Search Results: Literary Criticism from Great Expectations Rare Books

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1928. Hardcover, green cloth. 260pp., Index. A volume in the Handbook of English Literature Series. No previous ownership marks. Endpapes toned abd top edge of half-title page chipped, else a square, clean, tight copy. An examination of the poets and prose writers extant between 1700, the year in which Dryden died, and 1744, the date of Pope's death. Very good.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Not Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cranbury, New Jersey: University of Delaware Press, 2005. Hardcoverin dust-jacket. 239pp., Bibliographic References, Selected Chronological Listing of Primary Sources, Index. First edition. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unread copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, 2003. Hardcover in original green pictorial dust-jacket. 247pp., Selected Bibliography, Selected Annotated Bibliography of Barbara Pym Criticism, 1982-1998, Index. First edition, first printing. Nineteen essays by noted scholars examione the theme of reading in Barbara Pym's books. Np previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh copy. As new in a fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Appleton/Doran/Doubleday Page/Scribnner's,, 1923. Greenish blue cloth with paper spine and cover labels. Essays on various authors with a tipped-in portrait of each. Very good.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1991. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 338 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. First edition. Literary analysis of The Canterbury Tales focusing on the Ellesmere Manuscript. No previous ownership marks. Moderate moisture marks at top edge, extending approximately two inches from spine and into top margin. No affecting text and book is still clean, square and unmarked. An excellent reading copy, still very good in a as new, fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good./Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1962. Trade paperback. 180 pages. Bibliographic References, General Index. Second printing. A scholarly exposition on the history, structure and definition of the ballad as a literary form in England, Europe and America. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square and unmarked copy. Covers age darkened, else very good. Good+. . Softcover. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 340pp., Index. First edition. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket shows mild shelf-wear. A fine copy in a very good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1988. Hardcover in non price-clipped dustjacket. As new copy of first trade printing. No name or book-plate.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. As New/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Hardcover, no dust-jacket. 269 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. First edition. A title in the Univ. of Pennsylvania Press Middle Ages series. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1963. Trade paperback. 180 pages. Includes a chronology of important dates, notes on the editor and authors, and a selected bibliography of Ben Jonson. A dozen critical essays including selections by T.S. Eliot and Edmund Wilson. A title in the Twentieth Century Views series. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. Not ex-library. Covers show rubbling and shelf-wear, else a clean, tight, internally unmarked copy. Good. . Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 221 pages. Second printing. A collection of 48 heretofore uncollected essays by Woolf as literary critic. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket in Brodart cover. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge University Press, 2001. Hardcover, blue cloth, no dust-jacket. 267pp., Guide to further Reading, Index. Contains 11 essays by various authors on a wide range of subjects as they relate to the Victorian novel: the business of publishing, aesthetics, industrial culture, gender race, religion and science, et al. First edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Incidental blemish to cloth at upper corner, else fine. Very good+. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1983. Trade paperback. 251 pages. Bibliography. First edition. A discussion of three of the prevailing themes running through the Canterbury Tales: the Order of Pilgrimage as envisioned in the Prologue and as it unfolds in the telling; the meaning attached to marriage; and finally the poet's "freedom in expressing his 'truth'," No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1907. Hardcover, brick red cloth lettered in black. 162 pages. With an introduction, notes and a selection of Burns's poems. No additional printings listed. Previous owner's name and address inside front cover. Light wear to cloth covers and text free of writing, underlining or highlighting. A clean, sound copy. Good.. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cambridge: at the University Press, 1925. Hardcover, black cloth sans dust-jacket. 240pp., Index. Though nearly half its length is devoted to Dickens, the author also touchs on some of his famous literary colleagues such as Thackeray, Disraeli, Mrs. Gaskell and Trollope. An important collection of essays, now quite uncommon. Listed in Poeschi. Book plate of former owner in side front cover. else a clean, unmarked copy. Very good. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: Charles H. Sergel Company, 1903. Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. Top edge gilt, 415 pages. Index. With an introduction by Horatio W. Seymour. First edition. A collection of over 60 essays, predominantly dealing with British nineteenth century Men [and women]-of-Letters, including Hazlitt, Lamb, Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, Ruskin, William Morris, Dickens, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Carlyle, Thackeray, et alia. Mild rubbing to cloth at spine, else a clean, square, unmarked copy. No previous ownership marks. Very good.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 1961. Mass Market paperback. 293 pages. First paperback edition. An anthology of Chaucer criticism, focusing on his lesser known works, and consequently somewhat less common than the editors first volume of criticism dealing with Canterbury Tales. Contains 17 scholarly essays by such by authors as C.S. Lewis, William George Dodd, D.W. Robertson, Jr. Charles A. Owen, Jr., et alia. No previous ownership marks. No writing or underling to text. A good, solis, unmarked used copy. . First Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Londion: Nelson's University Paperbacks, 1970. Trade paperback. 278 pages. Index. First paperback edition. A collection of critical essays by a variety of American and British scholars. No previous ownership marks. General light wear from use but still a tight, square, clean and unmarked copy. Good.. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968. Hardcover in price-clipped dust-jacket. 293 pages. Index. Second printing. An exegesis of the poem History of Fame as Christian allegory set against the larger medieval world-view, and in particular its preeminent expression in Dante's Divine Comedy. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket protected by acetate cover. Very good in a very good dust-jacket. . Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good./Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, England: D.S.Brewer, 1999. Hardcover, burgundy cloth with printed paper cover label. 222 pages. Contains ten scholarly essays on Chaucer and other, as well as seven review of book recently published. First edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine. . Hardcover. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.