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Literary Criticism
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TYNAN, Kenneth
He That Plays the King
London: Collector's Book Club, 1950
8vo, pp. 256. Original red three-quarter morocco, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown.
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ALVAREZ, Al
The Shaping Spirit
London: Chatto & Windus, 1958
8vo, pp. 191. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First edition of the author's first book.
A very nice copy.
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AUDEN, W.H.
The Enchafed Flood
London: Faber, 1951
8vo, pp. 126. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First UK edition, its US counterpart having appeared nine months earlier.
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AUDEN, W.H.
The Dyer's Hand
London: Faber, 1963
8vo, pp. 527. Original blue-green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First UK edition, preceded by the US edition which appeared three months... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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AUDEN, W.H.
Secondary Worlds
London: Faber, 1968
8vo, pp. 144. Original pink boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
The first series of Eliot lectures, four in all, first ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[HEMINGWAY, Ernest] STIPES WATTS, Emily
Ernest Hemingway And The Arts
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971
8vo. pp. 243. Original russet boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition. MALCOLM BRADBURY'S REVIEW COPY, WITH HIS ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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PEARSON, Neil
Obelisk: A History Of Jack Kahane And The Obelisk Press
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2007
Large 8vo, pp. 494. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
A history of Jack Kahane's Paris-based Obelisk Press, which in the 1930s... [more]
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PRITCHETT, V. S.
Books In General
London: Chatto & Windus, 1953
8vo, pp. 258. Original blue boards, lettered in green on spine.
First edition.
Essays on Gide, Gissing, W.W.Jacobs, Dickens, Stendhal and many others.
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SARRAUTE, Nathalie
Tropisms And The Age Of Suspicion
London: John Calder, 1963
8vo, pp. 136. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition, inscribed by Sarraute on the half-title: 'A David Gothard, en souvenir très amical. Nathalie Sarraute.'... [more]
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[ed. NEWMAN, Charles] PLATH, Sylvia
The Art of Sylvia Plath: A Symposium
London: Faber, 1970
Large 8vo., pp. 319. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
