Poe

Irwin,John T. The Mystery to a Solution:Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story, John Hopkins
edgewear,scrapes,dust jacket. erased pencilled underling on two pages of preface. text clean and tight. mystery. Very Good+/Very Good hard cover

2nd printing,1994 8vo,cloth,481pp,illus.

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Sotheby's: The Library of H. Bradley Martin. Highly Important American and Children's Literatur. Versteigerungskatalog Sotheby's, New York 1990,
*The Bradley Martin Library, Part VII mit den Katalog-Nummern 1978-2505. - Reich illustrierter Katalog der bedeutenden Sammlung zur amerikanischen Literatur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.. - Schätzpreisliste separat beigelegt.

Mit zahlr. tlw. farb. Abbildungen. 4to. OLwd.

[KW: Bibliographie, Amerikanische Literatur, Melville, Hemingway, Poe, Hawthorne]

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Starkweather, Chauncey C., special introduction: Essays of American Essayists Including Biographical and Critical Sketches, New York The Colonial Press 1900
Very Good Illustrated

First Thus (revised edition). Green ribbed silk binding, decorative gilt spine, t.e.g. Frontispiece photogravure plus three additional illustrations, each with captioned tissue. 456 pp. Includes a wide selection of essays from Benjamin Franklin, William Ellery Channing, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, William Cullen Bryant, William Hickling Prescott, George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Edar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Lothrop Motley, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Francis Parkman, and George William Curtis. Generous margins, readable type, and good paper make this an enjoyable book for reading. Minimal library markings, in very good condition. First Thus Silk 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ex-Library

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Bibliographie- Rubin, Louis D. (Editor). A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature. With an Appendix containing Sixty-eight Additional Writers of the Colonial South by J.A. Leo Lemay. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1969. ISBN: 0807101397
[The Volume contains the following Parts: "The Colonial Period" (J.A.Leo Lemay), "Early Twentieth Century Southern Literature" (Claud B. Green), "The Civil War in Southern Literature" (Richard Harwell), "Southern Populare Literature" (Floyd C. Watkins), "Twentieth Century Southern Drama" (Kimball King), "Southern Speech" (James B. McMillan), "John Barth" (Douglas Collins), "Truman Capote" (Louise Y. Gossett), "Samuel Davies" (Richard Beale Davis), "Robert Munford" (Robert Bain), "Edgar Allan Poe" (Robert D. Jacobs), "Thomas Wolfe" (Richard S. Kennedy), etc.].

Gr.-8°. XXIV, 368 Pages. Original Cloth-Volume with golden Title-Impression on the Spine. Library-buttons cover-inside and on the Front-Endpaper. Library-stamps on the Cutting. The Volume is slightly rubbed and slightly bumped.

[KW: Englische Literatur; Englischsprachige Literatur; Literaturwissenschaft]

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