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Critics on Pope (Readings in Literary Criticism)
by O'Neill, Judith
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1978. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly sunned boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. 120pp. . A selection of the best critical essays on the works of Alexander Pope.. Soft Cover. Very Good (+). 8.5 x 5.25 inches.
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$6.53
Number One
by DOS PASSOS, JOHN
Garden City, New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1944. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Hardback The Sun Dial Press, 1944. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Taupe cloth binding, with brown titles on front and spine. Clean, unmarked, corners all lightly compressed, spine head and heel scuffed. Top edge with publisher's brown tint. Fore-edge and lower edge rough cut. Tight and solid sewn binding, with cracked inner hinge....
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$15.96
Some Portraits of the Lake Poets and their Homes
by Abraham, Ashley P
Keswick: G. P. Abraham Ltd, 1947. No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to oversize part of covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. 29 plates plus 55pp. Concise biographies about six major plus a few minor Lake District Poets. Well illustrated.. First Edition. Paperback with Oversize Covers. Very Good (+). 8.75 x 6.25 inches.
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$11.62
A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy
by Sterne, Laurence
Paris: The Black Sun Press / Editions Narcisse. 1929. First Edition Thus. Softcover limited edition Copy #352 of the stated 335 copies on Arches paper even though there were 400 total copies printed and some over printed copies numbered. Printed "under the direction of and for Harry and Caresse Crosby". Printed self-wrappers [about 6.5" x 8.25"], [192] pages [last numbered page is 191], illustrated with 5 full-page drawings [with tissue guards] plus other smaller chapter decorations. A very good copy...
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$100.00
The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes
by Zerby, Chuck
New York: Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster, 2003. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Remainder First Touchstone Book Printing, 2003. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked gently used book with just a whisper of cover wear. "Being a concise and definitive account of the footnote from its murky birth to its fertile middle years to its endangered present, beset as it is by careless writers and indifferent editors and thoughtless readers and penny...
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$7.06
Lewis Carroll: An Illustrated Biography
by Hudson, Derek
London: Constable, 1976. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 272pp. Biography of Lewis Carroll, now republished with a great many illustrations. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10.25 x 7.5 inches.
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$11.93
Transgressive Readings The Texts of Franz Kafka and Max Planck (Studies in Literature and Science)
by Valerie D. Greenberg
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 1990 Hardcover. 0472101587 First edition. 224 pages, bibliography, index. Near Fine or better copy in Fine Dust Wrapper. bx169
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$10.00
Book and Magazine Collector : No 211 October 2001
by Crispin Jackson (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 2001. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163pp. This issue includes Sir Winston Churchill, Samuel Beckett, Toulouse-Lautrec, The Fortune Press, Harry Price - ghost-hunter, Robert Harris - 'Enigma' author, Walt Coburn, Great British Comic Artists no 1 - Dudley Watkins - Dandy Beano Broons and index, letters and classified.. We do not duse stock...
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$6.91
Poems By Francis Thompson
by Thompson, Francis
London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1893. Limited Edition of 500 copies.. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to paper covered boards or to spine. Well preserved gilt embossing to front and to spine. Clean pages in a tight binding with marked boards, dusty page edges and well-rubbed corners and spine ends. Lower and fore-edges untrimmed. Fourteen page publishers list plus 81pp. One of 500 copies of Limited First Edition with seven sections of 'Love in Dian's Lap', six...
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$164.86
Middle English Literature
by Kane, George
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1951. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very faintly sunned boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine. 252pp. Detailed critical study of the Middle English Metrical Romances, Religious Lyrics and the vision of Piers Plowman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Near Fine. 7.5 x 5...
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$21.98
Beacon Lights of Literature Ninth Year
by Chamberlain Rudolph W. & Richards Edwin B
A book written to make a pleasurable experience of the pupil's formal introduction to literature. Ninth year students. (we read Of MIce and Men- Wonderful! and Catcheer in the Rye - not so much) These students are reading Poe, Homer, Coleridge, Longfellow, Emerson, Frost, Shakespeare... hey wait! Pretty much all the same stuff I read in 1973. 940 pages. Very slight wear.
BX18 S
BX18 S
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$14.50
Aldebaran Winter '93-'94
by Rossi Matthew W. III editor
Bristol,RI Roger Williams University.RI 1993. Fine. No Jacket as Issued 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Aldebaran is a student run literary magazine, created in 1971 and publishing semi-annually and annually for the past 22 years, is the result of the work of both the contributors and the staff. Aldebaran publishes poetry and fiction in traditional, contemporary and experimental forms. genfic9
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$10.00
The Magazine Encore October 1943
by Edited by Dent Smith with stories and articles by H.L. Mencken, E.B. White , Theodore Dreiser and many others
The Encore Press, N.H. , 1943 First Edition 127 page Vintage Digest sized magazine. Edited by Dent Smith with stories and articles by H.L. Mencken, E.B. White , Theodore Dreiser and many others , See Photos A very good to near fine copy , bumped at the head of the spine ,light dust soiling to the covers. See Photos this week bx
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$12.00
The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series I Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Part 2 Volume 9
by Owen, Jane; Introduced By Dorothy L. Latz
United KIngdom: Ashgate Pub Ltd, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back Small Octavo Hardcover Book in NEAR FINE Condition. 276 p. 5.25"w x 7.75" tall. (12.5 cm x 19 cm). Green cloth with gilt titles on front and spine, gilt decoration on front. Small square dark area on upper corner where a sticker was removed and small erasure on upper corner area on ffep--otherwise in Fine Condition. Bright, square, sharp corners, tight sewn binding....
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$9.41
Book and Magazine Collector : No 54 September 1988
by John Dean (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 1988. A very small number of classified section listings highlighted in very pale yellow. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 131pp. This issue includes the black magic books of Dennis Wheatley, Catherine Cookson, HG Wells fiction, World War 2 Bomber Command, Lord Byron and Louisa M Alcott.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8.25 x 6 inches.
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$6.22
Literature As Recreation in the Later Middle Ages
by Olson, Glending
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1986. First Thus. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Cornell Paperbacks First Printing, 1986. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Golden wraps with medieval illustration and red letteirng is very clean and unmarked, no edge-wear, no creasing. Internals in Fine Condition also. This important study succeeds in demonstrating that in the later Middle Ages literature was consciously intended to give recreational pleasure and to contribute to...
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$7.95
Undying Passion a Book of Anecdotes About Men, Women, Love, Sex, and the Literary Life
by Joseph Randolph Orgel
New York: William Morrow and Company Inc [1985]. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0688022189 . First edition. Dozens of literary figures and their comments on sex, etc. 379 pages, sources, index. Near Fine copy in VG+ Dust Wrapper with two 1" tears at/near the upper right corner of the front panel.bx77
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$12.50
The Rise of Silas Lapham
by Howells, William Dean
New York, New York, USA: Perennial Classics/Harper & Row Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. First published in 1885--New York Times at that time wrote that "the great American novel" had at last been written. About a self-made Yankee millionaire's rise and fall against a richly detailed background of upper-class life in late nineteenth-century Boston. Introduction by Everett Carter....
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$7.50
Harlan Ellison: Unrepentant Harlequin (Popular Writers of Today V. 6)
by George Edgar Slusser
San Bernardino: R. Regiunald / The Borgo Press. 1977. 0893702099 . First edition. Decorated/pictorial wrappers [about 5.25" x 8.25"], saddle-stapled, [64] pages [last numbered page is 63], bibliography. Generally Near Fine copy [some foxing-like staining to the upper left corner of the front cover]. bx35,WHB7
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$12.00
Literary Britain :Bill Brandt
by Haworth-Booth, Mark (editor)
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1984. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 172pp. This set of captioned photographs by Bill Brandt was first published in book form in 1951. This reprint was made to accompany the V&A exhibition of the work in 1984. The first 65 of the 75 photographs are accompanied by poem or prose quotations from the English literature of famous authors. Scarce in...
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$62.80
Voices from Wah'Kon-Tah : Contemporary Poetry of American Indians
by Dodge, Robert K. & McCullough, Joseph B. (editors)
New York: International Publishers Co Inc, 1976. Name/address label to front end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 144pp. In an introduction, the editors consider some of the myths which were thrust upon the Native Americans. There follows about 112 pages of poetry of their writing. Each poem is attributed to the named Native American author and each author is...
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$15.70
The Locket
by EVANS, RICHARD PAUL
U.S.A: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. IISigned by Author. ISigned by Author Signed by Author Signed by Author Type: Hard Back First Printing. Signed by author on jacket flap, after his message. Hardcover and Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles, very clean wiith trace wear to lower corners. Binding tight and solid. Text block edges clean and white. Deckle edge. Internals spotless, as new. Red...
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$9.35
Going Somewhere Soon Collected Stories & Drawings
by Brian Andreas
Decorah, IA: Story People [2000]. Near Fine. 2000. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. 0964266024 . Later [6th] printing. Pictorial wrappers, unpaginated, heavily illustrated with drawings. Near Fine copy with light upper corner creasing to the front portion of the book bx217
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$12.50
House of Sand and Fog
by Dubus, Andre III
U.S.A: Vintage Books/Random House, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cover is clean, top front corner scratched, light edgewear, and rubbing along spine. Interior is clean and unmarked, no creases. Oprah's Book Club Selection. A classic tragedy. In this novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously engaged in an escalating crisis. An Iranian immigrant from a wealthy...
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$6.54
Gilbert * Galileo * Harvey: Great Books Of The Western World Collection Series
by Hutchins, Robert Maynard (Editor) / Adler, Mortimer J. (Editor)
Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.. Fine with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. 496 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 2: Vol. 28: KB#007443: No Jacket as Issued. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Volume 28 of the Collection. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Includes: On The Loadstone And Magnetic Bodies by William Gilbert * Concerning The Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei * On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals. On The...
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$25.00
