Results for: Literary Criticism
Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot.
Adams, Kimberly VanEsveld.
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Dj has light wear along the edges with some scuffing to the covers. Page edges are slightly browned and have a slight smoky smell to them. A little bit of marking in margins of text. 300 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. An interesting look at Victorian feminism in the writings of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot based on the use of the Madonna image in their writings.
Price: $35.00
Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes.
Adey, Robert.
London: Ferret Fantasy, 1979..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. The dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 190 pages with publication data and list of problems, analysis of solutions, addendums, and listing of foreign language books. A reference work on "impossible crime stories."
Price: $115.00
Companion to Middle English Romance.
Aertsen, Henk, and Alasdair A. MacDonald, editors.
Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1990..
First paperback edition. Very good trade paperback. Light wear and rubbing to edges of covers with minor scuffing. Name of the previous owner and date written in ink on half-title page. Otherwise, clean, unmarked text and binding is still tight. 208 pages with references and notes. A collection of essays on Middle English literature.
Price: $25.00
The Magic Circle: A Study of Shelley's Concept of Love.
Allsup, James O.
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1976.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges witha few minor tears and some light scuffing to covers. 115 pages with notes, selected bibliography, and index. A study of the religious nature of Shelley's poems.
Price: $18.00
The Text of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women.
Amy, Ernest F.
New York: Haskell House, 1965..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in orange cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Slight scuffing to covers with light black marks on the back panel. Page edges are lightly browned. Name of previous owner and date written in ink on the front free endpaper. 109 pages with footnotes, appendix, and index.
Price: $20.00
To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865.
Andrews, William L.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Very good trade paperback. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges with slight scuffing to covers. Some pencil underlining in text and marking in margins. Tight binding. 353 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography of Afro-American autobiography, bibliography of Afro-American biography, and index.
Price: $15.00
Remember and Be Glad.
Asquith, Cynthia.
London: James Barrie, 1952.
Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with many small tears and its cover are scuffed and browned. Name of previous owner written on front free endpaper. Light browning to page edges with minor foxing. Few pencil marks in margins of text. 214 pages with illustrations and index.
Price: $20.00
Tennysonian Lyric: "Songs of the Deeper Kind" and In Memoriam.
Assad, Thomas J.
New Orleans: Tulane University, 1984..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Slight roll to spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with scuffing to covers. 323 pages with endnotes, appendices, and index.
Price: $20.00
Jane Austen's Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue.
Babb, Howard S.
Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1962.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing to edges of covers with a few minor tears and some light scuffing. Upper edges of paages are browned and lightly foxed. Name of previous owner written on front free endpaper. 244 pages with footnotes. An examination of how Jane Austin portrays her characters through their dialogues.
Price: $30.00
Mama Dada : Gertrude Stein's Avant-Garde Theater.
Bay-Cheng, Sarah.
Routledge, 2004..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in glossy illustrated boards without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine and some slight scuffing to covers. Blue ink marker lines across the bar code on back cover. 207 pages with illustrations, 3 appendices, endnotes, bibliography, and index.
Price: $55.00
Romantic Influences: Contemporary, Victorian, Modern.
Beer, John.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges of the boards and minor bumping to the heel of the spine. The dj also has light wear along the edges with some minor browning and a little bit of scuffing to the covers. Name of the previous owner is stamped on the title page and lower edges of the pages. Upper edges of the pages are slightly browned. 303 pages with few illustrations, endnotes, and index. This work "as a whole provides a framework of ideas about the ways in which writers learn from, react against and influence one another, while also conveying something of the lasting power of Romanticism as a fluid resource in a changing world" (dj blurb).
Price: $35.00
The Artificial Paradise: Science Fiction and American Reality.
Ben-Tov, Sharona.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges of the boards. The dj has some light shelf wear along the edges and minor scuffing to the covers. 201 pages with endnotes and index. An interesting study of how science fiction literature and movies reflect changes in people's views on nature and society.
Price: $25.00
Mark Twain's Western Years: Together with Hitherto Unreprinted Clemens Western Items.
Benson, Ivan.
New York, NY: Russell & Russell, 1966.
Very good octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor scuffing to covers. Name of previous owner written on front free endpaper. 218 pages with illustrations, footnotes, references, periodical bibliography, appendix (selected Twain western items), and index.
Price: $25.00
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway: Language and Experience.
Berman, Ronald.
Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2003..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges with some minor scuffing to covers. 123 pages with endnotes and index.
Price: $15.00
From Wilderness to Wasteland: The Trial of the Puritan God in the American Imagination.
Berryman, Charles.
Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1979..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in brown binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of board with bumping to head and heel of spine. Light scuffing to covers. Slight smudges to lower edges of pages. Inscribed by author to previous owners on front free endpapers. Name of previous owner printed on front pastedown endpaper. 214 pages with endnotes and index.
Price: $20.00
Mark Twain & Huck Finn.
Blair, Walter.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.
Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and corners of covers. Dj has wear and rubbing to edges with many small tears and some scuffing to covers with fading along edges and spine. Light foxing to page edges. Name and date written in ink on front free endpaper. Some pencil underlining and notes in margins, mainly in second half of the book. 436 pages with illustrations, appendix, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A detailed examination of Mark Twain and his classic work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Price: $20.00
F. C. Dancourt (1661 - 1725) : La Comedie Francaise a l'Heure du Soleil Couchant. Etudes Litteraires Francaises 29.
Blanc, Andre.
Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 1984.
Octavo. Wear and light rubbing along edges and with scuffing and some marks on covers. Pencil notes, underlining, and brackets in text. 408 pages with illustrations, footnotes, appendices, bibliography, and indices.
Price: $35.00
With William Burroughs : A Report from the Bunker.
Bockris, Victor.
New York, NY: Seaver Books, 1981.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges with some scuffing to covers. 250 pages with illustrations, identification chart (who's who), and index. A look at William Burroughs as a man, thinker, and writer.
Price: $20.00
Matthew Arnold: Poete. Essai de Biographie Psychologique. Bibliotheque des Langues Modernes #3.
Bonnerot, Louis.
Paris, 1947..
First edition. Good quarto sized in wrappers. Some creasing and wear to edges of the covers. Few small tears to edges of covers. Creasing to the corners of the covers and browned. Some browning to edges of covers. Foxing to edges of the pages with some spotting on the pages. Pages are browned but not brittle. Name and address of previous owner on half-title page. Previous owner was noted scholar of Victorian literature Robert Super. 584 pages with footnotes. Text of this scarce work is in French.
Price: $45.00
The Mad Folk of Shakespeare: Psychological Essays. Second, Revised Edition.
Bucknill, John Charles.
New York, NY: Burt Franklin, 1969.
Reprinting of the 1867 edition. Very good duodecimo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with heavy bump to head of spine and slight scuffing to covers. 333 pages. This work features essays on Macbeth, Hamlet, Ophelia, King Lear, Timon of Athens, Constance, and others.
Price: $30.00
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake.
Campbell, Joseph, and Henry Morton Robinson.
New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944.
Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing to edges with some small tears and minor nicks with scuffing to covers and heavy browning along spine and lighter browning along edges. Page edges are lightly browned. Name of previous owner written on front free endpaper. Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown endpaper. 365 pages with footnotes. A work examining the characters and plot of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Price: $20.00
Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist.
Carby, Hazel V.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and slight rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges with some scuffing to covers. 223 pages with endnotes, bibliography of texts by Black women authors, general bibliography, and index. A study of the novels and other writings of African-American women authors during the 19th century.
Price: $25.00
Poe on the Soul of Man.
Carlson, Eric W.
Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1973..
Very good staple-bound work in tan wrappers. A bit of wear to the edges of wrappers with some light scuffing and soiling to the covers. Brown streak across the front cover with a smaller reddish mark on the back cover. Pages are very lightly browned but not at all brittle. 23 pages. This work is based on a lecture presented by Eric Carlson at the University of Connecticut in 1972.
Price: $35.00
Chariot of Fire: Religion and the Beecher Family.
Caskey, Marie.
New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 1978.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with a few minor tears and some light scuffing to covers. Upper corners of pages 13-20 are creased. 442 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A study of "the relation between religious developments and the psychological complexities of the Beechers" (dj blurb).
Price: $25.00
After Great Pain : The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson.
Cody, John.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with slight bumping to lower corners of boards. Dj has light wear and rubbing to edges with a few minor tears and some light scuffing to covers. bookplate of previous owner on rear pastedown endpaper. 538 pages with endnotes and 2 indices. A psychiatrist's study of the influences on Emily Dickinson's life and poems.
Price: $20.00
Abyss of Reason: Cultural Movements, Revelations, and Betrayals.
Cottom, Daniel.
Oxford University Press, 1991..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor rubbing on lower edges. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges also and some slight scuffing to covers. 305 pages with illustrations, endnotes, and index.
Price: $20.00
Exiled Waters: Moby-Dick and the Crisis of Allegory.
Cowan, Bainard.
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with light scuffing to covers. Remains of sticker on front free endpaper. Some pencil notes and underlining in text and margins. 194 pages with footnotes, bibliography, and index.
Price: $20.00
Bibliography of Chaucer, 1954-63.
Crawford, William R.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967..
First edition. Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear along edges with a few nicks with some light scuffing to covers. Page edges are lightly browned as are edges and spine of dj. Crack in binding between pages 84-85. Few marks in margins of text. 144 pages with index.
Price: $15.00
Histoire de la Critique Dramatique en France. Etudes Litteraires Francaises 14.
Descotes, Maurice.
Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 1980.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of covers with minor scuffing and fain browning along edges. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked text. 405 pages with notes and bibliography. Text is in French.
Price: $40.00
Pietro DiDonato, the Master Builder.
Diomede, Matthew.
Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1995.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Slight twist to boards. Dj has light wear to edges of covers with minor scuffing. 163 pages with illustrations, 3 appendices, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A look at the writings and influence of Pietro DiDonato.
Price: $20.00
