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Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1930. (USA) No markings, some rubbing to cover corner tips, hinges solid, Good; lacking the dust jacket. Black cloth, xx, 576pp. Translated by Richard Aldington. Colour frontis and 15 colour plates; 8 B&W illus by Jean de Bosschere. (2.9 JM HOQ 102/a4. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by DE Bosschere, Jean. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: The National Alumni, 1907. (USA) No markings, spine very slightly darkened, VG; no Dj as issued in VG slipcase covered with blue cloth showing a couple of faint spots. 23 x 16 cm, white vellum over boards with gold border, gold floral edge to inside cover edges, top edge gilt, ribbon marker,tipped-in series frontis with another B&W frontis illus, two other tissued protected plates, viii, 387pp. Intro by William Shepard Walsh. This is one of an original set of 16 volumes in the History of Italian Literature series, The Edizione Vaticano, limited to 100 copies. The first volume on Italian Literature contains the certificate signed by Rossiter Johnson, secretary. Carv=cano was an author, editor, critic, dramatist, orator, statesman, well known for his translation of Shakespeare's works into Italian. Damiano is in many respects his best, as it is certainly the most representative of all his novels, though it never surpassed the popularity of Angiola Maria. A heavy book (2.8 JM HOQ… Leer más

Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint Co, 1975. (UK) A Reprint Remainder mark to top edge of pages, owner's name and date to endpaper, "Withdrawn" stamp from library to endpaper, (This is NOT an ex-library copy), no other markings, clean, tight, VG; no Dj perhaps as issued. Brown cloth, viii, 269pp. This is the text of a English Psalter with Latin text, Part II, originally pubished by the Early English Text Society original series, 92, 1889. Eadwine's Canterbury Psalter: Part II, Text and Notes is a book written by Fred Harsley that provides a comprehensive analysis of the second part of the Canterbury Psalter, which was created by the scribe Eadwine in the 12th century. The book includes a detailed transcription of the text, along with extensive notes that explain the meanings of various words and phrases. Harsley also provides an in-depth analysis of the manuscript's history, including its provenance and the various hands that contributed to its creation. The book is designed for… Leer más

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, but a tiny faint spot to the leading edge of pages, thus about Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Boards, xxii, 1347pp, index, no illus. This book brings ogether some 300 contributors to compile a massive reference work on Canadian literature and Canadian writers, co vering both English and French language writers, as well as those in other languages such as Haida, Cree, and Yiddish. A heavy book. (5.0 JM HOQ 102/b2. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: Heritage Press, 1946. (USA) First Thus Owner's signature to two volumes, small stain to upper page corners of volume two, no other markings, some rubbing to cover edges and to cover corner tips, hinges fine, pages clean with slight toning to edges, Very Good; no dust jackets possibly as published; no slipcase. Three volumes, each 19.5 x 13.5 cm, marbled paper-covered boards with brown claoth spines and gild spine titles. Volume One contains Books One and half of Book Two of the essays, red marbled boards, xlvi, 816pp. Volume Two contains the latter half of Book Two of the essays and all of Book Three, 817- 1529pp. Volume Three is the Handbook to the Essays including the Notes on the text of the translation and a series on commentaries by Grace Norton. Introduced by Andre Gide. A heavy set. (6.0 JM HOQ 101/a2. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

[London]: [Taylor and Hessey], 1820. (UK) Missing the title page, frontis, cover edges show some wear, base of spine worn, original endpapers, hinges fine, otherwise decent Acceptable copy. 17 x 10 cm, marble paper over boards, 3/4 leather, raised spine hubs with gold floral patterns, leather title label, marbled endpapers, [1] 2- 206pp. "T. Miller, printer, Noble Street, Cheapside, London". This is possibly the second edition of 1820. The first edition has vi pages of preliminary material, and a frontis., which is not present in this copy. Taylor was born in London in 1757. Her father, who died when she was a child, was an evangelical preacher. Her mother married again and her new siblings bullied her. She found respite writing satire and verse which gave her increased status among her school peers. Among those peers was Isaac Taylor and at Islington on 18 April 1781 she married him. They had eleven children and five survived to adulthood and to be noted writers She died in 1830.(… Leer más

Jackson MI: University of Mississippi, 1997. (USA) 1st printing. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR in German to the half-title, no other markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 311pp, index, no illus. From the jacket: That Faulkner was a "liar" not just in his writing but also in his life has troubled many critics. They have explained his numerous "false stories," particularly those about military honors he actually never earned and war wounds he never sustained, with psychopathological imposture-theories. The drawback of this approach is that it reduces and oversimplifies the complex psychological and aesthetic phenomenon of Faulkner's role-playing.Honnighausen examines Faulkner's interviews and photographs for the fictions they perpetuate. Such Faulknerian role-playing he interprets as a mode of organizing experience and relates it to the crafting of the artist's various personae in his works. (2.1 JM LVR 201/b2. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over… Leer más

NY: Biblo and Tannen, 1967. (USA) Upper corner of endpaper cut to remove a name(?), there is a piece of linen tape to the spine side of the title page (inexplicable as the book is tight, possibly a professional reinforcement or repair), some light rubbing to cover corners, fewer than 10 pages have underlining in ink, thus Good; no Dust jacket. Taupe cloth, 505pp. This is a dual language edition with the original Italian on the verso pages with the English translation on the facing rectos. This is a long poem set in the Trojan war. This English translateion first appeared in 1929; this copy is from the reprint edition of 1967. (2.6 JM HOQ 101/3. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London ON: University of Western Ontario, 1963. (CAD) No markings, Fine. Card cover, with abstact design in black and green on tan card, stapled, 36pp, B&W reprodcutions of artworks. A. Breakspear: Punch the Killer; Nora Keeling; Guy Demarino; David Gee; Wayne McEwing; Ronald Campbell; Bill Webster and others. This is a journal of strudent writings and art. (1.2 WL HOX 1/a17. Staple Bound. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Periodical.

Toronto: NC Press, 1982. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings Fine in about Fine dust jacket with very slight toning to edges of white portions of dust jacket. Boards, 312pp, B&W illus. Published in France in 1889, Famille-sans-nom, appeared in France in the first Canadian edition 1in 1970. Now this edition commisioned by NC Press gives an English translation of this important book. (1.9 JM HOJ 302/2. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Tiret-Bognet, G. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. (USA) No markings, as New in as New dust jacket. Red cloth, xi, 310pp, index. No illus. Kilgore is Assitant Professor of English at McGill University.Begining with the works of Homer, Ovid, Augustine, and Dante, Kilgour traces the ambivaleny attitude toward incorporation throughout Western literature. (2.0 JM HOZ 403/b1. 1st. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: Random House, 1992. (USA) Stated 1st edition. Name of UBC English professor in pencil to the end paper, no other markings, Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 814pp, index, There are portraits of writers to the back panel of the dustjacket but no illustrations in the book. This book is the story of how the arts in America finally came to be protected under the First Amendment. De Grazia shows how this struggle affected the lives of Joyce, Lawrence, William Wilson, Nabokov, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Robert Mapplethorpe and others. (3.4 JM LVR 205/4. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Atlanta: Dalmatian Press, 2007. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, touch of rubbing to the lower cover corner tips, and tiny nick to leading edge of front cover near the lower front corner, thus Very Good;no dust jacket as published. Dark blue gray faux leather with gold borders and titles, hubbed spine, all edges gilt, ribbon marker, [xvi} 559pp, no illus. The text is unabridged, taken from the first published edition of 1861 with the punctuation and spelling upfdated to confirm to modern usage. A nicely produced edition of this classic Dickens' work. (3.3 JM HOQ 103/b5. 1st. Leather Bound. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Henry & Co., 1895. (UK) First Edition No markings, toning to end paper, slight darkening of the spine, Good; no dust jacket. Green cloth with embossed designs and gold titles, top edge gilt, 290pp. [14} pp publisher's ads. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie (November 3, 1867 - August 13, 1906) was an Anglo-American novelist who was born in Boston but was raised in London and Paris. She wrote under the pen name of John Oliver Hobbes. (1.9 JM HOQ 100/a1. 1st. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. (CAD) First Edition No markings, as new in unclipped Fine with a small tear to the lower corner of the back panel. Dj in mylar sleeve. Maroon tweedy boards, 221pp. This is a collection of 19 essays mostly on influences and sources that have left a mark on her writing. (1.5 JM HOZ 403/b4. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: New York University Press, 1969. (USA) Presumed 1st English language edition. No markingss, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Cloth. Volume I; xiv, 361pp, no illus: 13th to 18th centuries. Volume II: 363 to 685pp, index, no illus.: 19th and 20th centuries to about 1960. The text is in English. Contributors include Eugenio Donadoni, Francesco Flora, Ettore Mazzali andRobert Clements. (3.5 JM HOZ 403/b5. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1900. (UK) Edition Not Stated Three volume set: Owner's signature to the three volumes, owner's inscription to volume I, covers dull but hinges are good, with rubbing and tiny tears to spine extremities and to cover corner tips, Volume II has some nicks at the rear spine edge just breaking the cloth and as well there is a 5 x 120 mm strip of cover cloth missing from the spine and neat and precise cut-away for some unfathomable reason, many pages are stll uncut, thus Good(_) only; no Dj perhaps as issued. All voumes are 23 x 14.5 cm, dark red cloth with blind embossed horizontal leaf border to front covers, gold spine titles. Volume I: xxvi, 355pp; bibliographical note by Alfred W. Pollard; Author's preface, Sonnets; Volume II: viii, 365pp. Volume III: ix, 349pp, glossary. No Illus. All three volumes bear a blind embossed stamp to the lower right of the title page stating " Presentation copy". This edition uses the translation made… Leer más

Boston: Ticknor & Fields., 1864. (USA)Volume II only. Owner's name to end paper and to title page,no other markings, very Good. Brown cloth with blind embossed floral device, 341pp. There are 4 long essays: Cicero, Style, Rhetoric, Secret Societies. (1.6 JM HOQ 100/3. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: John W. Parker, 1850. (UK) Edition Not Stated Owner's name in pencil, pages clean, hingles tight, some rubbing to cover corner tips, and to head and foot of spine, about Very good used copy; no dust jacket. Red brown cloth with blind embossed borders, gilt spine titles, all edges gilt, brown end papers, xii, 299pp. The ancient Greek is on the verso pages with the English translations to the facing rectos in rhymed verse. These translation were first publihsed in Fraser's Magazine through the course of the year 1838; I believe this is the first collected edition. (1.4 JM HOQ 100/a1. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980. (USA) 1st printing. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to the end paper, and dated 1980s, no other markings, Very Good; lacking the dut jacket. Boards, 159pp, index. Frontis portrait. Howard Nemerov 1920-1951 was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize. (1.4 JM HOQ 103/b3. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking the Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".