Becoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in Novels.
New York: The Viking Press, 1982. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and lavender paper over boards, dust jacket. xxviii, 332pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition. More
Literary Criticism
renaissance 4: san francisco, the peace scene.
San Francisco: renaissance publications, 1962. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff red wrappers. 120pp. Illustrations, line drawings. Near fine. Tight, attractive copy of this literary publication -- the noted San Francisco issue, with numerous Beat contributors. Features Charles Bukowski, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others -- including noted social protest poet and fine..... More
The Open Decision: The Contemporary American Novel and Its Intellectual Background.
New York: The Free Press, [1970]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering and green paper over boards, dust jacket. xi, 415pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, mainly at head and tail of spine. A tight, attractive first edition -- with a nice autograph addition: Laid in is..... More
The Perverse Imagination: Sexuality and Literary Culture.
New York: New York University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 296pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and attractive. More
English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660.
London: Oxford at the Clarenden Press, [1966]. Hardcover. 8vo. Navy blue cloth with copper spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. viii, 680pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with lightly age toned spine and several tiny edge chips; small ownership signature on front pastedown. Wonderfully tight and attractive later printing..... More
Conversations with Richard Wilbur.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, [1990]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xx, 266pp. Frontispiece. Fine. First paperback edition of this volume in Peggy Whitman Prenshaw's nifty "Literary Conversations" series. Tight and pristine. More
Horns of Plenty: Malcolm Cowley and his generation -- Spring 1990 (Volume 3, Number 1).
Chicago: Horns of Plenty, 1990. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff grey wrappers. 63pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight, attractive copy of this quarterly -- a special issue devoted to Andrew Nelson Lytle (1902-95), novelist, critic, professor, at his death the last living member of the "Southern Agrarians" that included Robert Penn Warren and..... More
The Illusions of a Nation: Myth and history in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1972]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 221pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight and handsome first edition of this in-depth study. From the library of academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir (1923-2013), with a 1-page..... More
Mythic Black Fiction: The Transformation of History.
Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, [1976]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xviii, 180pp. Fine. Tight ands handsome first paperback edition of this 1987 study -- this copy boldly signed by Campbell in black ballpoint on the half-title page, where she adds "Best regards." More
The Relations between the Social and Divine Order in William Langland's "Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman."
Breslau: Verlag Priebatsch's Buchhandlung, 1934. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 48pp, (2pp ads). Near fine. Binding a smidgeon irregularly sunned, else tight and internally fine. Attractive copy of this unusual imprint from a publisher then in Breslau, Germany in what is as of the 1945 Potsdam..... More
Emerson Handbook.
New York: Hendricks House, Inc., [1953]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. xiv, 268pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with several small edge chips. Errata slip tipped opposite half-title page. A tight and attractive first edition of this interpretation of Emerson's life and influence. Front flyleaf..... More
John Gould Fletcher and Southern Modernism.
Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, dust jacket. xi, 157pp. Fine/fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this fifth volume in "The John Gould Fletcher Series." More
Da Kine Talk: From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii.
[Honolulu]: The University Press of Hawaii, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 191pp. Very good/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn and rubbed. Tight, decent first edition. More
Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading.
New York: The Modern Language Association of America, [1986]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. viii, 327pp. Near fine. Spine lightly sunned. Tight, attractive first edition. More
German Exile Literature in America, 1933-1950: A History of the Free German Press and Book Trade.
Chicago: American Library Association, 1970. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, dust jacket. xi, 250pp. Fine/very good. Slightest bit of faint jacket edgewear, with ever-so-lightly sunned jacket spine. Tight and handsome first edition. More
John Dos Passos: A Biographical and Critical Essay.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 20pp. Very good. First separate printing of this essay first published in "The Saturday Review of Literature," reprinted as a promotional piece in anticipation of Dos Passos's 1939 novel "Adventures of a Young Man." Rather uncommon. Tight..... More
The Mediaeval Stage.
[London]: Oxford University Press, 1903. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket (Volume II only). xlii, 419pp; v, 480pp. Frontispieces. Very good/very good. Both volumes tight, clean and lovely, with spine gilt bright and fresh, the only flaw being some age toning to all endpapers; dust jacket (Volume..... More
Documentary and Imaginative Literature, 1880-1920.
London: Blandford Press, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth, dust jacket. 395pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Quite minor jacket edgewear and rubbing; ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight and attractive first edition of this forty-year survey. More
Hawthorne's Country.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt and color plate tipped to front cover. 348pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations. Good plus. Some shelfwear and edgewear, with chip at lower corner of rear board, but a decent and attractive copy nonetheless. Later printing of this..... More
Pseudonyms: The Names Behind the Names.
Nashville: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth spine with orange letteringand black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 252pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket wear. First U.S. edition, tight and attractive. More
The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, [1971]. Hardcover. Preface by J. Dover Wilson. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 236pp. Fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature; jacket age toned but edgewear-free. Superbly tight and handsome later printing of this 1951 study. More
Mark Twain and Mussolini.
Webster Groves, MO: International Mark Twain Society, 1934. Hardcover. Foreword by Patrick Braybrooke. Small 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. x, 56pp. Frontispiece, 2 illustrations. Fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed and edgeworn, with spine age toned. Sharp, tight first edition of Clemens' brief interviews discussing Twain with..... More
The English Dictionarie of 1623.
New York: Huntington Press, 1930. Hardcover. Prefatory note by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. 12mo. Khaki suede with gilt-lettered burgundy calf spine label, slipcase with paper spine label. xxi, 197pp. Illustration. Very good/very good. Calf spine label a tad rough but tight; slipcase lightly edgeworn but sound. Attractive and internally fine and..... More
How to Read and What to Read.
Rochester, NY: Sherwin Cody School of English, 1907. Paperback. 24mo. Stiff blind-embossed brown wrappers.128pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Slightest bit of rounding to overhanging wrapper edges, but overall tight and handsome; ownership signature neatly, lightly penned near center of front wrapper. Attractive volume from "The Nutshell Library" series, this volume containing..... More
Giraudoux: Three Faces of Destiny.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Purple cloth, 164pp. Near fine/very good. Attractive, tight first edition of this first ever (in English, that is) study of Giraudoux's plays. More