463 pp, 8 5/8" H. Signed: "Fanny Butcher" on front free endpaper. B&w photographs. "This is the extraordinary memoir of the lifelong passion - and the multiple friendships - of one of the outstanding women of (the twentieth century), who has lived her life to the full in the heart of the Midwest and the literary circles of two continents. Young Fanny Butcher began her career just before the dawn of the Chicago literary renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. (S)he got a job as assisant to the woman's editor of the Chicago Tribune, and worked her way to the position of literary editor during the ov... View More...
239 pp, 9 3/16" H. B&w photographs, drawings. "Richmal Crompton created William Brown just over seventy years ago as a pot-boiler, but his instant and enduring success kept her writing about him for five decades. His name is now part of the language, synonymous with robust and riotous boyhood. Profusely illustrated with the drawings of Thomas Henry, who portrayed William so vividly in all his vicissitudes, this companion provides an A-Z of exactly who's who and what's what in the splendidly witty saga." Contents: Acknowledgements; List of Plates; Sources of Illustrations; A Note on Refere... View More...
125 pp, 11 1/4" H. "Eric Carle is one of the world's most beloved artists of children's books. Creator of the classic 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar', he has captured the imagination of millions of children and adults with his bold, colorful collage illustrations. (His) life and work are explored in this comprehensive portrait that includes: more than sixty full-color illustrations from his books; artwork from his student days; a moving autobiographical account of his life, with photographs; anecdotal reflections by Ann Beneduce, his longtime friend and editor of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'... View More...
312 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w with photographs, drawings, reproductions of book and magazine covers and author signatures, etc. "Covering the history of the genre in all its forms, and lavishly illustrated with images from books, films, magazines, comics, and graphic novels, (this book) presents one-of-a-kind, decade-by-decade time charts with fascinating insight into the cultural influences that shaped the Science Fiction of each period. In over 100 detailed biographies (it) introduces the world's greatest Science Fiction writers - from Mary Shelley and H.G.... View More...
809 pp, 8 3/4" H. "This is an enumerative bibliography classified under some 500 headings. It embraces all aspects of University and College life and institutions and comprises more than 10,000 entries. The compilers are both members of the staff of the Bodleian and they have systematically explored its vast resources as well as taking account of other likely repositories of Oxford material. In addition to books, the Bibliography includes articles from a large number of periodicals and records a mass of eighteenth and nineteenth century ephemeral literature which reflects University policy... View More...
243 pp, 8vo (8" H). B&w illustrations. "Originally published in 1896, this survey of book illustration is both a comprehensive guide to many facets of early work in the field and important evidence of Victorian taste and the influences which shaped it. Walter Crane, as a leading designer and illustrator, was exceptionally well placed to survey the subject - indeed, some of the finest pieces among over 100 drawings reproduced here are those by Crane himself. Crane begins by describing the artist's role in producing manuscripts and early printed books up to the end of the sixteenth century, ... View More...
262 pp, 8 3/4" H. Contents: Shakespeare's Sonnets and the 1590s; Donne and the "New-found Methods"; The Poetry of the Shakespearean Moment (Donne's 'Anniversaries' and Shakespeare's Last Plays); The Society of the Shakespearean Moment; Puritanism and the Dramatic Attitude; The Beginnings of Rationalism - Lord Herbert of Cherbury; The Civil War, and the Split in the Age; The Classical Line; Criticism and Poetry after the Restoration; Conclusion. Minor edge wear to boards, very light soiling to the fore-edge and top of the text block, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket ha... View More...
144 pp, 11" H. B&w illustrations. Errata slip tipped in at Contents page. "An immense body of writing exists about the province of British Columbia, but it is scattered and often difficult if not impossible to locate. To codify it all into a single, useful bibliography, (the compilers) began this 'labour of love'. Here is their finished compilation; but far from being a cold, factual listing of titles, it is an informal, pleasantly readable, annotated bibliography of books and pamphlets currently in print (as at 1973). The close to 1,000 entries are arranged alphabetically by author and suppl... View More...
343 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "Combining literary criticsm with psychology, sociology, and the history of ideas, (this book) offers a fresh approach to the often-asserted connection between Puritanism and the rise of the English novel. Its premise is that the Christian myth, far from serving as a simple, unified background to fiction, was paradoxical and full of potential conflicts, and that these were particularly vivid in the Puritan imagination. The extraordinary power of Puritan psychology rests in the control it granted Providence over the individual. Yet as a basis for fiction, Puritani... View More...
One of an edition limited to 550 copies, this copy unnumbered. Dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine, 9 3/4" H. B&w frontispiece. Foreword and brief biographical sketch of Mr. Soliday by Peter Decker. The remainder of the book consists of four parts and an index, each individually paginated, (169 pp, 165 pp, 117 pp, 128 pp, 103 pp). Light wrinkling at top/bottom of hinges, small bump at bottom of rear board near hinge, very light edge wear, faint scratches on rear board, faint rub line on front board, soft crease across spine - near bottom. View More...
449 pp, 9 1/4" H. "Northrop Frye was one of the most influential critics of the twentieth century. His output was prodigious: his publications include thirty-eight books and monographs, nearly 300 essays and articles, and some 15 reviews and miscellaneous pieces. His reputation is international: he has been the subject of numerous books, a forthcoming biography, and thirty doctoral dissertations from universities as far-flung as Freiburg, Oxford, and Texas. With this bibliography, the massive body of work by and about Frye is now made readily accessible for the first time. More than 2500 ... View More...
175 pp, 155 pp, 228 pp, 124 pp, 76 pp, - 4 volumes plus supplement bound in 2 volumes, Red cloth with gold lettering/bandind on spine. Burt Franklin Bibliography & Reference Series 289. Faint erased pencil marks at top of both front free endpapers, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor edge wear plus two tiny edge dents and one tiny edge scuff on vol. II, small light sticker mark on front board of vol. II, light rubbing/soiling - mainly on rear board of vol. I View More...
83 pp, 9 1/4" H. Red cloth with black lettering on spine and front board. The text of four Windsor lectures in librarianship. Contents: Who's On First? The Genesis of Certain Great Scientific Concepts; Historical Reputations Reappraised; Impact of Books on American History; The Great American Success Story; Index. Slight bump at three corners, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, very light edge wear, slight fading on front board at fore-edge and top edge, tiny soiling mark on rear board. View More...
192 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions. "When George Cruikshank died, (over) a hundred years ago, he was admired as an artist, respected as a reformer, loved as a man. But he had lived so long and created so much that few could discern any unity underlying the diverse creations of his seventy-year working life - creations ranging from a thumbnail caricature of Napoleon III ('it never reigns but it bores!') to the four-metres-wide 'Worship of Bacchus' which now hangs, dusty and neglected, in the storerooms of the Tate Gallery. For some he was the artist who showed u... View More...
299 pp, 9 1/4" H. "Richard Wright, born in Mississippi in 1908, was largely self-taught. In this valuable work Michel Fabre, Wright's biographer and foremost among Wright scholars, details the volumes in Wright's library, and the facts of Wright's reading habits. This listing of books that formed and influenced him includes second-hand books he bought while living in extreme poverty in Chicago, some borrowed books never returned, books purchased in New York and in Paris, books Wright deemed required reading for a growing novelist, gift books, and others in a wide and comprehensive list on such... View More...
399 pp, 10" H. Pictorial endpapers, profusely illustrated throughout with b&w drawings and colour plates. "Who does not have vivid memories of characters from the books of childhood? Alice in Wonderland, Brer Rabbit, Dr Dolittle, Paddington Bear, the Railway Children, Winnie the Pooh, Tom Sawyer - the list is endless. Many names are so familiar - favourites from generation to generation - that they need no repeating; others are half forgotten; some may be almost unknown. This book is for everyone who wishes to recapture those memories and to find fresh inspiration for reading. It is a pe... View More...
6 issues of the Folio Society magazine, approx. 8 1/4" H. B&w and colour illustrations. 1. October-December 1968 - 15 pp. 2. Winter/Spring 1996 - 36 pp. 3. Autumn 1996 - [32] pp. 4. Summer 1997 - 32 pp. 5. Summer 1998 - 32 pp. 6. Winter 1998 - [32] pp. Articles/reviews/excerpts/illustrations about/from Folio Society publications. Interiors - minor browning to the edges of the pages and inside edges of covers, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exteriors - minor edge wear, very light wear on the spines, books 1 to 4 have light browning on the rear rear cover at ... View More...
213 pp, 8 1/2" H. "(A) companion piece for 'Used and Rare', (this book) details the warm and witty story of the (authors') further explorations into the curious world of books. The Goldstones get hooked on the writing, correspondence, and couplings of the Bloomsbury group; they track down Bram Stoker's earliest notes for 'Dracula'; they set their sights on a single lot of 128 leather-bound books at Sotheby's auction of the Paris home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; they try out book collecting on the Internet; and they are introduced to hypermoderns. 'Slighty Chipped' is filled with anecd... View More...
192 pp, 7" H. B&w illustrations. "Spanning the years between the dime novels of the 19th century and today's paperbacks, pulp magazines provided millions with their first and only taste of 'literature'. The noble, resourceful heroes of those gripping tales of fiction, along with their monstrous, evil antagonists, were depicted on cheap paper, and housed in lurid covers that shocked all but the near-blind. There was 'The Shadow', scourge of the underworld, 'Doc Savage', superhuman adventurer, and 'The Phantom Detective', sleuth extraordinaire, a well as the breathtaking exploits of World War I... View More...
274 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H). "(A)n analytic study of the imagery in Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu', with incidental reference to some of the other works. Similies and metaphors are first classified and tabulated under various headings: descriptive/analytical; concrete/abstract; visual/olfactory, etc. This statistical analysis is only a preliminary to a detailed examination of imagery related to themes (nature, aesthetics, love, etc.), and a careful consideration of images classified according to source (nature, science, literature, the arts, etc.). The introduction outlines the method us... View More...
