Literary Criticism
Nabokov: Criticism, reminiscences, translations and tributes.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press - TriQuarterly, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 371 pages. Edited by Alfred Appel, Jr. and Charles Newman. Includes contributions by Appel, Robert Alter, Dabney Stuart Vladislav Khodasevich, Nina Berberova, Morris Bishop, Stanley Elkin, Saul Steinberg, Richard Howard, John Updike, Richard Stern, and numerous others. Also features over 25 black and white images. A clean near fine copy in cloth boards in a very near fine dust jacket. A much nicer than usual copy. Item #171281 More
Price: $50.00
Peggy Pond Church.
Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1993. First edition. Softcover. 52 pages. Number 108 in the Boise State University Wester Writers Series. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Item #138453 More
Price: $20.00
Motiveless Malignity (Review Copy).
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. A review copy with slip laid in. A look at Shakespeare. A near fine copy in a lightly soiled near fine dust jacket. Item #107436 More
Price: $15.00
Shining Clarity: God and Man in the Works of Robinson Jeffers.
Amador City, CA: Quintessence Publications, 1977. First edition. Oblong hardcover. Number 514 of 900 copies from a total edition of 1000. Attractively printed examination of the writings of Robinson Jeffers with several tipped in illustrations and a numbered broadside. A near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Item #147552 More
Price: $60.00
Clio and Mr. Croce (Signed First Edition).
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Book Store, 1928. First edition. Small softcover. 29 pages. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers in very near fine integral dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Benham on the front free endpaper. A very fresh copy. Item #170992 More
Price: $65.00
Virginia Woolf: Her Art as a Novelist.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1945. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. An early look at the works of Virginia Woolf. A very near fine copy with some offsetting to the front endpapers in a very near fine dust jacket that has some very minor wear. A very fresh copy. Item #123360 More
Price: $50.00
Women in Tolstoy: The Ideal and the Erotic.
Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. An about near fine copy with some minor bumping to the top corners in a close to near fine dust jacket with some bumping to the top corners and some very minor wear. Item #112651 More
Price: $35.00
Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet.
Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Softcover. 244 pages. A fine and tight unread copy in wrappers. Item #112501 More
Price: $7.00
The Poetic Art of W.H. Auden.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 210 pages. A tight very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Item #150639 More
Price: $15.00
The Anxiety of Inflluence: A Theory of Poetry.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. 157 pages. A near fine copy in blue cloth boards in a close to near fine price clipped dust jacket that has a some minor edge wear. Item #180516 More
Price: $55.00
Nathanael West.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 188 pages. A collection of critical essays by various authors edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a crease to the front flap. Item #156771 More
Price: $25.00
Translation or Travesty? An Enquiry into Robert Grave's version of some Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Abingdon, Berkshire: The Abbey Press, 1973. First edition. Softcover. 43 pages. A paperback original. A near fine copy in printed wrappers. Item #171851 More
Price: $25.00
The Modern American Novel (Review Copy).
New York: Viking Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. A review copy with slip and publisher information sheet laid in. Originally published in 1982 this new edition is revised and has additional material. A fine and tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #106342 More
Price: $20.00
Trash The Critic and his Text: A Clarification and a Defense.
Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, nd. Softcover. A separate offprint of this article that first appeared in "The Humanities: An Appraisal." Includes handwritten corrections by Brooks. A very good plus copy in stapled wrappers with bookseller notation on the front free endpaper in pencil. Scarce, with no copies listed in OCLC. Item #150224 More
Price: $100.00
Philip Larkin.
London: The British Council by Longman Group Ltd., 1975. First edition. Softcover. 32 pages. Edited by Ian Scott-Kilvert. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Item #147348 More
Price: $8.50
99 Novels: The Best in English since 1939.
New York: Summit Books, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Burgess is the author of a wide ranging selection of books including the classic "Clockwork Orange." This book represents his picks for the best novels from 1939 and includes his comments about each book. A very near fine copy with a small remainder dot to the bottom edge in a fine dust jacket. Item #106736 More
Price: $30.00
The Novels of John Gardner: Making Life Art As a Moral Process.
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 143 pages. A critical examination of the fiction of John Gardner. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #156742 More
Price: $15.00
Recent American Poetry.
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1962. First edition. Softcover. 48 pages. University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Number 16. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers with a small abrasion to the front panel. Item #119957 More
Price: $10.00
The Inhumanism of Robinson Jeffers (Signed).
Western American Literature, 1981. Offprint of this article that first appeared in the 1981 issue of Western American Literature - Volume XVI No 1. Includes pages 19 through 26 and contains an article by Carpenter on Jeffers. A near fine copy of these loose sheets with a paperclip. Signed and inscribed by Carpenter. Scarce. Item #134410 More
Price: $20.00
Robinson Jeffers Today: Beyond Good and Beneath Evil(Signed).
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1977. Offprint of this article that first appeared in the 1977 issue of merican Literature - Volume XLIX No 1. Includes pages 85 through 96 and contains an article by Carpenter on Jeffers. A near fine copy with sheets stapled. Signed and inscribed by Carpenter. Scarce. Item #134411 More
Price: $25.00
T.S. Eliot and The Cultural Divide.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 264 pages. A scholarly look at this important modernist poet who was the author of "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A fresh copy. Item #172746 More
Price: $20.00
The Body of This Life: Reading William Bronk.
Jersey City, NJ: Talsman House, Publishers, 2001. First edition. Softcover. 244 pages. A review copy with laid in publisher sheet. Paperback original collection of essays and memoirs on William Bronk edited by David Clippinger. Features contributions by Don Adams, Robert J. Bertholf, Joseph Conte, Paul Christensen, Clippinger, Ronald W. Collins, John Ernest, Norman Finkelstein, Edward Foster, Burton Hatlen, W. Sheldon Hurst, S.M. Kearns, Jack Kimball, Burt Kimmelman, David Landrey, Tom Lisk, Michael Perkins, Paul Pines, Gerald Schwartz, Rose Shapiro, Henry Weinfield, and Daniel Wolff. A fine copy in wrappers. Item #171946 More
Price: $25.00
Madness in Literature (And Associated Arts).
New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1970. Softcover. 5 pages printed on only a single side. An examination of the portrayal of madness in French literature. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some very minor wear. A nice example of this mimeograph booklet. Item #175357 More
Price: $30.00
Kotzebue and the Czech Stage.
Schenectady, NY: Electric City Press, 1936. First edition. Softcover. 58 pages. An examination of the German writer and his plays as performed in Czechoslovakia. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some minor creasing to the corners and with a bookplate to the verso of the front panel. Signed on the title page: "with the compliments of the author." Seemingly fairly scarce. Item #131027 More
Price: $45.00