Literary Nonfiction
The Mermaid Man: The Autobiography of Hans Christian Andersen.
Library Publishers, 1955. Hardcover. Very good + hardcover (no dust jacket) showign just some light shelf and trace wear including touch of foxing at page edges. 240 pages. Solid copy of this new abridged translation of Andersen's autobiography by Maurice Michael. More
Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts.
Cloumbia University Press, 1986. Paperback. Very good trade paperback shows some shelf wear to wraps including some bumping and wrinkling to corners, else tight and clean. 315 pages with black & white illustrations and index. Still a solid copy of this work that look sat the female authors and their..... More
Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers.
University of Chicago Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, very good + hardcover shows touch of spine lean and name at top of front endpaper, in very good + dust jacket that shows light wrinkles and exposure toning along spine and spine edges of panels. 380 pages with black..... More
From Stores of Memory.
Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, very good + hardcover shows bumping to corners, else tight and clean, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) with all corners clipped at inner flaps that shows exposure toning to spine mainly in dulling of yellow letter to title..... More
The Effayes: Or Councils Civill & Morall of Francis Bacon -Essays of Sir Francis Bacon (Easton Press).
Easton Press, 1980. Collector's Edition. Leather Bound. Collector's edition is near fine with just a touch of shelf wear. 190 pages with blank Easton bookplate laid-in. Leather bound with gilt emboss, ribbon marker, page edges gilt, raised bands to spine and silk moire end papers. Remains an attractive copy of..... More
Malcolm Cowley: The Formative Years.
University of Georgia Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine in like jacket with both showing just some mild trace wear including some mild scratching to back cover of jacket. 626 pages with a set of black & white plates. Remains an attractive copy of this biography of..... More
Letters of J. M. Barrie.
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, very good + red cloth hardcover shows some light soil to covers and page edges and some bumping to bottom corners, else tight and clean, in very good dust jacket that shows soil and edgewear that includes rubbing and short closed..... More
William Everson: The Life of Brother Antoninus.
New Directions, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, near fine cloth hardcover shows touch of bumping to bottom corners, in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) showing age toning to flaps. 272 pages with a few black & whites. Still a nice copy of this look at the life..... More
The Alcotts: Biography of a Family.
Clarkson N. Potter, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fien hardcover shows bit of soiling at page edges, in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) that shows a touch of shelf wear. 400 pages with a set of black & white plates. Nice copy of this "..story of..... More
Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot.
Bloomsbury Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine hardcover in near find dust jacket (price at flap) with both showing just a hint of wear. 458 pages with illustrations. Still a good looking copy of this biography of the legendary English poet. More
The Reader's Encyclopedia: The Only Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts.
Thomas Y Crowell, 1948. Hardcover. Very good + cloth book club hardcover shows light soil at page edges, brown staining at top page edges, light shelf wear, name at top of front endpaper and some other mild trace wear, in very good + dust jacket that shows mild rubbing and..... More
Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work.
Viking, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine in like jacket with both showing just the slightest bit of trace wear. 472 pages with a set of black & white plates. Nice looking copy of this well thought of biography of the popular American author. More
Ten Tough Trips: Montana Writers and the West.
University of Washington Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine cloth hardcover shows just a touch of bumping to top corners, in near fine dust jacket that shows some mild wrinkling at spine edge and bottom edge of front panel. 233 pages. Still an attractive copy of this..... More
Signifying Nothing.
Privately Printed, 1939. Third edition. Hardcover. 2nd edition 1938, crossed out by author with third and Novemeber, 1939 wruitten in, inscribed by the author on the front end paper, very good + blue cloth hardcover (no dust jacket if issued) shows just a touch of soil to covers and some..... More
The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction.
Cornell University Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine hardcover in near fine dust jacket with both showing just the lightest bit of wear. 247 pages including index. Still a good looking copy of this work that examine the motives of the Victorian novel. More
The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction.
Cornell University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine hardcover in like dust jacket with both showing just a hint of wear includign touch of exposure toning along jacket spine. 295 pages including index. Nice copy of this Look at the legendary British author. More
Literary Virtuosities.
Denver, Co. Anton Bohm, 1960. Limited ed. Hardcover. Limter edition #96 of 225 signed on limitation page at rear of text by the author, very good hardcover (no dust jacket) shows some mild shelfwear, inked out marks at front endpaper, bit of waviness to first and last few pages and..... More
Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure (Feminist Issues).
University of Virginia Press, 1993. Paperback. Very good + trade paperback shows some mild shelf and trace wear including some hard to see moisture staining at page edges, else tight and clean. 393 pages. Still a pleasing copy of this study that makes up an installment in the feminist issues..... More
Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou (Southern Literary Studies).
Louisiana State University Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, near fine hardcover shows just a hint of foxing at top page egdes and name stamp at rear paste down, in near fien dust jacket that shows rubbing and light edge wear. 248 pages. Still an attractive copy of this..... More
History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays.
B. W. Huebsch, 1920. Hardcover. Very good hardcover (no dust jacket) with pasted on labdl to spine and blindstamp at front cover shows shelf wear including bumping to corners, name stamp at front pastedown, mild browning to endpapwers and light age toning to pages. 343 pages edited with intro by..... More
Dangerous Pilgrimages: Transatlantic Mythologies and the Novel.
Viking, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First American edition, near fine hardcover in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) with both showing just a light bit of trace wear. 515 pages. Good looking copy of this "..dazzling exploration of the thriving traffic in fiction between the Old World of Europe..... More
Dylan Thomas in America.
Readers Union, 1957. Hardcover. Near fine hardcover with touch of musty smell, in very good + jacket (price at flap) showing just a hint of soil and couple of short closed edge tears. 245 pages with black & whites. Still an attractive copy of this "..biography of Dylan Thomas in..... More
Franz Kafka: A Biography.
Schocken Books, 1960. Second edition. Hardcover. 2nd enlarged edition, near fine teal cloth with previous owner name at front paste down tucked uder flap and some othe rmild trace wear in very good jacket with some trace soil and bit of dullness (faded to light brown from red) to KAFKA..... More
America's Coming-of-Age.
B. W. Huebsch, 1924. Hardcover. 2nd printing 1924, very good + hardcover (no dust jacket) shows some light shelf wear and an ink name stamp at front pastedown, else looks to be tight and clean. 183 pages. Still a pleasing copy of this early work from the legendary American author..... More