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Graywolf Press, 1992. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 93 pages. Poems by the Irish writer, who lived and taught in the United States. Grouped in two sections: Compass Readings, and Things in the Flesh. One page of explanatory notes on some of the poems. Trade paperback, almost no visible shelf wear, pages bright and unmarked.
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As If It Matters
by Eamon Grennan
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The Book and the Brotherhood
by Iris Murdoch
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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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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
by Seamus Heaney
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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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Electric Light
by Seamus Heaney
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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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Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life
by Patricia Laurence
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Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 357 pages, with index, illustrated with 24 b&w and color photos. Published in the Literary Lives series. Trade papaerback, light shelf wear including to corners, 1" crease to front cover at top. Inscribed by author on title page to a friend and older teacher, who helped with the book; interior pages bright and unmarked.
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Essays and Introductions
by W.B. Yeats
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The Macmillan Company, 1961. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 530 pages. First printing thus. Frontispiece portrait of W.B. Yeats by John Butler Yeats the Elder, additional photographic portrait by Howard Coster. 1937 introduction by the author, essays divided into three groups: Ideas of Good and Evil (1896-1903); The Cutting of an Agate (1903-1915); Later Essays and Introductions. Medium 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), beige cloth with black quarter, gilt lettering on spine, wear to corners/crown/heel, boards lightly soiled, faint foxing to top edge, two stray pen marks on edges. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and marginalia on approximately 150 pages and rear end papers.
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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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George Moore
by A. Norman Jeffares
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Longmans, Green & Co., 1965. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 43 pages, with a Selected Bibliography. Published for the British Council and the National Book League, in the series Writers and Their Work (No. 180), General Editor Geoffrey Bullough. Frontispiece detail from a portrait drawing of Moore by Henry Tones. Pamphlet format (5-1/2" x 8-1/2"), stapled in wraps that show faint foxing and pencil price on front, Pages unmarked.
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The Good Apprentice
by Iris Murdoch
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Viking, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 522 pages. First American edition. From the DJ: ". . .sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry into the various spiritual crises that afflict the modern world." 8vo, red boards with beige quarter, gilt lettering on spine, minimal wear to boards, faint foxing to fore-edge and end papers, in unclipped practically unworn DJ. Small marks and occasional notes in very light pencil in the margins throughout; diagram of relations between characters and list of page references for various concepts, also in pencil, on rear end papers.
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Jackson's Dilemma
by Iris Murdoch
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Viking, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 249 pages. Iris Murdoch's last novel. First American edition. 8vo, gray paper over boards with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering, black end papers, minimal shelf wear, faint foxing to edges, in unclipped DJ with minimal wear but a few small paint splatters on front panel. Marginalia in pencil on approximately 25 pages.
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The Message to the Planet
by Iris Murdoch
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Viking, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 563 pages. Murdoch's 24th (third to last) novel. 8vo, beige paper over boards with brown quarter and gilt lettering on spine, no visible shelf wear, very light soil to edges, in unclipped DJ with light wear to top of flaps. Postcard of Durer self-portrait from the Prado laid in. Notes in pencil by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on end papers and a small smattering of pages throughout.
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Nuns and Soldiers
by Iris Murdoch
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The Viking Press, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 505 pages. Murdoch's 20th novel. 8vo, beige flecked boards with brown quarter, gilt lettering on spine, little shelf wear, faint foxing to edges, in DJ with small tears and chipping at crown and bottom of front panel. Former owners' names written in pencil on ffep, small pencil marks in the margin of a few pages, list of page references of interest in pencil on rfep.
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
by Iris Murdoch
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Chatto & Windus, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 328 pages. Murdoch's 16th novel. 8vo, olive green cloth with gilt lettering (and small water-spot) on spine, light shelf wear, slightly cocked, faint foxing to top edge, tan stain as from laid-in clipping on ffep, in unclipped DJ with light soil and foxing. Bookstore sticker from Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London - "The World's Greatest Bookshop" - on front pastedown with written annotation "June 10, 1974", name of former owners written on ffep, their marginalia in pencil on a smattering of pages throughout, being chiefly small marks but also a few notes, and more extensive notes with page references on rear end papers.
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A Selection of Poems by Jonathan Swift
by Jonathan Swift
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The Grey Walls Press Ltd, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 64 pages. Crown Classics. Edited with an introduction by John Heath Stubbs. 16mo, in practically unworn boards with same decorative design as DJ, slight age-discoloration to end papers, in good price-clipped DJ with pencil notation on front flap, soiling on and along spine, edge-wear and small tears (all less than 1/2") to top of DJ. Gift inscription on ffep. Pages faintly age-toned, clean and unmarked.
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So It Goes: Poems
by Eamon Grennan
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Graywolf Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 88 pages. Forty-some poems by the Irish writer, long resident in the USA. One page of explanatory notes for some of the poems. Back cover: ". . . a spiritual geography for the middle of life's journey". Trade paperback, matte card stock wraps with light wear to corners and smudge on front, dim foxing to edges. Pages bright and unmarked.
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The Spirit Level
by Seamus Heaney
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Faber and Faber, 1996. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 70 pages. Poems. Trade paperback published simultaneously with hardcover first edition. Reading creases, light shelf wear, rubbing along spine, faint foxing to edges and end papers. Newspaper clipping of excerpt from "The Tollund Man in Springtime" is laid in at the poem "Tollund", protected by tissue paper to prevent staining. Pages bright and unmarked.
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Stories by Elizabeth Bowen
by Elizabeth Bowen
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Vintage Books (Random House), 1959. Soft cover. Good. 306 pages. Eighteen short stories, with Preface by the author. Mass-market paperback, heavily worn along spine, other shelf wear, front cover retaped to spine (not quite evenly), soil and faint foxing to edges. Name of former owner written on inside front cover, marks in ToC and fewer than ten other pages, most pages fairly bright and unmarked. Inside back cover stained tan, where there is a laid-in clipping from the TLS of Feb. 6, 1981, a book review of a later collection of Bowen's stories.
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What Light There Is & Other Poems
by Eamon Grennan
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North Point Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 120 pages. Poems by the Irish writer, long resident in the USA, collected in three sections: Part One - Wildly for Days, Part Two - A Single Window, Part Three - What Light There Is. One page of explanatory notes on some of the poems. Trade paperback, light shelf wear visible chiefly at corners, very faint foxing to edges, names of former owners written on the inside front cover. Pages bright and unmarked.
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Yeats
by Frank Tuohy
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Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 232 pages, with index and bibliography, illustrated with 16 color plates, numerous b&w cuts and plates. First American edition. Royal 8vo (7-1/4" x 10"), dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no visible shelf wear, scattered small spots of foxing to top edge, pages bright and unmarked, in DJ with small tear and to top of back panel, rumpling at crown, age-toned along edges on the inside, bit of sticker remnant on front panel.
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Yeats: A Collection of Critical Essays
by John Unterecker (ed.)
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Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963. Soft cover. Good. 180 pages, with chronology, notes on authors, selected bibliography. A Spectrum Book, in the Twentieth Century Views series. Authors include Auden, Kermode, T.S. Eliot, R.P. Blackmur, Allen Tate. Cover by Stanley Wyatt. Trade paperback, moderate wear and scuffing to wraps, foxing to top edge. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 60 pages.
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