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Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Minor wear to the extremities, jacket protected in a Mylar sleeve. 386 pages, including Biographical Essay, Index of Names, and Index of Titles. Several black & white photos illustrate the text. Literary biography of Russian poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)..

New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1971. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. Remainder mark bottom edge. Very light shelf wear. Jacket shows a trace of wear, rubbing. An anthology of poetry and short fiction that includes such writers as Robert Bly, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertov, James Purdy, and Gary Snyder, to name some..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 93 pages. Publisher's top-edge pink stain. From the dust jacket: "Two long narrative poems plus an extraordinary group of dramatic meditations on a fascinating variety of subjects: Proust searching for his novel's title; Rodin evading the perverse importunities of his admirers; Loie Fuller trying to wheedle radium from Madame Curie; Fuseli, Wordsworth and Kafka obliquely evoked; Virginia Woolf plotting a novel about Byron--while other poems are lyric instances or evidences of less notorious voices.".

New York: Pantheon, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Price-clipped jacket protected in a new archival sleeve. 214 pages, with Postscript: An Appreciation by Hugh Gaitskell..

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1890. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. The Aldine Edition. Red cloth covers are bumped and scuffed and have several small spots or stains. Paper label on spine worn and darkened but legible. Interior clean, binding firm. 179 pages..

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Mild wear to book and jacket, a bit of shelf wear. Jacket in a Mylar protector. 206 pages with List of Books Consulted and Index. The author examines the school lives of six Romantic era poets--Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Byron, Shelley, and Keats--and discovers the myth about poets as introverted dreamers and misfits in school is far from true. Illustrated with black and white plates of the poets and some of their schools..

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Beta Phi Mu, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Some foxing to the edges of the page block, otherwise a clean copy. Signed by the author on the blank page facing the title page and by the book's designer, P.J. Conkwright, on the colophon. Chapbook number XI for the publisher..

New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. The dust jacket has a few scratches, a tiny edge tear and a small, light smudge on the front panel. 268 with Appendix on Names and Titles, Genealogical Charts, Chronological Chart, Bibliography, and Index of Persons..

Philadelphia: Shepp Publishing Company, 1897. Book. Illus. by Charles Dana Gibson, et al. Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. Decorated cloth, rubbed with shelf wear and wear at the tips, but not worn through. Binding is square and tight. 672 pages, illustrated with 150 half-tone portraits and engravings and about 200 text illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson, Corwin K. Linson and others. Frontispiece photo of the New Congressional Library in Washington, D.C. A large collection of nineteenth century literature..

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Light rub to jacket. 149 pages..

New Haven, Connecticut: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small amount of light soiling to rear panel of jacket. In a new mylar cover now. A collection of Lessing's essays, interviews, reminiscences, reviews, and appraisals over a period of seventeen years from 1956 to 1973..

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mild wear to book and jacket. xxiv, 64 pp + 8 pp of black and white photos related to the last chapter (Twelfth Night). Each chapter is illustrated with un-numbered pages of black and white photos. A photographic record of the first five seasons at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. A lengthy Introduction of 21 pages precedes the pictorial record of the festival, organized in chapters by play. Alec Guinness starred in the plays from the first festival in 1953: King Richard III and All's Well That Ends Well. Other actors of note found in the credits include Christopher Plummer, Lorne Greene, a young William Shatner, and James Mason..

Lima, Peru: Editora Paracas Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stiff covers with edge wear. Browning to inside of covers and around the edge of the text block. 96 pages. SPANISH TEXT. Two pages previously dog-eared, leaving a crease. Jose Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Ulloa (1844-1918) was a Peruvian politician and anarchist, literary critic and director of the National Library of Peru. As a social critic, he helped develop Peruvian intellectual thought in the early twentieth century, as well as the academic style known as modernismo. 0.

New York: Atheneum, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Faint smudge or markings to fore-edge of the page block. Upper-corner of fornt free endpaper clipped. Rear panel of jacket has some wrinkling. 223 pages with Source Guide for Quoted Material, Bibliography, and Index. Black and white photos..

New York: The American Press, 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Light shelf wear. Jacket rubbed, slightly chipped, and a bit of sticker remanants on the fornt cover. 92 pages with Biobliography..

1934. Scrapbook. Good. Hardcover. 8 ½ X 11 thick card covers with cloth-covered spine, string-bound. 80 leaves, 75 numbered pages, rectos only, beginning about ten pages into the scrapbook. Newspaper clippings pasted on both rectos and versos through page 30 and rectos only thereafter through page 74. Page 75 is blank. Two 1936 clippings from the Sunday New York Herald Tribune Books section are laid in between blank leaves near the end of the scrapbook, as are pressed flowers between preceding leaves. A number of the articles are serial installments, some are book reviews. Miss Trosper (1912-1944), daughter of an Oklahoma pioneering family, attended the University of Oklahoma and appears to have been a recent graduate living in New York at the time she assembled this scrapbook. She noted on her bookplate (1934 / New York), indicating she spent at least part of the year in New York collecting articles from New York newspapers, January through May of 1934. Two from that time range were collected… Leer más

London: Elm Tree Books/Hamish Hamilton, 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. This book catalogs the characters of eight novels by Eliot. Characters are presented alphabetically, and with brief descriptions. Foreword by Robert Nye. 183 pages. Includes a section at the back of the book that lists characters by novel..

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. 189 pages. Organized alphabetically by characters..

London: Elm Tree Books/Hamish Hamilton, 1975. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Just a trace of shelf wear and a bit of age toning to the jacket. Nice clean copy. 247 pages. More than 600 characters from dramatist George Bernard Shaw's fifty-one plays, listed alphabetically and with brief descriptions. Foreword by W.A., Darlington..

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Light brown spotting along page edges. Scratch to front panel of jacket, protected in a Mylar sleeve now. xlii, 427 pages with Index of Recipients and General Index..