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Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1968 Volume 44 Number 3

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 011973

Condition: Very Good

Includes Out of Place. A Story by Joyce Carol Oates. Faulkner's "Sanctuary" and the Southern Myth. and many other articles. This might be the first printing of the Oates story. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Thomas Love Peacock : A critical Study

By: A. Martin Freeman

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Mitchell Kennerley: 1911

Seller ID: 058174

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

This book represents a part of history that deserves to be preserved. The book covers travels to different places. This book also has many poems. Small chip at head of spine and marginalia on at least one page in pencil. Full refund if not satisfied.
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The Art of James Joyce: Method and Design in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

By: A. Walton Litz

Price: $16.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 013630

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good -

This book is from the library of Dr. Bryan Shelley, author of Shelley and Scripture (published by Oxford University Press). Inscribed by Walt Litz to Dr. Shelley on half title page. Contains underlining and penciled index by Dr. Shelley. Small stain on front cover from price sticker. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Divine Comedy Notes (Coles Notes Revised Key Edition)

By: Aldo S. Bernardo; Anthony L. Pellegrini

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Coles Publishing Company Limited:

Seller ID: 013392

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good -

This book is from the library of Dr. Bryan Shelley, author of Shelley and Scripture (published by Oxford University Press). Contains highlighting and penciled notes on last flyleaf by Dr. Shelley. Covers shelf-worn. Tape on top corner of front cover. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Oeuvres Completes de Alfred de Musset, Tome Neuvieme: Melanges de Litterature et de Critique (Volume 9 of 9)

By: Alfred de Musset

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Paris, Charpentier, Libraire-Editeur: 1866

Seller ID: 015401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

An elegant volume bound in 1/2 leather with marbled boards. Boards are rubbed and corners are chipped, lacking leather tips. Maroon leather spine is lightly worn at extremities but very attractive and hinges are sturdy and functional. Spine decorated with five raised bands and gilt lettering/tooling. Gilt head edge, marbled endsheets. Green silk ribbon marker. Endsheets and engraved plate with tissue guard are lightly foxed. Binding tight, text pages are crisp and bright with uncut fore edge. Full refund if not satisfied.
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The Keats-Shelley Review Number Eighteen

By: Angus Graham-Campbell (Editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Maney Publishing: 2004

Seller ID: 010485

Condition: Near Fine

Used: like new, minor shelf wear.
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Evergreen Review: Volume 3, Number 10 November-December 1959 (First Edition)

By: Barney Rosset, Editor

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 1959

Seller ID: 027837

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good +

Paperback. Illustrated cover. Inscribed on first page by Henry Miller to Pierre Sicari, friend of Miller and collector. There is no other writing in the book. Illustrated. 192pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Evergreen Review: Volume 4, Number 13 May-June 1960 (First Edition)

By: Barney Rosset, Editor

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 1960

Seller ID: 027875

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good +

Paperback. Illustrated cover. No writing in the book. Illustrated. 192pp. Bound in subscription card intact. Full refund if not satisfied.
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A Bibliography of First Appearances of the Writings by A. Conan Doyle

By: Benny R. Reece

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Furman University: 1975

Seller ID: 013429

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Number 237 of 300 first edition/first printing copies. Signed by Benny Reece on title page. No other writing in the book. Tiny chip near head of spine, top corner bumped/lightly creased. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Byron: A Survey

By: Bernard Blackstone Litt.D.

Price: $19.99

Publisher: London, Longman Group Limited: 1975

Seller ID: 014245

ISBN: 0582483549

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Contains previous owner's bookplate - no other writing or markings in the book. Clean pages, tight binding. Dust jacket unclipped, parts are darkened from age. Protected by mylar. Nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Le Roman: Initiation aux Methodes et aux Techniques Modernes d'Analyse Littraire

By: Bernard Valette

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Paris, ditions Nathan: 1992

Seller ID: 059363

ISBN: 2091905852

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Orange and white glossy paper cover with black lettering on front and spine. 128 pp including bibliography and index of studies, critics cited, and terms. Spine lightly sunned. Binding is tight. Cover shows no wear. Text is free of annotation and foxing. Nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
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A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature

By: Bill Brown

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, University Of Chicago Press: 2003

Seller ID: 063442

ISBN: 0226076288

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Blue cloth hardcover with bronze gilt lettering on spine. Illustration depicting something like a cityscape of New York city made of glasses and bottles on Dust Jacket. Brown, tan, and blue colors on DJ. Illustrated throughout. xii. Indexed. 245 pp. No writing within. Full refund if not satisfied.
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The Scandal of the Fabliaux

By: Bloch, R. Howard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 1986

Seller ID: 057950

ISBN: 0226059766

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Like New

Bloch was chairman of the Department of French at the University of California, Berkeley. Like new.
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T.S.Eliot: A Symposium for His Seventieth Birthday

By: Braybrooke, Neville [Editor]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Garnstone Press Ltd: 1970

Seller ID: 022238

ISBN: 0900391820

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

Very light soiling of fore edge and dust jacket. Full refund if not satisfied.
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James Joyce and the Making of "Ulysses"

By: Budgen, Frank

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1972-03-30

Seller ID: 032555

ISBN: 0192811258

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Very good pictorial paperback with former owner's name on the first page. Moderate shelf wear. Sturdy binding, clean text pages. Full refund if not satisfied.
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The Romantic Revolt

By: Charles Edwyn Vaughan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons: 1907

Seller ID: 013551

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good -

Volume X of Periods of European Literature. Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Spine faded. Corners and edges of spines bumped. Head and fore edges deckled. Previous owner's bookplate on pastedown. Text contains minimal underlining in pencil. Light foxing on edges and endleaves. Text pages bright and clean. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Rediscoveries (Signed First Edition)

By: David Madden

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1971

Seller ID: 036879

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes essays in which well-known novelists "rediscover" neglected fiction by other authors, includes Robert Penn Warren, Evan Connell, Joyce Carol Oates, Anais Nin, Walker Percy as well as Wallace Stegner whose essay "rediscovers" Glenway Wescott's Good-Bye Wisconsin, Colberg B106. This copy signed by the author and by George Garrett, one of the contributors. Mylar cover. Previous owner's name written on front free end-paper. 334pp. Solid copy. Rare signed hardcover. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Blake: Prophet against Empire; A Poet's Interpretation of the History of His Own Times

By: David V. Erdman

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, Inc: 1969

Seller ID: 013635

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good -

Contains previous owner's bookplate and very minimal highlighting. Covers lightly shelfworn, spine darkened from age. Price on cover inked out. Full refund if not satisfied.
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A Survey of Classical Roman Literaure (Volumes I & II)

By: Dean Putnam Lockwood

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Prentice-Hall, Inc.: 1934

Seller ID: 019644

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

No writing or markings in either volume. Mild toning. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering to spines. Covers show minimal wear. Vol II slightly cocked. A nice, tight set. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences (SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)

By: Donald E. Polkinghorne

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Albany, NY, State University of New York Press: 1988

Seller ID: 063465

ISBN: 0887066224

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good +

Orange paperback with white lettering. Owner's name on front leaf, no other writing within. Spine is sunned. xi. 232 pp. Indexed. Full refund if not satisfied.
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The Life and Work of Lord Byron No. 4

By: Duncan Gray

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Corporation of Nottingham, Newstead Abbey Publications: 1969

Seller ID: 010271

Condition: Near Fine

This book is from the library of Dr. Bryan Shelley author of Shelley and Scripture published by Oxford University Press. This is a small book, yellow paper covers, price written in pen on cover, light crease on bottom right corner, otherwise like new.
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Jean Renart and the Art of Romance: Essays on Guillaume de Dole

By: Durling, Nancy Vine [Editor]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Gainesville, FL, University Press of Florida: 1997

Seller ID: 037656

ISBN: 0813014956

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

In this first volume of critical essays ever devoted to Jean Renart's work, contributors draw on political and social history, womens studies, translation theory, musicology, and literary theory to illuminate Jean's remarkable contribution to the highly complex genre of courtly romance. An extraordinary blend of realism and high artifice, unique in its combined use of songs and narrative, Jean Renart and the Art of Romance offers zestful dalliances in high places, handsome but self-serving knights, and a beautiful woman whose decisive intelligence allows her to triumph over daunting odds. An ...
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The Brontes and Nature

By: Duthie, Enid Lowry

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 1986-11-01

Seller ID: 024829

ISBN: 0312105991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, first printing. Very good black cloth backed boards, hardcover in near fine dust jacket. Clean white pages. Remainder mark on top edge, otherwise book would be near fine. Full refund if not satisfied.
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The Brontes and Nature

By: Duthie, Enid Lowry

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 1986-11-01

Seller ID: 024830

ISBN: 0312105991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

North Carolina Literary Review, Volume I, Number I

By: Editor-Alex Albright

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Greenville, NC, English Dept, East Carolina University / North Carolina Literary and Historical Association: 1992

Seller ID: 015095

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Includes selections by A. R. Ammons, Linda Beatrice Brown, Fred Chappell, and Janet Lembke, and a special feature about John Lawson and the Tuscarora. No writing in the book - not even an owner's name. Cover show minimal shelf-wear. Tail corner bumped. Full refund if not satisfied.
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North Carolina Literary Review, Volume I, Number 2

By: Editor-Alex Albright

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Greenville, NC, English Dept, East Carolina University / North Carolina Literary and Historical Association: 1993

Seller ID: 015096

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Includes selections by Louise Anderson, James Applewhite, Fred Chappell, and Leon Rooke, and well as a special tribute to Manly Wade Wellman. No writing in the book - not even an owner's name. Covers show minimal shelf-wear. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Ahasver "der ewige Jude," nach seiner ursprunglichen Idee und seiner literarischen Verwertung betrachtet

By: Editor-Eduard Konig

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Gutersloh, C. Bertelsmann: 1907

Seller ID: 013670

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good -

This book is from the library of Dr. Bryan Shelley, author of Shelley and Scripture (published by Oxford University Press). It contains penciled marginal notes and underlining by Dr. Shelley. Green paper covers are reinforced with tape at spine and interior hinges. Covers are lightly soiled. Deckled fore and tail edges. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Religion and Modern Literature: Essays in Theory and Criticism

By: Editor-G. B. Tennyson; Editor-Edward E. Ericson, Jr.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: 1975

Seller ID: 019639

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Clean and unmarked. Brown cloth covers protected by original dust jacket. Dust jacket is price-clipped and shows modest edgewear/fading. Nice, tight copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Shelley: Modern judgements

By: Editor-R. B. Woodings

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Nashville/London, Aurora Publishers Incorporated: 1970

Seller ID: 014423

ISBN: 0876950934

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

This book is from the library of Dr. Bryan Shelley, author of Shelley and Scripture (published by Oxford University Press). It contains his bookplate, as wells as highlighting and penciled notes and index by Dr. Shelley. Pages are tanned and some slightly loose. Covers show minimal wear. Full refund if not satisfied.
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The Gentleman in America: A Literary Study in American Culture

By: Edwin Harrison Cady

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: 1949

Seller ID: 019873

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

No writing or markings in the book. Clean, bright text pages. Very light foxing to book edges and endpapers. Nicely bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Original dust jacket shows minimal wear and has sunned spine. Tiny closed tear at top and bottom edges of dust jacket spine. A tight, attractive copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Literary Criticism--Idea and Act: The English Institute, 1939-1972 :Selected Essays

By: English Institute

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, Univ of California Press: 1974

Seller ID: 028392

ISBN: 0520025857

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

Navy cloth with gold spine lettering. No writing in the book. Mylar cover. vi, 650pp., index. Solid copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
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The Avatars of Thrice Great Hermes: An Approach to Romanticism

By: Ernest Lee Tuveson

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London/Toronto, Bucknell University Press: 1982

Seller ID: 012887

ISBN: 0838722644

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good -

This book is from the library of Dr. Bryan Shelley (contains his bookplate), author of Shelley and Scripture published by Oxford University Press. Text contains highlighting, marginal notes, and additional index on back endleaves by Dr. Shelley. Jacket is faded with heavy shelf-wear around edges and spine, but has been fitted with protective mylar covering. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews by Flannery O'Connor (Hardcover)

By: Flannery O'Connor

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Athens, Univ of Georgia Press: 1983

Seller ID: 038164

ISBN: 0820306630

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

During the 1950s and early 1960s Flannery O'Connor wrote more than a hundred book reviews for two Catholic diocesan newspapers in Georgia. This full collection of these reviews nearly doubles the number that have appeared in print elsewhere and represents a significant body of primary materials from the O'Connor canon. We find in the reviews the same personality so vividly apparent in her fiction and her lectures the unique voice of the artist that is one clear sign of genius. Her spare precision, her humor, her extraordinary ability to permit readers to see deeply into complex and obscure tru...
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Visions & Chimeras

By: Frye, Prosser Hall

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Biblio & Tannen: 1966

Seller ID: 044959

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Size: 8vo. 277 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.
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The American Literary Review: A Critical Hsitory 1920-1950 (First Edition)

By: G. A. M. Janssens

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Hague and Paris, Mouton: 1968

Seller ID: 026597

ISBN: 3111013731

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Tan cloth with gold lettering. No writing in the book. Nice copy. 343pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Aberystwyth Studies by the Members of the University College of Wales (Volume Two) First Edition

By: George A. Wood, Frank S. Wright, P. M. Jones

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Aberystwyth, College of Wales: 1914

Seller ID: 029827

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Contains three essays: The Anglo-Saxon Riddles, by Wood; Some Ancient Defensive Earthworks near Aberystwyth, by Wright; and Whitman and Verhaeren, by Jones. Quarter cloth with marbled boards. Paper title paste down on front board. Illustrated. No writing in the book. 106pp. Ex-library. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Elments d'analyse du discours

By: Georges-Elia Sarfati

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Paris, ditions Nathan: 1997

Seller ID: 059360

ISBN: 2091903744

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Blue and white glossy paper cover with black lettering. 128 pp including bibliography and index of terms. Binding is tight. Cover free from wear. Text is clean. No foxing. Nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Organic Unity in Coleridge (First Edition)

By: Gordon McKenzie

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, University of California Press: 1939

Seller ID: 031230

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

This book is Volume 7, No. 1. Paperback. Original paper printed wraps (edges a bit tattered). No writing in the book. Clean unmarked pages. 107pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Historicism (The New Critical Idiom) First Paperback edition

By: Hamilton, Paul

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Routledge: 1996

Seller ID: 024921

ISBN: 0415110513

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Paperback, a few pages with underlining, vi, 226pp., Full refund if not satisfied.
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Textual Strategies

By: Harari, Josue V.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr: 1980-01-01

Seller ID: 024752

ISBN: 0801491800

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Very good paperback with light shelf wear. Former owner's name on the first and last end sheets. This book would make a great gift. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Dramatists and Dramas (Harold Bloom 20th Anniversary Collection)

By: Harold Bloom

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, TheChelsea House Publishers for The Readers' Subscription: 2006

Seller ID: 061511

ISBN: 1582881995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

Black paper boards, titled in gold on spine. Glossy illustrated dust jacket. Indexed, 307 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Poetics of Influence

By: Harold Bloom

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Haven, CT, Henry R Schwab: 1988

Seller ID: 063485

ISBN: 0939681013

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good +

Light green paperback with teal, silver, and black lettering. Spine is sunned. xlv. 450 pp. Indexed. No writing within except for owner's name on front leaf. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Eliot to Derrida: The Poverty of Interpretation (First Edition)

By: Harwood, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1995

Seller ID: 031933

ISBN: 0312125593

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good -

This is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter, from I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples. Paperback. Illustrated cover. Heavy underlining and some marginalia on about 15 pages. vii, 244pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature

By: Heilbut, Anthony

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of California Press: 1997-04-25

Seller ID: 017571

ISBN: 0520209117

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

This book would make a great gift. Full refund if not satisfied.
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La littrature franaise du XXe sicle

By: Henri Mitterand

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Paris, ditions Nathan: 1996

Seller ID: 059359

ISBN: 2091904880

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Red and white glossy paper cover with black lettering on front and spine, book information on back. 128 pp, including bibliography and index of authors. Spine lightly sunned. Cover is free from wear. Binding is tight. Text body is clean and free from underlining, highlighting, or notes. No foxing. Nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Critical, Historical, and Philosophical Contributions to the Study of the Divina Commedia

By: Henry Clark Barlow

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London / Edinburgh, Williams and Norgate: 1864

Seller ID: 062260

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

Professionally rebound. Gray cloth binding with a burgundy slip and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt top edge. Uncut fore and bottom edges. New end-papers. A few fold-outs containing facsimiles of the written codices. Also a few fold outs with new articles pasted to them (probably inserted when rebound). xi, 607pp. Burgundy slip starting to very slightly pull away at bottom left edge. Pages are age-toned with some stains on a few of them. Several pages also have some writing in pencil (thus eraseable). Full refund if not satisfied.
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A Key to the Waverley Novels, in Chronological Sequence, with Index of the Principal Characters

By: Henry Grey

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Griffith & Farren: 1884

Seller ID: 013565

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

"Specimen with Griffith & Farran's Compliments" stamped on title page. Names of previous owners written on 1/2 title page - no other writing in the book. Pages darkened from age. Interior hinges cracked, but textblock tightly bound. Green cloth covers with stamped lettering on front board and spine. Spine a bit faded. Corners and edges of spine shelf-worn. Full refund if not satisfied.
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The Deconstruction of Literature: Criticism after Auschwitz (First Edition)

By: Hirsch, David H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hanover and London, Brown University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 031216

ISBN: 0874515661

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

A relentless critique of anti-humanism in deconstructionist and postmodern literary theory and its historical ideological connections to Nazism. Paperback. No writing in the book. x, 314pp., index. Solid copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Dal Secolo e Dal Poema di Dante: Altri Ritratti e Studi di Isidoro Del Lungo

By: Isidoro Del Lungo

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Bologna, Ditta Nicola Zanichelli: 1898

Seller ID: 013428

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good +

Full calf-leather soft covers with gilt lettering on spine. Edges of boards are worn and chipping, boards are lightly rubbed but are clean and smooth. Head of spine chipped, parts of lettering missing. Head edge gilt. A handsome volume. Contains written inscription on first flyleaf - no other writing in the book. Edges of pages darkened from age. Hinges are weak near front and back endleaves, but binding is sound. Full refund if not satisfied.
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The Shakespeare Revolution: Criticism and Performance in the Twentieth Century

By: J. L. Styan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, London, New York, Cambridge University Press: 1983

Seller ID: 026004

ISBN: 0521273285

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good -

Paperback, illustrated, ex-library, 292pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Category: Literary Criticism