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THE HOUSES THAT JAMES BUILT and Other Literary Studies.
Edition: First printing.
[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.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (penciled notations on a few pages, corners slightly bumped, some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 46573More details Price: $16.00 -
THE LITERATURE OF EXHAUSTION: Borges, Nabokov, Barth.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear at fold on rear cover)
Book ID: 83707More details Price: $24.50 -
THE WRITER ON HER WORK.
Edition: Trade paperback.
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.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 54416More details Price: $22.50 -
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN LITERARY CRITICISM
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in dark green cloth in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 83430More details Price: $40.00 -
AUTHORITARIAN FICTIONS: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: NF/NF.
Book ID: 10556More details Price: $20.00 -
ITALO SVEVO.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 40042More details Price: $20.00 -
ROYALL TYLER.
Edition: First printing.
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
Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket (slight sunning to spine of dj).
Book ID: 78044More details Price: $20.00 -
PETER TAYLOR: A STUDY OF THE SHORT FICTION.
Edition: First printing.
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.Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (gift inscription, rem line.)
Book ID: 44069More details Price: $15.00 -
J. R. R. TOLKIEN.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Warner, 1974. The 4th title in the Writers for the Seventies series. Notes, bibliography. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-446-689882.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 23610More details Price: $10.00 -
WAS HUCK BLACK? Mark Twain and African-American Voices.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42584More details Price: $20.00 -
WAS HUCK BLACK? Mark Twain and African-American Voices.
Edition: 2nd printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 88682More details Price: $19.50 -
ARIEL'S GIFT: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of "Birthday Letters."
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84907More details Price: $20.00 -
A HOUSE FOR THE TRUTH: Critical Essays
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, line on bottom of book, crease to front flap of dj.)
Book ID: 25174More details Price: $12.50 -
UNDERSTANDING PAUL WEST
Edition: First printing.
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.Condition: F/NF (crease on dj flap.)
Book ID: 8929More details Price: $28.00 -
THE TWENTIES: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in beige cloth in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 87033More details Price: $25.00 -
POETRY OF MID-CENTURY 1940 / 1960.
Edition: Later printing.
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.
Condition: Very good condition (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 14744More details Price: $8.50