Search Results: bibliography of american literature volumes 1 5

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969. Various editions. Hardcover. Very good. Hundreds of pages, some ills. Light shelfwear and soil; overall clean and sturdy). No d.j. (if issued?). From Henry Adams to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Vol. 5 is the 1969 first printing; vols. 1-4 are 3rd or 4th printings of 1967 and 1968. First published from 1955 on. Heavy; shipping/handling will be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering.

Yale University Press, New Haven, various reprintings, 1967-73. 5 vols, black cloth with red and gilt spine-labels, large 8vo, 26 cm,. l, 474, [1] + xix, 534 + xxi, 482 + xxii, 495 + xxi, 643 ills, facs. The first 5 volumes of this clasic work, covering the alohabet from Adams to Longfellow. Breslauer and Folter: "The standard bibliography for American literature before 1930 is a series of author bibliographies for some 300 major writers, chronologically listing all their works published in book form and selected works about them. It represents a great advance on the selective national literary bibliography as it combines copyright information, copyright deposit copy information, book trade periodical listings, and all the technical - physical elements from title - page transcriptions and collations by signatures and pages to bindings. Location is indicated for the copies examined." This part-set comprises : Vol 1 Henry Adams to Donn Byrne; Vol 2 George W Cable to Timothy Dwight; Vol 3… Read More