Books - "literature"
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Writing From History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature
Super octavo, mauve glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 309pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers & edges, light chafing, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history renaissance writing intellectual culture
Sleeping Giants: Book One of the Themis Files
AUSTRALIAN FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus light card covers, white & blue lettering to spine, 304pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph/Penguin Books 2016
KEYWORDS: modern first edition Australian literature fiction novels Themis files book one 1 i Sylvain Neuvel scifi science fiction
English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 539pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism reformation history
Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance
Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 148pp, Near FINE (light bruising to boards) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history drama religion religious Christianity Shakespeare
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 287pp, Near FINE (sl curling to cover edges, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: Thomas Aquinas literature literary criticism religion religious medieval philosophy
The Journals of Andre Gide 1889-1949 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spines, vol 1- xii + 354pp + xiv index to rear, vol 2- 368pp + xii index to rear, VG+ (light curling to covers, light fading to spine of vol 1, light soiling to page edges of both vols, sl cracking to front gutter of vol 1)
PUBLISHER: Northwestern University Press 1987
KEYWORDS: journals diary Andre Gide literary biographies autobiographies literature
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
The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace
PENCIL ANNOTATION THROUGHOUT, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 470pp, VG (light scuffing & bruising to board edges & extrems, sl soiling to boards, moderate water staining to page edges- no wrinkling, afrementioned pencil annotation throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light to mdoerate fading to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2002
KEYWORDS: literature literary reformation history theology humanism grammar