear to edges of spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457104


Price: $15.00 

 

Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage


Middlebrook, Diane

Hardcover. New York, Viking Adult, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages, with black & white photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457129


Price: $12.00 

 

Preserve and Create; Essays in Marxist Literary Criticism.: Essays in Marxist Literary Criticism


Leroy, Gaylord C. (Author, Compiler)

Hardcover. New York, Humanities Pr, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages, dust jacket worn with edge fade and rub, light pencil markings throughout, otherwise, tight and bright copy.

Record # 457171


Price: $12.00 

 

Wilson Harris and the Modern Tradition: A New Architecture of the World


Drake, Sandra E.

Hardcover. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, with gilt titles. Light markings in margins throughout, minor spine lean, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457177


Price: $18.00 

 

Culture, Tradition and Society in the West African Novel


Obiechina, Emmanuel

Softcover. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st paperback., 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages, minor edge wear and rub, light spine cock, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 457184


Price: $15.00 

 

True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound


Ricks, Christopher

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 258 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457193


Price: $12.00 

 

Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky by: Lester, Julius

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, 1st, October 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The author recounts his political and spiritual odyssey during the past ten years, discussing anti-Semitism, James Baldwin's work and legacy, video games, pollution in space, suicide, the Holocaust, and more. Record # 457287
Price: $12.00 

 

Reading America


Donoghue, Denis

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, September 12, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 320 pages. Slight soiling, edgewear to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457294


Price: $8.00 

 

Figures of Autobiography: The Language of Self-Writing


Fleishman, Avrom

Hardcover. Berkeley, 1st, February 9, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 486 pages. Light soil to inside of dust jacket upper edge, faint foxing to all edges. Neat readingcopy.

Record # 457662


Price: $13.00 

 

Interpretive Acts: In Search of Meaning


Harris, Wendell V.

Hardcover. Oxford [Oxfordshire], 1st, June 30, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Light edgewear and foxing to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge, else a neat, tight copy.

Record # 457685


Price: $15.00 

 

History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987


Kermode, Frank

Hardcover. Oxford [England], 1st, June 30, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Light wear and foxing to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Neat, tight copy.

Record # 457686


Price: $13.00 

 

Literature and Insubstantiality in Later Eighteenth-Century England


Bogel, Fredric V.

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., 1st, April 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457689


Price: $15.00 

 

Literary Biography


Edel, Leon

Hardcover. Bloomington, reprint, March 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457692


Price: $15.00 

 

Sexuality and Feminism in Shelley


Brown, Nathaniel

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 298 pages, light dust jacket edge wear with spine fade, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 457716


Price: $19.00 

 

Rhetorical Form of Carlyle's Sartor Resartus


Brookes, Gerry H.

Hardcover. Berkeley, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 201 pages, with pictorial dust jacket. Light dust jacket edge wear and fade, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, internally clean and bright copy.

Record # 457721


Price: $13.00 

 

Air-line to Seattle: Studies in Literary and Historical Writing About America


Lynn, Kenneth S.

Hardcover. Chicago, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 227 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457723


Price: $13.00 

 

Pre-Raphaelite Poets


Stevenson, Lionel

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, 2nd Printing, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 330 pages, dust jacket edge wear and light water damage, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 457726


Price: $15.00 

 

Nineteenth-century literary perspectives: Essays in honor of Lionel Stevenson


N/A

Hardcover. Durham, N.C., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 294 pages, dust jacket with edge wear and light water damage, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 457733


Price: $15.00 

 

Kind of Power, A : The Shakespeare-Dickens analogy


Harbage, Alfred

Hardcover. Philadelphia, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 78 pages, dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 457735


Price: $15.00 

 

Matthew Arnold: A Critic of the Victorian Period


Harvey, Charles H.

Hardcover. reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 256 pages, dust jacket with browning and edge wear, foxing on edges, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 457736


Price: $15.00 

 

Unknown Virginia Woolf, The


Poole, Roger

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 457796


Price: $15.00 

 

Ruskin Family Letters: The Correspondence of John James Ruskin, His Wife, and Their Son, John, 1801-1843


Ruskin, John J.

Hardcover. Ithaca [N.Y.] Cornell University Press [1973], Cornell University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set with slipcase and photographs. Light foxing on edges and edgewear on slipcase, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457800


Price: $31.00 

 

Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, and the Ethics of Understanding


Ellison, Julie

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell Univ Pr, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, foxing on top edge, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457804


Price: $15.00 

 

On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism


Culler, Jonathan D.

Hardcover. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages, light dust jacket edge wear and foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457805


Price: $13.00 

 

Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing


Kirszner, Laurie G.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Wadsworth Publishing, 7th, January 15, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2078 pages. Light shelf-wear, scuffing to pictorial boards. No dust jacket issued. Spine slightly slanted, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457870


Price: $75.00 

 

Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing


Kirszner, Laurie G.

Softcover. Boston, MA, Wadsworth Publishing, 7th, February 4, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1227 pages. Slight crease to front cover, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 457871


Price: $38.00 

 

Retreat into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry


Faas, Ekbert

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton Univ Pr, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 311 pages, light dust jacket edge wear and spine fade, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 457897


Price: $13.00 

 

Joyce's Cities: Archaeologies of the Soul


Cope, Professor Jackson I.

Hardcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 144 pages, dust jacket edge wear and fade, light foxing on edges and preliminary pages, otherwise, internally very clean and bright.

Record # 457902


Price: $15.00 

 

Writer's Reality, A


Llosa, Mario Vargas

Hardcover. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1st, January 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457926


Price: $15.00 

 

Literary Knowledge: Humanistic Inquiry and the Philosophy of Science


Livingston, Paisley

Softcover. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell Univ Pr, 1st pbk, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 458092


Price: $13.00 

 

Letters of Henry James, Volume I: 1843-1875, The


James, Henry

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 493 pages. Sunfading to dust jacket spine, two small closed tears to front cover. Faint foxing to edges, previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458232


Price: $19.00 

 

Affirming Limits: Essays on Mortality, Choice, and Poetic Form


Pack, Robert

Hardcover. Amherst, Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. light sunning to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458541


Price: $25.00 

 

Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002


Kermode, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 466 pages. light edgewear and scarring to dust jacket, remainder line to bottom edge, light soil to front end paper. Neat, tight copy.

Record # 458556


Price: $13.00 

 

To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman by: Lane, Ann J.

Softcover. Plume, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to wrappers and slight tanning to pages, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 458671
Price: $12.00 

 

Lydia Maria Child


Osborne, William S

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Pencil marking in margins, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458732


Price: $23.00 

 

Voice Terminal Echo: Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts


Goldberg, Jonathan

Softcover. New York, Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1st, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. Light wear and tanning to wrappers and spine, slight yellowing to pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458935


Price: $13.00 

 

Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America


Davidson, Cathy N.

Softcover. Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458977


Price: $13.00