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ALLEN, MARY  The Necessary Blankness: Women in Major American Fiction of the Sixties
Urbana, Chicago, London: Univ. of Illinois Press, c.1976. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0252005198. DJ slightly rubbed, in places, but still VG, 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!; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 226 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .
USD 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 | £UK 10 | JP¥ 1456] Book number: 868
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ALLEN, MICHAEL  Poe and the British Magazine Tradition
New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0196317525. A bright, solid, clean, & unmarked copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj, with the latter protected by a clear plastic cover, now ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 1772
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ASSELINEAU, ROGER, ED.  The Literary Reputation of Hemingway in Europe
New York, NY: New York University Press, 1965. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. A bright, solid, clean copy, in the original stiff paper covers; totally free of markings, inside, also! ; 8vo; 211 pages. Very Good .
USD 11.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 | £UK 7 | JP¥ 1015] Book number: 293
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BANTA, MARTHA  Failure and Success in America: A Literary Debate
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0691063664. Covers slightly worn, with light discoloration of outer edge of front cover, otherwise VG.; A bright, solid, clean copy, in the original green cloth covers; totally free of markings, inside, also!; 8vo; 568, 1 pages. Very Good- .
USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1280] Book number: 3994
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BARTON, REBECCA CHALMERS  Black Voices in American Fiction 1900-1930
Oakdale, NY: Dowling College Press, c. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. ISBN: 0917428005. The pb ed. professionally bound in library cloth; very solid, bright, and clean ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 229 pages; Citing the ISBN for the pb ed.. Fine .
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 9153
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BEERS, HENRY A.  The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays
New Haven, London: Yale University Press/ Humphrey Milford/ Oxford University Press, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ slighty worn, else VG--in glassine ; Small 8vo; 262 pages; Essays on these CT poets, also on Emerson, James Whitcomb Riley, Thackeray, Sheridan, Milton, Shakespeare, et al.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .
USD 23.50 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 | £UK 14.25 | JP¥ 2074] Book number: 9163
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BINDING, PAUL  Separate Country: A Literary Journey Through the American South
New York & London: Paddington, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover; Stated First Printing. ISBN: 0448220725. A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj; 8vo; 288 pages. New in New dust jacket .
USD 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 2.5 | £UK 2.25 | JP¥ 309] Book number: 9018
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BLAKE, NELSON MANFRED  Novelists' America: Fiction As History, 1910-1940
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c.1969. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. DJ slightly rubbed, else VG; A solid, clean copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj, with the latter protected by a clear plastic cover, now. Totally free of markings, inside, also! ; 8vo; 279 pages; With Chapters on Wolfe, Lewis, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck, Dos Passos, Farrell, & Richard Wright. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1545] Book number: 3711
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BOYNTON, PERCY H.  The Rediscovery of the Frontier
New York: Greenwood Press, 1968. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 0837104807. A solid, clean copy, in the original gray cloth covers for this reprint ed. Totally free of markings, inside, also! ; 8vo; 185 pages; Reprint of the 1931 ed.. Very Good .
USD 21.50 [Appr.: EURO 14.5 | £UK 13 | JP¥ 1898] Book number: 283
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BRADBURY, JOHN M.  The Fugitives: A Critical Account
New Haven, CT: College & University Press, c. 1958. First Paperback Edition. Softcover; Stated First Printing. ISBN: 0808401394. A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original stiff paper covers; 8vo; 300 pages; Reprinted by arrangement with Univ. Of North Carolina Press, which published this, first, in 1958. Reprint published in 1964. Very Good .
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 4274
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BREWSTER, DOROTHY  East-West Passage: A Study in Literary Relationships
London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. Backstrip very slightly faded, otherwise VG plus ; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original red cloth covers, with silver lettering ; 8vo; 328 pages; With a focus on Russian literature and the growing interest in it, in the West, from the 1870s on, primarily. Very Good .
USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 878] Book number: 6630
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BROOKS, VAN WYCK  The Writer in America
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Small tears in dj neatly repaired, and it's protected, now, by a clear plastic cover ; A solid, clean copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj. Totall free of markings inside, also ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 203 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 3091
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BROOKS, VAN WYCK  The Writer in America
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. Small tears in dj neatly repaired, and it's protected, now, by a clear plastic cover ; A solid, clean copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj. Totall free of markings inside, also ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 203 pages. Very Good .
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 9450
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BROWN, ESTHER E.  The French Revolution and the American Man of Letters
N. P.: Folcroft, 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers. Reprint of the 1951 University Of Missouri Studies series--only 150 copies printed, as paperbacks ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 171 pages. Very Good+ .
USD 33.50 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 | £UK 20.25 | JP¥ 2957] Book number: 1045
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CAZDEN, ROBERT E.  German Exile Literature in America 1933-1950: A History of the Free German Press and Book Trade
Chicago, IL: Am. Library Association, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover; Second Printing. ISBN: 0838930980. With attention to the Manns, Brecht, Werfel, and many others; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages; With attention, to the Manns, Brecht, Werfel, and also to the thousands of others for whom the German language was a necessary medium of expression, including writers, journalists, politicians, publishers, booksellers, and scholars.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 1690
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CLEATON, IRENE, AND ALLEN CLEATON  Books & Battles: American Literature, 1920-1930
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Nine Photos. Covers slightly worn, slightly dust-soiled, in places, else nearly VG; A solid, clean copy, in the original light brown cloth covers. Totally free of markings, inside, also! On Mencken, expatriates, the Algonquin, Harlem Renaissance, and more; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 282 pages; Essays on the revolt against Puritanism and Victorianism and provincialism, during these years, with chapters on Mencken, the expatriates, the Harlem Renaissance, and many other rebels against the established order, for all kinds of reasons. Good+ .
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 2469
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COWAN, MICHAEL H.  City of the West: Emerson, America, and Urban Metaphor
New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300003862. A bright, solid, clean copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj, with the latter protected by a clear plastic cover, now. With a pictorial DJ reproducing part of Cole's "Voyage of Life," in accord with the author's concerns; totally free of markings, inside, also! ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages. As New in As New dust jacket .
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 239
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COWLEY, MALCOLM. HENRY DAN PIPER, ED.  Think Back on Us. . . : A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930s. The Literary Record
Carbondale & Edwardsville, London: Southern Illinois University Press/ Feffer & Simons, c. 1967. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0809305992. Small 8vo; 197-400 pages; Vol. 2 of a two-volume paperback edition of a work first published in cloth, in a single volume. Very Good .
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 7041
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CROWDER, RICHARD  Those Innocent Years: The Legacy and Inheritance of a Hero of the Victorian Era, James Whitcomb Riley
Indianapolis & New York: Bobb-Merrill Co, c.1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Photo At Front. DJ slightly worn, price-clipped, otherwise VG plus, & protected, now, by a clear plastic cover ; A bright, solid, clean copy, in the original cloth covers, and illustrated dj ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1280] Book number: 1811
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DAVIDSON, DONALD  Southern Writers in the Modern World
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover; First Impression. DJ is price-clipped, otherwise nearly as new ; A bright, solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original cloth covers, and dj, with the latter protected by a clear plastic cover, now; Eugenia Dorothy Blount Lamar Memorial Lectures, 1957; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 76 pages. New in Very Good+ dust jacket .
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 9456
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DURNELL, HAZEL  The America of Carl Sandburg. With a Foreword By Gordden Link
Washington, D. C.: University Press of Washington, D. C, c. 1965. Softcover; First Impression. Illustrated by Bw Photos As Front, Illustrations. Covers slightly worn, in places, otherwise VG; A solid, clean, marking-free copy, in the original stiff paper covers, with a pictorial dust jacket, as well ; 8vo; 253 pages. Very Good- .
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 6414
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ERNST, MORRIS L. , & WILLIAM SEAGLE  To the Pure. . . A Study of Obscenity and the Censor
New York: Viking Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover; Second Printing. Covers slightly worn, with small faded area, bottom of backstrip, otherwise VG; A solid, clean copy, in the original black cloth covers, with gold lettering. Totally free of markings, inside, also!; 8vo; 336 pages. Very Good- .
USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1280] Book number: 7671
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FAUST, BERTHA  Hawthorne's Contemporaneous Reputation: A Study of Literary Opinion in America and England 1828-1864
New York: Octagon Books, 1977. First Edition Thus. Hardcover; Second Printing. ISBN: 0374927170. A bright, solid, clean copy, in the original cloth covers; totally free of markings inside, also!; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 163 pages; A new printing of the 1968 reprint edition of the original 1939 edition. New .
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1545] Book number: 9366
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FELDMAN, GENE, AND MAX GARTENBERG, EDITORS  The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men
New York: Citadel, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover; Second Printing. Covers slightly worn, with backstrip slightly darkend, in one place, and fragile white lettering partially rubbed away, otherwise quite a good copy, in the original cloth covers. ; A sold, clean copy, in the original beige cloth covers, with white lettering. Totally free of markings, inside, also! ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages; Citing the ISBN of a modern reprint edition. Good .
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 7924
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FELDMAN, GENE, AND MAX GARTENBERG, EDITORS  The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men
New York: Citadel, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover; Second Printing. Covers very slightly worn, with fragile white backstrip lettering missing only a small fragmet of it, in a place or two, otherwise VG. ; A bright, sold, clean copy, in the original beige cloth covers, with white lettering. Totally free of markings, inside, also! ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages; Citing the ISBN of a modern reprint edition. Very Good- .
USD 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 | £UK 10 | JP¥ 1456] Book number: 9319
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