Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. Hardcover. SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR to front free endpaper. Previous owner's name to ffep. Mild wear to extremities. A bit of foxing to top and fore-edge. Gilt lettering to spine of blue-berry colored, cloth-covered boards. Blue and white lettering to blue jacket. 276 pp with..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. Hardcover. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Light foxing to top edge. Slight bump to front lower spine. Silver metallic lettering to spine of black cloth-covered boards. Glossy white jacket with illustration of James. 242 pp with notes and index. Clean..... More
London: Aldus Books, 1972. Hardcover. VERY HEAVY!! FINE set of volumes. Dustjackets near fine. Very slight wear along edges, a few very tiny creases to DJ spine edges. DJ flaps taped to endpapers, sometimes sticking to free endpaper as well. A light smudge about three inches long to bottom edge..... More
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 270 pages, index. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and with a typed letter signed by the author thanking the same recipient of the book laid in. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration and titles in gilt. Excellent..... More
LONDON: Routledge, 1991. Paperback. Reprint. "Narcissistic fiction" is here defined as fiction which includes within itself a commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. The author places this phenomenon in a historical context and discusses its implications for both the theory of the novel and for reading theory. Authors..... More
Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 253 pages, four pages of illustrations. Blue cloth, octavo. Corners sharp, textblock square. In complete dust jacket with edgewear. Jacket is in a mylar protector. Includes detailed accounts of 19th century writers Robert Duncan Milne, William Henry Rhodes, W.C. Morrow, Emma..... More
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1946. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. 8vo. Beige, linen-covered boards with grey lettering. A couple of gently nudged corners, but barely noticeable. Dustjacket with some chips and closed tears, but mostly all there. Original $2.50 price to front flap. 243 pp. In addition to essays by..... More
London: Printed for S. Wilmot, Bookseller in Oxford, London, 1737. Second Edition. Leather_bound. Second ediion. [12] 374 [12 ] pages. Engraved frontis by John Pine. Full leather binding with five raised bands and spine titles in gilt. Octavo. Corners bumped, and some light edgewear and wear at top and bottom..... More
Milton, MA: Turtle Press, 1951. Paperback. Letter from author's wife, laid-in. Illustration of Itinerary on frontispiece. Sunning to spine and edges of stiff apple-green wraps with black lettering and line design to front cover. 172 pp with appendix and index. Clean, bright, solid binding. A scholarly study of the various..... More
