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

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1989), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. xii, 322pp. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Cartwright was a Victorian writer and art historian whose works are primarily concerned with the Italian Renaissance. Five of her books are histories of women of the Renaissance and her friendships included the..... 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, 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

(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

New York: Holmes & Meier, (1978), First American Edition. small 8vo, 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

Offprint from "The Southern Printer", 1932, quarto, single sheet folded once to make (4)pp. Limited to 300 copies. 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: Farar, Straus, & Giroux, (2001), First American Edition. octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. xxii, 351pp. Farar, Straus, & Giroux, A study of the friendship between Samuel Johnson and Boswell, Boswell's struggle to finish his great biography, and his relationships with family, friends and competitors. Very fine..... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986, small octavo, wrappers. (viii), (293)p. Oxford University Press, First Printing of this Edition for which Julian Symons has provded an Afterword in which he considers what A.J. might have done had he survived after the war. A most entertaining biography of this founder of the..... More

London: George Allen & Unwin, (1982), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 150pp. George Allen & Unwin, An entertaining memoir concentrating on the changing and developing relationship between a father and a son whose lives overlapped for half a century. Sir Stanley Unwin, the distinguished publisher and book trade..... More