Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Gunter Grass: a critical essay.

Yates, Norris W., · 1967

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

np, Eerdmans, (1967). G ex-library PB. Grass called himself a "realist" which to him meant presenting this world from points of viewe wholl within the world. Library markings.

Naming the Rose: Eco, medieval signs, and modern theory.

Coletti, Theresa, · 1988

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Ithaca, Cornell Univ Press, (1988). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Coletti asserts that Eco, by means of a concrete rendering of medieval social & intellectual life, has made a significant. contemporary statement about language, meaning, responsible intellectual activity, and the natur...

Stephen King as Richard Bachman: Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism no. 10.

Collings, Michael, · 1985

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Mercer Island, WA, Starmont House, 1985. G PB. Collings zeros in on the Bachman phenomenom, gives historical pro & con from critics & synopsis of each Bachman book. Bibliography of sources used. Book does not lie flat, sl edge wear.

James Russell Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems: The Students' Series of English Classics.

Willard, Mabel Caldwell, · 1896

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Leach, Shewell & Sanborn, (1896). G. Includes sketch of Lowell's life. First blank page removed, spot top of ft cover.

Shakespeare and the Nature of Man: Lowell Lectures 1942.

Spencer, Theodore, · 1943

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Macmillan, 1943. Reprint. VG. Publisher crease opposite title page, owner stamp & notation ft endpaper.

Lesbia Brandon by Algernon Charles Swinburne: an historical & critical commentary largely a study of Swinburne as novelist etc.

Hughes, Randolph, · 1952

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Falcon Press, (1952). 2nd imp. G. Part of copyright info blacked out. Edge wear, spine faded.

Henry James: The American Men of Letters Series.

Dupee, F. W., · 1974

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Morrow, 1974. 1st PB ed. G PB. A portrait of James the man & a critical evaluation of his work Few spots back cover & fore edge, edge wear, owner notations.

Sister Carrie: Norton Critical Edition.

Dreiser, Theodore, edited by Donald Pizer, · 1919

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Norton, (191970). 1st pt. VG PB.

John Donne: a collection of critical essays.

Gardner, Helen, edited by, · 1962

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NJ, Prentice Hall, (1962). 11th ptg. VG PB. 17th century poetic genius, sensualist, cynic, sardonic charmer & mystic Donne has captured today's audience. Sl edge wear.

Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel.

Brombert, Victor, · 1984

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1984). 2nd ptg. VG lg sz PB. Sl edge wear.

Memory and Enthusiasm: essays 1975-1985.

Di Piero, W. S., · 1989

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Princeton, NJ, Princeton Univ Press, (1989). VG PB. Di Piero writes about what it was like to be an America poet during this 10 yr time period & an autobiography for a poetics.

Herman Melville (Twayne's U.S. Authors Series).

Hillway, Tyrus, · 1979

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Boston, Twayne, (1979). Revised ed. G ex-library.

Women Writers of the Short Story: a collection of critical essays.

McClave, Heather, edited by, · 1980

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NJ, Prentice-Hall, (1980). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. DJ edge wear, few owner notations.

Thomas Hardy.

Butler, Lance St. John, · 1979

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Cambridge, Cambridge Univ Press, (1979). G ex-library.

James Boyd (Twayne Authors Series).

Whisnant, David E., · 1972

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Twayne, (1972). VG in VG DJ. Boyd's short stories & novels were widely read from early 1920s to WWII & admired for realism. DJ one slit at top, edge wear. This is a full re-evaluation of his work, to assess the actual quality of his work & his place in the history of Ameri...

Purity in Print: book censorship in America.

Boyer, Paul S., · 1968

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

NY, Scribner, (1968). VG in VG DJ. Contains news release from Scribners about Purity in Print dated July 1968, "changing attitudes toward book censorship.".

The Erotic in Literature: historical survey of pornography.

Loth, David, · 1961

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Messner, (1961). VG in G DJ. DJ edge wear. From Golden Age of Greece to today, excerpts show how erotic literature has shaped our actions & thoughts.

E. M. Forster.

Trilling, Lionel, · 1971

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Harcourt Brace, (1971). 2nd ed. VG in VG DJ. Owner inscription blacked out fep, DJ price clipped.

The Realist at War: the mature years of William Dean Howells 1885-1920.

Cady, Edwin H., · 1958

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, (1958). VG in VG DJ. Howells was America's foremost critic & exponent of realism whose revolutionary novels aroused conscience of lit. world. DJ rubbed, clippd. Bibliographical notes, index. Cady presents Howells as a devoted fighter fo...

For the New Intellectual: the philosophy of Ayn Rand.

Rand, Ayn, · 1961

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, Random House, (1961). G+. Underlining and writing in margins for first 25 pages and on back ep o/w very good. Owner's inscr, sticker fep.