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Meadville PA: The Chautauqua-Century Press, 1892. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. George Wharton Edwards. Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and white decorations on front cover, beveled edges, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece of King George I, and other b&w drawings and decorations by George Wharton Edwards. 211 pages, clean copy. Record # 385592

NY: Simon & Schuster. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, A sociological look at the influence of Shakespeare's Shylock on world mythology describes the character's creation and his evolution on the stage, and presents writing about him by Proust, James, T. S. Eliot, and others. Amazingly, Shylock is in only five scenes in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Foreword by Joseph Frank. Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this relationship by studying changes in narrative form… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 287 pages. Because Naipaul's work occupies such an important place in English literature today, it is necessary to understand the forces that shape his work and the issues with which he is concerned. If this study raises some of the more important questions about Naipaul's work and… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition of this collection of pieces penned in the first half of the 1970s, by four-time Pulitzer nominee. Included are reflections on man and nature in rural Georgia ("Travels in Georgia"), a profile of an Arkansas horseman hoping to… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oakville Ontario : Mosaic Press , 2002. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 276 pages. B&W illustrations. Here is an affectionate look back at the outsized heroes who once occupied the imagination of millions of loyal readers. The Shadow. Tarzan. Doc Savage. Captain Future. The Spider. Zero. They were the original super guys - godfathers and inpsiration to the… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Free Press, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Recounts the life of the English poet who died during World War I, looks at the group of his friends and fellow poets known as the Neo-Pagans, and discusses… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard , 1981. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 244 pages. Notable collection of writings about children's books by such contributors as Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander, Paula Fox, Arnold Lobel, etc. Clean copy. Record # 385525

NY: Barnes & Noble, 1981. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Includes a bibliography of Bannerman's books and 47 reproductions of the first British and first American editions and her illustrations for them. Phyllis Yuill and Justin Schiller helped with the publishing history and supplied illustrations. Hay shows that it was… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Doubleday, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 480 pages. A fascinating figure of English literary and political history, Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth, England. Hall suffered through an exceedingly unhappy childhood until her father's death. With her inheritance, Hall leased a house in Kensington and began to live… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An extraordinary study of theoretical physicist Theodore Taylor, one of the most significant contributors to our capacity to engage in nuclear warfare - or forestall its initiation. First printing. Very bright, clean copy. Record # 385578

Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 176 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened, the traditional novel form seemed less suited to describe American reality. Theorists groped towards non-mimetic fiction as the tools that had sustained… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Village Press, 1975. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 367 pages. Volume 1 only. Selected and edited by Malcolm Elwin. With his younger brother Llewelyn, to whom he had been an impressive protective figure since childhood, he spoke almost without reserve, although the tow brothers were fundamentally so different, one from the other, as brothers can be. John's… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: G. Walker; others, 1820. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good /None. A handsome set. 3/4 polished calf with marble pattern boards and end papers, spine with raised bands, gilt type and decoration. Volume 1 - Archival tape repair to final page (512), along foredge. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Fold-out intact. Volume 2 - Light foxing to preliminary pages.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Peter Owen, 1966. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 184 pages, gray cloth covers in a lightly worn dust jacket with mild soil, rubbing to rear panel. Record # 408893

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 188 pages. SIGNED BY OFFUTT on title-page. Record # 502476

Willamette: Willamette Week, 1990. 1st wraps. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover. Columns from her early column in the Willamette Week newspaper. SIGNED BY DUNN. Record # 301615

London: Faber & Faber, 1982. 1st UK. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 251 pages. Translated from the French by Ralph Manheim.(London): Faber and Faber, (1982). First edition in English, first printing. "First published in 1982" statement to the copyright page. In this in-depth study of his life and his works, Robert explores Kafka's… Saber más sobre este artículo

Lexington Books , 2017. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover in glazed boards, 299 pages. John McWilliams has written the first, much needed account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution have informed masterpieces of the historical novel. McWilliams provides close readings of some twenty historical novels, from Scott and Cooper through Tolstoy, Zola and Hugo,… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, glazed boards, 205 pages. Much has been written about Graham Greene's relationship to his Catholic faith and its privileged place within his texts. His early books are usually described as "Catholic Novels" - understood as a genre that not only uses Catholic belief to frame the issues of… Saber más sobre este artículo