LITERARY CRITICISM / General from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: New York Review Books, 2019. Fine paperback copy, unmarked, pristine. A collection of essays from this wide-ranging writer: essays on the Greeks and Romans (eg.:"Epic Fail?: Reading the Aeneid in the Twenty-First Century"); on the Moderns (eg.: "Brideshead Revisited: Getting Waugh Wrong"); and "Personals" (eg.: "Stopping in Vilna: Stendhal Meets the Holocaust in Eastern Europe"). 378 pages.. 1st… Read more about this item

New York: W.W.Norton, 1993. Fine in fine dust jacket. A challenging, wonderful book focusing on poetry and how it intersects with daily life and politics and the world, and brings light. 304 pages, including index. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1973. Fine in near fine dust jacket (some rubbing at the top front edge). 332 pages including bibliography and index. A detailed, devoted study of a neglected English novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Inscribed by author and signed "Theo.". Inscribed and Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1971. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on first free endpaper. and dated 1971. Very good+ (two small stains on page edges) in very good dust jacket (moderately edgeworn) Raskin explores the relationship between an author and his society, i.e., the impact of each on the other. He explores the work of Kipling, Conrad, Forster, Lawrence and Joyce Cary.… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Department of Journalism, UCLA, 1962. The Summer, 1962, issue, Vol VIII, No. 2. Soft covers, 56 pages with the featured contribution a "Transatlantic Interview" with Gertrude Stein by UCLA professor Robert Bartlett Haas. Near fine. Difficult to find.. Soft Cover.

London: Horizon, 1943. November 1943, Vol VIII, No 47, of this literary and cultural journal. Very good (sunned spine, edgewear especially at spine, and slight water stain at bottom of front cover--see scan--but does not impact interior). Contents reflect WW II and the general political unrest and controversy of the times. Contains a short story by J. Kessel, essay on… Read more about this item

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. Very good (clean, firm binding and clean interior; light spots on page edges) in good+ dust jacket (heavily edgeworn and rubbed but intact). 142 pages including index. Scholarly study relating Wordsworth's poetry and Constable's paintings. Five black-and-white illustrations of five of Constable's most famous paintings, including "The Haywain" and "The Leaping Horse." . 1st… Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Near fine (a dozen barely visible specks on the top page edges, otherwise fine) in fine dust jacket (price sticker on rear panel). A wide-ranging study of the way portraits are described in literary texts with what that implies about the politics of writing. 226 pages including index.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Frederick Unger Pub Co , 1984. Near Fine (slight spotting to top edges) in Very Fine dust jacket. Part of the publisher's Literature and Life Series. 205 pages including index, notes, and chronology.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1967. Very good (neat owner's sticker on front pastedown and some light edgewear and sunning along cover edges; some discoloration has developed at the tops of some of the photographs or on the pages facing them, but the photographs are themselves unblemished [see book photo]) in edgeworn, price-clipped but clean, bright dust jacket. SIGNED by Grumbach… Read more about this item

Purdue University, 1971. This issue (Volume XVII, Number 3) is devoted to studies of the works of Norman Mailer, with a checklist of selected criticism. Very good (browning to edges and spine of white soft cover; brown spot on top of front cover). Very clean and tightly bound. About 120 pages..

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1986. Near fine (faint crease in cloth of front cover) in very good+ dust jacket (rubbed, faint crease). Originally published in limited edition by Yolla Bolly Press. Edited with commentaries by Robert Bly. Beautiful woodcuts by Michael McCurdy. Bly writes in his preface, "This book gathers and presents my own view… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1971. Near fine in very good+ lightly edgeworn dust jacket.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985. Very good (faint foxing on page edges, otherwise fine) in near fine dust jacket. 262 pages. Selection of Boyle's essays, covering a wide range of topics--as was her wont--from the Indians occupying Alcatraz in 1970 to a scintillating review of a French doctor's humble book of experiences trying to deal with the Nazi persecution… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. Very good- (bumped corners, offsetting on end papers) in very good- dust jacket (soiled or sunned spine, worn, edgetorn).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Taplinger, 1976. Part of Taplinger's "Who's Who in Literature" series. Alphabetical listing--with detailed accounts--of characters from Lawrence's work, far more than a simple listing of the books in which a character appears. For example, the entry for Gudrun Brangwen is a full page with brief quotations to illustrate Holderness' statements. Also indexed book-by-book. Fine in fine… Read more about this item

Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. Collection of nine essays about Lessing by various contributors, with bibliography, biographical notes about each contributors, and index. 251 pages. Very good (light foxing on page edges and on rear pastedown) in fine dust jacket. The last essay is an interview (conducted by the editor Jenny Taylor) with David Gladwell, the director… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1972. Personal reminiscences about Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Saroyan, Nathaniel West. Near fine (small, faint stain on top page edges) in good dust jacket (soiled; edgeworn, especially at spine and on back panel top).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press , 1983. Uncorrected bound proofs. Very good with slight soil or browning on gray wraps (see scan) and edges, with some dents in back cover: softbound. Protected by archival plastic wrap. SIGNED by Oates in her tiny writing on half title. Includes a contribution from Oates along with chapters by Updike, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow,… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1957. Near Fine (faded top edges, light soil on side edges) in Good dust jacket (nice clean jacket, NOT price-clipped, but unfortunately marred by three noticeable scars on front panel--see scan). Essays on great American writers, including Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Thomas Wolfe. Organized around a few central themes,… Read more about this item