Elizabeth Bowen.
New York: Twayne Publishers, (1971), First Edition. octavo, cloth. 134pp. Twayne Publishers, More
New York: Twayne Publishers, (1971), First Edition. octavo, cloth. 134pp. Twayne Publishers, More
Oxford: Oxford Unviersity Press, (1990), 2nd Printing. octavo, wrappers. viii, 166pp. Oxford Unviersity Press, A history of the detective in fiction from pre-Holmes to the professionals described by P. D. James and those who focus on police procedures. A final list for further reading lists the authors from the text..... More
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1996), Reprint of earlier edition. octavo, black cloth. (xxxvi), 347pp. The Pennsylvania State University Press, One in a series in Penn State Reprints in Book History giving second life to classic works in the field of publishing history. This reprint, with a new..... More
Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 125pp. Univ of Chicago Press, "In this sophisticated application of modern Marxist thought, N. N. Feltes demonstrates the determining influence of nineteenth-century publishing practices on the Victorian novel. His dialectical analysis leads to a comprehensive explanation of the development of..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1952, octavo, wrappers. 26pp. New York Public Library, This exhibition presented drafts of thirty-two of the first fifty poems published in the first edition, many to change considerably before the final version appeared in print. Notes describe the evolution of the poems, describe the..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1967, octavo, wrappers. 36pp. New York Public Library, An exhibition of letters written to Sir Edward Howard Marsh, an editor who helped bring such poets as W. H. Davies, Walter De La Mare, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence and John Masefield to public attention..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1947, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. (42)pp. New York Public Library, In celebration of the One-Hundredth Anniversary of Vanity Fair. A well- annotated and very informative catalogue. More
(London): British Library, (1995), Reprint. octavo, wrappers. 80pp. British Library, Beowulf, Piers Plowman, The Canterbury Tales, Le Morte d'Arthur, the play of Sir Thomas More, Urn-burial, Gray's Elegy, A Sentimental Journey, Kubla Khan, Don Juan, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Pygmalion, Mrs Dalloway, Finnegan's Wake... These, with many..... More
Toronto: Univ of Toronto Press, (1998), First Edition, wrappers issue. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (xxviii), 322p. Univ of Toronto Press, Women as serial killers and their treatment by the popular press. Illustrated. Very fine. More
New York: Holmes & Meier, (1978), First American Edition. small octavo, wrappers. xii, 228pp. Holmes & Meier, Illustrated. In five separate essays, English professors from the University of Sussex take on Victorian society and finally trying "to show something of the complexity of relating a work of literature to its..... More
[London]: Review, (2003), Second printing of paperback issue. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (320)pp. Review, In 1450, all of Europe's books were handcopied and amounted to no more than a few thousand. By 1500, they were printed and numbered in the millions. This because of the invention of the movable type by..... More
Offprint from "The Southern Printer", 1932, quarto, single sheet folded once to make (4)pp. Limited to 300 copies. More
(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1972), Reprint. octavo, wrappers. 128 pp. Thames and Hudson, A richly illustrated biographical work. More
New York: The New York Public Library, 1929, First Separate Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. (12)pp. The New York Public Library, Originally published in the Bulletin of The New York Public Library. The results of the research into the provenance of the manuscript and a description of it. Illustrated. Small name..... More
(Edinburgh): Edinburgh Univ Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. viii, 170pp. Edinburgh Univ Press, "The printing trade has traditionally reserved its skilled jobs for men - yet for over thirty years in Edinburgh women were being actively recruited to work as compositors and were even responsible for the typesetting of..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1968, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 22pp. New York Public Library, An exhibition catalogue commemorating the gift of Quinn's correspondence and other autograph material given to the New York Public Library after Quinn's death by his niece and goddaughter, Mary Anderson Conroy. The catalogue includes..... More
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1980, First Edition. octavo, cloth. 154pp. Scarecrow Press, Containing a biographical introduction, excerpts from the works and a checklist of the writings of Sadleir. The fifth volume in The Great Bibliographers Series. Cloth scuffed, contents clean. More
(Princeton): Princeton University Press, (1999), First American Edition. small quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers. 80pp. Princeton University Press, William Blake remains a remarkable and controversial figure but the author exploring these contradictions of character provides an enlightening examination of Blake's unfolding career. Very fine. More
No place (Hanover, NH), June 11, 1962, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 26pp. An "off the cuff" address by West as the Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth University. More
Forest Hills: Battery Park, 1978, Reprint. octavo, maroon cloth. 72pp. Battery Park, An interesting, although subjective, monograph. Very fine. More
London: British Museum Publications, (1973), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 32pp, 16 plate. British Museum Publications, Also illustrated with four color plates. A brief history of the English heraldic material in the British Museum's manuscript collection. Very fine. More
New York: NYPL, 1962, First Edition. quarto, wrappers. (56), (vi)pp. NYPL, Catalogues all works by Turgenev published in English translation, including collected editions, selections and individually published works. Another section lists stories, prose poems and other works of Turgenev which were published in anthologies and periodicals. Also included is a...... More