English literature-History, criticismThere are 29 items
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The Coverley papers from the "Spectator" : edited with introduction and notes, by O.M. Myers
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956(19 cm), xx, 168 pp. Publisher’s green cloth binding. ¶ Occasional pencil marginalia. -
The Elizabethan world picture (Vintage books, V-162)
New York, Random House, [undated; c. 1959](19 cm), ix, 116 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). - Originally published in 1943. ¶ Fine copy. -
The expedition of Humphrey Clinker
San Francisco, Rinehart Press, [undated; c. 1960]Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). - Reprint of edition first issued in 1958 (third printing 1959). ¶ Bookstore ink price stamp on half-title, lower wrapper lightly stained. -
The growth of the English novel (University paperbacks, UP-35)
London & New York, Methuen / Barnes & Noble, 1961(21 cm), 179 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). ¶ Good, unmarked copy. -
Clarissa or The History of a Young Lady… Abridged and edited with an introduction by George Sherburn (Riverside editions, 69)
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, [1962](22 cm), xxi, 516 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). - Reprint of 1962 edition. ¶ Upper cover slightly stained; a good, unmarked copy. -
The politics of drama in Augustan England
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963(23 cm), 173 pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Dust jacket torn without loss; price clipped; otherwise an excellent, unmarked copy. -
Four before Richardson : selected English novels, 1720-1727
Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1963(21 cm), xxxv (1), 373 (3) pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket (torn without loss). - The novels are by Arthur Blackamore (Luck at last: or, the happy unfortunate), [William Pittis] (The Jamaica lady: or, the life of Bavia), Eliza Haywood (Philidore and Placentia: or, L’amour trop délicat), and Mary Davys (The accomplished rake: or, Modern fine gentleman). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Complete poetical works of James Thomson
London & New York, Oxford University Press, [1963?](19 cm), xxiii, 516 pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Reprint c. 1963 of the Oxford 1908 / 1951 edition. ¶ Good, unmarked copy -
Boswell's London journal, 1762-1763
New York, McGraw-Hill, [undated; c. 1963](20 cm), xxxiii (1), 370 pp., illustrations (maps of London). Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). - First published by McGraw-Hill in 1950. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
From sensibility to romanticism; essays presented to Frederick A. Pottle, edited by Frederick W. Hilles and Harold Bloom
New York, Oxford University Press, 1965(24 cm), vi (2), 585 (1) pp., frontispiece, plates. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. Twenty-six contributions and a “Selected bibliography of Frederick A. Pottle”, Professor of English at Yale, and Boswell specialist. ¶ Small defects to dust jacket; a good, unmarked copy. -
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy: gentlemen
Indianapolis, Odyssey press / Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing), [undated; c. 1965](18 cm), lxxv, 647 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). - “Thirteenth printing” (first published 1940). ¶ Lower wrapper lightly creased; occasional pencil annotation. -
A casebook on Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms (Crowell literary casebooks)
New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1965(22 cm), xiii, 319 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). - Reprint of 1961 edition. ¶ Wrapper rubbed; otherwise a good, unmarked copy. -
The author's farce (Regents restoration drama series)
Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1966(21 cm), xx, 151 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). - With introduction (”Fielding as playwright”) and valuable appendices. ¶ Rust-stain from paperclip; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. -
Restoration drama : modern essays in criticism (A Galaxy book, GB158)
New York, Oxford University Press, 1966(21 cm), xi, 371 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Lytton Strachey; a critical biography. Volume 1: The Unknown Years 1880-1910 § Volume 2: The Years of Achievement 1910-1932.
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967Two volumes, (25 cm), xii, 475 pp.; xii, 754 pp., illustrations (some in colour). Uniform publisher’s cloth; dust jackets; original slipcase. - First edition. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy. -
Poetical works [of] Swift; edited by Herbert Davis
London & New York, Oxford University Press, 1967(22.5 cm), xxx, 682 pp., frontispiece. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - The poems are presented in chronological order of composition. The editor uses the text established by Harold Williams (Clarendon Press, 1937; second edition, 1958), incorporating Swift’s final corrections, made for the collected edition of 1735. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy. -
The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Fourth edition revised by Dorothy Eagle
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1967(25 cm), x, 961 (2) pp. Publisher’s cloth. ¶ Ownership inscription in ink on endpaper; marks of use. -
An apology for the life of Colley Cibber, with an historical view of the stage during his own time. Written by himself. Edited, with an introduction, by B.R.S. Fone
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1968(22 cm), xxxii, 372 pp., illustration. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy. -
The sister arts; the tradition of literary pictorialism and English poetry from Dryden to Gray
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1968(24 cm), xxii, 336 pp., 32 plates. Publisher’s blue pictorial cloth. - Third impression (original edition 1958). ¶ Tiny spot on spine; otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. -
The early masters of English fiction
Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 1968(21 cm), 233 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). - Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Thomas Smollett, Laurence Sterne. Reprint of 1956 edition. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy.
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