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	FOX, RALPH The Novel and the People London, Cobbett Publishing Co. Ltd. 1944, Reprint. Cloth, 5 x 7.5". 172pp inc index - Socialist view of the novel as an art form. Covers (brown cloth with black titles to spine) are very slightly edgeworn and have bumped corners. Textblock is clean and tight except for tanning of pages. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 \| JP¥ 2201] Book number: 006472 Click here to order or inquire at Books at Star Dot Star.
	HILDICK, WALLACE Children and Fiction London, Evans Brothers Ltd. 1970, First Edition. (ISBN: 0237351862) Cloth. Ex-Library, 204pp including index. Critical study of writing for and about children. Usual library markings. Front hinge broken. Very Good/Fine -. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 \| JP¥ 880] Book number: 000276 Click here to order or inquire at Books at Star Dot Star.
	WHIBLEY, CHARLES Literary Studies London, Macmillan and Co Ltd. 1919, First Edition. Buckram, 5.25 x 7.75". 370pp plus two-page publisher's catalogue - Covers (black buckram with gilt titles to front board and spine) has minimal edgewear (except to head and tail of spine) and some rubbing. Textblock is clean and tight with tanning to EPs, an ex libris plate of "T. J. Hardy" to FPDP and two pencilled annotations. The essays include: "The Chroniclers and Historians of the Tudor Age", "Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Time", "The Court Poets" and ""An Underworld of Letters" etc. According to Stephen Donovan of Blekinge Institute of Technology in an article on the Literary Encyclopedia site, Whibley (1859 - 1930) was an editor, journalist, literary critic, essayist, polemicist in other words an all around Man of Letters. Donovan notes he was "erudite and pugnacious.. a formidable personality of the British publishing scene between 1890 and 1930." The main body of his work includes literary and political biographies, Donovan adds, as well as "reissues of Elizabethan and Jacobean translations of classical authors, personal memoirs and criticism, and a vast amount of literary journalism.". Very Good +/No Jacket. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 \| JP¥ 1467] Book number: 007367 Click here to order or inquire at Books at Star Dot Star.
	WILSON, EDMUND Classics and Commercials. A Literary Chronicle of the Forties New York, Farrar, Straus & Co. 1950, First Edition. Cloth, 4.5 x 7.5". x, 534pp inc index - Wilson (1895 - 1972), according to Wikipedia was an American writer, specialising in literary criticism. Many considered him the preeminent American literary critic of his day, and perhaps of the 20th century. This collection of his essays from the 1940s deal with: Archibald MacLeish, Van Wyck Brooks, John O'Hara, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck, Max Eastman, Louis Bromfield and many other members of the glitterati of the era. They were originally published in "New Yorker", "New Republic" and other similar quality journals. Covers (blue cloth with gilt titles to spine) and textblock are immaculate. Fine -/No Jacket. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 27.75 US$ 41.53 \| JP¥ 3669] Book number: 007380 Click here to order or inquire at Books at Star Dot Star.

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	FOX, RALPH The Novel and the People London, Cobbett Publishing Co. Ltd. 1944, Reprint. Cloth, 5 x 7.5". 172pp inc index - Socialist view of the novel as an art form. Covers (brown cloth with black titles to spine) are very slightly edgeworn and have bumped corners. Textblock is clean and tight except for tanning of pages. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 \| JP¥ 2201] Book number: 006472 Click here to order or inquire at Books at Star Dot Star.
	HILDICK, WALLACE Children and Fiction London, Evans Brothers Ltd. 1970, First Edition. (ISBN: 0237351862) Cloth. Ex-Library, 204pp including index. Critical study of writing for and about children. Usual library markings. Front hinge broken. Very Good/Fine -. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 \| JP¥ 880] Book number: 000276 Click here to order or inquire at Books at Star Dot Star.
	WHIBLEY, CHARLES Literary Studies London, Macmillan and Co Ltd. 1919, First Edition. Buckram, 5.25 x 7.75". 370pp plus two-page publisher's catalogue - Covers (black buckram with gilt titles to front board and spine) has minimal edgewear (except to head and tail of spine) and some rubbing. Textblock is clean and tight with tanning to EPs, an ex libris plate of "T. J. Hardy" to FPDP and two pencilled annotations. The essays include: "The Chroniclers and Historians of the Tudor Age", "Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Time", "The Court Poets" and ""An Underworld of Letters" etc. According to Stephen Donovan of Blekinge Institute of Technology in an article on the Literary Encyclopedia site, Whibley (1859 - 1930) was an editor, journalist, literary critic, essayist, polemicist in other words an all around Man of Letters. Donovan notes he was "erudite and pugnacious.. a formidable personality of the British publishing scene between 1890 and 1930." The main body of his work includes literary and political biographies, Donovan adds, as well as "reissues of Elizabethan and Jacobean translations of classical authors, personal memoirs and criticism, and a vast amount of literary journalism.". Very Good +/No Jacket. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 \| JP¥ 1467] Book number: 007367 Click here to order or inquire at Books at Star Dot Star.
	WILSON, EDMUND Classics and Commercials. A Literary Chronicle of the Forties New York, Farrar, Straus & Co. 1950, First Edition. Cloth, 4.5 x 7.5". x, 534pp inc index - Wilson (1895 - 1972), according to Wikipedia was an American writer, specialising in literary criticism. Many considered him the preeminent American literary critic of his day, and perhaps of the 20th century. This collection of his essays from the 1940s deal with: Archibald MacLeish, Van Wyck Brooks, John O'Hara, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck, Max Eastman, Louis Bromfield and many other members of the glitterati of the era. They were originally published in "New Yorker", "New Republic" and other similar quality journals. Covers (blue cloth with gilt titles to spine) and textblock are immaculate. Fine -/No Jacket. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 27.75 US$ 41.53 \| JP¥ 3669] Book number: 007380 Click here to order or inquire at Books at Star Dot Star.