Resultados de búsqueda: Literary History and Criticism from Old Saratoga Books

NY: Taplinger Publishing Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket rubbed, spine of . jacket sunned.. 1976. First American Edition. Hardcover. 9780800808211 . xii, 161pp. Photos, appendices, notes, family trees, bibliography, index. Blue cloth binding.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: The Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and lightly worn, . one inch tear at top edge of front jacket panel.. 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. White illustrated cloth. Measures 7 x 5.5 inches. Cheeky spy style manual written by British author Kingsley Amis using the pseudonym of James Bonds chief of staff. Includes advice about gambling, food, drink, clothing, girls, weaponry and spy accessories, etc. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 111 pages .

NY: George J. Coombes. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly toned and soiled.. 1886. Large Paper Edition. Hardcover. One of 100 copies, numbered and signed by Coombes on limitation page. Light green paper-covered boards with printed spine label. Index. Illustrations. Many pages uncut. A collection of bibliophilic essays by the Scottish author and folklorist of The Blue (and other colors) Fairy Book fame, about literary forgeries, Japanese bogie-books, parish registers, bookmen at Rome, bibliomania in France, bookbindings, Elzevirs, and a bookman's purgatory. Laid in is a four page MLS dated July 25, 1885, by drama scholar Brander Matthews to Coombes on Savile Club stationery. The letter advocates that Coombes publish this collection of essays, negotiates price and terms of publication in America and overseas, and asks if Coombes would be interested in a collection of poems about sleep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 177 pages .

London: MacMillan. Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges foxed, owner name on front free . endpaper, jacket lightly worn and foxed.. 1966. Hardcover. Edited and with an introduction by Muriel Spark. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages .

Philadelphia: Porcupine Press. Good with no dust jacket; Page tops, endpapers, and fore-edges foxed.. 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. 0879915102 . Two-volume reprint of the four-volume set originally published in 1933 by the Shakespeare Head Press. Red cloth binding. Volume I covers 1777-1849 (xv, 350pp) ; Volume II covers 1849-1928 (x,392pp). Indices, illustrations, chronology. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Self Published. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket worn.. 1984. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Green cloth binding. Photos, illustrations, bibliography. Reviews of the poetry of Robert Browning. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: A. C. Armstrong and Son. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, corners rounded, waterstain at . lower corner of front boards and page bottoms, hinges cracked.. 1881. Hardcover. Two volumes in one. Brown cloth binding. A collection of essays about the works and sufferings of various authors, lesser known and well known alike, including Horace Walpole, Isaac Ritson, Dr. Zachary Grey, Robert Heron, David Hume, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and many others. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 411 pages .

Boston: G. K. Hall & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0816187975 . A volume in A Reference Guide to Literature series exploring writings about the two English author siblings. Burgundy cloth binding with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Appendix, index. xvii, 319pp. Very Good. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket toned with light chipping and . closed tear at lower rear corner.. 1954. Third Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth with blue topstain. vi, 326pp. Chronological tables, bibliography, and index. “A study of the age of Chaucer, the events which shaped his career, and the precise poetic means Chaucer used to produce his unique effects. ” ; Oxford History of English Literature; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Twayne Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Green dot on rear free endpaper.. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 080578800X . Tan cloth. xvi, 136pp, index. Discusses historical context, literary importance, critical reception, and analysis of the Chronicles of Narnia books. Notes, references, chronology of C.S. Lewis' life, bibliography, index. ; Twayne Masterwork Studies; Vol. 127; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Norwich, VT: Norwich University. Good; Library bookplate and usual stamps and markings, newspaper clipping . about book glued to rear free endpaper, owner name on front cover, wraps . sunned.. 1927. Softcover. One of the Norwich University Publications, Department of English. Printed olive wraps. Discusses the work of Dorothy Canfield, Sarah N. Cleghorn, Zephine Humphrey, Daniel Leavens Cady, Wendell Phillips Stafford, Theodora Agnes Peck, Sylvia Hortense Bliss, Anne Bosworth Greene, Bertha Oppenheim, Merritt P. Allen, Robert L. Duffus, William Dudley Pedley, Mary Elkins Gardyne, John Farrar, Arthur Wentworth Hewitt, Blanche Finkle Gile, Myrtie Anna Aldrich, Beth B. Gilchrist, and Laura Childs. Though Robert Frost had received the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry in 1924 and had been teaching at Middlebury College since 1921, Peach must not have considered him Vermonty enough to include him in this literary analysis. ; Ex-Library; 66 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Good with no dust jacket; Front hinge cracked, owner inscription on front . free endpaper, first section loose.. 1897. First Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth with top edges gilt. Notes. BAL 5306.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 96 pages .

London: A. and H. B. Bonner. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, owner bookplates on front . pastedowns.. 1902-03. Hardcover. Green cloth bindings with titles in gilt on front boards and spines. Volume I, 204pp; Volume II, 230pp. Collections of the author's literary essays. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Top and fore- edge lightly foxed, . jacket rubbed.. 1968. First Printing. Hardcover. Purple cloth quarterbound in black cloth. ix, 233pp. Notes and index. A study of the author’s works focusing on his use of angelic communion and the always fallible power of the devil. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780743234467 . Red paper quarterbound in black cloth with deckled fore-edge. xii, 274 pages. Notes, acknowledgments, and index. Dante in love is a worldly and spiritual travelogue of the poet's travels and the journey of creativity that produced the greatest poem ever written. From the front flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Random House. Very Good; Sticker stains on front cover.. 1982. Softcover. 9780394710037 . Poetry collection by the late Kenneth Koch. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 83 pages .

NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket sunned and tattered.. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0374135673 . Black cloth binding and decadent purple endpapers. Traces the history of the use of the word "decadent". "The result is not only a fascinating linguistic exploration but also a study in permutations of belief, a first-rate piece of literary criticism, and an illuminating essay in cultural history." (rear cover blurb) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 180 pages .

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Very Good; Edges foxed.. 1987. 1st Paperback printing. Softcover. 0252014758 . xii, 218pp. Index, works cited. Literary analysis of how readers experience terror in fiction and why they seek it out, as well as providing an overview of the genre, including the works of Poe, Henry James, Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraaft, Charles Brockden Brown, Jerzy Kosinski, and William Faulkner. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Amherst, MA: New England Women Writers Project. Very Good; Covers lightly worn.. 1978. Softcover. Brown printed stapled card covers. Illustrations and photos. A project of a year-long course at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Women’s Studies Program, focused on uncovering “the lost culture of women”. The eighteen authors and illustrators contributed artwork, poetry, and prose, with emphasis on New England women writers, including Ann Petry, Abigail Bailey, Florence Luscom, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Agnes Smedley, Ruth Hemenway, Maria Mitchell, Maria Lindros, Dorothy Campbell, Helen Brandreth, Paulina Brandreth, Anna Pike, W. A. Parker, and others. Only five copies located in WorldCat. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; [76] pages .

Hamden, CT: Archon Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0208018778 . xi, 132pp. Brown cloth. Index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .