Literary History
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United States
by Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays and short stories, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. His most recent novel is The Golden Age, and his new essay collection, The Last Empire: Essays 1993?2000, has just been published.
Literary History Books & Ephemera
Lives Like Loaded Guns
by Gordon, Lyndall
"Lives Like Loaded Guns...reads like a fabulous detective story...[Gordon] takes us into undiscovered territory." --The Washington Post In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, began an adulterous love affair with the accomplished and ravishing Mabel Todd, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. Award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon tells the story of the feud that erupted-and that still continues today. Making unprecedented use of letters,...
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Verso il West: L'autobiografia dei pionieri americani
by Alide Cagidemetrio
Neri Pozza Editore, 1983. Soft cover. Near Fine. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 155 pagine, Indice dei nomi; Le autobiografie: Bibliografia. An Italian Americanist's study of autobiographies written by well-known frontier figures like Davy Crockett and Buffalo Bill, as well as others involved in the westward movement in the 19th century. Upscale mass-market paperback in glossy self-wraps, which are a little bit smudged. Binding tight, pages bright and unmarked. Gift inscription written on the front free...
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A History of the German Novelle
by E.K. Bennett, H. M. Waidson
Cambridge University Press, 1974. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 317 pages, with index, bibliography, notes, and two introductions (first and second editions). First published 1934, this second edition (1961; this copy is reprint) revised and continued by H.M. Waidson. From Kleist and Goethe into mid-20th century. Trade paperback, minimal wear, spine sunned, faint foxing and dust soil to edges, binding supple, bookstore price sticker on back cover, pages bright and unmarked.
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£8.14
The Oxford Book of Parodies
by John Gross (ed.)
Oxford University Press, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 339 pages, with index of parodists, index of the parodied. Excerpts from authors ranging from mediaeval times to J.K. Rowling, with introduction by the editor. Medium 8vo (9-1/2" x 6-1/4"), black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, flecked gray end papers, faint foxing to top edge, in practically unworn DJ. Pages bright and unmarked.
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The Greek Particles
by DENNISTON, J.D
Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. Unseemly sticker shadow at bottom of rear cover, else very good. A touch of edgewear; light soiling to top edge. Text rather clean and bright. Binding square and sound.. Large demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. lxxxii, 660 pp. Original grey cloth. This is the American Reprint of the Second Edition, Revised by K.J. DOVER. From the library of University of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature in pencil to front...
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£64.30
Splendid Failure: Hart Crane and the Making of The Bridge
by Edward J. Brunner
University of Illinois Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 282 pages, with index, appendices on chronology of composition of two others poems - "Repose of Rivers" and "O Carib Isle!" 8vo, brick cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, corners sharp, light foxing and dust soil to top edge, other edges and pages bright, binding tight, in DJ with little wear, only slightly rumpled at crown and front top corner, crease in front flap. Bookstore price in pencil on...
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£9.77
Anni Mirabiles 1921-2925: Reason in the Madness of Letters
by R.P. Blackmur
The Library of Congress Reference Department, 1956. Soft cover. Very Good. 55 pages. Four Lectures Presented Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. 8vo, stapled in matte card stock two-tone gray wraps, light shelf wear, age-browning to lighter gray part of wraps. Foxing spots on cover, pencil underscoring of single word or phrase on three pages, note in margin of one page.
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£6.51
Jacques Rivière
by Martin Turnell
Bowes & Bowes, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 64 pages, with biographical chronology and bibliographical notes. Published in Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought series. Sections on religion, politics, novels and criticsm. 16mo, red cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, top edge tinted red, other edges age-toned and lightly soiled. Bookstore price and name of former owner and dateline London July 1958 written on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.
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£4.07
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise. A Companion Guide
by Patricia Ward, Karen Thomas
The Film Company, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 32 pages. Cover 8-1/2" x 11", pamphlet in stapled dark teal wraps with knock-out title and inset drawing in black of sailing ship on front cover, corners and edges of cover slightly bumped, a few barely perceptible smudges on cover. This is the Companion Guide only, for the film Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise; transcript is not included. A pretty pamphlet, with b&w photo cuts throughout the clean and unmarked text pages.
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£3.26
Henry James e L'Italia
by Cristina Giorcelli
Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 159 pagine, Indice dei nomi. Trade paperback, rough-cut edges, wraps age-toned and lightly soiled, pages age-tanned and unmarked. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (not stated), who lectured on American literature in Italy under the Fulbright program.
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£12.21
Bloomsbury: A House of Lions
by Leon Edel
Avon, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 333 pages. First Avon printing of book published the previous year. Public and private biographies of the Bloomsbury set, featuring its major figures: Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Desmond MacCarthy. B&w photo section has portraits of them. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, edges stained red, text block age-tanned. Light pencil notation on front free end paper,...
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Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints
by Robert Kiely
Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 344 pages, with general index, list of works of art reproduced (arranged by saint). The discussion by Harvard Professor Emeritus of English Kiely of the depiction of saints in Italian Renaissance art is illustrated throughout with color photographs of the art. Ten chapters each deal with one or a few saints, starting with the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist and including St. Augustine, St. Francis, and Catherine of Siena. Super 8vo (7"...
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Adelaide A Literary City
by Butterss, Philip [Edited by]
Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. 2013. Very Good+ condition. 266 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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£9.39
The External Evidence for Interpolation in Homer
by BOLLING, GEORGE MELVILLE
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. First Sandpiper Edition. Hardcover. Very near fine in near fine, lightly worn jacket.. Demy 8vo. 5.625 x 8.75 in. xii, 259 pp. + adverts. Original Oxford blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in glossy blue typographic dust jacket. Sandpiper Books Reprint of the 1925 Oxford University Press Edition.
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£17.09
The Age of Shakespeare
by Frank Kermode
The Modern Library, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 215 pages, with index, biographical note, frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, for other full-page b&w illustrations (two portraits of monarchs, London panorama, Swan Theatre. A Modern Library Chronicles Book. Trade paperback, reading crease, scant shelf wear, edges and end papers age-toned with light foxing. Marks and/or notes in light pencil on approximately five pages.
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£3.26
Updike: America's Man of Letters
by William H. Pritchard
University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Soft cover. Near Fine. 350 pages, with literary-biographical chronology, bibliography, index. Soft-cover edition of book first published in 2000. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear visible along bottom, extremely faint foxing to top edge, smudge to bottom edge. Our inventory #WBB-1232 is a hardcover inscribed copy of this book.
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£8.14
Über Hugo von Hofmannsthal
by Richard Alewyn
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 192 pages. Dritte, vermehrte Auflage. Collection of essays written between 1944 and 1962. Trade paperback, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, page-turning soil, spine sunned, pages unmarked.
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£4.88
Why Literary Criticism Is Not an Exact Science
by Harry Levin
Harvard University Press, 1967. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 27 pages. Lecture given at Wolfson Hall May 12, 1967 when Levin was an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. Pamphlet, sewn in pale blue card self-wraps, age-tanned around margin, rubbed/scuffed along fold and on back, worn at top and bottom of fold, mild vertical crease to the whole pamphlet. Marks in margin and a very few notes, all in light pencil, observed on eight pages.
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£4.07
Two Talks at the Dedication of the William Dean Howells Memorial
by David J. Nordloh, Daniel Aaron
Harvard Library Bulletin, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 442 pages. Text reprinted from the Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume XXVIII, Number 4, October 1980. Offprint (with wraps of new design), 6-7/8" x 10-1/4", stapled in gray card wraps with black lettering, images on front and back wraps are views of the Howells house at Kittery Point, Maine, after sketches by Horace T. Carpenter, first published in Town & Country, 1903. Wraps age-toned around all edges and spine, bit of rust stain from...
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The Mirror of Art: Critical Studies
by Charles Baudelaire
Phaidon Publishers Inc, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 361 pages plus 19 pages front matter and Editor's Introduction. Translated and Edited with Notes and Illustrations by Jonathan Mayne. Has Index, Biographical Note, Appendix of translations of lines of verse kept in French in the text, Notes on the Illustrations, which are 68 b&w plates (art reproductions) as well as drawings. 12mo (4-1/2" x 7-3/8"), reddish brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine,...
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The Visionary Company: A Magazine of the Twenties, Vol. I, No. 1
by Donald G. Parker, Warren Herendeen
The Visionary Company, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. 162 pages, illustrated with b&w photos and art reproductions including fold-out of Peter Blume's The Eternal City. Summer 1981; formerly the Hart Crane Newsletter. Includes Caroline Gordon-Sally Wood correspondence, an interview with Malcolm Cowley, poems, an essay on The Dial. Trade paperback-size, cover reproduction of "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold" (quotation from William Carlos Williams poem) by Charles Henry Demuth, wraps lightly...
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The Positive Hero in Russian Literature
by Rufus W. Mathewson
Stanford Univ Press, 1975. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 369 pages, with index. 1978 printing of 1975 second edition of work first issued 1958. A book of the Soviet period, it looks at the pre-history of "Marxist-Leninist" notions of art, starting with the "radical democrat" writers of the 19th century. Ends with consideration of Soviet-era dissidents - Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavsky. Trade paperback, wraps curled at corners and along fore-edge, shelf wear and small...
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Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
by Joseph Frank
Princeton University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 395 pages plus 15 front matter and preface, with index, 13 b&w illustrations (cuts). The third volume of Prof. Frank's five-volume study of Dostoevsky's life and work. Medium 8vo, beige cloth with teal cloth quarter, white and gilt lettering on spine, scant wear, very slightly cocked, light dust soil to top edge, faintest foxing to fore-edge and end papers. DJ minimally worn. Inscribed by author on ffep to Profs. Ann and...
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£48.83
Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol
by Dora and Erwin Panofsky
Harper Torchbooks, 1965. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 178 pages, with index, list of the 67 b&w illustrations, prefaces to first edition (1955), second (1961), and this Harper Torchbook edition. Trade paperback, wraps soiled, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to edges/end papers. Underscoring and/or marginalia observed on a few pages (fewer than five) and notes on rfep.
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£6.51
The Literary Guide to the Bible
by Robert Alter, Frank Kermode (eds.)
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990. Soft cover. Very Good. 678 pages, with Index, Glossary, General Introduction; separate introductions to the Old Testament (Alter) and New Testament (Kermode). Essays on each book of the Bible. Large trade paperback (6-1/2" x 10"), shelf wear including small chip at crown, page-turning soil, pages unmarked. Laid in is a review of the book in Religion and Literature, by David Jasper; the review is critically annotated by former owners Profs....
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Endangered Turkic Languages: Before the Last Voices Are Gone. 4 Volumes Set. Vol. 1: Theoretical and General Approaches. Vol. 2-3: Case Studies. Vol 4: Interdisciplinary Approaches.= Tehlikedeki Türk Dilleri: Son Sesler Kaybolmadan. 4 Cilt Takim. Vol. 1: Kuramsal ve Genel Yaklasimlar. Vol. 2-3: Ornek Calismalar. Vol. 4: Disiplinlerarasi Yaklasimlar.
by Edited by SÜER EKER, ÜLKÜ ÇELIK
Ankara - Astana: Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Uluslararasi Türk Kazak Universitesi Mutevelli Heyet Baskanligi / Astana International Turkic Academy, 2016. Hardcover. New. Folio. Original bdg. (34 x 22 cm). In English, Russian, and Turkish. 4 volumes set: (476 p.; 540 p.; 552 p.; 754 p.), ills. A very heavy set. Extra shipping fee will be requested. Endangered Turkic languages: Before the last voices are gone. 4 volumes set. Vol. 1: Theoretical and general approaches. Vol. 2-3: Case studies. Vol 4:...
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