ALDRIDGE, JOHN W.

In Search of Heresy

McGraw Hill, 1956. Hardcover. Illustrated by Elizabeth Rodewald, Jacket Design. 208 pages Clean text, endpapers have dark yellow tape residue, boards bumped, DJ scratches, upper edge of DJ has some tears. Clean text, acknowledgements page is creased. Literary criticism of American writers of two world wars - William Styron, J. D. Salinger, Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, James T. Farrell, David Riesman, Ira Wolfert, Saul Bellow and others. ; Ex-Library. Fair in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 27910

Catalogue: Literature

APULEIUS

Apulei Apologia Sive Pro Se de Magia Liber: Metamorphoseion Libri Xi Florida

Mockba, 1959. Hardcover. RUSSIAN text. "The Golden Ass" by Apuleius, also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis. This is a Latin literature story of Lucius who accidentally turns into a donkey after fooling around with magic. Apuleius was a Roman philosopher, Latin-language prose writer. Good .

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Book number: 24422

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Keywords: Latin Literature Magic -- Fiction Donkeys -- Fiction Apuelius Platonici Platonism Apologia Isis -- Goddess Foreign Languages

ASHBERY, JOHN

As We Know: Poems (Photo of Author Included)

Penguin Classics, 1979. Softcover. ISBN: 0140422749. Includes a separate, black and white glossy PHOTO of John Ashbery dated 1979. Review copy with review slip along with a Viking newsletter. Clean text, cover has some creases and scratches; some pages are creased at the top edge. Contains 47 short lyrical pieces plus the long poem, "Litany." Some of the poems are Sleeping in the Corners of Our Lives, Five Pedantic Pieces, Flowering Death, My Erotic Double, A Box and Its Contents, Distant Relatives, Hittite Lullaby, Landscapeople, The Plural of Jack-in-the Box, and more. Good .

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Book number: 18233

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: 0140422749 Poetry John Asbery, American Poet Thomas Victor Photographer Beth Tondreau Pieter Jansz Saenredam Pulitzer Prize National Book Award Winner Yale Younger Poets Prize Sleeping in the Corners of Our Lives Rare Photography

DE BALZAC, HONORE

Pere Goriot

International Collectors, 1951. Hardcover. Illustrated by Margot Tomes. 281 pages. Good binding, clean text. Illustrated with drawings. Decorative boards. Ribbon marker. Remnants of nameplate on front endpaper. Translated from the French into English. Good .

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Book number: 13091

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: French Literature Margot Tomes Fathers and Daughters Paris France 19th Century French Language

BARROW, R. H

The Romans

Penguin, 1953. Paperback. 224 pages. Age browning, light pencil marks on the Contents page. Map frontispiece. An analysis of Rome's achievement and of her contribution to the founding of Western Civilization. Good .

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Book number: 664

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Rome -- Civilization Roman Empire Vergil the Romans By Barrow Robert Hayward Barrow Roman History History

BARZEL, HILLEL (EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY)

Hatne Peras Yisrael: Shirah Israel Prize in Literature - an Anthology of Short Stories

Jerusalem: Misrad ha-hinuckh veha-tarbut, 1970. Softcover. Text in Hebrew. An Anthology by various writers. Recipients of "Israel Prize" in Literature. 320 pages. Outer wrappers have some soiling. Writers include: Hayyim Hazaz, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Gershon Shofman, Eliezer Smoli, S. Yizhar, Y. D. Berkowtiz, Yehuda Burla, Avigdor Hameiri. Good .

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Book number: 21948

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Short Stories, Hebrew Israel Prize for Literature Hatne Peras Yisrael Yehuda Burla Jewish Poetry Hillel Barzel Hayyim Hazaz Shmuel Yosef Agnon Gershon Shofman Hebrew Language

BERMAN, RONALD

A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays: A Discursive Bibliography

Scott, Foresman, 1965. Softcover. Clean text. Cover has heavy creases and discoloration. ; 151 pages. Every play has a chapter devoted to it, divided into sections headed text, editions, sources, criticism, and staging. The purpose of this book is to reduce the long list of works about Shakespeare's plays to some 3000 entries and to order these so that what is fundamental to each play may be easily be known. Each play has a chapter devoted, divided into sections headed text, editions, sources, criticism, and staging. Fair .

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Book number: 2169

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: William Shakespeare -- 1564-1616 -- Bibliography a Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays Ophelia Cymbeline Hamlet the Tempest Henry the Eighth Troilus and Crissida the Taming of the Shrew

BLY, ROBERT (EDITOR)

Forty Poems: Touching on Recent American History Pablo Neruda , James Wright, Allen Ginsberg

Beacon Press, 1970. Hardcover. ISBN: 080706422X. Clean text. Red marks on the DJ edges and outer edge of several pages. DJ has former's name on the back cover, DJ has has crease on the upper front, light edge tears in the back.. A collection of political poems by Louis Simpson, William Stafford, Pablo Neurda, Robinson Jeffers, Thomas McGrath, Ruben Dario, Hart Crane, William Vaugn Mod, Jacinto Fombona-Pachnao, Ezra Pound, David Ignatow, James Wright, Walt Whitman, Gene Framkin, Allen Ginsberg, et al. Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 21166

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: 080706422x Political Poetry Robert Bly Pablo Neruda William Carlos Williams Allen Ginsberg Thomas Mcgrath Hart Crane Ezra Pound James Wright

BRODY, MARCIA BASS

Age Is Only a Number

Marcia Brody, 2024. Paperback. ISBN: 1088031455. Illustrated with drawings, this is a delightful book of original poetry, good for all ages, written by a 96 year old. Her memories and life long lessons and wisdom from living in the South growing up among seven children, as well as her life and family while living in Cheltenham, PA. New .

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Book number: 27151

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Keywords: 1088031455 Poetry Old Age -- Poems Bill Cosby and Marcia Brody North (S.C. ) Marcia Brody Cheltenham Pa Judaism Baltimore

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth B. Browning : Series Ii

Collins' Clear-Type Press. Hardcover. 474 pages. Illustrated. Flexible red cloth covers. Frontipiece drawing of the author. Pages have some browning, creases on a few pages. Binding is good, small tear a the upper spine. Fair .

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Book number: 24777

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning

BULFINCH, THOMAS; W. L. KLAFF (NOTES, REVISIONS, AND ADDITINS)

The Age of Fable Or the Beauties of Mythology

The Heritage Press, 1942. Hardcover. Illustrated by Stanley William Hayter. 369 pages. Text clean, good binding, light remnants from nameplate, light scuffing on the front boards. Includes Prometheus and Pandora, Apollo and Daphne, Phaeton, Midas, Baucis and Philemon, Cupid and Psyche, Monsters, The Golden Fleece, etc. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 28427

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Mythology -- Greek Norse Mythology Apollo and Daphne Cupid and Psyche Greek Mythology the Trojan War Hercules the Age of Fables By Bulfinch W.H. Klapp

CACALOVA, LIBUSE

Doteky

Universal Publishing, Inc, 1979. Soft Cover. Illustrated by J. Z. Korber. A collection of Libuse Cacalova's poetry. Illustrated with unusual maze-like graphics. Written in Czech. Some of the poems include: Oblazkovy kraj; Usmevne chvile; Nezahojene; Bez tebe; Smutneni; Polni cesty; Vanoce; Laska; Nexbytne...and others. Clean with some cover creasing, light edge wear. Good .

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Book number: 6893

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Czech Literature Slavic Literature Libuse Cacalova Burjetka Doteky By Libuse Cacalova Listopad Erotic Poetry J.Z. Korber Korber Art Rare Foreign Languages

CAREY, GARY; PAUL JORGENSEN

Shakespeare's Othello

Cliffs Notes, 1960. Paperback. Clean book. 86 pages. Includes Character Analyses on Othello and Iago. Cliff Notes only; Cliffs Notes;. Very Good .

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Book number: 22494

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Shakespeare, William --Othello--Examinations --Study Guines Othello (Shakespeare, William) Cliff Notes -- Othello

CAWLEY, A. C (EDITOR)

Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays

J. M. Dent & Sons, 1956. Hardcover. Includes The Moral Play of Everyman plus 14 miracle plays, biblical pageants. Good binding, clean, former owner's name inside, DJ has heavy tears. Some of the plays are: The Creation of Adam and Eve, Noah's Flood, Herod the Great, etc. 266 pages. Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 15146

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Plays Miracle Stories Lucifer Adam and Eve Noah's Ark Herod the Great Pilate Resurrection

CLARKE, THOMAS CURTIS; ROBERT EARLE CLARK (COMPILED BY)

Poems for the Great Days

Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1958. Hardcover. 245 pages. Contents include poems by various authors on various American holidays including Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Lent and Easter, Arbor Day, Armistice- World Order Day, Columbus Day, etc. Red cloth boards are discolored, hinges cracked, pencil marks; Ex-Library. Fair with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 26522

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Poems on American Holidays Washington's Birthday Arbor Day Armistice Day Dorothy Gould the Bulwark of Liberty Molly Anderson Haley Winnie Lynch Rockett