Samuel Beckett; new edition
NY: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2011. Hardcover. Octavo, 166 pages. Ex-library copy, with normal library markings, stamps, and labels. Firm binding; no loose pages. Cover with minor wear. Bloom's Modern Critical Views.
Literary Criticism
Mark Twain; son of Missouri
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1934. Cloth. Octavo, pp. [6], vii-xvi, [2], 3-294, [2]. Signed and inscribed by the author inside the front cover. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt accents. Bumped boards with some small stains. Firm binding; no loose pages. Foxed edges with a few small.....
John Graves, Writer
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo, 266 pages. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Inscribed and signed by editor Busby on half-title page. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear.
The Real Alice
Briarcliff Manor, NY: Stein and Day, 1982. Hardcover. Octavo, 271 pages. Light blue and orange boards with gold lettering on spine. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear. Several pages with small stains. This is a large or heavy book and may require additional shipping.....
Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines; a roadmap for readers
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo, 259 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minimal wear.
Robbing the Mother; Women in Faulkner
Oxford: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 1994. Hardcover. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and jacket with minimal use and wear, with jacket in clear protective cover. A very good attractive copy.
These Amazing Moderns
St. Louis: The Bethany Press, 1933. Cloth. Octavo, pp. [6], 7-270, [2]. Appears to be signed by the author inside the front cover. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Lightly bumped boards and slightly cocked spine. Tanned pages and edges, including uneven tanning and some.....
Anna Lombard; late Victorian and early modernist women writers
NY: Continuum, 2001. Paperback. Octavo, 140 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minor wear. Edited and with an introduction by Gail Cunningham.
Walter Kempowski's Das Echolot; sifting and exposing the evidence via montage
Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2005. Paperback. 8vo, 236 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minimal wear. Text in English.
Solitude and the Sublime; romanticism and the aesthetics of individuation
New York: Routledge, 1992. Paperback. Octavo, 177 pages. Signed and inscribed by author on the half-title page: "For Lisa and Matt, With my admiration and affection, Frances." Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minor wear. Small stains on bottom edge and lightly tanned pages; covers with slight.....
America's Most Famous Book; a dissertation on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin and Uncle Tom shows
Torch Press, 1947. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. [4], 5-37, [1]. Green and brown decorated boards with bumping, particularly at fore-edge. Firm binding; no loose pages. Lightly tanned pages and very light foxing inside covers. Several pages near the back with light liquid staining. Privately printed for the friends of May and.....
Frost; a time to talk conversations & indiscretions recorded by Robert Francis
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1972. Cloth. Octavo, 100 pages. Tan cloth boards with blue lettering. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear. Jacket encased in a clear protective cover.
Romanticism and Masculinity; gender, politics and poetics in the writings of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, De Quincy and Hazlitt
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 1st Printing. Cloth. Octavo, 250 pages. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear. Some writing on front end paper; no other writing or marks noted.
Dostoyevsky and the Jews
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. Cloth. Octavo, 231 pages. Dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book with minor wear. Dust jacket with some rubbing and small chips. Foreword by Joseph Frank.
Shelf Life; essays, memoirs and an interview
London, UK: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1993. Cloth. Octavo, 230 pages. Black cloth boards with gray lettering on spine. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear. Slightly tanned pages.
The Youthful Look; a memoir, 1947-1952
Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1992. Paperback. 8vo, 309 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Small bend to covers and creases on a few pages early and late in the book. Lightly tanned pages. No writing or marks observed.
Victor Hugo; a realistic biography of the great romantic
New York: Jorge Pinto Books, 2006. Paperback. Octavo, 514 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minimal wear. Minor curls at the bottom of the covers. Reprint of a book originally published in 1942.
Virginia Woolf's Vision of Life and Her Search for Significant Form; a study in the shaping vision
Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1980. Cloth. 8vo, 195 pages. Yellow cloth-covered boards with blue accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Slightly cocked spine and lightly bumped boards. Tanned edges and a few stains/smudges on a few pages through the preface. Dust jacket with chips and tears, plus a small.....
Beyond Enchantment; German idealism and English romantic poetry
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Hardcover. New in shrink wrap.
The Poetry Home Repair Manual; practical advice for beginning poets
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Cloth. Octavo, 163 pages. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Signed by author on title page. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear. A small amount of pencil marks and notes.
Colette
New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Paperback. Octavo, 521 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minor wear. Lightly tanned pages. No writing or marks observed. Translated by Jane Marie Todd.
Romantic Visualities; landscape, gender and Romanticism
London: Macmillan, 1998. Hardcover. Octavo, 222 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear. Slightly askew spine. Black boards with gilt lettering; limited underlining in pen. Alternate dust jacket with minor rubbing, chips and tears. A good copy. From the dust jacket: "What is the.....
A Class Apart; the military man in French and British fiction, 1740-1789
Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016. Paperback. 8vo, 244 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minimal wear. Stamps on the top edge and title page. Part of the French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries series, edited by Robin Howells.
Prophecy in the Christian Era; a study of Bob Dylan's work from 1961 to 1967
St. Louis: Peaceberry Press of Webster Groves, 1995. Paperback. Octavo, 241 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minor wear.
Clement Marot's Epistles
Tempe, AZ: ACMRS Press, 2022. Hardcover. Octavo, 422 pages. Glossy illustrated covers. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minimal wear. This is a large or heavy book and may require additional shipping charges to mail outside of the United States. Translated into English and introduction by Robert.....