Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech
Broadview Press, 1997. Paperback. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; as new. More about Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech
Essays & Criticism
Against Epistemology: A Metacritique - Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies
MIT Press, 1983. Hardcover. Pages crisp and clean; no owners' marks; binding square, modestly relaxed but secure; hard cover has only a little mild wear at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent. Jacket is somewhat faded at the spine and has a little shallow creasing at spine head and corners... More about Against Epistemology: A Metacritique - Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies
Anglo-Orient : Easterners in Textual Camps
Centre de Publication Universitaire, 2000. Soft Cover. Clean except for a few pencilled marks in the first few pages and in the bibliography; binding square, spine uncreased; soft cover shows modest shelf rubbing at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent. More about Anglo-Orient : Easterners in Textual Camps
Dedication and Preface of The Life of Guzman d'Alfarache (1708); Chapter 1 of Book 1 and Chapter 1 of Book II of The History of Pompey the Little (1751); Dedication and Preface of The Algerine Captive (1797). Publication Number 64.
Los Angeles: The Augustan Reprint Society, 1957. Staple-bound Softcover. Facsimile reprints, variously paginated, with modern introductions. Pages crisp and clean; no owners' marks; stapled binding clean and secure; soft cover shows modest wear at the spine heel and a little chipping at the spine head, otherwise excellent. More about Dedication and Preface of The Life of Guzman d'Alfarache (1708); Chapter 1 of Book 1 and Chapter...
The Works of Mr. Henry Needler (1728). Publication Number 90.
Los Angeles: The Augustan Reprint Society, 1961. Staple-bound Softcover. iv + [56]pp. Facsimile reprint. Pages crisp and clean; no owners' marks; stapled binding secure; soft cover has a short crease at the top left front and some chipping at the spine ends, otherwise excellent. More about The Works of Mr. Henry Needler (1728). Publication Number 90
Something to Declare
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998. First Printing. Hard Cover. Signed by the author on a bookplate affixed to the half title page. Except for a bit of dust spotting on the top page block edge, pages are clean, crisp, and bright; binding is tight and square; some wrinkling and... More about Something to Declare
Series Four: Men, Manners and Critics, No. 2: "Of Genius", in The Occasional Paper, Volume III, Number 10 (1719) and Preface to The Creation (1720)
Los Angeles: The Augustan Reprint Society, 1949. Staple-bound Softcover. 6 + [49]pp. One selection is a facsimile reprint; the other has been reset in a modern typeface. Pages crisp, bright, and clean, with no owners' marks; stapled binding is beginning to show some rust spotting, but remains secure; soft cover... More about Series Four: Men, Manners and Critics, No. 2: "Of Genius", in The Occasional Paper,...
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Continuum, 2007. Soft Cover. Clean, bright, crisp pages, with no underlining or ownership marks; tight binding; cover is clean, bright and excellent. More about Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Steinbeck: The Man and His Work
Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Crisp and clean except for some foxing along the top edges and a prior owner's bookplate on the front endpaper; green cloth cover is faded around top and bottom edges and bears pale spotting on front and back, but remains sturdy; jacket... More about Steinbeck: The Man and His Work
Imaginacion, memoria, compromiso. La obra de Rosa Regas: un ambito de Voces
AILCFH, 2007. Hardcover. Languages: Spanish (main text) and English (preface and some notes). Clean except for a prior owner's name marked out with felt-tip pen on the front free endpaper; full cloth cover is only modestly softened at spine ends, dust jacket very shallowly and briefly creased at the spine... More about Imaginacion, memoria, compromiso. La obra de Rosa Regas: un ambito de Voces
The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Editions Rodopi, 1989. Soft Cover. Pages clean and bright except for a prior owner's name at the top of the title page and a scuff at the top of the prior, blank page; binding square, spine uncreased. The soft cover has tiny wrinkles at corners and spine..... More about The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections
Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy
Norton, 1970. Soft Cover. No owners' marks except for a small spot of black marker on the front cover; there is some dust-spotting on the top page block edge, otherwise pages are clean and crisp; binding is square and tight; the soft cover shows some fading along the spine, wear... More about Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy
American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995
Cambridge University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; square, secure binding; hard cover shows a small bump and concentric surface wrinkles at the spine heel as well as mild rubbing at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent. Jacket bears a short tear at the top left front... More about American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995
Incidents
Seagull Books, 2010. Paperback. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; modest edge wear along the top and bottom edges of the soft cover and dust jacket, otherwise excellent. More about Incidents
He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Waste Land and Its Protagonist
University of Chicago Press, 1987. Soft Cover. Pages crisp and clean, with no owners' marks except for two small corner folds; binding square, spine uncreased, soft cover somewhat rubbed at corners and spine ends and bearing a small scuff at the upper spine, partially obscuring two letters of the title... More about He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Waste Land and Its Protagonist
Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au Dix-Huitieme Siecle, 1660-1744 (Dryden - Addison - Pope)
Paris, France: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1881. Half-Leather. 8vo. Language: French. Beautifully bound in half-leather over marbled paper boards with gilt-stamped lettering and design, a gilded top page block edge, four raised bands and a ribbon page marker; the original paper wrapper has been bound in under marbled endpapers. There... More about Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au Dix-Huitieme Siecle, 1660-1744 (Dryden -...
The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Paperback. Crisp, bright pages; no owners' marks; square, uncreased spine; soft cover shows mild rubbing along top and bottom edges and tiny chips at the corners, otherwise excellent. More about The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews (Poets on Poetry)
The University of Michigan Press, 1983. Soft Cover. Pages crisp and clean, with no owners' marks; spine square and uncreased; soft cover has a large drip stain at the lower right front and three small surface chips at the lower spine, but remains overall sound. More about Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews (Poets on Poetry
Typology and Early American Literature
The University of Massachusetts Press, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. The pages of this copy are crisp, bright, and clean, with no ownership or use marks; the binding is square and tight, the hard cover clean and showing only the faintest hint of shelf rubbing at the lower corners. The... More about Typology and Early American Literature
Home Economics: Fourteen Essays
New York: North Point Press, 1996. Ninth Printing. Paperback. Signed and dated by the author at the title page with no inscription or named recipient. Pages crisp and clean except for a short blue pen mark in the margin of p. IX; spine square and uncreased, soft cover tapped and... More about Home Economics: Fourteen Essays
On the Iliad (The Bollingen Library 9)
Harper Torchbooks, 1965. Paperback. Pages clean except for a prior owner's name and one small abrasion on the half-title page, followed by one corner fold; spine is creased, but binding remains secure; soft cover shows some rubbing and small scuffs along the sides of the spine, a surface chip at... More about On the Iliad (The Bollingen Library 9
Shaw and Joyce: "The Last Word in Stolentelling"
University Press of Florida, 1995. Hardcover. No owners' marks; there is an upper-corner clip on the half-title page and some light dust spotting on the top page block edge, otherwise pages are clean, crisp and bright; binding is square and tight; the dustjacket is modestly faded along the spine, and... More about Shaw and Joyce: "The Last Word in Stolentelling"
Re-Reading Thomas Traherne: A Collection of Critical Essays (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 325)
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007. Hardcover. Clean, crisp, bright; no owners' marks; a small surface wrinkle at the bottom right front of the hard cover, a small inward turn at the bottom left rear, and modest softening at the spine ends, otherwise excellent. More about Re-Reading Thomas Traherne: A Collection of Critical Essays (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and...
Hélène Cixous: Live Theory
Bloomsbury Academic, 2004. Paperback. Crisp and clean; no owners' marks; spine square and uncreased; soft cover has a short scratch near the spine heel and modest rubbing at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent. More about Hélène Cixous: Live Theory
Through a Glass Darkly: Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature
Oxford University Press, 1987. Soft Cover. Pages crisp and clean, with no owners' marks; binding is square and tight; the soft cover shows a little rubbing and light chipping at the corners, spine ends, and lower edges and just a hint of tanning around the upper edges, otherwise excellent. More about Through a Glass Darkly: Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature