Shakespere As A Playwright
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. FIRST. F. Original green ribbed cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, t.e.g. A virtually flawless copy. Quite scarce.
CRITICISM
Medieval Secular Literature
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965. FIRST. NF / F. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Four Essays: Inherited Impediments in Medieval Literary History; Dante's Ulysses and the Mythic Tradition; Norman Literature and Wace; Ethical Criticism and Medieval Literature: Le Roman De Tristan. In a complete and attractive dust jacket.
Shakespeare
London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. F / NF. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of this second edition.
Nikoli Gogol
London: Editions Poetic, 1947. FIRST. G / FAIR.
An Approach to Walt Whitman
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Plain paper on boards with paper label on spine. Previous owner book-plate on front paste-down.
Victorian Masters Of Mystery. From Wilkie Collins To Conan Doyle
New York: Frederick Ungar, (1984). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. A clean and solid copy of this historical study. Besides Collins and Doyle this book also examines the works of Dickens and Sheridan Le Fanu and others. The jacket has one small closed tear, else fine.
Shakespeare And The Story. Aspects Of Creation
London: The Athlone Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy of this work of Shakespearean criticism. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine. Previous owner signature on the front free endpaper.
Ultimate Island. On The Nature Of British Science Fiction
Westport: Greenwood Press, (1993). First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in original green cloth, lettered in silver. A lovely copy in all respects.
Verona and Other Lectures
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894. FIRST. VG. Original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. A very good copy. Very light scattered foxing on a few pages.
Structure In Medieval Narrative
Paris: Mouton, 1971. First edition. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Book-plate on the paste-down, else fine. A few pages of the introduction have neat underlining of text. Still, a very nice copy of a scarce title in fine condition.
Medieval Narrative; A Book Of Translations
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Previous owner name to the front free endpaper. A few, very few, underlinings within. A very nice copy of a desirable book for the student of Medieval literature.
The Vampire In 19th Century English Literature
Bowling Green State University Press, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A lovely copy in all respects. It appears unopened and unread. Cover art designed by Gary Dumm.
The Origins of Faulkner's Art
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. FIRST. F / F. As new. A fine copy in all respects.
Character And Society In Shakespeare
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1965. F / NF. A lovely copy in all respects.
Contested Will. Who Wrote Shakespeare?
London: Faber & Faber, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page.
La Lingua Italiana In Dante
Rome: Optimo, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in 3/4 rec morocco with marbled paper centers. Lettered in gilt on the spine. Some toning to the edges of the page block as well as some foxing to the title page. Still, a very clean and solid copy of this text. In Italian.
Paradise Dislocated. Morris, Politics, Art
Charlottesville: University Of Virginia Press, (1993). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A fine copy in all respects.
Jean Cocteau: The Man and the Mirror
New York: Coward-McCann, 1968. FIRST. NF / NF. Co-Authored with Jean-Jacques Kihm. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. A very nice copy.
Pope. The Leslie Stephen Lecture For 1925
New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1926. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original pale green paper on boards with white paper label to the front panel. The UK edition, published a year earlier in 1925 was a soft bound copy only. The U.S. edition is hard backed and issued with a dust jacket. The jacket is.....
A Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1948. FIRST. Very Good / Very Good. A clean, bright and pleasing copy. The jacket is clipped, else fine. Some underlining in pencil throughout.
George Herbert's Christian Narrative
University Park: Pennyslvania State University Press, 1993. FIRST. F / F. As new. A fine copy in all respects.
A History of Italian Literature
Boston: Richard G. Badger, (1914). Hardcover. Fine. An excellent copy of this highly regarded scholarly work. Florence Trail is a distinguished Maryland Scholar. From the private collection of Judge Edward S. Delaplaine, noted Frederick County, Maryland jurist, historian and author. With a pronounciation sheet laid in, as issued. Many pages uncut.
Studies in Criticism
New York: Worthington Company, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. In original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. Beveled edges. Florence Trail is a Frederick, Maryland native and won wide-spread acclaim for this and other works late in the 19th century, both domestically and in Europe. From the private collection of Judge Edward S. Delaplaine, noted Frederick County.....
Studies in Criticism
New York: Worthington Company, 1888. FIRST. NF. In original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. Beveled edges. Some minor rubbing to the head of the spine. Florence Trail is a Frederick, Maryland native and won wide-spread acclaim for this and other works late in the 19th century, both domestically and in Europe. From the private collection of Judge.....
Studies in Criticism
New York: Worthington Company, 1888. FIRST. NF. In original yellow cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. Beveled edges. Florence Trail is a Frederick, Maryland native and won wide-spread acclaim for this and other works late in the 19th century, both domestically and in Europe. From the private collection of Judge Edward S. Delaplaine, noted Frederick County, Maryland jurist and.....