THE CASE AGAINST THE SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE
First edition of these collected responses to the award of the 1948 Bollingen Prize to Ezra Pound's PISAN CANTOS, the several objections, and the objections to the objections.
First edition of these collected responses to the award of the 1948 Bollingen Prize to Ezra Pound's PISAN CANTOS, the several objections, and the objections to the objections.
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 these previously uncollected critical writings, letters, and fragments, including Beckett's famous essay on FINNEGAN'S WAKE and a brutal assessment of Edouard Mörike that the latter was fortunately too long dead to be wounded by.
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.).
First edition of this uncommon anthology classifying and interpreting the 20th century short story, with commentary by authors and editors including Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, William Saroyan, Kay Boyle — in the scarce dust jacket.
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 printing of Didion's iconic collection of essays of 1960s and 70s California culture.
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.
Scarce first edition of volume 6a in the Abinger Edition of E.M. Forster, recording alterations within the extant manuscripts of A PASSAGE TO INDIA and divergences from the final published version.
This volume includes the induction of new members Arthur Miller, James Dickey, W.S. Merwin, Eudora Welty, and Walker Percy, with commemorative tributes to Padraic Colum, Marianne Moore, John Berryman, and others.
This volume includes the induction of Katherine Anne Porter into the Academy, as well as commemorative tributes to Edward. Hopper by Andrew Wyeth, Carson McCullers by Truman Capote, and Dorothy Parker by Lillian Hellman.
Complete run of this multidisciplinary surrealist journal, a short-lived little magazine and luxurious treasure-house of a disintegrating avant-garde.
First edition of Gittings's commentary on the five odes of Keats published in 1820, with facsimile reproductions and transcriptions of the earliest known manuscripts.
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 US edition of Susan Sontag's reflections on the harm caused by metaphoric thinking of illnesses such as cancer and tuberculosis.
Limited reissue of this effort to unpuzzle Joyce's famously inscrutable masterpiece.
First edition of Marx's classic critical study of the sentimental and utopian uses of the pastoral in American literature and culture.
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.
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."
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.
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.
First printing of Wyatt's studies in the American literature of the last century, warmly inscribed to poet Stanley Plumly.
Inscribed first printing of Heffernan's study of landscape in the arts of four English Romantic painters and poets, recipient of the Brown University Press First Book Prize Award.
Signed first printing of these collected columns on selected poems, by the former U.S. poet laureate and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Signed first edition of White's collected dispatches to THE NEW YORKER, affectionately inscribed to the Sarasota physician whose good advice White cordially ignored.