THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE.
Pp. [x]+896; sq. med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Oxford University Press, New York, 1983. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged (second printing). More
Pp. [x]+896; sq. med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Oxford University Press, New York, 1983. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged (second printing). More
Pp. [viii]+216; printed paper wrappers, the upper wrapper date stamped (4 Sep 1967), edges lightly rubbed; date stamp on title page, a couple of spots of foxing; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1967. Advance proof copy, uncorrected. *Includes chapters on Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Edith Sitwell, Henry James, a.o. More
Pp. xii+240, numerous text illustrations, notes, select bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; printed paper wrappers, a trifle soiled and worn; ownership stamp on half-title page; Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1970. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. More
Pp. 36, hand-tipped frontispiece portrait, select bibliography; printed paper wrappers, stapled, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; cancel stickers on title page; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1965. Australian Writers and their Work series. More
From the Proceedings of the British Academy, London, Volume LX (1974). Pp. 20(last blank); med. 8vo; printed green paper wrappers, stapled, edges slightly faded and creased; Oxford University Press, London, 1975. First separate edition. Brandes & Durkan A13. More
Pp. xviii+188, notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; qr. dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dark blue papered boards; dust wrapper; Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1998. First U.S. edition. *A study of the poet's development from his beginnings in Death of a Naturalist (1966). More
Illustrated by Iris Millington. Pp. 90, numerous text drawings in two colours, pictorial endpapers; med. 8vo; pictorial papered boards, slightly soiled; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; Cheshire, Melbourne, 1962. First edition. *Guide for children. More
Essays in Appreciation. Pp. xvi+374(last blank)+[2](advertisements); cr. 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards lightly rubbed, the lower board slightly flecked; fore and bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly creased and split, early price sticker about publisher's device near foot of backstrip; bookplate of..... More
Pp. [x]+230, 8 plates, notes on sources, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in silver, the boards a trifle sprung; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the back panel slightly soiled; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Weidenfeld &..... More
Pp. x+220(last blank), 16 plates, notes on sources, index; demy 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly browned, short closed tear at foot of backstrip tape repaired on reverse, blank sticker on front flap; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers slightly offset..... More
Pp. 178, text illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; small med. 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, a trifle sprung; University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2016. First paperback edition. *Study of 'the transformative impact of Brazil on the poet's life and art' [wrapper blurb]. More
Pp. 112, list of references; bottom fore-corner of upper board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip faintly faded; free endpapers partly stuck to pastedowns;Teachers College Press, New York, 1971. Second printing. More
The story of the Australian Society of Authors, 1963-1983. Pp. 232(last blank), 16 plates, appendices; dust wrapper; Australia & New Zealand Book Company, Sydney, 1983. First edition. More
Pp. 48; pictorial paper wrappers; last page a trifle soiled; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1979. Australian Writers And Their Work series. More
An address delivered at the Centenary Celebrations in University College London during the Third International Congress of Classical Studies...on 3 September 1959. Pp. 16; printed paper wrappers, a trifle creased, edges faintly browned and a little rubbed; University of London, The Athlone Press, London, 1960. More
Pp. [vi]+282(last blank); demy 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges slightly split; Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1966. First edition. *Includes chapters on Charles Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell and George Gissing. More
Pp. [vi]+26(last blank); small cr. 4to; printed folded paper wrappers, edges lightly worn; title page a trifle soiled; Jindyworobak, Melbourne, 1949. First edition. More
Pp. 230, index; demy 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt (slightly dulled), fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; dust wrapper, foxed and slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with a few small chips, tape repairs on reverse; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown, the free endpapers..... More
Graham Greene, My Father and Me. Pp. [viii]+246(last blank), decorative headpieces printed in grey; dust wrapper, back panel faintly soiled; Bloomsbury, London, 2012. First U.K. edition. *'Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious closeness he has always felt with the writer Graham Greene, examining Greene's obsessions, his life on..... More
Essays on West Indian Literature. Pp. [vi]+166, 4 plates, bibliography, index; small cr. 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly worn; Oxford University Press, 1968. Three Crown Books series. *Includes essays on the works of Roger Mais; George Lamming; John Hearne; V. S. Naipaul; and others. More
Pp. xii+148(last blank), index; boards a trifle flecked, edges slightly rubbed; dust wrapper, a trifle marked and soiled, edges lightly rubbed with a couple of small splits and tiny chips; fore edge of leaves a trifle soiled, margins faintly browned; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. *The principal publications..... More
Nineteenth Century American & Australian Writers. Pp. xii+132, notes, bibliography, index; bottom fore-corner of upper board bruised, the lower board faintly marked; dust wrapper; edges of leaves foxed; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1976. First edition. *With loosely inserted newscutting. More
being the Book of the Play of Every Man in his Humour 1598, as produced by The English Club of Stanford University 1905. Pp. vi+38, tinted frontispiece and 9 plates; small f'cap. 4to; printed paper wrappers, lightly soiled and worn, edges and backstrip creased and split, with a couple of..... More
Pp. [ii]+220(last blank); demy 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners of lower boards lightly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and marked, top fore-corner of back panel lightly bruised; endpapers and edges of leaves foxed; Xanadu, London, 1987. First edition. More
Pp. XVI+310, frontispiece, 10 plates, notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed and soiled; Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1971. First edition. *Includes chapters on George Gissing, Walter Besant and Rudyard Kipling. More