27490. Asselineau, Roger, ed.. The literary reputation of Hemingway in Europe. With an introduction by Heinrich Straumann. NY: New York University Press, 1965, 210 p. 22 cm., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, light scuffing on cover and spine, previous owner's stamp, $7.5
Cover design by Carl Smith. The Gotham Library. Hemingway reception in England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Soviet Union, Spain. Contributors: Heinrich Straumann, D. S. R. Welland, Roger Asselineau, Helmut Papajewski, Mario Praz, Sigmund Skard, Lars Ahnebrink, Stephen Jan Parker, Arturo Barea.

7101. Bab, Julius, 1880-1955. Amerikas Dichter. Berlin: Christian-Verlag, 1949, 1. Auflage, 111pp., very good orange half-cloth, white boards, INSCRIBED by Julius Bab in German to Herrn Braunsdorf with thanks for his help, dated "in Berliner Julitagen 1951". $75
Chapters on the American classics: Franklin, Paine, Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Poe, Whittier, Emerson, Longfellow, Beecher Stow, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Twaiin, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Carl Sandburg, O'Neill, Thornton Wilder.

34973. Beattie, L. Elisabeth, 1953-. Conversations with Kentucky writers. Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 1996, xviii, 390pp., very good dust-jacket, light wear, very good white cloth, light foxing on top foredge, previous owner's name: Marion Korda, $7.5
Photographs by Susan Lippman, with a foreword by Wade Hall. INCLUDES: Wendell Berry, Billy C. Clark, Michael Dorris, Leon Driskell, Sue Grafton, James Baker Hall, Wade Hall, Fenton Johnson, Barbara Kingsolver, George Ella Lyon, Bobbie Ann Mason, Taylor McCafferty, Ed McClanahan, Jim Wayne Miller, Sena Jeter Naslund, Marsha Norman, Chris Offutt, Lee Pennington, Betty Layman Receveur, James Still. ISBN 0813119723

25931. Bishop, John Peale, 1892-1944. The collected essays of John Peale Bishop. Edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson. New York : Scribner, 1948, stated First Edition (A), xviii, 508pp., very good black cloth, cover titles a bit faded, slight wear around edges, $19
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25930. Blackmur, R. P., 1904-1965. Henry Adams. Edited with an introduction by Veronica Makowsky, foreword by Denis Donoghue. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980, stated First Edition, xxvii, 354pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, $15
A collection of Blackmur's published and unpublished essays on the historian Henry Adams. ISBN 0151399972

15138. Blackmur, R. P., 1904-1965. A primer of ignorance. Edited by Joseph Frank. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967, stated First Edition, xii, 273pp. 22 cm, dust-jacket with minor wear, tape repair at top of spine, very good red cloth, $14
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28592. Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970. Achievement in American poetry, 1900-1950. Chicago: Regnery Co., 1951, 157pp., dust-jacket with minor chips around edges, very good dark blue cloth, light wear to corners, $20
Dust-jacket states: "Second printing", no indication of printing in the book itself.

4683. Bredahl jr., A. Carl. New Ground: Western American Narrative and the Literary Canon. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 1989, 195pp., very good dust-jacket, very good brown cloth, fresh copy, $7.5
. ISBN 0807818542

16567. Brodin, Pierre. Les écrivains américains de l'Entre-deux guerres. Paris: Horizons de France, 1946, 284pp., good sewn paper wraps, worn and frayed around edges, $15
Lectures presented at the Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes de New-York in 1944-45, and first published in 1945 in Canada.

16419. Burnshaw, Stanley. Robert Frost Himself. New York: George Braziller, 1989, 3d printing, 342pp., very good large sewn paper wraps, $9
. ISBN 0807612340

4593. Campbell, James. Talking at the Gates. A Life of James Baldwin. New York: Viking, 1991, 1st American Edition, 306pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray half-cloth, $6.5
. ISBN 0670829137

4445. Christadler, Martin, Hrsg.. Marxistische Literaturkritik in Amerika. Herausgegeben von Martin Christadler und Olaf Hansen. Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1982, vii, 516pp., very good white cloth, random ink mark on corner of one page, $12
Wege der Forschung, Bd. 317. With 18-page introduction in German, other texts in English. ISBN 3534053850

16248. Cottom, Daniel. Ravishing tradition : cultural forces and literary history. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996, xi, 220pp., 24 cm, very good sewn paper wraps, $9
Borges, Shakespeare, Phillis Wheatley, Dickens, Woolf, John Ashbery, etc. ISBN 0801483247

25337. Cunningham, Mary E., ed.. James Fenimore Cooper, a re-appraisal. Cooperstown, N. Y.: New York State Historical Association, 1954, iv, 194pp., good light blue stapled paperback, but with some wear to front cover, $11
12 essays by leading historians of American literature, from a 1951 symposium. Contributors include: Howard Mumford Jones, Lyman H. Butterfield, David Maldwyn Ellis, Paul A. W. Wallace, Arthr C. Parker, Warren S. Walker, Walter Muir Whitehill, James F. Beard, jr., William Charvat, James Grossman, Willard Thorp, Robert E. Spiller.

16311. Guimond, James. The art of William Carlos Williams. A discovery and possession of America. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1968, vii, 257pp. 24 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, $6
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31973. Hall, H. Lark, 1949-. V. L. Parrington : through the avenue of art. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 1994, xvii, 360pp., very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, $10
Vernon Louis Parrington, 1871-1929, famous for his Main Currents in American Thought. ISBN 0873384806

14161. James, Henry, 1843-1916. Literary criticism. New York, N.Y.: Literary Classics of the United States: Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, 1984, stated First Edition, 2 volumes, over 2500pp., very good dust-jackets, two volumes, very good cloth, $50
The Library of America. 22-23 [1]. Essays on literature. American writers. English writers - [[2]. French writers. Other European writers. The prefaces to the New York edition. Contains a substantial amount of material not previously collected, both volumes first editions in this series. Volume One ISBN: 0940450224 - Volume Two ISBN 0940450232.

25234. James, Henry, 1843-1916. Hawthorne. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Great Seal Books, 1956, xi, 145pp., small sewn PAPERBACK, good copy but with coffee stain on cover and ink notes on front endpaper, text clean, $7.5
First published in 1879. With 5pp preface by William Sale jr.

24129. Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965, (subject). Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965. Edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor & Robert Penn Warren. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967, stated First Printing, xii, 307pp., very good used brown cloth, but ex-library with stamps, pocket, call number label on spine, $15
Contributors include: Hannah Arendt, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Booth, Cleanth Brooks, James Dickey, Denis Donoghue, Leslie A. Fiedler, Robert Fitzgerald, R. W. Flint, Alfred Kazin, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Lowell, William Meredith, Marianne Moore, Robert Phelps, Sister Bernetta Quinn, John Crowe Ransom, Adrienne rich, Delmore Schwartz, Maurice Sendak, Karl Shapiro, Allen Tate, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Peter Taylor, P. L. Travers, Robert Watson, Mrs. Randall Jarrell, Randall Jarrell.

19773. Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-. Jeffersonianism and the American novel. New York, Teachers College Press, 1966, xii, 77pp. 24 cm, very good orange cloth, slight wear, $11
Studies in culture & communication.

16301. Kessler, Edward, 1927-. Images of Wallace Stevens. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1972, 267pp. 22 cm, fair dust-jacket, torn at top of spine at title label, very good dark red cloth, INSCRIBED by Ed to Claire, 1972. $15
. ISBN 0813507065

16290. MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. A continuing journey. Essays and Addresses. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1968, stated First Printing, x, 374pp. 22 cm, dust-jacket with minor wear, very good blue cloth, $7.5
Yeats and the Belief in Life, National Purpose, Oxford Mississippi, The Second Civil War, Faulkner at Stockhol, Isolation of the American Artist, An Hellenic Center in Washington, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, Elmer Davis, Robert Frost and John F. Kennedy, Mark Van Doren, Jorge Guillen, Jane Addams in Chicago, many others.

16186. Marinacci, Barbara. O wondrous singer! An introduction to Walt Whitman. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1970, 371pp. illus., ports. 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good green cloth, $12
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18158. Miller, Ruth, 1921-. Saul Bellow: a biography of the imagination. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, stated First Edition, xxiii, 385pp. : port. . 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good brown half-cloth, $7
. ISBN 0312039271

16247. Monroe, William, 1952-. Power to hurt : the virtues of alienation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998, xi, 243pp., 24 cm, large PAPERBACK, very good, $6
Strategies, performances, virtues - A performance paradigm - Reading, empathy, alienation - Virtue criticism as cultural criticism - Necessary troublemakers - "Heaven's graces" : gnostic strategies - "Sweetest things" : aesthetic strategies - "Nature's riches" : parabolic strategies - Reluctant performers - "Others but stewards" : T.S. Eliot's gnostic impulse - "Lords and owners" : Vladimir Nabokov's sequestered imagination - "The basest weed" : Donald Barthelme's parabolic fairy tale. ISBN 025206657X

34974. Mr. Williams' Third Grade Class. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow…. His Life and Poetry. Written and Illustrated by Mr. Williams' Third Grade Class 1992-1993. South Portland, Maine: Kwik-Copy Printing, David G. Ducharm Owner, 1993, 64pp., stapled PAPERBACK, ex-library with laminated covers, spine call number label, stamps, deaccession stamps, $25
Pond Cove School, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The third grade class celebrates Longfellow, who was born and lived part of his life in Portland, Maine.

32771. Poirier, Richard, 1925-2009. The renewal of literature : Emersonian reflections. New York : Random House, 1987, later printing, stated First Edition, 244pp., very good dust-jacket, very good brown cloth, briefly INSCRIBED on end paper with much love / Dick 3/16/87. $15
Prologue: The Deed of Writing - The Question of Genius - Modernism and its Difficulties - Venerable Complications: Literature, Technology, People - Resistance in Itself - Writing off the Self. ISBN 0394501403

28176. Poirier, Richard, 1925-2009. A World Elsewhere: the Place of Style in American Literature. New York: Oxford, 1966, 257pp., dust-jacket worn and frayed around edges, good purple cloth but spine faded, pencil notations or pencil underlining on about 20 pages, INSCRIBED by the author: "for Roger Shattuck / Dick, 6/97". $35
Co-founder of the Library of America series, editor of Raritan, long-time English professor at Rutgers, stirred the waters with his 1967 essay: "Learning from the Beatles.".

20612. Riddel, Joseph N.. Purloined letters: originality and repetition in American literature. Edited by Mark Bauerlein. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1995, ix, 180pp., 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good purple cloth, fresh copy, $20
Dealing with the question of "new beginnings" from a literary-theory perspective. Interesting material on Poe, Emerson and others marred by heavy jargon.

20756. Riddel, Joseph N.. The inverted bell. Modernism and the counterpoetics of William Carlos Williams. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [1974], xxv, 308pp. 23 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, $30
. ISBN 0807100633

4517. Roberts, John R.. George Herbert: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1905-1974. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1978, 280pp., dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, $9
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16299. Schaum, Melita, 1957-. Wallace Stevens and the critical schools. Foreword by John N. Serio. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988, xviii, 200pp., 23 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good white cloth, fresh copy, $7.5
. ISBN 081730374X

30416. Shackford, Martha Hale, 1875-1963, ed.. Whittier and the Cartlands. Wakefield, Massachusetts, Montrose Press, 1950, 91pp., very good green cloth, light wear, INSCRIBED: Jeannette Marks / Compliments of M. H. Shackford.. $125
Interesting Wellesley College association: Shackford and Margaret Sherwood were Wellesley Professors and apparently friends of Jeanette Marks, who taught English at Mt. Holyoke for 38 years. Marks was the subject of controversy for her relationship with the President of Mt. Holyoke, Mary Woolley (see 1978 book on this by Anna Wells). Shackford's mother was a born Cartland - Here: A compilation of letters and comments edited by Shackford, Emeritus Professor of English literature at Wellesley College: "printed for the younger descendents of Moses A. Cartland" - "The informality, naturalness, and jesting moods give a pleasant picture of family relationships in a world of Quakers who loved domestic peace but were, nevetheless, ardent Abolitionists." Includes genealogy of Whittier and Cartland families and also reprints the editors 1904 article, A Child's Impressions of Whittier. John Greenleaf Whittier lived: 1807-1892.

17880. Spitzer, Leo, 1887-1960. Essays on English and American literature. Edited by Anna Hatcher, foreword by Henri Peyre. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962, 290pp. 23 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good red-brown cloth, but a minor vertical ink lines in margins on four pages, $35
Chapters on Yeats, Whitman, Tennyson, Poe, Keats, Marvell, Milton, Herrick, Donne, Wagner, Spenser, Middle English poetry.

16315. Stock, Noel. The life of Ezra Pound. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970, stated First American Edition, xvii, 472pp., good dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, very good black cloth, $7.5
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16434. Stone, Geoffrey. Melville. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1949, 336pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, $7.5
A volume in the series: Great Writers of the World.

16239. Wilson, Frances, 1964-. Literary seductions : compulsive writers and diverted readers. New York: St. Martin's, 2000, xxxiv, 258 p. ; 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good black boards, slight wear, $7.5
Miller, Henry, 1891 / Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 / Mandel'shtam, Osip, 1891-1938 / Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 and their relations with women. ISBN 0312261934

19585. Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972. Eight essays. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1954, stated First Edition, 238pp. 19 cm, small PAPERBACK, very good but with fold mark across front cover, previous owner's name, $5
Doubleday anchor books, A37.

16264. Wyatt, David, 1948-. Prodigal sons : a study in authorship and authority. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980, xix, 172pp., 24 cm, very good dust-jacket with a few minor chips, good black cloth, but with pencil notes on rear endpaper, pencil underlining on about 8 pages, ink underlining on a couple of pages, slight coffee stain on foredge, previous owner's name, $6
. ISBN 0801823250