Essays & Literary Criticism
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Modes of Sentience
$100.00 Add to cartPeter Sjostedt-Hughes
London: Psychedelic Press, 2021.
Psychedelics, Metaphysics, Panpsychism. Essays exploring the “intersection of psychedelic experience with philosophy, the analysis of mind in relation to panpsychism, multiple dimensions of space, time, and other metaphysical matters. Keeping apace with the psychedelic renaissance in science and medicine, this collection proposes new philosophical models for discerning altered and alternate modes of sentience.” (publisher’s blurb) The out of print first hardcover edition. -
Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction
$50.00 Add to cartElizabeth Stephens
Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. -
Illustrating Camelot
$80.00 Add to cartBarbara Tepa Lupack; Alan Lupack
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008. -
To the Lighthouse: The Original Holograph Draft
$500.00 Add to cartVirginia Woolf; Susan Dick
London: The Hogarth Press, 1983.
Woolf’s original draft with all of the edits and annotations transcribed and edited by Susan Dick. -
Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Look Twice
$50.00 Add to cartJuliana De Nooy
Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. -
The Waves: The Two Holograph Drafts
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First Edition.
25cm x 17cm. 769, 72 pages. Illustrated cloth, illustrated jacket.
Woolf’s original drafts transcribed and edited by J. W. Graham.
Very Good Condition in Good Jacket. Minor chipping to spine crown, very minor split at crown of lower hinge, still firm. Clipped jacket with small chips and tears. Very Good Condition. -
Samtliche Werke: Meraugis Von Portlesguez & La Vengeance De Raguidel (2 Volumes)
$100.00 Add to cartRaoul de Houdenc; Mathias Friedwagner
Geneve: Slatkine Reprints, 1975.
German commentary with the original poetry in French. Edited from all known manuscripts by Mathias Friedwagner. -
Lancelot and the Grail: A Study of the Prose Lancelot
$60.00 Add to cartElspeth Kennedy
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. -
Tristan and Isolt: A Study of the Sources of the Romance (2 Volumes)
$100.00 Add to cartGertrude Schoepperle Loomis
New York: Burt Franklin, 1963. -
Dickens’ London
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Seventh Folio Printing.
23cm x 14cm. 239 pages, black and white illustrations. Quarter brown cloth, illustrated papered boards, gilt lettering, slipcase.
Essays selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance. Engravings by George Cruikshank. FORD-SMITH 224.
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The Naked Design: A Reading of Palace of the Peacock
$40.00 Add to cartHena Maes-Jelenik
Denmark: Dangaroo Press, 1976.
A detailed analysis of language and imagery in Wilson Harris’ Palace of the Peacock, authored by Hena Maes-Jelinek. This copy inscribed by the author to Dr. John Stanton Davis Mellick OAM ED (1920-2023), with Mellick’s embossed stamp, and also a manuscript reply letter from Hena to Stan laid in. -
The Silver Greyhound
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First Edition.
19.5cm x 12.5cm. xii, 319 pages. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering, gilt, silver, and black decoration.
Recollections of a retired English military officer: of travel, soldering, hunting, etc. The author’s scarce first book, followed by a history of coaching and road travel published two years later, Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching.
Slightly cocked. Minor rubbing to cloth. Spine tanned. Previous owner’s name. Minor tanning to interior. Small soil to fore-edge. Good Condition. -
Electronic Revolution, 1970-71
$450.00 Add to cartWilliam Burroughs
Cambridge: For Henri Chopin .. at the Blackmoor Head Press, 1971.
One of the standard edition of 450 numbered copies (of a total edition of 500) with drawings by Brion Gysin. “Bilingual French and English text of a two-part 52-page essay on media and manipulation, about equal parts paranoia and genius, as much of Burroughs’ work tended to be.” SHOAF 23. MAYNARD & MILES A21 -
Gleanings from Greeneland
$40.00 Add to cartJ. S. Ryan
Armidale: University of New England, 1972.
Collection of papers on Graham Greene. -
Lancelot do Lac: The Non-Cyclic Old French Prose Romance (2 Volumes)
$400.00 Add to cartElspeth Kennedy
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. -
Lesbian and Gay Writing: An Anthology of Critical Essays
$10.00 Add to cartMark Lilly
London: Macmillan, 1990. -
The Dead Accuse: Collection of Letters from Behind the Iron Curtain
$40.00 Add to cartArturs Plaudis
Melbourne: JAJM Fund, 1984.
Collection of letters telling of life in Latvia from 1944 to 1980. -
Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives
$40.00 Add to cartToni Johnson-Woods
New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010. -
Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World
$50.00 Add to cartTimothy Perper; Martha Cornog
Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 2011. -
Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building
$55.00 Add to cartTze-Yue G. Hu
Aberdeen: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. -
Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime
$50.00 Add to cartAndrew Hock Soon Ng
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2008. -
Orwell’s Politics
$60.00 Add to cartJohn Newsinger
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1999.
A study of George Orwell’s political beliefs from his time as a police officer through to the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four. -
Gonzo Republic: Hunter S. Thompson’s America
$40.00 Add to cartWilliam Stephenson
London and New York: Continuum, 2012. -
The Life of Such is Life: A Cultural History of an Australian Classic
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First Edition.
25.5cm x 18cm. xvii, 187 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Sydney Studies in Australian Literature.
Minor bumps to fore-edge corners and very minor bumps to spine crown and tail. Street library stamp. Very Good Condition. -
Lesbian and Gay Writing: An Anthology of Critical Essays
$10.00 Add to cartMark Lilly
Houndmills: Macmillan, 1990. -
Critique and Postcritique
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First Edition.
22.5cm x 15cm. [vi], 329 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Very minor soiling to edges. Very minor bumps to fore-edge corners and spine tail. Marginalia to preface.. Good Condition. -
Diccionario De Escritores Mexicanos
$80.00 Add to cartAurora M. Ocampo de Gomez; Ernesto Prado Velazquez
Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1967.
Dictionary of Mexican Writers. -
Andrea Levy
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 15.5cm. vi, 155 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Very minor soiling to edges and wrappers. Very minor bump to tail fore-edge corner. Very Good Condition. -
Kerouac in Ecstasy: Shamanic Expression in the Writings
$50.00 Add to cartThomas R. Bierowski
Jefferson and London: McFarland & Company, 2011. -
Reconstructing the Beats
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First Edition.
23cm x 15.5cm. vi, 241 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor shelf wear and foxing to edges. Very Good Condition.