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About the House
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About the House

by W.H. Auden

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Random House, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 85 pages. First printing. Two sections: Thanksgiving for a Habitat; In and Out. 8vo, brown cloth with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering on spine, faded teal topstain, foxing to edges and end papers, tan stains to the latter, light foxing spots on many pages, bookstore sticker attached to ffep, in worn, unclipped DJ with chip to top of front panel, spine age-browned, rubbed along spine, light soil and faint foxing inside and out. Pages unmarked. Clipping of review of this book by G.S. Fraser in the NYT Book Review is laid in, along with clipping of Auden's "The Ballad of Barnaby".
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The Acceptance World

The Acceptance World

by Anthony Powell

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Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 214 pages. First American edition. Third of 12 in the roman-fleuve A Dance to the Music of Time. 8vo (5-1/2" x 8-1/4"), olive paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, corners bumped, 1-1/2" separation of backstrip at rear of spine from top reglued, edges age-toned, bookstore price in pencil on ffep. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date Aug. 1957 written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia in very light pencil on approximately 60 pages.
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Agents and Patients

Agents and Patients

by Anthony Powell

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Penguin Books, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 204 pages. First Penguin edition of Powell's fourth novel, published 1936 by Duckworth. Cover art by Osbert Lancaster. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear includes crease to rear bottom corner, two horizontal scratches to front cover, edges and pages brown from age, underscoring and/or marginalia observed on three pages.
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The Anchor Anthology of Short Fiction of the Seventeenth Century

The Anchor Anthology of Short Fiction of the Seventeenth Century

by Charles C. Mish (ed.)

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Anchor Books, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 458 pages, with bibliography. Selected and edited by Charles C. Mish. Includes works by Robert Anton, John Reynolds, Bishop Francis Godwin, Aeneas Silvius (Pius II [Piccolomini]), Alexander Hart. Illustrated with reproductions of title pages. Large mass-market paperback (4-1/4" x 7"), crease to spine, minimal shelf wear, foxing and light green stains to top edge, interior pages bright and unmarked.
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Ben Jonson (The Laurel Poetry Series)

Ben Jonson (The Laurel Poetry Series)

by Ben Jonson

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Dell, 1961. Soft cover. Good. 160 pages, with introduction, bibliography, chronology. Published in the Laurel Poetry Series. Selected, with an introduction and notes, by John Hollander (Yale). Includes epigrams, "The Forrest", and additional poems (odes and songs). Mass market paperback, minimal shelf wear save tiny tear at crown, crease to back cover, edges stained (faded) green, foxing to end papers and inside of wraps, pages age-tanned and unmarked.
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The Book and the Brotherhood

The Book and the Brotherhood

by Iris Murdoch

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9780701132514
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0701132515
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Chatto & Windus, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 601 pages. Murdoch's 23rd novel (4th from last). 8vo, pale mauve cloth with gilt lettering on spine, edges age-toned with a few stains, page margins age-toned, light shelf wear, in unclipped DJ with light shelf wear and a little soil and rumpling to flaps. Pencil notation on ffep, notes by former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff on rear end papers and in the margins of a small number of text pages.
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Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses

Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses

by David Lodge

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9780140046564
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0140046569
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Penguin Books, 1979. Soft cover. Good. 251 pages. Penguin edition of comic novel first published 1965. Mass-market paperback, creases and light soil to wraps, edges and page margins age-toned, binding tight, margin marks and/or notes on approximately 30 pages.
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Characters

Characters

by Samuel Butler, ed. Charles W. Daves

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The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 330 pages. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Charles W. Daves. The introduction includes a short Life of Butler (1612-1680) and section "The Character Tradition before Butler." 8vo, Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light foxing to boards at top and to edges, name of former owner written on ffep, pages bright and unmarked, in lightly worn and rubbed, unclipped DJ with some barely visible foxing.
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Collected Poems

Collected Poems

by William Empson

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Chatto and Windus, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 119 pages, with the author's notes and corrigenda. 8vo, red cloth with faded gilt lettering on the sunned spine, wear to crown and heel, faint foxing to edges, a bit more to end papers. Names of former owners written on ffep, pages unmarked.
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Collected Poems: Enlarged Edition

Collected Poems: Enlarged Edition

by John Betjeman

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9780395127056
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039512705X
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Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 366 pages. First printing. Compiled by the Earl of Birkenhead. Introduction to this edition by Philip Larkin. 16mo (4-3/4" x 7-1/2"), dusky yellow cloth with gilt lettering in olive insets, pale olive topstain, very faint foxing to fore-edge and pastedowns, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.
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Collected Poems

Collected Poems

by Robert Graves

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Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. 358 pages, with index of first lines. 8vo, gray cloth with silver gilt lettering in brown insets, cloth rumpled at crown and heel, edges and end papers age-toned with faint foxing to the latter, in unclipped DJ with a few small tears and rubbing. Former owner's name written on front pastedown, pages unmarked.
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The Complete Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of One Hundred and Fifty Steel Engravings,...
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The Complete Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of One Hundred and Fifty Steel Engravings, from the Original Pictures. With an introductory essay, by James Hannay; and descriptive letterpress, by the Rev. J. Trusler, and E.F. Roberts

by William Hogarth

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The London Printing and Publishing Company, 1860. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 201 numbered pages, not including the plates, which are singled-sided. Date not stated, c. 1860s. 4to (9-1/2" x 11-7/8", 2-1/4" thick), full leather with decorative gilt border on front and back boards; five divisions on spine with raised separations and gilt "HOGARTH" against black in the second compartment, partially rubbed away; leather rubbed, eroded and scratched, with tear to back board; corners worn through to underlying cardboard; hinges cracked and cover split along them, with backstrip loose at the rear; vertical crease to the length of the spine opposite where binding is cracked at p. 137. Marbled edges 2nd image), decorative end papers (3rd image). A few pages near end of book have creases and chipping along fore-edge. Frontispiece (self-portrait) and half-title ("The Milk Maid") engravings shown in 4th and 5th images. Engravings have imparted their stain to the facing page in… Read More
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: together with A Description of the Lakes in...

The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: together with A Description of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works

by William Wordsworth, ed. Henry Reed

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James Kay, Jun. and Brother, 1839. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 551 pages, frontispiece portrait of the poet. Edited and with a Preface to the American Edition by Henry Reed, Professor of English Literature in the University of Pennsylvania. Super 8vo (7" x 10-3/4"), leather bound with frayed corners and rubbed edges, gilt lettering in black block on spine, backstrip peeling from top (boards and backstrip in need of professional restoration); front and rear blank free end papers torn out (?), edges and interior margins brown with age, hinges cracked, some pages age-browned and foxing of various degrees across others. Name of former owner (Prof.) Ann Evans (Berthoff) and date 1941 written on front pastedown, notes in pencil by Prof. Warner Berthoff observed in "The Excursion" (related to Emerson) and a few other places. A well-used copy of a historically significant American edition.
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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

by Seamus Heaney

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9780374522896
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0374522898
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The Noonday Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1991. Soft cover. Very Good. 81 pages. First published by Faber and Faber in 1990. Trade paperback, light foxing to wraps, which are very slightly curling along fore-edge. Laid-in clipping from the Harvard Gazette of April 26, 1991 is an interview of Heaney by Peter Costa, about his adaptation of the play by Sophocles; clipping protected with tissue paper to prevent staining the book.
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Curtain of Fear

Curtain of Fear

by Dennis Wheatley

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Hutchinson, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 294 pages, 5-3/8" x 7-1/2", black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear, very slight age-toning to edges and page margins, in pictorial DJ with chipping especially at crown. Price and another scribble on ffep, binding solid, no markings observed to interior.
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The Dream

The Dream

by H.G. Wells

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The Macmillan Company, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 318 pages. First American edition. 12mo (5-1/4" x 7-5/8"), red buckram with decorative blind-stamped frame border on front board, gilt lettering on front and spine, top edge gilt; crown, heel and corners slightly frayed; spine soiled, rear hinge cracked; bottom and fore-edge age-toned, page margins likewise. Pages unmarked. Not ex-library.
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Electric Light

Electric Light

by Seamus Heaney

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1st Edition
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780374146832
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0374146837
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. 98 pages. Poems. 8vo, flecked mint-green paper over boards with tan paper quarter and gilt lettering on backstrip, no visible wear, faint hint of foxing to edges, in unclipped DJ with rubbing and small (max 1/4") losses at bottom corners/heel/bottom edge of front panel. Pages bright and unmarked.
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Elizabethan Love Stories

Elizabethan Love Stories

by T.J.B. Spencer (ed.)

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Pengiun Books, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 215 pages, with bibliography. Edited with an introduction and glossary by T.J.B. Spencer. Elizabethan-era English translations and adaptations of Italian stories, made by William Painter, John Florio and others, and two new translations by the editor. Introduction includes section "Links with Shakespeare's plays." Mass-market paperback, crease to spine and rubbing along its edges, light shelf wear, edges and page margins age-tanned, pages unmarked.
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The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939

The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939

by W.H. Auden, ed. Edward Mendelson

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9780571115020
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0571115020
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Faber & Faber, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good. 469 pages, with index of titles and first lines, plus 23-page preface by the editor. First paperback edition. Frontispiece photo of Auden. Trade paperback, reading crease, scant shelf wear, foxing to top edge, end papers and page margins age-toned. Pages unmarked.
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Esther Waters

Esther Waters

by George Moore

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Fawcett Publications, 1960. Soft cover. Good. 382 pages. Premier World Classic edition of novel first published 1894. Introduction by Bergen Evans. Mass-market paperback, edges stained red, creases to wraps, end papers and page margins age-tanned, last page (list of Premier series titles) coming loose. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff (author of The Ferment of Realism) written on ffep, his underscoring and/or reading/teaching notes throughout and on inside back cover, in pencil in a small, neat hand, may be distracting for some readers, interesting to others.
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