The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. (3 Volume Set)
The Heritage Press, 1963. Hardcover. 466, 486, and 473 pages. A near fine 3-volume set, in very good slipcases. Publisher's 4-page Sandglass pamphlet laid in.
Literary Criticism
Norman Mailer: A Critical Study
Macmillan, 1975. Hardcover. 203 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time
St. Martin's Griffin, May 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The fascinating stories behind what have been rightly called the hottest books on the planet: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Through insightful commentary.....
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (New York Review Books Classics)
NYRB Classics, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century's most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when.....
In Dickens's London
Carles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Hardcover. 127 pages. Illustrated with charcoal drawings by the author. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with a bit of soiling to boards, and rear hinge beginning to crack; no dust jacket.
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
Cornell University Press, 1975. Trade Paperback. 180 pages. Later printing. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). In The Fantastic, Tzvetan Todorov seeks to examine both generic theory and a particular genre, moving back and forth between a poetics of the fantastic itself and a metapoetics or theory of theorizing.....
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Re Joyce [Unbound signatures]
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1965. Trade Paperback. Nine unbound signatures of the American edition. It was published in London under the title Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader. Gatherings mostly near fine with a few short chips and tears. Slight waviness from.....
Israeli literature: A Case of Reality Reflecting Fiction (The Colorado College Studies, Number 21)
The Colorado College, 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 18 pages. Text from the annual William Jovanovich Lecture in Public Affairs at Colorado College, February 6, 1985. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback).
The Condition of Poetry in the Modern World: A Stoogist Manifesto
Poor Souls Press / Scaramouche Books, 1980. First Edition. Unknown. 6 pages. Manifesto for the writer and publisher's mock 'Stoogism' movement. First edition (first printing). Very good in stapled wrappers (paperback). Toning and wear to edges. Inscribed by the author to fellow publisher Joanie Whitebird.
The Mailer Review (Seven volumes)
University of South Florida / The Norman Mailer Center, 2007-2013. First Edition. Trade Paperback. The first seven volumes of the print journal published annually through 2020.. 265, 557, 719, 561, 498, 414, and 453 pages. Contributions by J. Michael Lennon, Donald Kaufnamm, William Kennedy, E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Gay.....
a la rencontre J. Steinbeck
la sixaine, 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 47 pages. Pencil drawing frontispiece of Steinbeck. Text in French. First edition (first printing). Limited edition: #1/21 copies reserved for the collaborators and friends of the editor, Adolphe Buisson. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Glassine wrappers over paper covers. Mild soiling.....
The Brothers Powys
Auburncrest Library. Printed at the Press of John Wesley Clay, 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 19 pages. 'This paper was read by the Author before the Royal Society of Literature, London, England, and appears in print here for the first time by the kind permission of that Society. First edition.....
Durrell's Themes in the Alexandria Quartet
The Texas Quarterly, 1962. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Reprinted from The Texas Quarterly, Winter 1962, pp. 43-60. With poem 'James Spencer' Instructions to an Ambassador' by Eskin on page 60. Inscribed by the author on fron cover: 'For Henry Nash Smith / with best wishes / Stanley Eskin.' First.....
Why Steinbeck Wrote the Grapes of Wrath and Other Essays
Limited Editions Club, 1940. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 30 pages. Also includes: Did Shakespeare translate The Decameron by Carter Meredith and Mr. Grahame; Mr. Roosevelt, and I by A. A. Milne. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in orange wrappers (paperback).
Why Steinbeck Wrote the Grapes of Wrath and Other Essays
Limited Editions Club, 1940. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 30 pages. Also includes: Did Shakespeare translate The Decameron by Carter Meredith and Mr. Grahame; Mr. Roosevelt, and I by A. A. Milne. Typed letter signed by George Macy, on The Limited Editions Club letterhead, dated April 23, 1940, addressed to Mr.....
Charlemagne and Roland. A Study of the Source of two Middle English Metrical Romances, Roland and Vernagu and Otuel and Roland
University of Calfornia Press, 1944. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 21, No. 6, pp. 385-452. Inscribed by the author on half-title page: 'Bertrand H. Bronson, Cordially, Ronald N. Walpole.' with holograph quotation in French from Johannis Turpin, 'Prologue'. First edition (first printing). A......
Philip Mouskés and the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle
University of California Press, 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 26, No. 4, pp. 327-440. Inscribed by the author inside the front cover: 'To. B. H. B(ronson), from R. N. W. with cordial greetings'. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in.....
Gustave Flaubert Et Le Principe D'Impassibilite
University of California Press, 1950. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 33, No. 4, pp. 263-420. Text in French. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Gustave Flaubert Et Le Principe D'Impassibilite
University of California Press, 1950. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 33, No. 4, pp. 263-420. Text in French. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). One of 30 copies printed on 100% rag paper.
The Pseudonyms and Literary Disguises of Lope de Vega
University of Calfornia Press, 1951. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 35, No. 5, pp. 421-484. One of 30 copies printed on 100% rag paper. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
LeConte de Lisle and His Contemporaries
University of California Press, 1951. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 35, No. 2, pp. 65-108. One of 30 copies printed on 100% rag paper. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Jules Renard as Critic
University of California Press, 1951. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 35, No. 3, pp. 109-220. One of 30 copies printed on 100% rag paper. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
The Meaning of Snorri's Categories
University of Calfornia Press, 1952. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Univerity of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 36, No. 4, pp. 129-148. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
The Pessimism of Leconte de Lisle: Sources and Evolution
University of California Press, 1954. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 144 pages. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 42, No. 1, pp 1-144. Inscribed by the author inside front cover: 'To Professor C. D. Brenner with sincere gratitude for his encouragement. Irving Putter'. First edition (first printing). A near.....
Nietzsche In the Early Work of Thomas Mann
University of California Press, 1955. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 119 pages. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 45. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Slight tanning to covers.