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Middle English Literature. Oxford History of English Literature. Volume1 Part 2. Edited and completed by Douglas Gray.

By: BENNETT, J.A.W. / GRAY, DOUGLAS:

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1986:

Seller ID: 73765

Size 5.75 x 8.75 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Small chip to back corner. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 496pp. A comprehensive and authoritative study of English literature from the Owl and the Nightingale to Piers Plowman.
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No, Not Bloomsbury.

By: BRADBURY, MALCOLM:

Price: £11.00

Publisher: London. Andre Deutsch. 1987 1st edition:

Seller ID: 58231

Tall 8vo. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; in removable plastic cover. Not price clipped). Spine slightly faded at top. Small marks and indentations to covers. Owners’ nameplate to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 373pp. In this work Bradbury concentrates on his critical writings on British fiction since 1945. They move from his own beginnings as a writer in the 1950s to his recent chairmanship of the Booker Prize judges. These pieces include major critical studies of Angus Wilson, Irish Murdoch,...
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English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century 1600-1660. The Oxford History of English Literature. Second Edition revised.

By: BUSH, DOUGLAS:

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1962 2nd edition.:

Seller ID: 73770

Size 5.75 x 8.75 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Not price clipped). Owner’s bookplate to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 680pp. Survey of English non-dramatic literature between 1600-1660 covers not only literature but the full written expression of culture and thought.
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Which Eye Can You See Me With? Interpreting Folk-Tales: A Writer’s Perspective. The Helen E.Stubbs Memorial Lectures. Number One.

By: CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, KEVIN:

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Toronto Public Library. 1988 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 62980

8vo. In pale maroon limp card covers with black lettering and gryfon to front. In very good condition. Covers slightly faded. Else a clean and tight copy. 37pp. inc 11pp cat. With b/w illustration at front. Memorial lecture, given in Toronto Canada on the subject of folk tales and their interpretation. The author takes the view that they describe a real everyday world and a world of imagination, and asks which do we choose to see?
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Minuet. A Critical Survey of French and English Literary Ideas in the Eighteenth Century.

By: GREEN, F.C.:

Price: £5.00

Publisher: J.M.Dent and Sons Ltd. 1939 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 72981

Size 6.25 x 9.0 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends. Foxing and other marks. Tear to front top edge. Clipped). Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 489pp. The author examines the links between French and English literature and drama in the eighteenth century.
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The Origins of English Nonsense.

By: MALCOLM, NOEL:

Price: £4.00

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers. 1997 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 66161

Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In black cloth covers with silver to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Purple endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; small chip to top edge of spine. Not price clipped). Small marks to front. Pages slightly browned around edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 329pp. An anthology and discussion of the origins and development of nonsense verse in the seventeenth century.
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Dostoievsky.

By: POWYS, JOHN COWPER:

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London. John Lane The Bodley Head. 1946 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73902

Size 4.5 x 6.75 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends. Handling and other small marks. Price clipped). Damp marks to boards. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 208pp. Powys’ critique of Dostoievsky.
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