Literature from JWMah

London: The Athlone Press, 1988. (UK) this book originally appeared in 1968; this is the first printing of the revised and expanded (second) edition. No markings, Fine in Fine(-) dust jackdt with a hint of rubbing to the head of spine of DJ and rubbing to panel gloss of rear panel. Hardcover, 160pp, index, no illus. This new edition… Read more about this item

NY: Viking Penguin, 1990. (USA) 1st printing of this edition. No markings, very slight easing of the lower corner tip of front cover, otherwise Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket in mylar sleeve. Black cloth with blind embossed helmet design, patterned end papers, xvi, 683pp, three line maps; ribbon marker. Fagles' translation has been highly praised. The scholar combines the… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1972. (UK) 1st publication of this edition (1972). There is an ownership stamp overprinted to remove the name to the endpaper, ownership stamp to the front flap, and rear endpaper, otherwsie Very Good in Very Good dust jacket with some rubbing to dust jacket panels. Hardcover, map endpapers, xxxii, 494pp, index, no illus. This novel appeared… Read more about this item

London: Hesperus, 2003. (UK) 1st of this edition. No msrkings, Fine. Wraps with flaps, 98pp. This is one of Hesperus Press's 100 pages Classics. "...the Revd Amos never came near the borders of a vice. His very faults were middling-he was not very ungrammatical. It was not in his nature to be superlative in anything; unless, indeed,… Read more about this item

London: Phoenix House, 1964. (UK) Stated first publication, No markings, Very Good; lacking the dust jacket. Blue cloth hardcover, xxii, 346pp, index. Allen (1911-1995) was an English literary critic and novelist and one of the Birmingham Group of authors.] He is best known for his classic study The English Novel: a Short Critical History (1951).This is a sequel to that… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 1993. (UK) 1st of this edition. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published, in Very Good slipcase with a crease to the back edge (a manufacturing fault) . Illus patterned cloth, 240 pp. index B&W illus. This amusing foray into eighteenth-century literature is an entertaining tabloid biography of an… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2003. (UK) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, 2 leaves have folded corners, otherwise about Fine, no dust jackt as published in Near Fine slipcase with a couple of marks to the top and bottom edges. Hardcover, 268pp, B&W illus. This collection includes material from Chaucer to Groucho Marx, from Mae West to NM the Queen.… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 1959. (UK) 2nd impression 1960. Th is a tiny chop mark and tiny notation to the title page, no other markings, the lavender colour of the spine is slightly faded, otherwsie Very Good; no dust jacket as published; there is a slipcase which is black leatherette with a Maltese cross on it but I am unsure if… Read more about this item

Jackson MI: University of Mississippi, 1997. (USA) 1st printing. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR in German to the half-title, no other markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 311pp, index, no illus. From the jacket: That Faulkner was a "liar" not just in his writing but also in his life has troubled many critics. They have explained his numerous "false stories,"… Read more about this item

NY: Holmes & Meier, 1977. (USA) First edition No markings, a touch of light rubbing to cover corner tips,otherwsie Fine in about Fine dust jacket with tiny crease to foot of spine panel. Cloth, 205pp, index, no illus. This is the first full-length study of Kleist's stories to be published. Dyer was an international authority on Heinrich von Kleist. … Read more about this item

Ithaca / London: Cornell University Press, 1990. (USA) 1st publication. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to the end paper: " For I-- N---/ with warmest regards/ David Hayman/ Madison/ 14/ Jan'91" no other markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket . Hardcover, 207pp, index, no illus.Hayman is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This… Read more about this item

NY: Random House, 1992. (USA) Stated 1st edition. Name of UBC English professor in pencil to the end paper, no other markings, Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 814pp, index, There are portraits of writers to the back panel of the dustjacket but no illustrations in the book. This book is the story of how the arts in America… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, 1945. (USA) this is first American edition after the Limited edition, as the Book Club edition preceeded the first trade edition which appeared in 1946. 1945 to the title page. No markings, covers slightly bowed, thus Good in Good only dust jacket with rebbing and wear to fold edges.DJ is in mylar sleeve. … Read more about this item

NY: Schocken Books, 1971. (USA) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, slight darkening of spine, tight and square, Good only used copy; lacking the dust jacket. Vermilion cloth, 486pp, no illus. biblio, editors and tranlators, chronology. selected writings on Kafka. (1.8 JM LVR 201/b2. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Lacking the Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: The Heritage Press, 1967. (USA) Presumed 1st of this edition, No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published; lacking the slipcase.Lavender cloth, xii, 516pp, 16 colour illustrated plates. A handsomely produced edition. (3.0 JM HOZ 401/4. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Browning, Colleen. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1957. (UK) Later printing, 1957. Owner's inscription, no other markings, Very Good; lacking the dust jacket. Red cloth, 282pp, no illus. The Mabinogion are the earliest British prose stories, and belong to the Matter of Britain. The stories were compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions. (1.4 EKN HOQ… Read more about this item

London ON: University of Western Ontario, 1963. (CAD) No markings, Fine. Card cover, with abstact design in black and green on tan card, stapled, 36pp, B&W reprodcutions of artworks. A. Breakspear: Punch the Killer; Nora Keeling; Guy Demarino; David Gee; Wayne McEwing; Ronald Campbell; Bill Webster and others. This is a journal of strudent writings and art. (1.2… Read more about this item

Toronto: NC Press, 1982. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings Fine in about Fine dust jacket with very slight toning to edges of white portions of dust jacket. Boards, 312pp, B&W illus. Published in France in 1889, Famille-sans-nom, appeared in France in the first Canadian edition 1in 1970. Now this edition commisioned by NC Press gives an English translation of… Read more about this item

USA: Prospero Books, 2001. (USA) Presumed 1st American edition. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 352pp, index, colour and B&W photos and illus; maps. This is a compendium of places of writers and their works: Cervantes' Spain, Joyce's Dublin, the Brontes' Yorkshire, Kafka's Prague, Paris in the 1920s. A great reference to literary geography A heavy book, (3.9… Read more about this item

Atlanta: Dalmatian Press, 2007. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, touch of rubbing to the lower cover corner tips, and tiny nick to leading edge of front cover near the lower front corner, thus Very Good;no dust jacket as published. Dark blue gray faux leather with gold borders and titles, hubbed spine, all edges gilt, ribbon marker, [xvi} 559pp, no… Read more about this item