New York: Hill & Wang, [1966]. Hardcover. Edited by Jacques Barzun. 8vo. Brown cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. x, 436pp. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket wear; bookplate on front pastedown. A tight and handsome second printing of this classic standard reference. More
New York: Avocation Publishers, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth. xviii, 323pp. Very good. Minor soiling. First edition, tight and attractive. (Issued without dust jacket.). More
New York: Masses & Mainstream, September 1960. Paperback. (Vol. 13, No. 9). Small 8vo. Stiff green pictorial wrappers. 65pp. Very good. Minor edgewear. Handsome copy of this literary monthly. Contributor's copy, having come from the private library of JOHN BEECHER (1904-80), noted social protest poet and fine press publisher, whose..... More
New York: Masses & Mainstream, September 1962. Paperback. (Vol. 15, No. 9). Small 8vo. Stiff green pictorial wrappers. 65pp. Very good. Minor edgewear. Handsome copy of this literary monthly. Contributor's copy, having come from the private library of JOHN BEECHER (1904-80), noted social protest poet and fine press publisher, whose..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. x, 273pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight, nice third printing. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. vi, 41pp. Very good. First separate printing of this excerpt from Francis's "The English Language: An Introduction," being the third chapter. Tight, clean, handsome. More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1967]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xi, 184pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear, with spine slightly age toned; endpapers mildly age toned; small front pastedown ownership signature. Tight and quite nice second printing of this 1962 study. More
New York: Summit Books, [1981]. Hardcover. Snall 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and green textured paper over boards, dust jacket. 376pp. Near fine/very good. Mildest of jacket edgewear, mainly at spine head and tail. Attractive, tight first edition of this study through the lens of the extreme feminist..... More
New York: Twayne Publishers, [1961]. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. 190pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with spine slightly sunned. A handsome, tight first edition of the second volume in the useful "TUSAS" (Twayne's United States Authors Series). From the library of academic and literary..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: National Connections 2 American Studies Collective, Spring 1974. Paperback. (Volume I, Number 1). 8vo. Stiff orange wrappers. 112pp. Illustrations. Very good. First issue of this short-lived triannual devoted to "a vision of education as transformative action," boldly inscribed on the front wrapper by co-editor ROBERT MERIDETH: "For..... More
Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, [1974]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. viii, 72pp. Near fine. Tight, nice first edition of No. 3 in the "Popular Writers Series." From the library of academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir (1923-2013), with a small number of his pencilled margin..... More
Bochum, Germany: Studien verlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer, 1987. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff ivory printed wrappers. 202pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Minor soiling to outer wrappers (only), else internally tight and fine. Tight, nice 13th issue of this scholarly journal on Romanian language and literature, largely in German and part in French and..... More
New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1964. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth. vi, 235pp. Illustrations. Very good. Second printing, tight and clean -- a mild ex-library copy, the only noticeable markings being a glue stain on front flyleaf and a couple of abrasions from name removals. Worthwhile sequel to Kunitz..... More
Corte Madera, CA: Square Circle Press, [1984]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff grey wrappers. 50pp. Very good. Faint bit of edgewear. Tight and nice first edition of this Hemingway Society address -- and boldly signed and inscribed by him in black fineline on front flyleaf: "for Joe / in Madrid / June..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, [1966]. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey with metallic blue spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 257pp. Very good/good only. Jacket quite edgeworn and rubbed, with large chips at head and tail of spine. A tight and nice first edition, with ownership signature on front flyleaf of academic..... More
New Haven: Henry W. Wenning/C.A. Stonehill, Inc., 1970. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff mustard wrappers with paper label. 50pp. Fine. Pristine first separate prointing of an article first published in "Atlantic Monthly" (January 1970). Colophon at front notes edition of 450 numbered copies (this #438). More
[London]: The English Association, July 1924. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers. 18pp. Good only. Outer wrappers age toned about the edges and a bit worn (mainly along upper edge), with spine fold partly separated. Still, a tight and quite presentable first edition of this association's Pamphlet No. 59, being..... More
London: Oxford University Press, [1967]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with copper spine lettering, dust jacket. x,131pp. 5 full-page plates. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with single edge chip; small front pastedown ownership signature. Tight and quite handsome first edition of these four lectures. Rather uncommon. More
New York: Basic Books, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, dust jacket.214pp. Very good/very good. Jacket and binding slightly edgeworn, though otherwise tight, clean and nice. First edition of the charismatic novelist's thoughts on contemporary fiction. On the front flyleaf, noted Chicago photographer and "Farm Boy" author ARCHIE LIEBERMAN (1926-2008) prints..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908. Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. Small 4to. Red cloth. xv, 368pp; xiv, 389pp; xii, 381pp; xii, 462pp. Top edges gilt. Frontispieces, numerous illustrations. Good plus to very good. Some edgewear, but overall a tight, decent set. Early reprint edition of this huge survey-- mild ex-library..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 463pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight, attractive first edition of this well-known study. 1965 ownership signature on front flyleaf of critic Perry E. Gianakos, author of "American Diplomacy and the Sense of Destiny" among other..... More
Ann Arbor: Roger Jackson, 1995. Paperback. Narrow small 4to. Stiff green wrappers. (9pp). Fine. The famed Chicago attorney attempts to imagine what Miller might have said were he called to testify in the famous obscenity case against him. Edition limited to 500 unnumbered copies signed by Gertz on the colophon..... More
N.p. [Carbondale, IL]: N.p. [Morris Library, Southern Illinois University], 1973. Paperback. (COVER TITLE: "Henry Miller Exhibit on the Occasion of the Lecture by His Friend Elmer Gertz, 14 November 1973.") 8vo. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers. 12pp. Fine. Sole printing of this nifty exhibit catalogue, which opens with Gertz's comments, then..... More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1968]. Hardcover. Preface by Harry T. Moore. 8vo. Orange cloth with gilt spine lettering. xviii, 169pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, mainly at head of spine. A tight, attractive first edition of this volume in general editor Moore's "Crosscurrents / Modern Critiques" series. From..... More
[New York]: New York University Press, 1963. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth. ix, 207pp. Near fine. Handsome first edition. More