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| BARRATT, ANDREW; GORKII, MAKSIM The Early Fiction of Maksim Gorky : Six Essays in Interpretation Nottingham, UK, Astra Press. 1993. (ISBN: 0946134316). Original Wraps. 155 pages including index. Six essays of literary criticism including Makar Chudra: self and other; Chelkash: Games Tramps Play; On the Raft, Father and Son, etc. NEAR FINE with very slight soiling to the covers, with a hint of edgewear. Text clean and tight. Near Fine. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP„ 3089] Book number: 001560 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| BROWN, WILLIAM EDWARD History of Russian Literature of the Romantic Period. Volumes 1, 3 and 4 ONLY Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ardis. 1986, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0882339389). Hard Cover. VOLUMES 1, 3 AND 4 ONLY. LACKING VOLUME 2. Hardcovers in dust jackets. With indexes and illustrations. An exhaustive work studying Russian literature including Pushkin, Tyutchev, Lermontov, Gogol, Zhukovsky, Fabulists, Satirists and many others. All in VERY GOOD jackets with general fading, minor soiling and scuffing and a few small tears along the extremities. Books are in NEAR FINE condition with very minor fading along the extremities and very light foxing along the fore edges. Texts clean and solid, with the exception of page 158 in volume three, which has a note in PURPLE marker in the upper margin. No other writing found. Near Fine/Very Good. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 | £UK 45.25 | JP„ 6619] Book number: 001778 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| BROWNLEE, KEVIN AND MARINA SCORDILIS BROWNLEE, EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION. Romance. Generic Transformation from Chretien de Troyes to Cervantes Hanover, University Press of New England. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0874513383). Hard Cover. 292 pages including index. In this book thirteen scholars examine the changing conceptions of the romance genre that flourished in the formative centuries (medieval et al) of French, Italian and Spanish literature. Through close readings of individual texts and use of new critical approaches the various authors develop an historical perspective on this genre. Of note is mention of Mikhail Bakhtin theories and the areas of research they helped to fuel. In VERY GOOD/NEAR FINE condition. Minor soiling to the jacket. Some scuffing and two small punctures to the jacket. These do not affect the book. Light darkening and edgewear. Very light fading to the book itself. Else fine. Nice copy of this hard to find text on the genre of romance. Near Fine/Very Good. USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.5 | £UK 75.25 | JP„ 11032] Book number: 000559 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| CAMPBELL, JOSIE P. John Irving: A Critical Companion Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A. Greenwood Press. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0313302227). Hard Cover. Ex-Library, 202 pages including index. A work of criticism examining John Irving's work, analyzing all his novels, as well as providing a bibliography to his work. EX-LIBRARY in VERY GOOD condition. Usual stamps, pastedowns and markings present. Light scuffing, uneven minor fading and minor soiling to the covers. Text clean and solid, save the library stamps on the endpapers. Very Good/No Jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP„ 2206] Book number: 001645 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| CIZEVSKIJ, DMITRY. TRANSLATED BY RICHARD NOEL PORTER AND MARTIN P. RICE. EDITED, WITH A FOREWORD BY SERGE A. ZENKOVSKY Comparative History of Slavic Literatures Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. Vanderbilt University Press. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0826511597). Hard Cover. 225 pages including index. A comparative history of all Slavic language literatures, examining their origins, their similarities in style, themes and philosophies, as well as areas where they diverge and differ. VERY GOOD condition. Minor fading, rubbing and a hint of soiling to the covers. Minor edgewear. Text clean and solid with a small correction in pen on page 17, minor foxing to a few of the pages and some foxing to the page edges. Minor darkening to the pages. Solid copy in VERY GOOD condition. Very Good/No Jacket. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP„ 883] Book number: 001628 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| DUNDES, ALAN. EDITOR Cinderella: A Casebook Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press. 1988. (ISBN: 0299118649). Original Wraps. With a few illustrations. A detailed examination of the many variations of this tale found in different cultures throughout the world, including Russian, Greek, Chinese, French and other societies. VERY GOOD+ condition with light rubbing to the covers and extremities. Text solid with some minor underlining to the middle section of the text. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP„ 1324] Book number: 000921 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| GOSSE, EDMUND A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780) London, Macmillan and Co. 1889. Hard Cover. 415 pages. Topics include poetry, prose and drama after the restoration, Pope, Swift, Defoe, the dawn of naturalism in poetry, the novelists, Johnson and the philosophers and others. In VERY GOOD condition. Light rubbing and fading to the covers. Spine a bit sunned. Minor scuffing to the extremities. Inner text solid and clean with very sporadic but minor underlining in the text. This does not affect readability. Pages browning a bit. Solid copy of this study. Very Good/No Jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP„ 2206] Book number: 000647 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| HULET, CLAUDE L. Brazilian Literature 3. 1920-1960 Modernism Washington DC, Georgetown University Press. 1975. (ISBN: 0878400383). Original Wraps. 373 pages including an extensive bibliography. A study of Modernist Brazilian literature. Authors include Manuel Bandeira, Guilherme de Almeida, Cassiano Ricardo, Augusto Meyer and others. The criticism is in English but the authors' work is in the original Portuguese. In VERY GOOD condition with minor soiling and some bumping and minor curling to the corners. Text clean and solid. Very Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP„ 883] Book number: 001901 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| JOHNSTON, JOHN H. The Poet and the City: A Study in the Urban Perspectives Athens Georgia, University of Georgia Press. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0820307149). Hard Cover. 275 pages including index. A survey of urban poetics, discussing poets such as Jonson, Pope, Swift, Whitman, Cummings, Baudelaire and others. VERY GOOD jacket on a NEAR FINE book. Minor soiling, scuffing and edgewear to the jacket, with several notable scuffs to the rear panel. Minor darkening. Hint of fading and edgewear to the book. Else fine. Near Fine/Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP„ 1324] Book number: 001282 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| NORRIS, MARGOT Decentered Universe of Finnegan's Wake: A Structuralist Analysis Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1976. (ISBN: 0801821487). Original Wraps. In original wraps. 151 pages including bibliography. Isbn#0801821487. A work of literary criticism exploration a structuralist reading of Finnegans Wake and examining themes of family and society, triangular desire, primal scene, etc. GOOD condition. Uneven fading/offsetting to the front cover, mostly along the extremities. Minor scuffing to the covers, more moderate to the extremities. Minor soiling. Spine a bit faded. Text clean and solid. Very minor foxing to a small section of the fore edge. Good. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP„ 1765] Book number: 001508 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| OLNEY, JAMES The Rhizome and the Flower. The Perennial PhilosophyāYeats and Jung. Berkeley, University of California Press. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0520037480). Hard Cover. 379 pages including index. This book provides not only a comparative study of the work of William Butler Yeats and Carl Jung, but also traces their philosophies and expressions throughout history to presocratic thought. This book examines the historical roots of Jungās āarchetypesā and ācollective consciounessā and ties them to Yeatsā own poetry and ideas. VERY GOOD+ jacket on a NEAR FINE book. Some scuffing and minor soiling to the jacket. Light fading to the book. Else fine. Nice copy of this scarce work. Near Fine/Very Good. USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.5 | £UK 75.25 | JP„ 11032] Book number: 000558 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| POGGIOLI, RENATO The Poets of Russia. 1890-1930 Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. 1960, First American Edition. Hard Cover. 383 pages including index. An examination of the development of modern Russian poetry from the Decadent poets-Sologub, Gippius,etc.-to the symbolists (Belyj, Ivanov, etc.), Neoparnassians, the poets of the Advance Guard as well as modern poets such as Pasternak. In GOOD+ condition with minor soiling, some scuffing and fading. Minor edgewear. Text clean and solid with previous owner's inscriptions on the ffep and the dust jaket flaps taped to the inside front cover. Good/No Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP„ 1324] Book number: 001849 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| ROLLIN, ROGER B.;PATRICK, J. MAX Trust to Good Verses: Herrick Tercentenary Essays Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0822933535). Hard Cover. 291 pages including index. With a few illustrations. A collection of essays analyzing Robert Herrick's work, both its history and significance. NEAR FINE with light fading and rubbing along the cover extremities. Minor scuffing to rear cover. Minor soiling to fore edge pages. Previous owner's name on the ffep. Text clean and solid. Near Fine/No Jacket. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP„ 883] Book number: 001830 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| SNOWDEN, CYNTHIA Going to Barsetshire: A Companion to the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell Kearney, NE, Cynthia Snowden. 2000. (ISBN: 0970385803). Trade Paperback. 271 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. A guide to the people and places of Barsetshire in Thirkell's novels. Alphabetized. In NEAR FINE condition. Minor scuffing to the covers and extremities. Text clean and tight. Near Fine. Signed by Author. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP„ 2206] Book number: 002022 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| VARIOUS AUTHORS The Oxfordian. The Annual Journal of the Shakespeare Oxford Society. Volume 5. 2002 Washington DC, The Shakespeare Oxford Society. 2002. Original Wraps. In depth studies of English literature in the time of Shakespeare, with special emphasis on Shakespeare. Topics include the Prince Tudor dilemna: hip thesis, hypothesis or old wive's tale; a reattribution of Munday's "The Paine of Pleasure;" Shakespeare's support for the new astronomy and others. In NEAR FINE condition with light wear to the extremities. Inner text clean and tight. Near Fine. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP„ 2206] Book number: 000885 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. | ||
| WAUGH, PATRICIA Practicing Postmodernism: Reading Modernism United Kingdom, Edward Arnold/ St. Martins Press. 1992. (ISBN: 0340550503). Original Wraps. A study of Postmodernism that seeks to describe the movement of an extension of Modernist thought. Texts studied include Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Salman Rushdie's Shame, Ulyssess by James Joyce, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and others. NEAR FINE with a hint of rubbing to the covers. Text clean and tight. Near Fine. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP„ 1765] Book number: 000981 Click here to order or inquire at Mare Booksellers. |
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