London: Faber & Faber, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of pieces from over 25 years, selected by this writer who received the Nobel award for literature in 2006. They range from "lyrical autobiography to essays on literature and culture, from humor to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter to provocative discussions of Eastern & Western art." Includes many selections on books and reading, and his interview from The Paris Review. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Index. 433 pp. ISBN: 978-0571236862.

Kingston and Ottawa: Quarry Press & National Library of Canada, (1995). SIGNED first edition - Essay on various aspects of science fiction, fantasy and horror in Canada, with contributions by Charles de Lint, John Clute, Tanya Huff, Francine Pelletier, Terrence Green, Judith Merrill, Michael Skeet, Marc Lemaire and many others. SIGNED by Charles De Lint at his essay 'Considering Magical Realism in Canada.' A book which grew out of an exhibit at the National Library. Illustrations by Heather Spears. Bibliography. 264 pp. ISBN: 1550821504.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. From the dj: "In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literature, the 1990 Nobel Laureate offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it " modern," and what it may become... [he] explores Romanticism, Symbolism, Surrealism, what an epic poem is, what allegory is.. he compares Mallarme and Walt Whitman, scolds American literary critics for being Anglocentric, discusses the impact of modern physics on poets, the influence of politics and religion, the challenge of television. he analyze the publishing industry and the literary marketplace.." 160 pp. ISBN: 0-15170449X.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. From the dj: "In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literature, the 1990 Nobel Laureate offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it " modern," and what it may become... [he] explores Romanticism, Symbolism, Surrealism, what an epic poem is, what allegory is.. he compares Mallarme and Walt Whitman, scolds American literary critics for being Anglocentric, discusses the impact of modern physics on poets, the influence of politics and religion, the challenge of television. he analyze the publishing industry and the literary marketplace.." 160 pp. ISBN: 0-15170449X.

New York: Hill & Wang, (1960.). Series of essays dealing with Yeats, Synge, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Georg Buchner and others.

New Orleans: Faust Publishing, 1987. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Percy on the title page. Frontispiece portrait, #32 of 75 numbered 'deluxe copies specially bound." Designed and printed by Herb Yellin and Patrick Reagh, binding by Marianna Blau. 20 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-917905-059.

New York: W W Norton & Co / Center for Documentary Studies, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Letters between these two Mississippi writers, friends since their teenage years, which began in the late 1940s and continued until Percy's death in 1990. "Jay Tolson has selected, edited, and annotated the letters of these two remarkable writers to shed light on their relationship and their literary careers." Illustrated with photographs, index. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-393317684.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1987. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on Hemingway's Hidden West and the Mormon experience. Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1990. First edition - Includes short stories by Daniel Wallace, Julie Brown (the powerful story 'Work'); poetry by Margaret Grossman, David Ray, etc; book reviews and photographs. Special symposium on 'Boundaries' - between high/low art, prose/poetry, art/autobiography - featuring Piercy, Baker, Jerome Mazzaro, Robert Altieri, Hassan, Kumin, Ron Silliman and Gordon Weaver. Contributors' notes. 180 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Best known for her short stories, Porter "published just 32 poems and poetry translations in her lifetime, although she composed and subsequently destroyed hundreds more. From fragmentary notes and letters found among Porter's papers, Darlene Harbour Unrue has recovered and edited 18 unpublished poems, presented here with the complete published canon, including the entire text of the now-rare Katherine Anne Porter's French Song-Book." Includes a long critical and biographical essay, photographs, bibliography and index. xvi, 188 pp. ISBN: 1570030847.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An affectionate guide to more of the worst in mystery fiction." SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography, index. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-698-11180X.

New York: Coward-McCann, (1982.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A crash course in the reallly bad English and American crime novels of this century." SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography, index. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-698-11180X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. dj. Hardcover first edition - A very readable and important survey of literature of Brazil, by a scholar and translator, and described at the time of its publication as the best study in English available. Includes criticism and analysis of Euclides da Cunha, Jorge Amando, Jose Lins do Rego, Machado de Asis, Gilberto Freyre and many other writers. Notes, bibliography, chronological table, index. xvi, 269, xii pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed study of the author of Quartet and Wide Sargasso Sea, one which focuses on the many contradictions in her life - from her childhood in Dominica in the the West Indies to her schooling in England, her life in Paris Ford Maddox Ford in the 1920s, with a circle of expat writers including Hemingway and James Joyce, and more. Each section is followed by a discussion of the novel written during that period. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. x, 761 pp. ISBN: 0-316042633.

New York: Twayne, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - In her 50 year career, Rhys produced just 5 novels and 3 volumes of short stories, but she was a central feminist and modernist voice in 20th century fiction. This is the first "full-length critical analysis of Rhys's contributions to the short story genre. Maintaining that Rhys's overriding interest was the outsider - 'the underdog, the normally silenced, the excluded, the ignored' - the Malcolms examine the stories from the perspective of this motif. Selected stories 6 among them 'Illusion', 'Mannequin', and 'Let Them Call It Jazz' - are given in-depth treatment, as are the heretofore neglected technical aspects of Rhys's work: narration, style, plot, action, and setting." Frontispiece portrait, chronology, selected bibliography, index. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-805708553.

New York: Norton, (1982). Aground-breaking novel, originally published in 1966, which was a revision of Jane Eyre, focusing on the West Indian madwoman locked in the attic. Introduction by Francis Wyndham. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-393-308804.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Robert S. Cauthorn; introduction by Reed Way Dasenbrock. 13 essays, some quite brief, on U.S. Mexico borderlands and its influence on writers. Among the writers whose work is discussed are Rudolfo Anaya, Harvey Ferguson, Mary Austin, Miguel Mendez and more. Notes, bibliography, 147 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-12701.

The Keats-Shelley Association of America, 1963. SIGNED first edition - Article on the "Reflection of Wedgwood Ware in the Poetic Imagery of John Keats." Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED on the front cover "for -- with a combination of guilty conscience and pleasure." 36 pp.

New York: Carroll & Graf, dj. Hardcover first edition - A new look at Adolf Hitler's master plan for the Third Reich; the first to discern that it was based in part on the plays by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Over decades, Hitler cribbed Ibsen's phrases, metaphors and themes for his own writings and soliloquies. Sources, notes, index. Photographs. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-786717130.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - Beginning with Sartre's autobiography Les Mots, the author "examines Sartre's work as steps in an increasingly dialectical movement." Sartre's comment in Huis Clos that "No one of us can save himself alone. You must either be lost together or get along together. Take your choice" sums up this book. Bibliography, index. x, 404 pp. ISBN: 0-226561003.

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.

Chester Springs, Pennsylvania: Dufour Editions, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on modern American poets and themes in poetry: James Atlas on W. S. Merwin, Shaw on Poetry of Protest, Harold Bloom on John Ashbery, Albert Gelpi on Adrienne Rich, J. D. McClatchy on Sylvia Plath, Peggy Rizza on Women as Poets, a conversation with Mark Strand, and more. The second title in Carcanet's Critical Series. Notes at the end of each essay, a reading list, notes on contributors, index. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-802312527.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and artbeers included. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life . .. whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. [They] spend four days together at a cabin in the Cascade Mountains, playing chess, shooting hoops, hiking to lakes and an abandoned mine. . and talking about everything they can think of" SIGNED on the title page by David Shields. ISBN: 978-0385351942.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1993.). SIGNED first edition - A volume in the "Women Writers" series, edited and with an introduction by Graulich. Includes interviews with Silko, and essays on her writing. SIGNED by Silko on the title page. Among the contributors are Paula Gunn Allen, Kim Barnes, Patricia Jones and others. Bibliography. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-8135-20053.

Madison, WI: Sub-stance, 1974. First edition - A rather uncommon early issue of this journal - features an interview with Claude Simon and several articles on his work - also included are 'Sign Poems' from Ariel Marques's 'ABC da Criagao' and more. Translator's addendum to Serres and notice to subscribers laid in. 158 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York: Twayne Publishers, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first developmental study of Smith's poetry (for which she is best known) and her prose as an avant-garde novelist and short story writer. Frontispiece portrait, chronology, notes, selected bibliography, index. x, 118 pp. ISBN: 0-805769900.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this award winning author, many of which are "commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti and others" 204 pp. ISBN: 0-374280762.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this award winning author, many of which are "commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti and others" 204 pp. ISBN: 0-374280762.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on twelve poets (listed chronologically by birth date) including William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Elinor Wylie, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Conrad Aiken, Mark Van Doren, Robert Hillyer, Allen Tate, Laura Riding, Robert Penn Warren and W.H. Auden. The author comments that 8 of the 12 poets included here are attempting to alter and re-invigorate the poetic tradition. xxii, 138 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A critical biography which captures both the genius and the neuroses of this brilliant and influential mid-century writer - one who who drew from her own past in Colorado to forge a unique writing style until alcohol and depression destroyed her lifelong quest for inner strength. Notes, index. xv, 430 pp. ISBN: 0-394557042.