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New York:: Norton,, (1975.). Good condition overall (prev owner's name, toning to the pages, creasing to back cover.). Trade paperback. In addition to a selection of Rich's early poems, this includes critical essays by W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, Erica Jong and Nancy Milford, among others. A title in the Norton Critical Edition series. 215 pp.

New York:: Norton,, (1975.). Very good+ (some sunning to the covers, usual toning to the pages, but otherwise tight and clean.). Trade paperback. In addition to a selection of Rich's early poems, this includes critical essays by W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, Erica Jong and Nancy Milford, among others. A title in the Norton Critical Edition series. 215 pp.

San Bernardino, CA:: R. Reginald / Borgo Press,, 1976.. First edition -. Near fine in stapled red wrappers. . First printing, a trade paperback original. The first critical work on the novels of MacLean, who was both a bestselling author and one of the premiere writers of adventure and suspense fiction, one who was able to "create believable situations of fear, tension, and terror." Brief biography and bibliography. The Milford Series, Popular Writers of Today Volume Ten. 60 pp.

Bloomington:: Indiana University Press,, 1968.. Very good in printed blue wrappers - some fading to the covers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Includes 'A Traveller from Alturia' 'Letters of an Altrurian Traveller' and 'Through the Eye of a Needle' using text established by Scott Bennett with an introduction and commentaries by Clara and Rudolf Kirk. The definitive edition. 494 pages.

Berkeley, CA:: Oyez,, 1976.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very good dustjacket (closed tears with associated creasing, pc.). First printing. Noted poet's fascinating long essay on the creative writer as an example of the Western archetype.

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (2001). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. In 1998, twenty-five years after Plath's suicide, Ted Hughes published "Birthday Letters," a cycle of poems addressed to his Plath, his first wife. Without casting blame, this book explores the destructive relationship between these two poets through their lives and their writings - she shows the events that shaped the "Birthday Letters" and also how they drew upon Plath's own work. Includes references, bibliography, a general index and an index to the works of Hughes and Plath cited in the book. Illustrated by photographs. 312 pp.

New York:: St Martin's,, (1964). Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with relatively few markings, overall tight and clean in a good dust jacket (peeled spot on the spine of the dj extending to the back cover, presumably from careless removal of a spine label.) . First US printing. A look at artists in the first half of the nineteenth century and how they were portrayed by writers, Illustrated with a frontispiece and six plates. Index. vi, 205 pp.

New York:: Columbia University Press,., 1983.. Hardcover first edition -. NF/NF.. First printing. Discussion covers such authors as Malraux, Mauriac, Satre and others. 299 pgs including index, notes and bibliography. The more uncommon hardcover edition.

London:: Longmans, Green & Co. ,, 1967.. First edition -. Near fine in stapled light green wrappers.. First printing. Published for the British Council and the National Book League as part of the Biographical Series of supplements to "British Book News." 60 pages including a frontispiece and a select bibliography. Study of two of Shakespeare's fellow dramatists.

Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Fine (as new) in, appropriately, red cloth, no dj as issued.. First printing. Collection of essays about Paul Auster, a postmodern novelist - the first to be devoted to his work. 203 pp. with works cited, a selected bibliography of Auster's works and index.

Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, (1973). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some rubbing to the dj).. First printing. A book which "evaluates the seven British winners of the most prestigious of all literary awards" and which focuses on the work for which they received the award. Includes chapters, each by a different critic, on Rudyard Kipling (1907), William Butler Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw (1925), John Galsworthy (1932), Bertrand Russell (1950), Winston Churchill (1953), and Samuel Beckett (1969). Introduction by the editor, Walter Kidd, selected bibliography, notes on the contributors. index. 280 pp.

London:: Jonathan Cape,, (1994). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First UK printing. An unusual book of over a century of American literary history - "Each chapter of this inventive consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between two historical figures. In 1854, Henry James, as a boy, goes with his father to have a daguerreotype made by Mathew Brady. . Sarah Orne Jewett, who in turn is a mentor to Willa Cather. Mark Twain publishes Grants memoirs; W.E.B. Du Bois and his professor William James visit the young Helen Keller; and Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz argue about photography. Later, Hart Crane goes out on the town with Charlie Chaplin; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston write a play together; Elizabeth Bishop takes Marianne Moore, who was photographed by both Van Vechten and Richard Avedon, to the circus; Avedon and James Baldwin collaborate on a book; John Cage and Marcel Duchamp play chess; and Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell march on… Read More

Cambridge, MA:: Harvard University Press,, 972.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A fresh and detailed assessment of Chaucer's "The Legend of Good Women" (probably begun in 1386, after he had finished 'Troilus and Criseyde' and before 'The Canterbury Tales'), a work almost unknown, usually ignored except for the prologue, and often dismissed as a 'fragmentary failure.' Yet according to Frank, this work, containing nine stories about such women of antiquity as Cleopatra, Dido, Thisbe, Ariadne. Lucrece, Medea and Hypermnestrae, also marked Chaucer's movement into pure narrative poetry - a move which culminated in his masterpiece. Index. ix, 219 pp

Athens:: University of Georgia Press,, 1972.. Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with missing front endpaper, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.. First printing. Essaysby Louis Rubin, Jr, Weldon Thornton, William A. West, Harper, Edge and others on novels and writers such as Austen's 'Emma', Conrad's 'Nostromo', Fielding's 'Tom Jones,' James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and more. 239 pages.

New York:: Plume - Penguin,, (1995.). Very near fine.. 1st trade paperback printing. "Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and Djuna Barnes." DeSalvo examines biographical material that demonstrates how each of these authors exacted revenge through writing fiction: Barnes's play was a thinly disguised portrayal of the sexual assaults she suffered from her father and brothers; . Henry Miller wrote 'Crazy Cock' out of his obsessive relationship with his wife, June; Hermione in Lawrence's 'Women in Love', was based on Lady Ottoline Morrell and Leonard Woolf's novel 'The Wise Virgins' portrayed a thinly disguised Virginia as deranged and sexually inadequate. Photographs, extensive notes, sources, index. 437 pp.

New York:: Dutton,, (1994.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.). First printing. "Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and Djuna Barnes." DeSalvo examines biographical material that demonstrates how each of these authors exacted revenge through writing fiction: Barnes's play was a thinly disguised portrayal of the sexual assaults she suffered from her father and brothers; . Henry Miller wrote 'Crazy Cock' out of his obsessive relationship with his wife, June; Hermione in Lawrence's 'Women in Love', was based on Lady Ottoline Morrell and Leonard Woolf's novel 'The Wise Virgins' portrayed a thinly disguised Virginia as deranged and sexually inadequate. Photographs, extensive notes, sources, index. 437 pp.

Notre Dame, IN:: University of Notre Dame Press,, 1963.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (prev owner's last name in pencil, some rubbing to the dj, chip on back cover.). First printing. A study of the roles - "advising, prophesying, judging, befriending - and sometimes betraying" - played by these characters in James' novels over the years. Notes, index. 305 pp.

New York:: Grove Press,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A look at the "second wave" of expatriate American writers who took up residence in Paris between 1944-1960, "some seeking the exciting ambiance of art and the bohemian life that Paris has offered earlier generations, some escaping from racist and materialistic aspects of the United States." Among these writers were Richard Wright, James Baldwin, James Jones, William Styron, Chester Himes, George Plimpton, John Ashbery, Harry Matthews, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alexander Trocchi, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, and William S. Burroughs. This book is an anecdotal account of the friendships and associations the writers formed, the cross-cultural influences they experienced, what they discovered, and what they brought back. Photographs, notes, selected bibliography, index. x,345 pp.

Jackson, MS:: University Press of Mississippi,, 1986.. Hardcover first edition -. F/F.(dot bottom edge). First printing. A collection of 21 unabridged essays in which the editor, critic, poet and literary historian encapsulates seven decades of American literature. these conversations took place between 1942 and 1985, and four have never before been published - included are his comments on such writers as Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Faulkner, Kerouac and Ken Kesey. Index.

Jackson, MS:: University Press of Mississippi,, (1999). First edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new, no creasing, but remainder dot) . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A collection of 22 interviews spanning 35 years. "They range from a playful piece by Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, first published in the Journal for the Protection of All Beings (1961), to 'Grandpa from Hell,' an interview that appeared in the L.A. Weekly in 1996. Sources for the interviews include Esquire, Penthouse, and Rolling Stone as well as scholarly journals like Modern Language Studies--a diversity that reflects Burroughs's status as both a serious literary figure and a popular icon." Among the interviewers are Edmund White, Graham Masterton and Larry McCaffrey. Chronology, index. xxii, 234 pp.