Search Results: Literary History / Literary Criticism from Bygone Books

University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed., 8vo, red cloth, 216 pages, bibliographical notes, index. Condition: FINE book / FINE jacket: book is like new. Thompson writes on Austen's language of real feeling; clothing; proposals of marriage; the limits of language; character and interpretation; courtship, marriage, and work; and intimacy.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st ed. [no additional printings], 8vo, reddish cloth, 176 pages, frontispiece of Brontë, notes and bibliography. Condition is NEAR FINE / no jacket: appears to be unread, slightest of rubbing to spine tail.

Norhthampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1930. Limited . Soft cover. VG. Limited edition of 500 copies. 8vo, green paper wraps stapled pamphlet with silver paper label, 36 pages. VERY GOOD: light edgewear and light soiling to paper covers; back cover has pulled away from the 2 staples only. Includes the essay by Elizabeth McCausland: "Emily Dickinson born one hundred years ago.

NY: Macmillan, 1902. Hardcover. VG. 2nd printing, 12mo, navy cloth, 235 pages, [2] pages pub adverts. VERY GOOD / no jacket: light edgewear, a few faint cover spots.

New York: Brentano's, 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. Various.. 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, top edge gilt, deckled edges, 502 pages, 44 b/w illustrated plates, index, list of "Works by the Brontës." Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: slight rubbing to spine extremities, a slightly toned spine, owner bookplate of Edith Scoville ["Be of Good Cheer"], some light foxing stains to deckled edges with very light scattered foxing on some pages (it is minor, a bit more foxing is on the title and dedication page), illustrations are clean. This is a lovely book, one of the earlier biographies. Chadwick lived in the Haworth area for a few years; she also wrote a book on Elizabeth Gaskell. "A few years after Esther Alice Chadwick (fl. 1882-1928) - who wrote under the name Mrs Ellis H. Chadwick - had read a copy of Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë, she moved to a house near the Haworth vicarage where the Brontë family had lived.… Read More

Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st ed [number line], 8vo, blue cloth, 202 pages, select bibliography, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: no wear, appears unread, lovely copy. A collection of 13 essays, plus an introduction by the editors, by leading Austen scholars on the phenomenon of adapting Jane Austen for the screen: Essays by Rachel Brownstein, Cheryl Nixon, Rebecca Dickson, Carol Dole, Amanda Collins, H. Elisabeth Elllington, Lisa Hopkins, Suzanne Ferriss, Nora Nachumi, M. Casey Diana, Kristin Flieger Samuelian, Devoney Looser, and Deborah Kaplan.

London: Cranbrook Tower Press, 1960. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Poet Laureate Series No. 1. A bibliography and eighty-first birthday tribute. Limited ed. of 999 copies, this out of series and unsigned. 1st ed. 8vo, red cloth with gilt titles and signature of Masefield, 96 pages, b/w illustrations throughout. Condition is NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: jacket has light scuffing to rear panel. A lovely copy.

New York: Chautauqua-Century Press, 1898. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Susan Hale. Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century. New York: Chautauqua-Century Press, 1898 / Meadville, PA: Flood and Vincent, 1898. 1st thus ed. 12mo, green cloth with black decoration, gilt titles on spine, 326 pages, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: slight rubbing at edges, slightly dusty top page edge, internally clean and tight (i.e someone did not do their homework...) One of the books published for the 1898-99 year of The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. "Chautauqua Reading Circle Literature" heads the title page. Includes chapters on Alexander Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Charlotte Lennox, Joseph Addison and John Gay; Samuel Richardson and Harriet Byron; Henry Fielding; Oliver Goldsmith, Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray; Evelina (Frances Burney) and Samuel Johnson; Beau Nash and Bath; and Mrs. [Ann] Radcliffe and her Followers.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition, 8vo, brownish cloth, 213 pp, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: the slightest rubbing to spine extremities and corners. Jane Austen's 'Persuasion' is covered in chapter 2: "The Breaking up of the Estate: 'Persuasion.'''

New York: Penguin Press, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Number line reads 2; 8vo, gray boards, 486 pages, b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Condition is NEAR FINE book / FINE jacket: book has a remainder mark on bottom page edge, otherwise like new. Fabulous biography of Hardy.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. First American edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st American ed. 8vo, hardcover164 pages, b/w illustrations, index. Condition is VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: light spotting to pages edges. A stimulating mix of personal and literary history.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition, 8vo, gray cloth, 320 pages, bibliographies.VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight spotting to top page edge, otherwise appears unread; jacket has very light edgewear, toning to spine.

New York: Pantheon, 1986. Soft cover. VG. 0-394-74425-X. 1st American ed. softbound, 311 pages. VERY GOOD with sl edgewear; pgs sl browned; sticker.