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"Most Women..."


Waugh, Alec

Hardcover. London, Cassell, 1st , 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cover shows some wear, internally there is some foxing and there are few small stains. Black & white woodcuts by Lynd Ward. former bookdealer's stamp front paste-down, previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Record # 109355


Price: $25.00 

 

(Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities


Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 402 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has some age yellowing and agewear. Clean inside, in good condition.

Record # 30775


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 

 

A Century of Science and Other Essays


Fiske, John

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 477 pages. Top edge gilt. Cover has light edgewear. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 206800


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

A Map of Misreading


Bloom, Harold

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

Record # 803801


Price: $32.00 

 

A sense of story: Essays on contemporary writers for children


Townsend, John Rowe

Hardcover. London, 1st edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, blue dust jacket. Clean covers, light edgewear to dust jacket, with faded spine, neat ink underlining to pages 193-199, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, tight binding.

Record # 450679


Price: $12.00 

 

Achievement of Robert Penn Warren, The


Justus, James H.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to spine. The literary achievement of Robert Penn Warren. Fading and light foxing to prelim pages. Age toning and foxing to text block edges. Light wear to board bottom edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952605


Price: $24.00 

 

Advance of the English Novel, The


Phelps, William Lyon

Hardcover. New York, NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, First Thus, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Hardcover. Publisher's navy cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Light toning throughout. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean & unmarked.

Record # 6670052


Price: $25.00 

 

Affirming Limits - Essays on Morality, Choice, and Poetic Form


Pack, Robert

Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, hardcover. Light dust jacket edgewear, fade to spine.

Record # 602551


Price: $20.00 

 

African Images in Juvenile Literature


Maddy, Yulisa Amadu

Hardcover. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 1st, November 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Very good.

Record # 454785


Price: $10.00 

 

African Silences


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light rubbing.

Record # 106991


Price: $10.00 

 

African Treasury, An


Hughes (Editor), Langston

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Stories, poems, articles, and essays on Africa, selected by Langston Hughes. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, mostly to spine. Fading and rubbing to dust jacket as well. Light bumping to spine and corners. Faint age toning to text block top edge. Unmarked. A tight and clean copy.

Record # 951810


Price: $19.00 

After the "Death of Literature": West German Writing of the 1970sBullivant, Keith

After the "Death of Literature": West German Writing of the 1970s


Bullivant, Keith

Hardcover. Oxford , Berg , 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 398 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Includes appendix of contributors. Foxing to dust jacket interior. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469513


Price: $25.00 

 

After the Avant-Garde: Essays in Art and Culture


Boyers, Robert

Hardcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, spine cocked, light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 402759


Price: $15.00 

 

Agee on Film (2 Vols.) - Reviews and Comments - 5 Film Scripts


Agee, James, Illust. by: Tomi Ungerer

Hardcover. NY, McDowell Obolensky, 1st, 1958/1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol I: with black & white photos, drawings by Tomi Ungerer. Vol II: Contains his script of The African Queen. Light soil, edgewear to dust jackets.

Record # 54408


Price: $70.00 

 

Airing Dirty Laundry


Reed, Ishmael

Hardcover. Reading, MA, Addison Wesley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 6480


Price: $12.00 

 

Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women: A New York Review Collection


Dinnage, Rosemary

New York, New York Review of Books, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 296 pages. Book and dust jacket in excellent condition.

Record # 504084


Price: $12.00 

 

American Nights Entertainment


Overton, Grant

NY, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 black & white tipped-in portraits of writers. 414 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Re-inforced binding by library book house. Not ex-lib.

Record # 69066


Price: $12.00 

 

American Novel and the Way We Live Now, The


Aldridge, John W.

hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64522


Price: $31.00 

 

American Poetry - Wildness and Domesticity


Bly, Robert

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages.

Record # 68334


Price: $15.00 

 

American Procession, An - The Major American Writers from 1830 to 1930 - The Crucial Century


Kazin, Alfred

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 100976


Price: $25.00 

 

American Realism - New Essays


Sundquist (Editor), Eric J.

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, 298 pages. Previous owners name at upper right corner of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609007


Price: $12.00 

 

American Stories


Trillin, Calvin

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of essays

Record # 54730


Price: $20.00 

 

American Studies


Menand, Louis

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Like new in a dust jacket.

Record # 602393


Price: $18.00 

 

American Writers Supplement X - Madison Smartt Bell to John Edgar Wideman


Parini (Ed.), Jay

NY, Scribners, 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Profiles, critiques & bibliographies on 18 more American Writers. 593 pages. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 65316


Price: $40.00 

 

American Writers Supplement X - Madison Smartt Bell to John Edgar Wideman


Parini (Ed.), Jay

NY, Scribners, 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Profiles, critiques & bibliographies on 18 more American Writers. 593 pages. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 65315


Price: $40.00 

 

American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies (4 Vols.)


Unger (Ed.), Leonard

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volumes 1-4 complete of this original reference series which has since been expanded with many supplements added. Each book is 500-600 pages, approximately 100 authors from Henry Adams to Richard Wright. Printed board covers, no dust jackets issued.

Record # 402818


Price: $150.00 

 

American Writers: Classics Volume 2


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Thomson/Gale, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages, Vol. 2 only. Printed boards, no dust jacket issued. Like new condition, clean.

Record # 402821


Price: $40.00 

 

American Writers: Retrospective Supplement II- James Baldwin to Nathanael West


Parini, Jay (Ed.)

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 615 pages, like-new condition.

Record # 512033


Price: $32.00 

American Writers: Supplement IV Part 1Parini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement IV Part 1


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 4th supplemental volume this reference series, Part 1 only. Maya Angelou to Linda Hogan. 418 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402827


Price: $25.00 

American Writers: Supplement V Parini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement V


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 5th supplemental volume this reference series. Russell Banks to Charles Wright. 615 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402828


Price: $30.00 

American Writers: Supplement VIParini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement VI


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 6th supplemental volume this reference series. Don DeLillo to W.D. Snodgrass. 607 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402826


Price: $30.00 

American Writers: Supplement XIIParini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement XII


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 12th supplemental volume this reference series. Kathy Acker to Richard Russo. 599 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402817


Price: $30.00 

 

American Writers: Supplement XIII Edward Abbey to William Jay Smith


Parini, Jay (Ed.)

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 617 pages, like-new condition.

Record # 512040


Price: $32.00 

 

American Writers: Supplement XIII Edward Abbey to William Jay Smith


Parini, Jay (Ed.)

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 617 pages, like-new condition.

Record # 512039


Price: $32.00 

 

American Writers: Supplement XIII Edward Abbey to William Jay Smith


Parini, Jay (Ed.)

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 617 pages, like-new condition.

Record # 512041


Price: $32.00 

American Writers: Supplement XIIIParini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement XIII


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 13th supplemental volume this reference series. Edward Abbey to William Jay Smith. 617 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402824


Price: $30.00 

American Writers: Supplement XIVParini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement XIV


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 14th supplemental volume this reference series. Cleanth Brooks to Logan Pearsall Smith. 630 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402823


Price: $30.00 

American Writers: Supplement XVIIParini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement XVII


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 17th supplemental volume this reference series. Max Apple to Franz Wright. 562 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402822


Price: $30.00 

American Writers: Supplements I - X (14 Volumes)Parini (Ed.), Jay and Leonard Unger

American Writers: Supplements I - X (14 Volumes)


Parini (Ed.), Jay and Leonard Unger

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprints, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The first 10 supplemental volumes to this reference series, 14 volumes in all as Nos. 1-4 have two parts. Each is approximately 300-400 pages. Printed board covers, all clean, very good.

Record # 402814


Price: $500.00 

 

An Introduction to the French Poets


Brereton, Geoffrey

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

Record # 851382


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Annotated Wizard of Oz, The: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz


Baum, L. Frank

Hardcover. New York, 1st, October 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 384 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout, illustrated end papers. Light edge wear to dust jacket, sticker residue on front. Foxing to top and fore-edge. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 452927


Price: $30.00 

 

Anthony Burgess


Coale, Samuel

Hardcover. New York, Ungar, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, One in the Modern Literature Series, 223 pages, dust jacket with rubbing, closed tear, 2 copies

Record # 177823


Price: $15.00 

 

Anthony Trollope - A Critical Study


Cockshut, A.O.J.

Hardcover. NY, NY University Press, 1st U.S., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pgs. dust jacket w/ light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 108201


Price: $15.00 

 

Apricots from Chernobyl


Novakovich, Josip

Paperback. St. Paul, MN, Graywolf Prress, 1st wraps, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY NOVAKOVICH on title-page.

Record # 301689


Price: $15.00 

 

Areopgifica and Other Prose Writings


Milton, John

Hardcover. N Y, Macmillan Co., 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 170 pages. Dust jacket worn, soiled, spine darkened. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 60203


Price: $15.00 

Arizona Quarterly - Spring 1972Melville, Herman

Arizona Quarterly - Spring 1972


Melville, Herman

Softcover. Tucson AZ, University of Arizona, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover journal, pastel green wrappers, 96 pages. Issue devoted to Herman Melville with 6 essays by various writers. Volume 28, No. 1. Cover with creases at corner, otherwise very good, clean

Record # 411519


Price: $19.00 

 

Art of Fiction, The


Besant, Walter and Henry James

Boston, DeWolfe & Fiske, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 85 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on cover, spine blank. There is a water-stain on the top outside corner of the pages which shrinks in size toward the rear. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 601973


Price: $28.00 

Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, The Hochman, Barbara

Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, The


Hochman, Barbara

Hardcover. US, Univ of Missouri Pr, 1st, 1988-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461473


Price: $10.00 

 

Art of Isaac Babel, The


Carden, Patricia

Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essays on famed author. Chipping to dust jacket spine, top edge. Edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951250


Price: $25.00 

 

Art of The Compleat Angler, The


Cooper, John R.

Hardcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages, green cloth with silver lettering. Dust jacjet very good with minor wear, small chip to rear.

Record # 403376


Price: $12.00 

 

Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays


Haycraft, Howard

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 545 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title stamped on spine and front cover. A touch of fraying to top and bottom of spine and corners of covers. Top edge dyed red. Some light age tanning to pages and edges. Binding tight, spine straight. Ogden Nash, Earl Stanley Gardner, Ben Hecht, Anthony Bouche and many others.

Record # 31648


Price: $38.00 

 

Articles and Pamphlets


Gorky, Maxim

Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House, Unknown, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 408 pages

Record # 67656


Price: $15.00 

 

Articulate Energy: An Enquiry into the Syntax of English Poetry


Davey, Donald

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with slight foxing on bottom back cover. Slight browning on edges of front and back dust jacket flaps. Green boards with green writing on spine. Writing in pen on page 9. Stamping on dust jacket and front flyleaf.

Record # 850110


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

As They Appear


Brown, John Mason

NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, price clipped.

Record # 62370


Price: $12.00 

 

At Home - Essays 1982-1988


Vidal, Gore

NY, Random House, 1ST, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages

Record # 61901


Price: $20.00 

 

Author of Waverly, The


Devlin, D.D.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st UK, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A critical study of Walter Scott. Heavy rubbing, fading, and age toning to dust jacket. Fading to prelim pages. Heavy age toning and fading to text block edges. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952601


Price: $13.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The - Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 336 pages.

Record # 56355


Price: $20.00 

 

Author's Dimension, The - Selected Essays


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus Young, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by Grace Paley

Record # 60533


Price: $20.00 

 

Autobiographical Myth of Robert Lowell, The


Cooper, Phillip

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Univ. of North Carolina, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 170 pages. Dust jacket with 2 closed tears otherwise very clean and bright.

Record # 62404


Price: $8.00 

 

Babel to Byzantium - Poets & Poetry Now


Dickey, James

Paperback. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st wraps, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages.

Record # 60233


Price: $12.00 

BaudelaireStarkie, Enid

Baudelaire


Starkie, Enid

Hardcover. New York, New Directions Books, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 623 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wear and chipping to edges of jacket and foxing on inside of jacket. Clean and tight copy otherwise.

Record # 2230565


Price: $19.00 

 

Beginnings: Intention and Method


Said, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 414 pages, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Stamped lettering and decoration on front and spine. Light soil spot on rear cover board. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, red ink underlining and notes in last chapter.

Record # 30032


Price: $15.00 

 

Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews


Shaw, Bernard

Hardcover. University Park and London, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Collection of book reviews written by George Bernard Shaw. Edited and with an intro by Brian Tyson. Really nice, beautifully new-looking copy. Dust jacket, hardbound, 511 pgs.

Record # 109134


Price: $19.00 

 

Birth of Reason & Other Essays by George Santayana


Cory (Editor), Daniel

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610062


Price: $15.00 

Bloom's Modern Critical Views Robert Hayden Bloom, Sterling

Bloom's Modern Critical Views Robert Hayden


Bloom, Sterling

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chelsea House Publications, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. No dust jacket issued. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Record # 470574


Price: $38.00 

 

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


Rosenbaum, S. P.

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

Record # 610072


Price: $19.00 

 

Blue-Eyed Tarokaja, The: A Donald Keene Anthology


Keene, Donald

Hardcover. New York, Columbia Univewrsity Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer. The preeminent Western authority on Japanese literature presents an insight into his career as a writer and translator. Mild rubbing to dust jacket, which is enclosed in a plastic protective sleeve. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 4450005


Price: $23.00 

Bolet'n de la Instituci-n Fern

Bolet'n de la Instituci-n Fern

Hardcover. Dallas TS, Institucion Fernan Gonzalez, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages, decorated boards, red spine label with gilt lettering. A collection of papers from a symposium on the Brothers Machado held at the University of Dallas in 1983. INSCRIBED BY NICOLAS TOSCANO LINA who organized the event. Stain to endpapers caused by glue used on endpapers. Otherwise clean.

Record # 415235


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Brendan Behan's New York


Behan, Brendan

Hardcover. NY, Bernard Geis, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 3036


Price: $18.00 

 

Brian Friel (The Irish writers series)


Maxwell, D.E.S.

Hardcover. US, Bucknell University Press,U.S., 1st, 1975-08-20, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 112 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing and foxing to price clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge.

Record # 464830


Price: $28.00 

 

Brief Chronicles


Atkinson, Brooks

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCain, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, dj chipped

Record # 11104


Price: $15.00 

 

British Letters Illustrative of Character and Social Life


Mason (Ed.), Edward T.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 297 pages. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Brown cloth binding with gold lettering on spine. Spine soil. Edgewear to spine edges. Corners lightly bumped.

Record # 509413


Price: $13.00 

 

British Writers: Edited Under the Auspices of the British Council (Vol. VI)


Scott-Kilvert(Ed.), Ian

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 6 of this reference series, Thomas Hardy to Wilfred Qwen, 460 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402801


Price: $40.00 

British Writers: Edited Under the Auspices of the British Council Supplement IScott-Kilvert(Ed.), Ian

British Writers: Edited Under the Auspices of the British Council Supplement I


Scott-Kilvert(Ed.), Ian

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprints, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The first supplemental volume to this reference series: Graham Greene to Tom Stoppard. Printed board covers, minor soil to edges of text block.

Record # 402800


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Retrospective Supplement IIParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Retrospective Supplement II


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 2 to this retrospective reference series, Jane Austen to Oscar Wilde, 509 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 402808


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement IIStade (Ed.), George

British Writers: Supplement II


Stade (Ed.), George

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The second supplemental volume to this reference series: Kingsley Amis to J.R.R. Tolkien, 626 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402809


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement VStade (Ed.), George and Sarah Hannah Goldstein

British Writers: Supplement V


Stade (Ed.), George and Sarah Hannah Goldstein

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 5th supplemental volume to this reference series: Alan Ayckbourn to Graham Swift, 571 pages. Printed board covers, very good.

Record # 402810


Price: $30.00 

 

British Writers: Supplement VI


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 6 to this reference series. Some light damp wrinkling to bottom edge of some pages. Otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 402802


Price: $25.00 

British Writers: Supplement XParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Supplement X


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 10 to this reference series, Ayi Kwei Armah to Jon Stallworthy, 455 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 402804


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Supplement X


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 10 to this reference series, Ayi Kwei Armah to Jon Stallworthy, 455 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 402807


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XIParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Supplement XI


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Thomson/Gale, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 11th supplemental volume to this reference series: Iain Banks to Alan Warner, 456 pages. Printed board covers, minor soil to edges of text block.

Record # 402813


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XIParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Supplement XI


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Thomson/Gale, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 11th supplemental volume to this reference series: Iain Banks to Alan Warner, 456 pages. Printed board covers, minor soil to edges of text block.

Record # 402816


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XIIParini (Ed.), Jay

British Writers: Supplement XII


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Thomson/Gale Group, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 12 to this reference series, Fleur Adcock to R.S. Thomas, 456 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 402805


Price: $30.00 

 

Browning Studies: Studies in English Literature


Harrington, Vernon C.

Hardcover. Boston, Richard G. Badger, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, With a handwritten note laid-into front end paper by the author, dated 1915, then a professor at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT

Record # 106178


Price: $15.00 

 

Browning Studies


Harrington, Vernon C.

Hardcover. Boston, Richard Badger, 1st., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY HARRINGTON. (was prof. of English at Middlebury College)

Record # 177884


Price: $9.00 

 

Burning Library, The


White, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, edited by David Bergman

Record # 5337


Price: $20.00 

 

Cabin, The


Mamet, David

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st Ed, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Reminiscence & Diversions

Record # 745


Price: $15.00 

 

Caldecott Medal Books 1938-1957: With their Authors Acceptance Papers & Related Material Chiefly from the Horn Book Magazine


Miller, Bertha Mahoney and Elinor W. Field

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 4th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 329 pages, b&w illustrated dust jacket with light edgewear. Vol. 2 of the Horn Book Papers.

Record # 405870


Price: $38.00 


 

Call me Ishmael


Olson, Charles

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

Record # 613073


Price: $19.00 

 

Candor & Perversion - Literature, Education, and the Arts


Shattuck, Roger

Paperback. NY, Norton, uncorrected proof wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Slightly bent but otherwise good, clean condition. paperback, 389 pgs.

Record # 108823


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 

Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the ArtsShattuck, Roger

Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts


Shattuck, Roger

hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Illustrated title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469130


Price: $13.00 

 

Cannibals and Christians


Mailer, Norman

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Tipped-in color frontis. dj with short tear, edgewear price clipped

Record # 53120


Price: $30.00 

 

Carnal Myth, The - A Search into Classical Sensuality


Dahlberg, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Weybright and Talley, 2nd, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Lt tape residue on end papers otherwise VG/VG

Record # 58246


Price: $18.00 

 

Castles In Spain & Other Screeds


Galsworthy, John

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 2nd, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.

Record # 68330


Price: $10.00 

 

Catbird's Song, The: Prose Pieces 1969-1995


Wilbur, Richard

Paperback. NY, Harcourt Brace , uncor proof wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 13568


Price: $25.00 

 

Celebrating Children's Books


Hearne, Betsy and Marilyn Kaye (editors)

Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd Books, first, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. A collection of literary criticism about children's books. The book is a tribute to Zena Sutherland. In very good condition, very clean pages and tight bindings. Dust jacket in very good condition.

Record # 807632


Price: $12.00 

 

Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science


Hayles (Ed.), N. Katherine

Paperback. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852653


Price: $12.00 

 

Charles Dickens and Other Victorians


Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams Sons, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, a collection of essays originally given as lectures at Cambridge University. Blue boards have a stripe along top with light fading otherwise excellent condition, tight and clean.

Record # 601304


Price: $21.00 

 

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 

 

Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century


Bennett, H. S.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, Reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Blue cloth, gilt titled spine.

Record # 803425


Price: $10.00 

 

Circus Animals, The - Essays on W.B. Yeats


Jeffares, A. Norman

Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light soil and rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 200713


Price: $20.00 

 

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


Gelpi, Albert

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

Record # 610065


Price: $23.00 

 

Coleridge - Critic of Society


Colmer, John

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

Record # 610107


Price: $15.00 

 

Comanche Midnight


Harrigan, Stephen

Paperback. Austin, University of Texas, 1st wraps, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 53130


Price: $15.00 

 

Coming Into the End Zone - A Memoir


Grumbach, Doris

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 2nd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 100603


Price: $12.00 

 

Confessions of Two Brothers


Powys, John Cowper/Llewellyn Powys

Hardcover. Rochester, Manas Press, 1st US, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Rear hinge cracked. Rubbing and minor fraying to top and bottom of spine and corners of covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606722


Price: $85.00 

 

Conor - A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien


Kenson, A. & Donald Harman

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Really an anthology of his work with bibliographical notes

Record # 53091


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 

 

Conversations with Nelson Agren


Donahue, H. E. F.

Hardcover. New York, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 333 pages. Price clipped dust jacket shows rubbing and light wear/fading to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609239


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

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 

Critical Dictionary of Mexican Literature (1955-2010)Michael, Christopher Dominguez

Critical Dictionary of Mexican Literature (1955-2010)


Michael, Christopher Dominguez

Softcover. Champaign IL, Dalkey Archive, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 561 Pages. Softcover. Translated by Lisa M. Dillman.Light pen mark on front cover, otherwise a tight and bright copy.

Record # 951039


Price: $29.00 

 

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 

 

Critical, Historical & Miscellaneious Essays (6 Vols.)


Macaulay, Lord

Hardcover. NY, Sheldon & Co., rep., 1861, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol 4 with tear of cloth over board at spine - partial only otherwise VG, previous owner's signature 1st blank pages

Record # 53068


Price: $70.00 

 

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 

 

Crosscurrents of Criticism: Horn Book Essays, 1968-1977


Heins, Paul (Ed.)

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 359 pages. Light sunning and edgewear to dust jacket with slight tear to front cover. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460472


Price: $13.00 


 

Crown of Life, The


Knight, G. Wilson

Paperback. Methuen & Co., University Paperbacks , reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages, paperback. Study of plays, from Pericles to Henry VIII. Bumping to spine, light creasing to front wraps. Faint soiling to top text block. Mild edgewear. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951353


Price: $16.00 

 

Cruel Radiance, The - Notes of a Prosewriter in a Visual Age


Powers, Ron

Hardcover. Hanover, Middlebury College Press, 1st, 1994 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Cloth boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511692


Price: $6.00 

 

Cult of Power, the


Warner, Rex

Hardcover. Philadelphia and New York, Lippincott , 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket shows some wear and chipping, some foxing at edges, but otherwise and internally clean. Hardbound.

Record # 109342


Price: $18.00 

Curiosities: Poets on Poetry SeriesMatthews, William

Curiosities: Poets on Poetry Series


Matthews, William

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 172 pages, gray cloth covers. No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 408126


Price: $38.00 

Curious World - A New Yorker at LargeHamburger, Philip

Curious World - A New Yorker at Large


Hamburger, Philip

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

Record # 613452


Price: $10.00 

 

D. H. Lawrence and America


Arnold, Armin

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

Record # 609378


Price: $18.00 

 

D.H. Lawrence's "Lady" - A New Look at Lady Chatterley's Lover


Squires, Michael/ Dennis Jackson

Athens, University of Georgia, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Cloth boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 509863


Price: $10.00 

Dangerous Pilgrimages - Transatlantic Mythologies and the NovelBradbury, Malcolm

Dangerous Pilgrimages - Transatlantic Mythologies and the Novel


Bradbury, Malcolm

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st Am., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 515 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 204134


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Dark Descent - Social Change & Moral Responsibility in the Novels of Joyce Cary


Larsen, Golden L.

NY, Roy Publishers, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 202 pages. Dust jacket worn, chipped.

Record # 600082


Price: $12.00 

 

Darkening Glass - A Portrait of Ruskin's Genius, The


Rosenberg, John D.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 274 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. Some underlining in ink with notation in margins. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Dust jacket worn with tears and chipping.

Record # 607540


Price: $12.00 

 

Dating Your Mom


Frazier, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, dj price clipped

Record # 52967


Price: $18.00 

 

Day I Met a Lion, The


Kantor, MacKinlay

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of his essays and articles. 341 pages

Record # 124906


Price: $18.00 

 

Day of the Dead, The - And Other Mortal Reflections


Gonzalez-Crussi, F.

NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 201055


Price: $12.00 

 

Defence of the Imagination, In


Gardner, Helen

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

Record # 610076


Price: $13.00 

 

Depth Takes a Holiday - Essays From Lesser Los Angeles


Loh, Sandra Tsing

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 53434


Price: $11.00 

 

Destructive Element, The


Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Printed from English sheets, dj w/ edge chipped, spine fad, soil & stain to rear panel

Record # 16088


Price: $35.00 

 

Development of Modern Philosophy, The


Adamson, Robert

Hardcover. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Blue cloth covers. Volume 1 - 358 pages. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Area of foxing at top left corner of half title page. Light moisture wrinkle to front/back covers at upper right/left corners - this does not effect text block. Title in gilt on spine. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 330 pages plus 32 pages of ads. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. Blue stain along gutter of half title, and title page. Title in gilt on spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610793


Price: $150.00 

 

Dickens - The Critical Heritage


Collins, Philip

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

Record # 610112


Price: $75.00 

 

Digital Barbarism - A Writer's Manifesto


Helprin, Mark

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

Record # 609499


Price: $12.00 

 

Discoveries & Considerations - Essays on Early American Literature & Aesthetics Presented to Harold Jantz


Israel (Editor), Calvin

Hardcover. Albany, SUNY, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609073


Price: $12.00 

Dissemination Derrida, Jacques

Dissemination


Derrida, Jacques

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Minor shelf wear. Fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855612


Price: $15.00 

 

Diversion: Twenty-two Authors on the Lively Arts


Sutro, ed. , John

Hardcover. London, Max Parrish, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. 24 photogravure plates and 40 drawings in line. Facsimiles of authors' signatures on endpapers. Creasing, small tears, edgewear, soiling to dust jacket.

Record # 510686


Price: $8.00 

 

Divine Providence in the England of Shakespeare's Histories


Kelly, Henry Ansgar

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. Brown cloth, silver lettering.

Record # 512578


Price: $8.00 

 

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


Baird, James

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

Record # 610154


Price: $15.00 

 

Donne's Poetry and Modern Criticism


Unger, Leonard

Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with major edgewear, chipping. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 201049


Price: $12.00 

 

Dostoevski's Image in Russia Today


Seduro, Vladimir

Hardcover. Belmont, MA, Nordland Publishing Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 508 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning, otherwise excellent and wrapped in protective plastic cover. In great condition. Including Appendix.

Record # 32038


Price: $31.00 

 

Dostoevsky: Child and Man in His Works


Rowe, William Woodin

Hardcover. New York, NYU, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. Clean tight copy.

Record # 607915


Price: $12.00 

 

Down Along the Mother Volga: An Anthology of Russian Folk Lyrics


Reeder (Ed), Robert

Philadelphia PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 246 pages. Translated and edited by Reeder. Introductory essay by V. Ja. Propp. Foxing, faded spine, small closed tears to dust jacket.

Record # 504127


Price: $15.00 

 

Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson, The


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

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

Record # 610096


Price: $13.00 

 

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


Gaston, Jr., Edwin W.

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

Record # 853836


Price: $18.00 

 

Earthly Delights, Unearthly Adornments - American Writers as Image-Makers


Morris, Wright

New York, Harper Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Dust jacket has small tear on front. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 206208


Price: $12.00 

Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and ReviewsCarruth, Hayden

Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews


Carruth, Hayden

Softcover. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, Reprint, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO FELLOW POET JOHN ENGELS. Covers somewhat worn, especially around corners and edges. Light creasing on front cover. Some chipping on rear cover. Minor soiling on covers. A little staining on fore edge. Slight pen marks on all edges. About 10 pages previously dog-eared. Top corners of pages slightly creased. Occasional small stains on pages. 5-10 pages with pen markings. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856283


Price: $31.00 

 

Eiffel Tower, The - and Other Mythologies


Barthes, Roland

New York , Hill and Wang, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. Translated by Richard Howard.

Record # 176647


Price: $18.00 

 

Ellen Glasgow - Beyond Convention


Wagner, Linda W.

Austin, TX, Univ. of Texas, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages.

Record # 62355


Price: $20.00 

 

Encountering Choran Community: Literary Modernism, Visual Culture, and Political Aesthetics in the Interwar Years


Hinnov, Emily M.

Hardcover. Cranbury, NJ, Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1st Edition, 2009, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 246 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Like new. Identifies and describes modernist "choran community" as a previously understudied key counternarrative to Modernism's engagement with early twentieth century master narrative.

Record # 32449


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 

 

English Historical Novel - Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf, The


Fleishman, Avrom

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

Record # 610071


Price: $15.00 

 

English Hours


James, Henry

New York, Orion, rep, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 250 pages. Black & white illustrations. Cover has light wear. Dust jacket has edgewear, missing chunk from front.

Record # 206611


Price: $15.00 

 

English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages


Chambers, E. K.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, Reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Blue cloth, gilt titled spine.

Record # 803424


Price: $11.00 

 

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


Bush, Douglas

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

Record # 613631


Price: $15.00 

 

English Sermon, The Volume 1 and 2.


Sisson, C.H.; Seymour-Smith, Martin

Hardcover. Cheshire, England, Carcanet Press Book, Chesire, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume one: 1550-1650; 491 pages. Hardcover with lightly frayed green dust jacket. Edited by Seymour-Smith. Previous owner's signature on end paper. Volume two: 1650-1750; 358 pages. Hardcover with lightly frayed orange dust jacket. Edited by Sission.

Record # 750047


Price: $63.00 

 

Enough About You - Adventures in Autobiography


Shields, David

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages.

Record # 205157


Price: $15.00 

 

Escape Into Aesthetics - The Art of Vladimir Nabokov


Stegner, Page

hardcover. London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1st UK, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A critical analysis of Nabokov's work. 141 pages.

Record # 64504


Price: $19.00 

 

Essay on Rime With Trial of a Poet


Shapiro, Karl

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A reprint of two brilliant verse essays by an American Master

Record # 304631


Price: $20.00 

Essays and Explorations: Studies in Ideas, Language and LiteratureBloomfield, Morton W.

Essays and Explorations: Studies in Ideas, Language and Literature


Bloomfield, Morton W.

Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1ST, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 321 pages, white cloth covers, black lettering on spine. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.

Record # 406839


Price: $25.00 

 

Essays of Our Times


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: $6.00 

 

Essential Gesture, The


Gordimer, Nadine

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 4286


Price: $18.00 

 

Eugene O'Neill - A Critical Study


Winther, Sophus Keith

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 55788


Price: $12.00 

 

Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos - Best Non-fiction


Friedman, Bruce Jay

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64036


Price: $23.00 

 

Everyman His Own Poet - Romantic Gospels In American Literature


Van Nostrand, A.D.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 202093


Price: $15.00 

 

Existential Errands


Mailer, Norman

Boston, Little Brown, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 365 pages. Dust jacket worn, light soil, price clipped.

Record # 302639


Price: $15.00 

 

Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex & the Novel Form


Jarvis, Claire

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 201 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Multifaceted argument about the ideological and affective role played by marriage in the Victorian era. Mild rubbing to dust jacket top edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952554


Price: $29.00 

 

Eye of the Story - Selected Essays & Reviews, The


Welty, Eudora

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

Record # 609345


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

Ezra Pound - The Critical HeritageHomberger (Ed.), Eric

Ezra Pound - The Critical Heritage


Homberger (Ed.), Eric

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan PLaul, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 500 pages. Dust jacket has light fading to spine and edge wear, otherwise, bright and clean copy.

Record # 69065


Price: $13.00 

 

Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick


Ozick, Cynthia

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Deckled fore edge. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped. Very clean inside and out. In excellent condition. Dust jacket in protective brodart.

Record # 30785


Price: $13.00 

 

Faulkner & Popular Culture


Fowler, Doreen and Ann J. Abadie

Hardcover. Jackson, MS, University of Mississippi, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Collected essays on Faulkner by various writers

Record # 53045


Price: $18.00 

 

Faulkner - International Perspectives


Fowler, Doreen and Ann J. Abadie ( Ed.)

Hardcover. Jackson, MS, University of Mississippi, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Collected essays on Faulkner by various writers

Record # 53044


Price: $18.00 

Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One OwnsWeinstein, Philip M.

Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns


Weinstein, Philip M.

Cambridge [England] ; New York, Reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Slight sunfading to blue covers, no dust jacket. Clean, sharp copy.

Record # 453009


Price: $40.00 

 

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 

 

Fiber


Bass, Rick

Hardcover. Athens GA, Univ. of Georgia, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, b&w Illustrations by Elizabeth Hughes Bass

Record # 70527


Price: $20.00 

 

Fine Art of Reading and Other Literary Studies, The


Cecil, David

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 16099


Price: $15.00 

 

Five Shades of Shadow


Daugherty, Tracy

Hardcover. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, review slips laid in, River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 511645


Price: $8.00 

 

Fletcher, Beaumont and Company: Entertainers of the Jacobean Gentry


Wallis, Lawrence B.

Hardcover. New York, Octagon Books, rep, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 315 pages. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Red cover with gold lettering. Markings to covers. No dust jacket.

Record # 503063


Price: $12.00 

 

Food for Thought


Marin, Louis

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, John Hopkins University Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy with only light wear to dust jacket. Translated by Mette Hjort.

Record # 30012


Price: $19.00 

 

Force of Spirit, The


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages, minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, clean and bright copy.

Record # 75173


Price: $8.00 

 

Foreground of American Fiction, The


Hartwick, Harry

Hardcover. New York, American Book Co., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 447 pages.

Record # 302060


Price: $8.00 

Forties, TheWilson, Edmund and Leon Edel (Ed.)

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 

 

Forward From Liberalism


Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st US, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, dj w/ edgewear, chipping, previous owner's bookplate front pastedown

Record # 16105


Price: $40.00 

France From 1851 to the Present: Universalism in CrisisCelestin, Roger

France From 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis


Celestin, Roger

Softcover. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, Reprint , 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with no visible edgewear. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 471299


Price: $25.00 

 

French Critic 1549-1967, The


Fowlie, Wallace

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

Record # 851713


Price: $12.00 

 

Friendship and Literature - Spirit and Form


Sharp, Ronald A.

hardcover. Durham, NC, Duke Univ. Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages.

Record # 64601


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

From the Headlands


Blythe, Ronald

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 60513


Price: $20.00 

Fun Stuff: And Other Essays, TheWood, James

Fun Stuff: And Other Essays, The


Wood, James

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 339 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Some small stains to dust jacket interior, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466856


Price: $13.00 

 

Gender on the Divide: The Dandy in Modernist Literature


Feldman, Jessica

Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Otherwise tight, tight clean copy.

Record # 30017


Price: $13.00 


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