The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel
Princeton University Press, 1987. 1st. Cloth. A crisp, very solid copy of the 1987 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Thivk octavo, 595 pgs. More
Literary Criticism
Samuel Pepys: The Man in the Making SIGNED
Cambridge University Press, 1934. Cloth. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ARTHUR BRYANT on the half-title. 1934 2nd printing. VG in its original dark-green cloth, with decorative blindstamping to the front panel and bright gilt-lettering to the spine. Octavo, 436 pgs. Signed by Author. More
Keats's Shakespeare: A Desciptive Study Based on New Material
London: Oxford University Press, 1928. A handsome copy of the 1929 1st edition. Clean and VG in its dark leatherette, with bright gilt-lettering along the front panel and spine. Light foxing to several of the preliminaries and selectively along a number of the pages but still very presentable and well-preserved..... More
The Tragedy of Tolstoy SIGNED
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1933. Cloth. WARMLY INSCRIBED IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION BY COUNTESS ALEXANDRA TOLSTOY on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1933 1st UK edition, translated into English from its native Russian by Elena Varneck. Tight and VG in its light-green cloth, with..... More
The Cult of the Gaucho and the Creation of a Literature
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1947. Original Wraps. 1947 reprint of the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, for October, 1947. VG in its beige wrappers, with very light scuffing at the front panel. Octavo, 42 pgs. More
Virgil's Augustan Epic
Cambridge University Press, 1989. 1st. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1989 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (with very small former owner stamp at the front free endpaper) in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 280 pgs. More
The Growth of the Homeric Poems: A Discussion of Their Origin and Authorship
Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1885. 1st. Decorative Cloth. 18851st edition. Solid and VG in its dark-green cloth, with bright gilt-lettering to the front panel and lightly-faded lettering along the spine. Octavo, 216 pgs. plus publisher's ads. More
Heathen Rage
New York: Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1931. 1st. Cloth. The 1931 1st edition. "How We Heathen Feel About Those Who Try to Make Us True and Beautiful and Good....How Is It People Can Seriously Pick Themselves Out to Be Professors, Physicians, Lawyers, Artists and Even Ministers in a Day Like..... More
The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition (Review Copy)
The University of Chicago Press, 1971. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1971 1st edition. A Review Copy to boot, with The University of Chicago Review Slip laid-in. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. More
Essays and Marginalia (2 Vols.)
London: Edward Moxon, 1851. 1st. Full-Leather. The 1851 1st edition, complete in 2 volumes. Bound in a full, light-brown calf, with raised bands and bright gilt-rule and lettering along the spines. Light scuffing at the panels and very light chipping to the spine labels. Still though, solid and VG and..... More
Lives of Northern Worthies (3 Vols.)
London: Edward Moxon, 1852. Full-Leather. The 1852 "new" edition, complete in 3 volumes. Each volume bound in a handsome light-brown calf, with raised bands and bright gilt-rule and lettering along the spines. Light wear and scuffing to the panels and light wear to the outer hinges but still solid and..... More
Derrida and the Economy of Differance
Indiana University Press, 1986. 1st. Cloth. The 1986 1st edition. Solid, tight and VG+ (with small former owner stamp and date at front free endpaper) in a bright, VG+ dustjacket, with very light creasing --and one tiny chip-- along the rear panel's lower-edge. Octavo, 285 pgs. More
Candles and Carnival Lights: The Catholic Sensibility of F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York University Press, 1978. Cloth. A clean, well-preserved copy of the uncommon 1978 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. More
The American Southwest: Cradle of Literary Art -- Therese Kayser Lindsey Lectures (Signed by Larry McMurtry) SIGNED
San Marcos, TX: Southwest Texas State University, 1978. Decorative Cloth. SIGNED BY LARRY MCMURTRY on the Introductory page of his essay. An all-but-pristine copy to boot of this 1978 collection of 4 essays by 4 different writers on the important role of the American Southwest in literary history. Tight and..... More
The First Night of Twelfth Night
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. Cloth. A solid copy of the 1954 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light soiling to the front panel and spine and light creasing along the panel edges and spine ends. Octavo, 256 pgs. More
Creators of Wonderland SIGNED
New York: Arrow Editions (The Rydal Press), 1934. John Tenniel. Decorative Cloth. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR MARGUERITE MESPOULET IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION on the half-title. (ALSO INCLUDES A HANDWRITTEN NOTE BY THE AUTHOR LAID-IN). A handsome copy to boot of the 1934 1st edition, in this case #22 of an unspecified limitation..... More
Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing -- A Study of The Cantos
Atlantic Highlands, N.J. Humanities Press, 1984. Cloth. A very solid copy of the 1984 1st American edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of soiling along the front flap-folds. Octavo, 263 pgs. More
Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn
Cambrisge University Press, 1932. Cloth. A sharp copy of the 1932 second edition, IN ITS UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET AND PUBLISHER'S BOX. Bright and Near Fine in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the foot of the spine and very light rubbing to the rear panel. Thick octavo, 565..... More
Yeats: The Man and the Masks
London: Macmillan & Co., 1949. Cloth. A solid, very sharp copy of the 1949 1st UK edition (preceded by an American edition a year earlier). Tight and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with very mild darkening along the spine. Octavo, frontispiece portrait of Yeats..... More
Annotations to Finnegan's Wake
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. 1st. Cloth. A tight, solid copy of the 1980 1st edition. VG+ in its dark-green cloth, with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel and spine. Small former owner stamp to the front free endpaper and pencil underlining at the first 4 or 5 pgs..... More
Le Diable: Erotologie De Satan
Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert Editeur, 1963. 1st. Original Wraps. 1963 1st edition. Clean and VG+ in its original wrappers and in a bright, VG+ pictorial dustjacket. 12mo, 245 pgs. No. 10 in the wonderful "Bibliotheque Internationale d'Erotologie" series. More
Essays on His Own Times: Forming a Second Series of The Friend (3 Vols.)
London: William Pickering, 1850. 1st. Full-Leather. The 1850 1st edition, complete in 3 volumes. Bound in a full, light-brown calf, with raised bands and bright gilt-compartments and lettering along the spines. Light wear to the panels and at the spines but still solid, well-preserved and VG. 16mos, marbled endpapers and..... More
Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists (2 Vols.)
London: William Pickering, 1849. 1st. Full-Leather. The 1849 1st edition, complete in 2 volumes. Bound in a full, light-brown calf, with raised bands and bright gilt-rule and lettering along the spines. Light wear --and scuffing-- to the panels and at the spines but still solid and VG and very presentable..... More
Bloomsday: An Interpretation of James Joyce's Ulysses SIGNED
Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1972. Saul Field. Limited. Decorative Cloth. The 1972 SIGNED/LIMITED edition. #106 of 225 copies signed by both the author Morton Levitt and the illustrator Saul Field and "containing an original engraving printed on Arches 'Lavis-Trait' paper". A very sharp copy to boot. Immaculate and..... More
Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia
Cambridge University Press, 1994. 1st. Cloth. A crisp, tight copy of the 1994 1st edition. Solid and VG+ (with small former owner stamp at the front feee endpaper and light underlining only to the first 8 or 9 pgs.) in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 269 pgs. More