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NY: Oxford, 2010. 3rd printing. Signed by the author on a Dartmouth College gift bookplate. (The author is a literature professor at Dartmouth, where Geisel graduated in 1925.) A concise biography of Dr. Seuss, tracing his evolution from early advertising and political art to his beloved books for children. xi, 178 pp., notes & index, b&w illustrations throughout. 8vo hardcover… Read more about this item

NY: Horizon Press, (1965.) 1st edition. A biography of the influential English novelist, poet, and editor. xx, 298 pp. 8vo hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Near Fine in VG jacket with light wear, some rubbing and browning. Binding sound and unworn.

Kentfield, CA.: Fels & Firn Press, 1982. 1st edition. One of 900 paperbound copies. Issued simultaneously in hardcover (100 copies.) Brief memories and reflections on Jack Kerouac by several authors. Compiled to honor the Kerouac Conference at Naropa Institute. Not a photo book, as the subtitle might suggest, although there are five b&w photos on the covers and within. 46,… Read more about this item

Bound carbon typescript of a master's thesis submitted at Boston College in 1956. A study of how the five principal human senses are expressed in the work of French author Simonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954.) Black clothbound hardcover with gilt lettering. 4to. 11 x 8.5 inches. Preliminary page signed by two officials at the college. 109 pp., typed recto side only, plus… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1891. 1st edition. A guide to the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889), Victorian poet and playwright who was the husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. xvi, 450 pp. 8vo hardcover in smooth green cloth. Gilt spine lettering and top page edge. VG with modest wear. Sound binding. Menorah bookplate of Heman Packard Deforest (1839-1914), a… Read more about this item

London: Tamesis Books Limited, (1986.) 1st edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Printed in Spain, but text is in English. A critical study of the life and work of Galician romantic poet and writer Rosalia de Castro (1837-85.) 139 pp. 8vo clothbound hardcover in dust jacket. Light bumping, some wear to the jacket, but VG/VG overall. Signed by the… Read more about this item

Edited and introduced by John Erskine. NY: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1922. 1st edition thus. Compiled from three earlier books. A collection of literary criticism by Hearn (1850-1904.) Includes discussions of Rossetti, Swinburne, Robert Browning, William Morris, George Meredith, Robert Buchanan, and Robert Bridges. ix, 432 pp., index. 12mo hardcover. Red cloth with paper spine label. VG with light wear… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Lefèvre, 1835. A one-volume edition of work by French actor and comic playwright Moliere [stage name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673.] Includes all of his best-known plays, including Le Misanthrope, L'École des Femmes, Tartuffe, Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and Le Sicilien. With notes by various commentators and biographical material on Molière's life. All text is in… Read more about this item

NY: Harper and Brothers, 1892. 1st edition. An appreciation of J.R. Lowell (1819-91), American Romantic poet, critic, editor and diplomat. 64 pp., illustrations. Frontispiece portrait of Lowell and 7 text plates. Small hardcover. 5.25 by 3.75 inches. White cloth with black lettering and decoration. VG with some soil and signs of age. A good solid copy overall. A title in… Read more about this item

Palma de Mallorca, MDCMLXI (1961.) Edicions La Cartoixa. English language translation. An account of the months Frederic Chopin and George Sand spent in Majorca during the winter of 1838-39. Prefaced by an extract from the memoirs of her granddaughter Aurore Sand. Illustrated by photos, portraits and drawings by the author, including a fold-out in the rear of the Carthusian monastery… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Hatsubai Riburopoto, 1991. 1st edition. Signed by the editor with TLS also enclosed. Near Fine in dust jacket. A nicely designed book on cyborgs, feminism and female identity. All text is in Japanese, apart from limited titles in English. Includes Donna Harraway's important essay, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." Also includes work… Read more about this item

Translated from German by Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger. NY: Grove Press, (1969.) 1st edition. A scholarly study that relates the origins of black writing, in the United States and elsewhere, to the African tradition. A comprehensive analysis of how the cultural past of the African continent is manifested in the black literature of the U.S., Latin America, the West… Read more about this item

NY: Macmillan, 1935. 1st American edition. A biographical memoir of George Moore (1852-1933), Irish novelist, poet and playwright. 55 pp. 12mo. VG in VG dust jacket with clear archival cover. All four inner corners clipped, but original US price of $1.25 intact.

London: Collins & Brown (1992). 1st edition. 8vo hardcover in dust jacket. Bumped at the head of the spine, but VG/VG otherwise. Appears to have never been read. Jacket protected by a clear archival cover.