My Father and Myself.
New York: Coward-Mccann, 1969. 219 pages, 8vo, black cloth, d.w. (spine sunned and edges worn). New York: Coward-McCann, (1969). First American edition. A very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. More
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T.S. Eliot: A Life
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. Black and white illustrations. 400 pages. 8vo, grey cloth, d.w. (sunned, edgeworn). New York: Simon & Schuster, (1984). A very good(+) copy-- sunned at edges-- in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
A Manual of Historical Literature.
New York: Harper, 1899. xxxviii + 720pp., 8vo, cloth; rubbed, upper rear corner dented. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. A very good (-) copy. More
Israel Zangwill.
New York: Twayne, 1971. 177pp. Amall 8vo, cloth, d.w. (lightly rubbed) N.Y.: Twayne, (1971). Twayne's English Authors Series. Very good(+) in very good d.w. More
James Purdy.
166pp. 8vo, boards, d.w. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, (1976). More
The Glory That Was Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary Authors.
32 Camera Studies by E.O. Hoppe. 340pp., 8vo, cloth; faded backstrip. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., n.d. Good. More
H. L. M. : The Mencken Bibliography.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1961. With a few b/w illustrations. 8vo, blue cloth, torn d.w. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, (1961). Very good. More
Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru
Austin: University of Texas, 1986. Illustrated. viii + 189 pages, 8vo, black cloth, chipped d.w. Austin: University of Texas Press, (1986). First edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Latin American Monographs, No. 68. More
Patterns of Failure in La Comedie Humaine.
148pp. Thin 8vo, cloth, d.w. New Haven: Yale UP, 1966. Near fine. Yale Romantic Studies, second series, 15. More
Towards the Lost Domain: Letters from London, 1905
Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1986. Edited and translated by W. J. Strachan. Illus. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. (Manchester): Carcanet Press, (1986). More
Introduction to Frederic Mistral.
With a Preface to Harry T. Moore. 209pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1960. Very good. More
Portrait of a Genius, But... The Life of D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930.
8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y., (1950). Very good. More
George Being George: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals-and a Few Unappreciative Observers
New York: Random House, 2008. Illustrated. 423 pages, 8vo, boards, d.w. New York: Random House, (2008). First edition. A near fine copy, but for a few instances of light underlining, in a very good dust wrapper. More
Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. 433pp. 8vo, cloth, slightly edge-worn d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1982). A near fine copy in very good dust wrapper. More
The Devil in the Fire: Retrospective Essays on American Literature and Culture 1951-1971.
New York: Harper, 1971. xviii + 364pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: A Harper's Magazine Press Book, (1971). A very good (+) copy in a veyr good dust wrapper. More
Creating Characters with Charles Dickens
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. Illus. 8vo, red cloth, d.w. slightly chipped, d.w. with some wear on front panel. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, (1991). A fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. More
The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. 247pp. 8vo, cloth, dust wrapper; d.w. rubbed. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1979). Near fine with a very good d.w. More
The Romanesque Lyric; Studies in Its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs, 50-1050.
With renderings into English verse by Howard Mumford Jones. 373pp. 8vo, cloth; worn. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1928. More
The Short Story in Engllish
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. 413 pages, 8vo, navy cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Oxford University Press, (1981). A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Discussion on Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Flaubert. More
The Achievement of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969. 177 pages, 8vo, red cloth with a gilt-lettered spine, dust wrapper (worn and chipped). Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, (1969). A near fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Inscribed and signed "Marcia" by the editor on the front free endpaper. More
The Life Of Katherine Mansfield.
New York: Viking, 1980. Illustrated. 466pp. Thick 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: The Viking Press, 1980. A very good(+) copy. More
Indo-English Literature in the Nineteenth Century.
Mysore: The Literary Half-Yearly, 1970. 168pp. Slim 8vo, cloth, dust wrapper; d.w. edge-worn & soiled. Mysore, India: The Literary Half-Yearly, University of Mysore, (1970). Very good. More
Stendhal: A Biography
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979. In Collaboration with Carol Cosman. xiii + 285pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. dust wrapper lightly worn. London: George Allen & Unwin, (1979). A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
A Lion For Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal.
New York: Basic Books, 1979. In Collaboration with Carol Cosman. Illustrated. 285pp. Tall 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Basic Books, (1979). Very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
Victorian Literature and Society: Essays Present to Richard D. Altick
Columbus: Ohio State Universyt Press, 1984. Edited by James R. Kincaid and Albert J. Kuhn. viii + 374pp. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, (1984). A fine copy in a very good (+) dust wrapper. More