Search Results: Literary Criticism from Minotavros Books

London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original green cloth boards with blue titling. 285 p.p. Bumping to spine ends. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Edges and spine of dust jacket are sunned, some minor wear and small chips to spine ends and corners.

Toronto: James Campbell & Son, 1871. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. Orig. red cloth, blind stamped with Canadian Series of School Books device to boards. Unlettered spine. viii, 483 pp. Cloth is faded, rubbed at extremities. Foxing to edges of text block and to Introduction page. A textbook with dozens of short excerpts for reading instruction.

London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo. Reprinted from corrected sheets of the Second Edition. Original jacket and publishers blue cloth. xvi, 375 p.p., [1]. Text in Latin and Greek. Selections from the Ancient Greek Tragedian Aeschylus. Small chip to head of front jacket cover, small tears at edges, and extremities of jacket. Covers sunned. Small sticker ghost to lower front cover. Previous price stamps to front free endpaper. Rubbing to boards. Bumping at head of front board. Slight bruising at spine-ends. Hand written notes laid-in. Interior clean. Bright. A very good copy.

London: Cassell, 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. The Belle Sauvage Library. Full blue cloth. 490 pp. Spine slightly shaken. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to extremities, some fading to spine, delamination to joints, 1.5" tear and creasing to head of rear cover.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Orig. tan cloth. Pictorial endpapers. xii, 418 pp. Some sporadic foxing to interior. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned and damp stained to spine, chipped to spine ends, light staining to rear cover.

London: Oxford University Press, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. navy cloth. viii, 378 pp. Spine tilted and darkened, rubbed to extremities. Interior age toned. Some pencil marginalia and underlining.

Paris: Mouton & Co, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. [Formal Analysis of Poetic Work by a Tang Author: Zhang Ruo-Xu]. Paperback, 133pp. Name on front fly-leaf, light soiling to wrappers but o/w very good. Literary critique of Tang Dynasty Poet Zhang Ruo-Xu. Text in French.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Sather Classical Lectures Series, No. 37.Green cloth, xii, 407pp. Name on ff/ endpaper. Light wear and rubbing on spine o/w near fine in d/w. Chipping on jacket spine ends and edges but still very good.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black paper-covered boards. 254 pp. [8] pp. B&W plates of photos. Light brusing to spine foot of book and jacket. Fine overall. A compelling portrait of the complex relationship between the controversial British playwright Oscar Wilde and the equally unconventional French novelist Andre Gide.

River Vale, NJ: Cosmos Publishing, 2006. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The Modern Greek Literature Library. Soft cover. 261 pp., ads. Fine.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Full blue cloth. xiii, 362 pp. Bruise to top edge of front board. Fine in fine jacket.

Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Studies and Texts 93. Soft cover. xiii, 285 pp. Spine sunned, light bumping and creasing to edges. Light staining to fore- and tail edges. Else fine. Edited from the Manuscripts, with translations and commentary.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Anglo-Norman Texts. Orig. green cloth. vi, 105 pp. Slight bowing to front board. Mild rubbing to corners. Spine faded. White scuff to rear board. Small stain to ffep. Interior is bright and clean. The Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle was a Latin work, purporting to be by legendary warrior archbishop Turpin telling further stories of Charlemagne's crusade against Spain. Although probably written around 1140 at St Denis, it was accepted as genuine history in the middle ages, and was translated many times into French. The Anglo-Norman prose version by William de Briane is the third oldest translation. [Online Medieval Sources Bibliography].

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tenniel, John. 4to. Full red cloth. xxviii, 312 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Fine. For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. His Annotated Alice, first published in 1959, has over half a million copies in print around the world and is beloved by both families and scholars - for it was Gardner who first decoded many of the mathematical riddles and wordplay that lay ingeniously embedded in Carroll's two classic stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xix, 356 pp. Slight curling to front cover, else fine. Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti. This is the first publication in English that contains Breton's definitive statement on l'humor noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers most admired.

New York: Grove Press, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Volume 2. xxxi, 476 p.p. Cloth. Inner flap price clipped. Bruising along edges of dust-jacket. Hinges slightly loose. Light rubbing to extremities of boards. Interior clean. Near fine copy of book.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Orange cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine, gilt device to boards. Top edge red. Patterned endpapers. vii, [6], 379 p.p. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, a little foxing to fore edge. Text clean. Dust jacket lightly soiled to joints and edges, closed perforation to upper spine, and upper front cover, a few short tears, damp staining to spine. Price stamp to head of flyleaf, crease to upper corner of FFEP. The literature of Islam, beginning with the Koran, is a religious literature which encompasses countless mystics, poets, storytellers, autobiographers, fantasts, and writers of tales and proverbs. The more than 40 selections which are included in this anthology reflect for the first time the enormous breadth and depth of the imaginative vision of Islam.

San Bernadino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED and dated by author to limitations page, limited first edition, #62/65. Tan paper boards. 63 pp. About fine.

London: Oxford University Press, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Houghton, A.B. et al. 12mo. Orig. blue coth. viii, 733 pp. With 46 B&W illustrations. Sunning to spine and joints, small spots to foot of front board. Ink ownership inscription to front pastedown. Contents pages unopened at head.

London: Oxford University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo. Orig. blue cloth. x, 182 pp. Dust jacket is sunned to spine and edges, light soiling to spine, short tear to head of joints, else fine.