Literary Criticism from 100 POCKETS

London, UK: Penguin, 1989. First Edition, 27th Printing . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW w/margin discoloration. Soft cover/NF w/light wear & sticker removal loss to lower back corner. Collection of 15 short stories of New Zealand by Katherine Mansfield, pseudonym of Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (1888-1923). First published 1922 in literary magazines; this is Penguin reissue. The… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Special Edition, Time Inc., 1965. 1st Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; strong w/front spine fortified with archival tape & trace shelfwear. Historical novel from English poet, novelist & classicist Robert Graves (1895 - 1985). First published 1934; this is a 1965, Time Inc. Edition. "Autobiography" of Roman Emperor… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Avon Books, 1990. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. 1990 First Avon paperback printing. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/trace edge wear. Novel by Edward Paul Abbey (1927 - 1989) written shortly before his death. Best known for The Monkey Wrench Gang and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire. This novel is… Read more about this item

New York: Signet/New American Library, 1961. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/As New w/margin discoloration. 1961, First Edition, 2nd Printing. Softcover/VG; sound w/shelfwear. THE GRASS HARP, personal favorite of Truman Capote (1924 - 1984), was first published 1951, adapted 1952 to a play, to a musical 1971, and to film 1995.… Read more about this item

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1979. Boxed Set of 2 Volumes, Oct. 1979 . Soft Cover/Boxed Set. New/None as Issued. This is a Boxed Set with 2 paperback volumes. BOTH COPIES: Text/Brand New & Bright. Softcovers/NF w/trace surface wear. BOX: Good;, Sound & Shelfworn w/marked rubs to all surfaces & edges. Letters (edited by Dorothy Labrano Guth)… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Fawcett Columbine, 1994. First Edition, 3rd Pinting . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/trace margin discoloration. Softcover/Fine. Novel from Polish-born (now part of Ukraine) Jewish-Amercia novelist Louis Begley (1933 -) known for his semi-autobiographical Holocaust novel, Wartime Lies (1991). This 243 paged urbane & elegant novel is the story of… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1968. 13th Revised, Centennial Edition, . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/AS NEW & bright. Vintage 1968 Revised & Enlarged Edition. Gilt embossed green linen boards/NF. DJ/None. Upper text edge dyed red. Faint creasings to first 12 pgs & the last from faulty handing. Anthology of familiar, famous quotations. Assembled by writer and… Read more about this item

New York, NY: HarperAudio, 1990. Set of 2 Cassettes . 2 Audio Cassettes/Boxed. New/None as Issued. Set of 2 Audio Cassetts; BRAND NEW. Box for the cassettes/Tired w/rubs & faint creasings, and taped. Author Tony Hillerman (1925 - 2008) published Coyote Waits in 1990; the cassettes were recorded in May, of the same year, in Albuquerque, NM. Running… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1913. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/NEW & Bright. Vintage March 1913, First Edition, 1st Printing. Gilt-embossed blue/black linen boards/NF w/end rubs. DJ/None. Staple punctures to fEP & light discoloration (acidic paper reaction). Frontispiece under tissue guard: Photo portrait of French novelist, dramatist, and 1915 Nobel winner Romain Rolland… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Universal Library/Grosset & Dunlap, 1955. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. James Thurber (Author-Illustrator). SOFT COVER. Text/BRAND NEW, w/faint margin discoloration, and, humidity staining to lower spines of first 17 pgs & last pages. Anthology of 36 short stories & illustrations from Ohio-born James Grover Thurber (1894 - 1961),… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Fawcett Columbine/Ballatine, 1983. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright, showing faint margin discoloration. Softcover/Good w/faint creasing to upper front & small loss to lower front corner & light surface discoloration. 1960, first novel in the series of 6 from gifted, Pulitzer Prize winner novelist, poet & short… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1967. Offprint . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/faint creasings to lower left corner of softcover. New Zealand-born sinologist & scholar of traditional Chinese vernacular fiction, Professor Patrick Dewes Hanan (1927 - 2014), Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages & Director of the Harvard-Yenching Library. 207 pgs. Essays addresses… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Signet/New American Library, 1979. Reprint of 1979 . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW w/faint margin discoloration. Softcover/VG; strong, shelf worn, w/humidity stains to front & back cover. First published 1903; this is a Signet reprint of 1979. It is said author, key 19th century writer author of literary realism, Henry James, (1843 -… Read more about this item

Barcelona, Spain: Todolibro, 1980. Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW,w/faint margin discoloration. 1980, Spanish language text. Softcover/VG; strong w/edge rubs, faint creasing to upper front corner & spine. Anthology of 21 "legends" by Spanish poet & writer Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, (1836 - 1870). The Legends are romantic tales, and often of supernatural & semi-religious (Christian) happenings, but… Read more about this item

Mexico, D.F., Mexico: Espasa-Calpe, 1991. Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright w/marginalia to last 2 pgs. Spanish language text. Softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. Fiction. First 2 of a series of 4 noteworthy novelettes from Spanish novelist, dramatist & poet Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866 - 1936), whose statue stands in Madrid. 182 pgs., the short stories are:… Read more about this item

Lexington, KY: Univ Press Kentucky, 1991. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/NEW & Bright. 1991, First Edition, First Thus. Dark blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. Evolutions of feudal loyalty in European literature. Review of on going narratives of Roland, who gave up his life in 788 at the Battle of Roncesvalles, is described in 19th… Read more about this item

Paris, France: Librairie Hatier, 1930. Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. Vintage 1930 issue, French Language text. Stapled softcover/VG; soiling to front & also showing discoloration. Le Père Goriot (Old Goriot or Father Goriot), classic 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850), included in the Scènes de la… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1965. Reprint of 1968 . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW w/trace margin discoloration. Softcover/VG; sound w/light edge & surface rubs. First published 1965; this is a Reprint of 1968. Annotated translations of two medieval Icelandic narratives with oral tradition antecedents. Recording the discovery of America by Norsemen some 5 centuries before Christopher Columbus. They… Read more about this item

North Adams, MA: Oxford Univ Press/Franklin Library, 1983. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Rockwell Kent (Illustrator). BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. 1983 First Edition, First Thus. Red, gilt embossed leather backstrap w/gilt embossed red linen boards. Decorated endpapers. Red ribbon book mark. All leading edges in gilt. This edition based on text established… Read more about this item

London, UK: Everyman's Library/Dent/Dutton, 1963. Reprint of 1906 Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Text/Clean & Near New. Blue linen boards/Good; sound w/edge & surface rubs, and showing marked discoloration. PO label to fEP & fEP verso. Arthurian literature. First published 1485 by William Caxton. Le Morte d'Arthur (the Death of Arthur) from Sir Thomas Malory (- 1471). Compilation… Read more about this item