TESTIMONY AGAINST GERTRUDE STEIN (Transition Pamphlet No. 1)
First printing of this group protest against Gertrude Stein's characterization of the authors in her book AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS.
First printing of this group protest against Gertrude Stein's characterization of the authors in her book AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS.
Limited edition re-issue of this major bibliography of French novels first published in 1925-28, a formative reference work for book collectors and scholars on the subject.
Signed first printing of Corrigan's engaging re-examination of The Great Gatsby's greatness.
Original poster advertising Ellison's University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign lecture on the history and development of the novel.
Inscribed first edition, first issue, second printing (before publication) of this transcendentalist approach to the Great Man theory of history — an important copy, early among Emerson's inscriptions.
First edition of this essay on the Arthurian legend of Percival's quest for the Holy Grail, as interpreted by the Wagner opera.
Limited edition, signed by the illustrator, of Lamb's diverting and digressive essay on the Pig, for whom he has much appetitive affection but no pity whatever.
First printing of this collection of essays by the lesbian postmodernist "known for her audacity" (front flap).
First edition of the selected correspondence between to major midcentury literary figures, whose longstanding friendship became public over their "embittered 1965 debate" on Nabokov's translation of a Pushkin novel.
First edition, in which "Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop," with contributions from 84 different writers.
A copy of THE MONTHLY REVIEW, volume 85, containing an anonymous review that argues the newly published FRANKENSTEIN is unworthy of meaningful notice.