Literary Criticism - (by author: A - L)

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THADDEUS Literary Criticism - Catalogue (by author: A - L) March 16, 1998
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1. Abbott, Lyman. THE LIFE AND LITERATURE OF THE ANCIENT HEBREWS. Boston,
Houghton Mifflin, 1901. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Good
condition+. Lt cover wear/nicks. Bumped. Spine end frayed. Hinges starting.
Lt pencil markings several pages. Penetrating examination of Old Testament
writings... as Literature, Philosophy - as well as an analysis of its
spiritual meaning. 408 pages......$12.00

2. Allen, Philip Schuyler (With renderings into English Verse by Jones,
Howard Mumford). THE ROMANESQUE LYRIC: STUDIES IN ITS BACKGROUND AND
DEVELOPMENT FROM PETRONIUS TO THE CAMBRIDGE SONGS 50-1050. New York, Barnes &
Noble, 1969. Repr. 1928 edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Contents include: The continuity of Themes.. The approach to
Romanesque Poetry.. Romanesque outlook on Nature... Fortunatus & the Platonic
Tradition.. Irish Lyrics and Ballads.. The Carolingian Lyric.. The Cambridge
Songs. With Chapter Notes, Latin texts of the Translations, Index of First
Lines, General Index. Good tight copy. 373 pages......$20.00

3. Allsop, Kenneth. THE ANGRY DECADE: A SURVEY OF THE CULTURAL REVOLT OF THE
NINETEEN FIFTIES. London, Peter Owen Limited, 1958. 2nd impression. Hardcover
- cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Edges bumped. Signature endpaper. Story of the
Angry Young British Men of the 50s including their literary leaders: Kingsley
Amis, Colin Wilson, John Osborne, etc. Indexed. Good tight copy. 212
pages......$16.50

4. Alter, Robert. THE INVENTION OF HEBREW PROSE: MODERN FICTION AND THE
LANGUAGE OF REALISM. Seattle WA, Univ. of Washington Press, 1988. 1st.
Hardcover - decorated cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Emergence & analysis of the Hebrew Novel in
turn-of-the-century Europe With Index. Good tight copy. 122 pages......$12.00

5. Anderson, John Q. THE LIBERATING GODS: EMERSON ON POETS AND POETRY. Coral
Gables, University of Miami Press, 1971. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in lightly edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Tiny edgemark. Black & white photos. Emerson's concept of ideal
poetry as revealed in his evaluation of Shakespeare and Milton & exemplified
in his own poetry. Plus evaluations of some of his contemporaries, including
Thoreau, Whitman, Tennyson & Wordsworth. Good tight copy. 128
pages......$12.50

6. Armstrong, Margaret. TRELAWNY: A MAN'S LIFE. New York, Macmillan, 1940.
1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Very light cover
wear. Owner plate, endpaper. Decorated endpapers. Factual saga of Edward
Trelawny - based on his writings, reliable sources. Includes details of his
friendships with Shelley & Byron. Good tight copy. 379 pages......$17.50

7. Ashe, Rosalind. LITERARY HOUSES. New York, Facts on File, 1982. 1st.
Hardcover - cloth, quarto. Very good condition. Light cover wear. Light
soiling rear. Gift inscrp front endp. Full page color plates. Full page color
artist renditions of famous literary houses. Tight well-bound volume. 140
pages......$15.00

8. Austin, James C. FIELDS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY: LETTERS TO AN EDITOR 1861
- 1870. San Marino CA, The Huntington Library, 1953. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Story of Fields, editor of the Atlantic
Monthly & portrait of the magazine's exciting years. A vivid time when the
writings of authors Holmes, Hawthorne & Emerson appeared within its pages.
Also, a broad view of the careers of those whom Fields served & published
such as Longfellow, Lowell, Dickens, Browning, Tennyson & the
Transcendentalists. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 445 pages......$18.00

9. Bacon, Francis. THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS LD.
VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS (or THE ESSAYS OF FRANCIS BACON). New York,
Peter Pauper Press, (1960?) No date. New Edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition. Corners lightly worn/bumped.
Owner's stamp endpapers. With Introductory by Bacon to The Duke of
Buckingham. Over 50 essays by Bacon on a variety of topics including...
Truth, Death, Adversity, Prophecies, Goodness, Nobility, Superstition,
Marriage, Travel, Friendship, Masques, Fortune, Ceremonies - and many others.
With Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases. Good tight copy. 230
pages......$20.00

10. Balakian, Nona and Simmons, Charles. THE CREATIVE PRESENT: NOTES OF
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION. New York, Doubleday, 1963. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Ten well known critics describe & evaluate
the work of 17 leading American writers of the post-war generation. Reviewed
are Salinger, Baldwin, Nabokov, McCullers, Capote, Bellow, Styron, Mailer,
Welty, James Jones, Kerouac, Malamud, Gold, Updike, Mary McCarthy. With
Bibliography & list of Contributors. Good tight copy. 265 pages......$15.00

11. Beaumont, Ernest. THE THEME OF BEATRICE IN THE PLAYS OF CLAUDEL. London,
Rockliff, Not dated. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in
edge-torn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Good tight copy. 102
pages......$10.00

12. Bill, Alfred H. ASTROPHEL: OR THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE RENOWNED SIR
PHILIP SYDNEY. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1937. 1st. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Lightly bumped. Slight cover wear/fading.
Black & white frontis & plates. Good tight copy. 372 pages......$14.00

13. Bjornson, Richard. THE PICARESQUE HERO IN EUROPEAN FICTION. Madison,
Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Ex-lib. Lib.
card pouch front endpaper. Black & white plates. Most comprehensive survey to
date of the picaresque novel as it flourished in Europe between 1550 & 1750.
Good tight copy. 309 pages......$10.00

14. Blagoy, Dmitry. THE SACRED LYRE: ESSAYS ONTHE LIFE AND WORK OF ALEXANDER
PUSHKIN. Moscow, Raduga Publishers, 1982. 1st English edition. Wrapped
boards, Small octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Front cover/edges lightly bumped. Essays on Pushkin by a
distinguished Soviet Pushkin scholar. Blaboy established the connection
between Pushkin's heritage and the subsequent development of Russian
Literature. With extensive Notes. Good tight copy. 421 pages......$15.00

15. Bliven, Bruce, Jr. BOOK TRAVELLER. New York, Dodd Mead, 1975. 1st Book
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Close-up of the trade book
publishing industry. Originally published in The New Yorker. Good tight copy.
62 pages......$12.00

16. Bowen, Catherine Drinker. FRANCIS BACON: THE TEMPER OF A MAN. Boston,
Little, Brown & Co, 1963. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition.
Corners lightly bumped. Slight foxing endpapers. Black & white frontis &
plates. Excellent personal & literary biography of Sir Francis Bacon.
Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 245 pages......$18.00

17. Bretnor, Reginald (Editor). MODERN SCIENCE FICTION: ITS MEANING AND ITS
FUTURE. New York, Coward-McCann, 1953. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition. Articles regarding the state & nature of SciFi by Cambell,
Boucher, Pratt, Moore, de Camp, Asimov, Clarke, Wylie & others. 294
pages......$12.50

18. Brooks, Van Wyck. THE CONFIDENT YEARS: 1885 - 1915. New York, E.P.
Dutton, 1952. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in
lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Splendid &
inclusive picture of the pre WWII American literary scene from New York to
San Francisco - Chicago to New Orleans. With Index. Good tight copy. 627
pages......$15.00

19. Brousson, Jean Jacques. ANATOLE FRANCE HIMSELF (By his Secretary, Jean
Jacques Brousson). Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1925. 1st/4th printing.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in worn edge-frayed
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Light corner/edge wear. Black &
white photo frontis. Wtih paste-down photo on dust wrapper. Intimate portrait
- "Boswellian record" - of Anatole France. Tight well-bound volume. 356
pages......$16.00

20. Buckingham, Willis (Editor). EMILY DICKINSON'S RECEPTION IN THE 1890'S: A
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. Pittsburgh PA, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. 1st
edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Large octavo. Near fine. Black & white
frontis & photographs. Monumental collection of reviews, adverts & critical
comments regarding the early years of the discovery of Emily Dickinson... the
period in the early 1890's in which two books of her poems and a book of her
letters was published. With frontis of Dickinson, some photos of critics & of
early advertisements for her work. Fascinating range of reviews, response
from famous persons - opinions ranging from adoration to disgust. Called the
most important Dickinson resource published since the 'Complete Poems'.
Includes Dickson's Obituary, Diaries & Letters of the 90's not published
until the 20th Century, Sales of Dickinson Volumes in the 90's, Reviews of
the 1905 London Reissue of Poems. With Index & Finding List, and Index to
Poems. Tight well-bound volume. 615 pages......$40.00

21. Burke, Kenneth. ATTITUDES TOWARD HISTORY. Berkeley CA, Univ. of
California Press, 1984. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in
lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Third Edition with
a new 66 page Afterword. Burke's remarkable & original philosophy of history.
Western Culture presented as a 5-act play and entire societies viewed as
"Collective Poems." Plus an analysis of the literature, language & symbolism
within. Tight well-bound volume. 434 pages......$15.00

22. Burton, Richard. BERNARD SHAW: THE MAN AND THE MASK. New York, Henry Holt
and Company, 1916. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition.
Very light cover/edge wear. Front hinge starting. Brilliant examination of
Shaw and his works. Contents include: The Man.. The Evidence of the Plays..
The Social Thinker... The Poet and Mystic.. The Theatre Craftsman.. Shaw's
Place in Modern Drama. All the the major plays examined. With Bibliography,
Index. Good tight copy. 305 pages + ads......$25.00

23. Bush, Warren V. (editor). THE DIALOGUES OF ARCHIBALD MACLEISH AND MARK
VAN DOREN. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1964. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, Small octavo. Very good condition in worn edgetorn dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Edges/several pages lightly bumped. Black &
white frontis photo. Good tight copy. 285 pages......$12.50

24. Byrne, Muriel St. Clare (Editor) Selected and Arranged by Boland,
Bridget. Foreword by Trevor-Roper, Hugh. THE LISLE LETTERS: AN ABRIDGEMENT.
Chicago IL, University of Chicago Press, 1983. 1st. Hardcover - decorated
cloth, Large octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white plates. Extraordinary historical work - a vast
tapestry of Tudor life. From 1,900 letters originally assembled to be used in
evidence... in the trial for treason of Arther Plantagenet, Lord Lisle.
Selected from the original six-volume set. Written from 1533 to 1540,
culminating in Lord Lisle's being sent to the tower of London. With extensive
Notes & Commentary . Well-indexed. Tight well-bound volume. 436
pages......$25.00

25. Cairns, William B. (Editor). SELECTIONS FROM EARLY AMERICAN WRITERS
1607-1800. New York, Macmillan, 1909. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo.
Very good condition. Light shelfware. Half-title creased/chipped. Tiny owner
signature (1912) endpaper. Excellent survey with minor writers not often
included in modern editions. Good tight copy. 493 pages + ads......$15.00

26. Carlyle, Thomas (Edited for study by Adams, John Chester, Ph.D., Yale
University). ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY. Boston,
Houghton Mifflin, 1907. Hardcover - decorated cloth, 12mo. Very good
condition. Signature front endpaper. Light pencil lining several pages.
Black & white plates. From the Riverside College Classics Series. Sections on
Life of Carlyle.. Carlyle's style & teachings.. The Hero as Divinity... The
Hero as Prophet..The Hero as Priest.. The Hero as King.. With Notes,
Bibliography, Carlyle's Summary and Index. Tight well-bound volume. 375
pages......$11.00

27. Cecil, Lord David. HARDY THE NOVELIST: AN ESSAY IN CRITICISM.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1946. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good
condition. Lower corner lightly bumped. Black & white photo frontis of Hardy.
Evaluation of Hardy. Contents: His Scope, His Power, His Art, His Weakness,
Style & Summing up. From The Clark Lectures. With Index. Scarce. Tight
well-bound volume. 234 pages......$16.00

28. Chaney, Edward F. FRANCOIS VILLON IN HIS ENVIRONMENT. Oxford, Published
by the Author, 1946. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very
good condition. Very light corner wear. Fascinating detailed critical
biography of poet, Francois Villon - by noted Villon authority, E. F. Chaney.
Includes expert commentary on the ballads. With Bibliographical Notes and
extensive Documentary Appendix. (Ballads themselves presented in French).
Good tight copy. 138 pages......$35.00

29. Cheever, Benjamin (Editor). THE LETTERS OF JOHN CHEEVER. New York, Simon
& Schuster, 1988. 1st/2nd printing. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large
octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black &
white photos. First volume of Cheever's letters. The story of the writer's
life in his own words. Well-indexed. Tight well-bound volume. 397
pages......$14.00

30. Chesterton, G. K. ROBERT BROWNING. New York, Macmillan, 1904. Repr. 1903
edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, 12mo. Good condition+. Lt cover/edge
wear. Spine lightly faded. Hinge starting. From the English Men of Letters
Series. Biographical and literary study of Browning. Indexed. 207 pages +
ads......$12.50

31. Chilton, Eleanor Carroll and Agar, Herbert. THE GARMENT OF PRAISE: THE
NECESSITY FOR POETRY. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Very light
cover wear. Corners lightly bumped. Important presentation of Poetry as an
enobling and edifying force in the world. How poetry "spiritualizes" the
material... while giving form to and making tangible the spiritual. Three
main sections: The Nature of Poetry - English Poetry and English History -
Poetry and the World Today. With Index of Authors, Index of Titles. Tight
well-bound volume. 401 pages......$40.00

32. Citati, Pietro (Translation from the Italian by Rosenthal, Raymond).
TOLSTOY. New York, Schocken Books, 1986. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Acclaimed the best short critical biography of Tolstoy in any
language. Good tight copy. 265 pages......$12.00

33. Clark, Roy Benjamin. WILLIAM GIFFORD: TORY, SATIRIST, CRITIC, AND EDITOR.
New York, Columbia University Press, 1930. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated
cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition. Personal & professional biography
of Gifford. With chapter notes, bibliography, index. Tight well-bound volume.
294 pages......$14.00

34. Coats, R. H. JOHN GALSWORTHY AS A DRAMATIC ARTIST. New York, Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1926. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition.
Light cover wear. Light fading to spine. Analysis of Galsworthy's dramatic
works and discussion of his craftsmanship as a playwright. Indexed. Good
tight copy. 240 pages......$15.00

35. Cohen, Michael. ENGAGING ENGLISH ART: ENTERING THE WORK IN TWO CENTURIES
OF ENGLISH PAINTING AND POETRY. Tuscaloosa/London, University of Alabama
Press, 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Bottom corners very slightly
bumped. Black & white plates. Aesthetic techniques employed by English
writers & artists - common to poetry & painting - for engaging readers &
observers... or "capturing" them intellectually, emotionally, or morally -
circa 1680 to 1880. Fascinating study. With Notes, Bibliography, Index. Tight
well-bound volume. 228 pages......$25.00

36. Connolly, Rev. Terence L., S.J., Ph.D. FRANCIS THOMPSON: IN HIS PATHS.
Milwaukie, Bruce Publishing Co, 1944. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition. Cover wear. Corners bmped. Spine faded. Inscrip end pages.
Black & white frontis. Good tight copy. 203 pages......$12.00

37. Conrad, Peter. SHANDYISM: THE CHARACTER OF ROMANTIC IRONY. New York,
Barnes & Noble, 1974. British reprnt. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very
good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
photographs. A fresh perspective on Tristram Shandy - its significance in
relation to modern romantic theory. With Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 190
pages......$15.00

38. Cook, Philip. HOW TO ENJOY THEATRE. ESSEX, Piatkus Publishers, 1983.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Indispensable guide. Includes a history of threatre,
covering all the major periods from its origins up to present day. Includes
medieval, Renaissance, Restoration, modern drama. Plus descriptions of the
major playwrights, actors, methods, of production, theatres and audiences.
Also examines experimental theatre groups, movements, playwrights and
directors. With Technical Terms, comprehensive Bibliography, Index.
Well-illustrated. Good tight copy. 192 pages......$18.00

39. Cooke, Michael G. THE ROMANTIC WILL. New Haven/London, Yale University
Press, 1976. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in lightly
wrinkled dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Study of the major
poetry of the Romantic period & the protean ways in which the poets asserted
the radical will of being. With extensive Notes, Bibliography, Index. Good
tight copy. 279 pages......$14.00

40. Corngold, Stanley. THE FATE OF THE SELF: GERMAN WRITERS AND FRENCH
THEORY. New York, Columbia University Press, 1986. 1st. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition. Light cover wear. Spine slightly bumped.
Signature endpaper. The question & definition of the "Self" in the writings
of Freud, Dilthey, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Mann, Kafka & Holderin. Good tight
copy. 279 pages......$14.00

41. Cotter, Joseph Seamon, Jr. (Edited by Payne, James Robert). JOSEPH SEAMON
COTTER JR.: COMPLETE POEMS. Athens GA/London, University of Georgia Press,
1990. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Upper
corner bumped. Black & white frontis photograph. 1st collected edition of an
important Afro-American poet of the years just preceding the 1920's
Renaissance of black literature. With study and presentation by James Robert
Payne. Includes Textual Commentary, Apparatus, Notes. Tight well-bound
volume. 185 pages......$25.00

42. Cottrell, Robert D. THE GRAMMAR OF SILENCE: A READING OF MARGUERITE DE
NAVARRE'S POETRY. Washington D.C, Catholic Univ of Amer. Press, 1986. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Detailed study of one of the most important &
prolific writers of the French Renaissance. First full-scale study of her
poetry. With Bibliography, List of Works, extensive Index. Good tight copy.
338 pages......$20.00

43. Cowley, Malcolm. A SECOND FLOWERING: WORKS AND DAYS OF THE LOST
GENERATION. New York, Viking Press, 1973. 1st U.S. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Story of
the "Lost Generation" of American writers in terms of 8 representative
figures.. Included are Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cummings, Wilder, Faulkner
Wolfe & Hart Crane - their biographies & place in literary history.
Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 276 pages......$15.00

44. Coxe, Louis O. EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON: THE LIFE OF POETRY. New York,
Pegasus Publishers, 1969. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very
good condition in worn/edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Owner signature. Lightly bumped. Study of the life, mind and art of one of
America's great poets. With Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 188
pages......$10.00

45. Creston, Dormer. ANDROMEDA IN WIMPOLE STREET: THE ROMANCE OF ELIZABETH
BARRETT BROWNING. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1931. 1st/5th printing. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Signature front endpaper. Frontis
portrait & plate. With paste-down cover & spine title plates. The romance
between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Indexed. Good tight copy. 281
pages......$15.00

46. Cunard, Nancy (Edited with a Foreword by Ford, Hugh). THESE WERE THE
HOURS: MEMORIES OF MY HOURS PRESS - REANVILLE AND PARIS 1928-1931. Carbondale
Il, Southern Illinois Univ Press, 1969. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth,
octavo. Very good+ in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white photographs. With Bibliography, Index. Good tight
copy. 216 pages......$16.00

47. Curtis, George William. ARS RECTE VIVENDI: BEING ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO
"THE EASY CHAIR". New York, Harper & Bros, 1898. Hardcover - decorated cloth,
12mo. Very good condition. Owner plate endpaper. Literary essays. Good tight
copy. 136 pages......$15.00

48. Czernis, Loretta. WEAVING A CANADIAN ALLEGORY. Ontario Canada, Wilfrid
Laurier Univ. Press, 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Detailed
examination of "The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity. Examination
of how the federal writing machine... is used to " reinvent patriotism" and
shape the national thinking and identify. Fascinating analysis of the content
and purpose of "anonymous writing." With Notes, Bibliography, Index. Good
tight copy. 134 pages......$15.00

49. Daiches, David (Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge and University Lecturer
in English). A CRITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (2 VOLUME SET). London,
Secker & Warburg, 1961. Repr. 1960 edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo.
Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Edgetorn dust wrapper on vol. 1. Immense & immensely readable,
entertaining, informative critical history of English Literature... from
Beowulf to modern times. With extensive Index. Tight well-bound volumes. 1169
ttl pages......$40.00

50. Daiches, David and Flower, John. LITERARY LANDSCAPES OF THE BRITISH
ISLES: A NARRATIVE ATLAS. New York, Facts on File, Inc, 1980. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in chipped dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Black & white photos, engravings, maps. Handsomely
illustrated with more than 60 engravings & photographs. With original essays
and specially tailored maps. Brilliant literary tour of the British Isles
(Including Ireland). Geoliterary scholarship. Wonderful travel guide for
those who visit the British Isles in reality or imagination. With Gazatteer,
Index. Good tight copy. 287 pages......$13.50

51. Darton, F. J. Harvey. ARNOLD BENNETT: A BIOGRAPHY AND A CRITICAL ESTIMATE
OF HIS WORKS. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1925. 1st edition. Hardcover
- cloth, 16mo. Very good condition in chipped dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Corners lightly bumped. Black & white photo frontis of
Bennett. Tight-well bound volume. With Bibliography of Bennett's Principal
Writings, Index. Scarce. 128 pages......$15.00

52. Davenport, Guy. JONATHAN WILLIAMS, POET. Cleveland OH, Asphodel Book
Shop, 1969. 1st edition. Paperback, Small octavo. Very Good condition+.
SIGNED BY JOHATHAN WILLIAMS. Essay on the poetry of Jonathan Williams. Good
tight copy. Not Paginated......$12.50

53. Day, Douglas. MALCOLM LOWRY: A BIOGRAPHY BY DOUGLAS DAY. New York, Oxford
University Press, 1973. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white photographs. Outstanding critical biography of Malcolm Lowry -
the writer and the man. With Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 483
pages......$18.00

54. Denkinger, Emma Marshall. IMMORTAL SIDNEY. New York, Bretano's, 1931.
1st. Hardcover - decorated cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Light cover &
edge wear. Black & white plates. Definitive Biography of Sir Philip Sidney.
With Index. Elegant well-bound volume. 317 pages......$16.00

55. Dixon, Theron S.E. FRANCIS BACON AND HIS SHAKESPEARE. Chicago, The
Sargeant Publishing Co, 1895. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Small
octavo. Very good condition. Covers & spine lightly worn/scraped. The
author's brilliant, detailed analysis showing - "beyond a reasonable doubt" -
that Bacon wrote the Shakespearian plays. Presentation includes: Parallelism,
The "New Birth", The Alhabet of the Plays, Their Primer, Julius Caesar, The
Impulse, The Style, The Thought, Bacon's Work - and more. Tight well-bound
volume. Scarce. 461 pages......$75.00

56. Donaldson, Scott. JOHN CHEEVER: A BIOGRAPHY. New York, Random House,
1988. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs. First
objective full-length biography of Cheever - much never before published
information. With Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 416 pages......$12.50

57. Dowden, Edward. INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE. New York, Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1896. 1st edition. Engraved cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Light
cover/edge wear. Black & white frontis & drawing. Includes: Shakespeare's
life at Stratford & in London...The Poetical Creations of his Intellect &
Imagination... The Pseudo-Shakesperian Plays, Influence of Shakespeare's
Works on the National Mind. Plus Dedication, Addressed & Commendatory bVerses
prefixed to the Folio of 1623. With Notes on the Early Editions of
Shakespeare, Frontis Portrait of Shakespeare after Droeshout & Sketch of the
Interior of the Swan Theatre. Tight well-bound volume. 136 pages +
ads......$25.00

58. Dreiser, Helen. MY LIFE WITH DREISER. New York, World Publishing Co,
1951. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Good condition. Cover/edge
wear. Spine ends frayed. Tape marks cover edge. Color frontis/Black & white
photos. Well-illustrated look at Dreiser's private & professional life. With
color frontis portrait, Black & white photos & 3 letter facsimiles. Indexed.
Good tight copy. 328 pages......$12.50

59. Drinkwater, John. THE PILGRIM OF ETERNITY: BYRON - A CONFLICT. New York,
George H. Doran Co, 1925. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good
condition. Very light edgewear. Signature front endpaper.. Black & white
plates. Definitive literary biography of Byron. Well-indexed. Good tight
copy. 408 pages......$25.00

60. Duffin, Henry Charles. THE NOVELS AND PLAYS OF CHARLES MORGAN. London,
Bower & Bowes, 1959. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Very
light cover/edge wear. Black & white photo frontis - Morgan. Contents
include: A world of the novels and plays.. The art of the novels and plays..
The philosophy of the novels and plays... Individual studies of the chief
novels and plays. With Index. Good tight copy. 221 pages......$20.00

61. (Dunne, M. Walter, publisher). ENGLISH BELLES-LETTRES FROM A.D. 901 TO
1834 (UNIVERSAL CLASSICS LIBRARY). Washington & London, M. Walter Dunne,
1901. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Front hinge
starting. Photogravures, etchings. Photogravures on Japan Vellum, Etchings,
Hand painted India- plate repros & full page author portraits. Contents
include: Biographia Literaria - Coleridge.. Poems - Chattterton.. Apologie
for Poetrie - Sidney.. Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius (Translated by
Alfred the Great).. Hydriotaphis (Urn-Burial) - Sir Thomas Browne - and much
more. 403 pages......$20.00

62. Edel, Leon. HENRY JAMES: THE UNTRIED YEARS 1843-1870. Philadelphia, J.B.
Lippincott, 1953. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Cover
fore-edge lightly bumped. Black & white photos. "Story of the Childhood &
Youth of Henry James...portrait of the artist as a young man." Good tight
copy. 350 pages......$12.50

63. Edgar,Pelham. THE ART OF THE NOVEL: FROM 1700 TO THE PRESENT TIME. New
York, Macmillan, 1933. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Corners worn/bumped. Spine faded. Tiny paint flecks lower cover
edge. With fold-out Post Civil War novel chart.Bibliography, Index. Tight
well-bound volume. 493 pages......$13.50

64. Edinger, William. SAMUEL JOHNSON AND POETIC STYLE. Chicago, University of
Chicago Press, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Upper corners
lightly bumped. Reconstruction of the logic of Samuel Johnson's taste in
poetic style - his perception of individual texts... by recovering the
meaning of key terms of 18th Century stylistic criticism. With Notes,
extensive Index. Tight well-bound volume. 271 pages......$16.50

65. Enright, D. J. (Editor). FAIR OF SPEECH: THE USES OF EUPHEMISM.
Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Articles from 16 distinguished contributors. Detailed study on the
use of Euphemism in: English Literature.. France... The Media.. The Law..
Medical Profession.. Greece & Rome.. Politics.. The State.. Mortality - and
more. With Notes on Contributors.. 222 pages......$16.00

66. Epstein, June. JUNE EPSTEIN: WOMAN WITH TWO HATS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Melbourne, Hyland House, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
photographs. Decorated endpapers. Autobiography of Epstein, pianist,
songwriter, broadcaster and author of over 40 books. Indexed. Good tight
copy. 210 pages......$13.50

67. Everett, Alexander Hill (Edited by Evans, Elizabeth). THE JOHN COLET
ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1620-1920 (Number 2, Summer 1974). St. Paul
MN, The John Colet Press, 1976. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition. Representative selection of Alexander Hill Everett's
journalism and correspondence. Major sections include... Prose Pieces,
Correspondence. With Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 265
pages......$20.00

68. Fanger, Donald. THE CREATION OF NIKOLAI GOGOL. Cambridge MA/London,
Belknap Press -Harvard Univ, 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Uppers corner lightly bumped. Black & white frontis drawing.
Brilliant detailed examinatoin of Gogol's writings - drawing on a wealth of
contemporary sources. With extensive Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 300
pages......$16.00

69. Feldberg, Katharine (Editor). OF MEN AND MANNERS: THE ENGLISHMAN AND HIS
WORLD. Coral Gables FL, University of Miami Press, 1965. 1st U.S. edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn/clipped dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. "A collection of writings that give
brilliant insight into the English personality and way of life". Essays by
Graham Greene, T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, J.B.
Priestley, A. A. Milne, Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw - and many more.
With section "About the Authors". Good tight copy. 240 pages......$20.00

70. Feuerwerker, Yi-Tsi Mei. DING LING'S FICTION: IDEOLOGY AND NARRATIVE IN
MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE. Cambridge/London, Harvard University Press, 1982.
1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white frontis photograph. Detailed
examination of the writings of Ding Ling - Feminist, political activist &
China's foremost woman writer. With Notes, Works cited, Chronological list of
her writing, extensive Index. Good tight copy. 196 pages......$16.50

71. Field, Eugene. THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF A BIBLIOMANIAC. New York, Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1900. Hardcover - decorated cloth, 12mo. Very good
condition. Very light cover wear. Owner signature endpaper. Black & white
frontis photograph. Vol. VII in "The Works of Eugene Field". Good tight copy.
253 pages......$20.00

72. Fitch, George Hamlin. COMFORT FOUND IN GOOD OLD BOOKS. San Francisco,
Paul Elder & Co, 1916. 1st/6th printing. Hardcover - cloth, 16mo. Very good
condition. Light cover/edge wear. Bumped. Spine faded. Tipped-in Black &
white photos/frontis. Short essays on "the best old books in the world." 33
tipped-in photos. With Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 171
pages......$14.00

73. Fitch, George Hamlin. GREAT SPIRITUAL WRITERS OF AMERICA. San Francisco,
Paul Elder and Company, 1916. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth,
18mo(4 1/4 x 7). Very good condition. Light wear to covers/corners. Tipped-in
Black & white plates. With tipped-in frontis of Whitman and 32 tipped-in
portraits of "Representative American Authors who...best illustrate... the
national genius." Includes chapters - plus capsule Biographies - on Emerson,
Whitman, Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Cooper, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes,
Whittier, Thoreau Twain, Harte, Howells, Markham - and more. With
Bibliography, Index. Tight well-bound volume. 163 pages......$50.00

74. (Flaubert, Gustave) Translated and Edited by Steegmuller, Francis.
FLAUBERT IN EGYPT: A SENSIBILITY ON TOUR. Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1972.
1st American. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in
lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Owner's embossed
stamp front endpaper. Black & white photographs. Narrative drawn from Gustave
Flaubert's travel notes and letters - from his long tour of the "Orient" in
1849. Good tight copy. 232 pages......$20.00

75. Forman, Henry James (With Illustrations by Stone, Walter King). IN THE
FOOTPRINTS OF HEINE. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1910. 1st edition. Hardcover
- decorated cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Very light corner/edge wear.
1910 inscription endpapr. Black & white frontis & plates. Author's epic
European odyssey retracing the footsteps of German Poet Heinrich Heine.
Beautifully illustrated. Journey highlights include: Gottingen, Hartz
Mountains, Waldeinsamkeit, Goslar, The Valley of Orhre, Harzburg, Toiling up
the Brocken, The Castle of Wernigerode & much more. Tight well-bound volume.
Scarce. 256 pages......$35.00

76. Fowlie, Wallace (With Preface by Moore, Harry T.). THE FRENCH CRITIC 1549
- 1967. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois Univ Press, 1968. 1st. Hardcover -
cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Historical survey of the various changes in French Literary
criticism - with a review of major 20th Century critics. With Bibliography,
Index. Good tight copy. 184 pages......$11.00

77. (Francoise Sagan) Translated by Macey, David. Prepared by Pauvert,
Jean-Jacques. NIGHT BIRD: CONVERSATIONS WITH FRANCOISE SAGAN. New York,
Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1979. 1st English edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Black & white photographs. Fascinating, revealing
conversations with Sagan regarding everything from childhood to love to
career to writing to death. With Notes, Bibliography. Good tight copy. 157
pages......$20.00

78. Gandhi, Kishore (Editor). CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO. Delhi
India, Vivek Publishing House, 1973. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Small ink mark bottom page edge. A centenary anthology by scholars &
disciples of Ari Aurobindo - on the diverse manifestations of his creativity.
Aurobindo's thought and works are examined in such fields Yoga, Poetry,
Literary Criticism, Drama, Philosophy and more. The sage is examined in all
his diversity as a modernday spiritual Renaissance Man. With Bibliography.
Well-indexed. Good tight copy. Hard to find. 343 pages......$30.00

79. Garrod, H. W. WORDSWORTH: LECTURES AND ESSAYS. London, Oxford University
Press, 1923. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Spine plate faded.
Owner inscription. Upper pg edges bumped. With biographical sketch. Contents
include: Descriptive Sketches.. Godwin & Godwinism.. 1793.. Elements... The
'Immortal Ode'.. Sense and Imagination.. Guilt and Sorrow: The Borderers..
'The Waters Sleep'.. Preface to Lyrical Ballads.. The Composition of the
Prelude. Tight well-bound volume. 211 pages......$25.00

80. Ghose, Sisirkumar. ALDOUS HUXLEY: A CYNICAL SALVATIONIST. Folcroft
Library Editions, 1971. Repr. 1962 edition. Hardcover - cloth, Imperial
octavo. Very Good condition+. Reprint of the Asia Publishing House Edition
(1962) originally limited to 150 copies. Detailed study of the artistic and
philosophical evolution of Aldous Huxley. Indexed. Tight well-bound volume.
205 pages......$25.00

81. Gibbons, Reginald and Hahn, Susan (Editors). TQ20: TWENTY YEARS OF THE
BEST CONTEMPORARY WRITING AND GRAPHICS FROM TRIQUARTERLY MAGAZINE. New York,
Pushcart Press, 1985. 1st printing. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Corner lightly
bumped. Signature endpaper. Black & white photographs & drawings. Work from 2
decades from one of America's premier literary journals. Fiction.. Essays..
Poetry.. Photographs... Graphic Art. "Cross-section of literary activity and
accomplishment in America." Tight well-bound volume. 668 pages......$15.00

82. Gilman, Richard. DECADENCE: THE STRANGE LIFE OF AN EPITHET. New York,
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth,
Small octavo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Illuminating exploration in cultural history and
first-rate piece of literary criticism... especially relating to the world of
Swinburne, Wilde, Beardsley, etc. Good tight copy. 180 pages......$15.00

83. Gokak, Padma Sri Vinayak Krishna. SRI AUROBINDO: SEER AND POET. New Delhi
India, Abihav Publications, 1973. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition. Spine lightly sun-faded. Articles on Sri Aurobindo, his
metaphysics and art. Contents include: Sri Aurobindi.. Sri Aurobindo the
Poet... Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysical & Political Ideas.. The finding of the
Soul in Savitri.. The Quantitative Metres in Sri Aurobindo's Poetry.. The
Allusive Style in Savitri.. Sri Aurobindo's Aesthetics.. The Impact of Sri
Aurobindo on Indian Writers - and more. With Index. Good tight copy. Hard to
find. 185 pages......$25.00

84. Graham, Catherine Clark, Ph.D. SOUTHERN ACCENTS: THE FICTION OF PETER
TAYLOR. New York, Peter Lang, Publisher, 1994. 1st edition. Laminated boards,
octavo. Fine in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Thorough
critical analysis of the novels and short stories of Peter Hillsman Taylor.
Good tight copy. 167 pages......$15.00

85. Gray, W. Forbes. SCOTT IN SUNSHINE & SHADOW: THE TRIBUTE OF HIS FRIENDS.
London, Metheun & Co, 1931. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Edges lightly worn/bumped. Owner plate. Hinge just starting. 12
Black & white plates/frontis. Engaging portraits of the friends of Sir Walter
Scott -with Scott as the common backdrop. 312 pages + ads......$20.00

86. Green, Martin. THE VON RICHTHOFEN SISTERS: THE TRIUMPANT AND THE TRAGIC
MODES OF LOVE. New York, Basic Books, 1974. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth,
Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Slight cover wear. Owner stamp half-title page. Black & white
photos. Biography of the Von Richtofen sisters & their liasons with D.H.
Lawrence & Max Weber. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 396 pages......$16.00

87. Grein, J. T. THE WORLD OF THE THEATRE: IMPRESSIONS AND MEMOIRS - MARCH
1920-1921. London, William Heinemann, 1921. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth,
Very good condition in worn chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Corners slightly bumped. Lt foxing endpaper. "Collection of articles
which Mr. J.T. Grein, the cosmopolitan critic contributed to the Illustrated
London News during 1920. Green cloth with paste-down title plate on spine.
"...a book that touches on all subjects concerning the Theatre; a diary of
one who sees nearly every play in London." Forty-six articles in all,
including: Grand guignol, Matheson Lang's Othello, Alhambra Review, The late
Empress Eugenie and the Theatre, Aspirant playwrights of France, Ethel
Irving's Tosca, Russian Ballet, The Fallacy of First Nights, London - and
other theatrical centers of the world, Pasteur, The Pioneers, Our
Conservatoire, A.A. Milne, The Beggar's Opera, A Yiddish Theatre, The
Eloquence of G.B.S. - and much more. Tight well-bound volume. .....$50.00

88. Haggard, H. Rider (With Introduction and Notes by Etherington, Norman).
THE ANNOTATED SHE: A CRITICAL EDITION OF H. RIDER HAGGARD'S VICTORIAN
ROMANCE. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1991. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Lower corners lightly bumped. Black & white frontis plate.
First annotated version of SHE. Provides biographical info regarding Haggard
& elucidates references in the text. With selected Bibliography. Tight
well-bound volume. 241 pages......$20.00

89. Hamilton, Ian. IN SEARCH OF J. D. SALINGER: A BIOGRAPHY BY IAN HAMILTON.
New York, Random House, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in lightly soiled dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Powerful portrait - personal and literary biography - on one
of the 20th-century America's most widely read & reclusive writers. With
Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 222 pages......$15.00

90. 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

91. 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

92. 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

93. 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

94. Hellman, Lillian (Introduction by Wills, Garry). SCOUNDREL TIME. Boston,
Little, Brown & Co, 1976. 1st/2nd printing. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black &
white photos. Playwright Hellman's memoir of the witch-hunting, blacklisting
years of the 1950's and her involvement with them. Tight well-bound volume.
155 pages......$12.00

95. 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

96. 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

97. Highlet, Gilbert. POETS IN A LANDSCAPE. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Very slight cover/edge
wear. Black & white photographs. Inspirational recollection of the great
Roman poets - Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid,
Juvenal... by describing & touring the places where they lived, recreating
their characters, and evoking the essence of their work. Beautifully
photo-illustrated. With Notes. Well-indexed. Tight well-bound volume. 280
pages......$20.00

98. 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

99. 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. Hardcover -
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

100. 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

101. 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

102. 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

103. 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

104. James, Henry, Jr. TRANSATLANTIC SKETCHES. Boston, Houghton Mifflin,
1882. Hardcover - decorated cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Light
cover/edge wear. James delightful travel notes from his 2 year Transatlantic
Voyage - 1972 - 1974. Contents include... From Chambery to Milan, From Venice
to Strasburg, The Parisian Stage, A Roman Holiday, The After-Season in rome,
A Chain of Cities, Siena, The Autumn in Florence, Ravenna, Homburg Reformed,
Darmstadt, In Holland, In Belgium - and much more. Tight well-bound volume.
401 pages......$30.00

105. Johnson, Dr. Samuel (Edited by McAdam, E. L., Jr. & Milne, George). A
JOHNSON READER. New York, Pantheon Books, 1964. 1st printing. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Small owner stamp endpaper/upper page edg. The
definitive Johnson anthology. Including the most famous of his works..the
lives of Savage and Milton.. Rasselas.. the Preface to the Dictionary.. the
Preface to Shakespeare.. and samples of Johnson's poetry - both light and
serious. Plus less known pieces, including.. Johnson against war.. Johnson on
slavery.. Johnson on the current political scene.. as well as samples of
Johnson's letters & a section of quotations from Boswell that illustrate
"Johnson talking.". 464 pages......$22.50

106. 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

107. 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

108. 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

109. 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

110. 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

111. 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

112. 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

113. 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

114. Kna pages, James F. LITERARY MODERNISH AND THE TRANSFORMATIN 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 modernish & the
transformation of the workplace... using key works of Joyce, Pound, Lawrence
& Williams. With Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 159 pages......$15.00

115. Kochanowsky, Jan (Translated from the Polish by Noyes, George Rapall,
Radin, Peacock, Merrill, Havermale). POEMS BY JAN KOCHANOWSKI. Berkeley,
Univ. of California Press, 1928. 1st U.S. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo.
Very good condition. Light cover/edge wear. Bumped. Paste-down cover title.
With Notes, Preface & enclosed card by translator G.R. Noyes. Scarce. Good
tight copy. 156 pages......$17.50

116. Kuebrich, David. MINOR PROPHECY: WALT WHITMAN'S NEW AMERICAN RELIGION.
Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Fascinating study of Whitman as a religious prophet & his poetry as the
outline for a new kind of culture in America. Using textual evidence,
Kuebrich offers a revisionist interpretation of America's great poet &
examines the religious vision and spirituality in the center of Whitman's
works. With extensive Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 240 pages......$20.00

117. Lamont, Corliss (Editor). "DEAR CORLISS": LETTERS FROM EMINENT PERSONS.
New York, Prometheus Books, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black &
white frontis photograph. Letters to Corliss Lamong, American activist,
social critic and philosophy teacher at Columbia University. Correspondents
include: John Dewey, Katharine Hepburn, Julian S. Huxley, Rockwell Kent, Anne
Morrow Lindbergh, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Masefield, Gilbert Murray, Bertrand
Russell, George Santayana, Konni Silliacus. Good tight copy. 202
pages......$15.00

118. Lanier, Sidney. THE ENGLISH NOVEL: A STUDY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
PERSONALITY. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Rev. 1883 edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Covers lightly worn.
Corners/spine ends worn/frayed. The Johns Hopkins lectures delivered by
Lanier in Hopkins Hall during the winter of 1881... originally titled
"FromAeschulus to George Eliot, The Development of Personality". Tight
well-bound volume. 302 pages......$20.00

119. 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

120. Lee, Peter H. CELEBRATION OF CONTINUITY: THEMES IN CLASSIC EAST ASIAN
POETRY. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover
- cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition+. Upper corner very lightly
bumped. Fascinating analysis of recurring theme in Asian poetry such as
Praise, Nature, Love, Friendship Time. With Notes, Index, Texts of Poems,
Poetic Forms. Tight well-bound volume. 264 pages......$20.00

121. 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

122. 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

123. 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

124. 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

125. 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

126. 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

127. 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

128. 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

129. 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

130. 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

131. Ludwig, Emil (Translated by Burke, Kenneth). GENIUS AND CHARACTER. N.Y,
Harcourt, Brace, 1927. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Light cover/edge wear. Front hinge starting. Black & white frontis
& plates. Ludwig's classic portraits of 18 men of genius. Including Frederick
the Great, Bismarck, Stanley, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Byron,
Voltaire, Lenin & Balzac. With Black & white plates of each subject.
Well-bound volume. 346 pages......$15.00

132. 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

133. 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

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