White, E. B.,

Poems and Sketches of E. B. White.

NY, Harper & Row, (1981). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. "Whoever sets pen to paper writes of himself, whether knowingly or not." wrote White. Witty, wise and pensive, a rare delight. a book to be treasured and savored at your leisure. Green binding, told endpaper, green and white DJ with edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS053419I

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Wilde, Oscar, translation ascribed to,

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter.

NY, Book Collectors Assn, (1934). VG in Fair DJ. Depicts the degeneracy of Roman life under Nero, a consummate tale of roguery, an essentially moral commentary on evil &. hypocrisy. The present translation is by far the most readable of the many efforts that have been made to render the art and wisdom of the original. Book very good but DJ worn on edges and fading.

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Book number: BOOKS054159I

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Wilson, Edmund,

Axel's Castle: a study in the imaginative literature of 1870-1930.

NY, Scribner, (1969). G PB. The literary history of our time is to a great extent that of the development of Symbolism and of its fusion or conflict with. Naturalism. Wilson's classic study of six modern writers: Yeats, Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Proust, and Paul Valery traces the origiin of the Symbolist movement and its development in these six writers who represent the culmination of a self-conscious and very important literary movement.

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Book number: BOOKS053771I

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Wilson, Edmund,

The Bit between My Teeth: a literary chronicle of 1950-1965.

NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1965). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. 24 pieces of essays, reviews, imaginary interviews, articles on bees and wasps & mushrooms, my 50 years with dictionaries and. grammars, memoirs of Max Beerbohm and John Peale Bishop, et al. DJ edges rubbed.

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Book number: BOOKS049596I

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Wilson, Konner, editor,

Sandy River Review Summer 2016 Volume 36, Issue 2.

Farmington, ME, Univ of Maine, (2016). VG PB. Laura Bonazzoli, Shannon Brarndon, Hannah Calkin, Matthew Campbell, Rachel E. Chiong, Brian Czyzyk, Michelle M. Faith,. Peter Fariani, Duncan Gamble, Richard L. Gegick, Audrey Gidman, Tennessee Hill, Amy Joseph, Kate Joseph, Rachel McKenny, Annie Moloney, Sophia Nadler, Jack Percy, Kim Reed, Christina Sun, Edinson Shane Tolley, April Vazquez, Sarah Winchenbach, Gerald Withers are this month's contributors.

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Book number: BOOKS053687I

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Winchester, C. T.,

Some Principles of Literary Criticism.

NY, Macmillan, 1899. VG. Owner bookplate fep, notations, sl edge wear, top edge & lettering on spine gilt.

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Book number: BOOKS016561I

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Withington, Robert & Cortlandt Van Winkle, edited by,

Eminent British Writers of the Nineteenth Century.

NY, Harper, 1934. 1st ed. VG. Fading along spine, owner name ft endpaper.

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Book number: BOOKS035869I

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Smith College Women,

Smith Voices: selected works by Smith College.

Northampton, MA, Smith College, (1990). VG in VG DJ. Owner bookplate fep.

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Book number: BOOKS016981I

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Woods, George Benajmin, edited by,

English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement.

Chicago, Scott Foresman, (1950). Revised. VG. Navy blue binding, gilt decoration.

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Book number: BOOKS047656I

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Zipes, Jack,

Fairy Tale as Myth: Myth as Fairy Tale: Thomas D. Clark Lectures 1993.

Lexington, KY, Univ Press of Kentucky, (1994). VG PB. Zipes explores historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late 17th century and examines the ideological. relationship of classic fairy tales to domination and oppression in Western society. Zipes sees Disney's Snow White as an expression of American male individualism, film and literary interpretations of Baum's The Wizard of Oz as critiques of American myths, and Bly's Iron John as a misunderstanding of folklore and traditional fairy tales. Edge wear, fading to spine and back outer edge.

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Book number: BOOKS046900I

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