Literary Criticism from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: Lippincott & Crowell, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. viii, 448pp. Maps. Near fine/near fine. Ownership signature on front/rear flyleaves and at top of couple text pages. Tight and sharp reprint edition of the sixth printing of this (to cite front jacket panel) "modern guide… Read more about this item

New York: Four Winds Press, 1970. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff printed wrappers. 317pp. Very good. Faintest of wear to outer wrappers (only), else tight and internally fine. Handsome first edition of the third in this series, "The Best Creative Work from the Universities and Colleges of the United States & Canada" as judged by Gwendolyn Brooks, Mark Van Doren and… Read more about this item

London / Indianapolis: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. / Hackett Publishing Company, 1991. Hardcover. Revised by K.J. Dover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. lxxxii, 660pp. Fine/near fine. Jacket lightly rubbed. Superb and tight reprint of the 1950 second edition of a classic study first published by Oxford in 1934.

Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014. Hardcover. Small 4to. Glossy pictorial paper over boards. xxxi, 672pp. Illustrations. Near fine. First edition, tight and sharp.

Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. x, 617pp. Fine. First edition, tight and pristine. A quite useful bibliography covering Illinois-related novels from pre-statehood years (1818) up to 1976.

Chicago: Fred Benjamin Millett, 1931. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff blue wrappers. (26pp). Fine. Published in December '31 and thus possibly as a Christmas keepsake, this pristine self-published pamphlet is the first separate printing of an essay originally published in "The University of Chicago Magazine." Waxing poetic on the occasion of a new decade, Millett discusses "modernism" largely from the literary… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. iv, 162pp. Fine. Bright and tight later printing of the second edition of this popular, hands-on how-to, the first of two workbooks accompanying this language guide.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with silver spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. ix, 431pp. 4 maps. Near fine/very good. Slightestf of jacket edgewear only. Superbly tight and nice first edition of this thick and thorough survey that starts with the Norman conquest. Quite uncommon in such lovely condition.

New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. ix, 181pp. Frontispiece map, line drawings. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly sunned. Handsome and tight third printing. From the collection of Frank S. Hanlin (1924-82, bibliographer and University of Iowa special collections director), with his 1950 ownership signature on front pastedown and… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 232pp. 7 maps. Fine/near fine. Light sunning to spine only of superior, bright jacket. Handsome and tight first edition of this volume in editor Eric Partridge's "Language Library" series.

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xi, 310pp. Very good/very good. Jacket age toned on spine and edges, with 1" chip at foot of spine and corresponding fade to binding beneath; book otherwise near fine, with just a tad of age toning to endpapers, else tight and quite… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1958. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. viii, 53pp. Tables, numerous maps. Fine/very good. Slightest of wear to bright and lovely jacket. Shockingly fresh and tight first edition of this in-depth linguistic study, No. 2 in the "Studies in American English" series. Scarce in such superb condition.… Read more about this item

New York: Philosophical Library, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with green spine lettering and decoration, dust jacket. ix, 219pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight and nice first U.S. edition of this simplified version of the previous "Usage and Abusage," done up in two-column format, by the popular and prolific British-New Zealand lexicographer (1894-1979).

London: Andre Deutsch, 1957. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 176pp. Fine/near fine.Bright jacket with small spot near base of spine where distributor's label once rested. Tight, quite attractive first edition of this volume in editor Eric Partridge's "Language Library" series. American distributor Essential Books' small name/address label at bottom of title page.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, corner clipped (NOT price clipped) dust jacket. ix, 316pp. Frontispiece. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine and edges a bit sunned, else quite nice and chip-free. Lovely, tight first edition. Quite uncommon in such superb condition and with sharp jacket. From the collection of Frank S.… Read more about this item

Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1959. Paperback. Edited by Stefan Einarsson and Norman E. Eliason. Small 4to. Stiff beige printed wrappers, dust jacket. (11pp), 297pp. Errata slip tipped in; uncut. Near fine/near fine. Quite handsome and tight first edition of this 70th birthday festschrift, various essays by the influential American medievalist, etymologist and Chaucer scholar who long taught at Johns… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, dust jacket. x, 386pp. Much music notation; errata slip tipped in. Fine/near fine. Faint spine sunning to spine (only) of otherwise bright and crisp jacket. Superlative, bright and tight first edition of this (to cite jacket front panel) "new theory of Old… Read more about this item

London: Gerald Howe Ltd, 1927. Hardcover. 12mo. Pale blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xvi, 344pp. Near fine/very good. Boards faintly bowed; jacket faintly edgeworn only and a bit age toned (mostly spine). Handsome and tight first edition of this generous anthology of notable (mainly literary) British epistles, organized chronologically and ranging from 15th century to late… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Hardcover. 12mo. Mustard cloth with black spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 247pp. Near fine/very good. Very faintest of wear to lovely jacket. Handsome first edition of this (to cite front jacket flap) "approach that views the facts of language imaginatively and seeks... the influence of the imagination on words and their meaning. … Read more about this item

Boston: Beacon Press, 2005. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 70pp, (2pp). Fine. Tight and handsome fourth softbound edition of these essays on art, poetry and other meditative matters by the National Book Award-winning poet (born 1953), boldly inscribed and signed by him in black fineline on title page: "Mark Doty / for Bill -- 4.1.06 / Des Moines." Recipient… Read more about this item