Forum de la Literatura Cubana
Habana: Octubre, 1983. Hardcover. Hardcover in original red cloth. 20 cm. Text browned. No jacket. Spanish text. Contains 8 separately titled and paginated articles. More
Literary Criticism
Papers on Chinese Literature, Volume 1 (Spring 1993)
Cambridge: Fairbank Center for East Asian Reseach at Harvard University, 1983. Paperback. 128p. Wrapper. 26cm. Short-lived periodical published by the Fairbank Center. More
La Litterature Francaise au Dix-Neuvieme Siecle
Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1884-1885. Hardcover. 2 vols. Troisieme edition in Tome I; no statement of edition in Tome II. vi, 347, viii, 336p. Contemporary cloth. 18 cm. Backstrips moderately faded. Mostly light pencil marking in margins. Scattered foxing and browning. French text. More
Virtue's Faults: Corespondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women's Fiction
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 1st ed. Hardcover. dj. 22cm. More
The Authorship of the Vengement Alixandre and of the Venjance Alixandre
Princeton: Princeton University Press; Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1926. Paperback. xii, 55p. Original wrapper. 25cm. Unopened. Light browning. Elliott Monographs in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 19. More
The Resistance of Reference: Linguistics, Philosophy, and the Literary Text
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (c. 1990). 1st ed. Hardcover. dj. 23cm. INSCRIBED by Avni (as "Ora"). From the library of Professor Thomas M. Greene. More
La Vision Pesimista de la Celestina
Mexico: Ediciones de Andrea, 1965. Paperback. 188p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21 cm. Text leaves unopened. Minor cover wear and soiling. INSCRIBED on half-title by Ayllon. Former owner's address label on that same half-title. Coleccion Studium - 45. Copy #174 of 550 numbered copies. Spanish text. More
Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s
Chicago: U of Chicago Press, (c. 1989). 1st ed. Hardcover. index, vi, 246p. dj. 22cm. Essays presented at a 3-day conference at the University of Pennsylvania in April 1987. More
Georges Simenon
Boston: Twayne Publishers, (c. 1977). Hardcover. frontis, index, 171p. Hardcover. 21cm. Review slip taped in. Light wear. No Jacket. More
The Pressures of the Text: Orality, Texts and the Telling of Tales
Birmingham: Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, 1995. Paperback. 145p. Wrapper. 23cm. Birmingham University African Studies Series No. 4. More
Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading
New York: Modern Language Association of American, (c. 1986). 1st ed. Hardcover. viii, 327p. 23cm. No jacket. More
African American Writers and Classical Tradition
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (c. 2010). 1st ed. Hardcover. index, 454p. Original yellow cloth. 23cm. dj. INSCRIBED by co-author Tatum (signing as "Jim") on front free endpaper. More
Hidden Designs: The Critical Profession and Renaissance Literature
NY & London: Methuen, (c. 1986). 1st ed. Hardcover. dj. 24cm. More
Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (c. 1992). 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xii, 295p. Hardcover. dj. 22 cm. More
Letterature dell'Africa
Milano: Jaca Book, (1994). Hardcover. photos, 60 color plates (of African art objects), 413p. dj. Slipcase. 28cm. Minor soiling. Italian text. More
Epic and the Vision of Empire: Historiography in Virgil, Ariosto, and Spencer
[New Haven]: 1974. Hardcover. iv, 301p. Original buckram. 28cm. Photocopied. Printed on one side. No Jacket. His Yale University dissertation. More
Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance; A Woman's Vision
[Nashville]: Fisk University Library, (1981). Paperback. Fisk University, Nashville. Library. Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance; A Woman's Vision. [Nashville]: (1981). Folded (4)-page brochure. 22 x 18 cm. Themes in the Black American Experience, No. 20. Written and compiled by *Betty J. Overton before authorship of "Rosy the Octaroon" was..... More
The Negro in Contemporary American Literature
Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1928. 1st ed. Paperback. 98p. Original wrapper. 23cm. Short tear on title-leaf. University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin, Vol. VII, No. 14. "An Outline for Individual and Group Study" [below title]. Includes extensive bibliographies (pp. 63-92). Ms. Green was the spouse of Paul Green whose writings..... More
Poetry and Epistemology: Turning Points in the History of Poetic Knowledge: Papers from the International Poetry Symposium Eichstatt 1983
Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet, (1986). Paperback. 439p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Eichstatter Beitrage, 20. Abteilung Sprache und Literatur, 6. More
Leopold Sedar Senghor: Ein Afrikanischer Dichter Franzosischer Pragung
Munchen: Wilhelm Fink, (1972). Hardcover. 196p. 23cm. No Jacket. German text. More
Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale; Princeton
Princeton University, (c. 2001). Hardcover. dj. 24cm. INSCRIBED by Harries. From the library of Professor Thomas M. Greene. More
Talks to Writers
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1920. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xxvi, 243p. Original brown cloth. 20cm. Minor chipping on title-label. No Jacket. The material in this volume first appeared in either "Interpretations of Literature" or "Life and Literature" and was selected and edited by John Erskine who also supplied the lengthy..... More
Forms of Glory: Structure and Sense in Virgil's Aeneid
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xiii, 123p. 23cm. Jacket browned. More
French Renaissance Tragedy: The Dramatic Word
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (c. 1990). 1st ed. Hardcover. dj. 22cm. More
Li Ju-Chen
Boston: Twayne Publishers, (1981). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, index, 149p. Original green cloth. 21cm. No Jacket. Twayne's World Authors Series. Li was the author of a popular early 19th century Chinese novel. More