Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In this, the first serious study of London's novels - which have often been dismissed at the product of a talented hack and a literary barbarian - Watson examines their 'sources, their unifying themes, and their suggestion of real literary development.' Focusing on nine of the best novels -including 'Call of the Wild', 'The Iron Heel,' 'Martin Eden,' and others - he draws on original research to demonstrate London's literary dependence on personal experiences. Frontispiece, notes, chronology, index. xv, 304 pp/. ISBN: 0-29909300X.

San Bernardino, CA: R. Reginald / Borgo Press, 1976. First edition - The first critical work on the novels of MacLean, who was both a bestselling author and one of the premiere writers of adventure and suspense fiction, one who was able to "create believable situations of fear, tension, and terror." Brief biography and bibliography. The Milford Series, Popular Writers of Today Volume Ten. 60 pp. ISBN: 0-878772030.

New York: Basic Books, (1966.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of a subset of Victorian era literature, including a detailed examination of the 11-volume "My Secret Life," essays on Henry Spencer Ashbee and William Acton, and an analysis of four Victorian pornographic novels and a review of works devoted to flagellation. A title in the "Studies in Sex and Society" series, sponsored by the Institute for Sex Research, Indiana University. Index. xv, 292 pp.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1975. Hardcover first edition - Focuses on the major literary productions of the late English Renaissance, including works by Bacon, poems by Donne, Herbert & Marvel, Milton's Paradise Lost and eight plays by Shakespeare. 278 pgs., index.

San Bernardino, CA: R. Reginald / Borgo Press, 1978. First edition - While Morris is perhaps best known as a textile designer, printer and craftsman associated with the Arts and Craft movement, his contributions also helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, laying the foundation for Tolkien and others. This study looks at all of Morris's fiction as a distinctive, original and consistent body of work. Selected critical sources. The Milford Series, Popular Writers of Today Volume Thirteen. 63 pp. ISBN: 0-893702188.

New York: Vanguard, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which examine the works of such writers as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Melville, Dostoevski, Thomas Mann, etc. Notes, 259 pp. ISBN: 0-814906753.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by this noted Israeli author which analyzes the opening sections of novels and short stories by such writers as Agnon, Gogol, Kafka, Chekhov, Garcia Marquez, and Raymond Carver. Translated from the Hebrew by Maggie Bar-Tura. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-151002975.

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. (1993.). An innovative look at why we should still read the 'white, male, canonical writers of antiquity and early England.' As one review said 'even those who disagree with Patterson's arguments will respect the extraordinary ease with which she crosses the boundaries between the disciplines of history and literary studies.' 339 pp with index. ISBN: 0-299-135446.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which discuss the relationship between the fiction and the drama of this revolutionary playwright-poet-novelist, and his influence on other writers, including showing that "his intuition of absurdity anticipated Sartre and Camus, his insights foreshadowed Beckett, and that his approach to conflict predated Albee and Pinter." Includes a chronology, notes on the contributors and a brief selected bibliography. A title in the Twentieth Century Views series. Erratum slip tipped in. 182 pp.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of Poe which focuses on his career as a journalist between 1835-1840 and places him in the perspective of the British literary tradition. 253 pgs including notes & index.

New York: Random House, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - 46 brief critical essays on writers ranging from Henry Fielding to Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Virgnia Woolf, and from Twain and Faulkner to Nathaniel West and Camus and Tugenov, etc.

New York: Kennikat Press, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the National University Publications Series on Literary Criticism. Included are essays on Shakespeare (MacBeth and Hamlet), Keats, Melville and Yeats. ISBN: 0-8046-90162.

New York: Norton, (1975.). In addition to a selection of Rich's early poems, this includes critical essays by W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, Erica Jong and Nancy Milford, among others. A title in the Norton Critical Edition series. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-393-092410.

New York: Norton, (1975.). In addition to a selection of Rich's early poems, this includes critical essays by W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, Erica Jong and Nancy Milford, among others. A title in the Norton Critical Edition series. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-393-092410.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early study of the Sherlock Holmes stories, "The book reads like a detective story itself as the author encounters the people who knew Conan Doyle and who turned up in his stories; unravels clue after clue about Sir Arthur himself; and discovers the real meaning behind the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Doyle was the creator of one of the world's most enduring fictional characters, and a serious artist as well." Index. 203 pp. ISBN: 0-672519143.

Boston: Schocken, 1988. dj. The first study of Sagan's novels to dissect her serious literary concerns as well as her contributions to popular culture. Index, bibliography.

New York: Grove Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the "second wave" of expatriate American writers who took up residence in Paris between 1944-1960, "some seeking the exciting ambiance of art and the bohemian life that Paris has offered earlier generations, some escaping from racist and materialistic aspects of the United States." Among these writers were Richard Wright, James Baldwin, James Jones, William Styron, Chester Himes, George Plimpton, John Ashbery, Harry Matthews, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alexander Trocchi, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, and William S. Burroughs. This book is an anecdotal account of the friendships and associations the writers formed, the cross-cultural influences they experienced, what they discovered, and what they brought back. Photographs, notes, selected bibliography, index. x,345 pp. ISBN: 0-802113710.

Columbia: The University of Missouri, 1937. First edition - Original publication of this scholarly and wide-ranging survey. Index. 198 pp. Slightly oversized format measuring 10 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches.

New York: Random House, (2006). First edition - A book which "focuses on cutting-edge controversies about the true source of Shakespeares enchantment and illumination - the astonishing language itself. . . [It] takes readers into the midst of fierce battles among the most brilliant Shakespearean scholars and directors over just how to delve deeper into the Shakespearean experience." xvii, 550 pp.

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc. (1995.). Looks at the treatment of 5 American classics by academic critics: Hawthrone's The Scarlet Letter, Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Melville's Moby Dick and Billy Budd and James's The Bostonians. 203 pp. with notes and index. ISBN: 1-56663-0959.

Atlanta:
Longstreet Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Writers, including Madison Smartt Bell, Fred Chappell, Jim Barnes, Reginald McKnight, Scott Russell Sanders, and many others, talk about their writing. Includes a photograph and brief bilbliography of each author. xiv. 416 pp. ISBN: 1-563520281.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1966. A pocket paperback original originally published in 1960 - includes commentary by or about Robertson Davies, Morley Callaghan, Stephen Leacock, Malcolm Lowry and others.

[Lansing, MI]: Michigan State University Press, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - Critical essays on the works of Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Bibliographical Note,xii, 254 pp.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - The title comes from an essay by Barth and in this book, the author analyzes similarities among these three writers - Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov and John Barth - and he discusses their influence on other contemporary writers. Notes, bibliography, index. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-822303167.

New York: Norton, (1980.). SIGNED - SIGNED by Susan Griffin at her contribution. Essays by 16 American women writers - including Anne Tyler, Joan Didion, Margaret Walker, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Erica Jong and more - edited and with an introduction by Sternberg. Notes on contributors. xix, 265 pp. ISBN: 0-393-000710.

New York: Norton, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Essays by Margaret Atwood, Linda Hogan, Luisa Valenzuela, Bharati Mukherjje, Natalia Ginsburg, Harriet Doerr, Kaye Gibbons, Maxine Kumin, Elena Poniatowska, Jan Morris, Patricia Hampl, Anita Desai, Elizabeth Jolley, Diane Johnson, Gretel Ehrlich, Carolyn Forche, Diana Ackerman and Ursula Le Guin. Edited and with an Introduction by Janet Sternburg. This copy is SIGNED by TWO authors at their contributions: Rita Dove and Joy Williams. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-393-028048.

New York: Columbia University Press,. 1983. Hardcover first edition - Discussion covers such authors as Malraux, Mauriac, Satre and others. 299 pgs including index, notes and bibliography. The more uncommon hardcover edition.