WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL

Octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 494pp, folding map to pg 348, VG- (heavy chipping to spine extrems with some sl loss, light bruising & scuffing to board corners, moderate discolouration to spine, moderate chafing to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, various sm ink markings to prelims, heavy cracking to some gutters, moderate foxing to frontis & title page, light tanning, foxing & staining to fold out map- no tears)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1890

KEYWORDS: darwinism theory evolution criticism literary Charles Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace philosophy

SHERMAN, ANITA GILMAN

Octavo, beige heavy boards, red lettering to spine, xvi + 240pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling to boards, v occasional marking in ink to margins)

PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2007

KEYWORDS: literature Shakespeare literary criticism Donne history

ELIOT, T. S. & ELIOT, VALERIE (Ed)

Lg quarto, yellow glossy light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, xxx + 149pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & fading to spine, moderate creasing & curling to cover edges with fading, heavy vertical crease to full length of front cover)

PUBLISHER: Harvest/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers 1974

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism poems poetry verse T S Eliot annotations Ezra Pound

HUDSON, NICHOLAS

Super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 222pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Europe European history historical

HAMPTON, TIMOTHY

Super octavo, mauve glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 309pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers & edges, light chafing, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history renaissance writing intellectual culture

KING, JOHN N.

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 539pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1982

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism reformation history

HUNT, MAURICE

Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 148pp, Near FINE (light bruising to boards) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history drama religion religious Christianity Shakespeare

ECO, UMBERTO & BREDIN, HUGH (Trans)

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 287pp, Near FINE (sl curling to cover edges, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: Thomas Aquinas literature literary criticism religion religious medieval philosophy

HOWARD-HILL, T. H.

Super octavo, black buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 341pp, illus, VG+ (sl scuffing & bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Associated University Presses 1995

KEYWORDS: literature historiography politics government chess allegory political plays criticism literary

GLESS, DARRYL J.

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 273pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature literary doctrine Christianity Edmund Spenser poetry history criticism

JONES, EMRYS

TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 269pp, VG (minimal library marks, light bruising to extrems, moderate water damage to lower spine extrem with paper residue adhered to spine, light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate water damage/staining to lower spine extrem, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Shakespeare structure plays stage drama theatre theater

BARKAN, LEONARD

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & grey lettering to spine, xvi + 398pp, VG (light creasing & curling to cover edges with some moderate fading, moderate creasing & fading to spine, light soiling to page edges, moderate crack to gutter of pgs 246/247, occasional markings to margins in pencil)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1986

KEYWORDS: art history literary criticism literature classical classics Ovid metamorphosis philosophy

WARD, THEODORA

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to spine, illus full title page, x + 205pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading to board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy creasing to edges of pgs 17-34) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges with some minor closed tearing & discreet archival tape repairs, moderate chafing & soiling, light tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press Harvard University Press 1961

KEYWORDS: first edition Emily Dickinson literary literature biographies memoirs poems poetry criticism

BARCLAY, JANET M.

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xiii + 162pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling & creasing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Meckler Publishing 1984

KEYWORDS: Emily Bronte literary criticism literature bibliography bibliographies

GRAVES, ROBERT

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1962

KEYWORDS: robert graves oxford addresses on poetry poetics literary criticism

SMITH, BRUCE R.

Quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Folger Shakespeare Library 1994

KEYWORDS: william shakespeare shakespearean criticism elizabthan literaure literary drama history theatre

HERFORD, C. H. & SIMPSON, PERCY and EVELYN (Eds)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, xii + 710pp, VG (light scuffing to extrems & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ligth chipping & folding to some page edges & corners, some pages remain uncut, occasional moderate cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with some loss to edges, moderate chafing/scuffing, light soiling to spine)

PUBLISHER: Oxford Univesity Press 1950

KEYWORDS: Ben Johnson literature literary criticism plays masques

SHELL, ALISON

Octavo, black heavy boatds, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 309pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, moderate amount of discreet tidy annotations to margins in pencil throughout) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: religion English literature literary criticism catholic church catholicism

DUNCAN, DOUGLAS

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 252pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, occasional markings & annotations in pencil to margins) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, moderate tanning to flaps, prev. bookseller's price label to front flap)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1979

KEYWORDS: Ben Johnson literature literary criticism Lucianus Samosatensis satire influence history

NADEAU, MAURICE

Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co/Evergreen Edition 1969

KEYWORDS: French literature novels literary criticism history post-war