Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1919. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 211 x 144 mm), vii, 298 pages, in black cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in the scarce, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of articles about the theatre by Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966)..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920. First Edition, First Printing. 16mo (6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 173 x 110 mm), xviii, [2], 155, [1] pages, in publisher's original blue cloth, with gilt lettering on the spine and lacking the rare dust jacket. T.S. Eliot's essays on a...... More
New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. A collection of essays written between 1945 and 1964, focusing on literature and folklore, especially the African-American experience. 8vo, xxiii, 317, [2] pages. Small tear in cloth near bottom of front board where it meets the spine, a bit of rubbing..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1948. First Edition. Octavo, 64 pages. This slim volume features blunt, disparaging assessments of Sartre, Mauriac, Malraux, and Koestler from a Communist perspective. Example: "The big bourgeoisie in decay delights in the erotic obsessions of a Henry Miller or the intellectual fornications of a Jean-Paul..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 inches; 235 x 155 mm), 244 pages, quarter cloth over boards, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. In this collection of essays..... More
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Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 233 x 157 mm), 145, [1] pages, in quarter-cloth and boards, titles to spine, in an illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. The author's reflections..... More
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 252, [6] pages, in blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title: "To Virginia Elliott..... More
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, [1952]. First Edition Thus. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), 379, [1] pages, black cloth, titles in silver to spine, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. Ezra Pound's essays on culture. This is a review copy of the New..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1973. First Edition, First Printing. A book of 15 philosophical essays, mostly on logic and mathematics. The book features essays compiled and edited by Douglas Lackey, a professor at Baruch College, New York. Highlights include the first publication in English of Russell's criticisms of..... More
New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1965. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 145 mm), 371, [1] pages, in gray cloth, titles to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket. Essays by the French philosopher on André Gide, Albert Camus, Paul Nizan..... More
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1913. First Edition Thus. 12mo (7 1/8 x 5 inches; 180 x 125 mm), xix, 210, [2] pages, yellow-green cloth, in a printed dust jacket. George Bernard Shaw's 1891 essay on the plays of Henrik Ibsen, presented here with a new preface..... More
New York: Random House, [1973]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 inches; 210 x 150 mm), xix, 419 pages, in red cloth, titles to spine, light blue top stain, in a price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Truman Capote on the front end paper. A collection..... More
New York: New Directions, 2009. Later printing. Octavo, 313 pages, paperback. Fine. Slight bump at bottom of spine. More
New York: Chelsea House, 2007. Later printing. Octavo, 211 pages. A compilation of essays on Tennessee Williams's work. From the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series on famous writers, this one being an "updated edition" of the book on Williams. Hardcover, issued without a dust jacket. Near Fine, with some minor..... More
New York: Chelsea House, 2007. Octavo, 178 pages, hard cover. A compilation of essays on Tennessee Williams and The Glass Menagerie, Williams's first popular success. From the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series on famous writers and their works, this one being an "updated edition" of the book on The Glass..... More
New York: Routledge, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Twelve essays on Tennessee Williams's career, with a look at not only his most famous plays but also his lesser-known works. Octavo, 214 pages, hard cover, issued without a dust jacket. A surprisingly scarce volume. More
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Essays on the influence of popular culture on Tennessee Williams (and vice versa); his relationship to Hollywood; his struggles with censorship and depictions of gender and sexuality, etc. Octavo, 251 pages, hard cover. Fine in a Fine dust jacket..... More