Search Results: Literature from Lawrence Jones

London: Heron Books xvi, 311pp, map, bw ills. Or mustard boards decorated in gilt with green faux-leather spine. Some light foxing to page edges. Attractive edition of Virgil's Aeneid.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Fount, 1993. x, 501pp, index, bw ills. Very slight edge wear to covers, light toning to page edges. The diary of CS Lewis over a 5 year period begun while an undergraduate at Oxford at age 23. Gives a rare glimpse into the private life of this great writer.. Second Paperback Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo.

London: HarperCollinsReligious, 1991. Foreword by Owen Barfield. xi, 483pp. Erasure mark and small stain on the front flyleaf. Cloth boards in lightly soiled and edge-worn dust-jacket which has a slightly faded spine. The diary of CS Lewis over a five-year period begun while an undergraduate at Oxford at age 23. Gives a rare glimpse into the private life of this great writer.. Fount. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1897. 2 volumes (302, 280pp). Or green cloth. Both volumes have minor surface damage to cloth from insects and toning to endpapers else very nice copies. Copyright edition of one of Meredith's novels. . Copyright Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo.

New York: The American Spectator., 1932. 14 issues of The American Spectator from the first to the fifteenth issue (lacking number 13). Unbound as issued. Each is folded twice as sent out originally and the paper has yellowed but an exceptionally nice group. Edited by such American literary giants as Eugene O'Neill, James Branch Cabell, and Theodore Dreiser among others this paper is an extremely important record of America's literary world in the 1930's. Examples of contributors to the first issue (as well as the editors) include George Jean Nathan, Ernest Boyd, Clarence Darrow, Frank Swinnerton, Havelock Ellis, VanWyck Brooks, Lincoln Stephens, Liam O'Flaherty, Ring lardner, Louis Untermayer and Calvin Bridges.. Periodical. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. Folio.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1969. 183pp, index, bibliography, chronology. Front cover 'curled', 1/2 title page slightly soiled. Volume in Griffin Author's Lives Series delaing with the life and work of Franch novelist Andre Gide... First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Flamingo, 1998. 315pp, bw & col ills. Slightest signs of having been read. The love of food and the food of love- the noted Chilean author explores erotology and foodstuffs in a succulent study. From breakfasting on sea snake to describing a vibrator that plays Viennese waltzes the focus is on pleasure.. First Trade Paperback. Trade Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Shekter, Robert.. 8vo.

London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., 1992. 233pp, num plates and borders in gold, silver, black and white. Or black cloth in jacket. As new. Play by the author of Firuz of Isfahan and other books dealing with the Middle East and the classical world. Stunning litho plates in art deco style in gold, silver, black and white.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Caselli, Giovanni.. Folio.

London: Faber & Faber, 2001. xi, 224pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Near new with slightest of edge wear to covers. Sets the poems of Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Sylvia Plath.. Second Paperback Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. 324pp. Or brown cloth with gilt device to front and title in gilt to spine. A couple of spots on front and spine, 2 tiny tears in edge of front end paper- otherwise tight and clean. Stated Authors Edition printed from Advance Sheets, same tear as first UK edition. I believe this to be the first US edition. Collection of Brownings poetry.. First American ?. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press., 1967. 355pp, index. Or black and blue cloth in jacket. Endpapers and edges lightly foxed, jacket soiled, price clipped, chipped and torn. In this analysis of all of the tragedies of Jean Racine, Weinberg evaluates Racine's success in each of his plays according to the timeless aesthetic criteria by which Racine measured his own art. The objective of the study is to show how Racine progressively solved some of the major problems of dramaturgy. Each drama is discussed as an artistic structure designed to produce a specific emotional effect on the audience.. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1977. x, 189pp, bibliography. Or card covers with slight edge wear, light toning to page edges. Volume in Twentieth century Views series. A selection of essays offering literary criticism, discussion of his scientific theory of cognitive forces, and evaluation of his political significance as a writer and activist among others. Part One deals with politics and literature, while the second part deals with science and mysticism.. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Basingstoke: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1991. x, 269pp, 8pp b/w plates, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth boards in unevenly faded (particularly at the spine) dust-jacket. The book reassesses the contribution to modern English drama by Henry Arthur James and Arthur Wing Pinero. The two dramatists dedicated themselves to exploring on stage issues which were of social and moral importance, and to raising standards of acting and production in the theatre.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Faber and Faber, 1979. 79pp. Paperback. Covers lightly soiled, page edges toned. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: William Heinemann, 1962. vii, 302pp, index. The first third or so of the book contains a considerable amount of pencil underlining; pencil notes cover the blank sections of pages 54 and 55; there are some marginal notes in ink, and occasional ticks. No text is made illegible by any of these marks. Three words in blue biro on the front flyleaf have been crossed. The free end-papers are tape-stained. Green cloth boards in edge-worn dust-jacket which has tears from the spine head and from the upper corner of the front flap. The book deals with poetry, fiction, literary essays, and criticism, from the early colonial days to 1955.. Reprint with Corrections. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. vii, 294pp, index, sources. Or black cloth in jacket. A highly amusing collection bringing together 270 tales of Australian literary life from penal times to the present. Arranged chronologically the volume opens with some great colonial characters. Along the way we meet the leading figures in Australian letters including Adam Lindsay Gordon, Christopher Brennan, Henry Lawson, AD Hope, Patrick White, Ruth Park, Manning Clark, Frank Hardy and many more. The Demdenko and Ern Malley affairs are discussed. Not to be missed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Lawrence Hill, 1991. xiii, 478pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. or card covers, Light crease to top front corner, cover laninate slightly peeled at bottom left front corner. The identity of B. Traven, author of The treasure of the Sierra Madre, was one of the great literary mysteries of the 20th century. Here is the first biography of the man to take advantage of access to the full Traven archive.. First American Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Edina, MN: Luath Press, 1997. 232pp. Or card covers. Very slight edge wear to covers. Winner of the 1997 Constable Trophy, the premier award in Scotland for an unpublsihed novel. An original vehicle for looking at the future of Scotland, and a convincing explanation of how the victory at Bannockburn was achieved.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ix, 262pp, bibliography, notes. Or card covers. Whitman's transformative Civil War years and a historically valuable examination of the Union's treatment of the sick and wounded. Whitman rushed south to see his wounded brother. Instead of returning to Brooklyn he spent the remainder of the war visiting wounded soldiers-such was his efect that several soldiers claimed he saved their lives. In witnessing their suffering, listening to their understated speech and being always in the presence of death, Whitman evolved the new and more direct poetic style that was to culminate in his "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd".. Uncorrected Advance Reading Copy. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969. x, 345pp, bibliography, index. Or cl boards in dust jacket with loss of a section of color by the upper edge of the front panel. Small shop stamp by the lower edge of the ffep. Seventeen essays, some of which are classics in the field, include Bruce Harkness's Bibliography and the Novelistic Fallacy. Studies by Bowers, Todd and Robson represent the debate on the question of selecting and identifying a copy-text; and the three concluding essays analyze the textual problems encountered in editing and researching works by Joyce, Yeats, and Hemingway.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.