Curculio Scholarly Books Literature Catalogue III: Mostly in English

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English and American Literature

Anthologies:

• A. Brandl and O. Zippel, Middle English Literature, Series: Mittelenglische Sprach- und Literaturproblem), A very large anthology of texts (250 pages, many of them in 2 or even 3 columns), both prose and verse, with glossary. Chelsea Publishing Company, New York, 1949. VG, corners bumped, previous owner's signature and address, contents very clean and tight. $9.00.
• The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse, ed. Jerome J. McGann, Oxford University Press, 1993. Cloth, NF/NF: corners bumped, contents totally clean and tight. $14.00.
• John Wain (ed.), Personal Choice: A Poetry Anthology, David and Charles, 1978. F/VG. $4.50.

Verse and Drama:

• Selected Poems of Roy Campbell, chosen by Peter Alexander, Oxford University Press, 1982. NF/VG+. Out of print. $30.00.
• The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton, 1980 Dodd-Mead reprint of 1911 edition. 375 pages of verse. Paper, VG: cover shows some wear and ugly price-sticker, contents totally clean and apparently unread. Out of print. Used copies go for $39.47 and up on Amazon. Our price: $11.00.
• Robert Graves, Collected Poems 1975, Oxford University Press, 1988. Fine cloth, no DJ. $17.50.
• Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae, Andre Deutsch, 1979 second impression of 1978 original. NF/NF. $14.00.
• The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore, Definitive Edition, with the Author's Final Revisions, Macmillan Viking, 1981, VG+: Book itself pristine, would be NF except for some spotting on page edges, DJ has a few small tear (< 1/2") on top edge, mostly in back. $8.00.
• Herbert Read, Selected Poetry, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994?, F/F. $7.00.
• L. E. Sissman, Hello, Darkness, The Collected Poems, Atlantic Little Brown, 1978. NF/NF. $6.00.

Prose:

• The Letters of Lewis Carroll, in two volumes, edited by Morton N. Cohen with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green. Two volumes, NF except one tiny spot on top edge of each, no DJ, in box. The box is VG at best: one corner chipped, scuffs and light soiling on several sides. $50.00.
• The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge VII: Biographia Literaria (two volumes), ed. James Engell and W. Jackson Bate. Bollingen Series LXXV. NF/VG: would be Fine except for a few small spots on page edges. DJs all there, but with a few very small tears and smudges. $150.00.
• James Gould Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1950. F/VG. $10.00.
• Selections from George Eliot's Letters, edited by Gordon S. Haight. Yale, 1985. Cloth, NF/NF except top corners bumped, one badly, contents pristine. $10.00. (12/07)
• Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 30th Anniversary Edition, Random House, 1981. NF/NF. $16.00.
• Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews. Intro. by Mary Ellen Chase. Norton, paperback, 1958. NF. $5.75.
• E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, Abinger Edition 6. Holmes & Meier, 1979. Despite the difference in publisher, both book and dj match the other two volumes listed here very well. F/F except for penciled price inside front cover. $60.00.
• E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, Abinger Edition 11. Edward Arnold, 1971. NF/NF: title page has pasted-on label "HM Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. Import Division". Penciled price inside front cover. Otherwise would be Fine. $60.00.
• Dan Jacobson, The Confessions of Josef Baisz, 1977. VG/G except pale remainder mark on top edge, large but very pale dry-glue stain inside back cover. $7.00.
• Henry James, Letters, ed. Leon Edel. Harvard University Press, four volumes, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1984. Cloth, NF/VG: two jackets have small tears at top of spine, one a bit wrinkled in same place, contents pristine, apparently unread. $80.00. (12/07)
• Henry James and Edith Wharton, Letters: 1900-1915, edited by Lyall H. Powers, Scribners, 1990. Cloth, NF/NF: top of spine slightly bent, contents pristine. $10.00. (12/07)
• Jim Knipfel, Slackjaw, with a back-cover blurb by Thomas Pynchon. Tarcher Putnam, 1999. F/VG. $5.00.
• Herbert Lindenberger, Saul's Fall: A Critical Fiction, Academic novel. Small tear & scratch on back of DJ, otherwise As New. $6.00.
• David Lodge, Therapy, A Novel, First American edition, Viking, 1995. NF/NF. $7.00.
• Bernard Malamud, The Fixer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. VG/G except small x on top edge. $6.50.
• Like It Was, The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge, William Morrow and Company, New York, 1982. NF/VG except some very small spots on the page edges. $25.00.
• Peter Taylor, The Old Forest and Other Stories, The Dial Press, 1985. NF/VG. $7.00.
• John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, Knopf, 1990. NF/NF with tiny red remainder mark on bottom edge. $5.50.

Oxford English Texts and similar critical editions:

• The Complete Poetry of Richard Crashaw, ed. George Walton Williams, New York University Press, 1972. Series: The Stuart Editions. NF, no DJ. $32.00.
• John Donne, The Works, complete in four volumes. Oxford English Texts series. Includes: I. The Divine Poems, ed. Helen Gardner, 1952 repr 1969; II. The Elegies and the Songs and Sonnets, ed. Helen Gardner, 1965; III. The Satires, Epigrams and Verse Letters, ed. W. Milgate, 1967; IV. The Epithalamions, Anniversaries, and Epicedes, ed. W. Milgate, 1978. All are tightly bound and pristine inside. Covers of I-III very slightly dingy, one small spot (< 1/4") on outer page edges of III, prices lightly stamped inside, price cut from flap of IV. All in all, a very nice set. $640.00.
• The Tales of Henry James, ed. Maqbool Aziz, 3 vols., all published so far. Critical editions. Oxford, 1973, 1978, and 1984. Volume 1 covers 1864-1869, Volume 2 1870-1874, Volume 3 1875-1879. NF except a few penciled price marks from previous seller, in VG dust jackets (colors faded or downright mottled, but no significant holes or tears). $120.00 for all three.
• Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, Oxford University Press, 1983. Book NF, Jacket VG+: small tear in bottom edge in back, two small (2 mm) brown spots near bottom of front, a bit wrinkled or discolored elsewhere, but all there. Book itself appears never to have been opened. $120.00.

Library of America Editions:

• Washington Irving, History, Tales & Sketches, edited by James W. Tuttleton, 1983. Includes: Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.; Salmagundi; A History of New York; The Sketch Book. G/NF: would be NF except front right bottom corner slightly bent. $17.50.
• Edgar Allan Poe, Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn, 1984. NF/NF. $17.50.

Secondary Sources:

• Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, the first revision of the 1959 classic. Oxford University Press, 1982. VG in VG jacket. Would be NF/NF except some spotting on page edge, jacket has 1/2" tear on lower front cover. Out of print. $32.00.
• Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1988. Cloth, NF/NF. $8.00. (1/08)
• P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life, Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich, 1978. NF in NF jacket except some light spotting on page edge and one unobtrusive streak on front cover. $11.00.
• John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, A Study in the Ways of the Imagination, Princeton, 1964? NF, no DJ (as issued?). $25.00.
• Oxford History of English Literature: English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century 1600-1660. Second edition, 1962. Ed. Douglas Bush. NF except pos, in slightly tattered DJ. $24.00.
• Charles Nicoll, The Chemical Theatre, a study of alchemical symbols in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, reminiscent of the work of Frances Yates. Routledge Kegan Paul, 1980. F/NF except small (and rather pretty) bookseller's sticker glued inside front cover. $30.00.
• J. I. M. Stewart, Eight Modern Writers, Volume XII of the Oxford History of English Literature, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1963. This is the 1976 reprint. The eight writers are Hardy, James, Shaw, Conrad, Kipling, Yeats, Joyce, and Lawrence. NF/VG. $25.00.
• John Wain, Samuel Johnson, A Biography. Viking Press, 1974. Out of print. VG/VG except a tiny bit moldy between cover and DJ. $4.00.
• Henry Cecil Wyld, A Short History of English, with a bibliography of recent books on the subject, and lists of texts and editions. London, John Murray, 1949 reprint of the 3rd edition, 1927. VG to NF, pos, no DJ. $8.00.

Cultural Journals:

• The New Criterion, Volumes 9:3 (November 1990), 9:5 (January 1991), 10:3-4 (November-December 1991), 10:6-10 (February-June 1992), 11:1-7 (September 1992-March 1993), 15:10 (June 1997), 20:1-2 (September-October 2001), and 20:10 (June 2002), plus second copies of 9:5 and 10:7. Except for one of the 9:5s, which is missing part of the back rear corner (no words gone), 10:10, which is torn around the edges but still entirely readable, and 20:10, whose cover is seriously mangled but all there and still readable, conditions are VG: outsides somewhat scuffed, insides very clean, bindings firm. Price: $1.00 each, or $11.00 for the whole stack of 20 or 22 (depending on whether you want the duplicates). Will charge actual cost of shipping. Complete contents are listed at the magazine's site: http://www.newcriterion.com/indexes/idxtoc.htm. Even if you're not trying to complete a set, you may find an issue or two that you have to have.

Scottish Literature

• Robert Garioch, Collected Poems, Carcanet, Manchester, 1977. Paper, VG, in print at $8.95. Our price: $5.40.

German Literature

German-Only Texts:

• Friedrich Hölderlin: Werke und Briefe, Herausgegeben von Friedrich Beißner und Jochen Schmidt. Three smallish paperback volumes, complete. Vol. I: Gedichte, Hyperion. Vol. II: Der Tod des Empedokles, Aufsätze, Übersetzungen, Briefe. Vol. III: Erläuterungen. 1249 pp. total. A few small spots on jackets, tiny bit of bending on some corners, otherwise As New. $45.00.

Bilingual Texts:

• The Eternal Feminine: Selected Poems of Goethe, Selected, with an introduction, by Frederick Ungar. Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, New York, 1980. NF/NF. $25.00.
• Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus, translated by A. Poulin, Jr. Paper, NF inside, totally clean and tight, VG outside, corners a bit bent, some smudging, mostly on back. $6.00.

English Translations:

• Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Marbot: a Biography, George Braziller, 1983. NF/NF. $8.00.
• Heinrich von Kleist, Plays, in English translation. Introduction by E. L. Doctorow. The German Library 25. Continuum, New York, 1982. NF/VG. $15.00.
• Frierich Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History, tr. Adrian Collins, 2nd edition, 1957. Bobbs-Merrill: Library of Liberal Arts. Paper, contents F (unread), cover NF. $3.25.
• See the Military Affairs page for books by and on Clausewitz.

Secondary Sources:

• Ernst Pawel, The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. NF/VG. $12.00.
• T. J. Reed, Goethe, Oxford Past Masters series. Cloth, F except penciled price inside front cover in VG+ DJ. $40.00. (1/06)
• M. O'C. Walshe, Medieval German Literature. Harvard, 1962. VG/G. $20.00.

Modern European Literature, Mostly in Translation

• Karel Capek, War with the Newts, introduction by Ivan Klima, Northwestern University Press, 1985. Paper, contents NF, outside merely G (edges a bit worn, corners slightly bent, some spotting on page edges). $5.00.
• Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead, translated by H. Sutherland Edwards, Everyman, J. M. Dent, Paper, VG: page edges a bit smudged, corners a tiny bit worn, pos, contents otherwise pristine. $6.00.
• Witold Gombrowicz, Diary: Volumes One and Two, Translated by Lillian Vallee. Northwestern University Press, 1988 and 1989. F/F. $22.00.
• Jiri Grusa, The Questionnaire, or Prayer for a Town and a Friend, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. NF/NF. $8.00.
• Jaroslav Hasek, The Red Commissar, Translated by Cecil Parrott, with the original illustrations. Dial Press, 1981. F/F except remains of price tag on cover, manufacturing defect (probably found in all copies): purple speckling on bottom edge of pages also found on bottom edges of cover, with two tiny streaks on outer page edges. Still very handsome. $25.00.
• Arthur Koestler, Arrow in the Blue, Volume 1 of his autobiography. Danube edition, Macmillan, 1969. NF/VG. $12.00.
• Arthur Koestler, Dialogue with Death, The journal of a condemned prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Danube edition, Macmillan, 1966. NF/VG. $12.00.
• Arthur Koestler, The Invisible Writing, Volume 2 of his autobiography. Danube edition, Macmillan, 1969. NF/VG. $12.00.
• Arthur & Cynthia Koestler, Stranger on the Square, Volume 3 (unfinished) of Koestler's autobiography. Hutchinson, 1984. NF/NF. $10.00.
• George Konrad, The Case Worker, translated from the Hungarian by Paul Aston, Harcourt Brace, 1974, NF in G DJ. $14.00.
• Tadeusz Konwicki, A Dreambook for Our Time, Series: Writers from the Other Europe, General Editor: Philip Roth. Introduction by Leszek Kolakowski. Penguin, 1983. Paper, VG. $4.00.
• Czeslaw Milosz, Bells in Winter, translated by Lillian Vallee, Ecco Press, 1980. Book has one tiny spot on top page edges, otherwise Fine in VG dj. $9.00.