London: Anvil Press Poetry (1984.) dj. Hardcover - An extended essay on poetry (which grew out of his lectures), by this poet and Oxford professor. Originally published in 1977, this new edition includes a new preface by Levi. Appendix, list of further readings, and index. 97 pp. ISBN: 0-856461326.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1987. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on Texas in the fiction of Kate Chopin, Walter van Tilburg Clark's The Track of the Cat, and Thomas Savage. Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1996. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on Guthrie's The Big Sky, Edward Abbey and poetry of the American West. Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1997. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes an article on Wright Morris's Plains Song and the annual bibliography of studies in Western American literature. Book reviews, index to volume 31. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1989. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on the 'Western holdup play' and the annual bibliography of studies in Western American literature. Book reviews, index to volume 23. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1980. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on Gary Snyder, Ruth Suckow, Chicano literature, and Thomas Berger's 'Little Big Man.' Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1989. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on McMurty and Cadillac Larry, the frontier myth on stage, Rolvaag's 'Peder Victorius; ecology, and one by Ann Ronald on the wilderness experience in 'Why Don't They Write About Nevada?' Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1990. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on ecology, John Van Dyke's 'The Desert,' and Dan O'Brien's 'Spirit of the Hills.' Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1988. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on the myth of Quetxalcoatl by Anaya, on Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper's influence on Karl May and the Indian myths they created, and on recently discovered letters by Willa Cather. Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1997. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Special issue with a sampler from the forthcoming book 'Updating the Literary West' - includes articles on American Indian autobiography, Raymond Carver, James Welch and Ella Leffland. Essay review by Rick Bass and other book reviews, bibliographies and notes, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Wellingborough, UK: The Aquarius Press, (1988). Hardcover first edition - Includes "letters to his friends A.E.Waite, Colin Summerford, and John Gawsworth, and to fellow authors and publishers, [which] illuminate Machen's courageous struggles against poverty and adversity, while reflecting his lifelong preoccupations with literature, the occult, the Christian faith, and Celtic myth." Foreword by Hillary Machen. Chronology. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and other photographs. Select bibliography. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-850307821.

New York: Prose Publishers, (1973.). First edition - Contributors include Margaret Anderson, Eugene Chesnick, Edward Dahlberg, Donald Davie, Edward Foote (on Ezra Pound), John Hollander, Paul Horgan, Stephen Koch (on Andy Warhol as a filmmaker), James Lord, Howard Moss, Charles Newman, and Donald Phelps (on Edith Wharton.) Cumulative index. 251 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York: Prose Publishers, (1970.). First edition - Contributors include Margaret Anderson, W. H. Auden (on G. K. Chesterton), Harold Bloom (on Browning's Childe Roland), Anthony Burgess (on Shakespeare's marriage), Edward Dahlberg, Richard Howard, Ralph Kirkpatrick, Richard H. R. Smithies, Parker Tyler (on Firbank), Jon Cloud van Leuven. 150 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. SIGNED on the half title page. Bibliography and index. 210 pp

Boulder, CO: University of Colorado, 1935. First edition - An attempt to put the works of this Argentinian poet and novelist in their proper perspective by studying his lyric poems and not just those of political invective against the dictator Juan Manuel Rosas. pp 83-276.

Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes studies of Auden (the genesis of postmodern poetry), Randall Jarrell, Roethke, David Ignatow, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop. Notes at the end of each section, index. xi, 203 pp. ISBN: 0-25200759X.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A biography of America's greatest noir writer" based on an in-depth analysis of his writings. Illustrated with photographs. Includes appendices with list his novels, other published writings and give a brief synopsis of his unpublished/unfinished work. Index. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-892963921.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1974) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which analysizes the changes between Donne and Milton and modern poets by this influential Bay Area poet - the first woman to be tenured in the English department at UC Berkeley, a host and critic to many of the Beat poets and other poets, founder of the Berkeley Poetry Review and more. An association copy INSCRIBED on the title page to Bay area artist Ariel Parkinson and her husband Thomas Parkinson with the comment "lots of history." Notes at the end of each chapter, selected readings. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-520025547.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1981.). A collection of provocative and critical essays by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. Among the topics are 'Science Fiction and the Coming of the Antichrist,' the importance of Simone Weil, Joseph Conrad's father and more. Various translators. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-520-045033.

Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 20 essays, most written between 1969-1989, including an autobiographical essay, and several on black nationalism, of religion and the African American identity, and of literature - including W. E. B. Dubois's novel, pre-Harlem Renaissance literature, Langston Hughes, and Ellison's Invisible Man. Index. xii, 291 pp. ISBN: 0-813800196.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover first edition - A collection of critical essays on books, authors and the characters in books. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-195025083.

New York: Grove Press, (1969). A comprehensive survey from the war dead novelists, to the themes of war, surrealism, the new novel and the future of the novel. Among the authors discussed are Saint-Exupery, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Duras, Genet and many more. Translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. 193 pp plus a list of American translations of books mentioned in the text and index.

New York: Amistad Press, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of the first six volumes which launched the Amistad Literary Series devoted to literary fiction and criticism by and about African Americans. SIGNED by K.A. Appiah on the title page. Includes reviews of Naylor's books by Sherley Anne Williams, Karen Joy Fowler, Bharati Mukherjee and others, essays by Barbara Christian, Celeste Fraser, Peter Erickson and more. Chronology, Bibliography. Index. xii, 322 pp.

London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1923. Posthumous book publication of 14 essays, most originally published between 1901-1918 in British Weekly, which focused on Dickens's relationships with his literary contemporaries and close family members. Based in large part on letters to and from Dickens, these bring out the darker side of Dickens's personality, although Nicoll is quoted in the prefatory note as saying "There must be reticences. It is not decent or right to tell in print all you know of a man - you may easily misrepresent him by doing so." Includes two essays on Dickens and Edgar Allen Poe. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Laid in is a small bookplate from The Old Curiosity Shop and a certificate that this article was purchased there. xii, 244 pp.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1948.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An examination of modern poetry -its underlying esthetic and its intellectual history- - -" includes chapters on the the influence of the symbolists and the influence of the metaphysicals, on the isolation of the poet, dehumanization, obscurity and more. Notes, bibliography, index. 279 pp. Bound in red cloth with lettering in gilt on a blue background on the spine.

New York: Delacorte, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An important book on how circumstances obstruct or silence creativity in women - based both on her own experiences as a writer and on letters and diaries of many other writers, not just women - including Thomas Hardy, Hopkins, Willa Cather, Melville, Blake, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and numerous others. Also contains a long essay on Rebecca Harding Davis, and an excerpt from her book 'Life in the Iron Mills.' In discussing her own life, Olsen comments that it was no accident that the first piece of work she considered publishable began 'As I Stand Ironing.' Subject and name indexes. xiv, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-440079004.

New York: Delacorte, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An important book on how circumstances obstruct or silence creativity in women - based both on her own experiences as a writer and on letters and diaries of many other writers, not just women - including Thomas Hardy, Hopkins, Willa Cather, Melville, Blake, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and numerous others. Also contains a long essay on Rebecca Harding Davis, and an excerpt from her book 'Life in the Iron Mills.' In discussing her own life, Olsen comments that it was no accident that the first piece of work she considered publishable began 'As I Stand Ironing.' Subject and name indexes. xiv, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-440079004.

London: Reaktion Books, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "traces the ways in which Latin America has been represented through the works of many 'native speakers,' including Juan Rulfo, Gabriel Garca Mrquez, and Juan Maria Gutierrez. Language was not solely a way for colonizers to indoctrinate and civilize; instead, it gave Latin Americans the means to tell their own history. Spanning literatures from the early modern period to the present day, the eight essays demonstrate the rich history of shared language between old and new worlds." Translated from the Spanish by Philip Derbyshire. References, index. 222 pp. ISBN: 1-86189287X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, many on writers - including Italo Calvino, William Gaddis, Coetze, Henry James and more - and others which are an exploration of Jewish thought. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-394-566254.