Search Results: Literature from Lawrence Jones

London: Macmillan, 1972. xi, 51pp. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped , edge-worn with 1/2" and 1" tears and normal shelf wear. The first comprehensive bibliography of general studies of Irish Drama written between 1899 and 1970. The work is presented in the following sections: Bibliographies; Books; Periodicals and Unpublished Material.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Very Good. 8vo.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969. x, 345pp, bibliography, index. Or cl boards in dust jacket with loss of a section of color by the upper edge of the front panel. Small shop stamp by the lower edge of the ffep. Seventeen essays, some of which are classics in the field, include Bruce Harkness's Bibliography and the Novelistic Fallacy. Studies by Bowers, Todd and Robson represent the debate on the question of selecting and identifying a copy-text; and the three concluding essays analyze the textual problems encountered in editing and researching works by Joyce, Yeats, and Hemingway.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Penguin, 1991. 240pp, Pictorial card. Slight edgewear. light toning to page edges. Classic British humour from the author of the Jeeves and Blandings books. Originally in Penguin in 1953 but this much later reprint.. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. xvi, 413pp, index, appendices, sources and notes, bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Slightest of edge wear to jacket. Highly objective and authoritative biography of Plath- a brilliant poet and author whose principal works were not published until after her suicide.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: Faber & Faber, 1993. 34pp2 bw ills. Or card covers. Some foxing to first and last few pages. Dialogue from a film by poet Tony Harrison which was filmed on location in the Alzheimer's ward of High Royds Hospital. The things which seem to linger longest in the impaired memories of those affected by Alzheimer's are banal tunes and a sense of dance and rhythm. Harrison has recreate something of these lost personalities by using such tunes and verbal rhythms. This is the seventh film Harrison has made in collaboration with director Peter Symes for the BBC.. First UK Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Oxford.: Clarendon Press, 1992. x, 219pp, index, bibliography. Slight paperclip mark on last few pages. The first book to analyse Spanish and Spanish American literature in the light of modern theories of sexuality. Provides a readable introduction to the varied and complex treatments of sexuality since Freud, and provides the ability to read in this context, a representative selection of major texts from different areas of Hispanic Studies- Renaissance, modern peninsular, and Spanish American.. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 253pp. Or gray cloth with black cloth spine in jacket. Chronicles the gurus, gods and devils of the Bohemian movement. Wander the left bank of Paris with Burroughs, Ginsberg, Miller, and Genet. Sip a dark brew in a jerusalem coffee house. Join drug-amplified street theatre in the Haight-Ashbury district, and the ongoing Loizada of Manhattan. From intimate fetes in Greenwich Village to the Art Deco book shops of Miami, the off-center canals of Venice, Ca, and the college towns of America, and in Moscow, Port-au-Prince, Palma and La Jolla with stories of art and angst, wit and compassion. Meet the famous "upper Bohemians"-Woody Allen, Saropyan, Anais Nin, Henry Miller. Here too are the would-bes like the collagist of The Oldest Living Coke Bottle Top and the happy Doctor of Sunamatism with his recipe for virility. Much more-the complete Bohemian experience.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1998. xxxiii, 827pp, index. Original red papered boards with black cloth spine in jacket. Slightest of edge wear to jacket. A collection of over 200 of the world's finest writings about love, arranged by genre and including fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs and letters written by the world's most renowned authors, poets and philosophers from Sophocles and Plato to E.E. Cummings and Joyce Oates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: Heinemann, 1982. 370pp. Or blue cl boards in dust-jacket (not price-clipped).. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Ferntree Gully: The Rams Skull Press, 1956. 17pp, two-tone ills. Or stiff card covers. Endpapers toned otherwise lovely. Illustrated pseudo-dust jacket. Limited edition of 99 copies, this being number 76, signed by author and artist at colophon - the third in the Black Bull Chapbooks. Being three of the songs called Botany Bay..... Signed by Author & Illustrator. First Limited Edition.. Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1955. 126pp, bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Some toning to pictorial endpapers. Jacket price clipped with several chips and short tears, damp stain along top edge of rear panel. First published edition of the musical which debuted on the London stage in 1953.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Wilson, Sandy. 8vo.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. 216pp. Or green cloth in jacket. Spine creased and small stamp on front pastedown. Jacket price clipped. First published in England in 1940. One of the mysterious Traven's finest works it is set in a nameless Indian settlement deep in the Mexican bush wgere a small boy disappears. Traven's study of primitive anguish, of the courage and dignity, of a simple and desperately poor people, is compassionate and moving. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Aberdeen, Scotland.: John Avery and Company Ltd., 1942. 128pp, bw ills, glossary. Or brown card covers with laid on portrait of Burns. Somewhat worn, some of the cover portrait of Burns has been peeled off, bottom corner creased. Second printing of the illustrated edition, comprising 25 Burns gems and 23 bw ills. . Reprint. Stiff Card. Good Plus. 8vo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton No date, c1910. 46 pages, coloured frontispiece and four colour plates by Dudley Hardy, decorative end-papers. Cloth-backed papered boards with pictorial onlay at the centre of the front board. Gilt titles rubbed. . Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Dudley Hardy. 8vo.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1984. 227pp, bw ills. Or card covers. Prev owners 'cypher' signature on first blank page. Burroughs' writings collected from scattershot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway; Cobblestone Gardens and The Retreat Diaries this collection delineates Burroughs comprehensive world view. Also includes essays on Burroughs and facsimile pages from the famous cut-up scrapbooks of the mid-century- The Book of Hours; John Brady's Book and The Old Farmer's Almanac.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

London: Oxford University Press, 1974. x, 925pp, index, notes. Or card covers. Spine and adjacent areas faded, front cover creased, bookstore stamp inside front cover with old price blacked out. A 'new' edition corrected by John Jump containing all but a few trivial, mainly juvenile, published poems together with Byron's own notes.. Third Edition, Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House., 1971. 144pp, index, notes. Or blue cloth in jacket. Prev owners bookplate on ffep, edges lightly spotted. Jacket has slight edge wear and slight soiling. A unique look at CS Lewis, the renowned Christian author, in his lesser known role as a gifted oral communicator. Includes his roles of lecturer, preacher, radio broadcaster, and conversationalist. Each of the contributors knew Lewis personally (with the exception of the editor). Includes several never-before published extracts from the Martlets minute books. The Martlets were an Oxford literary society of which Lewis was an active member. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. viii, 696pp, bw ills. Or card covers. Corner of back cover and some pages creased. The most comprehensive and readable work of reference on literary women writing in English with over 2500 entries written by academics, freelancers & journalists, men and women, poets and novelists, young scholars and distinguished names. The culmination of 2 decades work in literary history and theory.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Sml 4to.

Cape Town: Howard Timmins., 1967. 91pp, bibliography, bw drawings. Or green cloth in jacket. Prev owners name on ffep, light edge wear, light soiling to jacket. Limited edition of 1000cys-this #727. The early poets of the Cape are almost forgotten. Nerine Desmond rescues them from oblivion starting with the earliest known Cape poem recorded from 1666.. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1981. 224pp. Or green cloth in jacket. Belated second impression of the third volume of Virginia Woolf's essays to be published posthumously. Subjects covered by the essays in this volume include the novels of Turgenev, Ruskin, Thomas Hardy, Walter Sickert, memories of a working women's guild, the cinema and flying over London and thunder at Wimbledon. Woolf's gift of imagery is excellently represented.. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Bell, Vanessa (jacket). 8vo.