1. McCarthy, Thomas.

Questioning Ireland – Essay and Reviews [Signed by Thomas McCarthy on the titlepage].

First Edition (simultaneously published in Softcover (Paperpack) and Hardcover). Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 2024. Octavo. 420 pages. Original Softcover (Paperback). As new condition with only minor signs of wear. SIGNED by Thomas McCarthy on the titlepage.

2. McCarthy, Thomas.

Questioning Ireland – Essay and Reviews [Rare Hardcover-Edition SIGNED by Thomas McCarthy on the titlepage].

First Edition (simultaneously published in Softcover (Paperpack) and Hardcover). Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 2024. Octavo. 420 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. As new condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the very rare Hardcover-Edition which was sold out very quickly. SIGNED by Thomas McCarthy on the titlepage.

3. [Golding, William] Kinkead-Weeks, Mark / Gregor, Ian.

William Golding: A Critical Study.

London, Faber and Faber, 1967. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 257 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

4. Brookner, Anita.

The Genius of the Future. Studies in French Art Criticism: Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, The brothers Goncourt, Huysmans.

First edition. London. Phaidon. 1971. 18 x 26 cm. 172 pages with 30 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Very tight and clean copy. One of the few very rare and interesting publications of literary criticism.

5. Wolpers, Theodor (Hrsg.).

Gelebte Literatur in der Literatur. Studien zu Erscheinungsformen und Geschichte eines literarischen Motivs. Bericht über Kolloquien der Kommission für literaturwissenschaftliche Motiv- und Themenforschung 1983-1985.

Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986. 8vo. 364 Seiten. Softcover / Broschiert. Eine Kante stärker bestossen. Sonst sehr guter Zustand. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Besitzvermerk. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen – Philologisch-historische Klasse, III/152).

6. [Wolfskehl, Karl] Blasberg, Cornelia.

Karl Wolfskehl und Kiechlinsbergen. “Sprechen die Steine ?” ; [eine Veröffentlichung der Arbeitsstelle für Literarische Museen, Archive und Gedenkstätten in Baden-Württemberg].

Marbach am Neckar, Dt. Schillerges., 1995. Gr.-8°. 15 Seiten. Illustriert. Softcover / Originale Broschur. Aus der Bibliothek des Mediaevisten Josef Fleckenstein mit seinem Namenszug auf der ersten Seite und einige feine Bleistiftanstreichungen von seiner Hand. Kleiner Lichtrand. [Spuren ; 30].

7. Williams, Charles.

Poetry at Present.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1930. 13 cm x 19 cm. IX, 216 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

8. [Weill, Kurt] Hinton, Stephen (Editor).

Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera.

Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1990. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. XV, 229 pages. With 19 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Excellent, close to new condition. [Cambridge Opera Handbooks].

9. Waiblinger, Elke.

Reisende des Cinquecento. Sozialer Typus und literarische Gestalt.

Heidelberg, Winter, 2003. 8°. 256 Seiten. Softcover / Kartoniert. Sehr guter, neuwertiger Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. KEIN Besitzvermerk. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar. [Studia Romanica ; 112]

10. Temple, The Most Rev. William.

The Genius of Poetry. Presidential Address 1939.

1st Edition. London, The English Association, 1939. 8°. 15 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Very Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Copy of F.W.Roe, with is name on cover and pen markings on a few pages. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]

11. Swiderska, Malgorzata / [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky].

Studien zur literaturwissenschaftlichen Imagologie. Das literarische Werk F. M. Dostoevskijs aus imagologischer Sicht mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Darstellung Polens.

München, Sagner, 2001. 8°. 495 Seiten. Illustriert. Softcover / Kartoniert. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung der Verfasserin and die Romanistin Maria Moog-Grünewald. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen, äußerlichen Gebrauchsspuren. [Slavistische Beiträge ; Bd. 412]

12. Stone, Harry.

Fairy Tales and Ogres : Dickens’ Imagination and “David Copperfield”.

Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1964. 8°. 7 Pages (pp. 24-30). Stapled blue wrappers (softcover). Good condition. Some rust marks from staples. “DICKENS” and “Sincere regards, HS” (Harry Stone) written in pen on front cover. Some text markings. [Offprint from: “CRITICISM, a Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, Vol.VI, No.4, 1964.]

13. Stone, Harry.

Dickens Rediscovered. Some Lost Writings Retrieved.

Berkley, University of California Press, 1970. 8°. 22 Pages (pp. 527-548). Printed (illustrated) Card Wrappers (softcover). Good condition. Clean internally. Wrappers show some signs of wear. Signed by author on front wrapper: “Sincere regards, HS”. [Offprint from: “Nineteenth Century Fiction”, Vol.24, No.4, The Charles Dickens Centennial.]

14. Stone, Harry.

Dickens “Conducts” Household Words. (Illustrated)

London, The Dickens Fellowship, 1968. 8°. 15 Pages (pp.71-85). Printed green wrappers (softcover). Very good condition. Some slight foxing internally. Some text markings in pencil. [Offprint from : “The Dickensian”, Vol. LXIV, 1968.]

15. Steiner, George.

The Uncommon Reader. Originally delivered at Bennington College as Lecture One in the Ben Belitt Lectureship Series, October third, 1978.

LIMITED EDITION. Vermont, Bennigton College, 1978. 8°. 22 Pages. Original ice blue card wrappers, stapled (softcover). Excellent condition with minor external signs of wear. No text markings. [Offprint from: “The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature”]

16. Steiner, George.

Dissenters from the Book.

First Edition. Boston, Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 2001. 14 x 21.5 cm. VII; 24 Pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor external signs of wear. No text markings – very clean copy. [Delivered on the Occasion of the Twelfth Annual Bromsen Lecture. May 5, 2001.]

17. Steegmuller, Francis / Bornstein, Dean (illust.).

The Incident at Naples.

First Edition. New York, Privately Printed, 1992. 8°. 35 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Excellent condition. No text markings. Pages inside clean, fresh and bright. Illustration on p. 7 by Dean Bornstein.

18. [Songling, Pu], Zeitlin, Judith.

Historian of the Strange – Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale.

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1993. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 332 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

19. Sollers, Philippe.

Writing and the experience of limits. Edited by David Hayman. Translated by Philip Barnard with David Hayman.

New York, Columbia University Press, 1983. 22 cm. xxxi, 213 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [European perspectives].

20. [Smollett, Tobias] Kelly, Lionel.

Tobias Smollett – The Critical Heritage.

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. 22.8cm x 14.5cm. XVII, 380 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition.

21. Segler-Meßner, Silke.

Zwischen Empfindsamkeit und Rationalität. Der Dialog der Geschlechter in der italienischen Aufklärung.

Berlin, Erich Schmidt, 1998. 8°. 212 Seiten. Softcover / Kartoniert. Sehr guter, neuwertiger Zustand. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Besitzvermerk. KEIN Mängelexemplar. [Studienreihe Romania ; 13]

22. Schuhmacher, Klaus.

Paragraphie. Über das gedichtete Recht.

Stuttgart, Steiner, 1992. 8°. 227 Seiten. Illustriert mit einem Frontispiz: “Jacques Louis David – “Der Schwur der Horatier”. Softcover / Kartoniert. Minimale, äusserliche Gebrauchsspuren (Eine Kante etwas bestoßen/Lichtrand). KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Besitzvermerk. KEIN Mängelexemplar.

23. Schmitt, Stefanie.

Inszenierungen von Glaubwürdigkeit. Studien zur Beglaubigung im späthöfischen und frühneuzeitlichen Roman.

Tübingen, Max Niemeyer, 2005. 8vo. X, 318 Seiten. Hardcover / Gebundene Ausgabe. Originales Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter, neuwertiger Zustand. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar. KEIN Besitzvermerk. (Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, 129).

24. [Sand, George] Eisler, Benita.

Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand.

Advance Uncorrected Proof. New York, Counterpoint, 2006. 15.5 x 23.5cm. (8), 294 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new.

25. Samuel, The RT. Hon. Viscount.

On Style. Presidential Address 1941.

1st Edition. London, The English Association, 1941. 8°. 16 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Pen in margin made on a few pages. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]

26. Sale, Roger.

Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E.B. White.

Cambridge / London, Harvard University Press, 1978. 15.5 x 23cm. (6), 280 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, including creasing and slight lean to spine. Numerous text annotations. [A Harvard Paperback].

27. Robert, Marthe.

En Haine du Roman – Étude sur Flaubert.

France, Balland, 1982. 8°. 152 Pages. Broché. / Softcover. En bon état. Soulignements en crayon et stylo sur les premieres douzaines de pages. Quelques traces d’usage. / Good. Markings and underlining of sentences on the first dozen or so pages. Slight foxing on inside of front and back cover. Some signs of shelfwear.

28. Robbe-Grillet, Alain.

Ghosts In The Mirror. Translated from the French by Jo Levy.

Uncorrected Proof. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. 13.5 x 21cm. (11), 174 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition.

29. Renwick, W.L.

English Literature 1789 – 1815.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963. 15 cm x 22 cm. VIII, 293 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

30. Price, Reynolds.

Things Themselves. Essays & Scenes.

First Edition. New York, Atheneum, 1972. 21cm x 13cm. xv,269 (1) pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition.

31. [Pound, Ezra] Carpenter, Humphrey.

A Serious Character – The Life of Ezra Pound.

London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1988. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. XII, 1005 pages. Illustrated with 24 pages of black-and-white photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains two minor items of ephemera from ‘The Times Literary Supplement’ 1989 [Review of the book by William H.Gass in TLS in January 1989 and Responses to the review, also printed in TLS, in February 1989].

32. Peters, Günter.

Die Kunst der Natur. Ästhetische Reflexion in Blumengedichten von Brockes, Goethe und Gautier.

München, Fink, 1993. 8°. 320 Seiten. Softcover / Kartoniert. Sehr guter, neuwertiger Zustand mit nur absolut minimalen, äußerlichen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Besitzvermerk. KEIN Mängelexemplar.

33. Oz, Amos.

The Silence of Heaven: Agnon’s Fear of God. Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav.

Advance Uncorrected Reading Copy. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. 15.5 x 23.5cm. (11), 197 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

34. Norton, Rictor.

Gothic Readings. The First Wave, 1764-1840. Edited by Rictor Norton.

London ; New York, Leicester University Press, 2000. 24 cm. XIII, 369 pages with 9 illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. [Continuum studies in Gothic fiction].

35. Newbolt, Sir Henry.

Poetry and Time. [Warton Lecture on English Poetry IX].

1st Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1918. 8°. 17 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Good condition with minor signs of wear – corners and edges bumped. No text markings. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. VIII.]

36. Nebel, Inger.

Harfe, Speer und Krone. Saul und David in deutschsprachigen Dramen 1880 – 1920.

Göteborg, Acta Univ. Gothoburgensis, 2001. 8°. 321 Seiten in getrennter Zählung. Softcover / Kartoniert. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen äusserlichen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar. [Göteborger germanistische Forschungen ; 40].

37. [Nabokov, Vladimir] Rampton, David.

Vladimir Nabokov – A Critical Study of the Novels.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984. 13.5 cm x 21.5 ccm. X, 233 pages. Softcover. Cover design by Jan van de Watering with a cover photograph of Vladimir Nabokov in Montreux, 1968. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

38. [Mumford, Lewis] Newman, Elmer S.

Lewis Mumford: A Bibliography 1914 – 1970. With an Introduction by Lewis Mumford.

First Edition. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. Octavo. XXIII, 167 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The dustjacket design by James and Ruth McCrea. The rear jacket-flap shows a photograph of Lewis Mumford’s desk by Jonas Goodman. Excellent, FINE condition.

39. Morgan, Thais E.

Men Writing the Feminine. Literature, Theory, and the Question of Genders.

Albany, New York, State University of New York Press 1994. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 207 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

40. Moog-Grünewald, Maria / Rodiek, Christoph (Hrsg.).

Dialog der Künste – Intermediale Fallstudien zur Literatur des 19. und 20.Jahrhunderts. Festschrift für Erwin Koppen.

Frankfurt/Bern/New York, Peter Lang, 1989. 8°. 431 Seiten. Gebundene Ausgabe (Hardcover/Pappband). Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen, äußerlichen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Besitzvermerk. KEIN Mängelexemplar.

41. [Milton, John] Van Anglen, K.P.

The New England Milton – Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic.

Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. 16 x 23.5 cm. XV, 255 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition.

42. [Milton, John] Redman, Harry.

Major French Milton Critics of the Nineteenth Century.

Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press, 1994. 8°. XIII, 390 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good+ / Near fine condition with only minor signs of use to the binding.

43. [Melville, Herman] Miller Jr., James E.

A Reader’s Guide to Herman Melville.

New York, The Noonday Press, 1962. 14 cm x 20 cm. XV, 266 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with signs of external wear.

44. Mehlman, Jeffrey.

Cataract: A Study in Diderot.

First edition. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1979. 14 x 22cm. 109 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition.

45. Meckier, Jerome.

Evelyn Waugh.

Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 8°. 12 Pages (pp.98-109) Original stapled papers (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. No text markings. Inscribed by author on first page: “For Jerry Buckley, with best regards, Jerry Meckier”. [Offprint from: “Contemporary Literature”, Vol. XVIII, No.1]

46. Marx, Karl / Engels, Frederick.

Literature and Art. Selections from their Writings.

New York, International Publishers, 1947. 14.2 cm x 20.2 cm. 154 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing and discolouration to edging, pastedown enpapers and endpapers. Some pencil annotations. Minor fraying to dustjacket. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard. Signed by previous owner Erik Haugaard.

47. [Lincoln, Abraham] Hurt, James.

Writing Illinois – The Prairie, Lincoln and Chicago.

Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1992. 16 x 24 cm. 154 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

48. Landor, Walter Savage / Bradley, William.

The Early Poems of Walter Savage Landor. A study of his development and debt to Milton.

London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., (1914). 13.7 cm x 21 cm. 121 pages. Hardcover / Professionally, recently rebound in pale grey cloth, preserving the original wrapper. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A few notes and marks on title pages in pencil.

49. Klein, Jürgen [Hrsg.].

Aufklärung und Modernität. Eine Freundesgabe für Peter-Eckhard Knabe.

Tübingen, Stauffenburg-Verl., 2006. 8°. 307 Seiten. Softcover / Kartoniert. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung von Bernhard König an Maria Moog-Grünewald. Sehr guter, neuwertiger Zustand mit nur ganz geringen, äußerlichen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar. [Schnittpunkte ; Bd. 8]

50. Kitagaki, Muneharu.

Principles and problems of translation in seventeenth-century England.

Kyoto, Yamaguchi Shoten, 1981. 21cm. VIII, 399 pages, 2 plates. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.