Eco, Umberto

Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays

San Diego, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but for some slight edge-wear, protected by a plastic coat. Translated from the original Italian by William Weaver thus a First American Edition, stated. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "a" in "number" line present as is standard for this publisher. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii, 307 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: 357295

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: William Weaver Umberto Eco literature

Fowles, John; Jan Relf, ed.

Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Preface to this fine collection of literary musings by an acknowledged master includes the following: "truth about all writers, male or female. They are professionally, often foolishly and blindly, egocentric. Somewhere, it may be deep down, they all believe that no one can - or could - write so well as they. The vanity of this self-belief is really what distinguishes and specifies our kind . . . it is a condition shared by all artists; a kind of clinging, in the savage typhoon of existence . . . to the one spar that promises to float." Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Two-tone, tan and brown cloth over boards. Edited by Jan Relf, a fine collection of literary reviews and perspectives. 403 pp. with Acknowledgments as to original publications.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 356267

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Jan Relf John Fowles literary criticism essays literature

Glatzer, Nahum N.

The Loves of Franz Kafka

New York, Schocken Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A short, accessible, fascinating account of the general and specific absence of romantic loves in the life of Franz Kafka. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Several black-and-white photographs.Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xv [1], 3-85 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 349899

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Franz Kafka|Nahum N. Glatzer|philosophy|biography

Gerould, Winifred Gregory and James Thayer Gerould

A Guide to Trollope

London, The Trollope Society, 1976. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to illustrated covers, gray and black, floral patterns galore, and particularly sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright interior, unmarked, clean. Reprint edition based on the 1948 publication of the same name published initially The Trollope Society. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.xxv [2], 3-256 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 355823

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Winifred Gregory Gerould James Thayer Gerould Florence W. Ewing Anthony Trollope The Trollope Society

Gross, Gloria Sybil

In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson

New York, AMS Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Another fine addition to the series, AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix, 208 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . New/New,

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Book number: 356542

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Samuel Johnson Jane Austen Gloria Sybil Gross

Hewison, Robert

Under Siege: Literary Life in London 1939-45

New York, Oxford University Press, 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, light dust soiling along top edge, bright interior, unmarked. Simple brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, some edgewear at top, sunning to inside front flap edge, else not price-clipped. Several ranges of brilliant black-and-white photographs and illustrations including of writers such as Joyce Carey, George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, J.B. Priestley and others, poets cuahs T.S. Eliot, Roy Fuller, Dylan Thomas, and painters such as Graham Bell, John Craxton, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, John Piper and Graham Sutherland. x, 1-219 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 351837

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: literature London England literary criticism W.W.I.I. Robert Hewison

Hildebidle, John

Thoreau: A Naturalist's Liberty

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Quite useful condensation of Henry David Thoreau's extensive journals into a one-volume format. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but for crimp to upper inner flap tip, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii [2], 3-174 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 356275

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Henry David Thoreau John Hildebidle Romantics environment ecology

Hitchman, Janet

Such a Strange Lady: A Biography of Dorothy Sayers

New York, Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, chipped along edges, sunned a bit at spine. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. 177 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: 355730

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Janet Hitchman Dorothy L. Sayers literary biography

Holroyd, Michael

Bernard Shaw: A Biography--the Search for Love (Volume 1); the Pursuit of Power (Volume 2)

New York, New York, Random House, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound set of two hardcover copies, little discernible wear to the two-tone covers, handsomely bound, with silver lettering to covers and spines, with bright interiors, unmarked in both cases. Bright and shiny dust jackets, illustrated, little worn, though one is sunned a bit from brown to burgundy. Many, many score black-and-white illustrations and photographs of the influential novelist, playwrite, poet, and literary critic, his lovers and wife and family, and literary luminaries from Hillaire Belloc to G.K. Chesterton. Volume 1: viii [2], 3-486 pp.; Volume 2: ix [2], 3-421 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 356238

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Michael Holroyd George Bernard Shaw literary biography

Kaun, Alexander

Leonid Andreyev: A Critical Study

New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author, this being the published version of his Ph.D. dissertation, at first free endpaper, "To Constance and Spencer, in mymory of an adventurous voyage. Januar, 1927, A.K." Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, bound in rust-colored cloth, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining, and with gilt lettering to spine, blind-stamped title at cover. Gilt-stained top edge, very mild soiling to, wear of covers, text-block. xii [2], 3-361 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Very Good

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Book number: 345739

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: signed|Leonid Andreyev|Alexander Kaun

William S. Knickerbocker

Creative Oxford: Its Influence on Victorian Literature

Syracus, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, being warmly inscribed to William Baldwin. Blue cloth boards are discolored to white at top edge near spine and extensive at bottom edges and spine foot, but not seemingly from damp-staining, as there is neither mold nor mildew nor odor nor text waffling, and simple, printed, sunned paper dust jacket is unaffected; now protected in a Demco sleeve. Dealer stamp, neatly affixed. Cracking to rear paste-down to gutter, else clean and unmarked of interior. Special focus on the works of Benjamin Jowett, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold and others from the Oxford University. ix, 224 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Good/Very Good,

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Book number: 350796

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: William Knickerbocker|literary criticism|Oxford University|signed

Kresh, Paul

Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of West 86th Street

New York, The Dial Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Slight torque to spine, else handsomely bound in gray linen cloth, sharp and distinct blue lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond a crease to front inner flap, very light sunning to upper edge, protected by a plastic coat.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,

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Book number: 351927

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Isaac Bashevis Singer Paul Kresh Jewish authors literary biography

Ludington, Townsend

John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, First Printing, bound handsomely in a big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format, two-tone blue and white cloth, silver lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond light edgewear along top edge and a short closed tear there, protected by a plastic coat. Long range of black-and-white photographs. Table of Contents shows: Novels 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917 (1), Three Soldiers (87), Manhattan Transfer (477); Chronology (841), Note on the Texts (859), Notes (862). Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xx [1], 2-568 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 356503

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: literary biography Townsend Ludington John Dos Passos

Lycett, Andrew

Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond

Atlanta, Georgia, Turner Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound handsomely in two-tone, gray paper over boards, with author's initials blind-stamped to front cover, black cloth-backed. 16 pp. of sharp and distinct black-and-white plates depicting the author of the James Bond novels of Ian Fleming (1908-1964). x, 486 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Book number: 352229

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: James Bond Ian Fleming Andrew Lycett

MacNiven, Ian S., ed.

Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80

New York, New Directions, 1998. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Accessible, handsomely bound collection of letters. xvi + 528 pp., with eight black-and-white plates, and complete with notes and index. Bound in black paper over boards, spine lettered in white. Lightly toned of interior. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Stated First U.S. Edition. From the publisher's blurb, "Over half the present volume has never been published before, including some recently recovered "lost" letters, and many passages expurgated from the last edition in 1963 have been restored.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 352235

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Laurence Durrell Ian S. MacNiven Henry Miller