LITERARY CRITICISM from Barbara Bilson Books

London: Bowes and Bowes, 1962. Very good (bumped corners, light edgewear) in good only dust jacket (it did its job of fully protecting the book and consequently shows sunning and stains, especially at the spine; edgeworn). 255 pages including index. Holbrook explores modern poetry, especially its relationship to morality--what he calls "metaphorical responsibility." About two-thirds of the book is devoted… Read more about this item

New York: Citadel Press. Very good (sunned, dusty page edges; clean interior) in tattered dust jacket (very edgeworn with some missing chips). An evaluation of the life and work of W. Somerset Maugham with contributions--both biographical and critical--from such writers and critics as Maxwell Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Mark Van Doren, Theodore Dreiser, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Evelyn Waugh. No date… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1932. Very good condition (worn and faded covers, with two tears at top of spine; rear pastedown has split revealing the back hinge but still seems strong and secure; previous owner's name and superfluous ink stamp on first free endpaper; interior otherwise fine and unmarked). A group of Woolf's always-interesting reviews, some published here… Read more about this item

New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc, 1963. Very good (minor edgewear and slightly bumped corners, small tear in rear pastedown, probably in manufacturing) in good only dust jacket (heavy edgewear including missing chip on back panel near spine top). The first comprehensive study of Maugham's work. 222 pages, including index. Contents arranged by genre, including Maugham's thoughts on writing… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, 1960. Number 37 of the "Writers and Their Work" series published for the British Council and the National Book League. 46 pages including extensive biography for such a short pamphlet. Very good soft cover pamphlet (soiled rear cover, staples at spine are rusty but rest of cover is unaffected, very slight edgewear). . Soft Cover.

New York: Macmillan, 1961. Very good (two bumped corners, edgewear at top and bottom of spine; interior tight and white and spotless) in good + dust jacket (considerable edgewear and a few closed tears). 530 pages. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1968. Near fine (slightly sunned top cover edges) in very good dust jacket (edgewear, especially at top of spine, some "toning" or sunning of back cover and spine). Terrific illustrations.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Guy Davenport.

New York: Twayne, 1971. Near fine (slight sunning to spine) without dust jacket. Part of the Twayne English Authors Series. 134 pages including index and bibliography.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1973. Very good (a few light foxing spots on cover and page edges, previous owner's bookplate on first free endpaper) in very good- dust jacket (some rubbing and light soil, price-clipped although the British price still shows!, some edgewear with a short closed tear at the bottom of the spine which has been taped close on… Read more about this item

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1975. Very good (one bumped corner, otherwise fine) in good only dust jacket (tiny holes along edges and folds). This is the revised edition and now includes chapters on Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and Sinyavsy. 369 pages including index. . Hard Cover.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. Very good+ (a bit of light wear and fading on edges) in very good- dust jacket (heavy edgewear along top, light edgewear along bottom edge, vertical crease down spine;fully intact). Clean unmarked interior. Edited by author's wife, Elena Wilson, who gathered these sixty years of correspondence. 768 pages including index. Despite the title,… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1943. Very good (lightly edgeworn, war-time quality paper somewhat yellowed) without dust jacket. Woollcott was a critic writing for the New Yorker magazine and a member of the "Algonquin Round Table." This is a collection of his writings from 1930 to 1943 previously published in popular magazines of the time. Woollcott was the model for the guest… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick Unger Pub Co , 1984. Near Fine (slight spotting to top edges) in Very Fine dust jacket. Part of the publisher's Literature and Life Series. 205 pages including index, notes, and chronology.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1972. Personal reminiscences about Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Saroyan, Nathaniel West. Near fine (small, faint stain on top page edges) in good dust jacket (soiled; edgeworn, especially at spine and on back panel top).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1970. Fine in fine dust jacket. Exploration of Matthew Arnold's poetry, social and political thought, and theology.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1967. Very good+ (slightly sunned cover edges, edgewear at top of spine; light browning of edges of glossy photograph pages) in very good-- dust jacket (edgeworn, especially at spine and corners; close tear). Salter served as secretary and friend toward the end of Sitwell's life. 208 pages including index.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1947. Very good (offsetting to end papers and gift inscription on ffep but very clean and bright binding) in very good- dust jacket (browned and edgeworn and lightly chipped along top edge). An important critical assessment focusing on Woolf's works rather than on Woolf as a personality.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Very good (a little light foxing on page edges) in near fine dust jacket (light edgewear and rubbing). Focuses on his career rather than childhood (although a "Chronology" contains a bare outline). Contains apparent transcripts of interviews with people close to him, like his daughter Lucy.338 pages including index and bibliography. . 1st… Read more about this item

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978. VF/F dj (price-clipped, light edgewear). 172-page study of this key American naturalist writer, forerunner of Dreiser, etal. Extensive bibliography and index.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. F (1 small dent top edge) in NF dj (slightly edgeworn top edge). Edited by Benjamin Cheever.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.