Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, (1959.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Percy Graeme Turnbull Lectures originally presented as part of The John Hopkins Poetry Festival in November 1958, edited and with an introduction by Allen. Essays include R.P. Blackmur on Edwin Muir, Yvor Winter on "Poetic Styles, Old and New", Marianne Moore on Dame Edith Sitwell, and Mark Van Doren on Thomas Hardy. Index, 111 pages.

Chicago: Packard and Company, (1946). Hardcover first edition - A guide to critical studies, biographies, essays and other works about Walt Whitman Preface, chronology table, index. Sticker showing 'Hendricks House, New York, as the publisher affixed to the title page. xvii, 560 pp.

New Haven: Yale University Press, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first work in English to examine the entire body of Andersen's writings, his extensive travels, and to place his work in the context of European literature. Frontispiece, extensive notes, index. ix, 482 pp. ISBN: 978-0300169232.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (2007). First edition - A study of the works and influence of the young Romantic poets of the early 1800s - Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe, Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats - rebels who believed that poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language and whose words changed English literature forever. Illustrated. Notes, list of further reading. 262 pp.

Toronto: Anansi, 1972. First edition - A survey of Canadian literature from Moody to Blais, Purdy to Gibson to Margaret Laurence and more - entertaining and provocative. Originally planned as a teacher's guide, this is much more in its frank and personal remarks - the back cover refers to it as the 'most startling book ever written about Canadian literature.' The title refers to what Atwood calls the central preoccupations of Canadian poetry and fiction: survival and victims. Resources, index. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-88784-6130.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (1955) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which focus on the work of 9 major American women writers of the late 19th and 20th centuries - Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, Carson McCullers, and Mary McCarthy - in their dual roles as conservationists of American culture and as literary pioneers. Index. 202 pp.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of essays about Paul Auster, a postmodern novelist - the first to be devoted to his work. 203 pp. with works cited, a selected bibliography of Auster's works and index. ISBN: 0-8122-33174.

London: Longmans, Green & Co. , 1966. Published for the British Council and the National Book League as part of the Biographical Series of supplements to "British Book News." 44 pages including a frontispiece and a select bibliography.

New York: Plume - Penguin, (1995.). "Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and Djuna Barnes." DeSalvo examines biographical material that demonstrates how each of these authors exacted revenge through writing fiction: Barnes's play was a thinly disguised portrayal of the sexual assaults she suffered from her father and brothers; . Henry Miller wrote 'Crazy Cock' out of his obsessive relationship with his wife, June; Hermione in Lawrence's 'Women in Love', was based on Lady Ottoline Morrell and Leonard Woolf's novel 'The Wise Virgins' portrayed a thinly disguised Virginia as deranged and sexually inadequate. Photographs, extensive notes, sources, index. 437 pp. ISBN: 0-452-273234.

New York: Dutton, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and Djuna Barnes." DeSalvo examines biographical material that demonstrates how each of these authors exacted revenge through writing fiction: Barnes's play was a thinly disguised portrayal of the sexual assaults she suffered from her father and brothers; . Henry Miller wrote 'Crazy Cock' out of his obsessive relationship with his wife, June; Hermione in Lawrence's 'Women in Love', was based on Lady Ottoline Morrell and Leonard Woolf's novel 'The Wise Virgins' portrayed a thinly disguised Virginia as deranged and sexually inadequate. Photographs, extensive notes, sources, index. 437 pp. ISBN: 0-525938990.

London: Longmans, Green & Co. , 1967. First edition - Published for the British Council and the National Book League as part of the Biographical Series of supplements to "British Book News." 60 pages including a frontispiece and a select bibliography. Study of two of Shakespeare's fellow dramatists.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - he sixth of the Annual Windsor Lectures in Librarianship, a look at both the types of American folklore (including the "family saga" or oral history as a type of folklore) and their broader influence on literature. Illustrated with drawings. References. ix, 65 pp.

New York: Viking, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by this novelist and literary critic which gives "a satirical look at the life of a writer and scholar. Writing in the form of letters that he never got around to sending, Bradbury offers reminiscences and advice on topics from research and publishing in the academic world to writing for TV and organizing a conference." (Library Journal) 218 pp. ISBN: 0-670820709.

Berkeley, CA: ATA Books, (1978). First edition - Book praised as being both commonsensical and wise. It does not provide pat answers, but helps raise the right questions. Index. 122 pp. ISBN: 0-931688027.

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, (1999). First edition - A collection of 22 interviews spanning 35 years. "They range from a playful piece by Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, first published in the Journal for the Protection of All Beings (1961), to 'Grandpa from Hell,' an interview that appeared in the L.A. Weekly in 1996. Sources for the interviews include Esquire, Penthouse, and Rolling Stone as well as scholarly journals like Modern Language Studies--a diversity that reflects Burroughs's status as both a serious literary figure and a popular icon." Among the interviewers are Edmund White, Graham Masterton and Larry McCaffrey. Chronology, index. xxii, 234 pp. ISBN: 1-578061830.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - An updated edition of a work originally published in 1976 about the writer best known for the long satirical poem "Hudibras." - "A study of the Restoration satirist's poetry and prose characters, emphasizing the ideas behind the works and linking Butler's satiric vision to his observations on the unnaturalness of man." A title in Twayne's English Authors Series. Chronology. Notes and references, selected bibliography, index. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-805769730.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. dj. Novelist Joyce Cary spent 5 years in West Africa - in Nigeria and the Cameroons - as a colonial administrator of a large and lonely province in the interior. These years, and his struggle to clarify his ideas of a good government for an undeveloped country, had a significant effect on his later novels. A study of his letters, his political writings and his novels, illustrated by sketches take from his letters. A list of sources, index. Map endpapers. 206 pp

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 972. dj, 1386. Hardcover first edition - A fresh and detailed assessment of Chaucer's "The Legend of Good Women" (probably begun in 1386, after he had finished 'Troilus and Criseyde' and before 'The Canterbury Tales'), a work almost unknown, usually ignored except for the prologue, and often dismissed as a 'fragmentary failure.' Yet according to Frank, this work, containing nine stories about such women of antiquity as Cleopatra, Dido, Thisbe, Ariadne. Lucrece, Medea and Hypermnestrae, also marked Chaucer's movement into pure narrative poetry - a move which culminated in his masterpiece. Index. ix, 219 pp. ISBN: 0-674111907.

New York: Octagon Books, 1966. dj. Hardcover - Originally published in 1906. A title in the Columbia University Studies in Comparative Literature series. Notes, chronological table, index. xxvi, 312 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the various narrative forms of autobiography, why we are drawn to reading these, and especially at the differences between those of women and those of men - among the writings Conway examines are those of W. E. B. DuBois, George Sand, Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt and Katharine Graham. Notes, bibliographical note, index. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-679-445935.

Chapel Hill, NC: University Of North Carolina Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An analysis of the five novels which make up the Leather-Stocking tales - The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, and so on, published between 1823 and 1841, and generally considered America's first major works of fiction - in the order in which they were written. Preface, list of principal works of Cooper, works cited, notes, index. xxvii, 292 pp. ISBN: 0-8078-19751.

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 21 unabridged essays in which the editor, critic, poet and literary historian encapsulates seven decades of American literature. these conversations took place between 1942 and 1985, and four have never before been published - included are his comments on such writers as Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Faulkner, Kerouac and Ken Kesey. Index.

San Bernardino, CA: R. Reginald / Borgo Press, 1977. First edition - A discussion of Samuel R. Delany's work, from his first novel, 'The Jewels of Aptor" published in 1962 in paperback when he was still a teenager, through "Triton." Brief biography and bibliography. The Milford Series, Popular Writers of Today Volume Ten. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-893702145.

Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A critical and scholarly commentary of Dickens' visits to America, in 1842 and again in 1867-68, based on new materials, letters, diaries, and publishers' records. While giving fascinating details of the frustrations of the tours - the lack of copyright protection, the ticket speculators' systematic successes, the ups and downs of Dickens's catarrh, and the steady inroads he made into the heart of Annie Fields, his American publisher's young wife - this also makes the argument that the first visit darkened Dicken's views of society and human nature for the rest of his life, and the second visit, while somewhat more sucessful, was neither as lucrative or as smooth as Dickens wanted. Extensive notes, index. xv, 272pp. ISBN: 0-8131-17070.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at this nineteenth century Russian writer which focuses on both the man and his work, and on his significance for our times. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. A title in the Twentieth Century Library series. Chronology, short bibliography and index. 138 pp.

Oxford: Lion Publishing, (1990). First edition - A study which "explores Dostoyevsky's rich inner life, full of fascinating contradictions that give his work tension and dynamism." Notes at end of each chapter, bibliography, index. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-745915752.

New York: McBride, Nast and Company, 1913. Hardcover first edition - Although George du Maurier is perhaps best remembered today as the author of "Trilby", the novel which introduced Svengali to the world, this book focuses more on his work as an artist and cartoonist - for Punch and Cornhill and other periodicals. Includes 41 illustrations, including a frontispiece self-portrait, with titled tissue guards for the full page plates. A handsomely produced volume, somewhat oversized. 198 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at artists in the first half of the nineteenth century and how they were portrayed by writers, Illustrated with a frontispiece and six plates. Index. vi, 205 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous collection of twenty essays - articles, prefaces, and reviews covering a span of thirty years, and including a previously unpublished study of James Joyce's play "Exiles." In addition to several pieces on William Butler Yeats, and Oscar Wilde, this also includes essays on Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, Washington Irving ("Love in the Catskills"), George Eliot ("Dorothea's Two Husbands") , Henry James, Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway, Frank O'Connor, Samuel Becket, Henri Michaux, Joseph Conrad and more. Index. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-39457768X.