Grace Eckley

News Stead: A Journal of History and Literature, No. 11 (Fall 1997)

The William T. Stead Memorial Society, 1997. Paperback. 28p. A staplebound magazine in fine condition. Fall 1997 issue of NEWS STEAD, a semiannual periodical of the William T. Stead Memorial Society. Stead was a Victorian investigative journalist and newspaper editor who died in the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. This issue contains the Tennyson poem THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE and Stead's last "Progess of the World" piece for THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS, published shortly before his ill-fated Titanic voyage. As New .

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Book number: 188350

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Grace Eckley

News Stead: A Journal of History and Literature, No. 13 (Fall 1998)

The William T. Stead Memorial Society, 1998. Paperback. 28p. A staplebound magazine in fine condition. Fall 1998 issue of NEWS STEAD, a semiannual periodical of the William T. Stead Memorial Society. Stead was a Victorian investigative journalist and newspaper editor who died in the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. This issue contains an article on Stead's meeting with American journalist Albert Shaw, who is on the front cover, and a page showing frames from the film A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. As New .

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Book number: 188351

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Edmund J. Farrell, Ruth S. Cohen, L. Jane Christensen, and H. Keith Wright

Purpose in Literature

Glenview, IL, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1982. Medallion Edition, America Reads. Hardcover. 592p. A hardcover book in good reading condition. Corners and spine ends heavily worn. Pencil scribbles on foredges and rear endpapers. Student names written inside front cover. Binding slightly shaken due to years of use, but still tight enough for normal handling. Text unmarked. A vintage reading textbook for high schools. Good .

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Book number: 189029

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Arundell Esdaile

A List of English Tales and Prose Romances Printed Before 1740

NY, Burt Franklin, 1971. Hardcover. reprint. Ex-library blue cloth hardcover book. Original cloth. Library stamps and labels else a clean tight book in very good condition. Fair .

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Book number: 98356

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Keywords: Reference

Joan M. Ferrante

Woman As Image in Medieval Literature from the Twelfth Century to Dante

New York, Columbia University Press, 1975. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 166p. Ex-library hardcover book in original cloth. Label residue on spine, stamp on title page, and card pocket inside back cover. Otherwise a clean, tight, unmarked book in very good condition. Good .

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Book number: 197146

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James T. Fields

Yesterdays with Authors

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1900. Hardcover. 419p. Ex-library, original cloth. A hardcover book in good reading condition. Corners and tips of spine are lightly rubbed. Labels on spine and back cover. Sticker, owners' inscriptions, and card pocket on endpapers. Additional library marks on title page. Scattered pencil marginalia, but most pages clean, and binding tight. Memoirs of Thackeray, Hawthorne, Dickens, Wordsworth, Mary Russell Mitford, and Barry Cornwall (Bryan Procter), illustrated with facsimiles of handwritten letters. Fair .

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Book number: 198250

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca; Edward Fitzgerald, tr

Eight Dramas of Calderon

London, Macmillan, 1921. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 517p. Ex-library, original cloth. A hardcover book in good reading condition. Labels on spine and back cover. Bookplate, stamps, and card pocket on endpapers. Additional library marks on title page. Most pages uncut. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Contains THE PAINTER OF HIS OWN DISHONOUR; KEEP YOUR OWN SECRET; GIL PEREZ, THE GALLICIAN; THREE JUDGMENTS AT A BLOW; THE MAYOR OF ZALAMEA; BEWARE OF SMOOTH WATER; THE MIGHTY MAGICIAN; and SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE OF. Fair .

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Book number: 198417

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Janet Flanner

Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend

New York, Random House, 1985. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 507p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Binding slightly cockeyed, but still tight. Text is unmarked. The jacket is price-clipped, but otherwise intact. Letters of Janet Flanner, known as "Genet," to Natalia Danesi Muray, who is the editor of this publication. Very Good .

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Book number: 191817

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Harris Francis Fletcher

The Intellectual Development of John Milton, the Cambridge University Period 1625-32: Volume II [Incomplete]

Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 1961. Hardcover. Ex-library. Card pocket glued onto front endpaper. Stamps on page edges and title page. Call numbers painted on spine. Otherwise a clean, tight hardcover book in very good condition. Brown cloth boards. Volume 2 only. A detailed examination of Milton's academic studies at Cambridge. Includes extant writings from this period in Milton's life. .

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Book number: 122507

Catalogue: Literary

Keywords: Milton, 17th century, Christ's college, England

Antonia Fraser, ed

Love Letters

Avenel, NJ, Crescent Books, 1995. Hardcover. 192p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a fine dustjacket. Owner's stamps on endpapers and title page, and price sticker residue on front endpaper; otherwise clean and tight, and jacket fully intact. Illustrated anthology of real love letters written by famous historical and literary figures. Very Good .

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Book number: 191248

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Warren French, ed

A Companion to the Grapes of Wrath

New York, The Vining Press, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 243p. Ex-library, original cloth. A hardcover book in good reading condition. Label residue on spine and small label on back cover. Bookplate, stamps, and card pocket on endpapers; additional library marks on title page. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Critical essays analyzing Steinbeck's acclaimed novel. Fair .

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Book number: 198401

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James Anthony Froude, ed

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle: In 3 Volumes [Complete]

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1883. Hardcover. Ex-library. Stamps on title page and page edges. Call numbers painted on spine. Card pocket glued to front endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight set of hardcover books in good condition. Teal cloth boards. A complete 3 volume set. The personal correspondences of writer Jane Carlyle, wife of essayist Thomas Carlyle. Good .

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Book number: 1210690

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Keywords: biography, England, 18th century, Thomas Carlyle

Raymond Furness

Wagner and Literature

Manchester/New York, Manchester University Press/St. Martin's Press, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 159p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Scarce study of Wagner's impact on European literature. As New .

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Book number: 190273

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Stuart Gilbert

James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study

New York, Vintage Books, 1959. 6th Vintage Books printing. Paperback. 405p; xxv. A softcover book in good reading condition. Small markings all over back cover. Ink and pencil notations on title page and many pages near the beginning. Majority of text unmarked, and binding tight. Fair .

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Book number: 191462

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Herbert A. Giles

A History of Chinese Literature

New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937. Hardcover. 448p. Ex-library. A yellow cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Binding is cockeyed, but still tight. Spine tanned and lightly worn at the ends.Label on spine; bookplate, stamps, call number, and card pocket inside. Endpapers deeply tanned. Otherwise clean. Fair .

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Book number: 189128

Catalogue: Literary