Search Results: Books About Books from Post Horizon Booksellers

Washington, DC, USA: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi, 164pp. One unpaginated section of historical prints and bw photographs. Full-wrap illustrated wrapper is clean, showing light handling. Stitched binding square and sound, showing soft vertical crease. Octavo: 23.5 x 15cm.

Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press, 1990. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 183pp w notes and index. Prev owner name inked on ffep. Maroon cloth w crisp silver lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Small octavo.

Boston, MA, USA: Twayne Publishers, 1991. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 178pp w appendix, notes, bibliography and index. Tan cloth w fine blue gilt lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ clean and without wear, preserved in BroDart cover. Octavo. Twayne's Masterwork Series No. 76. In lively, thought-provoking prose, Parker's work marks one effort to bring to the study of Faulkner a wide range of contemporary critical methods, including structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and cultural and social historicism.

Oxford, England: Penguin Collectors Society, 2021. First U.K. Edition . Soft cover. As New. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 144pp w index. Illustrated w 112 full-page reproductions of advertisements found in wartime Penguin books. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Duodecimo:198 x129mm. Essay: That Wartime Blemish, originally written by Andrew Hajducki (1974), revised and expanded by Russell Edwards (1986), and reprinted here w nine original illustrations in text.

London, England: Chatto & Windus, 1993. First U.K. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxvi, 310pp w notes and bibliography, and index. Black boards w crisp gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ clean and without wear, preserved in BroDart cover. Octavo. A brilliant survey, After the War is also attacking, pointed and original, relating novels directly to the world that produces them and that they in turn depict and influence. No future discussion of the novel, or of 'Englishness' can ignore this book

Toronto, ON, Canada: ECW Press, 1986. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 109pp. Titled wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. In a series of comparative essays on important contemporary novels, Stratford shares out resemblance and difference and, through close examination of particulars, arrives at discriminating definitions of fiction as written in Quebec and English Canada

Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press, 1972. First U.S. Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 335pp w bibliographies and index. Light blue endpapers. Purple cloth w crisp silver lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Titled DJ is clean and without edgewear, showing small adhesive ghost from price sticker removed. DJ now preserved in BroDart cover. Octavo.

New York, NY, USA: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Grant, Campbell. 160pp, [2]. Caricature illustrations. Light red endpapers. Gift inscription inked to ffep. Yellow cloth w red flame motif to cover, red and black lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean, showing shallow chip to top front edge, wear to head, preserved now in mylar cover. Duo-decimo: 197 x 135mm. "A short history of American literature for long-suffering students, for teachers who manage to keep one chapter ahead of the class, and for all who, no longer being in school, can happily sink back into illiteracy." - from the title page.

Edmonton, AB, Canada: NeWest Press, 1999. First Canadian Edition . Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 215pp. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Small octavo.

New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 1954. 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [xxiv], 678pp w appendix and index. Eight unpaginated, indexed plates. Presentation bookplate on ffep. Summary tipped in on front pastedown. Blue cloth w gold lettering on cover and spine. Binding square and sound. First published in 1941, this is the fifth impression (1954), stated, and volume 207 of a collection of 350 books about the United States of America presented by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1957. F.O. Matthiessen, in a book that requires to be read with the greatest care, follows out all the subtle lines of relationship that spin a sort of spider's web among the minds of American literary figures, Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 4th Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vii, 290pp w notes and index. Wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo. 4th SC printing, 1997. A comprehensive and highly readable analysis of the influence of film on the forms, subjects, and themes of modernist poetics. A discerning book, combining criticism and social history. An alternative history of American poetry in this century.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1960. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Bolognese, Donald. 428pp w index. Illustrated w line drawings in text and sixteen unpaginated indexed plates. Khaki cloth w greenstamp illustration and blue lettering on cover, green and blue lettering on spine. Mild bumping to corners, no edgewear. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ shows soiling commensurate w age and handling, chipping to head and tail and wear to corners and top front edge. DJ now preserved in BroDart cover. Quarto. French language text. Volume I only.

New York, NY, USA: The New York Public Library, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 60pp w index. Illustrated yellow wrapper is clean, showing light handling and "surplus duplicate" stamp on top front corner. Stapled binding sound. Reprinted from the February 1968 Bulletin of The New York Public Library, printed in November, 1968, stated. Reduced shipping may apply.

Norman, OK, USA: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [viii], 406pp w index. Dark blue boards w crisp silver lettering on cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 2018. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xx, 248pp. Grey boards, black quarterwrap spine w crisp silver lettering. No edgewear, small bumping to bottom corners. Binding square and tight. DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in mylar cover. Octavo. First US edition, first printing.

Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxxi, 122pp. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without edgewear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo. From the series, Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 54. With a Foreword by Michele Richman.

California, PA, USA: Arthur and Glee Knight, 1974. Soft cover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 175pp. bw photos, ports. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean, showing small surface scuff along joints. Binding square and sound. Quarto. The Beat Book comprises Volume 4 of the Unspeakable Visions of the Individual

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2009. First U.K. Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 226pp w bibliography and index. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Black cloth w crisp gold lettering on spine. No edgewear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Photo illustrated DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in BroDart cover. Octavo. Stephen Watt searches for the 'Beckettian' impulse in Irish literature by tracing the Nobel Prize-winner's legacy through a rich selection of contemporary novelists, poets, and dramatists, and explores Beckett's role in the twenty-first century.

Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press, 1998. First U.K. Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 306pp w appendix, endnotes and index. Light red cloth w crisp gilt lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Octavo. Published simultaneously in North America by McGill-Queen's University Press, this is the 1st UK edition.

Detroit, MI, USA: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First U.S. Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 252pp. bw photos, ports. Prev owner name inked to rear pastedown. Black cloth w crisp silver lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and tight. Photo illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Octavo.