Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Chapters in a Mythology: the poetry of Sylvia Plath.

Kroll, Judith, · 1976

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, (1976). 1st ptg. G PB. Kroll reconciles Plath's suicide to the use of suicide in her poems and her fascination with death as connected with a. broader concern with the themes of rebirth and transcendence. The Boston Herald calls Kroll's analysis brilliant, how desp...

Ariel Ascending: writings about Sylvia Plath.

Alexander, Paul, edited by, · 1985

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

NY, Harper Row, (1985). 1st ed. G PB. Includes essays by Sylvia's mother Aurelia S. Plath and an informative piece by Ted Hughes, Sylvia's husband. A varied yet balanced view of an accomplished poet whose work deserves serious critical attention which this book offers. Front c...

Yeats at Work.

Bradford, Curtis B., · 1965

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Eccp Press, (1965). VG PB. The road to a master's certificate as a playwright was both long and hard. He was intent on developing antirealistic. dramatic modes. Shows Yeats as he meticulously changed and corrected his plays.

Poe's Literary Battles: the critic in th context of his literary milieu.

Moss, Sidney P., · 1963

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Carbondale, Southern Illinois Univ Press, (1963). VG PB. A significant portion of Poe's essays, reviews, lectures, and editorial comment was concerned with politics and practices of. publishers, editors, and reviewers. His literary battles had a singleness of purpose: to prepa...

American Nights Entertainment.

Overton, Grant, · 1923

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Appleton, 1923. Stated 1st ptg. VG. Dark green binding, paper title labels on front cover & spine (some tanning), edge wear. Laid in vintage newspaper article. on Grant Overton stating, "it is his admirable work as critic and writer about writers, that has brought Grant Ov...

No Other Book: selected essays.

Jarrell, Randall, edited and with an introduction by Brad Leithauser, · 1999

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

np, HarperCollins, (1999). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Music, abstract painting, the appeal of sports cars, the role of the intellectual in modern American life, forgotten novels,. contemporary trends in education. Small nick on back of DJ.

W. B. Yeats: literature in perspective.

Cowell, Raymond, · 1969

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

London, Evans Brothers, (1969). 1st ptg. VG PB. Yeats is generally considered a great poet but only a handful of his poems are known and anthologized, but his early and late. work is widely ignored and his personal and poetic development becomes blurred. Here it is shownn that...

A Mug-up with Elisabeth: a companion for readers of Elisabeth Ogilvie.

Hayes, Melissa & Marilyn Westervelt, · 2001

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

np, Down East Books, (2001). VG PB. For more than 50 years Ogilvie has crafted one memorable book after another, most set in Maine or the Scottish Highlands. At last a book about this prolific yet unassuming author who would rather live quietly on her Maine island than try to ...

Double Measure: a study of the novels and stories of D. H. Lawrence.

Ford, George H., · 1969

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Norton, (1969). G PB ex-library. NY Times Book Review said Ford's book significantly enlarges our understanding of Lawrence's fiction. Ford approaches. Lawrence's fiction through the idea of "double measure", the rhythm of powerful forces that pull against each other in th...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender.

Roman, Margaret, · 1992

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Tuscaloosa, Univ of Alabama Press, (1992). G in G DJ ex-library. Roman argues that one theme colors almost every short story & novel for Maine writer Jewett. Each person, regardless of sex,. must break free of the restrictive, polar-opposite norms of behavior traditionally ass...

Franz Werfel 1890-1945: critical essays in English and American literature.

Werfel, Franz, edited by Lore B. Foltin, · 1961

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Pittsburgh, PA, Univ of Pittsburgh Press, (1961). VG in Fair DJ. It is said Werfel's work is uneven in literary value, yet the force of his writing and the lyrical spontaneity of its best. have won Werfel lasting fame. These essays cover his varied career as poet, dramatist an...

William Faulkner: First Encounters.

Brooks, Cleanth, · 1983

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New Haven, Yale Univ Press, (1983). 3rd ptg. VG PB. Authoritative introduction to Faulkner's most important novesl and short stories, written for the general reader by "the best. critic of our best novelist." Slight marking on fore-edge, owner name ft endpaper.

William Faulkner: three decades of criticism.

and bibliography by, · 1963

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Harbinger/Harcourt Brace, (1963). G PB. Once spoken of as immoral practicising a cult of cruelty in a slapdash manner, Faulkner has come to be called a man of moral. vision and a poet in prose. Here is some of the best criticism of him and also includes his famous "Stockho...

H. G. Wells under Revision: proceedings of the International H. G. Wells Symposium, London, July 1986.

Parrinder, Patrick and Christopher Rolfe, edited by, · 1990

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Susquehanna Univ Press, (1990). VG in VG DJ.

Of Time and the Artist: Thomas Wolfe, his novels and the critics.

Johnston, Carol Ingalls, · 1996

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

Columbia, SC, Camden House, (1996). VG in VG DJ. Wolfe wrote that there is no such thing as an artistic vacuum and Johnston follows the premise that literature is as much. the product of the social and critical community in which it evolves as it is the product of any individu...

Alice in Wonderland: a Norton critical edition.

Gray, Donald J., edited by, Lewis Carroll, · 1971

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Norton, (1971). 3rd ptg. VG PB. Authoritative texts of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark,. backgrounds including accounts of the early life of Carroll and writings and his later life, entries from his diaries, selecti...

Great Expectations: a discussion guide to the photoplay based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Herzberg, Max J., · 1940

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Newark, NJ, Self published, nd (ca 1940s). VG PB. Photos from movie, 2 page listing of movie credits, bibliography. Sl edge wear, back cover creased top outer corner.

Keats' Craftsmanship: a study in poetic development.

Ridley, M. R., · 1933

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1933. Fair. Inscribed by author, owner name. Both joints cracked, edge wear, binding rubbed.

Meaning in Henry James.

Bell, Millicent, · 1991

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1991). 2nd ptg. VG lg sz PB. Oscillation in his writing between hope and fatalism, indeterminacy and form, uncertainty and meaning.

Tendencies in Modern American Poetry.

Lowell, Amy, · 1931

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1931). 7th ptg. VG. Green binding, gilt lettering (rubbed), back cover mottled, sl edge wear, owner bookplate & name ft endpaper.