Books on Criticism & Theory

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A Barthes Reader. Introduction by Susan Sontag.

£20.00

xxxviii 495p thick paperback, a clean and tight copy, name to prelims, barely used

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125p original cloth, label to front and spine, nice unused copy from a Cambridge college library

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xii 238p cloth, foxing stains to spine only, name in ink, pages clean and bright, binding firm, ...

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A Book of French Prosody. With Specimens of French Verse from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day.

xvi 284p hardback in dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine, very good condition, boards and ...

£24.00

A Casebook on Shakespeare's Sonnets.

viii 210p sturdy paperback, brown cover with yellow lettering, very good condition, a little light ...

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216p large paperback, excellent copy, with essays by Barbara Hardy, Boris Ford, Leslie Fiedler, ...

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xiii 474p light green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, spine a ...

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91p hardback with dustjacket, illustrations, teachers' notes, from a Cambridge college library

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32p small booklet, stapled binding, blue titles on grey card cover, a few small marginal marks and ...

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32p small booklet, stapled binding, blue titles on grey card cover, some faint markings in pencil ...

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A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans.

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xi 294p burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dustjacket present, excellent fresh copy, ...

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616p hardback with white jacket, illustrated plate to cover, new copy, near fine condition, slight ...

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xii 523p large white paperback, removable plastic covering, binding firm, appears hardly used, some ...

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A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism.

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xiv 373p hardback, black cloth with scarlet jacket, very good condition, little to no wear, binding ...

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A Companion to the Works Alfred Döblin.

xvi 309p hardback, lilac dustjacket, as new, never used, excellent

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A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti.

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xiv 350p hardback, dustjacket, as new, never used, excellent

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A Companion to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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xvii 265p hardback, illustrated dustjacket, as new, never used, excellent

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A Comparison of Keats's Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion.

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197p white paperback, halftone plates, ink inscription by the author, pages clean and unmarked, ...

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large thick heavy and massive "brick-of-a-book", minor library markings, Tokyo reprint with binding ...

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Well preserved single issue of journal, pages clean, also includes Morchard Bishop on Arcadia, ...

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160p journal with white pictorial cover, pages beginning to brown but clean with articles on D H ...

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A Course of Five Lectures on Browning's Thoughts of Man's Future Life.

Single sheet, folded twice, announcement of the lecture course offered at 19 Park Crescent, ...

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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians.

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lxiii 404p olive cloth with gilt lettering to spine, nice firm copy, gilt title and highlights on ...

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162p burgundy cloth fresh, small area of wear along spine, text clean, very good copy from a ...

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x 304p blue hardback, from a Cambridge college library with minimal library markings, some foxing ...

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xvi 519p viii 508p original cloth, set of two volumes, spine partly absent, Kensington bookplate ...

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A Criticism of Systems of Hebrew Metre. An Elementary Treatise.

viii 216p blue cloth bright and fresh, very attractive copy of the first edition, fresh and clean, ...

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a postcard (unused) which shows a picture of Dickens' birthplace in Portsmouth and prints a text ...

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192p original paperback, 14cm, very good

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115p small dark green full leather hardcover (11 cm), gilt lettering, good condition, cover scraped ...

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381p hardback with brown laminated jacket, from a Cambridge college library, first edition, pages ...

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A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and their Significance.

xxiii 372p white paperback with illustration to front cover, minor wear to covers, slightly bent at ...

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96p large paper edition, card cover worn and aged, original Arber production

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40p stapled booklet, frontiespiece, clean, in very good condition

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this is a 20p essay in Études Anglaises, for sale is the whole issue, includes additional essays by ...

£16.00

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14p sewn booklet with grey card cover, little use, pages clean with listing to back cover, library ...

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112p small hardback, orange dustjacket faded to yellow on spine, condition otherwise very good, ...

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A General Analytical Bibliography of the Regional Novelists of the British Isles, 1800 - 1950.

399p sturdy half calf library binding, maps, a bound xerox-copy facsimile in very cood condition.

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188p large format paperback, orange cover design, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, ...

£34.00

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xi 259p paperback, tan cover with black lettering, good condition, minimal wear, spine a bit ...

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A Guide to Oriental Classics.

xi 199p paperback, purple cover, very good condition, light wear to covers and edges, binding ...

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4p piece, for sale is the whole journal with yellow cover, pages clean and unmarked, with work by ...

£8.00

A Hind Let Loose.

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310p green cloth with gilt lettering, spine and boards darkened, fraying to head of spine, library ...

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A History of Ancient Greek Literature.

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xxviii 420p dark green cloth with gilt lettering, index, somewhat aged condition, very nicely ...

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A History of Austrian Literature 1918 - 2000.

336p paperback, black and green cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover corners, binding ...

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2 vols in original blindstamped cloth binding which shows signs of wear and minor defects, from a ...

£36.00

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