THE AMERICAN NOVEL IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, (1981). 8vo. cloth. 215 pages. Reprint of the 1978 first edition. READ MORE about THE AMERICAN NOVEL IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, (1981). 8vo. cloth. 215 pages. Reprint of the 1978 first edition. READ MORE about THE AMERICAN NOVEL IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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Essays on American Literature
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (ii), xii, 320, (2) pages. Essays on American Literature. Includes ten essays on American writing and writers as well as seventeen brevities on various authors and their work. Presentation copy with note "To Aileen: In admiration and affection - Denis" on front free endpaper and letter from author to Aileen dated September 30, 1987 laid-in. READ MORE about READING AMERICA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 95342
New York: The Spiral Press, (1950). 8vo. two toned cloth, dust jacket. 56 pages. First edition. Jacket chipped with piece missing at head of spine and along top edge of back cover. READ MORE about SONNETS AND LYRICS
Price: $13.00 Order nr. 121889
Philadelphia: Patterson & White Co., 1907. 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. 113 pages. First edition. Minor cover wear. READ MORE about CURRENTE CALAMO
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Philadelphia: Patterson & White Co., 1919. 8vo. two-toned cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. 66 pages. First edition. First appearances of all of these poems. Minor rubbing of jacket. READ MORE about OBEROD AND OTHER POEMS
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With A frontispiece in Photogravure by S.H. Sime.
London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. 4to. Quarter vellum with tawny cloth-covered boards with vertical gilt rule. Gilt title on brown panel to spine. Gilt top-edge. Untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges. Marbled endpapers. 322 pages. With A frontispiece in Photogravure by S.H. Sime. First edition limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. Some orange spotting near the bottom of the vellum spine / boards. Minor rubbing to vellum and edges..... READ MORE about THE CHRONICLES OF RODRIGUEZ
Price: $275.00 Order nr. 139078
Saint-Omer: Imprimerie et Lithographie H. D'Homont, 1889. 8vo. original front cover present; back cover lacking. 44 pages. New edition, revised and corrected. Study of this 16th century manuscript. Presentation from the author on the front cover and on the half-title. Front covers partially detached; chipped around edges. Back cover lacking. READ MORE about DERNIER MANUSCRIT DE L'HISTORIEN JACQUES MEYER, RECHERCHES SUR LE MANUSCRIT 730 DE LA...
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Genoptryk af Jørgen Christoffersen Dybvads skrift om kometen 1577.
Holstebro (Denmark): Niels P. Thomsen, 1922. 8vo. speckled paper-covered boards, paper label on cover. 31+(1), (XIII), (2) pages. Genoptryk af Jørgen Christoffersen Dybvads skrift om kometen 1577. Edition limited to 225 copies, produced under the supervision of Emil Selmar. Finely printed facsimile of Jorgen Christoffersen Dybvads' essay on the comet of 1577. With commentary by Selmar. Light rubbing on boards, corners bumped. READ MORE about OM KOMETERS BETYDNING SOM JÆRTEGN I FORDUMS DAGE
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Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, (1967). 8vo. cloth. xii, 275+(1) pages. Reprint of 1935 edition. Memoirs of the literary denizens of Georgetown University, Holy Cross College and late 19th century Catholic literary writers, such as Charles Warren Stoddard, Charles Bullard Fairbanks, Joaquin Miller, and Kathleen Norris. READ MORE about MANUSCRIPTS AND MEMORIES, CHAPTERS IN OUR LITERARY TRADITION
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Stuttgart: Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1965. small 8vo. marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 47+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 1500 copies. The history of Voltaire's poem "Pucelle." READ MORE about VOLTAIRES PUCELLE DIE GESCHICHTE EINES GEDICHTES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 49383
New York: iUniverse, Inc., (2006). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 197 pages. A novel centered in Delaware. Fine condition. READ MORE about THE DELAWARE VENTURE, A FICTION NOVEL
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Wilmington: First State Writers, 1953. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 45+(1) pages. Volume 3 per front cover. Collection of poetry by Delaware authors. READ MORE about FIRST STATE WRITERS, 1953
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Wilmington: The Wilmington Poetry Society and Delaware WRiters, (1946). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. B1-4694. Part of an annual. Front cover illustration by Harry Clark Boden. READ MORE about DELAWARE POETS 1946
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Wilmington: The Wilmington Poetry Society and Delaware WRiters, (1947). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 58, (2) pages. B1-4694. Part of an annual. Front cover illustration by Harry Clark Boden. Printed at the Mercantile Press in Wilmington. READ MORE about DELAWARE POETS 1947
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 89225
New York: Scribner, 1972. large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 125 pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. Illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi. READ MORE about NOTES OF AN ALCHEMIST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137859
Washington: Library of Congress, 1986. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 30, (4) pages. Speech delivered to celebrate Beckett's 80th birthday. A fine copy. READ MORE about SAMUEL BECKETT, NAYMAN OF NOLAND, A LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ON APRIL 16, 1985
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New York: Vintage Books, 1988. 8vo. paperback. 680 (3) pages. First American edition. Foxing to preliminary pages, else a fine copy. The brilliant writer and conversationalist, setter of fashions and reckless flouter of social and sexual conventions is brought to life. "More astute, more generous and forbearing, yet more fallible and perhaps more doom driven than the legend allowed, Wilde is given in Richard Ellmann's magnificent account the dimension of a modern hero." READ MORE about OSCAR WILDE
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Edited by Eva March Tappan.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1898. small 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt cover and spine title. 120, 4 pages. Edited by Eva March Tappan. First edition. A near fine copy. Printed by the Norwood Press. READ MORE about SELECT ESSAYS AND POEMS
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London: Chatto & Windus; Hogarth Press, 1968. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 64 pages. First edition. Light fading to the spine of the jacket, else near fine. READ MORE about UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY
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New York: Vantage Press, (1969). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 388 pages. First edition. A book of fiction by this Delaware attorney. With a postscript by the author dated 1968. Presentation from the author on half-title. Back cover of jacket is spotted. Ink ownership stamp on front free endpaper. READ MORE about THE END OF THE ROAD
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 67527
N.P., 1702 (but Gars am Inn: Bibliothek d. Redemptoristen, 1986). 8vo. paper-covered boards. 48 pages. Facsimile of edition published in 1702. This book is a funeral sermon given by Ertl, a famous Baroque preacher, on the occasion of Athanasio's death in 1698. In German. With an afterword by Franz Wenhardt and some illustration. READ MORE about WACHTBARES HERTZENS-AUG
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2 volumes.
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1970. 4to. stiff paper wrappers enclosed in a slipcase. (vi),36; (2) pages followed by a 21 page facsimile. 2 volumes. From the Smock Alley Theatre of Dublin. Contains partial text illustrations, an introduction, and collations. Slipcase very worn and covers faded. READ MORE about SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Vol. V. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK...
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Two volumes bound in One. Vol. VII. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK ALLEY A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and Part ii TEXT OF THE SMOCK ALLEY A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1989. 4to. quarter cloth, paper cover and spine labels. (iv),53; (2) page followed by a 18 page facsimile. Two volumes bound in One. Vol. VII. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK ALLEY A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and Part ii TEXT OF THE SMOCK ALLEY A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. From the Smock Alley Theatre of Dublin. Contains partial text illustrations, an introduction, and collations. READ MORE about SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 53841
New York: David Lewis, 1969. small 8vo. cloth. vii, (iii), 112 pages. First edition. Issued as one in the publisher's series of Fugitive Bibliographies. This book attempts to include all of Tate's important writings and the most significant commentary about him through 1967. As a poet, lecturer, reviewer, teacher and editor, few writers of the twentieth century contributed more toward the establishment of a profession of letters in the United States. READ MORE about ALLEN TATE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929. 8vo. cloth, top edge stained gray, fore and bottom edge uncut. xvi, 547 pages, with 20 illustrations. Reprint of the first edition. Spine lightly faded, covers lightly soiled. This biography uses previously unknown documents to throw new light on Franklin's political activity, Masonic career, and sentimental life. Indexed. READ MORE about FRANKLIN, THE APOSTLE OF MODERN TIMES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 47724