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$12.50Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1984. First edition. 53 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Two essays.$20.00Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 1984. First edition. 234 pp w/index. One corner bumped, else fine in fine dust jacket.$20.00Athens & London: University of Georgia Press (1991). First edition. 344 pp w/index. Boards slightly bowed, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Ames. Chapters on Joyce, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Waugh & Green, Pynchon, and Coover.$25.00Seattle & London: University of Washington (1990). First edition. 233 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Review slip and promotional flyer laid in.$15.00NY: Stein & Day (1968). First US edition. ix + 150 pp. Bookplate inside front cover, else very good plus in like dust jacket with overall edgewear and soiling.$15.00Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988. First edition. Fine.$25.00Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press (1967). First edition. 400 pp. Top edge dusty, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Divided into two sections--'The Social Record' and 'The Literary Record'--this collection of essays and literary reviews attempts to give a full account of the years from the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor. Edited by Henry Dan Piper.$32.50NY: Oxford University Press, 1986. First edition. xi + 322 pp. Fine fine dust jacket.$55.00Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1986). First edition. 137 pp w/index. Very near fine in stamped full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Wlad Godzich. Theory and History of Literature, Volume 33.$25.00Boston: Little,Brown, 1981. First edition. Fine in vg dust jacket, with tiny chip bottom of front panel.$10.00Chicago: Modern Poetry Association (c 1951). Revised edition, fourth printing. 53 pp w/bibliography. Very good plus in stapled wrappers.$35.00Tunbridge Wells: Foundling Press (nd). First edition. 90 pp. Fine in wrappers and integral marbled-paper dust jacket with printed cover label. One of 300 numbered copies. Introduction by Eric Griffiths. Collects all the book, film, and theatre reviews contributed by Empson to Granta 1927-1929.
$35.00London & NY: Quartet (1988). First edition. 246 pp w/notes & index. Pages toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in like dust jacket. A history and anthology.$25.00NY: Ungar (1985). First edition. 228 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear.$20.00London: Marion Boyars (1978). First edition. 205 pp w/index. Two tiny tears to first leaf, top edge dusty; in all, very good plus in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.$15.00Portsmouth: Heinemann (1998). First edition. 231 pp. Wrinkle to first leaf, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.$25.00NY: St. Martin’s (1986). First US edition. 288 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a bit of fading to spine.$25.00Boston: Faber and Faber (1994). First US edition. viii + 344 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$24.00New Brunswick: Rutger University Press, 1964. First edition. Near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket.$20.00Athens & London: University of Georgia (1991). First edition. 114 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in.$15.00Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press, 1976. First edition. 260 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$50.00NY: Oxford University Press, 1987. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket; spine sun-darkened.$25.00NY: Carrol & Graf (1990). First US edition. 214 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket (lightly rubbed). Interviews with Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Alice Thomas Ellis, Eva Figes, Nadine Gordimer, P.D. James, Iris Murdoch, Michele Roberts, Emma Tennant, and Fay Weldon. Promotional flyer laid in.$22.50Athens & London: University of Georgia Press (1986). First edition. 176 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in.$20.00NY: Rand McNally & Co. (1979). First edition. 239 pp w/index. Illustrated. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Mencken, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Hemingway, Cather, Wharton, O'Connor, Jeffers and many others.$25.00NY: Dial, 1970. First edition. 378 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$25.00Venezia & Padova: Marsilio Editori (1974). First eidtion. 164 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Chapters on Faulkner, Wolfe, McCullers, Capote, Agee, Styron, and Harper Lee.$20.00NY: Simon & Schuster (1994). First edition. 460 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Promotional flyer and review slip laid in.$35.00Murray: [n.p.] (1945). First edition. 72 pp. Tanning to spine, light soiling to covers, and wear to yapp edges, else near fine in wrappers. Issued as PHAROS No. 3, a quarterly whose 'each issue is dedicated to one important piece of writing or to the work of a single author,' TOWARD STENDHAL consists of four chapters excerpted from a longer critical study of Stendhal and a 'critical and historical attempt to define the meaning of realism.'$150.00Oxford: Oxford University Press (1954). First edition. vi + 696 pp w/index. Near fine in very good dust jacket with toning and soiling to spine, and several small tears and chips. SIGNED by Clifford Odets on the first leaf, “Clifford Odets / Hollywood, / 4/56.” Odets has bracketed a long paragraph on John Donne and made a note on the verso of the last leaf, “Donne - P 548 - Important!”$15.00Minneapolis: Coffee House Press (2001). First edition. 239 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original.$17.50NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. 1st edition (first printing so stated). Fine in fine dust jacket. Essays on Chomsky, Basil Blackwell, R.K. Narayan, etc.