Search Results: Literature - Criticism & History from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full grey cloth, foil titles on spine, xix, 303 pp, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the preface, "Washington Irving has been stereotyped primarily as the last significant American writer who aspired to and achieved a classic English style, and as the conservator of aristocratic values in a rapidly changing republic. Adrift in the Old World is dedicated to overturning this notion of Irving as an Anglicized writer by establishing his 'Americanness,' meaning, by that elusive term, that he was shaped by, and came to identify himself with, his country and its particular heritage." To do this, Professor Rubin-Dorsky discusses and analyzes The Sketch Book, "Rip Van Winkle," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, and The Alhambra. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. .… Read More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1949 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xi, 426 pp, footnotes, index. Corners & spine ends slightly rubbed, former owners' names on ffep. Contains essays on Dr. Samuel Johnson and his contemporaries by 37 writers, most of whom were former students of Tinker's. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . VG+/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.

Minneapolis, 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Two volumes, olive boards with gilt titles on front boards & spines, part original typescript & part carbon copy with manuscript corrections by the author, [4], viii, 491 pp, bibliography, index of authors. Ph. D thesis. "Aspects of Shakespearean Criticism, 1914-1950. A Commentary Centered on British and American Criticism of Hamlet." Shipping weight 7 lbs.. . Fine/Fine. 28 X 22 cm.

New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc, 1932 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth with gilt title on front board, ix, 523, bibliography, index. Top edges of about ten leaves creased and two have small tears from shelf support, otherwise very good with joints lightly rubbed, ends of spine rolled, top edge dusty. Contents in three parts: the literature of colonization, romanticism, and realism; each part has its own bibliography listing primarily criticism and other histories of literature. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . G+/No dj. 20 X 13½ cm.

Calgary, AB: University of Calgary, 2005 Extra shipping charge may apply for this item to some destinations. Blue stiff paper wraps, white titles, [vi], 258 pp. Double issue on postcoloniality and politics. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). Magazine. Fine/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

New York: Viking, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale blue boards, navy blue cloth spine with blue foil titles, xi, 240 pp, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. "...the literary-critical equivalent of slow-motion replays...." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). 4th ptg. . Fine/Fine. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Dark green boards, gilt titles on maroon cloth spine, [vii], 216 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, list of sources. Remainder mark is a red dot on bottom edge. DJ spine slightly sunned, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Kreyling's chroncile of this 30-year professional relationship quotes extensively from Welty's and Russell's letters. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 15½ cm.

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright 1931. Blue cloth, yellow titles on spine, [xi], 319 pp. Spine ends sunned & rubbed, top edge dusty, owner's signature dated 1944 on fpd. DJ spine browned & missing large chips at head & tail (title & author still present), corners chipped, a 4 cm tear; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Later printing. . VG/VG-. 20½ X 14½ cm.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1953 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on recto of ffep. Maroon cloth, gilt titles on spine, xi, 254 pp, footnotes, end notes, index. Inscription is signed "the author" rather than by name; wording suggests a presentation copy. Price-clipped DJ has large chip from bottom corner of front panel & small chips at other cornes & spine ends, tears up to 6 cm; in Brodart archival cover. A previously unpublished essay on melancholy, "The English Malady," is joined here with four articles originally published in literary journals from 1916 to 1927: "Shaftesbury and the Ethical Poets in England," "The Return to Nature in English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century," "Whig Panegyric Verse: A Phase of Sentimentalism," "John Dunton: Pietist and Impostor." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Good.… Read More

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black leather-textured paper-covered boards, titles printed in gold ink on spine, x, 179 pp, bibliography. Remainder mark is a black dot on bottom edge, else fine. DJ extremities rubbed, a 1 cm tear to bottom of rear panel. An introduction and an interview with Malamud by the editors are followed by three original and seven reprinted critical essays on Malamud's fiction by Sheldon Norman Grebstein, Sanford Pinsker, Sam Bluefarb, Cynthia Ozick, Renee Winegarten, John Alexander Allen, Leslie Field, Gerald Hoag, Richard Astro, and William Freeman. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 21 X 15 cm.

London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Stapled through fold in pale green covers with maroon & black titles, frontis., 59 pp, footnotes. Covers slightly faded near spine & top edge, else fine; original price sticker on front cover. Brief critical biography & bibliography, gravure portrait of Shaw for frontispiece. Beautifully set & printed by F. Mildner & Sons of London. Shipping weight 5 oz. in envelope.. 6th Ed. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, & Auckland: Nan A. Talese (Doubleday (Random House, Inc.)), 2004 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sky-blue boards, foil titles on black spine, [vii], 340, [1] pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 11 photos in text, notes, index. Three leaves dog-eared, else fine. DJ slightly sunned as is visible mostly on edges of rear flap; in Brodart archival cover. Meade tells the stories of Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Random House, 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue linen, gilt titles on spine, blind initials on front board, top edge dyed green, vii, 240, [1] pp, index. DJ lightly rubbed at extremities, spine slightly browned; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "The work of seven contemporary writers--six men and one woman--is examined in detail by Mr. Fuller... " The writers are Thornton Wilder, Gladys Schmitt, Alan Paton, C. P. Snow, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 21 X 14 cm.

New York: Barnes & Noble Books (Harper & Row), 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. From British sheets. Full black cloth, gilt titles on spine, red endpapers, xxii, 281 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, notes, bibliography, index. Rear board slightly scuffed near bottom edge, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Looks at the extent to which politics was reflected in Austrian literature from about 1900 to 1938. One chapter each is devoted to Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hermann Bahr, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Werfel, Joseph Roth, Stefan Zweig, Heimito von Doderer, Robert Musil, and Karl Kraus. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 22½ X 14½ cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Orange decorated cloth (library binding), 3 volumes bound as one, Vol. 1: xvii, 380 pp, index, copyright 1917; Vol. 2: x, 430 pp, index, c. 1918; Vol. 3: xiii, 678 pp, index. Slight wear at joints and a few smudges plus card pocket, withdrawn stamp, and one library mark on top edge.. Later printing. . Very Good/No dj. 22½ X 14 cm.

Lakewood, CO: Glenbridge Publishing Ltd., 1994 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, [vii], 274 pp, many facsimile documents, index. Ex-library with stamps (including "Withdrawn" stamp), else fine. DJ in library's mylar cover. Supposedly the lost play of Shakespeare, whose prompt books were probably destroyed in the Globe Theatre fire in 1613; plus evidence that this is the correct play, and critical discussion. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . Near Fine/Fine. 26 X 18½ cm.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, illustrated endpapers, xi, 531 pp. Notes in pen on a couple of pages, else VG, corners bumped. Front flap only of DJ is laid in. Contains: a brief article on each work including synopsis, where and when first published in England and U. S., in some cases how the work came to be written; an alphebetical list of characters, with description, quote, name of work, and in some cases a cross-reference (e.g., Dawkins, John is cross-referenced as Artful Dodger, The); a similar, but much shorter, list of places; a time line of Dickens's life, career, and general events; an alphabetical list of Dickens's circle, with partial capsule biographies; a long (241 pp) section of quotations; and an index. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . G+/Poor. 26 X 17½ cm.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full maroon ribbed cloth, gold ink titles on spine, blind rule outlining front board, [vii], 230 pp, index. Titles dull, corners bumped, spine ends rubbed, original owner's name on ffep, pencil underlining & notes on first 11 pages and about 20 pages in the chapters on the Canterbury Tales. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ptg. . G+/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

Milwaukee: Pentagram Press, 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Aquamarine cloth, black endpapers, iv, 258, [2] pp, index. Collection of reviews and essays on the alternative literary publishing scene by the editor of Margins. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . As New/No dj. 22½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Kelvin W. Scott & Graham D. Martin. Blue cloth, white titles on spine, xii, 227 pp, bibliography, index. Spine ends lightly rubbed, else fine. Price-clipped DJ is browning, has two tiny nicks to bottom edge; in Brodart archival cover. Discusses fiction, poetry, and theater in the three decades following WW2. Bibliography lists literary works available in English translation, as well as secondary works. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 21 X 14 cm.