Author: HOYT, Charles Alva (editor)
Title: Minor American Novelists
Description: Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Preface by Harry T. Moore. 8vo. Orange cloth with gilt spine lettering. xx, 140pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with spine rather sunned. A tight and nice first edition of this volume in general editor Moore's "Crosscurrents / Modern Critiques" series, with an array of scholars discussing the works of Charles Brocken Brown, John William De Forest, Charles Chesnutt, James Branch Cabell, John Dickson Carr, Nathanael West, Flannery O'Connor and Edward Lewis Wallant. From the library of academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir (1923-2013), who lightly pencils some notes (probably for one if his published reviews) and makes a few minor margin notes and marks. .

Keywords: Literary Criticism


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