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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 

 

Genius of John Ruskin, The - Selections From His Writings


Rosenberg (Ed.), John D.

Hardcover. NY, G. Braziller, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 560 pages. Dj price clipped, light chipping

Record # 59714


Price: $18.00 

 

Girl Sleuth, The - A Feminist Guide


Mason, Bobbie Ann

Paperback. Old Westbury, NY, Feminist Press, 1st wraps, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback

Record # 300218


Price: $80.00 

 

Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times


Kaufman, Andrew D.

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2014-05-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464153


Price: $25.00 

 

Giving Good Weight


McPhee, John

hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64533


Price: $44.00 

 

Glass Eyes By the Bottle - Some Conversations on some Conversation Pieces


Gould, John

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 200600


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Grave of Alice B. Toklas, The - And Other Reports From the Past


Friedrich, Otto

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 61593


Price: $20.00 

 

Great Railway Journeys of the World


Frayn, Michael, et al

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 7 entertaining essays on memorable train journeys by 7 different writers. Black & white photos.

Record # 57275


Price: $18.00 

 

Hamlet in Purgatory


Greenblatt, Stephen

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages. Softcover with very light wear on paper wrappers. Both color and black and white illustrations throughout. Page 117 has folded corner.

Record # 30018


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Haunted Heroes of Eugene O'Neill, The


Engel, Edwin A.

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 310 pages. Dust jacket rubbed, edgeworn. Book a bit musty.

Record # 302178


Price: $15.00 

 

Heathen Days 1890-1936


Mencken, H. L.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Cloth boards. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Cover and spine age darkened.

Record # 510646


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

 

Heinrich Heine


Hofrichter, Laura

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages, hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titling to spine. Critical assessment of German writer. Translated by Barker Fairley. Mild rubbing and edgewear to boards. Slight age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952081


Price: $19.00 

Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to RushdieParks, Tim

Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie


Parks, Tim

Hardcover. New York, 1st Am, January 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451895


Price: $15.00 

 

Heloise and Abelard


Gilson, Etienne

Softcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A study of the medieval classic by a French Catholic scholar. Paperback, 194 pages.

Record # 603032


Price: $10.00 

 

Henry James - The Major Phase


Matthiessen, F.O.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dj chipped badly

Record # 56357


Price: $18.00 

 

Henry James and the Jacobites


Geismar, Maxwell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 463 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Internally very good.

Record # 65602


Price: $10.00 

 

Here At Eagle Pond


Hall, Donald

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, slipcase

Record # 3324


Price: $18.00 

 

Herman Melville's Clarel - A Spiritual Autobiography


Kenny, Vincent

Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A study of Melville's late 18,000 word poem. 272 pages. No dust jacket.

Record # 62409


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 

 

Hewins Lectures 1947-1962, The


Andrews, Siri

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages, a collection of lectures on children's literature and publishing. Blue cloth covers, clean and tight.

Record # 405846


Price: $11.00 

 

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 

 

Higher Gossip


Updike, John

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A.Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 501 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Later essays and criticism by John Updike. Light rubbing to dust jacket.Red toning to top text block. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951534


Price: $48.00 

Hospitality and Treachery in Western LiteratureHeffernan, James A. W.

Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature


Heffernan, James A. W.

hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 426 pages. Hardcover NO dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers, otherwise clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 469135


Price: $25.00 

 

Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike


Updike, John

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 919 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear and fading on jacket and foxing on text block. Spine show slight separation at top but no cracking.

Record # 2230495


Price: $15.00 

 

Humor In Borges


Costa, Rene De

Detroit, Wayne State Univ., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 145 pages.

Record # 61897


Price: $18.00 

 

Imaginary Homelands


Rushdie, Salman

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder mark bottom edge

Record # 1935


Price: $20.00 

 

Immortal Diamond - Studies in Gerard Manley Hopkins


Weyand (Ed.), Norman

Hardcover. London, Sheed & Ward, 1st , 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 451 pages. Cloth wrinkled over boards, spine lettering faded.

Record # 62395


Price: $18.00 

 

In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture


Steiner, George

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1971, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's writing on front end paper. Light pencil markings. Moderate soil to rear dust jacket.

Record # 2233702


Price: $31.00 

In Search of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeMcNally, Raymond

In Search of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde


McNally, Raymond

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Renaissance Books, 1st, December 15, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 281 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454228


Price: $20.00 

In the Chair: Interviews with Poets from the North of IrelandBrown, John

In the Chair: Interviews with Poets from the North of Ireland


Brown, John

Softcover. US, Salmon Poetry, 1st, 2002-09-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465202


Price: $25.00 

 

In The Face of Presumption


Moser, Barry

hardcover. New York, Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY MOSER on front fly leaf.

Record # 201657


Price: $75.00 

 

Indeterminate World: A Study of the Novels of Joyce Cary


Bloom, Robert

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvana Press, 1st , 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 212 pages. Dust jacket with spine fade, chips to bottom edge.

Record # 501725


Price: $15.00 

Inner workings: literary essays, 2000-2005COETZEE, J. M.

Inner workings: literary essays, 2000-2005


COETZEE, J. M.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, Viking, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light creasing to rear dust jacket flap, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 304 pages. Record # 467511

Record # 467511


Price: $13.00 

 

Inside Out - An Introduction to Autobiography


Bates, E. Stuart

Hardcover. New York, Sheridan House, 1st US, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 693 pages. Cloth boards. Previous owners stamp at bottom of front endpaper. Dust jacket spine worn/faded with small tears and rubbing at corners. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 510653


Price: $9.00 

 

Introduction to Robert Frost, An


Isaacs, Elizabeth

Denver, Alan Swallow, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear, small chips.

Record # 62373


Price: $18.00 

 

Introduction to Russian Literature, An


Muchnic, Helen

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, G+

Record # 57642


Price: $19.00 

 

Invented Lives - F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald


Mellow, james R.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 569 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. slight degree of fading to spine. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609331


Price: $15.00 

 

Inventions of Mark Twain, The


Lauber, John

NY, Hill and Wang, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 340 pages.

Record # 68080


Price: $18.00 

 

It All Adds Up - From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future


Bellow, Saul

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Cover shows light wear and fore-edge shows light soiling, but otherwise clean. hardbound, 327 pgs. Collection of non-fiction essays by Bellow.

Record # 108776


Price: $9.00 

 

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 

 

Jafsie and John Henry - Essays.


Mamet, David

NY, Free Press, Book Club, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 200163


Price: $12.00 

 

James-Hawthorne Relation: Bibliographical Essays, The


Babiiha, Thaddeo K.

Hardcover. Boston , G. K. Hall and Company, reprint, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Boston , G. K. Hall and Company, reprint, 1980, Book: Good, Dust jacket: None, 313 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Burgundy boards. Gilt titles on spine. Light soiling to fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. . Record # 467258

Record # 467258


Price: $15.00 

Jane Austen and AnimalsSeeber, Barbara K.

Jane Austen and Animals


Seeber, Barbara K.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470119


Price: $88.00 

Jane Austin and EducationDevlin, D.D.

Jane Austin and Education


Devlin, D.D.

Hardcover. New York, Barnes and Noble Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 140 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket shows a small bit of age wear. Inside is clean, top edge dyed. In great shape for age.

Record # 30695


Price: $10.00 

 

Janet Flanner's World - Uncollected Writings 1932-1975


Drutman (Ed.), Irving

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 2nd, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by William Shawn

Record # 52987


Price: $18.00 

 

Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back


Warren, Robert Penn

Hardcover. KY, Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 56381


Price: $35.00 

 

Jesse Stuart's Kentucky


Clarke, Mary Washington

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609061


Price: $12.00 

 

Joel Chandler Harris: Folklorist


Brookes, Stella Brewer

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press , 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages. Five pages with red underlining, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Record # 401311


Price: $20.00 

 

John Betjeman - A Study


Stanford, Derek

London, Neville Spearman, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages, b&w photos. Nice dust jacket. Printed In Great Britain stamp on front fly leaf.

Record # 600538


Price: $18.00 

 

John Cheever


Coale, Samuel

NY, Ungar Publishing, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, An examination of the author's many works. 130 pages.

Record # 69232


Price: $18.00 

 

John Donne and the Theology of Language


Stanwood (Editors), P.G. and Heather Ross Asals

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 376 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A framework for understanding the theological and rhetorical underpinnings of early seventeenth-century poetry and prose. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952558


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

 

Journal of American Folklore - April-June 1953 Number 260


Luomala (Ed.), Katharine

Softcover. Richmond VA, American Folklore Society, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pg. 93-188. Articles on Drama in Shaman Exorcism, The Riddle of The Flying Cloud, Role of Humor in the Hupa Indian Tribe, Mexican Version of the Bear's Son Folktale, A Shoshone Hand Game Gambling Song, others. Light soil to covers otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 410695


Price: $31.00 

 

Journal of American Folklore - January-March 1962 No. 295


Hand (Ed.), Wayland D.

Softcover. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pg. 1-93. Articles on Peyote Jokes, Clackamas Chinook Myths, The Proverb in Bonaventure des Periers' Short Stories, Old Corn Meal: Urban Negro Folksinger, others. Clean, very good.

Record # 411234


Price: $25.00 

 

Journal of American Folklore - October-December 1951 No. 254


Hand (Ed.), Wayland D.

Softcover. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pg. 347-477. Articles on Texas Poltergeist, Acculturation in Northern Haiti, More Light on Paul Bunyan, The Huanancha Dance, Ainu Folklore, others. Light soil to covers otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 411233


Price: $31.00 

 

Journal of American Folklore - October-December 1951 No. 254


Hand (Ed.), Wayland D.

Softcover. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pg. 347-477. Articles on Texas Poltergeist, Acculturation in Northern Haiti, More Light on Paul Bunyan, The Huanancha Dance, Ainu Folklore, others. Light soil to covers otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 411232


Price: $31.00 

 

Journal of American Folklore - October-December 1963 No. 302


Dorson(Ed.), Richard

Softcover. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pg. 277-366. Articles on Riddling Traditions in Northeastern Scotland, The World of Joe Strickland, Castles in Spain, The Japanese Popular Christmas, Themes in Folktales, others. Clean, very good.

Record # 411235


Price: $25.00 

 

Joyce Cary - The Developing Style


Wolkenfeld, Jack

NY, New York University Press , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Dust jacket rubbed, edgeworn.

Record # 600081


Price: $12.00 

 

Joyce Cary: A Preface to His Novels


Wright, Andrew

London, Chatto & Windus, 1st UK, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hard cover. 186 pages. Black & white photograph of Joyce Cary opposite title page. Discoloration to end papers. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling.

Record # 502110


Price: $15.00 

 

Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Elise


Canetti, Elias

Softcover. London, Calder and Boyers, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Green wrappers, perfect binding, letters translated by Christopher Middleton. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806235


Price: $15.00 

 

Kant's Politcal Writings


Reiss, Hans (Ed.)

hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Reprint , 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket with major edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. 210 pages.

Record # 201933


Price: $18.00 

Ken Follett: The Transformation of a WriterRamet, Carlos

Ken Follett: The Transformation of a Writer


Ramet, Carlos

Hardcover. US, Popular Press 1, reprint , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 159 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Some stains to fore edge. Edge wear and creasing to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466900


Price: $23.00 

Killing Time: Waiting Hierarchies in the Twentieth-Century German NovelWilliam, Jennifer Marston

Killing Time: Waiting Hierarchies in the Twentieth-Century German Novel


William, Jennifer Marston

Hardcover. Lewisburg PA, Bucknell University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 257 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The waiting motif in German literature, explained. Slight tearing to dust jacket upper spine and top edge. Marking to index. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952555


Price: $55.00 

 

Language and Philology: Our Debt to Greece and Rome


Kent, Roland G.

Hardcover. Boston, Marshall Jones Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 174 pages, small owner's rubber stamp on title page, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Dust jacket with tanning to edges, light shelf wear.

Record # 406276


Price: $25.00 

 

Language of Thackeray, The


Phillipps, K.C.

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Previous owners name at top of half title page. Light foxing to top edge. Rear top corner bumped.

Record # 604464


Price: $8.00 

 

Last Essays


Young, G.M.

London, Rupere Hart-Davis, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Previous owner's stamp on front endpaper. Newspaper review pasted to front paste-down. Minor pencil underlining, margin marking.

Record # 502524


Price: $15.00 

Latin Translation in the Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti, and ErasmusBotley, Paul

Latin Translation in the Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti, and Erasmus


Botley, Paul

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy.

Record # 471838


Price: $50.00 

 

Laura Riding's Pursuit of Truth


Wexler, Joyce Piell

Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket rubbed

Record # 200089


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

Letters of Rudyard Kipling, The: Volume 1: 1872-89Kipling, Rudyard

Letters of Rudyard Kipling, The: Volume 1: 1872-89


Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. This is a review copy. Volume 1 of 2. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A tight copy.

Record # 471782


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

 

Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope - Vol. II


Chesterfield, Lord

Hardcover. London, J. Dodsley, 3rd, 1774, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 2 only of 4 volumes. Leather covers worn, spine lettering faded. Internally Very Good.

Record # 303306


Price: $40.00 

 

Library Essays About Books, Bibliophiles, Writers and Kindred Subjects


Harper, Henry Howard

Hardcover. Boston, The Torch Press, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. In slipcase. Printed on textured paper with rough cut edges. Foxing to top edge. Light spotting to endpapers. Soiling to spine. Wear and fading to slipcase. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 851731


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

LIFE OF FICTION


Klinkowitz, Jerome

Hardcover. US, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 156 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Slight crease to the first 15 or o pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket with small closed tears to front. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460738


Price: $19.00 

 

Literary Criticism and Romantic Theory in the Work of Achim Von Arnim


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: $11.00 

 

Literary Criticism in England 1660-1800


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: $8.00 

 

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 

 

Literary Scene in East Pakistan, The


Husain, et. al., DR. S.S.

Paperback. E. Pakistan, P.E.N., 1st wraps, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY HUSAIN, one of the contributors. An introduction to the language and literature of East Pakistan. 88 pages.

Record # 58250


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Little Rivers - A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness


Van Dyke, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, Rep., 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 241 pages. Front hinge starting.

Record # 60522


Price: $15.00 

Lives of the PoetsSchmidt, Michael

Lives of the Poets


Schmidt, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 975 pages. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, upper edge of spine slightly bumped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453213


Price: $30.00 

 

Living Mirror, The: Five Poets From Leningrad


Massie (Ed.), Suzanne

London, Gollancz, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 344 pages in a lightly worn dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp on title page, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 405578


Price: $25.00 

 

London Films


Howells, W. D.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st , 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust., photos. Turquois cloth with gilt design.

Record # 64272


Price: $23.00 

 

Long View, The: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic craft


Pack, Robert

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Slight fading to dust jacket and a touch of foxing to top edge. Otherwise, clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Record # 30788


Price: $11.00 

 

Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, The


Opie, Iona/Peter Opie

Hardcover. London, Oxford, Reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 417 pages. Previous owners name at top left corner of front endpaper. Spine faded. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607846


Price: $15.00 

 

Love-Hate Relations: English and American Sensibilities


Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket. Light soil on bottom spine. Light marking on rear end paper.

Record # 2233379


Price: $31.00 

 

Lunacy Boom, The


Zinsser, William

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 59711


Price: $12.00 

 

Madman of Ch'u - The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent, A


Schneider, Laurence A.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604321


Price: $32.00 

 

Madwoman's Underclothes, The - Essays and Occasional Writings


Greer, Germaine

hard back. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 202241


Price: $15.00 

 

Major Works of Heinrich von Kleist, The: A Study


Liebling, Robert E.

Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 275 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A look at one of the great innovative forces in the early Romantic movement. Heavy fading to dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952082


Price: $13.00 

 

Make-Believe Town: Essays and Rememberances


Mamet, David

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder mark top edge

Record # 11930


Price: $9.00 

 

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 

 

Making Waves


Llosa, Mario Vargas

Paperback. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, proof wraps, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. & transl. from Spanish by John King. Cover creased, curled

Record # 52981


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Man of Letters, A - Selected Essays


Pritchett, V.S.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 60936


Price: $18.00 

 

Mania for Magnificence, A


Kronenberger, Louis

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 236 pages

Record # 304694


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Marking The Sparrow's Fall - Wallace Stegner's American West


Stegner, Page (Ed)

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 178074


Price: $9.00 

 

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 

 

Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937-1962


McCarthy, Mary

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Strauss, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light rubbing.

Record # 107003


Price: $25.00 

 

Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism - First Series


Arnold, Matthew

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Edited by Sister Thomas Marion Hoctor. 367 pages. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 65590


Price: $8.00 

 

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 

 

Matthew Josephson Bourgeois Bohemian


Shi, David E.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Orange cloth, gilt, spine faded. Dust jacket price clipped. 24 pages of b&w photographs.

Record # 512579


Price: $10.00 

 

Max Beerbohn - Selected Prose


Cecil ( Ed.), David

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Little Brown, 1st US, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub. in Eng. in 1970

Record # 53414


Price: $9.00 

 

McLuhan Hot and Cold: A Primer for the Understanding of a Critical Symposium With a Rebuttal by McLuhan


Sontag, Susan; Macdonald, Dwight; Gossage, Howard, et al.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 312 pages. Hardcover with fair dust jacket. Fraying and chipping to dust jacket. Previous owner's marking on rear fly leaf. Tight copy.

Record # 2233712


Price: $19.00 

 

Meaning of Courtly Love, The


Newman, F. X. (Ed.)

Albany, State University of New York, 2nd, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. 5 scholarly essays and bibliography. Previous owner's bookplate.

Record # 303893


Price: $23.00 

 

Melodious Guile - Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language


Hollander, John

New Haven, CT, Yale University Press , 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 262 pages. Dust jacket with closed tears, wear to corners.

Record # 502602


Price: $20.00 

Memoirs of a Dada DrummerHuelsenbeck, Richard

Memoirs of a Dada Drummer


Huelsenbeck, Richard

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, Reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Softcover. Heavy foxing to textblock edges. Sunfading to dust jacket. Otherwise a clean copy with minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 471653


Price: $13.00 

 

Merry Heart, The - Reflections on Reading, Writing and the World of Books


Davies, Robertson

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 3rd, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 53008


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

Michel TournierWorton, Michael (Editor)

Michel Tournier


Worton, Michael (Editor)

Hardcover. London ; New York, Longman Pub Group, 1st UK, March 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454539


Price: $40.00 

 

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 

 

Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics


Morson, Gary Saul

Softcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 554 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelfwear. Previous owner's inscription within.

Record # 471412


Price: $13.00 

Milton in Italy: Contexts, Images, ContradictionsDi Cesare, Mario

Milton in Italy: Contexts, Images, Contradictions


Di Cesare, Mario

Hardcover. Binghamton NY, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 592 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to spine and front panel. Bumping to board corners. Slight soiling to rear panel. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 952594


Price: $48.00 

 

Misleadings


Eco, Umberto

Paperback. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, uncor. proof wraps, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Transl. from Italian by William Weaver

Record # 57653


Price: $38.00 

 

Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy


Bloch (Editors), R. Howard and Frances Ferguson

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages, paperback. Essays exploring the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms. Minor rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Unmarked. A clean and tight

Record # 952119


Price: $13.00 

Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the MaterialistsBradshaw, Graham

Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the Materialists


Bradshaw, Graham

Hardcover. Ithaca , Cornell University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue canvas with gilt lettering on black label spine. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to edges.

Record # 2233596


Price: $15.00 

 

Modern Essays (Second Series)


Morley (Editor), Christopher

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, First Thus, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 457 pages. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards, bright with light, marginal soiling & black printed titles to cover & spine. Light toning to edges throughout. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean & unmarked.

Record # 6670056


Price: $44.00 

 

Modern German Literature 1880-1950


Bithell, Jethro

London, Methuen & Co., reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 584 pages. Fresh, tight and clean copy.

Record # 601680


Price: $6.00 

Modern Language Quarterly March 1941Heffner (Ed.), Ray

Modern Language Quarterly March 1941


Heffner (Ed.), Ray

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages, literary journal with articles on language in early literary work. Essays on Hoffman as a Lyric Writer, Edmund Spenser, Cooper's "The Prairie", Moutesquieu and Hume, others. Vol. 2, No. 1. Clean.

Record # 411520


Price: $25.00 

 

Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918


Downs, Brian W.

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 276 pages. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling, library label on spine.

Record # 508601


Price: $10.00 

 

Modern Slovak Prose: Fiction Since 1954


Pynsent (Editor), Robert B.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan Press LTD, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, all edges. Small tear to dust jacket bottom spine. rubbing to boards, confined to top and bottom edges. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951270


Price: $48.00 

 

Moliere - A New Criticism


Moore, W. G.

London, Oxford University Press , rep, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages.

Record # 205541


Price: $15.00 

 

Moliere and the Commonwealth of Letters: Patrimony and Posterity


Johnson (Editor), Roger/Guy T. Trail/Editha Neumann

Hardcover. Jackson, Mississippi University Press, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 873 pages. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606810


Price: $15.00 

 

Moral System of Shakespeare, The - A Popular Illustration of Fiction as the Experimental Side of Philosophy


Moulton, Richard G.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages + ads. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Maroon binding with gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Light edgewear to bottom of spine .

Record # 502898


Price: $20.00 

 

Mourning, Gender, and Creativity in the Art of Herman Melville


Tolchin, Neal L.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages.

Record # 63897


Price: $25.00 

 

Mr. Eliot Among the Nightingales


Grudin, Louis

Hardcover. Paris, Lawrence Drake, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pages unopened, dust jacket worn, closed tears, chipped.

Record # 16093


Price: $20.00 

 

Mulberry Tree, The


Bowen, Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 6824


Price: $8.00 

 

My Ears Are Bent


Mitchell, Joseph

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, Rep., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A revised edition of the original "impossible-to-find" 1938 edition

Record # 61594


Price: $30.00 

 

My Place in the Bazaar


Waugh, Alec

Hardcover. London, Cassell, 1st Eng, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's signature front end paper, former bookdealer's stamp front end paper. Some foxing at edges. Dust jacket shows minor wear.

Record # 109357


Price: $18.00 

Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's SonnetsScarry, Elaine

Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets


Scarry, Elaine

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470312


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Nationalism in Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry


Loftus, Richard J.

Madison, WI, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1st , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages.

Record # 62751


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

 

Never Say I


Lucey, Michael

Softcover. Durham, Duke, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 321 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. a few page corners folded, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 30026


Price: $15.00 

New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuaneKlinkowitz, Jerome

New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane


Klinkowitz, Jerome

Hardcover. Athens, Univ of Georgia Pr, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460703


Price: $25.00 

 

New Critical Essays


Barthes, Roland

NY, Hill and Wang, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light soil to dust jacket.

Record # 202580


Price: $15.00 

 

New Critical Essays


Barthes, Roland

New York , Hill and Wang, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 121 pages. Translated by Richard Howard. Dust jacket with light fading.

Record # 176648


Price: $15.00 

 

New German Critique, Number 53 (Spring/Summer 1991)


Various

Softcover. New York , Telos Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover journal, 192 pages. Essays on Heidegger, Herbert Marcuse, Max Weber, others. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 410615


Price: $19.00 

 

New German Critique, Number 58 (Winter 1993)


Various

Softcover. New York , Telos Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover journal, 192 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 410616


Price: $15.00 

New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics, The Thomas, Brook

New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics, The


Thomas, Brook

Softcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2nd printing, March 8, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458343


Price: $10.00 

 

Newbery Medal Books 1922-1955: With their Authors Acceptance Papers & Related Material Chiefly from the Horn Book Magazine


Miller, Bertha Mahoney and Elinor W. Field

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 3rd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages, dust jacket with light edgewear. Vol. 1 of the Horn Book Papers.

Record # 405858


Price: $31.00 


 

Newbery Medal Books 1922-1955: With their Authors Acceptance Papers & Related Material Chiefly from the Horn Book Magazine


Miller, Bertha Mahoney and Elinor W. Field

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 3rd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages, dust jacket with light edgewear. Vol. 1 of the Horn Book Papers.

Record # 405902


Price: $31.00 


 

No Other Book - Selected Essays


Jarrell, Randall

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Edited by Brad Leithauser. Light wear to dj edge.

Record # 54197


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Norman Mailer - The Man and His Work


Lucid ( Ed.), David F.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Light wear, rubbing to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 53015


Price: $8.00 

 

Northrop Frye in Modern Criticism - Selected Papers From the English Institute


Krieger, Murry (Ed.)

NY, Columbia University Press , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light soil and edgewear.

Record # 201034


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Nothing Remains the Same


Lesser, Wendy

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951105


Price: $16.00 

 

Notorious Literary Attacks


Mordell (Ed.), Albert

Hardcover. New York, NY, Boni & Liveright, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Black cover with gilt lettering and decoration on front. Faded gilt lettering on spine. Spine slightly faded, and bottom of cover is worn. Corners scuffed. Title page in red and black ink.

Record # 604050


Price: $10.00 

 

Novel and the Cinema, The


Wagner, Geoffrey

Hardcover. Rutherford, Fairleigh Dickinson University , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages. Spine cocked. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608014


Price: $60.00 

 

Novel in English


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: $6.00 

 

Novel Now, The - A Guide to Contemporary Fiction


Burgess, Anthony

hardcover. NY, Norton, 3rd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with large chip to front & rear panel.

Record # 64599


Price: $18.00 

 

Novelist of Three Worlds: Ford Madox Ford


Wiley, Paul L.

Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 510830


Price: $9.00 

 

Novels of Harold Frederic, The


Briggs, Jr., Austin

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages, brown cloth covers, with a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Record # 406401


Price: $10.00 

Odd Jobs: Essays and CriticismUpdike, John

Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism


Updike, John

Hardcover. US, Alfred a Knopf, 1st, 1991-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 919 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket and small stain to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461391


Price: $25.00 

 

On All Sides Nowhere - Building a Life in Rural Idaho


Gruber, William

Paperback. Boston, Mariner/ Houghton Mifflin , 1st wraps , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY GRUBER on dedication page. Paperback.original.

Record # 301690


Price: $15.00 

 

On Emerson And Other Essays


Maeterlinck, Maurice

NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light edgewear and soil to covers. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Rear hinge cracked

Record # 203542


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

On Prose and Verse


Stephens, James

Hardcover. New York , The Bowling Green Press, limited ed, 1928, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 41 pages. limited to 1000 copies. Some wear and age-tanning to boards and spine with faded label. Light fraying to uopper edge of spine with 1/4" strip missing from lower edge. Previous owner's bookplate and yellow tape residue to end papers.

Record # 856856


Price: $19.00 

 

On signs


Blonsky (Editor), Marshall

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, Reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 536 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs, and drawings. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610066


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things (Under Discussion)Andrews, Tom

On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things (Under Discussion)


Andrews, Tom

Softcover. US, University of Michigan Press, 1st pb, 1995-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 464964


Price: $19.00 

 

On Writing and the Novel - Essays by Paul Scott


Scott, Paul

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Shelley C. Reece

Record # 60520


Price: $18.00 

 

One Half of Robertson Davies: Stories, Lectures, Jeux D'esprit, and advice on writing and writers, books and literature from the Author of Fifth Business


Davies, Robertson

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, with a touch of chipping. A little foxing and remainder mark on top edge, otherwise in good condition, clean inside.

Record # 30798


Price: $13.00 

 

Ordinary Universe, The - Soundings in Modern Literature


Donoghue, Denis

Paperback. NY, ECCO, Rep. wraps, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Essays on modern writers by Donoghue. 320 pages. Paperback edition.

Record # 62325


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 

 

Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, The - Third Series


Kerr, Orpheus C.

Hardcover. New York, Carleton, 1st, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. A collection of satirical essays, most concerning the Civil War. Original embossed cloth with light wear. Tears to blank preliminary pages

Record # 302918


Price: $30.00 

 

Orwell's Fiction


Lee, Robert A.

Indiana, University of Notre Dame Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light soil and edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 200736


Price: $12.00 

 

Oscar Wilde


Gide, Andre

New York, Philosophical Library, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 50 pages. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. Light rubbing to spine. Dust jacket with edgewear, faded spine, light soiling.

Record # 508993


Price: $9.00 

 

Other Provinces


Van Doren, Carl

NY, Knopf, 1st , 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Some pages opened roughly. Covers with light discoloration.

Record # 65100


Price: $15.00 

 

Outermost Dream, The - Literary Sketches


Maxwell, William

Paperback. St. Paul, MN, Graywolf, 1st wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages

Record # 55502


Price: $12.00 

 

Outermost Dream, The: Essays and Reviews


Maxwell, William

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essays and criticism from noted writer. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Rough-cut fore edge. bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 4450009


Price: $13.00 

 

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


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: $8.00 

 

Palm Sunday


Vonnegut, Kurt

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder spray, bottom edge

Record # 56365


Price: $18.00 

 

Paper Trail


Dorris, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 889


Price: $18.00 

 

Paradise of Bombs, The


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages, minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 53109


Price: $10.00 

 

Paris and the Nineteenth Century


Prendergast, Christopher

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Publishers, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 page. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Gilt lettering to spine, light bumping on corner, light pencil markings. Otherwise, bright, tight copy. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 30041


Price: $44.00 

 

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 

 

Park-Street Papers


Perry, Bliss

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Perry was editor of the Atlantic Monthly at 4 Park Street in Boston. Thus the title of these collected literary pieces. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue, still an attractive gilt-dec. cover.

Record # 62750


Price: $20.00 

 

Passions of the Mind - Selected Essays


Byatt, A.S.

NJ, Turtle Bay, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 62422


Price: $15.00 

 

Pathway to God in Hindi Literature


Ranade, R. D.

Hardcover. Bombay, Adhyatma Vidya Mandir, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 405 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610992


Price: $63.00 

Peguy and Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine Halevy, Daniel

Peguy and Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine


Halevy, Daniel

Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 303 pages. Literary criticism by a noted Catholic poet b/w portrait frontispiece, very good+, poor worn torn tape-repaired dj, brown cloth.

Record # 415162


Price: $15.00 

 

Pen and Ink - Papers on Subjects of More or Less Importance


Matthews, Brander

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green, 1st, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages. One of 110 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper - this being hand numbered #42. Covers worn with rubbed edges and bumped corners. Spine label chipped. Front hinge paper cracked. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 608469


Price: $25.00 

 

Penchants & Places: Essays and Criticisms


Leithauser, Brad

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Deckled fore edge. Very clean book, bright inside. In excellent condition.

Record # 30784


Price: $15.00 

 

Penchants and Places: Essays and Criticism


Leithauser, Brad

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1995-02-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463931


Price: $10.00 

 

Persistence of Modernism, The: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century


Detloff, Madelyn

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Record # 2233440


Price: $44.00 

 

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 

 

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 

Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of ImmaturityPosnock, Ross

Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity


Posnock, Ross

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, September 13, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Front flap of dust jacket slightly bent; sticker residue on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453246


Price: $18.00 

 

Philip Roth


Rodgers Jr., Bernard R.

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages, hardcover. Criticism and interpretations of the works of Philip Roth. Mild age toning to text block top edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951762


Price: $19.00 

 

Philosophical Biographer, The - Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson's Lives of the Poets


Maner, Martin

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket spine faded. Otherwise a nice clean, tight copy.

Record # 510437


Price: $6.00 

 

Piece of My Mind, A


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, reflections at sixty

Record # 2032


Price: $18.00 

 

Piece of My Mind, A


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, reflections at sixty

Record # 6339


Price: $18.00 

 

Pied Piper Syndrome and other Essays, The


Hunter, Mollie

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Essays on writing for children, 118 pgs.

Record # 70552


Price: $18.00 


  

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