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Modern Essays on Eighteenth-century Literature
Damrosch, Leopold, Jr.
Book Number: 26978
ISBN: 0195049241
Publisher: New York Oxford University Press, 1988
8vo softcover 488pp very good. Students of English literature in the eighteenth century.
Price: $15.00

Claremont Essays
Trilling, Diana
Book Number: 23807
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Secker & Warburg, 1965
8vo. hardcover. 243pp. very good, owner's signature on fep. / very good d/w.
Price: $14.00

Chaucer's Measuring Eye.
Holley, Linda Tarte.
Book Number: 56247
ISBN: 0892632747
Publisher: Rice University Press, USA 1990
8vo. hardcover. 189pp. index, b/w illus. Fine. / Very good d/w.
Price: $14.00

The Pack of Autolycus
Hope, A. D.
Book Number: 44798
ISBN: 0708102794
Publisher: Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1978,
8vo. hardcover. 202pp. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $9.00

Culture and History - Essays presented to Jack Lindsay
Edited by Bernard Smith
Book Number: 62642
ISBN: 0868060895
Publisher: Hale & Iremonger 1984
8vo. Hardcover in d/w. Near fine. 455pp. Illustrated. Jack Lindsay the son of Norman Lindsay. Contributors include Anderson, Orin, John Arnold, Craig Munro, R. D. FitzGerald, James Borg, Don Watston, Bernard Miles, Nikolai Lopyrev, Jeremy Hawthorn, Michael Wilding, V. S. Vakrushev, Christopher Hill, Stephen Knight, Bernard Smith, Robert Browning, Robert Smith, Humphrey McQueen and L. T. Hergenham.
Price: $15.00

Lives Obscurely Great - Historical essays on Women of New South Wales
Patricia Thompson and Susan York (Editors)
Book Number: 34421
ISBN: 0959843272
Publisher: Soc. of Women Writers NSW branch 1980
8vo. Card Covers. Front cover marked. Signed by the editors and well as Hilarie Lindsay, Lilian James, Valmai Phillips, Lorna Ollif, Lysbeth Cohen. Contents include essays on Mary Callicott, Jane Watsford, Women of Subiaco, George Clarke and the Kamilaroi Tribe, Elizabeth Hawkins Trip 1822, Hannah Laycock of King''s Grove Farm, Sarah Claydon, The Pioneer Lady of Marrickville, Needlewomen, Ann Thorn''s Land Grant, Melinda Kendall, Three Women of Wyong - The Aborigine, the Pioneer and the Outcast, Granny with Clean your Boots, German Women and their Families in NSW, Lindsay Papers, Elizabeth Mitchell - Mother of Albury, Luch Osburn of Sydney Hospital, Mary Ann Hoschke - Upper Orara Valley, Education at Cumnock, The Matriarch of Foster, Doris Dawson and the industrial Blind School, Dame Alice Berry From Cobar, Distinguished Jewish women of NSW, Mammy Ross.
Price: $35.00

Reflected Light : La Trobe Essayse
Beilharz, Peter & Manne, Robert
Book Number: 53326
ISBN: 1863952462
Publisher: Black Inc, Melbourne, 2006.
8vo. softcover. 343pp. Very good+.
Price: $15.00

Thought and Expression
Scott, A.F.
Book Number: 21351
ISBN:
Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press. 1962.
8vo. illus. green paper covered boards, hardcover. 143pp. b/w illus. very good, owner's stamp on fep.
Price: $25.00

A Testament to the Wilderness - Ten Essays on an Address by C. A. Meier.
Prof. C. A. Meiere.
Book Number: 38818
ISBN: 03856305033
Publisher: Daimon Zurich / The Lapis Series - Santa Monica 1985
8vo. Softcover. 142pp. Included in this volume are ten highly individual responses to the seminal paper, Wilderness and the search for the Soul of Modern Man. This anthology of original writings was conceived in honor of the lifelong work of Meier of Zurich on this eightieth birthday. It is reccommended reading for all concerned with the future of our troubled world.
Price: $22.00

Counsels and Ideals from the Writings of William Osler
Osler, William
Book Number: 33909
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Humphrey Milford OUP, 1921, 2nd Edition
8vo. maroon cloth hardcover. 355pp. index, b/w frontis. very good, some foxing.
Price: $25.00

Tragedy and Comedy
Kerr, Walter
Book Number: 22370
ISBN:
Publisher: Bodley Head, 1968, First U.K. edition.
8vo. hardcover. 341pp. very good+, light foxing to endpapers. / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Staging Steinbeck: Dramatising The grapes of wrath
Whitebrook, Peter
Book Number: 34990
ISBN: 0304321990
Publisher: London Cassell 1988
8vo hardcover 157pp, b/w illus. very good+, ex-lib / very good+ d/w.
Price: $12.00

Pencillings: Little Essays on Literature
Murray, John Middleton
Book Number: 25660
ISBN:
Publisher: London: W. Collins Sons & Co. 1923
8vo. green cloth hardcover. 277pp. good+, foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. / good foxed d/w with lightly chipped edges.'
Price: $25.00

Reflections on the atomic bomb. 'Volume I of the previously uncollected writings of Gertrude Stein.
Stein, Gertrude. Haas
Book Number: 3518
ISBN:
Publisher: Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 197
Edited by Robert Bartlett Haas. 181 p. printed wraps in good condition.
Price: $15.00

The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
Barthes, Roland
Book Number: 45723
ISBN: 0374521557
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux June 1979
8vo softcover 152pp very good. In this appealing and luminous collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to Paris of Billy Graham, the flooding of the Seine and other shared events and aspects of everyday experience.
Price: $12.00

In the Lion's Den - fifty essays
Waugh, Auberon
Book Number: 23415
ISBN: 0718117174
Publisher: London, Michael Joseph, 1978,
8vo. hardcover. 189pp. very good+. / very good d/w rubbed on top edge.
Price: $25.00