Search Results: Literary Criticism from Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books

New York : Harper and Row, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. For your favorite curmudgeon, a delight for usage prescriptivists, or those who want to make fun of them. This is subtitled "A Word Diet for the Verbally Overweight". Selected at random from the middle of this volume, the author instructs the reader as to how they should or should not make use of instrumental, insufficient, insure, intensive, interlocutor, intervene, intimate, into, intrigue, intrinsic, and inundate ("it's shorter to say flood"-- true enough, Mr. Flesch). First printing stated, VG in a like jacket with a few small tears. Quite a solid copy. In protective mylar

Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. An examination of the boundary-stretching use of language by Baudelaire--he argues that he adapts aspects of caricature for use in his poetry. First printing, fine in a fine jacket, in protective mylar. Beautiful copy.

Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill, 1970. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. An examination of the craft of notable black novelists, their approaches to their work and their goals. Includes essays by academics and the novlists in question (Baldwin, Wright, Ellison, etc). VG in wraps--faint stain to foredge.

Random House. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A curious work from an author who's earliest years saw him becoming a completist collector of assorted types of books. This volume offers brief essays on known authors and their works that did NOT survive. The book moves chronologically from antiquity through the 20th century author George Perec. First printing, VG with a fair amount of neatly penciled underlining, in an unclipped VG jacket.

New York: Grove Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Second printing of this examination of portions of early books of the Old Testament. An introductory author about the author, "J", by Bloom, a new translation of the works by Rosenberg, and commentary on the text from Bloom. Fine in a near fine, mildly shelfworn jacket.

Frederick Ungar, 1968. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A detailed look at 8 of Odets' plays including 5 written in the 19i30s and three from 1945-1954. A VG copy in a like jacket with a couple of small tears at the head and foot of spine. Interior pastedown and endpaper have a touch of discoloration. Otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT ex library and NOT price clipped. This would appear likely to be a first edition--no statement of edition is present.

Berkeley, California, U.S.A.: Stone Bridge Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Nearly new and unread copy of this look at the varieties and styles of modern Japanese manga, focusing on a variety of leading artists and publishers. Tiny but of wear to front edge, else fine in wraps.

New York : Borzoi Books, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Wallace's first book, he would go on to write wildly popular novels throughout the 60s and 70s. This book looks at such figures as Alexander Selkirk (the basis for Robinson Crusoe) Dr. Joseph Bell (an inspiration for Sherlock Holmes) and several others. First edition stated, VG in a VG price-clipped jacket with a couple of small chips to edges. Book is in quite nice condition, with quarter bound with bright red cloth and rose colored boards.

Random House, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A nice clean copy of Pritchett's in depth examination off Turgenev. First printing, fine in a VG jacket with a bit of shelfwear and a non-trivial chip to lower edge of rear panel.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Arcade Pub, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Very nice copy of the author's collection of essays on authors from Dante and Voltaire to Borges, Sebald, and Rushdie. First U.S., fine in a near fine jacket (small crease to front panel of jacket near spine).

Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A nice copy of this, apparently the first book length work on Moore's prose. Draws on new material from the Moore archives, and focuses on her private and public critical exchanges with Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and T.S. Eliot. Fine in a near fine jacket with minimal wear.

New York: Doubleday, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First American edition of a colletion of essays and critical pieces from the Nigerian novelist, author of Things Fall Apart, among many others. A fine copy in a fine jacket--very nice.

Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A look at the locales in which major American works of literature were centered. Includes Frost's New England, Hemingway's Florida, Steinbeck's California, and others (Faulkner, O'Connor). First printing, Near fine in a fine jacket.

London: Unicorn, 1948. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quite nice copy, near fine in like jacket. Four essays by Wilde, The Critic as Artist; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Decay of Lying; The Truth of Masks. Front and rear edges of boards slightly bent, jacket likely to be slightly faded from original color, w/a tiny tear to top of rear panel. Price clipped. Third Printing.

University of Chicago Press, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A quite nice copy of this book examining the role of early libraries in medieval and early modern England, and what that would later mean for the modern library. Fine in a NF jacket with a slight bend to the top front panel. First printing - clean, appears unread.

Harcourt Brace, 1964. Paper. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Used, selections include Twain, Waugh, Orwell, Shirley Jackson, and others. Critical essays by Northrop Frye and others. Some wear, bit of a crease to back cover, some underlining and notes in margins

W.W. Norton, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Certainly fascinating for the Wodehouse fan, this is an extensive collection of letters ranging from the author's school days in the early 1900s to a few weeks from his death in 1975. They provide the reader with insights into his life and work and further showcase his mastery of language. First printing, Fine in a NF unclipped jacket.

Dutton, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Shepard, E.H.. First edition of this little smackeral of academic satire. A "long overdue collection of twelve essays, examining the hidden meaning of MIlne's classic volumes." A super weird offering, perfect for the Pooh collector who has everything! Book is excellent, unmarked and tight. Jacket shows price ($2.95) and has one medium-sized chip to the top of the front cover. Protected in mylar.

London: Cassell & Company, 1947. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. The 1938 first edition, in brown cloth boards with a black cloth spine and gold lettering. The rare "somewhat interesting" ex library copy, this is from the library of the Training Department" of publisher R.R. Donnelly & Sons, home of the Lakeside Press. Edition is confirmed from the card, showing it checked out several times between 1939 and 1963. Cloth at spine is splitting a bit, and is a touch frayed at the top, but the binding is sound and the interior is clean and unmarked. Includes many B&W illustrations of book covers and interiors.

Austin, TX: Monkeybrain Books, 2004. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Unread, crisp copy of this anthology of pieces by notable science fiction authors. Touches on the influence of science fiction on the larger popular culture. Pieces by David Brin, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Moorcock, Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg, and many others. Large trade paperback with minimal shelfwear.