Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

New York, Random House, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. His then latest collection of non-fiction works of praise and criticism and he invited his readers to "step across this line" with him in criticism. "Imaginary Homelands" accomplished much for 1980s developments in politics and literature, and Step Across This Line does the same and more for the last decade of the twentieth century. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. 402 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 356270

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: literary criticism Salman Rushdie

Adam, Suzane; Becka Mara McKay, translator

Laundry

Iowa City, Iowa, Autumn Hill Books, 2008. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine novel of and in immigration from a village in Transylvania to Israel. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated wraps, in gate-fold. Stated First Edition Thus, translated from the original Hebrew by Becka Mara McKay. 242 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 360144

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Suzane Adam Becka Mara McKay

Alexakis, Vassilis

Foreign Words

Iowa City, Iowa, Autumn Hills Books, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine memoir of and in travel to and immigration from paris to Greece to the Congo, and in translation from the original Greek to English by Alyson Waters. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated wraps, in gate-fold. Stated First Edition Thus. 215 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 360145

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Alyson Waters Vassilis Alexakis Greece memoir the Congo Paris France

Amis, Kingsley

One Fat Englishman

London, England, Victor Gollancz, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in red cloth over boards, sunned at spine and a bit to edges, else sturdy, tightly bound, clean, lightly toned of interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. An apparent First Edition, though not so stated. 192 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 360140

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: First Edition Kingsley Amis

Amis, Kingsley

Take a Girl Like You

New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1960. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Light foxing to top edge. Mustard cloth over boards, stamped cameo to front cover, gold lettering to spine. Printed paper dust jacket, illustrated, heavily rubbed and moderately worn but fully intact and not price-clipped. An apparent First U.S. Edition, though not so stated. 320 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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Book number: 360139

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Kingsley Amis

Archer, William; Havelock Ellis; A.E.H. Swain; George Saintsbury

A Lot of Five (5) Contributions to the Mermaid Series: George Farquhar; Christopher Marlowe; John Dryden, in Two Volumes; Sir John Vanbrugh

London, T. Fisher Unwin, . . Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. The Mermaid Series was published by Vizetelly & Co.; T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd.; Ernest Benn, Ltd.; Charles Scribner's Sons; A.A. Wyn, Inc.; from 1887-1966. This is a serviceable lot (with no dates of publication listed, but appear to be early 1900s) of four titles in five volumes, George Saintsbury's biography of John Dryden; A.E.H. Swain's of Sir John Vanbrugh; the biography of Christopher Marlowe, by Havelock Ellis (!) and with an Introduction by J.A. Symonds; and William Archer's account of George Farquhar. Pocketbook-sized tomes, covered in black paper over boards, black-lettered white paper labels to front covers and spines. Moderate rubbing to and scuffing of edges, toning to endpapers, else clean and unmarked of interiors, quite readable.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 355935

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: William Archer Havelock Ellis A.E.H. Swain George Saintsbury George FarquharChristopher Marlowe John Dryden Sir John Vanbrugh

Atwood, Margaret

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021

New York, Doubleday, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated with a fine full-color photograph of Margaret Atwood. protected. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. A brilliant selection of essays by the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments and other fine novels and works of literary criticism. She opines on whether or not The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopia or historical fiction, definitions of granola, the imperative to tell stories. xx [2], 4-475 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 357732

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: essays criticism Margaret Atwood literary criticism

Atwood, Margaret

Negotiating with the Dead

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge University Press, 2002. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, bound in two-tone, hunter-green paper over boards, green cloth-backed, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Comprised of six essays: Orientation: who do you think you are?; Duplicity: the jekyll hand, the hyde hand, and the slippery double; Dedication: the great god pen; Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & Co., Communion: nobody to nobody; and Descent: negotiating with the dead. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxvii [1], 2-219 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 359971

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: literary criticism Margaret Atwood

Auster, Paul

Hand to Mouth

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, tightly bound, clean copy with little discernible wear to exterior beyond remainder mark along top edge. Bright and shiny dust jacket, not price-clipped, a clearly unread copy. Following 130 pp. of literature and literary criticism, a fine memoir of the celebrated writer's life and work, there follow three Appendixes: 1: Three Plays Laurel and Hardy Go to Heaven, Blackouts and Hide and Seek, 2: Action Baseball, 3: Squeeze Play, by "Paul Benjamin," 449 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 356266

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Paul Auster modern first edition

Baker, Carlos

Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait

New York, Viking, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Long range of sharp and distinct black-and-white photographic plates featuring Ralph Waldo Emerson and his wife, Bronson Alcott and Louisa May Alcott and others of the period. xvi [1], 3-608 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 356272

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Ralph Emerson Carlos Baker literary biograph

Giuseppe Baretti

La Frusta Letteraria, Complete in Two Volumes

Milano, Italy, Societa Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Complete in two volumes, wholly in Italian language, blue and tan marbled paper over boards, heavily rubbed, also heavily rubbed paper title labels over spines (spelling his surname "Bareti"), rubbed and scuffed extremities, foxed endpapers, a few scattered ink blotches, but remarkably bright interiors overall. Paulo Caronni's fine black-and-white engraving of Baretti graces the frontis of Volume I. Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (24 April 1719, Turin, Piedmont – 5 May 1789, London) was something of a polymath, he being fluent in multiple languages and also something of a "literary critic, poet, writer, translator, linguist and author of two influential language-translation dictionaries" (Wikipedia). He was acquitted of murder by fruit-knife, he got in hot water for his translations of the works of Galileo, and started a literary journal of literary criticism, this work here, Frusta Letteraria (Literary Scourge). It was published posthumously but in his lifetime it encountered considerable difficulties. This is the first collection of his important works of literary criticism. Volume I: xviii, 1-479 pp.; [5], 6-489 pp. and including index and note of errata.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 355893

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Italian Language Giuseppi Baretti letters literary criticism

Barnes, Julian

Flaubert's Parrot

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition, a fine, fine, engrossing novel by the incomparable author Julain Barnes. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound attractively in two-tone, white paper over boards, green cloth-backed, "JB" stamped in gilt to front cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn and lightly toned at rear panel, with small chip at front panel bottom. 190 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Good,

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Book number: 360142

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot

Brabazon, James

Dorothy L. Sayers: A Biography

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Initial endpaper clipped, else a clean, tightly bound, bright of interior examplar as can be found of this fine and accessible biography of the beloved Dorothy Leigh Sayers. Bound handsomely in burgundy cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 308 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 355732

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: literary biography Dorothy L. Sayers James Brabazon

Brosman, Catharine Savage

The Shimmering Maya and Other Essays

Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing in fresh glossy black leatherette boards, tightly bound and clean and unmarked of interior, gilt titles to spine. Catharine Savage Brosman wrote three prior poetry collections and is a well-known French literary critical expert. Essays in this volume include "The Shimmering Maya: a trip to Texas," "Leaving for Good," "On Men and Women," "On Husbandry," "The Feminist in the Cupboard," "On Living," and other fine works. 149 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 355378

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Catharine Savage Brosman essays

Christopher Isherwood; Katherine Bucknell

Christopher Isherwood: The Sixties--Diaries 1960-1969

New York , Harper, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A big, fat, heavy, oversized volume, the second set of diaries in the trilogy thereof, edited and with Introduction by Katherine Bucknell, and with a Foreword by Christopher Hitchens. This volume opens on the subject's fifty-sixth birthday and continues to 1969. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xli [2], 2-756 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 356068

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: diaries memoir Christopher Isherwood Katherine Bucknell Christopher Hitchens