ALDINGTON, RICHARD (SELECTED AND EDITED BY)

The Portable Oscar Wilde: The Epitome of a Brilliant and Tortured Mind

The Viking Press, 1969. Fifteenth Printing. Paperback. 690 pages. Clean text, cover creases. Novels, poems, plays, poems, essays, letters, anecdotes. G .

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Book number: 27386

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Oscar Wilde Dorian Gray Salome de Profundis the Importance of Being Earnest Poems Angela Lansbury Dorian Gray

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

ALLEN, WALTER, ED

Transatlantic Crossing; American Visitors to Britain and British Visitors to America in the Nineteenth Century

William Morrow, 1971. Hardcover. 332 pages. Clean, good binding, no DJ. Includes: Nathaniel Parker Willis; James F. Cooper; William C. Bryant; Bayard Taylor; Melville; Prescott; Parkman; Emerson; Stowe, Hawthorne; Henry Brooks Adams; Elihu Burritt; Joaquin Miller; James Russell Lowell; Holmes; William James; Henry James; William Cobbett; Basil Hall; Frances Trollope; Thomas Hamilton; Fanny Kemble; Harriet Martineau; Frederick Marryat; Dickens; Laurence Oliphant; Thomas Richard Weld; Thackeray; Isabella Bishop; Thomas Colley Grattan; Anthony Trollope; etc. G/NONE .

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Book number: 13977

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Great Britain -- Description and Travel Transatlantic Crossing Nathaniel Parker Willis James Fenimore Coooper William Cullen Bryant Bayard Taylor Herman Melville William Hickling Prescott Francis Parkman

ANGOFF, CHARLES; MEYER LEVIN (EDITED BY)

The Rise of American Jewish Literature: An Anthology of Selections from the Major Novels

Simon and Schuster, 1970. Hardcover. ISBN: 067120369X. 988 pages. Good binding, clean text, outer edges have brown age spots. From 22 major Jewish writers in the United States. Abraham Cahan, Charles Angoff, Henry Roth, Ludwig Lewisohn, Chaim Potok, Saul Bellow, Wallace Markfield, Norman Mailer et al ;. G/G .

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Book number: 26874

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: 067120369x Anthology -- Jewish Jewish American Writers Chaim Potok Saul Bellow Wallace Markfield Jay Friedman Edward Lewis Wallant Gerald Green Frederic Morton

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

Catalogue: Literature

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

BACON, SIR FRANCIS; HENRY MORLEY (INTRODUCTION)

Essays of Bacon

Fine Editions Press. Hardcover. Undated. Introduction by Henry Morley. Nameplate on endpaper. Includes the Fine Editions Club newsletter which gives a summary of the book and info on the author. Book and boards are clean, light fraying on the red cloth edges. 140 pages. G .

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Book number: 11196

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: English Essays 16th Century Francis Bacon Essays Coar Geigernewlad Henry Morley English Essays 17th Century Elizabethian Era

DE BALZAC, HONORE

Oberst Chabert

Rowohlt, 1950. Paperback. German text. Cover torn at the edge, cover creases, pages browned. 170 pages. Fair .

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Book number: 10530

Catalogue: German Literature

Keywords: Colonel Chabert Operas Honore de Balzac Oberst Chabert German Literature Lost Illusions Honor de Balzac

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

BALZAC

La Vieille Fille - le Cabinet Des Antiques

George Barrie. Hardcover. Illustrated by D. Hernandez Et P. Vidal. Undated. Appendice: Preface A L'Edition de 1839. Red cloth boards have rubbing, binding is good. Stains are present on the sides and right edge and the front and back boards, pages and endpapers browned. Table Des Matieres: La vieille Fille and Le Cabient Des Antiques. Frontispiece and full page black and white illustrations - scenes De La Vie De Province. Text is in French. 393 page; La Comedie Humaine; Ex-Library. Fair .

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Book number: 16545

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: French Literature -- 19th Century Classic French Literature le Cabinet Des Antiques la Vieille Fille la Comedie Humaine Romance Frances French Literature 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. G .

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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

BENTLEY, ERIC (EDITOR)

The Modern Theatre: Volume 1

Doubleday, 1955. Paperback. Clean text, cover has heavy creases and edge wear. Anchor A48. Includes: Woyzeck, Cavalleria Rusticana, Woman of Paris, The Threepenny Operator, Electra ;. Fair .

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Book number: 24907

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Theatre -- Plays Woyzeck Cavalleria Rusticana Woman of Paris the Threepenny Opera Electra

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