BARISH, EVELYN [TEXT]; HOFER, EVELYN [PHOTOGRAPHER]

Emerson in Italy

NY, Holt, Rinehart, Winston. 1989, 1st. (ISBN: 0805009140). Hard, Folio. Illus, First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1989, first printing. Folio. 10 1/4" x 12 3/8." 116 pp. illus b/w and color photos. Brown cloth with black lettering. Barish traces Emerson's travels from Malta and Sicily to Rome and Northern Italy and chronicles the text with the exquisite photos of Evelyn Hoffer. Very slight bump to top corner, else fine in near fine dust jacket. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 010129

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Barish Evelyn Emerson Ralph Waldo Italy First Edition Travel Malta Literary Biography Profile Portrait Sketch Literary & Modern First Editions 0805009140

FRYE, ROLAND MUSHAT

Shakespeare's Life and Times a Pictorial Record

Princeton, Princeton University Press. 1967, 1st. Hard, 4to. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published Princeton: Princeton Univ Pr, 1967. 4to. 8 3/4" x 11 1/4." Unpaginated, 114 b/w illustrations. An exceptionally fine copy in a fine dj. Near Very Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 000929

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Shakespeare Essays Literary & Modern First Editions

LEWIS GASTON, LEARY

William Faulkner of Yoknapatawpha County, (Twentieth-century American writers)

NY, Crowell. 1973, 1st. (ISBN: 0690891733). Hard, 8vo. Ex-Library, First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Crowell, 1973. 214pp. Ex-library copy with pocket and bar code label on rear pastedown, single line rubber stamp on top edge, dj glued on. Clean tight, no writing or markings in text. Near fine in vg dj. Near Fine/Very Good Plus.

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Book number: 000577

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Lewis Gaston Leary William Faulkner First Edition 1897 1962 Juvenile 0690891733

GROSSKURTH, PHYLLIS

Byron: The Flawed Angel

Boston, Houghton Mifflin. 1997, 1st. (ISBN: 0395693799). Hard, 8vo. Illus, First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. xvii+510pp. illustrated with plates. Inscription on f.l. else an unread, fine copy in dj. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 000759

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Grosskurth Phyllis Byron Flawed Angel First Edition Literary Biography 0395693799

GUILES, FRED LAWRENCE

Hanging on in Paradise

NY, McGraw-Hill. 1975, 1st. (ISBN: 0070251185). Hard, 8vo. Illus, First Edition. Hardcover. Published NY:McGraw-Hill, 1975. 412pp. illus. b/w photos. Chronicle of literay authors in Hollywood with selected filmographies. Very Good. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000992

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Guiles Fred Hanging Paradise Hollywood Literary Authors Performing Arts 0070251185

GURA, PHILIP F.

Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel

NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2013, 1st. (ISBN: 9780809094455). Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013, first printing, 8vo. xix+330pp. "Rich in subplots and detail, Gura's narrative includes enlightening discussions of the technologies that modernized publishing and allowed for the printing of novels on a mass scale, and of the lively cultural journals and literary salons of early nineteenth-century New York and Boston. A book for the reader of history no less than the reader of fiction, Truth's Ragged Edge?the title drawn from a phrase in Melville, about the ambiguity of truth?is an indispensable guide to the fascinating, unexpected origins of the American novel." Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009083

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: 9780809094455

HAMILTON, IAN

Robert Lowell: A Biography

NY, Random House Inc. 1984, 1st. (ISBN: 039450965x). Hard, 8vo. Illus, First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published NY: Random House, 1984. xii+527pp. illus. Very good plus in dj. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.

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Book number: 000987

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Lowell Robert 1917 1977 Literary 039450965x

HOLMES, OLIVE (ED.)

Motion Arrested : Dance Reviews of H. T. Parker

Middletown Conn. Wesleyan University Press. 1982, 1st. (ISBN: 0819550582). Hard, 4to. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Middletown Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1982, first printing. Small 4to.xxiv+325pp. illustrated with b/w photos and reproductions. Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Vaslav Nijinsky, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham and others. Splash stain into upper margin og page block of some 30 pages, else very good in very good, price clipped dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009039

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Performing Arts 0819550582

INGRAMS, RICHARD

Malcolm Muggeridge

New York, HarperCollins Publishers. 1995, 1st. (ISBN: 0002556103). Hard, 8vo. First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Harper Collins, 1995. xiv+266pp. illus. As new in dj. As New/As New.

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Book number: 000506

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Ingrams Richard Muggeridge Malcolm First Edition 1903 1990 Literary Biography Portrait Profile Sketch Literary & Modern First Editions 0002556103

DELL'ISOLA, FRANK

Thomas Merton: A Bibliography (The Serif Series: Number 31, Bibliographies and Checklists)

Ohio, Kent State University Press. 1975. (ISBN: 0873381564). Hard, 8vo. Revised and Expanded Edition. Hard cover. Published Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1975, first printing. 8vo. xvii+220pp. Maroon cloth with gilt titles. The Serif Series, No. 3. Fine. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009021

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Literary & Modern First Editions 0873381564

JOHNSON, PAMELA HANSFORD

Hungry Gulliver, an English critical appraisal of Thomas Wolfe

NY, Scribners. 1948, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published NY: Scribners, 1948. 170pp. Fine in near fine dj. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 000657

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Johnson Pamela Hansford Hungry Gulliver Appraisal Thomas Wolfe First Edition Profile Portrait Criticism

LEE, A. ROBERT (EDITOR)

Nathaniel Hawthorne: New Critical Essays

London and New York, Vision / Barnes & Noble. 1982. (ISBN: 0389202819). Hard, 8vo. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London and New York: Vision / Barnes & Noble, 1982, second impression, 1984. 8vo. 254pp. "A major reassessment of Hawthorne. The great novels are re-evaluated, as are the stories, and attention is paid to Hawthorne's use of the American past, of Nature, and to his understanding of the newly emerging American history and culture and his place within the context of European literature." Minor dust spotting along top edge else fine in near fine dust jacket with two small impressions. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 009067

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: 0389202819

ROBERTS, S.C.

Holmes and Watson A Miscellany

London, Oxford University Press. 1953, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Oxford University Press, 1953. 137 pp. Essays on Holmes and Watson. Light foxing to end papers, else fine in very good dj. Dj has fraying and a 1 inch chip to the bottom front panel. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 000136

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Roberts S.C. Holmes Watson First Edition Sherlock Sherlockiana Essays Doyle A.C. Sketches Portraits Profile Literary & Modern First Editions

SCHÜLTING, SABINE (HERAUSGEBER), NORBERT GREINER HERAUSGEBER) UND RALF HERTL (HERAUSGEBER)

Shakespeare Jahrbuch 2017 Shakespeare's Green Worlds. Band 153. [Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft]

Bochum, Kamp Verlag. 2017. Hard, 8vo. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Bochum: Kamp Verlag, 2017. 8vo. 285pp. illustrated. Texts in German and English. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009025

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

SHERARD, ROBERT HARBOROUGH [PREFACE BY LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS

Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris & Oscar Wilde

NY, Greystone Press. 1937, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Greystone Press, 1937, first printing. 8vo. xvi+299pp. Black pebbled cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Mild trace of wear at spine ends and lower tips, else near fine. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010182

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Literary & Modern First Editions