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Books listed alphabetically in order by Author
111. Hanson, Lawrence and Elizabeth. VERLAINE: FOOL OF GOD. New York, Random
House, 1957. 1st printing. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition.
Light cover/edge wear. Spine faded. Bookplate endpapr. Black & white
photographs. Critical & personal bio of Verlaine. With Bibliography, Index,
Index of 1st lines of Verlaines Poems. Good tight copy. 394 pages......$11.00
112. Hardwick, Joan. AN IMMODEST VIOLET: THE LIFE OF VIOLET HUNT. London,
Andre Deutsch Publisher, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge stripe.
Black and white photographs. Biography of Hunt, one of Britain's most
fascinating turn of the century literary figures. With Notes, Index. Good
tight copy. 205 pages......$11.00
113. Hartzog, Carol P. COMPOSITION AND THE ACADEMY: A STUDY OF WRITING
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION. New York, Modern Language Assn, 1986. 1st edition.
octavo. Very good condition. Corners very slightly bumped. Main sections
include: A survey of writing programs.. Case Studies. With Bibliography. Good
tight copy. 166 pages......$30.00
114. Hassell, James Woodrow, Jr. AMOROUS GAMES: A CRITICAL EDITION OF LES
ADEVINEAUX AMOUREUX. Austin/London, Univ. of Texas Press, 1974. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Corners very slightly bumped. Black & white
frontis plate. Critical presentation of 3 texts in Medieval French, which
appear to date from the 1470's. With Notes, Bibliography. Published for the
American Folklore Society. Good tight copy. 274 pages......$25.00
115. Hay, Eloise Kna pages. T. S. ELIOT'S NEGATIVE WAY. Cambridge/London,
Harvard University Press, 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. very
good+ in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Several
page edges lightly creased. Perceptive, subtly argued study of Eliot's poems
& plays. Explores the theme of negation... manifested both the the
negativaties of Eliot's early poems & in his use of the Christian via
negativa as matrix for his later works. Author draws upon important
unpublished materials made available to her by Mrs. Valerie Eliot. With
Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 214 pages......$20.00
116. Hayakawa, S.I. LANGUAGE IN ACTION. N.Y, Harcourt Brace, 1941. Hardcover
- cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Owner plate front endpaper. With Bibliography,
index. Good tight copy. 345 pages......$16.00
117. Haydn, Hiram. WORDS & FACES: AN INTIMATE CHRONICLE OF BOOK AND MAGAZINE
PUBLISHING. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 1st edition. Hardcover
- cloth, octavo. Very good condition in worn/chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Corners lightly bumped. The world of publishing -
focusing largely on Crown, Random House & Bobbs-Merrill. Wellindexed. Good
tight copy. 346 pages......$11.00
118. Heilman, Robert B. THE GHOST ON THE RAMPARTS: AND OTHER ESSAYS IN THE
HUMANITIES. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1973. 1st. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Good tight copy. 179 pages......$14.00
119. Heiney, Donald. THREE ITALIAN NOVELISTS: MORAVIA, PAVESE, VITTORINI. Ann
Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1968. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edges
slighty bumped. Good tight copy. 232 pages......$12.50
120. Henderson, Philip. SWINBURNE: PORTRAIT OF A POET. New York, Macmillan,
1974. 1st American. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Owner's embossed stamp
half-title page. Black & white photographs. Brilliant, vivid, intimate
portrait of Swinburne, as man and as poet. With extensive Notes, Index. Tight
well-bound volume. 305 pages......$20.00
121. Hewison, Robert. UNDER SIEGE: LITERARY LIFE IN LONDON 1939-45. New York,
Oxford University Press, 1977. 1st American. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white photos. London's artists, writers, poets - their lives
& works under siege in World War II London. Well-indexed. Good tight copy.
219 pages......$15.00
122. Hoggart, Richard. AUDEN: AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. New Haven CT, Yale
University Press, 1951. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Some wear to covers/edges. Black & white photo frontis of Auden.
Definitive analysis of Auden's poetics. From First Impressions, to Setting &
Stance, Technique, Early Themes... to America & Later Themes, America- the
Long Works. With Chronological Table, Bibliographies, Notes & References.
Well-Indexed. Good tight copy. 256 pages......$18.00
123. Holroyd, Michael. LYTTON STRACHEY: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY: Vol 1-THE
UNKNOWN YEARS (1880-1910)-Vol 2-THE YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT 1910-1932 (BOXED
SET). New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968. 1st edition. Decorated cloth,
octavo. Both volumes Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Color frontis each volume. Elegant 2 volume boxed set. Box
lightly edgeworn/soiled. Tight well-bound volumes. 475+754 pages......$30.00
124. Houtchens, Carolyn Washburn and Houtchens, Lawrence Huston. THE ENGLISH
ROMANTIC POETS & ESSAYISTS: A REVIEW OF RESEARCH AND CRITICISM. New
York/London, New York University Press, 1968. 2nd revised edition. Hardcover
- cloth, octavo. Very good+ in worn/chipped/edgetorn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Published for the Modern Language Association.
Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 395 pages......$20.00
125. Howard, Ronnalie Roper. THE DARK GLASS: VISION AND TECHNIQUE IN THE
POETRY OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSETTI. Athens Ohio, Ohio University Press, 1972.
1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Small inked edge mark. Fascinating study of
Rosetti's work, demonstrating that the poet possessed a clearly defined
central vision... which has a validity both for Rosetti's own age and ours.
With Notes, Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 218 pages......$18.00
126. Howe, Joseph (Introduction by Parks, M.G.). POEMS AND ESSAYS. Toronto,
University of Toronto Press, 1973. 1st thus. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in lightly worn/chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Lower corners lightly bumped. Large selection of the poetry and
prose of Joseph Howe, the "Tribune of Nova Scotia" and a political giant of
colonial times. ..Lieut. Governor of Nova Scotia at the time of his death.
From the Literature of Canada Series. Reprint of the 1874 edition, with
excellent biographical/critical Introduction by M.G. Parks. With Index,
Bibliographical Note. Good tight copy. 344 pages......$30.00
127. Hudson, Gertrude Reese. ROBERT BROWNING'S LITERARY LIFE: FROM FIRST WORK
TO MASTERPIECE. Austin TX, Eakin Press, 1992. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Black & white plates. Complete story of Browning's slow rise
to fame. Volume details accounts of his literary activities, the critical
reception of his poetry, plus aspects of the intellectual & spiritual
movements of the mid-century. Material derived from an extensive body of
material, including letters, memoirs, diaries & a large number of reviews.
Extensive Notes, Index. Tight well-bound volume. 638 pages......$30.00
128. Hungerford, Edward B. POETS IN PROGRESS: CRITICAL PREFACES TO TEN
CONTEMPORARY AMERICANS. Northwestern Univ. Press, 1962. 1st. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in edgetorn dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Owner signature endpaper. Articles on Roethke, Lowell,
Kunitz, Wilbur, Eberhart, Snodgrass, Nemerov, Cunningham, Jarrell, Merwin.
With Notes on the Contributors, Bibliography. Good tight copy. 213
pages......$15.00
129. Huxley, Aldous (Edited by Bradshaw, David). BETWEEN THE WARS: ESSAYS AND
LETTERS. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Essays on art & literature, letters to Mencken & H.G. Wells, social
& political writings from the early & later 30's- & more. Well-indexed. Good
tight copy. 255 pages......$13.50
130. Inverso, Marybeth. THE GOTHIC IMPULSE IN COMTEMPORARY DRAMA. Ann Arbor
MI, U.M.I. Research Press, 1990. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+
in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Small remainder stripe.
Exploration of the "neo-gothic" trend toward the fantastic" & the
"irrational" in today's theatre. Good tight copy. 185 pages......$14.00
131. James, Henry (Edited with an Introduction by Kenton, Edna). EIGHT
UNCOLLECTED TALES OF HENRY JAMES. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press,
1950. 1st collected. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Light
shelfwear. Lower corners lightly bumped. With Chronological List of the First
Twenty-Eight Tales of Henry James. Good tight copy. 314 pages......$25.00
132. Jones, Alun R. THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF THOMAS ERNEST HULME. Boston,
Beacon Press, 1960. Engraved cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in
lightly worn/clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Lower edges
lightly bumped. Critique & biography of T.E. Hulme. With analysis of his
aesthetics, politics, philosophy & theories of art & poetry. Also, how his
theories influenced poets such as Eliot, Pound & Jacob Epstein. Includes a
collection of all Holme's extant poetry - plus 2 articles & letters. With
Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 233 pages......$18.00
133. Jones, P. Mansell. VERHAEREN. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1957.
1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Good tight copy. 64 pages......$12.00
134. Jones, Peter G. (With a Foreword by Rosenthal, M. L.). WAR AND THE
NOVELIST: APPRAISING THE AMERICAN WAR NOVEL. Columbia MO, University of
Missouri Press, 1976. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white drawings.
Decorated endpapers. First comprehensive study of the modern American war
novel. With Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 260 pages......$16.00
135. Josephson, Matthew. STENDHAL or THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. New York,
Doubleday, 1946. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good
condition. Black & white frontis portrait. Thorough, well-written biography
of Stendhal. With appendix: The Stehdhal Revival, Biographical Notes,
Extensive Index. Good tight copy. 489 pages......$16.00
136. Keene, Donald. WORLD WITHIN WALLS: JAPANESE LITERATURE OF THE PRE-MODERN
ERA 1600-1867. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976. 1st edition.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. With Summaries of Plays, Glossary of Japanese
Terms & Certain Japanese and Chinese Names. Well Indexed. Good tight copy.
606 pages......$25.00
137. Kellman, Steven G.. LOVING READING: EROTICS OF THE TEXT. Hamden CT,
Archon Books, 1985. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition
in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Explanation of how eros and
reading have evolved in tandem down the ages. Good tight copy. 114
pages......$12.00
138. Kelly, Dorothy. FICTIONAL GENDERS: ROLE AND REPRESENTATION IN
NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH NARRATIVE. Lincoln/London, University of Nebraska
Press, 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. As new in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. With Notes, Bibliography, Index. Good tight
copy. 216 pages......$15.00
139. Kennedy, Ruth lee. STUDIES IN TIRSO, I: THE DRAMATIST AND HIS
COMPETITORS, 1620-26. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1974. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Spine edge lightly
bumped. Edge stripe. With Notes, Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 394
pages......$15.00
140. King, Roma A., Jr. THE FOCUSING ARTIFICE: THE POETRY OF ROBERT BROWNING.
Athens OH, Ohio University Press, 1968. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Very light edgewear. Detailed study of the Poetry of
Browning - with definition of Browning's creative vision & his place in
literature. With Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 288 pages......$15.00
141. Kingsmill, Hugh. MATTHEW ARNOLD. Toronto, Longmans, Green & Co, 1928.
1st. Engraved cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Very light cover/edge wear.
Small inked date front endpaper. Black & white frontis & plates. Biography of
Matthew Arnold. Good tight copy. 317 pages......$15.00
142. Kirsten, Lincoln (Edited by Jenkins, Nicholas). BY WITH TO & FROM: A
LINCOLN KIRSTEIN READER. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. 1st
edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Lower corners very faintly bumped. Black & white
frontis & photographs. Essays on the arts. Well-Indexed. Good tight copy. 423
pages......$14.00
143. Klinkowitz, Jerome (With Graphics by Behrens, Roy R.). THE LIFE OF
FICTION. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1973. 1st. Hardcover -
cloth, Square octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white drawings. Radically new style of
criticism applied to "new fiction" of Abish, Banks, Barthelme, Thompson,
Vonnegut, Reed & others. Good tight copy. 156 pages......$15.00
144. Kna pages, James F. LITERARY MODERNISM AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF WORK.
Evanston IL, Northwestern Univ. Press, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Exploration of the affiliations between literary modernism & the
transformation of the workplace... using key works of Joyce, Pound, Lawrence
& Williams. With Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 159 pages......$15.00
145. Knight, G. Wilson. THE CHRISTIAN RENAISSANCE. New York, W. W. Norton,
1962. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in ltly worn/clipped
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Owner signature/bookplate
endpapers. With interpretations of Dante, Shakespeare & Goethe & new
discussions of Oscar Wilde & the Gospel of Thomas. With Index. Good tight
copy. 356 pages......$20.00
146. Kosky, Jules. MUTUAL FRIENDS: CHARLES DICKENS AND GREAT ORMOND STREET
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1989. 1st U.S. edition.
Hardcover -cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Well-Indexed. Good tight copy. 245 pages......$12.50
147. Kung, Hans and Jens, Walter (Translated by Heinegg, Peter). LITERATURE
AND RELIGION: PASCAL, GRYPHIUS, LESSING, HOLDERLIN, NOVALIS, KIERKEGAARD,
DOSTOYEVSKY, KAFKA. New York, Paragon House, 1991. 1st American. Hardcover -
1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Lower corners very slightly bumped. Survey of the contradictory
search for faith over the past three hundred years through the key of eight
great writers. With Bibliography. Good tight copy. 308 pages......$22.50
148. Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy (Translated by Sheridan, Alan). LOVE, DEATH AND
MONEY IN THE PAYS D'OC. New York, George Braziller, 1982. 1st U.S. edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Inked letter "P" on lower page edges. Novel
examination of French history through the literary analysis of an 18th
century fable from the south of France. With Notes, Bibliography. Good tight
copy. 597 pages......$12.50
149. Lamb, Charles (Edited by Birrell, Augustine. With an Etching by Railton,
Herbert). THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. London, J. M. Dent and Co, 1890. Decorated
cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Light cover/edge wear. Inscription
endpaper. Hinge starting. Brown cloth covers with gilt cover design and
lettering. Essays of Charles Lamb. Well-bound copy. 328 pages......$20.00
150. Langbaum, Robert. THE MODERN SPIRIT: ESSAYS ON THE CONTINUITY OF
NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURE LITERATURE. New York, Oxford University
Press, 1970. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in lightly worn/clipped
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. With Notes, Index. Good tight
copy. 221 pages......$12.50
151. Lawton, George. JOHN WESLEY'S ENGLISH: A STUDY OF HIS LITERARY STYLE.
London, Allen & Unwin, 1962. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Detailed study of
Wesley's writing style. Contents include: Wesley's vocabulary & the
evangelical mission... Emergence of a distinctive terminology.. The
vocabulary of narrative.. Wesley amongst the lexicographers.. Choice of
Words: theory and practice.. Scripture idiom.. Wesley as Artist and Craftsman
- and much more. With Bibliography, General Index, Index of Words and
Phrases. Good tight copy. 320 pages......$20.00
152. Leacock, Stephen. LITERARY LAPSES. New York, John Lane Company, 1918.
Decorated cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Light cover/edge wear. Title
plate/spine fading. Good tight copy. 248 pages......$20.00
153. Lefebure, Molly. THE BONDAGE OF LOVE: A LIFE OF MRS. SAMUEL TAYLOR
COLERIDGE. New York/London, W. W. Norton, 1987. 1st American. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Edge stripe bottom page edges. Black & white frontis & plates.
Meticulously researched, using a weal of hitherto unpublished material.
Fascinating life of Sara & Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With References,
Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 287 pages......$12.50
154. Leftwich, Joseph. ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER, PARTISAN POET. New York, Thomas
Yoseloff, 1971. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in
worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Upper corners lightly
bumped. Black & white photos. Life of Yiddish Poet, Abraham Sutzkever -
including his survival of Nazi atrocities in World War II. With samples of
his poetry translated & discussed by Leftwich. Indexed. Tight copy. 188
pages......$15.00
155. Legge, J. G., M.A. CHANTICLEER: A STUDY OF THE FRENCH MUSE. New York,
E.P. Dutton, 1935. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good
condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Rear
corner faintly bumped. With Index of First Lines of Translations,
Author/Title Index, General Index. With French Originals printed in the
Appendix. Good tight copy. 395 pages......$30.00
156. Lesisohn, Ludwig. THE MAGIC WORD: STUDIES IN THE NATURE OF POETRY. New
York, Farrar, Straus & Co, 1950. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good
condition. Light wear to covers. Contents include: The Magic Word, Homer,
Shakespeare, Goethe and Our Time. Good tight copy. 151 pages......$13.50
157. Lesser, Simon O. FICTION AND THE UNCONSCIOUS. Boston, Beacon Hill, 1957.
1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Slightly bumped. Signature endpaper. Study of the
unconscious "need" for fiction and the psychological function it fulfils.
Good tight copy. 322 pages......$15.00
158. Leu, donald J. and Kinzer, Charles K, (Editors). EXAMINING CENTRAL
ISSUES IN LITERACY RESEARCH, THEORY AND PRACTICE. Chicago, National Reading
Conference, 1993. 1st edition. Wrapped boards, Very Good condition+.
Forty-second Yearbook of The National Reading Conference. With Author Index,
Subject Index. Good tight copy. .....$40.00
159. Levich, Marvin (editor). AESTHETICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF CRITICISM. New
York, Random House, 1963. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in torn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Owner plate
front endpaper. Exhaustive anthology: essays regarding the mutual involvement
& interdependence of aesthetics and criticism. Good tight copy. 646
pages......$15.00
160. Lewis, D. B. Wyndham. RONSARD: HIS LIFE AND TIMES. New York,
Coward-McCann, 1944. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in chipped/edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Corners bumped. Black & white frontis & plates. Lewis' superlative biography
of French Poet, Pierre Ronsard. With Index. Good tight copy. 340
pages......$15.00
161. Lidderdale, Jane & Nicholson, Mary. DEAR MISS WEAVER: HARRIET SHAW
WEAVER 1876-1961. New York, Viking Press, 1970. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs. Magnificent biography of harriet
Shaw Weaver, poet & friend of James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and many
more... literary greats of the 1920's. With list of Sources, well-indexed.
Good tight copy. 509 pages......$25.00
162. Lima, Robert. VALLE-INCLAN: THE THEATRE OF HIS LIFE. Columbia MO,
University of Missouri Press, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large
octavo. Fine in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
frontis & drawings. 1st English biography of Spanish writer Ramon del
Valle-Inclan. Exploration of his life and work... and how he tried to
assimilate the Man, the Artist, and the Mask into a complete being. With
Notes, Bibliography, Appendix, Index. Good tight copy. 378 pages......$25.00
163. Liptzin, Sol. THE ENGLISH LEGEND OF HEINRICH HEINE. New York, Block
Publishing, 1954. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Upper corners lightly bumped. Bookplate endpaper. Black & white
photo frontis. Literary biography of poet Heinrich Heine. With Bibliography,
Index. Good tight copy. 191 pages......$18.00
164. Lopez, Enrique Hank. CONVERSATIONS WITH KATHERINE ANNE PORTER: REFUGEE
FROM INDIAN CREEK. Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover -
1/2 cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn/chipped dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Light cover wear. Black and white
photographs. With Notes, Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 326
pages......$10.00
165. Loubere, J. A. E. THE NOVELS OF CLAUDE SIMON. Ithaca/London, Cornell
University Press, 1975. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in lightly worn/edge-scraped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Illuminating critical study of the works of Simon from his earliest
work in the 1940s to his most recent fiction. First book to consider Simon's
work as a whole. With Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 267
pages......$13.50
166. Lyngstad, Alexandra and Sverre. IVAN GONCHAROV. New York, Twayne, 1971.
1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Good tight copy. 184 pages......$10.00
167. Lyons, Phyllis I. (Osamu, Dazai). THE SAGA OF DAZAI OSAMU: A CRITICAL
STUDY WITH TRANSLATIONS. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1985. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Upper page edges lightly bumped. Fascinating
study of the life and works of famous Japanese Writer, Dazai Osamu
(1909-1948). With translations of 4 of Dazai's most moving and emotionally
expressive short stories, each a significant view of Dazai at a different
point in his life - plus a nonfiction novel, Tsagaru, about Dazai's return as
an adult to his childhood home. With "Life & Works" section, Bibliographyk,
Index. Good tight copy. 410 pages......$25.00
168. Maciuszko, Jerzy J. THE POLISH SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH: A GUIDE AND
CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Detroit, Wayne State Univ. Press, 1968. 1st. Hardcover
- cloth, octavo. Very good condition in slightly chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Very light cover wear. Massive, well informed
volume. From Sienkiewicz on. Good tight copy. 473 pages......$15.00
169. MacMillan, Duane J., Editor. THE STOIC STRAIN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE:
ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF MARSTON LAFRANCE. Toronto, University of Toronto Press,
1979. 1st. Decorated cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Black & white
drawings. Good tight copy. 224 pages......$12.50
170. Madeleva, Sister M. (Foreword by Lehman, B. H.). CHAUCER'S NUNS AND
OTHER ESSAYS. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1925. 1st edition. Decorated
cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition. Corners faintly bumped. Owner
signature/date title pg. Green cloth covers with Gilt titles & border design.
Good tight copy. 214 pages......$35.00
171. Madsen, Axel. HEARTS AND MINDS: THE COMMON JOURNEY OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
AND JEAN-PAUL SARTRE. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1977. 1st edition.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in worn edge-taped
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edges very lightly bumped. Black
& white photos. The story of Beauvoir & Sartre, "perhaps the most reknown and
accomplished couple that has ever lived." Good tight copy. 320
pages......$12.50
172. Magill, Frank (Editor) Kohler, Dayton (Story Editor). MASTERPLOTS: 15-
VOLUME COMBINED EDITION - FIFTEEN HUNDRED & TEN PLOT-STORIES & ESSAY REVIEWS
FROM THE WORLD'S FINE LITERATURE. New York, Salem Press, 1964. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very Good condition+. Volumes 2, 3, 4 & Annual lightly bumped.
Excellent reference set. Includes '64 Annual Edition. Sixteen volumes in all.
With Author Index. All tight well-bound volumes. 4,592 total
pages......$120.00
173. Mailer, Norman. CANNIBALS AND CHRISTIANS. New York, Dial Press, 1966.
1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in chipped dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Tipped-in color frontis. Good tight
copy. 400 pages......$20.00
174. Malmgren, Carl D. WORLDS APART: NARRATOLOGY OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Bloomington/Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1991. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Fine in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Author provides a theoretical model for science fiction by examining
"the factor of estrangement" from the "real" world... of empirical fact. Plus
identifies basic science fiction types: alien encounters, alternate
societies, gadget science fiction, alternate worlds, and science fantasy.
With extended analyses of representative texts, including Well's "The Time
Machine", Lem's "Solaris", Russ's "The Female Man", and Leiber's "Conjure
Wife." With extensive Notes, Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 208
pages......$20.00
175. Mankowitz, Wolf. MAZEPPA: THE LIVES, LOVES AND LEGENDS OF ADAH ISAACS
MENKEN. New York, Stein & Day, 1982. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards,
Imperial octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos & drawings. The 1st great
American international star: songstress, danseuse, actress, equestrienne,
author, poetess, sculptress. Her acquaintances with Dickens, Swinburne,
Rosetti, Richard Burton, Twain, Whitman, Bret Harte & Alexander Dumas, among
others. Good tight copy. 270 pages......$12.50
176. Manso, Peter. MAILER: HIS LIFE AND TIMES. New York, Simon & Schuster,
1985. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good+ in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white frontis &
photographs. Massive, detailed of Mailer. With list of Contributors.
Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 719 pages......$12.00
177. Mare, Margaret. EDUARD MORIKE: HIS LIFE AND WORK. London, Metheun & Co.
Ltd, 1957. 1st edition. Decorated cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Color frontis / Black & white plates. First
biography - and full account of the works - of one of the greatest German
lyric poets. Also the first attempt at analysis of Morike's highly suggestive
drawings & doodlings, some of which are here reproduced. Many poems quoted in
full. With Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 276 pages......$25.00
178. Mared, Kurt W. (Ceram, C. W.) Translated from the German by Manheim,
Ralph. YESTERMORROW: NOTES ON MAN'S PROGRESS. New York, Alfred A. Knopf,
1961. 1st American. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition
in chipped/clipped/edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Faint corner wear. Marek's view on Art, Literature, Science, Technology,
Science & the Universe. With Glossary/Index. Good tight copy. 151
pages......$12.00
179. Marti-Ibanez, Felix, M.D. THE MIRROR OF SOULS AND OTHER ESSAYS. New
York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1972. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Well-indexed. The
highly praised editorial essays that appeared in MD, the medical
newsmagazine, from 1966 through 1971. This volume follows the "Crystal Arrow"
and "The Ship in the Bottle". Good tight copy. 695 pages......$15.00
180. Martin, Wallace (editor). LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND GENRE: PAPERS FROM THE
POETICS AND LITERARY THEORY SECTION, MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION. Lewisburg,
Bucknell University Press, 1974. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small
octavo. Very good condition in edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Good tight copy. 54 pages......$10.00
181. Martindale, Colin. ROMANTIC PROGRESSION: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LITERARY
HISTORY. Washington DC, Hemisphere Publishing, 1975. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition. Edges lightly bumped. Cover scratch. Bookplate
endpaper. A Theoretical (Psychological) Approach to Literary Change.
Examination of Modern French Poetry.. Metaphysical Poetry.. Modern Painting..
Contemporary Phenomena. With sections on Qualitative Evidence & Quantitative
Evidence. Includes References, Author Index, Subject Index. 225
pages......$15.00
182. Masefield, John. SO LONG TO LEARN. New York, Macmillan, 1952. 2nd
printing. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in lightly
chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Light corner wear.
Masefield's "inner autobiography", describing the growth of the artist's
mind, & the actual develoment of the poetic process. Good tight copy. 181
pages......$13.50
183. Masserman, Jules H., M. D. (Foreword by Nemiah, John C., M.D.). WRITING
AND EDITING THE HUMANITIES. New York, Gardner Press, Inc, 1992. 2nd edition.
Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Helpful instructions for authors, for working
smoothy with publishers, & for maintaining tactful relationships... with
organizations sponsoring editorial activities. With References, Index. Good
tight copy. 110 pages......$10.00
184. Maugham, W. Somerset (Edited by Whitehead, John). A TRAVELLER IN
ROMANCE: UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS 1901-1964 W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM. New York,
Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1984. 1st American. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge stripe. Color
frontis portrait. Good tight copy. 275 pages......$11.50
185. Mayer, Milton (Edited by Gustafson, Eric). THE NATURE OF THE BEAST.
Amherst MA, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1975. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in chipped/edgetorn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Edges lightly faded/bumped. Essays and speeches
by Milton Mayer. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MILTON MAYER. Good tight copy. 364
pages......$20.00
186. Mckay, Agnes. THE UNIVERSAL SELF: A STUDY OF PAUL VALERY. Toronto, Univ.
of Toronto Press, 1961. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in worn/edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Light
cornerwear. Bookplate endpaper. Black & white frontis photograph. Fascinating
"biography of ideas." Detailed examination of Valery's achievement, both as
poet and creative thinker... tracing his career from his early friendship
with Mallarme to the years when hgis genius was widely acknowledged. With
Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 263 pages......$16.00
187. McKee, Patricia. HEROIC COMMITMENT IN RICHARDSON, ELIOT AND JAMES.
Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Clarification of the ethical imperatives within the novels of Richardson,
Eliot and James - Pamela.. Clarissa.. Middlemarch.. Daniel Deronda.. The
Golden Bowl. How the heroic characters achieve fulfillment conceiving of
themselves as parts of a social structure, rather than as separate
individuals. With Index. Good tight copy. 353 pages......$20.00
188. McNeir, Waldo F. and Greenfield, Thelma N. (Editors). PACIFIC COAST
STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE. Eugene OR, University of Oregon Books, 1966. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in clipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Contents include:Use of Linguistic Criteria in
determining thecopy and dates for Shakespeare's plays... The modernity of
Lear.. Venus and Adonis and the Myth of Love.. Romeo and Necessity..
Structure and Theme in the First Tavern Scene of 1Henry IV.. The Trials of
Othello.. Coriolanus as Aristotle's Magnanimous Man.. Shakespeare's tragic
vision - and much more. Tight well-bound volume. 315 pages......$25.00
189. McVeagh, John (Editor). ALL BEFORE THEM: ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THE
WIDER WORLD - Vol.1 1600-1780. London, Ashland Press, 1990. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Fine in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Exploration of the literary reflection of Britain's changing
attitudes to the wider world... between the Restoration and the American War
of Independence. Concentrating on major writers such as Milton, Marvell,
Dryden, Pope, Thompson, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Smollett, Sterne, Johnson,
Goldsmith, Richardson, Sheridan, etc., it conveys the diversity of British
literary culture in the 18th Century with its conflicting national & regional
presences. With Bibliography, extensive Index. Good tight copy. 305
pages......$20.00
190. Mentor, Academicus. UP THE IVY: BEING MICROSMOGRAPHIS ACADEMICA
REVISITED. New York, Hawthorne Books, 1966. 1st edition. Decorated cloth,
18mo(4"x6 Hardcover - 1/2"). Very good+ in edgeworn box. Black & white
drawings. "A true guide on how to climb in the Academic World without
appearing to try." Good tight copy. 71 pages......$10.00
191. Michel, Laurence. THE THING CONTAINED: THEORY OF THE TRAGIC.
Bloomington/London, Indiana University Press, 1970. 1st edition. Engraved
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn clipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Edge mark. New theory of tragedy - defned in
terms of content, rather than in surface characteristics of form. Extensive
Notes. Tight copy. 177 pages......$12.00
192. Mihajlov, Mihajlo (Foreword by Kolatch, Myron. Introduction by Field,
Andrew). MOSCOW SUMMER: CANDID PORTRAIT OF SOVIET LITERARY AND INTELLECTUAL
LIFE. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small
octavo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Black & white drawings. With index. Good tight copy. 220
pages......$12.00
193. Miller, David Lee. THE POEMS'S TWO BODIES: THE POETIES OF THE 1590
FAIRIE QUEENE. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1988. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Well-Indexed. Good tight copy. 298 pages......$14.00
194. Miller, E. (Clinical-Psychologist to West-End Hospital for Nervous
Orders, London). TYPES OF MIND AND BODY. New York, W. W. Norton, 1927. 1st.
Hardcover - cloth, 16mo. Very good condition. Very light cover wear. Black &
white photos. The science of Morphology. With chapters on The Psysiological
Background, The Psychological Aspect, Cross Currents. Includes illustrations
of Verlaine, Baudelaire, John Bunyan & Milton. Scarce. Good tight copy. 95
pages......$18.00
195. Mitchell, Margaret (Edited by Freer, Debra). LOST LAYSEN. New York,
Scribner, 1996. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+
in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge dot. Black & white
photographs. Newly discovered story by Margaret Mitchell, with never before
seen letters and photos. Bibloigraphy. Good tight copy. 127 pages......$11.00
196. Moore, Doris Langley. THE LATE LORD BYRON: POSTHUMOUS DRAMAS.
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1961. 1st edition. Decorated cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white plates. 1st complete account of the stormy aftermath
of Byron's life. From unpublished material. Fascinating literary detective
work.. 542 pages......$20.00
197. Mordell, Albert (Compiler & Editor) Introduction by Bowman, Sylvia E.
DISCOVERY OF A GENIUS: WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND HENRY JAMES. New York, Twayne
Publishers, 1961. 1st American. Wrapped boards, octavo. Very good condition
in lightly worn/clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Small
remainder stripe. First collection of articles & book reviews written by
William Dean Howells about Henry James' Publications. Good tight copy. 207
pages......$12.50
198. More, Paul Elmer. SHELBURNE ESSAYS (SECOND SERIES). New York, G. P.
Putnam's Sons, 1905. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good
condition. Very slight edgewear. Essays include: Elizabethan Sonnets..
Shakespeare's Sonnets.. Lafcadio Heart.. Charles lamb.. Kipling &
Fitzgerald... George Crabbe.. Novels of George Meredith.. Hawthorne: Looking
Before and After.. Delphi and Greek Literature.. The First Complete Edition
of Hazlitt.. Nemesis, or the Divine Envy. Good tight copy. 253 pages +
ads......$20.00
199. Morris, Gregory L. TALKING UP A STORM: VOICES OF THE NEW WEST.
Lincoln/London, University of Nebraaka Press, 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover -
1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black and white photographs. Interviews with 15 contemporary writers
of the American West. Indexed. Good tight copy. 246 pages......$12.00
200. Morton, David. THE SONNET: TODAY AND YESTERDAY. New York/London, G. P.
Putnam's Sons, 1926. 1st edition. Decorated cloth, Small octavo. Very good
condition. Light cover/corner wear. Owner inscription endpaper. One page with
torn edge. Discussion and examination of the sonnet form. Hard to find. Good
tight copy. 71 pages......$20.00
201. Mueller, Robert Kirk. BUZZWORDS: A GUIDE TO THE LANGUAGE OF LEADERSHIP.
New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, 1974. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good+ in price-clipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Gift inscription endpaper. Good tight copy. 172 pages......$12.00
202. Mumford, Lewis. HERMAN MELVILLE. New York, Literary Guild of America,
1929. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Some wear to
covers/edges. Gilt spine lettering faded. Black & white frontis portrait.
Classic study of Melville's life, works, & thought. With Index. Good tight
copy. 377 pages......$15.00
203. Murfin, Ross C. THE POETRY OF D.H. LAWRENCE: TEXTS & CONTEXTS.
Lincoln/London, University of Nebraska Press, 1983. 1st edition. Decorated
cloth, octavo. Very Good condition+. Major contribution to the understanding
of Lawrence's Poetry, & his art in general". 1st book on Lawrence's poetry in
10 years. How, through formal patterns set by Hardy, Swinburne, Keats,
Wordsworth, & even Milton, Lawrence are intricately superimposed by Lawrence
to create a language that seems free of all forms save those of common
speech. With Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 263 pages......$18.50
204. Murphy, Charles M. WALLACE STEVENS: A SPIRITUAL POET IN A SECULAR AGE.
New York, Paulist Press, 1997. 1st edition. Qlty paperback, Small octavo.
Very Good condition+. Lower corner very slightly bumped. Black & white
frontis photograph. With Notes, Bibliography. Good tight copy. 129
pages......$10.00
205. Murry, John Middleton. KEATS. New York, The Noonday Press, 1955. 4th
rev. enlar. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in chipped dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Very light cover soiling. Compelling
literary biography of Keats. Good tight copy. 322 pages......$12.50
206. Muscatine, Charles. CHAUCER AND THE FRENCH TRADITION: A STUDY IN STYLE
AND MEANING. Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1957. 1st. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Light edgewear. Spine faded. Owner tag
endpaper. Determination of Chaucer's "meaning" as a complex whole, by giving
form & style their due as concomitants of meaning. Main sections: The Courtly
Tradition, The Bourgeoin Tradition, Chaucer's Early Poems, Troilus and
Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer & the Fifteenth Century. With Notes,
Index. Good tight copy. 282 pages......$20.00
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