Item 063957Billy Budd, Sailor; (An Inside Narrative)
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962. Paperback. pp. ix, 219. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; very good+.
Literary Criticism
Item 076300The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton
New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1981. Hardcover. pp. xvi, 549. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good in very good dustjacket.
Item 9900030442BOOKS An Introduction to Reading
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1932. Hardcover. pp. xix, 222.,Small 8vo,,Bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering,A title in Pitman's 'Art and Life Series'. With chapters on how an author composes, poetry, the novel, history of literature, Shakespeare etc. etc., and an Appendix containing a Selected Bibliography.....
Item 064898Discourse
London: Routledge, 1997. Paperback. pp. viii, 177. 8vo. Spine and front cover creased, small sticker affixed to half-title, pencil underlining and notation throughout, some pages dog-eared; good.
Item 9900027759THE CANADIAN AUTHOR & BOOKMAN Volume XXV, No. 1, March 1949
Toronto: Canadian Authors Association, 1949. black-and-white photographs. Wraps. pp. 56.,8vo,Card covers sl. darkened & edge-worn; else vg,Contains early W. O. Mitchell article entitled IT'S YOUR WAGON, about writing as a craft. Also, Wells A REASON FOR WRITING, and Frayne's article on the free-lancer's life IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
Item 093347Nabokov's Butterflies
London: Allen Lane, 2000. Hardcover. pp. 783. Large 8vo. Black binding with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, spot to bottom page edge, crease to cloth over front board (binding error). Dustjacket rubbed but very good.
Item 064798The Making of Poetry; Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
London: William Collins, 2019. Tom Hammick (Woodcuts and Paintings). Hardcover. pp. 390. 8vo. Colour illustrations. Negligible shelfwear, appears unread; near fine in very lightly rubbed, very good+ dustjacket.
Item 089985The Making of Poetry; Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
London: William Collins, 2019. Hardcover. pp. 390. 8vo. Woodcuts and paintings by Tom Hammick. Turquoise binding. Light shelfwear, some dinting to edges; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket.
Item 9900028747ENGLISH RESTORATION BOOKBINDINGS Samuel Mearne and his contemporaries
London: British Museum, 1974. color frontis., b&w photos. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 48, plates.4to. Board edges very sl. rubbed & sl. general soiling; else nf. With 126 b&w photo plates on glossy paper. Published as a catalog of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London.
Item 089846Other Colours; Essays and a Story
New York: Faber And Faber, 2007. Hardcover. pp. 433. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine in near fine dustjacket. Writing on Life, Art, Books and Cities.
Item 082176The Beginnings of the Book Trade in Canada
Toronto/Buffalo/London: University Of Toronto Press, 1985. Hardcover. pp. 346. 8vo. Bound in red cloth. Lightest shelfwear; near fine.
Item 089633Beyond Engineering; Essays and Other Attempts to Figure Without Equations
New York: St Martins Press, 1986. Karen Petroski. Hardcover. pp. 256. 8vo. Light shelfwear. Dustjacket protected with plastic brodart sleeve; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket.
Item 9900043503THE NEW BOOK-ILLUSTRATIONS IN FRANCE
London: The Studio Ltd., 1924. woodblocks, color, b&w ills. 1st printing. pp. 168.,4to, Card covers show wear and soiling. Very occasional foxing to preliminary pages, else contents clean and tight. A good copy.
Item 086327Hunting Tigers Under Glass; Essays and Reports
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Hardcover. pp. 160. 8vo. Light shelfwear, musty odour. Dustjacket age toned and somewhat discoloured; very good in very good dustjacket.
Item 057150Sphere History of Literature; English Poetry and Prose, 1540-1674
London: Sphere Reference, 1987. Paperback. 8vo. Spine creased, light shelfwear; very good-.
Item 056557Books in the Dock
London: Andre Deutsch, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, boards slightly bowed; very good- in lightly rubbed, very good- dustjacket with one tiny closed tear to top edge of rear panel.
Item 081327Recovering Canada's First Novelist; Proceedings from the John Richardson Conference
Erin: Porcupine's Quill, 1984. Paperback. pp. 101. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+.
Item 083880Old Books, Rare Friends; Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion
New York: Doubleday, 1997. Hardcover. pp. 275. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket.
Item 057675Twentieth Century Interpretations of Walden
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good.
Item 058682Imaginary Homelands; Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
New York: Penguin Books, 1992. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear, ink line to bottom edge; very good.
Item 083833Step Across This Line; Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Toronto: Alfred A Knopf, 2002. Hardcover. pp. xi, 402. 8vo. Silver lettering to spine. Lightest shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket.
Item 051244Sesame and Lilies and the Political Economy of Art
London & Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, [N.D.]. Leather Bound. 12mo. Bound in burgundy leather, gilt lettering and decoration to front panel and spine, gilt foredge. Edgewear, small tear to head of spine, marker name to half title; good+.
Item 090644Gratitude
New York: Knopf, 2017. Hardcover. pp. 45. 12mo. Gray binding. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket.
Item 089826Looking for the Good War; American Amnesia and the Violent Puruit of Happiness
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021. Hardcover. pp. 354. 8vo. Latest shelfwear, ink inscription to half title page; near fine in near fine dustjacket.
Item 078736September 1, 1939; A Biography of a Poem
New York: Harper Collins, 2019. Hardcover. pp. 341. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Slight discoloration to fore-edge. Dustjackey showing general shelfwear and minor markings; very good.