Literary Portraits Being Biographical and Critical Studies of Contemporary and Classical Authors Vol II (Vol II Only)
New York: John B. Alden, 1889. First edition. Vol II only, brown cloth boards, no DJ., 444pp.
Literary Criticism & Theory
The Fiction of Samuel Beckett, Form and Effect; Perspectives in Criticism 22
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1973. Hardcover in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket, a bit of discoloration to the dust jacket, dust jacket also with light rubbing or wear to the tips and edges.
Weltliteratur: Madrid, Paris, Berlim, S. Petersburgo. o Mundo!
Lisbon: fundacao calouste gulbenkian, 2008. Paperback. 2008, Softcover. Exhibition catalog in Portuguese. Illustrated throughout. Many articles on Pessoa. Very Good. 312 pp.
The Moral Picturesque: Studies in Hawthorne's Fiction
West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1988. Red cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 324 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, a bit of edgewear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
Twenty-First Century American Novelists (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume Two Hundred Ninety-Two); DLB, Vol. 292
Detroit: Gale, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. Blue and gilt stamped blue cloth boards, quarto, 425pp., illustrated in b&w. Book feels unread. No DJ. Although no ownership marks present, this volume comes from the personal library of Matthew J. Bruccoli, who serves as Editorial Director for this series...
The Changing Face of Arthurian Romance: Essays on Arthurian Prose Romances in Memory of Cedric E. Pickford
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer/Boydell & Brewer, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1986, hardcover with brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 168pp., frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book near fine with hint of sun to edges of boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. DJ VG+.....
Twentieth-Century Swedish Writers After World War II (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume Two Hundred Fifty-Seven); DLB, Vol. 257
Detroit: Gale, 2002. First printing. Hardcover. Blue and gilt stamped blue cloth boards, quarto, 380pp., illustrated in b&w. Book feels unread. No DJ. Although unmarked, this volume comes from the personal collection of Matthew J. Bruccoli, who serves as Editorial Director for this series.
Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Uncommon book.
Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. First printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 264pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ shows mild wear to spine foot.
Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer
Athens, OH: Ohio Univ. Pr. 1977. Second printing. Hardcover. 1977. Second printing. Hardcover, 192 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's signature to front pastedown endpaper and front flyleaf. Soiling to front cover. Light rubbing to DJ. Contents clean and unmarked.
Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel
Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1983, hardcover with brown cloth boards, octavo, 368pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Where Flaubert Lies: Chronology, Mythology and History
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Reprint. Paperback. Reprint, 2006, paperback, octavo, 393pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild wear to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Noten zur Literatur I
Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1978. Hardcover. Later printing, small 8vo, hardback in dust jacket, near fine, minor ageing to jacket. 196 pp.
Novelas y Novelistas: Galdos, Baroja, Valle-Inclan, Ricardo Leon, Unamuno, Perez de Ayala, Condesa de Pardo Bazan
Madrid: Casa Editorial Calleja, 1918. Hardcover. 8vo, flame Spanish calf, 330 pp plus index, probably published 1918, possibly later. Near fine handsome copy. Text in Spanish.
Piers Plowman and Christian Allegory
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition, 1975, hardcover, octavo, 141pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front pastedown, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with rubbing, mild edgewear...
Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century: Visible City, Invisible World
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. First printing. Hardcover. octavo, black cloth boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good + condition with jacket showing edgewear and rubbing, book has light overall wear, 266pp.
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
New York: George Braziller, 1962. Hardcover. 1962, Edition not stated. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Very Good condition, with light edge wear. The neatly price clipped Dust Jacket is in Good+ condition, with light edge wear, and light handling soil. The jacket has been freshly enclosed in an archival gloss.....
The Meaning of Experience in the Prose of Jorge Luis Borges [American University Press Series II: Romance Languages and Literature, Vol. 71]
New York: Peter Lang, 1988. Hardcover. Glossy printed paper covered boards, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild toning and rubbing to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1983. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 254 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket, some age-toning to the page-edges, dust jacket with some soiling and light edgewear. Dust jacket housed in archival dust.....
Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. First printing. Green cloth boards in dust jacket, 250pp.
Nuevas fronteras de la narrativa uruguaya (1960-1993)
Uruguay: Ediciones Trilce, 1993. Paperback. Inscribed by the author on half-title. 1993. Paperback. 151 pp. Text in Spanish. Near fine. Very light edgewear. Faint scratch to text-block. Contents clean, bright and unmarked.
Conventional And Original Metaphors In French Autobiography (Currents In Comparative Romance Languages And Literatures)
New York: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2009. Hardcover. 2009 Hardcover in Fine, unread, condition. A clean, tight and sharp copy. No jacket present.
On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. First printing. Paperback, 291pp.
The Dean's Friend, Anthony Raymond, 1675-1726, Jonathan Swift and The Irish Language
Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 1999. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 175pp. illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Kafka: The Torment of Man
New York: Philosophical Library, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo, black cloth stamped in gilt on spine, no dust jacket. Book has minor edgewear and light foxing on the bottom edge of the text block. Contents are clean and unmarked and the binding is tight.