Reading and Writing
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1993. First edition thus. Hardcover. 64pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] 1/2 brown leather over green cloth boards with title gilt stamped on front board and backstrip. Near fine. More
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The America of Carl Sandburg: An Analytical Study of His Works as an Expression of the National Mind
Genève (Geneva): Imprimerie du "Journal de Genève" 1963. Doctoral Thesis published by "Journal de Genève" Paperback. 253pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan and black printed wraps. Very good, with a single library stamp on the verso of the title page, minor soiling on the front wrap, and light chipping at the..... More
Penguin Persons & Peppermints
Boston: W. A. Wilde Company, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 251pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles. Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly bumped and rubbed. The spine is subtly rolled, and the gilt stamped title is faded. The underlying boards are..... More
What is a Classic? An address delivered before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October 1944
London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1945. Hardcover. 32pp. Thin octavo [22.5 cm] Pale blue cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Good. The spine and large areas of the covers are heavily sun faded. The boards are also very slightly foxed and there are a couple..... More
The Genesis of Tropic of Cancer
[Berkeley, CA]: Bern Porter, 1946. First edition. Paperback. 31pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] White printed wrappers. Near fine. More
Salmagundi Number 55 Winter and Number 56 Spring 1982 (Representation and the War for Reality / The Soul Inside the Sentence) - 2 issues
Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, 1982. Paperback. 251 & 178pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Printed wrappers. Very good. More
TriQuarterly Number 38 Winter 1977 (Koh whistles up a wind)
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1977. Paperback. 256pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Very good. More
Solitary Voice: Vardis Fisher. A Collection of Essays.
New York: Revisionist Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 72 pp. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Near fine. Small pen scribble in margin of introduction page. More
Essays in European and Oriental Literature
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 339pp. Octavo [19 cm] Red cloth covered boards with printed title label on the spine. Very good. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. The spine is slightly rolled, and the title label has a couple of small chips in..... More
Baker Street By-Ways: A Book about Sherlock Holmes
London: George Allen & Unwin Limited, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 158pp. Duodecimo [19 cm.] Green boards with silver stamped titles on backstrip. Near fine/Fine. Faint rubbing to rear panel of jacket, otherwise fine. History of the character, and the mythos surrounding, Sherlock Holmes. A classic of Sherlockiana. The author was..... More
Studies in Classic American Literature
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 264pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]; Navy cloth covered boards with gilt title on cover and spine. Minor bumping and chipping at edges and corners of covers and spine; spine sun-dyed, with graphite top edge of textblock. A work of literary criticism by D...... More
Dylan Thomas in Print: A Bibliographical History
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 261pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light and dark brown illustrated cloth covered boards. Good only. Ex-library. There are 4 pieces of tape adhered to the edges of the covers. The rear board is slightly soiled. There are 4 library marks on the endsheets..... More
In the Remington Moment
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. 252 pp. [23.5 cm] Green cloth boards with gold print on the spine. Light yellow and green dustjacket with red text. From inside cover: For most people, the work of Frederic Remington conjures an antiquarian world of all things “western.” Why..... More
The Alice Behind Wonderland
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 110pp. Octavo [21.5cm] Hardcover in dustjacket. From the publisher: On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with..... More
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