EVERARD'S RIDE
Limited first trade edition of this collection by the fantasy giant, including an essay on Tolkien and several stories in addition to the titular novella, introduced by fellow fantasy legend Patricia C. Wrede.
Limited first trade edition of this collection by the fantasy giant, including an essay on Tolkien and several stories in addition to the titular novella, introduced by fellow fantasy legend Patricia C. Wrede.
Rare first printing of Kenner's most important work, a monumental study of modernist literature and an argument for Ezra Pound's centrality to it.
First edition of this collection of eighteen of Kitchen's critical essays on contemporary writers, with a foreword by Stephen Corey.
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 edition, first issue of the notorious bungled literary hoax, purporting to have discovered portions of PARADISE LOST plagiarized from earlier works by Hugo Grotius et al., which Lauder had found, but only after putting them there himself.
First edition of this critical study of Shakespearean readings by Coleridge, Keats, Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, and Ted Hughes, inscribed by Leinwand to contemporary poet Stanley Plumly.
First edition of Markson's major critical study of Lowry's novel, building on the work of his Ph.D. thesis.
First edition of Marx's classic critical study of the sentimental and utopian uses of the pastoral in American literature and culture.
First printing of this collection of essays by the lesbian postmodernist "known for her audacity" (front flap).
Mathews on Jane Austen, Georges Perec, Lewis Carroll, Richard Wagner, and many other subjects. With two pages of photographs, printed on perforated paper.
Signed limited edition of these critical essays on Jane Austen, Georges Perec, Lewis Carroll, Richard Wagner, and many other subjects.
First printing of this study of the Victorian reception of Romantic writers, with a warm note from the author to contemporary poet and Keats biographer Stanley Plumly.
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.
Warmly inscribed first edition of Newton's study, privately printed to benefit the "erection of a suitable monument to Thomas Hardy, either on Egdon Heath or elsewhere."
Second printing of this extensive and comprehensive biographical study, with a foreword by ERB's son Hulburt Burroughs and a floridly enthusiastic introduction by fellow legend and Burroughs fan Ray Bradbury.
First edition of this collection of short stories, poems, and critical essays from the first five years of ACCENT magazine, with work by Richard Wright, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Katherine Anne Porter, Marguerite Young, John Berryman, and many others.
Modern scholarly edition of Severn's letters and memoirs, published as part of Ashgate's Nineteenth Century Series.
THE MONTHLY REVIEW, volume 85, containing an anonymous review that argues the newly published FRANKENSTEIN is unworthy of meaningful notice.
First US edition of Susan Sontag's reflections on the harm caused by metaphoric thinking of illnesses such as cancer and tuberculosis.
Revised edition of the classic study of crime fiction, covering Sherlock Holmes and his predecessors and continuing through the works of 20th century writers like Sayers, Hammett, Chandler, Rendell, and many others.
First US edition of these collected short prose works, including "A Child's Christmas in Wales," enlarged from the UK edition with several stories and articles published in magazines as well as Thomas's radio broadcasts.
First edition in book form of Thomas's collected radio scripts, with both autobiographical scripts ("Memories of Christmas," "A Visit to America") and talks on literature and criticism ("Wilfred Owen," "Welsh Poets" et al.).
Signed limited first edition of Welty's reviews and critical essays on Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and others, together with a selection of personal and occasional nonfiction pieces.
First edition of one of White's greatest and most important books, including much of White's best essays like "Once More to the Lake."
Signed first edition of White's collected dispatches to THE NEW YORKER, affectionately inscribed to the Sarasota physician whose good advice White cordially ignored.