Elizabeth Bowen.
New York: Twayne Publishers, (1971), First Edition. octavo, cloth. 134pp. Twayne Publishers, More
Results
Results 1 - 25 (of 25)
'Murder Will Out'. The Detective in Fiction.
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
Of Making Many Books. A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing and Publishing.
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
Modes of Production of Victorian Novels.
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
John Masefield's Salt-Water Ballads.
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
Letters to an Editor. Georgian Poetry, 1912-1922. An Exhibition from the Berg Collection.
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
William Makepeace Thackeray. An Exhibition from the Berg Collection. First Editions, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Drawings.
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
English Literary Manuscripts.
(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
Twisting in the Wind. The Murderess and the English Press.
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
The Context of English Literature: The Victorians.
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
The Gutenberg Revolution. The story of a genius and an invention that changed the world.
[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
Effective Typography and Economy. Reproducing a Speech made before Atlanta Printers.
Offprint from "The Southern Printer", 1932, quarto, single sheet folded once to make (4)pp. Limited to 300 copies. More
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1972), Reprint. octavo, wrappers. 128 pp. Thames and Hudson, A richly illustrated biographical work. More
English Fiction of the Second World War.
London: Faber & Faber, (1989), First Edition. small octavo, wrappers. x, 118pp. Faber & Faber, "Apart from the people's War concept, my primary theoretical iinterest is in narrative...This study also confronts another form of resistance: that of literary critics to the concept of 'war fiction'." Very fine. More
A Renaissance Illuminated Manuscript of Valerius Maximus From the Library of the Aragonese Kings of Naples.
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
Britannica's Typesetters. Women Compositors in Edwardian Edinburgh.
(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
John Quinn. An Exhibtion to Mark the Gift of The John Quinn Memorial Collection.
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
Michael Sadleir 1888-1957.
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
Who Killed Kit Marlowe? A Contract to Murder in Elizabethan England.
(Stroud): Sutton Publishing, (2002), First wrappers issue. small octavo, pictorial wrappers. x, 294 pp. Sutton Publishing, A "revisionist examination by a leading crime writer" Illustrated. Very fine. More
William Blake.
(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
And Gladly Teach. A Hanover Holiday Address.
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
A Memoir on the Origin of Printing.
Forest Hills: Battery Park, 1978, Reprint. octavo, maroon cloth. 72pp. Battery Park, An interesting, although subjective, monograph. Very fine. More
English Heraldic Manuscripts in the British Museum.
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
The Colonial Printer.
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., (1994), Reprint of 1964 edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (xxiv), (374)pp. Dover Publications, Inc., A definitive study of the American printer from 1639 to 1800. All tools, materials, and conditions involved in the early printing trade are covered. The final two chapters deal extensively with both..... More
Turgenev in English. A Checklist of Works by and about Him.
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
Results 1 - 25 (of 25)