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Phases of English Poetry
by READ, Herbert
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- Very Good +
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- First American Edition
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- 1951
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$19.00
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NY: New Directions, 1951. Bound in yellow cloth, stamped in black. This is "Directions 19". Similar in size, style to the New Classics series. I believe the dust jacket is by Lustig, but he is not given credit. 192 pp. Noted as "Revised" from the UK printing. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wodehouse at Blandings Castle -- Vol. 5 of the Millennium Wodehouse Concordance
by RING, Tony; Geoffrey Jaggard
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$25.00
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UK: Porpoise Books, 1998. Bound in orange boards, stamped in gold in dust jacket with a cartoon depiction. The first edition of volume five of this set. Only flaw is a small book store stamp to top edge of pages. 309 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Near Fine. Item Price
$25.00
Wodehouse at The Anglers' Rest -- Vol. 2 of the Millennium Wodehouse Concordance
by RING, Tony; Geoffrey Jaggard
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$20.00
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UK: Porpoise Books, 1995. Bound in blue boards, stamped in gold in dust jacket with a cartoon depiction. The first edition of volume two of this set. 169 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Near Fine. Item Price
$20.00
Wodehouse in the Clubhouse -- Vol. 1 of the Millennium Wodehouse Concordance
by RING, Tony; Geoffrey Jaggard
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$55.00
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UK: Porpoise Books, 1994. Bound in green boards, stamped in gold in dust jacket with a cartoon depiction. The first edition of volume one of this set and the scarcest volume. Only flaw is spotting to top edge of pages. 153 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Near Fine. Item Price
$55.00
The Islands in Between; Essays on West Indian Literature
by JAMES, Louis; Ed.
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- Used - Very Good ++
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- Very Good +
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- First British Edition
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- 1968
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$22.00
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London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968. Edited & with an introduction by Louis James; contributors include Jean Creary, Mervyn Morris, Bill Carr, Barrie Davies, and John Hearne; black & white plates; minor fading to spine of dust jacket. 166pp.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good +. Item Price
$22.00
Lex et Scientia Volume 10 - No 4
by WOLDER, Stanley (Ed.)
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- First Edition
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- 1974
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- Paperback
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$18.00
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NY: International Academy of Law and Science, 1974. Bound in stiff green and white wraps. A quarterly re: the International Journal of Law and Science. This copy is from the library of John Hunt (who wrote the first essay in this edition). pp. 121 - 177.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - As… Read more about this item Item Price
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Twenty Questions (Review Copy)
by MCCLATCHY, J. D.
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$25.00
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NY: Columbia, 1998. Bound in black cloth over black boards, stamped in silver, in matching black and silver dust jacket. A book on the mystery of poetry. Review copy with publisher's blurb sheet laid in. 200 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
$25.00
Twenty Questions (Review Copy)
by MCCLATCHY, J. D.
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$25.00
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NY: Columbia, 1998. Bound in black cloth over black boards, stamped in silver, in matching black and silver dust jacket. A book on the mystery of poetry. Review copy with publisher's blurb sheet laid in. 200 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
$25.00
Robert Browning: Compiler of The Shelley Concordance
by CUNDIFF, Paul
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- No Dustjacket
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- First Edition
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- 1982
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$40.00
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Tampa: P.A. Cundiff, 1982. Bound in stiff yellow wraps, stamped in black. A 30 page controversial work Laid in is a one page reply to PMLA after they rejected using this in their publication. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good +/No Dustjacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
$40.00
Reading the Cantos - A Study of Meaning in Ezra Pound (Review Copy)
by STOCK, Noel
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- First Edition
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- 1966
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$17.00
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NY: Minerva , 1966. Bound in stiff black and gold illustrated wraps. A 120 page critique of Pound's Cantos. Review copy with slip laid in. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket - As Published. Review Copy. Item Price
$17.00
Willa Cather (Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians)
by O'BRIEN, Sharon
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- Very Good +
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- First Edition
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- 1995
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$22.00
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NY: Chelsea House, 1995. Bound in red boards, stamped in gold in matching dust jacket that has a portrait of Cather on the front panel This is part of the publisher's series on Gay Men and Lesbians (apparently there were 30 books in the series). 144 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good +.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Remembering John Masefield (Signed)
by LAMONT, Corliss
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- Reprint
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- 1970
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$18.00
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Literary Review, 1970. Bound in white wraps stamped in black. Consists of pp. 421-455 from the Literary Review, Summer 1970. Inscribed and signed on the front panel. . Signed By Author. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket - As Published. Item Price
$18.00
Journal of a Novel (Signed)
by PETRAKIS, Harry Mark
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket - As Published
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- Reprint
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- 2012
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- Paperback
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$25.00
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IN: Duneland, 2012. Bound in stiff, glossy illustrated wraps. A book that descibes the author's daily struggles with writing a book. Inscribed and signed by author in the year of publication. Diagonal crease to front panel. 227 pp. . Inscribed and Signed By Author. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - As Published. Item Price
$25.00
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
by ECO, Umberto
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$42.50
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MA: Harvard, 1994. Bound in black and purple boards, stamped in gold in matching dust jacket that shows books floating through a forest. 153 pp. One of the scarcer Eco first editions. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
$42.50
Sixteen Authors To One
by KARSNER, David
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- Used - Very Good ++
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- Very Good +
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- First Edition
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- 1928
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$29.50
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NY: Lewis Copeland, 1928. Bound in red cloth, stamped in black in orange and black dust jacket. Contains intimate sketches of multiple "authors of the day", including Dreiser, Cabell, Tarkington, Darrow, Sinclair Lewis, et al. 290 pp. Dust jacket shows some minimal chipping to extremes, none affecting any text. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very… Read more about this item Item Price
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Letters to W.B. Yeats (Two Volumes complete)
by FINNERAN, Richard J.; Ed.
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- Very Good +
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- First Edition
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- 1977
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$65.00
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NY: Columbia, 1977. Bound in black cloth, stamped in gold in matching dust jackets on the two volumes. These are from the library of the late author, Paris Flammonde, and each has a blind stamp on the half title page. 628 pp. total. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Item Price
$65.00
The Roots of Romanticism
by BERLIN, Isaih
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- Very Good +
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- First Edition
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- 1999
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$19.00
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NJ: Princeton, 1999. Bound in green boards, stamped in gold in matching illustrated dust jacket (small scrape at middle of spine of d.w.). A 171 pp. book from the Bollingen Series - Lecture on Fine Art. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Item Price
$19.00
A Skeleton Key To Finnegans Wake
by CAMPBELL, Joseph & ROBINSON, Henry Morton
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- No Jacket
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- Later Printing
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- 1976
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$30.00
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NY: Buccaneer, 1976. Bound in gray cloth, stamped in blue. This is a limited edition (one of 350 copies) in this Buccaneer printing. 297 pp. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Limited Edition. Item Price
$30.00
The accomplishment of metaphor and the necessity of suffering (in the modernist style)
by ENGLER, Robert Klein
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 2004
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- Paperback
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$25.00
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NY: Headwaters Press, 2004. Bound in stiff white illustrated wraps, stamped in black. 24 pp. Tight, clean copy, Scarce -- only three copies on OCLC/Worldcat.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Item Price
$25.00
John Dryden: The Poet The Dramatist The Critic
by ELIOT, T.S.
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1932
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- Hardcover
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$75.00
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NY: Terence and Elsa Holliday, 1932. Bound in original mulberry paper boards stamped in black and gold on cover and spine. First Edition (1 of 1000 copies). Previous owner's neat bookplate on front pastedown, slight foxing a bit of rubbing to spine ends. Still a tight copy of a scarce Eliot 1st. 68 pp. . First Edition.… Read more about this item Item Price
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