Seymour-Smith, Martin
Macmillan Guide to Modern World Literature
Hardcover without jacket. Minor exterior wear at points; boards and page block are marked, with foxing on the latter. Mark on rear pastedown and BEP; interior otherwise clean and sound - all text is clear. TS Used
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KRISSDOTTIR, Morine
Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys
Excellent hardcover in like jacket. TS Used
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Loving, Jerome
The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser
Hardcover and jacket in excellent condition. TS Used
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Vidal, Gore
Virgin Islands: Essays 1992-1997
Paperback. Page block and page edges are tanned. All text is clear; a very good copy. TS Used
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Williams, Tennessee; St.Just, Maria (ed.)
Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982
Hardcover. Jacket negligibly tanned at points. Content is clear throughout - a very good copy. Commentary by St. Just, with a preface by Elia Kazan, and Marlon Brando's epitaph at rear. TS Used
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Koch, C. J.
Crossing the Gap: A Novelist's Essays
Hardcover. Minor foxing on jacket's rear inner flap. Pages are clean and sound. TS Used
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Howe, Irving
Celebrations and Attacks: Thirty Years of Literal and Cultural Commentary
Hardcover. Price-clipped jacket is a little marked, with slightly sunned spine; minor general shelfwear, with one or two small nicks. Hardcover's spine is slightly discoloured. Page block head is foxed. Pages are clean, and text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Stanton, Robert J.; Vidal, Gore (eds.)
Views from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal
Hardcover. Stated second printing. Jacket is slightly marked and worn; small chip and taped repair at spine foot. Boards are a little bumped at two or three points. Page block (and boards' lower edges) are foxed. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Styron, William
This Quiet Dust and Other Writings
Hardcover. Jacket is faintly edgeworn at points; two small nicks at corners. Page block head is foxed. Page block and page edges are tanned. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Kustow, Michael
One in Four: A Year in the Life of a Channel Four Commissioning Editor
Hardcover in unclipped jacket, first edition, very good condition. Jacket has some light surface marks and the top of the rear flap has some foxing. Minor bumps to the bottom corners. Text remains excellent throughout. Publisher's review slip laid in. DP Used
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King Dunaway, David
Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History
Hardcover and jacket, with one or two instances of very light exterior wear. Content is clear on clean, sound pages. TS Used
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Stern, Richard G.
Teeth, Dying and Other Matters
Hardcover. First UK edition. Unclipped jacket is marked and slightly worn. Page block is foxed. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Branden, Barbara
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Hardcover and jacket with no significant flaws. A very good review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. TS Used
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Best, Alan; WOLFSCHUTZ, Hans (eds.)
Modern Austrian Writing: Literature and Society After 1945
Hardcover. First edition. Jacket is slightly marked and worn, with nick at one corner. Page block head is lightly foxed. Small mark on title page; interior otherwise clean and sound throughout. TS Used
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Johnson, Paul
Creators: From Chaucer to Walt Disney
Hardcover and jacket - first edition, first printing - in very good condition. TS Used
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Swanberg, W. A.
Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst
Hardcover. Unclipped jacket is marked and a little worn, with a few nicks and one slightly longer tear along upper edge. Minor wear to boards beneath. Page block is slightly tanned. Pages are clean, with clear text throughout. TS Used
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Hofmann, Michael
Behind the Lines: Pieces on Writing and Pictures
Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Unclipped jacket is slightly sunned on spine, with a hint of wear at upper edge. Page block and page edges are a little tanned. Text is clear - a very good copy. TS Used
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Greacen, Lavinia
J. G. Farrell: The Making of a Writer
Hardcover. First printing. Jacket perhaps very lightly sunned. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Pinter, Harold
Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-1998
Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Unclipped jacket is lightly worn; spine perhaps a little sunned. Interior very good, with clear text throughout. TS Used
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Greacen, Lavinia (ed.)
J.G. Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries
Hardcover and jacket. A very good copy. TS Used
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Hamilton, Ian
The Trouble with Money and Other Essays
Paperback. A few minor marks and imperfections on page block; otherwise very good throughout. TS Used
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Appel Jr., Alfred; Newman, Charles (eds.)
Nabokov: Criticism, Reminiscences, Translations, and Tributes
Paperback. Covers are slightly tanned, marked and worn, with creased spine; small puncture through front cover, affecting prelims (no text obscured). Page block is slightly tanned. Content is clear throughout. TS Used
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Wenke, Joseph
Mailer's America
Hardcover. A hint of edgewear at one or two points on jacket. Very light foxing on page block. Text is clear on clean, sound pages. A very good copy. TS Used
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Zanganeh, Lila Azam
The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness
Hardcover. First UK edition, first printing. A very good copy, with no significant faults. TS Used
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Chesterton, G. K.
Autobiography
Hardcover. Jacket is slightly sunned and marked, with a hint of wear. Page block is tanned, with a few minor marks; pages are clean and sound, with clear text throughout. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. Very good in a good-plus jacket. TS Used
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Holmes, Richard
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer
Hardcover. First edition, first printing, in unclipped jacket. Page block and page edges are a little tanned, otherwise very good throughout. TS Used
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Lundquist, James
J. D. Salinger
Hardcover. Fourth printing (1985) of the 1979 publication. Lorrimer Publishing (UK distributor) labels covering Ungar's logo, twice on jacket, and once on title page. Pages are otherwise clean throughout - a very good copy. TS Used
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Holden, Anthony
The Wit in the Dungeon: A Life of Leigh Hunt
Hardcover and unclipped jacket with one or two instances of minor exterior wear. A very good copy. TS Used
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Ritchie, Harry
Success Stories: Literature and the Media in England, 1950-1959
Hardcover. Minimal shelfwear on jacket; page block and page edges are tanned. A very good copy with clear content throughout. TS Used
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Paulin, Tom
Writing to the Moment: Selected Critical Essays 1980-1996
Hardcover. First edition, first printing. One or two insignificant imperfections on unclipped jacket. Page block and page edges are slightly tanned. Text is clear throughout - a very good copy. TS Used
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Allen, Walter
Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time
Hardcover. Jacket is slightly marked, with tanned spine; a few minor nicks, with inch-long tear by spine head, and shorter tear with crease at one corner. Interior is clean and sound - a very good copy in good jacket. TS Used
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Ruas, Charles
Conversations with American Writers
Hardcover. Score on jacket's rear inner flap; no further significant faults. A very good copy. Publisher's press release laid in. TS Used
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Reddick, John
The 'Danzig Trilogy' of Gunter Grass
Hardcover. Unclipped jacket in removable plastic protection; a little tanned and marked beneath. Pages are clean and sound. Very good in good-plus jacket. TS Used
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Korg, Jacob
Language in Modern Literature: Innovation and Experiment
Hardcover. A few minor marks and instances of minor shelfwear on jacket. Page block is a little foxed. Text is clear on clean, sound pages. TS Used
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Lopez, Enrique Hank
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter: Refugee from Indian Creek
Hardcover. Jacket is lightly worn, with one or two minor imperfections; UK distributor's label on rear. Page block foxed in one small area. Text is clear on clean, sound pages. Very good in good jacket. TS Used
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Kostelanetz, Richard
The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America
Hardcover. Scores and scuffs on price-clipped, shelfworn jacket; a few small nicks - most repaired with tape on underside; spine is sunned. Page block head is foxed; mark on foot. Pages are clean and sound; all text is clear. TS Used
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Gifford, Denis
The Golden Age of Radio: An Illustrated Companion
Hardcover. Jacket is price-clipped; one or two minor marks on page block. A very good copy with clear content on sound, clean pages. TS Used
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Gibson, Robert
The Land Without a Name: Alain-Fournier and His World
Hardcover. Price-clipped jacket is worn at upper edge; boards' extremities faintly bumped. Page block and jacket's inner flaps are lightly marked. Page block and page edges are tanned. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Hassan, Ihab
Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel
Hardcover. Jacket is marked and worn, with several nicks. Boards are slightly bumped at extremities. Page block is foxed. Pages are clean and sound; text is clear throughout. (Second printing, one year after first.) TS Used
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Read, Herbert
A Coat of Many Colours
Hardcover without jacket. Second (revised) edition, 1956. Very light wear on spine; page block head is a little foxed. Text is clear throughout; graded very good for age. TS Used
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Dahlberg, Edward
Alms for Oblivion
Hardcover. Unclipped jacket is a little worn, and very slightly marked at points; minor nicks at lower corners. Interior excellent, with clean pages throughout. Very good in good jacket. Foreword by Sir Herbert Read. TS Used
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Amos, William
The Originals: Who's Really Who in Fiction
Hardcover. Unclipped jacket is a little foxed on rear inner flap. One or two instances of minor exterior wear. Very few minor marks on page block. Content is clear throughout. TS Used
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Farson, Daniel
Henry: An Appreciation of Henry Williamson
Hardcover. Very light foxing on (unclipped) jacket's rear inner flap and page block head; no further significant faults - a very good review copy, with publisher's slip and press release laid in. TS Used
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Madox Ford, Ford
The March of Literature: From Confucius to Modern Times
Hardcover without jacket. Exterior is slightly marked and worn at points; spine, front board, page block and endpapers are sunned. Previous owner's name penned on FEP. Minor wear to one or two page corners. All text is clear. TS Used
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Goytisolo, Juan; Bush, Peter (trans.)
Realms of Strife: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo, 1957-1982
Hardcover. Minor wear on slightly tanned jacket's upper edge; a hint of wear at one or two points on boards beneath. Pages are clean and sound; all text is clear. TS Used
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Kiberd, Declan
Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation
Hardcover and jacket with negligible exterior wear. Serial stamp on page block head. Tear by lower corner of p.377; text remains clear throughout. TS Used
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Fiedler, Leslie A.
No! In Thunder: Essays on Myth and Literature
Paperback with slightly sunned and worn spine; rear is faintly marked. Interior excellent for age, with clean, sound pages throughout. TS Used
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Botsford, Gardner
A Life of Privilege, Mostly
Hardcover. First UK printing. Very slightly cocked, with a hint of wear on (unclipped) jacket. Pages are clean, and text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Freedman, William
Laurence Sterne and the Origins of the Musical Novel
Hardcover. Exterior is faintly worn at points, with nick by jacket's spine head - otherwise very good, with clean, sound pages. TS Used
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Griffin, Martin
Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900
Very good paperback with no notable faults; essentially like new. TS Used
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