1. Annwn, David (ed.): Shape-Shifter: a tribute to Gavin Selerie. Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2022. 1st. edn. 145pp. B/w photos. Includes contributions by David Annwn, Frances Presley, Ian McMillan et al. Laminated pictorial card covers, a fine copy. (Stock ref 9997) £8.00
2. Beare, Geoffrey.: The Illustrations of W, Heath Robinson: a commentary and bibliography. London: Werner Shaw, 1983. 1st. edn. xii,156pp. Cold. and b/w illus. Introduction by Oliver Robinson. D/w very slightly faded on spine otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 7281) £12.00
3. Beauclerk, Charles.: Shakespearre’s Lost Kingdom: The true history of Shakespeare and Elizabeth. New York: Grove Press, 2010. 1st. edn. xviii,430pp. Cold. illus. D/w with a tiny tear at spine head otherwise a clean, bright copy. (Stock ref 5830) £7.00
4. Birmingham, Frederic A.: The Writer’s Craft. London: Arthur Barker, 1959. 1st. UK edn. 352pp. D/w rather dust marked, rubbed on edges and creased along top edge but clean and sound internally. (Stock ref 7260) £8.00
5. Bishop, Elizabeth.: The Collected Prose. London: Chatto & Windus The Hogarth Press, 1984. 1st. UK edn. xxii,274(4)pp. Edited, with an introdution, by Robert Giroux. Price-clipped d/w a trifle stained at spine tail and slightly rubbed on edges and corners otherwise a clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 10001) £15.00
6. Blackstone, Bernard:: The Consecrated Urn London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1959. 1st. edn. xv, 426 pp. D/w very slightly rubbed on extremities otherwise a fine copy. An excellent assessment of Keats’ poetry. (Stock ref 6073) £7.00
7. Burke, Mary.: Tinkers: Synge and the cultural history of the Irish Traveller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 2nd. impression. xii,329pp. D/w very slightly dust marked otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 7552) £15.00
8. Cawley, A. C. et al.: The Revels History of Drama in English: volume I, Medieval Drama London: Methuen & Co., 1983 1st. edn. xlviii, 348 pp. 30 b/w illus. Series edited by Lois Potter. Small. Neat ownership signature to ffep. D/w just showing some dust marking otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 2925) £15.00
9. Curran, Bob.: A Haunted Mind: inside the dark, rtwisted world of H. P. Lovecraft. Pompton Plains: New Page Books, 2012. 1st. edn. 351pp. B/w illus. Laminated, pictorial card covers a little rubbed on corners otherwise a very clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 9385) £10.00
10. De La Mare. Walter: Behold, This Dreamer! Of reverie, night, sleep, dream, love-dreams, nightmare, death, the unconscious, the imagination, divination, the artist and kindred subjects London: Faber & Faber, 1939 1st. edn. vii, 701pp. Frontis., title page vignette and d/w design by Barnett Freedman. D/w chipped and rubbed with several small, closed tears and some loss at spine head and adjacent area of front panel. A very good copy otherwise.spine head and tail. A very good copy. (Stock ref 8948) £25.00
11. Elfick, Ian & Harris, Paul.: T. N. Foulis: the history and bibliography of an Edinburgh publishing house. London: Werner Shaw, 1998. 1st. edn. ix,267pp. Cold. and b/w illus. D/w slightly faded on spine otherwisea very clean, bright copy. (Stock ref 7279) £20.00
12. Ellis, Havelock: George Chapman: with illustrative passages London: The Nonesuch Press, 1934 Number 425 of an edition limited to 700 copies printed on Van Gelder paper. (6)147 pp. Cold. vignette to title page. Designed by Frances Meynell. Patterned paper over boards somewhat rubbed on edges and worn on corners. Clean and sound internally. (Stock ref 2008) £35.00
13. Fleming, Anne.: Bright Darkness: the poetry of Lord Byron presented in the context of his life and times. London: Nottingham Court Press, 1983. 1st. edn. (18)233(20)pp. 17 b/w illus. Foreword by John Mortimer. Author’s presentation copy. D/w a little rubbed and creased on edges otherwise a clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 5162) £7.50
14. Fowles, John: Wormholes: essays and occasional writings London: Jonathan Cape, 1998 1st. edn. xxv, 405 pp. Edited and with an introduction by Jan Relf. D/w slightly creased and rubbed on edges, a very good copy. (Stock ref 1867) £7.50
15. Fuller, John.: W. H. Auden: A Commentary. London: Faber & Faber, 2007. 1st. P/B edn. xvi,613pp. Pictorial card covers slightly creased on spine otherwise a clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 10034) £10.00
16. Garde, Judith N.: Old English Poetry in Medieval Christian Perspective: a doctrinal approach Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991 1st. edn. (8)232 pp. Small bookplate to front pastedown. No d/w issued. Blue boards, silver spine lettering and paper label to front board. A very good, clean copy. (Stock ref 2894) £15.00
17. Goldberg, S. L.: The Classical Temper: a study of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”. London: Chatto & Windus, 1961. 1st. edn. 346pp. D/w faded on spine with a closed tear in fold of spine and front panel otherwise a very good copy. (Stock ref 8603) £25.00
18. Grey, J. David (ed.): The Jane Austen Handbook. London: Athlone Press, 1986. 1st. UK edn. xvi, 511pp. Includes essays by George Holbert Tucker, Anne-Marie Edwards, Park Honan, Brian Southam, Joan Hassall et al. D/w very slightly faded on spine and a trifle dust marked otherwise a very clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 5820) £25.00
19. Grozinger, Karl Erich.: Kafka and Kabbalah. New York: Continuum Publishing, 1994. 1st US edn. (8)231pp. Translated from the German by Susan Hecker Ray. D/w, a fine copy. (Stock ref 9746) £25.00
20. Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey and Smith, Timothy d’Arch.: C. Day-Lewis, the Poet Laureate: a bibliography. London: St. James Press, 1968. 1st. edn. xii,42pp. Cold. frontis. and 13 b/w illus. Letter of Introduction by W. H. Auden. D/w a trifle rubbed on corners and very slightly faded on spine otrherwise a very clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 7380) £10.00
21. Heaney, Seamus: The Redress of Poetry: Oxford lectures London: Faber & Faber, 1995 1st. edn. xviii, 213 pp. Ten lectures delivered when the author was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. Pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed on spine otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 2372) £4.50
22. Howe, Susan.: The Birth-Mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history. New York: New Directions, 2015. New edn. xvb,189pp. Laminated pictorial card covers, a fine copy.. (Stock ref 9839) £7.00
23. Howe, Susan.: The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history. New York: New Directions Books, 2015. 1st. edn. 180(3)pp. B/w illus. Laminated pictorial card covers, a fine copy. (Stock ref 9713) £6.00
24. Howe, Susan.: The Quarry. New York: New Directions Books, 2015. 1st. edn. 221pp. B/w illus. Laminated pictorial card covers, a fine copy. (Stock ref 9712) £6.00
25. Hughes, Ted.: Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1992. 1st. US edn. xx,524pp. D/w, a dine copy. (Stock ref 10014) £10.00
26. Jacobson, Wendy S.: The Companion to The Mystery of Edwin Drood London: Allen & Unwin, 1986 1st. edn. (18) 209 pp. Nine b/w illus. D/w faded on spine otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 2609) £25.00
27. Kane, George.: Chaucer and Langland: historical and textual approaches. London: The Athlone Press, 1989. 1st. edn. x,302pp. D/w very slightly dust marked otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 6817) £6.00
28. Krissdottir, Morine: John Cowper Powys and the Magical Quest London: Macdonald & Janes, 1980 1st. edn. 218 pp. Inscribed by the author. Price-clipped d/w otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 2265) £20.00
29. Lawrence, D. H.: Selected Literary Criticism. London: William Heinemann, 1955. 1st. edn. xii,435pp. Edited by Anthony Beal. D/w, a fine copy. (Stock ref 8937) £10.00
30. Manning, John: The Emblem London: Reaktion Books, 2002 1st. edn. 398 pp. Numerous b/w illus. D/w slightly faded on spine and with a tiny chip at the spine foot otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 2505) £15.00
31. Marshik, Celia (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 1st. P/B edn. xxii,257pp. Ibcludes edssays by George Burnstein, Jessica Burstein, Helen Carr, Len Platt et al. Laminated pictorial card covers, a fine copy. (Stock ref 9570) £8.00
32. McHale, Brian & Platt, Len (eds.): The Cambridge Hiastory of Postmodern Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 1st. edn. xiv,539pp. D/w, a fine copy. (Stock ref 7553) £50.00
33. Mphahlele, Es’kia: Es’kia Johannesburg: Kwela Books with Stainbank & Associates, 2002 1st. edn. xxii, 485 pp. Two b/w photos. Edited by James Ogude et al. D/w slightly worn on edges, a very good copy. (Stock ref 2065) £15.00
34. Oyler, Lauren.: No Judgement: on being critical. London: Virago Press, 2024. 1st. edn. (8)274pp. Signed by the author on title page. D/w, a fine copy. (Stock ref 9983) £15.00
35. Platt, Len (ed,): Modernism and Race. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 1st. edn. x,219pp. Includes essays by Max Saunders, Kaori Nagai, David Glover et al. D/w very slightly creased along top edge else a fine copy. (Stock ref 9567) £20.00
36. Pritchett, V. S.: The Tale Bearers: essays on English, American and Other Writers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1980. 1st. edn. 223pp. D/w very slightly faded on spine otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 8559) £8.00
37. Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel: Tolstoy on the Couch: misogyny, masochism and the absent mother New York: New York University Press, 1998 1st. US edn. viii, 270 pp. D/w, a fine copy. (Stock ref 2133) £15.00
38. Samuels, Lee: A Hemingway Check List New York: Charles Scribner, 1951 1st. edn. 63 pp. 2nd. state with erratum slip at p 51. Preface by Ernest Hemingway. D/w a little chipped and worn on extremities with some loss to spine head and foot otherwise a clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 6112) £30.00
39. Spender, Stephen.: The Making of a Poem. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. 1st. edn. 192pp. Price-clipped d/w a little stained and with a small, closed tear at spine head otherwise a clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 7259) £6.00
40. Steinbrunner, Chris & Penxler, Otto (eds.): Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection. London: Roputledge & Kegan Paul, 1976. 1st. UK edn. (10)436pp. Many b/w illus. D/w Rubbed and creased on edges and corners otherwise a very clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 8575) £15.00
41. Summers, Montague.: A Gothic Bibliography. London: The Fortune Press, nd (1969). Reprint. xxii,621pp. B/w illus. Price-clipped d/w faded, dust marked and very slightly rubbed on corners otherwise a very clean, sound copy (Stock ref 8150) £35.00
42. Summers, Montague.: The Gothic Quest: a history of the Gothic novel. London: The Fortune Press, 1969. Reprint. 443pp. B/w illus. D/w sunned on spine and with a tiny nick in top edge of back panel otherwise a very clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 8156) £35.00
43. Usborne, Richard.: After Hours with P. G. Wodehouse. London: Hutchinson, 1991. 1st. edn. x,201pp. Binding very slightly cocked. D/w, a very good copy.. (Stock ref 9199) £8.00
44. Wallace, David.: Chaucerian Polity: absolutist lineages and associated forms in England and Italy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. 1st. edn. xxii, 555pp. D/w very slightly rubbed on edges otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 4198) £50.00