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of twenty essays - articles, prefaces, and reviews covering a span of thirty years, and including a previously unpublished study of James Joyce's play "Exiles."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.

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of twenty essays - articles, prefaces, and reviews covering a span of thirty years, and including a previously unpublished study of James Joyce's play "Exiles."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.

Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third prose work by this central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance, the "Beat Movement, " edited and with an introduction by Lee Bartlett. 251 pages including notes and index.

Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - Noted poet's fascinating long essay on the creative writer as an example of the Western archetype.

Austin: University of Texas Press, (1972). Hardcover first edition - Comparison of the published version of William Faulkner's novel 'Sanctuary'' differs from its original form based on the original galley proofs. Includes a substantial and informative introduction by Langford. ix, 125 pp. ISBN: 0-292724004.

Nashville, TN: Rutledge Books, (1990). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book based on the author's acquaintance with Faulkner and his family and their shared hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. Map frontispiece. Photographs. INSCRIBED on the title page. 205 pp plus bibliography. ISBN: 1-55853086X.

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, (1993). Hardcover first edition - From Library Journal: "Austral utopian fiction was popular from the late 16th to the early 17th centuries in Europe. This early literary tradition was the outgrowth of the secrecy surrounding early exploratory voyages to Australia and the nearby islands. Fausett, a New Zealand scholar and translator, attempts to correlate the factual evidence (geographies, atlases, and factual accounts) with evidence in the more plentiful fiction on the subject. One of his important contributions is the chronicling of these often bizarre Austral utopias, with synopses of the major works from the period and their influence on later literature such as Robinson Crusoe." A title in the Utopianism and Communitarianism series. Illustrated. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. x, 237 pp. ISBN: 0-815625855.

New York: Scribner's, 1966. First edition - Slightly oversized trade paperback format. A title in the "Scribner Research Anthologies' Series, which are a collection of items on a single subject or problem, and designed to give access to material that might otherwise be hard to find. In addition to excerpts from Fitzgerald himself, this includes contributions by Hemingway, Dos Passos, Lindbergh, Celine, Mencken and the NY Times. 192 pages. Rather uncommon.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which is not only the first comprehensive study not only of this subject but also one which focuses on the relationship between history and the historical novel - in other words, the historical novel is more than one set in the past. Much of this book is devoted to the dean of historical novelists, Sir Walter Scott, then the evolution of the genre is then traced through the novels of Dickens, Thackeray, Reade, George Eliot, Hardy, Conrad, Virginia Woolf and others. Each novelist is discussed generally, one or more of their finest historical novels are singled out for critical examination. Footnotes, index. xix, 262 pp. ISBN: 0-801811880.

London: Longmans, Green & Co. , 1964. First edition - Published for the British Council and the National Book League as part of the Biographical Series of supplements to "British Book News." 40 pages including a frontispiece and a select bibliography. Study of the dramatist who reached his peak during the reign of Charles I.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition -

New York: St Martin's, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a chronological bibliography of works by and about Golding.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essaysby Louis Rubin, Jr, Weldon Thornton, William A. West, Harper, Edge and others on novels and writers such as Austen's 'Emma', Conrad's 'Nostromo', Fielding's 'Tom Jones,' James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and more. 239 pages. ISBN: 0-8023-02813.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - An interesting look at what ishappening to the English language in this new global era - chapters on regional dialects, jargon, slang and more. ISBN: 0-19-5204670.

Lewisburg & London: Bucknell University Press / Associated University Presses, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An interdisciplinary collection of sixteen essays, with contributions from literary critics, art historians, and artists. Includes essays on such topics as Reynold's muse, Mrs Siddons; impressionism in Conrad, Crane and Norris; painting vs poetry; medieval iconography and more. Illustrated throughout. Notes and bibliographies following each essay. Notes on the contributors, index. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-8387-52829.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928. Hardcover first edition - A look at John Gay's poem "Trivia" which the author refers to as "the greatest poem on London life in our literature" as well as other literary men of his era, that is, the first half of the 18th century. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Index. xviiim 459 pp. Fold-out map of London at rear.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Notes, Index. xii, 251 pp.

New York: D. C. Heath and Co., 1962. First edition - A title in the 'Discussions of Literature' series, edited and with an introduction by Lebowitz. Includes essays by such writers as W. D. Howells, Lionel Trilling, William H. Gass, among others, and correspondence between James and H. G. Wells, etc. 105 pages.

Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of this study of Henry James's fiction. Foreword by William T. Stafford. Index. xvii, 180 pp.

Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the roles - "advising, prophesying, judging, befriending - and sometimes betraying" - played by these characters in James' novels over the years. Notes, index. 305 pp.

Methuen, NJ & London: Scarecrow Press, 1986. Hardcover first edition - Listed by author/critic. 170 pgs including indexes.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the process of man drawing the contents of a more and more complex world into 'inner space' beginning with the epic Gilgamesh and continuing through the 18th century novels, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe and Tristam Shandy. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Foreword by Joseph Frank.

Boston: Twayne, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in Twayne's United States Authors Series. A critical examination this Pulitzer prize winning author and of his Albany cycle. Includes an interview of Kennedy which traces the forces behind his writing. Frontispiece portrait, chronology, notes and references, selected bibliography, index. xv, 127 pp. ISBN: 0-805776117.

New York: Viking, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - This book "offers a new take on Kerouac's famous novel, overturning many misconceptions about it and making clear the themes Kerouac was trying to impart." Notes on sources. 205 p. ISBN: 9780670063253.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "evaluates the seven British winners of the most prestigious of all literary awards" and which focuses on the work for which they received the award. Includes chapters, each by a different critic, on Rudyard Kipling (1907), William Butler Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw (1925), John Galsworthy (1932), Bertrand Russell (1950), Winston Churchill (1953), and Samuel Beckett (1969). Introduction by the editor, Walter Kidd, selected bibliography, notes on the contributors. index. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-806110759.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three essays, originally delivered as lectures, which stress "the relevance of the ancient Greeks (the 'dead white males' of the title) to the modern world.. . While acknowledging the inferior status of women in ancient Greek society, he argues that women were a formidable presence in the household, and he finds in Greek epics, poetry and drama a wealth of assertive, active females. Knox portrays the Sophists, who taught rhetoric and poetry, as 'the first professors of the humanities'." (Publishers Weekly) Notes on sources, index. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-393034925.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Russian and edited by Michael Glenny with additional contributions by Mary Chaffin and Linda Aldwinckle. "Central to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 'The Oak and the Calf'... is his critical, controversial portrait of the late Aleksandr Tvardovsky, editor of the liberal Soviet journal Novy Mir which launched Solzhenitsyn as a writer. Now we have a powerful rebuttal, written originally in samizdat by Novy Mir's deputy editor-literary critic who witnessed the tense events Solzhenitsyn relates in his memoir." (PW) Photographs, notes. xvi, 183 pp. ISBN: 0-262120860.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1952) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ranier Maria Rilke, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Proust, and the Greek poet Demetrios Capetanakis, and the war poets Alen Lewis, Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas as well as a final essay on the poet in the modern world. Lehmann was himself a poet and an author, from a family of writers (his sister was novelist Rosamund Lehmann), publisher, founder of "New Writing" and the author of biographies of Edith Sitwell and Virginia Woolf, among other things. 128 pp.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In thirty provocative and varied essays... known and new writers address what Randall Jarrell called the 'terrible nakedness' of the critic, who becomes everything and nothing, all-important and invisible, in the act of judging works of art." Edited and with an Introduction by Wendy Lesser. Among the contributors are Diane Johnson, Louise Gluck, Robert Pinsky, Gore Vidal, Sigrid Nunez, Robert Hass, Gayle Pemberton, Amy Tan and many others. xii, 328 pp. ISBN: 1-562790374.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "In thirty provocative and varied essays... known and new writers address what Randall Jarrell called the 'terrible nakedness' of the critic, who becomes everything and nothing, all-important and invisible, in the act of judging works of art." Edited and with an Introduction by Wendy Lesser. Among the contributors are Diane Johnson, Louise Gluck, Robert Pinsky, Gore Vidal, Sigrid Nunez, Robert Hass, Gayle Pemberton, Amy Tan and many others. SIGNED by Lesser on the title page. xii, 328 pp. ISBN: 1-562790374.