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London: Faber & Faber, 2007. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. Faber & Faber, London, 2007. First edition. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket: very good. Unclipped and with minor edge wear only. Borders' price sticker to rear. A fascinatingly rich and entirely original study of why many of the greatest authors of English literature chose to publish their work anonymously. From the sixteenth century to the present day, from Edmund Spenser to Primary Colors, John Mullan explores how the disguises of writers were first used and eventually penetrated, how anonymity teased readers and bamboozled critics. With great wit and lucidity, Anonymity presents a new and engaging way of enjoying English literature.

Berkeley: University of California, 1976. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1976. First edition. Book condition: very good. Very slight bumping to corners and '20p' in ink to upper corner of ffep otherwise unmarked and very clean internally. Dust jacket: good. Unclipped. Generally rubbed and soiled. Some edge wear. Closed tear approx 2cms to upper edge and a small tear with slight loss (approx 0.5cms) to lower edge of front. Slight chipping to extremities of spine and to some corners. This is a study of the arts of landscape painting and landscape gardening as they influenced James Fenimore Cooper's use of landscape in his forest romances. The power of Cooper's visual imagination was unique among prose writers of his time. This study aims to demonstrate that Cooper was firmly grounded in the theories of the picturesque, in the British and Italian traditions of landscape painting and in the literature of landscape gardening;… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1945. Hardback. Fair/No dust jacket.. Macmillan & Co Ltd, London, April 1945. (Reprint of first edition April 1945). Book condition: fair. Boards showing some edge wear and corners a little bumped. Head & tail of spine a little worn. Occasional light staining or marking. Some colour transfer from front board to upper edges of front endpapers and upper edge of text block - presumably as a result of some dampness or slight spillage. The book is sound in its binding and clean/unmarked internally. A very readable copy.

London: Guardian Books Ltd, 2004. First edition, 2004. Hardback. 190pp. Dust jacket. Wise and witty, irreverent but informed, the Guardian stylebook is an indispensable guide to the use of good English. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Very slight edge wear and a few small marks to the front.

Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. Second impression. Paperback. Fine/No dust jacket issued.. Wesleyan University Press, Connecticut, 1989. Paperback. Book Condition: Near fine. Uncreased spine and just the slightest amount of shelf wear.Judith Weissman's book makes an original contribution to our understanding of a group of central nineteenth century texts. A very readable book that offers some fascinating perspectives for feminist criticism.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1934. Second edition. Hardback. Fair/Poor. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, February 1935, second edition (first published September 1934). Book condition: Fair. Binding sound. A little shelf wear. Discolouration to lower half of spine and to some areas of front board, less so to rear. Endpapers lightly tanned and upper edge of text block dust soiled. Internally clean. Dust jacket: poor. Unclipped. Generally rubbed and soiled. Lower half of spine lost. Edge wear, corners chipped and slight loss to upper edges. Jacket in a protective sleeve. '...Auden, Spender and day Lewis. The three names are the names of "true poets" who have "more in common than mere contemporaneousness," and what Mr Cecil Day Lewis has undertaken to elucidate "their social and literary influences, their aims and their technique." He has accomplished this with such marked success, such a mingling of good sense and good taste, that poets as yet unborn, or too young to be… Read More

New York: Benjamin Blom, 1966. 1966 reissue of the 1863 edition of this classic work of scholarship. Hardback. Maroon cloth boards with contrasting title panels to spines. Multiple paginations. Vol.1: A Piththy Note to Papists, by T. Knell. 1570; Murder of John Brewen, by T. Kydde. 1592; History of Jacob and his XII Sonnes; The Wyll of the Deuyll, and Last Testament; The Metamorphosis of Tabacco. 1602; Murder of Lord Bourgh, and Arnold Cosby's Verses; Enterlude of Godly Queene Hester; Complaynte of Them That Ben To Late Maryed; Censure of a Loyal Subject, by G. Whetstone. 1587; Lyrics for Old Lutenists; Calverley, and the Yorkshire Tragedy. 1605; A Complaint of the Churche. 1562. Vol. 2: Report, etc., On Printers and Stationers. Parry's Travels of Sir A. Sherley. 1601; Becke Against the Anabaptists. 1550; The comedy of Tyde Taryeth No Man. 1576; Voyage of R. Ferris to Bristol. 1590; Broadsides and Speeches to Monck. 1660; R. Johnson's Look On Me, London. 1613; W. Bas's Sword and… Read More

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1966. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Twayne Publishers, New York, 1966. Book condition: Very good. Minor shelf wear only. Dust jacket: good. Price clipped. Generally rubbed and loiled. Some edge wear, corners chipped also head & tail of spine. Small scuff mark and puncture to spine, very small closed tear to lower edge of front. This assessment of Joyce's achievement emphasizes his central position in modern literature. The arc of Joyce's career is traced in a way that places his various books in relation to each other. Presented against the background of his life, they are seen as actually a recapitulation of some of the major movements in nineteenth and twentieth century literature.

London: William Heinemann, 1926. First edition. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket issued.. William Heinemann, London, 1926. First edition. Condition: good. A little wear around the edges of the card covers.. Stapled binding (staples becoming a little rusty). Internally clean with just some very light spotting to first page. Small pamphlet of 22 pages with some b&w photographs. No jacket as issued.

London: Faber & Faber, 1968. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. Faber & Faber, London, 1968. First edition. Book condition: near fine with little evidence of use. Front paste down has a small Foyles sticker and there is also a small sticker with a previous owner's name and address printed on it. Small mark to edge of text block (biro mark?). Dust jacket condition: very good. Unclipped with very minor shelf wear to head & tail of spine and to edges. Slight discolouration but still bright and clean. G S Fraser is a distinguished poet, editor and critic who knows the works of Durrell very well, and has re-examined it rigorously to write this study. This is a searching assessment of Durrell's work. The Bibliography is by Alan G Thomas, who with Lawrence C Powell was responsible for the first key bibliography of Durrell.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987. First edition. Hardback. Good/Very Good. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987. First edition. Book condition: good. Virtually free of shelf wear, clean and unmarked though the paper is a little tanned. Dust jacket condition: very good. Unclipped and with only very slight wear around the edges. Susan Hill's earliest memories are of books and reading. The Lighting of the Lamps is suffused with her great love of books. She writes illuminatingly on famous authors - Hardy, Bunyon, Beatrix Potter, Dickens, Buchan, Wodehouse, Blyton - the range is wide and includes authors no longer popular like H. M. Tomlinson. This is a book of enthusiasms, a marvellous collection which conveys so well Susan Hill's deep and lifelong involvement with words, of which she is herself so clearly such a master.

London: Routledge, 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No dust jacket issued.. Routledge, London 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: Very good. Very light creasing to spine and the book leans a little. Very sound and clean, free of marks and annotations. (368 pages). The essays in this collection, Identities, illuminate the ways in which conventions of realism were transformed by new ideas about gender and race, and an increasing moral uncertainty. Focusing on some of the most striking novels of the century, this volume explores some of the key emerging themes in nineteenth century fiction: madness and the unconscious, decadence and degeneration, the 'New Woman' and masculinity, colonialism. Concepts crucial to understanding the literature and society of the nineteenth century are clearly explained and discussed. This volume is an indespensible resource for the literature of this period. This text also formed part of the Open University course AA316 'The Nineteenth Century Novel'.

London: Faber & Faber, 2007. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Faber & Faber, London, 2007. First edition. Book condition: Very good. Small vertical split to head of spine (approx 2mms) and a little shelf wear to head & tail of spine. Dust jacket condition: Very good. As with the spine of the book, there is an extrememely small vertical split to head of spine (approx 2mm). Unclipped. Other Colours ranges from lyrical autobiography to essays on literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendhsip with his daughter to provocative discussions of Eastern & Western art. Translated by Maureen Freely.

London: Random House Books, 2010. Second impression, 2010. Hardback. xxx, 322pp. Dust jacket. If you believe that precise and elegant English really does matter, this book will prove required reading. Book in very good condition. Light marking to fore edge of text block. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Minor edge wear only.

London: Faber & Faber, 2005. First UK Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No dust jacket issued.. Faber & Faber, London, 2006. First UK edition. Book condition: very good and unread. Minor crease to upper edge of front cover. No dust jacket issued. Jane Smiley takes the reader deep into the process of novel-writing, sharing the secrets of her own habits and theories of creativity, ofering priceless practical advice to aspring writers. There is also an appendix with a compelling and inteligent reading list.

Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1999. Hardback. xx, 238pp. No jacket (as issued?). This book offers a collection of essays by researchers and writers who are intent upon exploring teh various ways in which women's lives are put into print - ie placed into the public domain - and upon formulating methods and strategies for interpreting those lives. Book in very good condition and with an unread feel. A little colour fade to boards.