"T. S. Eliot So Far" in THE GRIFFIN
New York: The Readers' Subscription, 1953. First Edition. Stapled wraps. An 8-page pamphlet in blue stapled wraps including a 3-page essay by Auden on Eliot's COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS. Bloomfield & Mendelson C413.
Literary Criticism
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AUDEN: A CARNIVAL OF INTELLECT
New York: Oxford University, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Callan traces the development of Auden's art from its beginnings to his death.
WRITER BY TRADE. A PORTRAIT OF ARNOLD BENNETT
New York: Atheneum, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the.....
ON BECOMING A NOVELIST
New York: Harper & Row, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Gardner's former student, Raymond Carver, who has SIGNED the title page and dated it 8 January 1985.
DO THESE BONES LIVE
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1941). First Edition. Dahlberg's unique takes on Thoreau, Melville, etc.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
New York: Twayne Publishers, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover.
THE CLASSICS AND THE MAN OF LETTERS
London: Oxford University, 1942. First Edition. Printed wraps. Printed light blue wraps, 27 pages. Gallup A40: 5017 copies. A later copy with the "t" on the title page weakly registered but still noticeably visible.
FROST: THE POET AND HIS POETRY
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, (1967). First Edition. Wraps. Containing the first appearance of the poem "One Favored Acorn," this booklet was designed as a teaching device.
JOHN GALSWORTHY: AN APPRECIATION TOGETHER WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY
London: William Heinemann, 1929. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 22 pages.
ON BECOMING A NOVELIST
New York: Harper & Row, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Raymond Carver.
THE ENQUIRER. REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION, MANNERS, AND LITERATURE. IN A SERIES OF ESSAYS
London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Attractively bound with good margins in modern calf-backed boards; xii, 481 pages. An important work by this philosopher published the same year that his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, died shortly after giving birth to their daughter and future author of FRANKENSTEIN.....
A PAMPHLET AGAINST ANTHOLOGIES
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards; 192 pages. "The follies of anthologists, and the effect of anthologies on reputations are the subjects sharply analyzed and discussed here."
THE DAY I WAS OLDER. ON THE POETRY OF DONALD HALL
(Santa Cruz, CA): (Story Line Press), (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of Hall's poems, essays by other poets such as Robert Creeley and W. D. Snodgrass about Hall, reviews of Hall's work, an interview with Hall, and a bibliography. Illustrated with photographs from Hall's collection. Uncommon in hardcover.
THE DAY I WAS OLDER. ON THE POETRY OF DONALD HALL
(Santa Cruz, CA): (Story Line Press), (1989). First Edition. Softcover. The softcover issue. A collection of Hall's poems, essays by other poets such as Robert Creeley and W. D. Snodgrass about Hall, reviews of Hall's work, an interview with Hall, and a bibliography. Illustrated with photographs from Hall's collection.
FREUDIANISM AND THE LITERARY MIND
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Studies of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Sherwood Anderson, Conrad Aiken, Henry Miller, and others. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal.....
REMINISCENCES OF WALT WHITMAN WITH EXTRACTS FROM HIS LETTERS AND REMARKS ON HIS WRITINGS
London: Alexander Gardner, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown and mustard boards. Uncommon early book on Whitman.
STEPHEN KING
Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, (1982). First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. Early major book of criticism on King with a bibliography.
TWO DIALOGUES: GEORGE SANTAYANA. NORMAN DOUGLAS
Pittsburgh: Privately Printed, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. One of 250 copies printed and bound in marbled paper wrappers with leather label on the spine.
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ARCHIBALD MACLEISH SYMPOSIUM, MAY 7-8, 1982
Greenfield, MA: University Press of America, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-lettered red cloth, [viii], 152 pages. Contributions by William Heyen, William Meredith, Donald Hall, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Wilbur, and many others. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of.....
A BOOK OF PREFACES
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917. First Edition. hardcover. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Four essays on Conrad, Dreiser, Huneker, and Puritanism as a Literary Force.
BERNARD SHAW
Berlin: S. Fischer, 1910. First Edition. wraps. Printed wraps. Laurence K6. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece of Shaw. Text in German.
THE HISTORY OF A FAMOUS NOVEL
London: Privately Printed, 1946. First Edition. wraps. Printed wraps. Laurence B311. A twenty-page pamphlet limited to 500 copies printed for the author that includes three paragraphs by Shaw not previously published.
PART OF NATURE, PART OF US. Modern American Poets
Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. A renowned critic examines the work of W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Glück, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, and many others.
OLD PORTRAITS AND MODERN SKETCHES
Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth. BAL 21769: Binding A (no sequence determined). Only 1500 copies printed. Dec. 1849 Catalogue, earliest noted, inserted at front. Without "The End" on last page. Contents are 10 biographies including John Bunyan and Andrew Marvell.
TRIPLE THINKERS
London: John Lehmann, (1952). New Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in England in 1938 in a very small edition, this new edition was extensively revised and added to by Wilson. With errata slip.
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