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ADAMS, STEPHEN D.  James Purdy
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1976. First American Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0064900142. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 166 pages. New in New dust jacket .
USD 11.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 | £UK 7 | JP¥ 1015] Book number: 8289
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AIKEN, CONRAD  A Reviewer's Abc: Collected Criticism. Rufus A. Blanshard, Ed.
New York, NY: Meridian, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj, with the latter protected by a clear plastic cover, now. Someone clipped what was apparently a pre-publication price from the top of the front inner flap, but the published price at the bottom of that flap is still intact ; 8vo; 414 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
USD 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 | £UK 16.75 | JP¥ 2427] Book number: 199
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ALDRIDGE, JOHN W.  In Search of Heresy: American Literature in an Age of Conformity
New York, Toronto, London: Mcgraw-Hill Publishing Company, c. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ slightly worn, in places, otherwise quite good, and protected, now, by a clear plastic cover; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj ; 8vo; 208, 2 pages. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket .
USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 750] Book number: 3450
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ALDRIDGE, JOHN W.  In Search of Heresy: American Literature in an Age of Conformity
New York, Toronto, London: Mcgraw-Hill Publishing Company, c. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers slightly worn, in places, otherwise good plus or better; A solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original black clloth covers ; 8vo; 208, 2 pages. Good .
USD 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 | £UK 4 | JP¥ 574] Book number: 9448
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ALDRIDGE, JOHN W.  Time to Murder and Create: The Contemporary Novel in Crisis
New York: David Mckay, c.1966. First Edition. Hardcover; Stated First Printing. DJ is price-clipped, but still VG, and protected, now, by a clear plastic cover ; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages; Essays on O'Hara, Styron, McCarthy, Bellow, Mailer, Updike, Cheever, Porter, Fitzgerald, Wodehouse, et al.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 1873
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ALLEN, DICK, & DAVID CHACKO, EDITORS  Detective Fiction: Crime and Compromise
New York, Etc.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c. 1974. Softcover; First Impression. ISBN: 0155174088. A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original illustrated stiff paper covers ; 8vo; 491 pages. New .
USD 7.45 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.5 | JP¥ 658] Book number: 7451
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ALLENTUCK, MARCIA, ED.  The Achievement of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Preface By Harry T. Moore
Carbondale, Il, & London: Southern Illinois University Press/ Feffer & Simons, c.1969. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0809303833. DJ price-clipped, otherwise VG plus ; A bright, solid, clean, mark-free copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj ; 8vo; 177 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 6049
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ANDERSON, JOHN Q.  The Liberating Gods: Emerson on Poets and Poetry
Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, c.1971. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0870241575. Name whited out on front endpaper, but still a VG copy. ; A bright, solid, clean copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj, with the latter protected by a clear plastic wrapper, now. Totally free of markings, inside, also, except for the name whited out, at the front. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 | £UK 5.75 | JP¥ 838] Book number: 2036
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APPIGNANESI, LISA  Femininity and the Creative Imagination: A Study of Henry James, Robert Musil, and Marcel Proust
London: Vision, c. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0854783822. A solid, clean copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj, with the latter being protected by a clear plastic cover, now. Totally free of markings, also! ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 230 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
USD 23.50 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 | £UK 14.25 | JP¥ 2074] Book number: 831
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BABBITT, IRVING, ET AL.  Criticism in America, Its Function and Status
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, c. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers slightly worn with very remnants of a light library stamp on top outer corner of title-pg. ; front paste-down slightly scuffed, also, with faint signs of a label removed from the backstrip; otherwise a VG copy, in the original cloth covers. A solid and extremely clean ex-lib. copy, then, with no other markings, also! ; A bright, solid copy, in the original dark blue cloth covers, with gold lettering; 8vo; 330 pages; Other authors: Van Wyck Brooks, W. C. Brownell, Ernest Boyd, T. S. Eliot, H. L. Mencken, Stuart P. Sherman, J. E. Spingarn, and George Woodberry. Very Good- .
USD 31.50 [Appr.: EURO 21.25 | £UK 19 | JP¥ 2780] Book number: 6227
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BACKMAN, MELVIN.  Faulkner: The Major Years. A Critical Study
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, c. 1966. Hardcover; First Impression. Covers slightly worn, otherwise nearly VG; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy of the paperback edition converted into a hard cover volume, with a cloth backstrip, now, and original covers on boards. Good for library use; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 212 pages. Good+ .
USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 | £UK 5.75 | JP¥ 838] Book number: 192
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BARNARD, ELLSWORTH  Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Study
New York: Macmillan Co, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. DJ slightly worn, in places, otherwise VG, and protected, now, by a clear plastic cover; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj; 8vo; 318 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .
USD 10.95 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 | £UK 6.75 | JP¥ 966] Book number: 588
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BARNARD, ELLSWORTH  Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Study
New York: Macmillan Co, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. Covers slightly worn, in places, otherwise VG; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original black cloth covers, with silver lettering and borders; 8vo; 318 pages. Very Good- .
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 7329
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BARTHOLOMAY, JULIA A.  The Shield of Perseus: The Vision and Imagination of Howard Nemerov
Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. ISBN: 0813003172. A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj, with the latter protected by a clear plastic cover, now; 8vo; 168 pages. New in New dust jacket .
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 603
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BAUMBACH, JONATHAN  The Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel
New York: New York University Press, c.1965. Softcover; Fourth Printing. ISBN: 0814700322. Covers very slightly rubbed, otherwise VG; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original stiff paper covers ; 8vo; 173 pages; With attention to Bellow, Ellison, Malamud, Wright Morris, O'Connor, Salinger, Styron, Wallant, and Warren. Very Good .
USD 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 | £UK 4 | JP¥ 574] Book number: 6148
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BEACH, JOSEPH WARREN  American Fiction 1920-1940. John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe. . .
New York: Macmillan Co, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. DJ slightly age-darkened, but still VG, and protected, now, by a clear plastic cover. Front endpaper slightly browned, however, by an age-darkened newspaper review laid in, there. ; A solid, clean copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj, with minor defects, but still quite good; totally free of markings inside, also! ; 8vo; 371 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1545] Book number: 1601
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BEEBE, MAURICE, AND LESLIE A. FIELD, EDS.  Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: A Critical Handbook
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1966. Hardcover; First Impression. Covers slightly darkened, slightly age-darkened, in places, otherwise VG; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy of the paperback edition bound in hard covers, to extend its shelf life. With a cloth backstrip, now, & original covers on boards.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 213 pages. Very Good- .
USD 18.50 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 | £UK 11.25 | JP¥ 1633] Book number: 572
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BELLAMY, JOE DAVID, EDITOR  American Poetry Observed: Poets on Their Work
Urbana & Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, c.1984. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. ISBN: 0252010426. Illustrated by Many Photos of Authors. Neat ink name on front endpaper, otherwise totally marking-free; A bright, solid, clean copy, in the original black cloth covers; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 313 pages. Very Good+ .
USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 750] Book number: 1911
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BENTON, JOEL  Emerson As a Poet
New York: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, c.1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Photo At Front. Covers slightly worn, with small, light stain on front cover, and small darker stains in a place or two on the back cover, and along the top rear hinge. Small chip missing at the top of the rear hinge, too, but still a good or good plus copy. ; A solid, clean copy, in the original rust cloth covers. Presentation note by the author to a minister friend on the front endleaf, too; otherwise totally free of markings, inside! ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 168 pages; By a Poughkeepsie, NY literary critic and poet who greatly admired of Emerson; given to his friend in 1900 ; Signed by Author. Good+ .
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 1191
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BEVILACQUA, WINIFRED FARRANT, ED.  Fiction By American Women: Recent Views
Port Washington, NY: Associated Faculty Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0804693153. Covers very slightly worn, in places, else VG.; A solid, clean copy, in the original illustrated paper-covered boards; totally free of all markings, also! ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages; Essays on works by Chopin, Stein, Wharton, Cather, K. A. Porter, Plath, Toni Morrison, and Jong. Very Good- .
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 430
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BIGSBY, C. W. E. , ED.  The Black American Writer. Vol. Ii: Poetry and Drama
Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, c. 1969. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0140212264. Covers slightly worn, in places, otherwise VG; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original stiff paper covers ; A Pelican Book; 12mo; 253 pages. Very Good- .
USD 4.95 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 | £UK 3 | JP¥ 437] Book number: 7701
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BIGSBY, C. W. E. , ED.  The Black American Writer. Vol. 1: Fiction
Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, c. 1969. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0140212256. Covers slightly worn, else VG. Solid, clean; A Pelican Book; 12mo; 253 pages; Essays by the editor and others on critical problems in evaluating black American authors and their work, along with essays on specific authors like Ellison, Baldwin, Dunbar, Wright, Chesnutt, et al.. Very Good- .
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 8891
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BIRNEY, EARLE  Spreading Time. Remarks on Canadian Writing and Writers. Book I: 1904-1949
Montreal, Canada: Vehicule Press, c.1980. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0919890253. Covers slightly worn, in places, otherwise VG. ; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original stiff paper covers ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 163 pages. Very Good- .
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 3449
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BITTNER, WILLIAM  The Novels of Waldo Frank
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Bw Photo As Front. DJ slightly worn, but still quite good, and protected, now, by a clear plastic cover. ; A solid, clean copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj; totally free of markings, inside, also! ; 222 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .
USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1280] Book number: 161
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BITTNER, WILLIAM  The Novels of Waldo Frank
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover; 2d Printing. Illustrated by Bw Photo As Front. DJ slightly worn, but still quite good, and protected, now, by a clear plastic cover. ; A solid, clean copy, in the original cloth covers. Totally free of markings, inside, also! ; 222 pages. Very Good .
USD 11.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 | £UK 7 | JP¥ 1015] Book number: 9324
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