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New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1948. iv, 161 pp. Good, no dust jacket, a red crayon mark on the back board. Contents: Preface; Courteous Reader; The Great Diarist, and Some Others; Samuel Johnson: 1. Literary Monarch, 2. The Unaccountable Companion; Joel Barlow's Vision of Columbus; Shelley Once More; The Poetry of the Brontes; William Morris as Poet; The Amusing Pre-Raphaelites; Meredith's Poetry; The Poetry of A. E. Housman; Trollope; Hand and Soul; Sitter and Portrait; The Quality of Mercy; Ancester Worship, with Some Remarks About the Sea Worm; Index. "[Morris's] tales do not beset our attention, but rise before it like some warm mirage. They seem to come from some lotos-land, in which it is always afternoon. As the poet himself asserts, they are sung 'To those who in the sleepy region stay, / Lulled by the singer of an empty day.' "--from Morris as Poet. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Munich: Bruckmann 104. pp. Soiling to white wraps and bump/crease to bottom outside corner. Articles, poems in Spanish and sometimes German. Richly illustrated. Includes: Romualdo Brughetti--Alumbramiento; Ernesto Sabato--Hombre e Mujer, Consideraciones y re-consideraciones; Moderne argentinische Dichtung: Eduardo Romano, Raul Yurkievich, Miguel Angel Bustos, Horacio Salas; Dieter Janig--Arte y realidad; Hans Paul Bahrdt--Posibilidades de la educacion estetica en nuestro tiempo; Hildegard Urner--La sombra; Dora Isella Russell--El siglo de Rainer Maria Rilke Con motivo del cenentario de su naciamento; Hombres de teatro: Vida y opiniones de la fotografa--Rosemarie Clausen; Bartomeu Melia y Olga Blinder Aquellos--Pai-Tavyvera que por primera vez dibujaron; Estuardo Nunez--La ciencia alemana y los fundamentos de la investigacion peruanista; Atahualpa Yupanqui--Indianische Gedichte; Ramiro Lagos Castro--Hispanoamerica, Brasil e Angloamerica; Mario de Andrade--Modistinnen; Siegfried Melchinger--El placer… Read More

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1999. 247 pp. First Printing, April 1999. Not a remainder. 'William Warner's adventures have taken him from the southernmost point of South America to North America's northenmost permanent Eskimo community. He's been mobbed by howler monkeys in the Guatemalan rain forest, cruised the Florida Keys in the company of hardcore birders, and experienced the solitude of Maine's most isolated lighthouse. Always and everywhere, he has looked around him with the fascination of a born naturalist.' Includes: A Prologue, By the Sea; Into the Porcupine Cave; Shorty, Slim, and the Cave Demon; The Night of the Whales; The Fishes of Peleliu; The River and the Howlers; Watching the Birds, Watching the Watchers; With a Little Help; A Short Journey to the Unknown; Saddleback; Author's Note.. First Edition, First Printing. Quarter Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1970. 312 pp. Price-clipped dj w/ 3-inch tear and other wear at top. Sticker ghosts on FEP of otherwise fine volume. Medieval Authors Series. Three photographic plates of illustrations from manuscripts in the British Museum. Contents: General Preface; Author's Note; John Lydgate: The Critical Approach; The Monastic Background; Chaucer and Literary Background; The Courtly Poems; Troy and Thebes; Laureate Lydgate; Fables and Didactic Poems; The Fall of Princes; Lydgate's Religious Poetry; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index.. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 597-626. TOPICS OF THE DAY: The disarmament conference, Missouri's blow at the Trusts, etc. LETTERS AND ART: A defense of Tolstor's new novel, Poetry, war, and Mr. Howells, A child-author of the ghetto, SCIENCE AND INVENTION: Death in the flowers, Physiological abnormalities in works of art; THE RELIGIOUS WORLD: What the bible has been made to teach, Fiction in the pulpit, The church and the marriage relation, etc; FOREIGN TOPICS: Dr. Parker's curse for the Sultan, The powers of a French president, etc; MISCELLANEOUS: Foreign possibilities of American commerce, Our Mail bag, Personals, More or less pungent, Current events, Chess. Many fascinating advertisments. See bookseller's photos.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 687-716. TOPICS OF THE DAY: A new trial for Dreyfus, Inhumanity of our soldiers denied, Slavery in San Francisco; etc. LETTERS AND ART: Ibsen's 'Ghosts' in New York, Mother Goose according to Whitman, etc., SCIENCE AND INVENTION: Has the germ of cancer been found? How to make colored people white, How old is Niagara; THE RELIGIOUS WORLD: Count Tolstoy on how to read the gospels, etc; FOREIGN TOPICS: Conditions in Spain, Those Anti-imperialistic pamphlets, The Russians in Persia, etc; MISCELLANEOUS: Foreign possibilities of American commerce, Our Mail bag, Personals, More or less pungent, Current events, Chess. Many fascinating advertisments.See bookseller's photos.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 209-238. TOPICS OF THE DAY: President Faure and his successor in France; etc. LETTERS AND ART: Scotland's fertility in genius, The white man's versus the brown man's burden, Thackeray in America, etc., SCIENCE AND INVENTION: The climate of cities, The color of the human skin, Electric light from the garbage, Still another air-ship, THE RELIGIOUS WORLD: Did Christ use irony? Did St. Thomas visit America?, FOREIGN TOPICS The Samoan troubles, Decline of German immigration, MISCELLANEOUS: Foreign possibilities of American commerce, Our Mail bag, Personals, More or less pungent, Current events, Chess. Many fascinating advertisments.See bookseller's photos.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 31-60. TOPICS OF THE DAY: Recent experiments with alcohol, Pingree and Alger in alliance, Curing tenement-house blight, etc. LETTERS AND ART: Sarah Bernhardt's Hamlet, Zola's new novel--'Fecundité', Some memories of Tennyson, Browning, and George Eliot, SCIENCE AND INVENTION: What is old age?, Music study and nervous disease, Red light as a curative agent, Victorium--Another new element, The disposal of dust; THE RELIGIOUS WORLD: Reincarnation, heredity, and evolution, Women's hats and the higher criticism, Shall the Sunday-school be abolished?, etc; FOREIGN TOPICS: The sale of the Carolines, The Acquittal of Deroulède and Habert, etc; MISCELLANEOUS: Foreign possibilities of American commerce, Our Mail bag, Personals, More or less pungent, Current events, Chess. Many fascinating advertisments. See bookseller's photos.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 61-90. TOPICS OF THE DAY: Governors on current problems: Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, John Tanner, of Illinois, D. H. Hastings, of Pennsylvania, W. A. Poynter, of Nebraska, John Lind, of Minnesota, W. H. Ellerbee, of South Carolina, James A. Mount, of Indiana, W. E. Stanley, of Kansas; etc. LETTERS AND ART: An English appreciation of Mr. Stephen Crane, Some Ambiguities in Shakespeare's life removed, etc., SCIENCE AND INVENTION: Effect of cider on microbes, The plague of 1660 still dangerous, etc.; THE RELIGIOUS WORLD: Newly discovered birthplace of Buddha, Kissing the bible, etc; FOREIGN TOPICS: Mr. Stead and the Czar's proposal, etc; MISCELLANEOUS: On the 'roof of the world' [mountaineering], etc. Foreign possibilities of American commerce, Our Mail bag, Personals, More or less pungent, Current events, Chess. Many fascinating advertisments.See bookseller's photos.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over… Read More

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, 1899. pp. 239-268. TOPICS OF THE DAY: The warring Filipinos, Lord Beresford on the 'Open Door' for China; etc. LETTERS AND ART: More about 'The American rejection of Poe', Was Wagner crazy?, etc., SCIENCE AND INVENTION: Compressed air for horseless vehicles, What are X-rays, A new submarine boat, Ancient glass mirrors, A college reunion by telephone; THE RELIGIOUS WORLD: When were the new testmant books written, etc; FOREIGN TOPICS: The rebellion in the Philippines, Russia and Britain in Afghanistan, Benefits of Militarism, The Sirdar and his Accusers, etc; MISCELLANEOUS: Psychology of conjuring, Foreign possibilities of American commerce, Our Mail bag, Personals, More or less pungent, Current events, Chess. Many fascinating advertisments. Jokes and chess, every issue. See bookseller's photos.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. 199 pp. The bookplate of writer Helen Barolini on FFEP. Priced-clipped dj w/ short tears and rubbing. Treats the Background of the Modern Italian Novel; Alessandro Manzoni: The Historical Novel; Ippolito Nievo: History as Confessions; Emilio De Marchi: The Pathos of Existence; History as Novel: Federico De Roberto; The Tragic World of Verga's Primitives; Matilde Serao: The Chronicler of Memory; Between Mysticism and Science: Antonio Fogazzaro; Italo Svevo's Antiheroes, with a selected bibliography and index. . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Noonday Press, 1958. 183 pp. Hardly a sign of wear or use. A small 'x' on the half title. Collectible. Includes William Earle--Notes on the Death of Culture; John Moffitt--The Apple; Louis Townsend Nicholl--Tempo; Isaac Bashevis Singer--A Tale of Two Liars; Helen Neville--Evenings at Carquethuit; Karl Jaspers--The Individual and the Collectivity; Robert Cassell--The Bird; Ernst Juenger, Three Pieces--The Hippopotamus, Frutti di Mare, The Color Red; Harold Kaplan--The Origin of Anger; May Swenson--The Crossing; Nathalie Sarraute--The Age of Suspicion; Irene Orgel--Alcyone's Song; Ursele Molinaro--The Rat; Arthur Gregor--Schwanengesang; George Reavey--A Note on Boris Pasternak; Boris Pasternak--The Last Summer.. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Partisan Review, 1983. 154 pp. 486-640. Writers in Exile: Politics and Ideology--Boris Schragin, Stanislaw Baranczak, Erazim Kohak, Leszek Kolakowski; Encounters with the West--Sergei Dovlatov, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Vladimir Voinovich, Andrei Siniaski. Fiction: Italo Calvino--Park Bench Vacation, Saturday of Sun, Sand, and Sleep. Articles: William Phillips--Four Portraits; Pico Iyer--The World According to Beattie; Marjorie Welish--Flesh and the Devil in Figure Painting; David Remnick--An Interview with Charles Wright; Dan Jacobson--On Migratory Workers; Morris Dickstein, Peter Brooks, Williams Phillips, Edith Kurzweil, Steven Marcus, Leon Weiseltier, Dennis Wrong--Intellectuals and Politics.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1960. 262 pp. Very Good in good dust jacket. DJ has some sticker damage and a stain. Contents: Preface; Le Prison Nouveau; Different Kinds of Failure; George, Rilke, Valery; To the Remote Hesperides; The Vision of the Apocalypse; In the Waste Land; New Violence Breaks In; The Poetry of Resistance; Virgin Soil; Where We Stand Now; Bibliography and acknowledgements. "Ich ging ja, / damit das alles, unter dem begraben / der jetzt mein Gatte ist, zergeht, sich auflöst"-- —Rilke. . Second impression. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.