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MASTERY AND ESCAPE. T.S. Eliot and the Dialect of Modernism.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. 8vo., pp.xi,274, burgundy cloth, gilt; light foxing to edges, slight soiling to top edge, slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy indeed, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which is lightly rubbed and sunned to spine, else very good.
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SKALDIC VERSE AND THE POETICS OF SAGA NARRATIVE
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 8vo., pp.viii,255, hardcover, gilt; foxing to top edge, a few light marks to fore-edge of text block, else very good indeed, in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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GREAT ABNORMALS.
The Pathological Genius of Kafka, van Gogh, Strindberg and Poe.
New York: Hawthorn Press, 1968. 8vo., pp.248, quarter pale blue cloth lettered in navy, patterned paper boards; light foxing to cloth, with a little toning to the edges, foxing to edges of text block, overall a very good copy, in a lightly worn dust-jacket.
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STOICISM, POLITICS & LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF MILTON. War and Peace Reconciled.
Cambridge: Univerisity of Cambridge Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xi,174, black hardcover, gilt, 5 b/w illustrations; very light foxing to edges, very slight damp staining to boards, very slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which is lightly damp stained, overall very good, now in a protective cover.
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CONFLICTED LIFE: William Jerdan, 1782-1869.
London Editor, Author and Critic.
Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2011. 8vo.,pp.xii, 659, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light rubbing to corners of boards, adhesive price label to rear, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE KEYS OF MIDDLE-EARTH. Discovering Medieval Literature Through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Second edition, 8vo., pp.xii,284, paperback; very slight rubbing to edges of wrappers, a fine, fresh copy.
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LIGHT ON C.S. LEWIS
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1965. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi,160, green hardcover, gilt; a few spots of foxing to edges of text block, a very good copy in good unclipped dust-jacket, toned and lightly rubbed.
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SHADOWS OF HEAVEN.
Religion and Fantasy in the Fiction of C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams and J.R.R. Tolkien.
London: SCM Press, 1971. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 184, hardcover, bronze lettering; foxing to edges of text block, ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to rear and lightly rubbed to extremities.
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PAGAN PAST AND CHRISTIAN PRESENT IN EARLY IRISH LITERATURE.
Ireland: Leinster Leader Ltd, 1991. 8vo., pp.,xi,277, green hardcover, gilt; a very good hardcover in a very good unclipped dust-jacket which has a sticker price to back.
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SKALDSKAPARMAL Snorri Sturluson’s ars poetica and medieval theories of language.
Odense University Press, 1987. 8vo., pp.210, hardcover, gilt; small mark to front board, else very good indeed.
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WORDSWORTH'S READING. [In Two Volumes:] Volume I. 1770-1799; Volume II. 1800-1815.
Cambridge University Press, 1994. Reprint, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xviii,220;xxix,307, red hardcovers lettered in silver, with blocked blue title-labels to front boards; a near-fine set. No dust-jackets.
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JOHN DRYDEN: TERCENTENARY ESSAYS.
Oxford University Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.xiii,415, navy hardcover, gilt; small presentation inscription to front free endpaper, a fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SENSE OF AN ENDING. Studies in the Theory of Fiction.
Oxford University Press, 1968. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xi,187, paperback; toning to margins, a very good copy indeed.
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FIGURING SEX BETWEEN MEN FROM SHAKESPEARE TO ROCHESTER.
Oxford University Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.281, navy hardcover, gilt; author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, a fresh and near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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MILTON'S MESSIAH. The Son of God in the Works of John Milton.
Oxford University Press, 2011. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xii,253, navy hardcover, gilt; small mark to front paste-down endpaper (concealed by flap of dust-jacket, an otherwise fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING: His Life, Works, and Thought.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 8vo.,pp. xii,734, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has a small closed tear to front upper corner.
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OVER THE LONG HIGH WALL. Some Reflections & Speculations on Life, Death & Time
London: Heinemann, 1972. First edition, 8vo., pp.142, navy hardcover, gilt; light yellowing to pages, light foxing to edges, a few spots of foxing to endpapers, and initial initial pages, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, a couple of closed tears to lower margin, small area of loss rear upper margin, lightly sunned to spine.
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REFORM AND CULTURAL REVOLUTION. Volume 2: 1350-1547.
The Oxford English Literary History.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 8vo.,pp. xvii,661, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; slight soiling to edges of text block, otherwise clean and very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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LITERATURE IN THE VERNACULAR (De Vulgari Eloquentia).
Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1981. 8vo., pp.84, paperback; light toning to margins, light sunning to spine, otherwise clean, a very good copy.
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TRACING T.S. ELIOT'S SPIRIT.
Essays on his Poetry and Thought.
Cambridge University Press, 2008. 8vo., pp.,xxi,195, paperback; a near fine copy.
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