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London: James Nisbet, 1903.. All edges gilt. Pp.313/6(ads), frontispiece illustration by H.M.Brock. Dark green cloth, blind-stamped motif to front, gilt "art nouveau" decorated title to spine with "Kiek & Son" to base of spine. VG.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.. A lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on May 14, 1924. Pp.22, chipping to margins. Pbk rubbed with edge tears. G.

London: Joseph Masters, 1867.. Posthumously published edition. 3 volumes bound together(First series). Pp.84/88/91/vi, 42(ads), b/w frontispiece, owners ink stamp (W.Eyre) to front free endpaper, occasional spotting throughout. Blue blind-stamped decorated boards, gilt title to spine. G+. **Rev. Edward Monro (1815-66). Curate of Harrow-on-Weald and Vicar of St John's, Leeds; author of various religious publications.… Read more about this item

London: James Nisbet & Co Ltd, 1912.. Contents: The right use of sacred literature by persons of average intelligence and education.--Matthew Arnold.--Public eloquence.--Irving as Hamlet.--Socrates and his Boswell.--Politics at Bethlehem.--Spy Wednesday.--A Roman gentleman of Trajan's time [Pliny the Younger]--Practice and preaching.--A French gentleman of the sixteenth century [Montaigne]--The advantages of disestablishment.--Dutch courage.--"The Twelfth."--Principle and interest.--The red flag and the… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 36 Essex Street W.C., [no date - c. 1927 ] .. 8vo. pp.8/pp.240/pp.8 - Publisher's Adverts. A very good original leather binding. Bound in brown leather with Art Nouveau designs. The spine and 4 inset panels on the front show acorns and oak-leaves and an embossed monogram of A. A. Milnes initials on… Read more about this item

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1928.. Chosen and Introduced by E.B.Osborn(Literary Editor of the Morning Post). 14cms x 11cms. Pp.xl/70, gift message to front free endpaper, small notation to last page of introduction. Orange squared patterned paper covered boards with original paper label to front, slight rubbing to corners. VG.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1876.. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. Pp.16(ads to front)/40/695/31(ads),cracking to inner hinges. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to spine. G+.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1950.. 1st ed. Written at various times in the twenty years before her death, and published posthumously by her husband Leonard Woolf. Pp.224, owners nameto fep, toning to endpapers. Brown cloth, title to spine darkened, sunning to spine. G+.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.. 1st ed. "A ground-breaking study of Dutch court culture in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, this book also interweaves dynastic history, documentary evidence, art, architecture, and literature to produce a unique and persuasive analysis of the formative moments of that court." Pp.16/373, inscribed by the translator (Arnold Pomerans) to… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1901.. First Edition. A good tight binding: Lilac cloth, stamped in green, red and gilt, with yapp fore-edges, t.e.g. Boards rubbed and sunned. Neat ink insrciption to front free-endpaper, otherwise quite a nice copy of her first novel.

London: Sheed and Ward, 1973.. 1st ed. Ex-Priory library. "Today we no longer look, as men perhaps still did a century ago, only to theologians for help in forming our moral judgements. It is as much, or more, to the creative artist, the novelist or the poet, that we turn." The book examines a number of… Read more about this item

London: Fontana, 1987.. Rep. "Through a series of close readings Norris brings out the logic and development of Derrida's deconstructive strategies, their bearing on philosophy as practiced in the mainstream('logocentric') tradition, and their effectiveness in challenging stock assumptions about language, writing and experience." Pp.271. Pbk. VG.

Baton Rougr: Louisiana State University Press, 1967.. 1st ed. "The collection includes imaginative studies of Henry James, Mark Twain, Edmund Wilson and Karl Shapiro. Several Southern writers, including Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, and James Branch Cabell, also come under Rubin's scrutiny." Pp.10/302, faint tape marks to endpapers. Grey cloth, d/w spine… Read more about this item

London: Leicester University Press, 1996.. 2nd ed. "...provides a comprehensive view of the theory of fiction from the nineteenth century, through modernism and postmodernism, to the present. Expanded and revised, it has new selections from contemporary theorists, including Henry Louis Gates Jr., Petr Brooks, Linda Hutcheon, David Lodge, and Barbara Foley." Pp.509, clean text throughout. Pbk. A… Read more about this item

Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.. Rep. "...a comprehensive new introduction to feminist literary criticism and theory which assumes no previous knowledge of the field. Clear, informative and carefully structured, it provides a thorough guide to, and path through, one of the most important areas of contemporary literary studies." Pp.10/217. Pbk, some creasing to spine. G+.

New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972.. 1st ed. Twentieth Century Views series. Ex college library. Pp.6/185, library inkstamps to front endpapers and title page, scuffing to fep. Black cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1971.. 1st ed. Ex college library. "This critical study defines comedy as an amusing, relatively discontinuous action concerning success or failure in social relations..." Pp.12/231, ink stamps to front endpapers and title page, scuffing to fep. Green cloth, d/w edges rubbed and slight sunning to spine. … Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1967.. Rep. Ex college library. "The so-called 'literary epic' has played a large part in the spiritual history of Europe, and this book discusses it in some of its most splendid manifestations." Pp.8/248, library stamps, scuffing to fep. Dark red cloth, d/w has inked number to spine. G+/G+.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1970.. 3rd imp. Ex library."...a general study of the novel which attempts to relate the world of fiction to our sense of such basic notions as Time, Identity and Freedom." Pp.222, inkstamps, scuffing to fep. Purple cloth, d/w. G+/VG.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.. Ex college library. "Professor Elkin has gathered together the opinions of Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and their contemporaries, on the nature and function of satire; and he has examined this body of opinion with a view to increasing our understanding of satire generally and of certain of the classics of English satirical writing." … Read more about this item