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Amherst, MA: Lynx House Press, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 101pp; Spine age-toned, covers slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Short story collection.

Portland, OR: The HaPi Press, 1974. Softcover. Very Good-. 208pp; One corner bumped with light stain, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Study of African lyric poetry. Edited by Alice Diane Coughlan.

New York: The Modern Library, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Cloth in DJ; 308pp; DJ price-clipped, slightly edgeworn with minor chipping to spine ends & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good+ condition. Attractive vintage edition of classic tale of high adventure.

Portland, OR: The HaPi Press, 1974. Softcover. Very Good+. 208pp; Clean, tight copy, VG+ condition. Study of African lyric poetry. Edited by Alice Diane Coughlan.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1959. Softcover. Very Good. 378pp; Covers clean & bright, previous owner's name to title page, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Study in Medieval tradition, the rise of "Courtly Love" and of the allegorical method from 11th century Languedoc through 16th century England.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in DJ; 218pp; DJ, clean, bright & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, very small mark to top edge, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine/Near Fine condition. Study of sacred kingship in the English Reformation. Illustrated.

Yellow Springs, OH: The Antioch Review, 1966. Softcover. Good+. Wraps; 22pp; Covers age-toned, booklet slightly curled, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good+ condition. Critical essay concerning a short story by James Joyce. Offprint from The Antioch Review, Winter 1966-67, Vol. XXVI, No. 4.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in DJ; 376pp; DJ clean & bright with very slight edgewear to top, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine/Near Fine condition. From front flap: "A joyous, imaginative tour-de-force by the author of American Studies, winner of the Los Angeles Time Art Seidenbaum Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award."

London, UK: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 207pp; DJ price-clipped, slightly edgeworn & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square & clean, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. An account of works by reputable authors which have been suppressed as obscene in England. Foreword by E. M. Forster.

Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 314pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine condition. Tells the story of friendship and love between two boys growing up in the cotton country of Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Originally published in 1950. New Introduction by John Howard.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 250pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, bookplate to front pastedown, previous owner's stamp to FEPs & title page, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. The author's first novel, which was written in 1936, but not published until 1960 after he'd already made a name for himself. The story is set in a moldering London residential hotel which shelters a group of strange, impassioned people.

London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1945. Softcover. Good. 68pp; Covers & pages age-toned, corners bent, light creasing to pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good condition. Vintage British periodical. This issue: Objects of Enemy Origin by P. V. Danckwerts; A Later-Day Saint by J. Chartres Molony; American Invasion by Jephoney; more. Ads in front.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. 7" x 10" Hardcover; 441pp; Brown embossed leather boards, all edges gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, gift inscr. & pressure stamp to front flyleaf, slight cracking to leather on spine, minor foxing to flyleaves, minor scuffing to boards, corners of boards slightly rubbed, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Classic collection of British ballads. Partial Contents: Chevy Chase; Elfinland Wud; Fair Rosamond; King Arthur's Death; Robin Goodfellow; The Bonnie Bairns; The Child of Elle; many more. Heavily illustrated with engravings by various artists.

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1996. Second Printing. Softcover. Fine. 373pp; Clean, tight copy, Fine condition. Classic tale of shipwreck and survival with essays which provide historical perspective and trace the sources from which the author drew the story.

Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Cloth in DJ; 328pp; Minor chipping & edgewear to DJ, DJ protected by mylar sleeve, bookplate to FFEP, boards bright, square & clean, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/Good+ condition. Study of the stage character of the braggart in Renaissance comedy.

London, UK: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936. First British Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. 590pp; No DJ, black cloth boards with faded titling to spine, wear to spine ends, slight forward slant, previous owner's name to FFEP, minor foxing to fore-edge & a few pages, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good condition. Novel that follows several families, mostly Jewish, in the aftermath of World War One in Germany, Russia and eastern Europe, during the Weimar era, focusing on the effects of the inflation of the German mark, and economic and political upheavals involving the Bolsheviks and the rise of Adolf Hitler. Translated from the Yiddish.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 388pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine/Near Fine condition. Story of the notorious novel Candy, "a Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire's Candide by one Maxwell Kenton, pseudonym of its coauthors Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg." Illustrated with photos. The author is the son of Terry Southern.

London: Michael Joseph, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; 192pp; DJ price-clipped with publisher's sticker to flap, clean, tight copy, VG+/VG condition. A collection of Lord Grey's writing selected and introduced by Jan Karpinski. Woodcuts by Robert Gibbins. Preface by the Rt Hon the Lord Home of the Hirsel KT DL.

New York: Rivercross Publishing, Inc., 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; 94pp; Minor staining to front panel of DJ, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine/VG condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author to Stephen Jay Gould. (From the collection of Stephen Jay Gould.) Unusual fictional diary of professor at small liberal arts college in New Mexico who teaches a course in Historical Axiology.

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in DJ; 184pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine/Near Fine condition. Novella and stories taking an unsparing look at gay midlife.