Literature And Literary Criticism from Focloir

Russia ccgl Chadwick,H. Munro and Nora K. Chadwick. The Growth of Literature, Volume II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968, (1936), xvii, 783 pages, index. Good to very good condition in like dust jacket. Originally published in 1936. A very impressive piece of scholarship by two distinguished historians. Heavy volume. $42.50 Box 3 Summary: First published between… Read more about this item

Gaelic 310 (O Cadhain, Mairtin). Costigan, Bosco, An tSr. De Ghlaschloich an Oilean. Beatha agus Saothar Mhairtin Ui Chadhain. Beal an Daingin, Co. Galway: Clo Iar-Chonnachta, 1987, 365p, index, illus, bib of O Cadhain's writings. Paperback. In Irish. $27.50

England 10esa Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Eve of St. Agnes: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Allan Danzig. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1971, 120 pages, bib. Very good in very good dust jacket (dust jacket has small tear). Bought it new from the distributor many years ago. $8.50 Box 10

England 104 gtmm Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592/Thomas Lodge, 1558?-1625. Menaphon & A Margarite of America. Edited by G.B. Harrison. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927, xii pages 1 leaf, 234 pages incl. 2 facsimiles. Reproduced from the original editions in the British Museum. With facsimiles of original title-pages, 1589 and 1595. Blue paper over boards, spine is darkened. Overall, a good but not… Read more about this item

Scotland 104mls Millar, J. H. A literary history of Scotland. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903, xv, 703p, index. Two small spots on the spine have flaked off, maybe a half inch in length and quarter inch wide, top edge gilt, some shelf wear, book is in good tight shape, good to very good overall. … Read more about this item

Wales 010 Thomas, Dylan. Adventures in the Skin Trade and other Stories. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1955, viii, 275p. Good in dust jacket. $7.50 Box A 94

Wales 009 Thomas, Dylan. Quite early one morning. New York: New Directions, 1954, viii, 240p. Good in dust jacket. $7.50 Box 399

Ireland 55332j Ellmann, Richard. A long the riverrun. Selected Essays. New York: Knopf, 1989, 277 pages, index. Fine in fine dust jacket. First American edition. Much of Irish interest, including a previously unpublished essay on Joyce's only play. $10.00 Box 375

Ireland 19o62s (Shaw, George Bernard). Ohmann, Richard M. Shaw: the style and the man. Wesleyan University Press, 1962, xv, 200p, index. Spine a little dull, very good in dust jacket. $7.50 Box 710

Philology 001 Lommatzsch, Erhard. Kleinere Schriften zur romanischen Philologie. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1954, 248p, 7 plates. The endpapers have some offsetting, good to very good, clean, tight copy. $12.50 Box 710

Irish in America 88o55d O'Connor, Philip F. Defending civilization. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988, 305p. Very good in dust jacket. First edition. $8.50 Box 710 Should Lieutenant Thomas Hanlon blow the whistle on his base commander, Major Francis P. Shea? A novel about military bureaucracy and… Read more about this item

Americana 31R77g Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931. Giants in the earth. With an introduction by Vernon L. Parrington. (Series: Harper's modern classics). New York/London: Harper & Brothers, 1929, xxxiv, 468p, bib. Edition also includes a preface by Rolvaag and another introduction by Lincoln Colcord. Good solid clean copy. $6.50 Box A 91

Ireland 7377g de Blacam, Hugh. The flying cromlech. New York/London: The Century, 1930, 300 pages. First American printing. Wear to cover, with sun fading and some discoloration to spine, foxing to paper edges, good tight copy else. $10.00 Box A88

Americana 91P (Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849). The Naiad voice: essays on Poe's satiric hoaxer. Edited Dennis W. Eddings. Port Washington, N.Y.: National University Publications, Associated Faculty Press, 1983, xii, 175 pages, bib, list of contributors. Good, clean tight copy. $17.50 Box A88 Essays by sixteen professors who have written on Poe

Ireland 7377f O'Flaherty, Liam, 1896-1984. Famine. New York: Random House,1937, 466 pages. Stamp of collector on title page and endpaper. Good, clean, tight copy of the first American. $12.50

Ireland 7374a The complete novels. With an introduction by Keith Donohue. (Series: Everyman's Library; 309). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, xxxiii, 787 pages. Fine in fine dust jacket, which is in turn protected by a mylar dust jacket. $21.50 Contents: At swim-two-birds -- The third policeman -- The poor mouth -- The hard life --… Read more about this item

American Lit 1010 Powers, Jessica, (Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit), 1905-1988. Songs out of silence: 99 sayings. Edited by Robert F Morneau. Hyde Park, N.Y.: New City Press, 2010, 99p. New. $13.50 Bishop Morneau also has consulted some unpublished Powers letters.