The Study Of Literature from Duck Cottage Books

London: H. Pordes, 1967. Hardback. No Jacket. 213 8vo. Ex-library, with stamps and label remnants to end papers and title page. The first page after the front free end paper is the title page, then Thomson's one-page preface and acknowedgements, then index and corrigenda, then (pp 9-72) the bibliography. Book plate of RW. Lamb in addition… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1951. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 72 8vo. Illustrated with photographs of authors. Condition notes: The text block needs re-glueing to the cover. The covers are a little worn, and there is foxing to the inside back cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 288 . Illustrated with photographs and sketches. Christina Hardyment goes in search of the real people, places and boats on which the stories are based. Condition notes: A little bumped externally, pages tending to age-darkening but clean and unmarked.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 3250 4to. By Thomas Seccombe and W. Robertson Nicoll. "With full page illustrations in Rembrandt photogravure". Bound as two volumes, blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine. Condition notes: Boards grubby and rubbed, internally very good- clean and sound.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1966. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 828 8vo. With a statement that only 25 copies were printed for England and America, but with no number for this copy. An excellent quality reprinting of the 1892 edition. Condition notes: Sound and clean; the good-quality paper is still in excellent condition. Boards just slightly bumped.… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 762 . A clean reading copy. Condition notes: Rather battered externally; internally clean and sound.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1987. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 470 8vo. An Anthology, with a preface by Margaret Drabble. Transparent protective wrapper. Condition notes: A little shelf wear, else very good indeed.

London: Fourth Estate, 2003. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 510 8vo. Protective transparent wrapper. Condition notes: Clean and attractive, near new condition.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 662 8vo. Ingebretsen examines, via case studies, the use of the term 'monster' in journalistic coverage of horrific events, as well as the portrayal of 'monsters' in popular fiction, and thus tries to shed light on the implications of such language. Condition notes: Clean, attractive hardback copy, in… Read more about this item

London: Vintage, 1988. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 312 8vo. Includes letters to Saul Bellow, John Updike and Philip Roth. Condition notes: In protective transparent jacket. Age-darkening to pages, but well cared-for.

New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1965. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 762 4to. Includes examples from Italy, France, Germany, Russia, England and America. Transparent protective wrapper. Condition notes: Dust jacket a little crumpled and marked (now protected). Book itself clean and sound.

Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press, 1978. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 334 8vo. Protective transparent wrapper. Condition notes: In near-new condition, but a little shelf wear, and external page edges slightly dust-darkened.