THOMAS HARDY; A critical study
NY: Viking, 1927. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 195. Cover sunned, little worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy. More
Literature
ECLIPSE FEVER.
NY: Knopf, 1993. First edn. 8vo, pp. 335. A fine copy. A novel set in Mexico, exploring corruption and the limits of power in politics, business and culture. More
TIME WILL TELL; Poems and profiles
Athol MA: Haley's, (2007). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xv, 131. Includes a CD of the author reading her poems. Author's signed presentation on title. Paper wraps. About as new. Abramson was a professor of theater at the University of Massachusetts, and a specialist in the theater of Black America. More
COLLECTED POEMS 1948-1976
London: Hutchinson, (1977). First paperback edn. 8vo, pp. 204. Author's signature on title. Paper wraps. A VG tight copy. More
SEAMUS HEANEY: The Irish literary experience; February 13 The Katherine Garrison Chapin Memorial Lecture William Claire will introduce
NY: Guggenheim Museum. Broadside. 11x8-1/2 inches, printed landscape-style. Paper very slightly spotted, little dog-eared, o/w VG. A broadside advertising Heaney's first truly major appearance in N.Y.C (and the U.S.). More
LEGACY, A journal of Nineteenth-Century American women writers; Volume 2, Number 2
Amherst MA: Legacy, 1985. Periodical. 4to, pp. 86. Paper wraps. A nice copy. Articles include Rewriting the scribbling woman, by Nina Baym, Patriarchal society and matriarchal family in Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and Child's "Hilda Silfverling" by Carolyn Karcher. More
WILLA CATHER; And the politics of criticism
Lincoln NB: University of Nebraska, (2000). 8vo, pp. 127. Notes, bibliography, index. A nice copy in little scuffed dj. Acocella treats Cathers critics, rather than the author, as products of their time. More
GRANDEUR AND ILLUSION; French literature and society 1600-1715
NY: Basic Books, 1972. First Edition. 8vo, pp. ix, 311. Notes, index. Translated by Herbert Tint. A VG tight copy in slightly chipped and soiled dj. A concise one volume history of French literature. More
WHAT SHAW REALLY SAID
NY: Schocken, 1966. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 176. Index. Laurence K204. Fine, in chipped and mended dj. Another copy, fine in fine dj. Divided into chapters by subject matter, the author gives background for Shaw's main ideas, and for some of his more outrageous pronouncements. More
WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
NY: Harper, (1942). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 245. Author's presentation on flyleaf. Cover little faded and top of spine worn (or chewed), o/w a nice tight copy. Chapters about immigrants, their names, why they changed them (or not). More
CAROLINE'S DAUGHTERS
NY: Knopf, 1991. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 307. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Top edge little spotted, o/w a nice copy in scuffed dj. More
A SOUTHERN EXPOSURE; A novel by...
NY: Knopf, 1995. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 305. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in price-clipped dj. More
THE ENEMY SELF; Poetry and criticism of Laura Riding
Ann Arbor MI: U.M.I. Research Press, (1990). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 127. Notes, works cited, index. Illustrated with several photographs. Fine in dj. More
BERNARD SHAW AND THE AESTHETES
Columbus, OH: Ohio State Univ Press, 1971. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 193. Index. Laurence K238. Fine in dj. Shaw, with Ruskin and William Morris, in his fight for artistic freedom. More
DEMOCRACY; An American novel
NY: Farrar, Straus and Young. First Edition (thus). 8vo, pp. 246. A nice copy in littlel chipped and somewhat soiled dj. More
THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS; An autobiography
NY: Editions for the Armed Services. From the 1918 Mass. Historical Society edition. Horizontal 12mo, pp. 510. Paper wraps. Cover creased, dog-eared and scuffed, o/w VG. More
MONT=SAINT=MICHEL AND CHARTRES; with a new introduction by Francis Henry Taylor and photographs by Samuel Chamberlain
NY: Limited Editions, 1957. No 443 of 1500 copies. Large 8vo, pp. xx, 349. Gray cloth with applied spine label. Signed by Chamberlain on the colophon. Cover little yellowed at edges and spine, edges very slightly soiled, o/w a nice copy. Printed in an edition limited to 1500 numbered copies... More
LETTERS OF JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS; 1762 to 1826
Westvaco Corp. (2001). Limited edition. 8vo, pp. 133. Introduction by William J. Bennett. Illustrated with portraits on the title. Included is an illustrated section on the history of the American flag. [Westvaco's American classics series.] Ribbon bookmark. Paper over boards with cloth spine, in a slipcase. About as new. There... More
THOSE NOT ELECT.
NY: Robert M. McBride, 1925. First Edition. 8vo pp. 50. Little soiled paper over boards, a near fine copy. This is one of just 10 copies on Ingres paper which are not for sale, signed by the author. The author's first book. After graduating from Barnard College (A.B., 1922), Adams... More
THE MESSAGE OF THE DEAD; A poem written for Memoiral Day, 1895 at Madison, Wisconsin
[Madison, WI]: Privately printed. First Edition. 12mo, pp. [9]. Paper wraps. Cover split at back and detached, o/w interior VG. More
SONNETS AND SONGS
NY: Putrnam's, 1901. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 167. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. TEG. Cover little worn, o/w VG. More
STUDIES IN HYMNOLOGY
Richmond, VA: Onward Press, (1929). 8vo, pp. 60. Frontis portrait. Cover little worn, some marking in text, o/w VG. A short textbook designed for study groups, colleges, schools, etc., of church music, with illustrations of manuscripts. More
A SERMON PREACHED TO THE CONGREGATION OF THE ESSEX STREET CHURCH,; October 31, 1852, the Sabbath after the interment of Hon. Daniel Webster
Boston: Geo. C. Rand, 1852. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 23. Paper wraps. Slightly dog-eared, cover slightly stained, o/w VG. "Printed by the Young Men of the Congregation for their Private Use." More
INTERESTING ANECDOTES, MEMOIRS, ALLEGORIES, ESSAYS, AND POETICAL FRAGMENTS,; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality. By . .
London: Printed for the Author, 1797. First edn? 8vo, pp 304 Bound, with new endpapers in calf-backed marble boards Not in Halkett & Laing; CBEL, Vol II, pp 249; 250-2 ``. A collection of sketches and anecdotes. This was issued as a periodical the previous few years and then here issued in book form. More