Showing 33–64 of 78 results
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$35.00Murray: [n.p.] (1945). First edition. 72 pp. Tanning to spine, light soiling to covers, and wear to yapp edges, else near fine in wrappers. Issued as PHAROS No. 3, a quarterly whose 'each issue is dedicated to one important piece of writing or to the work of a single author,' TOWARD STENDHAL consists of four chapters excerpted from a longer critical study of Stendhal and a 'critical and historical attempt to define the meaning of realism.' -
$150.00Oxford: Oxford University Press (1954). First edition. vi + 696 pp w/index. Near fine in very good dust jacket with toning and soiling to spine, and several small tears and chips. SIGNED by Clifford Odets on the first leaf, “Clifford Odets / Hollywood, / 4/56.” Odets has bracketed a long paragraph on John Donne and made a note on the verso of the last leaf, “Donne - P 548 - Important!”
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$15.00Minneapolis: Coffee House Press (2001). First edition. 239 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original.
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$20.00Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Press (1971). First edition. 167 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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$35.00NY: Harper & Row (1978). First edition. 193 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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$20.00Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1985. First edition. 203 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine.
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$22.50Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press (1989). First edition. xxii + 317 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
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$35.00Westport: Greenwood Press (1996). First edition. 193 pp w/index. Fine in full cloth without dust jacket as issued. Promotional flyer laid in. Essays by Du Bois, Hughes, Wright, McKay, Redmond, Baldwin, Naylor, Morrison, Marshall, Walker, and others.
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$25.00Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990. First edition. 171 pp w/index. Small bump to base of spine, else fine in fine dust jacket.
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$30.00Urbana, IL:University of Illinois Press, 1965. First edition. Very good in vg dust jacket.
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$38.00Baton Rouge:Louisiana State University Press, 1976. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.
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$10.00Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 215 w/foreword and index. Fine in very good plus dust jacket with light edgewear.
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$20.00Lexington: University of Kentucky Press (1990). First edition. 216 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with one short tear. Interviews with Rosellen Brown, Louise Erdrich, MFK Fisher, Anne Lamott, Marge Piercy, Amy Tan, etc; 28 writers represented.
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$50.00Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press (1986). First edition. xxiii + 288 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. A well-illustrated examination of the quick artistic and cultural and political run-up to WWI.
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$20.00Winston-Salem: John F. Blair (1994). First edition. xiii + 353 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Interviews conducted by Powell, photographs by Krementz.
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$20.00NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1930. First edition. Fine, no dust jacket.
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$25.00Athens & London: University of Georgia Press (1990). First edition. x + 284 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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$45.00Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press, 1987. First US edition. Small 4to. xiv + 528 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in.
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$15.00London:Quartet Books, 1986. 1st UK edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, but for remainder mark. Writers include Burroughs, Mailer, Capote, Heller, Robert Stone, Susan Sontag, etc.
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$35.00Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press, 1994. First US edition. 678 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Review slip and promotional flyer laid in.
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$25.00Garden City: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978. First edition. xv + 339 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in.
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$25.00Ithaca & london: Cornell University Press (1998). First edition. 426 pp w/index. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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$35.00Albany: State University of New York Press (2000). First trade paperback printing. 222 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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$20.00NY: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence (1972). First edition. 428 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. A collection communicating the voluminosity of Smith's career as a writer: essays range in subject from the poetry of Marianne Moore, to children's literature, to Robert Herrick, to Isak Dinesen, and travel writing on Venice.
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$15.00Bloomington: Indiana University Press (1990). First edition. 388 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Essays on contemporary fiction by David Lodge, Leo Bersani, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Charles Alteri, Peter Brooks, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, etc.
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$15.00NY: HarperCollins (1995). First edition. xiii + 242 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine.
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$45.00NY: Atheneum, 1971. First edition. xiii + 210 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with toning to rear panel and light wear to crown.
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$45.00NY: Atheneum, 1971. First edition. xiii + 210 pp w/index. Some light foxing to covers, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown.
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$15.00Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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$20.00Carbondale & Edwardsville: : Southern Illinois University Press (1969). First edition. 183 pp. w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Whole chapters on Melville, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, J.D. Salinger.
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$45.00Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars (2011). First edition. 158 pp w/references. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. A deep examination of repetition in research articles, fiction, and political speech. -
$15.00Columbia and London,University of Missouri Press, 1983. 1st edition. Very good. Essays on Tomlinson, Hughes, David Jones, Bunting, Hollo, Raworth, etc.