An Unhurried View of Erotica.; Introduction by Dr. Theodor Reik. Preface by George Jean Nathan.
New York: The Helmsman Press, 1958. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black embossed cloth, black slipcase. 128pp. Very good/good. More
New York: The Helmsman Press, 1958. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black embossed cloth, black slipcase. 128pp. Very good/good. More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1968]. Hardcover. Preface by Harry T. Moore. 8vo. Orange cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xviii, 187pp. Fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear; small ownership signature on front pastedown. Handsome, tight third printing (first published 1963) of this volume in general editor Moore's "Crosscurrents..... More
London: Oxford University Press, [1952]. Hardcover. 12mo. Mustard cloth with black spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 247pp. Near fine/very good. Very faintest of wear to lovely jacket. Handsome first edition of this (to cite front jacket flap) "approach that views the facts of language imaginatively and seeks... the influence..... More
London: The Early English Text Society, 1935. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xxiv, 48pp, 8pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. Superb first edition, tight and bright, of this transcription with lengthy commentary of this 15th century manuscript. Ownership signature on front flyleaf of Father Karl G. Schroeder (1910-99)..... More
New York: Dorset Press, [1987]. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and orange paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxi, 226pp. Line drawings. Near fine/near fine. Tight, handsome revised and enlarged edition of this enjoyable study, first published in 1968. More
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with red and white spine lettering, dust jacket. xi, 207pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket quite edgeworn and rubbed, with several small edge chips and 3" paper loss at head of lightly-sunned spine. Tight and nice first edition of this study..... More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with red spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 172pp. Near fine/near fine. Ownership signature on half-title page. Tight, quite handsome first edition. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xiv, 284pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly age toned (more so at spine) and a bit rubbed, with couple of tiny chips at spine head; endpapers lightly age toned; nonauthorial 1930 gift inscription on front..... More
London: The Folio Society, [1998]. Hardcover. Introduction by Kenneth McLeish. Illustrations by Grahame Baker. Complete 2-volume set in slipcase. 8vo. Brown cloth spines with gilt lettering and decorated paper over boards, paper over boards slipcase with gilt lettering. 700pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Fine/near fine. Fifth printing, tight and pristine..... More
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, pictoria dust jacket. xi, 222pp. Frontispiece. Fine/near fine. First edition. More
N.p. College English, November 1955. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff off-white wrappers. Pp. 67-78. Very good. Wrappers sightly soiled, with age toning at edges. Scholarly offprint. More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. xii, 202pp. Fine/near fine. Attractive first edition. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975. Hardcover. With an introduction by Isaac Asimov. 4to. Blue and black cloth with orange metallic decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Numerous illustrations (several color). Very good/very good. First edition. More
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Volume III: 1957-1978. Small 4to. Tan cloth, dust jacket. xxi, 824pp. Near fine/fine. First edition of this mammoth reference. More
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, [1994]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 216pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/fine. Tight, quite handsome reprint edition of this 1980 compilation by a "Who's Who" of Sherlock scholars. More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1975]. Hardcover. Translation by Paul Schach and Sonja Lindgrenson. 8vo. Pale blue cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 219pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. Single small tear (archivally closed on verso) at head of otherwise superb and bright jacket; small front pastedown ownership signature..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Brick cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 176pp. Fine/fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature. Superbly tight, pristine first edition of this volume -- #26 in the "Yale Romantic Studies, Second Series." Uncommon in such bright, fresh condition. More
Cleveland: The Press of Western Reserve University, 1966. Hardcover. Foreword by John S. Diekhoff. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 286pp. Frontispiece. Near fine/near fine. Endpapers a bit age toned; front pastedown ownership signature of literature professor and critic John D. Soley (1935-2016), whose..... More
Knoxville: "The University of Tennessee Record, November 1953. Paperback. (Volume 56, Number 6). 8vo. Stiff blue wrappers. v, 17pp. Very good. Mild bit of wear to outer wrappers only. First edition, tight and nice, of this overview of American historical fiction. Rather uncommon. More
Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth, dust jacket. 184pp. Near fine/very good. Handsome first edition. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1933. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black silk-like cloth. xxiii, 232pp. Near fine. First edition of the first volume (only) in this two-volume set, this volume covering Aeschylus and Sophocles. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, [1980]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed wrappers. xi, 323pp. Near fine. Faintest of wear to wrappers. A tight, attractive second printing. More
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1973. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff yellow wrappers. iii, 17pp. Fine. First edition, a tight and superb copy of this essay. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with paper spine label, dust jacket. xiii, 345pp. Near fine/very good. Probable book club edition, tight and handsome. More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. Hardcover. 12mo. Quarter red calf and marbled paper over boards. xxii, 229pp. Good only. Though hinges are tight, binding is heavily rubbed and edgeworn, with mild age toning and touches of foxing; small abrasion (with ½" paper loss) near center of title page; front..... More