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New York, NY: R.R. Bowker, 1959. Revised & Enlarged Editon . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. EX-LIB. Text/As Near. Bi-color boards/VG; small push to upper front corner & closed teat to cloth spine covering at lower front. Library loan slip removed from rear endpaper. First published 1935. Former titles "Famous Literary Prizes & Their Winners", and, "Literary Prizes & Their Winners". This is the Revised/Enlarged Edition of 1959. Local prizes & those awarded by colleges/universities to undergraduates are not included. Contents are: I, Nobel Prize for Literature; II, American Prizes; III, British Prizes; IV, Canadian Prizes; V, French Prizes; and, VI, German Prizes. The American Prizes are subdivided into Publishers', Juvenile, Poetry, Drama, Short Story, and Library Prizes. Fine reference/resource.

New York, NY: Fawcett Columbine, 1994. First Edition, 3rd Pinting . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/trace margin discoloration. Softcover/Fine. Novel from Polish-born (now part of Ukraine) Jewish-Amercia novelist Louis Begley (1933 -) known for his semi-autobiographical Holocaust novel, Wartime Lies (1991). This 243 paged urbane & elegant novel is the story of Ben, also a Holocaust survivor, who immigrates to the US. A Harvard graduate, socially skilled & keen of mind, Ben becomes a Wall Street international investment banker. Bent on turning his back on the painful past, Ben both distances himself from his parents & Jewish heritage. An urbane, elegant novel of life demands among the leisured rich, highbrow authors, filmmakers & artists populating the universe of international commerce from New York, France, Japan to Brazil, which our middle-aged protagonist now finds himself, hopefully not too late.

New York, NY: Universal Library/Grosset & Dunlap, 1955. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. James Thurber (Author-Illustrator). SOFT COVER. Text/BRAND NEW, w/faint margin discoloration, and, humidity staining to lower spines of first 17 pgs & last pages. Anthology of 36 short stories & illustrations from Ohio-born James Grover Thurber (1894 - 1961), singular American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated by the New Yorker.

London, UK: Hogarth Press, 1984. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW w/faint margin discoloration. Soft cover/NF; showing trace shelfwear. First published in 1912; this is a 1984 re-issue. Humorous tale beset w/vanity, delusions & passage of time from English novelist Edward Frederic Benson OBE (1867 - 1940, known for his 'Mapp and Lucia' series. Mrs. Ames has long reigned in a world of afternoon teas, cucumber sandwiches & tit-bits of gossip unchallenged in the town of Riseholme. But now her tiara crowns graying locks. And her previously devoted to their garden flowers husband, Major Lyndhurst Percy Ames (a full 10 years her junior) interests have strayed over the fence to Millie's next door! Mrs Ames sets out to re-woo the Major. Her success is both exquisite, inevitable, and a delight to read!

London, UK: Clarendon Press/Oxford Univ, 1962. 2nd Revised Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/NEW & Bright w/underling & bracketing to pg 107 & PO name strike-out to fEP. Vintage 1962. 2nd Revised Edition, First Thus. Volume V of The Oxford History of English Literature series. First published 1945; this 1st First Printing of the 1962, 2nd Revised Edition was published w/o ISBN. Classic survey of English non-dramatic literature of 1600-1660. 680 pgs in 12 chapters: I, Background of the Age; II, Popular Literature & Translations; III, The Successors of Spenser: Song-books & Miscellanies; IV, Jonson, Donne, & Their Successors; V, The Literature of Travel; VI, Essays & Characters; VII, History & Biography; VIII, Political Thought; IX, Science & Scientific Thought; X, Religion & Religious Thought; XI, Heroic Verse; and XII, Milton, followed by Conclusion, Chronological Tables, Bibliography, and Index. Fine copy despite flaws.

Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1961. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Stapled. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Collectible, 1961 First Edition. Stapled softcover/NF; light shelfwear & discoloration. 4 literary, scholarly discourses presented Jan. 1961 at the Library of Congress; sponsored by The Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry & Literature Fund. 57 pgs, the 4 essays are: 1, Russian Soviet Literature Today (Marc Slonim); 2, Chinese Letters Since the Literary Revolution of 1917 (Lin Yutang); 3, The Progress of Realism in the Italian Novel (Giose Rimanelli); and, 4, The Contemporary Literature of Spain (Arturo Torres-Rioseco).

New York, NY: Fawcett Columbine/Ballatine, 1983. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright, showing faint margin discoloration. Softcover/Good w/faint creasing to upper front & small loss to lower front corner & light surface discoloration. 1960, first novel in the series of 6 from gifted, Pulitzer Prize winner novelist, poet & short story writer John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009). Classic tale of life in these United States. Story of 3 months in the life of a 26-year-old, former high school basketball player, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who finds himself in a loveless marriage, a boring sales job working for his father-in-law, in small town America replete with a used-car sales lot and a Chinese restaurant. The tale's sequels include Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest.

Lexington, KY: Univ Press of Kentucky, 1993. 3rd Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Near New. Soft cover/NF w/trace wear to upper front corner tip. Classic textbook/guide to contemporary literary theory. This 3rd Edition is edited and revised by Peter Widdowson due to the premature death of Raman Selden, to whom this edition is dedicated. 8 chapters: 1, New Criticism, Moral Formalism & F.R. Leavis; 2. Russian Formailism; 3, Reader-orientated Theories; 4, Marxist Theories; 5, Structuralist Theories; 6, Poststructuralist Theories; 7, Postmodernist & Postcolonialist Theories; and, 8, Feminist Theories. Strong copy.

Lexington, KY: Univ Press Kentucky, 1991. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/NEW & Bright. 1991, First Edition, First Thus. Dark blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. Evolutions of feudal loyalty in European literature. Review of on going narratives of Roland, who gave up his life in 788 at the Battle of Roncesvalles, is described in 19th century French literature from 1777 through the end of World War I. First narrative of admired Charlemagne warrior Roland (- 788), was the 12th Century epic poem Chanson de Roland, attributed to Norman poet Turold. This tale of Roland was followed by many (esp. French & Italian) medieval romances, continued to fascinate storytellers. Harry Redman Jr., professor of French at Tulane Univ, examines 19th century transformations of the Roland legend in literature --- from religious, feudal loyalties to his lord, to a patriot fighting his country's foes, to making the world a better place for all, and, recovery of lost lands ---… Leer más

Mexico, D.F., Mexico: Espasa-Calpe, 1991. Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright w/marginalia to last 2 pgs. Spanish language text. Softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. Fiction. First 2 of a series of 4 noteworthy novelettes from Spanish novelist, dramatist & poet Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866 - 1936), whose statue stands in Madrid. 182 pgs., the short stories are: 1, Sonata de Primavera (Spring Sonata), written in 1904; set in an Italian palace in Italy, tale of a failed seduction that contrasts life & death, and the divine & satanic. And 2, Sonata de Estio (Summer Sonata), written in 1903, recounts forbidden love in the world of brigands in Mexico. The 2 volumes correspond to the first two episodes in life ---youth and fullness --- in the arc of love & life.

New York, NY: New York Univ Press, 1971. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Ochre linen boards/VG; Strong & sound, showing marked discoloration to front. DJ/None. A study of important trends in 20th century (from 1910 to 1971) novels, Specifically those in which authors designed their works to be of this age (20th Century), and who sought to express "... relationships in time and space among characters ...". Discernible changes in attitudes towards time/space suggest the impact of Einstein's thought on literature is substantial. Text in 3 part parts and 9 chapters. Part I, The Structures of the Architectonic Novel: Chapter 1, Character; 2, Closed Structures; and, 3, Open Structures. Part II, The Perspective of the Architectonic Novel: 4, Perspective & Narrative Point of View; 5, The Perspectives of the Camera; and, 6, The Perspectives Provided by the Book Itself. Part III, The Spatialization of Time: 7, The Book as a Medium… Leer más

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1962. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/NEW & Bright. Vintage 1962 1st Edition, First Thus. Bicolor boards w/paste-down label & silver spine lettering/VG; rubs to corner tips, surface discoloration & fading to spine. PO strike-out to fEP lower edge. Anthology of 11 essays by alumni of Louisiana State Univ, all of whom received their doctoral degrees at the institution. Broad definition of the English Renaissance period used (from accession of the first Tudor to the Restoration). 240 pgs.The essays are: 1, John Earle Uhler (W.J. Olive); 2, Popular Literature & Social Protest, 1485-1558 (Frances A. Abernethy); 3, Spenser's Braggadochio (James V. Holleran); 4, The Sorrows of Shakespeare's Richard II (Foster Provost); 5. Neo-Stoic Influence on Elizabethan Formal Verse Satire (Sam H. Henderson); 6, The Staging of the Dover Cliff Scene in King Lear (Waldo F. McNeir); 7, Cymbeline & the Greek Romance: A… Leer más

New York, NY: Hill & Wang, 1974. First Edition, 6th Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Yellow soft cover/VG; w/light shelf wear & soiling to lower back ege. Classic study of semiology (science of signs and symbols) in Sarrasine, a novella by Balzac Honore (1799 - 1850). Barthes calls his study an essay, and says it is "the trace of work done during a two-year seminar (1968 - 1969) at the Ecole pratiques de Hautes Etudes." Through scrutiny of 561 fragments (or lexias) we are introduced to the very nature of reading, which is principally something we do by ourselves.

Garden City, NY: Junior Deluxe Editions/Doubleday, 1955. Junior Deluxe Editions, First Thus . Hardcover. Collectible - Fine/Fine. Leonard Weisgard (Illustrator). Junior Deluxe, Book Club Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated, bi-color boards/NF w/short closed tears to upper back & trace soiling. DJ/NF. Upper text block dyed to match orange endpapers; trace tape residue to front/rear covers verso.Introduction to the study of Shakespeare for young readers. First published 1807. Collaborative work of English essayist Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834) with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764 - 1847). This editions is illustrated by award winning American artist Leanoard Weisgard (1916 - 2000) who illustrated some 200 children's books.

Lincoln, Nebraska: Univ of Nebraska Press, 1989. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace wear to dust jacket. Analysis of the use of parody in four medieval French texts, all of which demonstrate the conflict between peasantry and the institution of nobility. 4 chapters: 1, Fergus: The Courtois Vilain; 2, Audigier: The Courtois Bas-culé; 3, Le Roman de Renart: The Courtois Bes-tourné; and, 4, Trubert: The Courtois Trompé, followed by Conclusion.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1965. Reprint of 1968 . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW w/trace margin discoloration. Softcover/VG; sound w/light edge & surface rubs. First published 1965; this is a Reprint of 1968. Annotated translations of two medieval Icelandic narratives with oral tradition antecedents. Recording the discovery of America by Norsemen some 5 centuries before Christopher Columbus. They are: 1, Graenlendinga Saga; and 2, Eirik's Saga.