Books on Criticism & Theory
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The Bow and the Lyre. The Art of Robert Browning.
160p black paperback with red lettering, fresh and clean copy, very good indeed, no names or stamps
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Creative Readings for Writers. From A Complete Course in Freshmen English, Fifth Edition. Part II of Book Three.
314p hardback, moss-green cloth with clear sharp text, very good condition, a little light wear to ...
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Homerische Poetik. Band 1: Drerup: Das Homerproblem in der Gegenwart. Prinzipien und Methoden der Homererklärung; Band 3: Stürmer: Die Rhapsodien der Odyssee.
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Königliche Karrieren von Hirten, Gärtnern und Pflügern: Zu einem mittelalterlichen Erzählschema vom Erwerb der Königsherrschaft.
20p offprint, large format booklet, a fresh and clean copy
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The Well-Tempered Critic.
160p hardback with fresh dustjacket, nice clean copy, excellent condition, without names or stamps ...
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Angelus Novus. Saggi e Frammenti. Traduzione e Introduzione di Renato Solmi.
xxxviii 289p large format paperback, red cover, a well preserved copy, essay on "parco centrale" ...
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Variazioni sul Don Giovanni. Mozart, Molière, Scott, Shakespeare e il Folclore.
163p paperback with grey illustrated jacket, author note to endpaper, also errata inserted which ...
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Proust. Prefazione di Oreste del Buono.
90p red and black paperback, a fresh clean copy, no names or stamps, well preserved, first edition
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Una Fragile Felicità. Saggio su Rousseau.
xxv 80p light blue paperback with Seurat illustrations, tight and clean and fresh copy, ...
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La Musica in Proust.
134p large format paperback with illustrated jacket, a nice clean copy, no names or stamps
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Allan Dwan. The Last Pioneer.
200p hardback, black boards with beige jacket, very good condition, a bit of wear to jacket edges, ...
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Sam Peckinpah.
151p square paperback, b&w cover with mirror-image text and silhouette, very good condition, ...
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Luis Bunuel.
150p square paperback, b&w covers with crimson lettering, very good condition, a little light wear, ...
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Erich von Stroheim.
176p square paperback, purple cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, pages clean ...
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Transcending the Nostalgic. Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe Beyond Representation.
viii 261p hardback, grey covers with black and white photograph, like new condition, no wear, ...
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Nuovi Argomenti. Rivista Bimestrale diretta da Alberto Moravia e Alberto Carocci. Number 38 - 39, Maggio - Agosto 1959. 9 Domande sul Romanzo. Con le Risposte di Giorgio Bassani, Italo Calvino, Eugenio Montale, Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio So
185p large format paperback, title a little yellowed, binding tight, no names or stamps, excellent ...
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The Claims of Experience. Autobiography and American Democracy.
xi 257p hardback in like new condition, black cloth with beige jacket, pages clean and neat, no ...
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Il Classico.
129p white paperback, cover a little dusty, text all clean, binding firm, very good
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La Fiaba Popolare Europea. Forma e Natura.
bright yellow paperback, some browning to initial pages, no names or stamps, very well preserved
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Il Film. Evoluzione ed Essenza di un'Arte Nuova.
paperback, white cover, this copy new, still shrink-wrapped, never used
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Democracy and Poetry.
102p purple paperback with red lettering, red endpapers, a fresh and clean copy, second printing, ...
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Initiation et Sagesse des Contes de Fées.
186p white paperback with pink design to front, fresh and tight and clean copy, no traces of use, ...
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Rhétorique Générale.
206p white paperback with purple highlights, clean copy, a little dusty and aged, no names or stamps
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Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi. Publics and Counterpublics.
xxiv 252p paperback, blue cover with photograph, like new, no significant wear, binding tight, all ...
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The Romantic Fairy Tale - Seeds of Surrealism. (Facsimile)
133p paperback, grey card cover, facsimile of the 1964 edition, this copy with a few marginal ...
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Milton's Epic Poetry: Essays on Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
428p stiff paperback, black illustrated cover, fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, very well ...
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Il Sistema del Dandy. Arte e Artificio nell'Inghilterra fin-de-siècle.
339p brown paperback, tight copy, but about a dozen pages with heavy in underlining in red and ...
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Austria: La fine e Dopo. (Nuova Corrente, No 79-80, 1979) Two Volumes.
pp 250 - 615, two green paperback volumes, second volume with water damage to top edge, text still ...
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I Sentieri della Musica.
397p hardback with white dustjacket, a fresh and clean copy, top edge a little dusty, very good, no ...
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La Nuova Immagine di J S Bach
158p paperback with grey card cover wrappers, excellent copy, as new, no names or stamps, clean and ...
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Social Thought From Lore to Science. Volume Three. Third Edition.
xii 793-1178p cxciii paperback, turquoise and yellow covers, good condition, a bit slanted, binding ...
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
498p small paperback, colourful illustrated cover, very good condition, some light wear to edges ...
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The Hidden Hardy.
205p hardback with fresh white dustjacket, excellent copy, as new, never used apparently, no names ...
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Teorie del Comico.
160p paperback, inserted is a letter by the author, this copy heavily annotated in ink with about ...
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Behind the Camera: The Cinematographer's Art.
240p period paperback, black lettering to cover, a fresh and tight copy, no names, no traces of ...
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The Celluloid Muse. Hollywood Directors Speak.
302p period paperback, small format, a tight and clean copy, no names, many plates, first Signet ...
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Movie People. At Work in the Business of Film.
242p mass market paperback, black lettering to front, ink not to first page, a well preserved copy
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An Introduction to American Movies.
xii 337p period paperback, a tight and clean copy, with plates, spine square and fresh
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Le Cinéma ou l'Homme Imaginaire: Essai d'Anthropologie.
186p small format paperback, a used copy with plenty of pencil annotations throughout, with flaws
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When the Movies Were Young. With a New Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht.
266p paperback, purple illustrated card cover, a clean and tight copy, section with illustrations ...
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Westerns: Aspects of a Movie Genre.
176p paperback, colour cover, many b/w illustrations, a tight and clean copy, one corner lightly ...
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Certi Romanzi.
197p paperback, white cover with striking black lettering, cover shows some foxing / browning, ...
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Le Brache di San Griffone. Novellistica e Predicazione tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento. Prefazione di Edoardo Sanguineti.
xviii 169p white paperback with illustrated cover, many illustrations in the text, letter by the ...
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Sulla Poesia: Conversazioni nelle Scuole.
229p paperback, white cover with red lettering, with contributions by Vittorio Sereni, Andrea ...
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Il Montaggio. (Opere Scelte di Sergej Ejzenstejn)
xxxvii 254p hardback with bright green jacket, many plates, one folding, excellent condition, edges ...
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Scusi, dov'é il Set? Confessioni di un Film-Maker.
138p red cloth with fresh white dustjacket as new, with plates, review copy, never used, uncommon ...
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Jules Verne.
383p large format paperback, illustrated cover with green lettering, a fresh and clean copy without ...
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Balzac: Recherches sur la Création Intellectuelle.
large paperback, brown card cover, small crease to back cover, spine tight, 87 pages text followed ...
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