American Literature from Focloir

Civil War hcpw Halpine, Charles G. (Charles Graham), 1829-1868.Poetical works of Charles G. Halpine (Miles O'Reilly). Consisting of odes, poems, sonnets, epics, and lyrical effusions, which have not heretofore been collected together. With a biographical sketch and explanatory notes. Edited by Robert B. Roosevelt, 1829-1906.New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869, xxi p., 1 l., [25]-352 p. front. (port.). A really… Ler mais sobre este item

Grabhorn press1937. Bland, Henry Meade, 1863-1931. Like dawn Sierran, a sonnet sequence. San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1937, 130 pages, index. As expected, a handsome production from the Grabhorn Press. There is some minor bumping to three of the four corners of the blue cloth cover panels, exposing the boards. Else a very good to fine… Ler mais sobre este item

Americana lmb2 The Lark Magazine. Book The Second. Nos. 13 to 25. May 1896 to April 1897. Published by William Doxey, San Francisco, in 1897. Gelett Burgess, Editor. Hardcover. Unpaginated but over 300 pages. 6" x 8." The issues have been bound up in a cloth binding with an illustration of Pan. The Cover says "Book II -Numbers… Ler mais sobre este item

Americana jjpp Joyce, John A., Colonel, 1842-19??. Peculiar poems. New York: Thomas R. Knox, 1885, 159p. Red cloth cover with gilt lettering on the title, same for the spine, all edges gilt. Gilt image of Pegasus on front cover with Pan? blowing his pipes. Some light staining to bottom of cover panel. "Peculiar" would… Ler mais sobre este item

Hoaxes 3333 Edited by Jordan, George William and Richardson Little Wright. Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch: an appreciation of his life and works. New York: The Authors Club, 1918, [4], 126, [6] p. (first 4 p. and last 5 p. blank), [9] leaves of plates: ill., facsims., ports. Photographic frontispiece and photographic plates facing p. 81, 93 and 103. Plates… Ler mais sobre este item

Ireland jmwi Joyce, Michael. The war outside Ireland: a novel. Jackson, Michigan: Tinkers Dam Press, 1982, 173p, paperbound. A first novel dealing with the Irish-American Doyle family. It is a compliment to the writer that this his first novel was reviewed by John Hawkes and Vance Bourjaily. $8.50 Box 2027

Americana geen Gaston, Edwin W. Jr. The Early Novel of the Southwest. A Critical History of Southwestern Friction 1819-1918. With Emphasis on Forty Major Novels from L'Heroine Du Texas to the Desire of the Moth. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1951, 318 pages, bib, index. Very good to fine in dust jacket. NOT EX-LIBRARY. $8.50 Box… Ler mais sobre este item

Americana gtat Gross, Theodore. Albion W. Tourgee. (Series: Twayne's United States Authors Series No. 39). New York: Twayne Publishers, 1963, 176 pages, notes, bib, index. Very good. $9.50 Box 21

Americana wmdd Wigglesworth, Michael, 1631-1705. The Day of Doom or A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment with Other Poems. Edited with an Introduction by Kenneth B Murdock. New York: The Spiral Press, 1929, xi, 94 pages. This is number 448 of 535 numbered copies. The book is in overall good condition but with the following detractions:… Ler mais sobre este item

Irish in America kefo (O'Connor, Flannery). Kessler, Edward. Flannery O'Connor and the language of apocalypse. Princeton University Press, 1986, 163p, index. New in plastic wrap. $16.50 Box A 125

Americana wwlf The Waterfront Writers: the literature of work. Edited by Robert Carson. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979, vi, 198p, illus. Very good in like dust jacket. $16.50 Box 26 Interesting associations. On the front endpapers are signatures and inscriptions of 8 or 9 contributors to this literary anthology. Inscribed to a "Marie". It appears… Ler mais sobre este item

Americana fvcp Fisher, Vardis. The Caxton Printers in Idaho. A Short History. Cincinnati, Ohio: Society of Bibliosophers, 1944, viii, 32 pages. First edition. The gilt lettering on spine is pretty much worn off but a good plus to very good copy of the book. (Small point: on the verso of the title page there is a small… Ler mais sobre este item

American lit banw Beers, Henry Augustin, 1847-1926. Nathaniel Parker Willis. Boston/New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885, viii, 365 p. front. (port.). This is the original 1885 edition, copyright edition, so stated. It is in very good shape, has a small pressure dent to top of spine, a nice bookplate on back lining paper of Frederick Forrest Peabody. (I've… Ler mais sobre este item

American lit decp Davison, Edward, 1898-1970. Collected Poems, 1917-1939. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940, xi, 195 pages. Printed label on spine. Good, clean, tight copy. Signed by Davison, dated 1940, on front free endpaper. First edition, so stated. No dust jacket. $10.00 Box 10 Edward… Ler mais sobre este item

IrishAmerica fjit Farrell, James T. On Irish themes. Edited with an introduction by Dennis Flynn. Foreword by William Shannon. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982, xiii, 201p, bib, index. Essays by Farrell on Joyce, O'Connor, James Connolly et al. New copy. Still in plastic wrap. $12.50 Box 3333

Americana mwhr McMasters, William Henry. Revolt: an American novel. Illustrated by Hayden Jones. Boston: David D. Nickerson, 1919, 281 pages, illus. Cover in mustard yellow cloth. With illus of capitol building on cover. Bottom of two pages carelessly opened, good, tight, bright copy. $15.00 Box A 120

Americana bkmn Boyle, Kay. 1902-1992. Monday Night. New York: New Directions, 1938, 274 pages. Gray cloth binding, titled on the spine title is in dark blue. Good to very good copy of mystery novel, tight copy, $20.00 Box A 120

AmerLit mjak McIntyre, John Thomas, 1871-1951. Ashton-Kirk criminologist. Illustrations by Ralph L. Boyer. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1919, 332p, illus. Good copy. One in the series featuring this popular detective. $10.00 Box 2022

American Lit lpve Lifton, Paul. "Vast encyclopedia" : the theatre of Thornton Wilder. (Series: Contributions in drama and theatre studies). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995, xii, 225 pages, bib, index. Very good copy. $20.00 Box 818

Americana occ (O'Neill, Eugene, 1888–1953). O'Neill: a collection of critical essays. Edited by John Gassner. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1964, viii, 180p, bib. Very good to fine in dust jacket. Bookplate of collector on front lining paper $10.00 Box 1234