D.H. Lawrence: A complete list of his works, together with a critical appreciation.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., n.y. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff blue wrappers. 22pp. Very good. More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., n.y. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff blue wrappers. 22pp. Very good. More
New York: David McKay Company, [1966]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xviii, 264pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear, with jacket spine faintly sunned. A tight and nice first edition of this "new collection of literary commentary." From library of academic/literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir..... More
Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1980-83. Paperback. Two issues. 8vo. Stiff printed wrappers. 176pp; 185pp. 15pp "Regulations" booklet in English/French in rear wrapper sleeve of second volume. Both issues near fine. Two full issues of this scholarly journal in English and French. Contributor Ioan Petru Culianu's copies, Volume 2 containing..... More
Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr Verlag, [1981]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff printed wrappers. 176pp. 15pp "Regulations" booklet in English/French in rear wrapper sleeve. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) a bit worn and soiled, else tight and internally fine. Full issue of this scholarly journal in English and French. Contributor Ioan Petru Culianu's..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, [1970]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 146pp. Near fine/near fine. Quite tight and handsome enlarged edition of this study first published in 1954. Front pastedown bears ownership signature of literature professor/critic John D. Soley (1935-2016), whose graduate thesis..... More
[New York]: Harper & Brothers, October 1950. Paperback. (Vol. 201, No. 1205). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 288pp, (8pp). Numerous illustrations (some color), advertisements. Very good. Quite mild edgewear -- overall tight, clean, bright. A full-page facsimile letter from President Truman opens this special issue, which features contributions from..... More
[New York]: New York University, January-December 1955. Paperback. Folio. Self-cover. (4pp) each. Near fine. Two light horizontal mailing folds (as issued). Very first issue of this notable quarterly, with a nice autograph addition: Tipped to the blank address panel on the fourth leaf is an archival bookplate signed boldly in..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff green wrappers. 48pp. Fine. Inscribed by Allen. No. 101 in the University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, inscribed to Arnold Gates and signed on the title page. More
Chicago: Packard and Company, 1946. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. xviii, 560pp. Very good. A tight and handsome first edition of this essential reference by the famed Whitman authority and "Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman" author (1903-95). A decorative-edged archival bookplate signed boldly..... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1928. Hardcover. Verse renderings by Howard Mumford Jones. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xviii, 373pp. Decorative endpapers. Fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear and bit of age toning. Exceptionally tight and bright first edition of this in-depth..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, dust jacket. viii, 143pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slight sunning to jacket spine. Tight, clean first edition of this study of the 1880-1900 period in Scandinavian literature -- "Ibsen to Undset," as the jacket front proclaims. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper over boards, dust jacket. 238pp. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear; ownership signature on front flyleaf. First edition of this sstudy of how "Your name can make you a winner or a loser. Your health, longevity, business and personal success..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with silver spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. ix, 431pp. 4 maps. Near fine/very good. Slightestf of jacket edgewear only. Superbly tight and nice first edition of this thick and thorough survey that starts with the Norman conquest. Quite uncommon in such..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1983]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed wrappers. xxxvii, 222pp. Near fine. Would be pristine but for some margin squiggles and couple of margin notes in introductory matter. Tight, attractive first edition of the sixth volume in the "Theory and History of Literature" series. More
New York: Facts on File Publications, 1983. Hardcover. 4to. Brown paper over boards, dust jacket. 141pp. Numerous illustrations (most color). Near fine/near fine. First edition. Artist recreations of famed literary residences such as Tara and Blandings Castle. More
Karachi, Pakistan: University of Karachi Department of English, [1968]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper over boards with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 76pp. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed. Uncommon first edition of these addresses from two seminars both held in 1965 just after Eliot's death, one in Pakistan and..... More
London: Spring Books, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 258pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn. Not the 1952 245-page first edition and not the 1965 second printing, but clearly another printing, undated, issued shortly after Hemingway's July 1961 suicide, with..... More
New York: Random House, [1963]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. xii, 274pp. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket wear. A tight, handsome first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "collection of over one hundred stimulating essays by the New York Times' critic-at-large, on such diverse subjects as..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. Hardcover. Translation by Denise Folliot. Small 8vo. Tan cloth, dust jacket. 171pp. Near fine/very good. Very minor jacket wear. First edition, tight and handsome. More
[Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, [1975]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green buckram with pictorial gilt. 227pp. Near fine. First U.S. edition, tight and handsome. Promotional slip laid in. From the collection of conductor and musicologist Paul Clinton Echols (1944-94). More
Assen, Netherlands: Van Gorcum & Comp. N.V., 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 294pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Handsome, tight first edition of this Dutch literary study. Front flyleaf bears ownership signature of Linda Wagner (born 1936), an academic and literary critic..... More
Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Press, Summer/Fall 1970. Paperback. (Number Nine). Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. 100pp. Very good. Outer edges a bit crumpled, as they extent beyond the text block, else fine. Handsome issue of this "Journal of Contemporary Writing," with contributions from Charles Simic, Robert Creeley, W.S. Merwin, Robert..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1971]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale greeen cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xxiv, 440pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature of literature professor and critic John D. Soley (1935-2016), whose graduate thesis was "John Milton's Idea of the 'Right Poet'." Later printing..... More
New York: Hill and Wang, [1981]. Paperback. Translation by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith. Small 8vo. Stiff glazed wrappers. 111pp. Near fine. Later (7th) printing of this 1964 essay, first published in the U.S. in 1968. More
N.p. N.p., n.y. Paperback. 24mo. Stiff tn wrappers with brown lettering. (15pp). 7 full-page illustrations. Very good. Probable sole printing of this cryptic little pamphlet, likely of 1960s vintage. Cover title: "Rise and Fall of the Dime Novel." Facsimile handwritten statement at rear thanks "Charles Bragin for some of the..... More