Books - "literature"
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Middleton's Vulgar Pasquin: Essays on 'A Game at Chess'
Super octavo, black buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 341pp, illus, VG+ (sl scuffing & bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Associated University Presses 1995
KEYWORDS: literature historiography politics government chess allegory political plays criticism literary
Interpretation and Theology in Spenser
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 273pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature literary doctrine Christianity Edmund Spenser poetry history criticism
Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white & red lettering to spine, xxiv + 257pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light fading to front board, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Brill 2006
KEYWORDS: late middle ages renaissance history drama literature theatre theater England English criticism
Horsemanship: A Bibliography of Printed Materials From the Sixteenth Century Through 1974
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xvii + 282pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1985
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies literature literary horsemanship horses history historical
The Life of John Clare
FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif & blind rule to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 301pp, VG (light to moderate bruising to spine & extrems, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light cracking to gutters, moderate foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1865
KEYWORDS: first edition biography memoir John Clare literary literature poets poetry
Scenic Form in Shakespeare
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 269pp, VG (minimal library marks, light bruising to extrems, moderate water damage to lower spine extrem with paper residue adhered to spine, light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate water damage/staining to lower spine extrem, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Shakespeare structure plays stage drama theatre theater
The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & the Pursuit of Paganism
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & grey lettering to spine, xvi + 398pp, VG (light creasing & curling to cover edges with some moderate fading, moderate creasing & fading to spine, light soiling to page edges, moderate crack to gutter of pgs 246/247, occasional markings to margins in pencil)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1986
KEYWORDS: art history literary criticism literature classical classics Ovid metamorphosis philosophy
I Have Come To You To Greet You
UNCOMMON IN ENGLISH, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 71pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sm gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning with light chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Angel Books 1982
KEYWORDS: literature poems poetry verse Afanasy Fet collection anthology English translations
Peter Grimes: The Poor of the Borough
LACKS SLIPCASE, super octavo, patterened heavy boards, gilt lettering to grey cloth spine, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece, 77pp, illus, Near FINE (sl fading to lower spine/board edges) in removable protective mylar cover
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1990
KEYWORDS: folio society literature poetry verse Peter Grimes George Crabbe
Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 328pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl chafing to boards, occasional annotation & markings in pencil) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1992
KEYWORDS: theology church doctrine academic literature reformation Christianity 16th sixteenth century history authority
German Kantian Bibliography
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 623pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, light tanning to spine & rear board edges, sl soiling to page edges, sl tanning to rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Burt Franklin 1970
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies Immanuel Kant philosophy German literature literary Kantian
Arab Periodicals and Serials: A Subject Bibliography
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 252pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl scuffing & soiling to extrems, sl soiling/staining to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1979
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies literature social science Garland reference library Arab periodicals serials
Jewish Mysticism: An Annotated Bibliography on the Kabbalah in English
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvi + 399pp, VG+ (minimal library markings)
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1984
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies Jewish mysticiam kabbalah spirituality literature Garland reference library
Dictionnaire des Ouvrages Anonymes et Pseudonymes du Dauphine
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, TEXT IN FRENCH, super octavo, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 379pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Laffitte Reprints 1976
KEYWORDS: text in French bibliography bibliographies pseudonyms Dauphine literature
Writing About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, illus prelims, xix + 385pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl scuffing to extrems, sl soiling & light creasing/folding to page edges & corners) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: G. K. Hall & Co 1989
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies literature literary Vietnam war conflict writings
The Borough: A Poem in Twenty-Four Letters (Second Edition, Revised)
Octavo, full brown leather boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt rule to board edges, blue speckling to page edges, marbled eps, xlv + 347pp, VG (light to moderate bruisin g& scuffing to extrems & board edges, moderate scuffign to spine, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, light cracking to gutters, moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, various prev. owner's names to prelims)
PUBLISHER: J Hatchard 1810
KEYWORDS: verse literature poetry G Crabbe
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (Third Edition)
Sm octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to title plate with gilt decoration to spine, marbled eps, xxiii + 220pp, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to board corners, moderate cracking to spine hinges, 4cm full crack to top spine extrem, heavy tanning to board edges & page edges, moderate cracking to gutters, moderate foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Taylor and Hessey 1820
KEYWORDS: poems poetry literature John Clare verse collection
A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance (Second Edition)
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, xxiii + 372pp, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl tanning & light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: St Martin's Press 1995
KEYWORDS: dictionary Shakespeare literature puns phrases literary history sex sexual language humour humor vocabulary
A Long and Happy Life
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 211pp, VG (spine sl cocked, sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning to spine & edges, moderate chafing & soiling with some foxing)
PUBLISHER: Chatto and Windus 1962
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature fiction novels Reynolds Price
The Jews in Spain and Portugal: A Bibliography
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to spine, xiv + 364pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to rear board, minimal library markings, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1975
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies Jews Jewish history anthropology Spain Portugal literature texts Garland reference library social science