Search Results: Essays and Literary Criticism from Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB

London: Nonesuch Press 1923, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 1000. (Hardcover) 191, [2]pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Light brown cloth with paper spine label. Gravure vignette photo of the author on the title page, pen sketch on last page, additional spine label tipped onto the rear endpaper. The spine is lightly sunned. Letters of W.H. Hudson. Edited with introduction and notes by Edward Garnett. (Letters).

Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1927. (Hardcover) Good to very good, no dust jacket. 22pp. Spine slightly cocked, small chip from top of spine. (Essays).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. (Periodical) Very good. 257-383pp. Spine lightly faded. July 1924. Contributors include Homer H. Cooper (Where the Law Fails), Isaac R. Pennypacker (The Dutch on the Delaware), Carl Sandburg (M'liss and Louie (A Poem)), Hendrik Willem Van Loon (The Wages of Peace). Edited by George Jean Nathan. (Essays).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1926. (Periodical) Very good. 385-510pp. Index. Light spine wear at top and bottom, edges chipped, dampstain to bottom of front cover and first few pages, back cover dampstained. December 1926. Contributors include Herbert Asbury (The Palmy Days of Methodism), L.M. Hussey (The Mystery of the Hormones), William C. Murphy (Five Portraits on Galvanized Iron), William Seagle (The Moral Law), Ray T. Tucker (Borah of Idaho). Article about William Edgar Borah. Locale: Idaho. (Essays, Methodism).

Washington: Phi Beta Kappa [no date]. (Oversize stiff paper covers) Very good. pp. 186-336.. Includes Anthony Burgess (Letter from England), Nathan Glazer (Student Politics in a Democratic Society), John Kaplan (Controversy: The Assassins), William Robert Miller (Is the Church Obsolete?) & Earl Rovit (Jewish Humor and American Life). (Essays).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. (Periodical) Very good. 129-255pp. Light spine wear at top and bottom, edges chipped. October 1924. Contributors include Franz Boas (The Question of Racial Purity), W.E. Burghardt Debois (The Dilemma of the Negro), Morris Fishbein (Birth Control: An Unsolved Problem), Lewis Momford (Devastated Regions). Edited by George Jean Nathan. (Essays).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. (Periodical) Very good. 257-383pp. Spine lightly faded, spine wear at top and bottom, 1 inch piece missing from top of spine. March 1925. Contributors include Herbert Asbury (The Passing of the Gangster), Max Eastman (On Learning Foreign Languages), Patrick Kearney (The Fountain of Spiritualism), Fred Lewis Pattee (James Fenimore Cooper). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about James Fenimore Cooper. (Essays, Spiritualism).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. (Periodical) Very good. 127pp. Covers faded. January 1924. Contributors include Theodore Dreiser (Four Poems), James Gibbons Huneker (Huneker on Huneker), John McClure (The Weaver's Tale), Margaret Munsterberg (Santayana at Cambridge), John W. Owens (The Tragic Hiram), Isaac R. Pennypacker (The Lincoln Legend), Carl van Doren (Stephen Crane). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about George Santayana. (Essays).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. (Periodical) Very good. 385-510pp. Light spine wear at top and bottom, dampstain on edge of first 8 pages, edges chipped. April 1925. Contributors include James M. Cain (Servants of the People), George E. DeMille (Poe As a Critic), Carl Dreher (The Psychopathology of Business), Ernesto Montenegro (The Heirs of Bolivar), G. Frederick Pelham (Adventures Among Union Men). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about Simon Bolivar & Edgar Allan Poe. (Essays).

London: Cresset Press 1948. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 211pp. Gilt lettering, notes, appendix. Previous owner's bookplate, spine and edges of front and back cover faded. Locale: United States. (Essays, Anthropology, Social History).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1927. (Periodical) Very good. 257-383pp. Light spine wear at top and bottom, edges chipped, front and rear cover rubbed and scuffed. March 1927. Contributors include H.E. Buchholz (Slaves of Democracy), Robert Ginsburgh (Keeping Up with the Infantry), Henry F. Pringle (Aesculapius in Manhattan), Philip Rubin (The Yiddish Press), Carl Sandburg (Santa Fe Sketches), O.G. Sonneck (Beethoven). Article about Ludwig Van Beethoven. Locale: Manhattan; Santa Fe. (Essays, Infantry, Journalism).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. (Periodical) Very good. 127pp. Light spine wear at top and bottom, 1 inch piece missing from top of spine, spine partially separated from magazine, dampstain to edge of first and last few pages, edges chipped. September 1925. Contributors include James M. Cain (The Hero), Lewis Mumford (The Poison of Good Taste), Louise Pound (Walt Whitman and Italian Musicc), James R. Stevens (A Prairie Town). Article about Walt Whitman. (Essays).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. (Periodical) Very good. 129-255pp. Covers faded. February 1924. Contributors include Sherwood Anderson (Caught), Emory Holloway (More Light on Whitman), Gerald W. Johnson (The Ku-Kluxer), Eugene O'Neill (All God's Chillun Got Wings (A Play)), Howell Sykes (The Part-Time Missionary), Carl van Doren (The Comic Patriot). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about Walt Whitman. (Essays).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. (Periodical) Very good. 129-255pp. Light spine wear at top and bottom, edges chipped. February 1925. Contributors include Herbert Asbury (Up from Methodism), James Branch Cabell (Above Paradise (A Story)), Barrett H. Clark (George Moore at Work), Edgar Lee Masters (John Peter Altgeld), Louise Pound (Walt Whitman Neologisms), Charles C. Thach (The Monroe Doctrine), Owen P. White (A Glance at the Mexicans). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about George Moore & Walt Whitman. (Essays).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. (Periodical) Very good. 385-510pp. Covers faded, light spine wear at top and bottom, spine partly separated from magazine. April 1924. Contributors include Harry Elmer Barnes (Woodrow Wilson), Gamaliel Bradford (Horace Greeley), Joseph Hergesheimer (Lillian Gish), James R. Stevens (The Uplift on the Frontier). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about Lillian Gish, Horace Greeley & Woodrow Wilson. (Essays).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. (Periodical) Very good. 257-383pp. Covers faded, very slight water stain to edges of last 3 pages. March 1924. Contributors include Arthur Davison Ficke (Reflections of a Bible-Reader), Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Every Science an Exact Science), Arthur Bingham Walkley (Mansfield Park and America), Stephen French Whitman (Cretheus and the Lion (A Story)). Edited by George Jean Nathan. (Essays).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1926. (Periodical) Very good. 127pp. Light spine wear at top and bottom, 1 1 / 2 inch piece missing from bottom of spine, edges chipped. May 1926. Contributors include Duncan Aikman (The Springfield Republican), Nils F:Son Brown (The Swedes Among Us), Charles B. Driscoll (Major Prophets of Holy Kansas), Nell Battle Lewis (North Carolina), Doris Stevens (On Learning to Play the Cello), Edward A. Wieck (General Alexander Bradley). Article about Alexander Bradley. Locale: Kansas; North Carolina. (Essays).

New York: Gotham Book Mart 1928, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 1250. (Hardcover in slipcase) lvi pp. Very good. Black cloth over faux vellum spine. In damaged slipcase. Signed by the author. The spine is lightly soiled and has a 2-inch crack on the front hinge. The pages in the back half of the book unopened. Foreword by Eugene O'Neill. (Essays, Limited Editions).

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press [0-8156-2613-4] 1994, 1st edition. (Trade paperback) 233pp. Fine. Notes, bibliography, index. Based on the work of James Joyce--Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. (Literary Criticism, Irish Studies, Literary Criticism).

New York: James Pott [1902], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Good to very good, no dust jacket. 299pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, index. (Essays).