New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A critical evaluation of Svevo, one of the funding fathers of modern Italian Literature, and among many other things, a friend of James Joyce and one of his sources for the Jewish lore of "Ulysses." Bibliography, index. xii, 230 pp. ISBN: 0-813508487.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The first book-length study of Royall Tyler (1757-1826), a distinguished Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and a writer who is generally considered to be one of the most significant figures in American Literature in the Period just after the Revolution." This focuses mostly on his literary work - as a playwright, novelist, poet and essayist. Illustrations, chronology, selected bibliography, notes and index. xvi, 281 pp

Boston: Twayne, 1988.
dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book length study of Taylor's shorter works - focuses on 26 representative short stories, includes interviews with Taylor, chronology & a bibliography. Fronstispiece. Index. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-8057-83032.

New York: Warner, 1974. The 4th title in the Writers for the Seventies series. Notes, bibliography. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-446-689882.

New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study on how African American voices, folklore and rhetorical traditions of his time influenced Twain's writing, and especially the character of Huck Finn. Extensive notes, works cited, index. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-195082141.

New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1993. dj. Hardcover - A study on how African American voices, folklore and rhetorical traditions of his time influenced Twain's writing, and especially the character of Huck Finn. Extensive notes, works cited, index. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-195082141.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1998, twenty-five years after Plath's suicide, Ted Hughes published "Birthday Letters," a cycle of poems addressed to his Plath, his first wife. Without casting blame, this book explores the destructive relationship between these two poets through their lives and their writings - she shows the events that shaped the "Birthday Letters" and also how they drew upon Plath's own work. Includes references, bibliography, a general index and an index to the works of Hughes and Plath cited in the book. Illustrated by photographs. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-393323013.

New York: Viking, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Long esays by this poet, novelist and critic on George Orwell in the 30s, Flann O'Brien's Irish fiction, 'Dr. Zhivago' and Russian literature, radio, and more. 214pp. ISBN: 0-670-380156.

Columbia:
University of South Carolina Press, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book length study of this novelist. Includes a brief biographical chapter, bibliography and index. A title in the "Understanding Contemporary British Literature" series produced under the general editorship of Matthew J. Bruccoli. A presentation copy with a long, humorous INSCRIPTION by the author on the half-title page.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which Wilson was working on at the time of his death in 1972, edited and with a long introduction by his literary executor, Leon Edel. The first volume of the collected papers of this noted critic, who was himself the recipient of many awards, including two National Book Awards. Chronology. Includes many first person anecdotes about such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Mencken, e. e. cummings, Dorothy Parker and more. Arranged in two sections - 1919 (when Wilson was discharged from the Army and returned to New York City)-1925 and 1926-1930 and geographically within each section - from New York to Provincetown on Cape Cod to California. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xlviii, 557 pp. ISBN: 0-374279632.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume of the collected papers of this noted critic, who was himself the recipient of many awards, including two National Book Awards. Edited and with an introduction by Leon Edel. Chronology. This includes both information about his political life - including his marriage to Margaret Canby in 1930- and his political activism as he records his visit to the labor barricades in the Kentucky coal fields, and saw first hand the cruelty and ruthlessmen of the mine owners. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xxix, 753 pp. ISBN: 0-374275726.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964. A pocket paperback original - # N 04 in the New Canadian Library. Works by 10 of Canada's most important contemporary poets, including Leonard Cohen, Earle Birney, Margaret Avison and others. Introduction and brief biographical sketches of each poet by Milton Wilson.