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Romantic England: Writing and Painting, 1717-1851

by Quennell, Peter

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1st
Published
1970
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New York: Macmillan. Nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. 1970. 1st. hardcover. Tall 8vo, 272 pp. .
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Literary Language and its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages

by Auerbach, Erich

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1st
Published
1965
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Hardcover
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New York: Pantheon Books. Nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket. 1965. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 405 pp., Translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim. Bollingen Series LXXIV. .
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The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire

by Claridge, Laura

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1st
Published
2016
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Hardcover
ISBN
9780374114251
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2016. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 400 pp. .
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Edith Wharton's Inner Circle

by Goodman, Susan

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1st
Published
1994
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Hardcover
ISBN
9780292727717
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Austin: University of Texas Press. Fine copy. 1994. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 165 pp., Literary Modernism Series. .
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Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

by Morrison, Grant

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Later prt.
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2011
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Hardcover
ISBN
9781400069125
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New York: Spiegel & Grau. Fine copy in wrap-around band. 2011. Later prt.. hardcover. 8vo, 444 pp. .
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Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s

by Carpenter, Humphrey

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1st
Published
1988
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Hardcover
ISBN
9780395464168
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1988. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 246 pp. .
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What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960

by Hutner, Gordon

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Edition
1st
Published
2009
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Hardcover
ISBN
9780807832271
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Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2009. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 450 pp. .
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English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660 (Second Edition)

by Bush, Douglas

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2nd ed.
Published
1962
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Hardcover
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New York: Oxford University Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1962. 2nd ed.. hardcover. 8vo, 680 pp. .
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A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

by Deresiewicz, William

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2nd prt.
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2011
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Hardcover
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9781594202889
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New York: Penguin Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2011. 2nd prt.. hardcover. 8vo, 255 pp. .
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Writers and Their Houses: A Guide to the Writers' Houses of England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland - Essays by Modern Writers

by Marsh, Kate (editor)

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Edition
1st
Published
1993
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Hardcover
ISBN
9780241127698
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London: Hamish Hamilton. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1993. 1st. hardcover. Tall 8vo, 515 pp. .
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A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman

by Mahoney, Rosemary

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Edition
1st
Published
1998
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Hardcover
ISBN
9780385477932
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New York: Doubleday. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1998. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 273 pp. .
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The Receptionist: An Education at the New Yorker

by Groth, Janet

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1st
Published
2012
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Hardcover
ISBN
9781616201319
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Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hi. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2012. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 229 pp. .
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The Impuritans

by Wickham, Harvey

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1st
Published
1929
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Hardcover
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New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, Dial Press. Nearly fine copy. 1929. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 296 pp., "A glimpse of that New World whose Pilgrim Fathers are Otto Weininger, Havelock Ellis, James Branch Cabell, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, H.L. Mencken, D.H. Lawrence, Sherwood Anderson, Et Id Genus Omne." .
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From the Headlands

by Blythe, Ronald

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1st
Published
1982
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Hardcover
ISBN
9780701126384
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London: Chatto & Windus. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1982. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 208 pp. .
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The Atlas of Literature

by Bradbury, Malcolm (editor)

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Edition
2nd prt.
Published
1997
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Hardcover
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9781899883684
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London: De Agostini Editions. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1997. 2nd prt.. hardcover. 4to, 352 pp. .
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A Literary History of Spain: The Nineteenth Century

by Shaw, Donald L.

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Edition
1st
Published
1972
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Hardcover
ISBN
9780510322816
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London: Ernest Benn Ltd.. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. 1972. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 200 pp. .
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By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review

by Paul, Pamela (editor)

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Edition
1st
Published
2014
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Hardcover
ISBN
9781627791458
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New York: Henry Holt. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2014. 1st. hardcover. Small 4to, 314 pp., Foreword by Scott Turow. .
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The Middle Distance: A Comparative History of American Imaginative Literature, 1919-1932

by McCormick, John

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1st
Published
1971
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Hardcover
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New York: Free Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1971. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 256 pp. .
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A History of Arabic Literature

by Huart, Clément

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1st
Published
1903
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Hardcover
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New York: D. Appleton & Co.. Fine copy. 1903. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 478 pp., Literatures of the World series. .
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None but the Nightingale: An Introduction to Chinese Literature

by Thiele, Margaret R.

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Edition
1st
Published
1967
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Hardcover
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Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1967. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 159 pp. .
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