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16251. Adams, Hazard, 1926-. Antithetical essays in literary criticism and liberal education. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1990, xi, 292pp., 24 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, $7
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27490. Asselineau, Roger, ed. The literary reputation of Hemingway in Europe. With an introduction by Heinrich Straumann. NY: New York University Press, 1965, 210 p. 22 cm., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, light scuffing on cover and spine, previous owner's stamp, $12
Cover design by Carl Smith. The Gotham LibraryHemingway reception in England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Soviet Union, Spain. Contributors: Heinrich Straumann, D. S. R. Welland, Roger Asselineau, Helmut Papajewski, Mario Praz, Sigmund Skard, Lars Ahnebrink, Stephen Jan Parker, Arturo Barea.


25835. Atkins, John, 1916-. The art of Ernest Hemingway ; his work and personality. London: Spring Books, 1965, second printing, xx, 258pp., good tan cloth with superficial stain at top of spine and cover, text clean, previous owner's name: Genia Lufschutz, New York, 1960, $6
With a substantial introduction to the new edition of 1964, covering events since the first appearance of the book in 1952.


7101. Bab, Julius, 1880-1955. Amerikas Dichter. Berlin: Christian-Verlag, 1949, 1. Auflage, 111pp., very good orange half-cloth, white boards, INSCRIBED by Julius Bab in German to Herrn Braunsdorf with thanks for his help, dated "in Berliner Julitagen 1951". $75
Chapters on the American classics: Franklin, Paine, Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Poe, Whittier, Emerson, Longfellow, Beecher Stow, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Twaiin, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Carl Sandburg.


16300. Baird, James. The dome and the rock. Structure in the poetry of Wallace Stevens. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1968], xxxi, 334pp. 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, $7.5
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25931. Bishop, John Peale, 1892-1944. The collected essays of John Peale Bishop. Edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson. New York : Scribner, 1948, stated First Edition (A), xviii, 508pp., very good black cloth, cover titles a bit faded, slight wear around edges, $24
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25930. Blackmur, R. P., 1904-1965. Henry Adams. Edited with an introduction by Veronica Makowsky, foreword by Denis Donoghue. NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980, stated First Edition, xxvii, 354pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, $15
A collection of Blackmur's published and unpublished essays on the historian Henry Adams.


4683. Bredahl jr., A. Carl. New Ground: Western American Narrative and the Literary Canon. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 1989, 195pp., very good dust-jacket, very good brown cloth, fresh copy, $7.5
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16310. Bridgman, Richard. Gertrude Stein in pieces. New York, Oxford University Press, 1970, xvi, 411pp. 24 cm, dust-jacket with minor wear, very good brown cloth, slight wear, $7.5
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16567. Brodin, Pierre. Les écrivains américains de l'Entre-deux guerres. Paris: Horizons de France, 1946, 284pp., good sewn paper wraps, worn and frayed around edges, $12
Lectures presented at the Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes de New-York in 1944-45, and first published in 1945 in Canada.


16319. Butts, William, ed. Conversations with Richard Wilbur. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990, xx, 266pp., 24 cm, very good sewn paper wraps, $7.5
Literary conversations series.


4593. Campbell, James. Talking at the Gates. A Life of James Baldwin. NY: Viking, 1991, 1st American Edition, 306pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray half-cloth, $7.5
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16248. Cottom, Daniel. Ravishing tradition : cultural forces and literary history. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996, xi, 220pp., 24 cm, very good sewn paper wraps, $13
Borges, Shakespeare, Phillis Wheatley, Dickens, Woolf, John Ashbery, etc.


25338. Culley, Margo, ed. American women’s autobiography : fea(s)ts of memory. Edited, with an introduction, by Margo Culley. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1992, xiii, 329pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $8.5
What a piece of work is "Woman"! An introduction / Margo Culley -- "Come and Hear"! women’s Puritan evidences / Kathleen M. Swaim -- Self and God in the early published memoirs of New England women / Ann Taves -- Resisting the gaze of embodiment: women’s autobiography in the nineteenth century / Sidonie Smith -- The political is the personal: two autobiographies of woman suffragists / Ann D. Gordon -- Utopia and anti-utopia in twentieth-century women’s frontier autobiographies / Lynn Z. Bloom -- Gertrude Stein and the lesbian lie / Catharine R. Stimpson -- Orphanhood and "photo"- portraiture in Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic girlhood/ Janis Greve -- Dorothy Day and women’s spiritual autobiography / Mary G. Mason -- Choosing sides, choosing lives: women’s autobiographies of the Civil Rights Movement / Arlyn Diamond -- No laughing matter: the WASPS climb down / Nancy Walker -- The tradition of Chinese American women’s life stories: themematics of race and gender in Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese daughter and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman warrior / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim. Indian women’s personal narratives: voices past and present / Kathleen Mullen Sands -- Listening to the secret mother: reading John Edgar Wideman’s Brother and keepers / C. Margot Hennessy.


25337. Cunningham, Mary E., ed. James Fenimore Cooper, a re-appraisal. Cooperstown, N. Y.: New York State Historical Association, 1954, iv, 194pp., good light blue stapled paperback, but with some wear to front cover, $13
12 essays by leading historians of American literature, from a 1951 symposium. Contributors include: Howard Mumford Jones, Lyman H. Butterfield, David Maldwyn Ellis, Paul A. W. Wallace, Arthr C. Parker, Warren S. Walker, Walter Muir Whitehill, James F. Beard, jr., William Charvat, James Grossman, Willard Thorp, Robert E. Spiller.


16268. Fitzgerald, Robert, 1910-. Enlarging the change : the Princeton seminars in literary criticism, 1949-1951. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985, viii, 249pp., 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good black half-cloth, $15
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16311. Guimond, James. The art of William Carlos Williams. A discovery and possession of America. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1968, vii, 257pp. 24 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, $5
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17989. James, Henry, 1843-1916. Literary criticism. Essays on literature. American writers. English writers. New York, N.Y.: Literary Classics of the United States: Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, 1984, stated first printing, 1484pp., very good dust-jacket, very good brown cloth, nicely produced volume in series admired for both appearance and editing, $17
The Library of America. 22. Essays on literature. American writers. English writers. Contains a substantial amount of material not previously collected.


25234. James, Henry, 1843-1916. Hawthorne. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Great Seal Books, 1956, xi, 145pp., small sewn PAPERBACK, good copy but with coffee stain on cover and ink notes on front endpaper, text clean, $9
First published in 1879. With 5pp preface by William Sale jr.


16392. Jarrell, Mary von Schrader. Remembering Randall : a memoir of poet, critic, and teacher Randall Jarrell. New York: HarperCollins, 1999, stated First Edition, 173pp. : ill. . 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good blue half-cloth, $15
Ideas and poems -- Libraries -- Washington -- Faust: part I -- Peter and randall -- The lyric ear -- The Children's quartet -- The lost world -- Let us form, as Freud has said, "A group of two".


19773. Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-. Jeffersonianism and the American novel. New York, Teachers College Press, 1966, xii, 77pp. 24 cm, very good orange cloth, slight wear, $12
Studies in culture & communication.


27497. Kazin, Alfred, 1915-. The stature of Theodore Dreiser; a critical survey of the man and his work. Edited by Alfred Kazin and Charles Shapiro; with an introduction by Alfred Kazin. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1955, 303 p. 24 cm., dust-jacket chipped and torn around edges, very good gray cloth, previous owner's name: Alex Kern (contributor of an essay to the book), $15
Collection of reprinted essays on Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945). Contributors include Ford Madox Ford, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Saul Bellow, Alexander Kern (Dreiser's Difficult Beauty, pp. 161-168, originally 1952), F. O. Matthiessen, David Brion Davis, Eliseo Vivas, others.


16301. Kessler, Edward, 1927-. Images of Wallace Stevens. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1972, 267pp. 22 cm, fair dust-jacket, torn at top of spine at title label, very good dark red cloth, INSCRIBED by Ed to Claire, 1972. $15
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20361. Laskin, David, 1953-. Partisans: marriage, politics, and betrayal among the New York intellectuals. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000, 319pp.: ill. 25 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good green half-cloth, $10
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3424. Levin, Harry, 1912-. Refractions: Essays in comparative literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966, xi, 359pp. 22 cm., dust-jacket worn around edges with a few minor tears, very good blue cloth, $12
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16290. MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. A continuing journey. Essays and Addresses. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1968, stated First Printing, x, 374pp. 22 cm, dust-jacket with minor wear, very good blue cloth, $7.5
Yeats and the Belief in Life, National Purpose, Oxford Mississippi, The SEcond Civil War, Faulkner at Stockhol, Isolation of the American Artist, An Hellenic Center in Washington, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, Elmer Davis, Robert Frost and John F. Kennedy, Mark Van Doren, Jorge Guillen, Jane Addams in Chicago, many others.


17933. Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto), 1902-1950. Henry James, the major phase. London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1944, xvi, 190pp. port. 21 cm, very good blue cloth, previous owner's inscription and bookplate: Edith Winslow O'Neill, $15
Henry James, 1843-1916.


27916. Mellow, James R.. Charmed circle: Gertrude Stein & company. Volume One of the Lost Generation Trilogy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991, later printing, 528pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $5
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18158. Miller, Ruth, 1921-. Saul Bellow: a biography of the imagination. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, stated First Edition, xxiii, 385pp. : port. . 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good brown half-cloth, $7
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16247. Monroe, William, 1952-. Power to hurt : the virtues of alienation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998, xi, 243pp., 24 cm, large PAPERBACK, very good, $5
Strategies, performances, virtues -- A performance paradigm -- Reading, empathy, alienation -- Virtue criticism as cultural criticism -- Necessary troublemakers -- "Heaven's graces" : gnostic strategies -- "Sweetest things" : aesthetic strategies -- "Nature's riches" : parabolic strategies -- Reluctant performers -- "Others but stewards" : T.S. Eliot's gnostic impulse -- "Lords and owners" : Vladimir Nabokov's sequestered imagination -- "The basest weed" : Donald Barthelme's parabolic fairy tale.


16312. Morris, Daniel, 1962-. The writings of William Carlos Williams : publicity for the self. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995, vii, 218pp., 25 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, review slip laid in, $7.5
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20844. Morris, Wright, 1910-. Earthly delights, unearthly adornments : American writers as image-makers. New York : Harper & Row, 1978, stated First Edition, 193pp., 25 cm, dust-jacket with minor wear, very good black cloth, but ex-library copy with stamps, spine label, jacket taped to book, pocket, $10
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9119. Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main currents in American thought. An interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920. New York: Harcourt, Brace and company, 1946, later printing, around, 3pp. l., xvii, 413pp. , 1 l., xxii, 493pp. , 1 l., v-xxxix, 429pp. 22 cm., 1 volume containing the three volume work, very good blue cloth, spine titles faded, $12
--The colonial mind, 1620-1800.--The romantic revolution in America, 1800-1860.--The beginnings of critical realism in America, 1860-1920. Originally issued in 3 volumes. Completed to 1900 only.


16299. Schaum, Melita, 1957-. Wallace Stevens and the critical schools. Foreword by John N. Serio. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988, xviii, 200pp., 23 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good white cloth, fresh copy, $7.5
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26661. Stern, Milton R.. The fine hammered steel of Herman Melville. With a checklist of Melville studies. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1957, 297 p. illus. 26 cm., dust-jacket worn and chipped, some foxing, very good gray cloth, slight wear, $12
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16302. Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. Parts of a world: Wallace Stevens remembered: an oral biography. New York: Random House, 1983, stated First Edition, xv, 330pp. , [16]pp. of plates : ill. . 25 cm, very good large red half-cloth, neat pencil erasures on a few pages, previous owner's name, $7.5
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16315. Stock, Noel. The life of Ezra Pound. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970, stated First American Edition, xvii, 472pp., good dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, very good black cloth, $12
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16434. Stone, Geoffrey. Melville. NY: Sheed & Ward, 1949, 336pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, $12
A volume in the series: Great Writers of the World.


16245. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Dos Passos : artist as American. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980, 2d printing, xxiv, 220pp., 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, $12
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19585. Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972. Eight essays. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1954, stated First Edition, 238pp. 19 cm, small PAPERBACK, very good but with fold mark across front cover, previous owner's name, $5
Doubleday anchor books, A37.


16239. Wilson, Frances, 1964-. Literary seductions : compulsive writers and diverted readers. NY: St. Martin's, 2000, xxxiv, 258 p. ; 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good black boards, slight wear, $7.5
Miller, Henry, 1891 / Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 / Mandel'shtam, Osip, 1891-1938 / Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 and their relations with women.


19587. Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972. A literary chronicle: 1920-1950. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, no date, around 1956, 442pp. 18 cm, small PAPERBACK, very good, slight wear, previous owner's name, $5
cover and typography by Edward Gorey. Doubleday anchor books, A85.


16264. Wyatt, David, 1948-. Prodigal sons : a study in authorship and authority. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980, xix, 172pp., 24 cm, very good dust-jacket with a few minor chips, good black cloth, but with pencil notes on rear endpaper, pencil underlining on about 8 pages, ink underlining on a couple of pages, slight coffee stain on foredge, previous owner's name, $7
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