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Berryman, John. Edited By John Haffenden. Preface By Robert Giroux.
Berryman's Shakespeare. Essays, Letters, and Other Writings By John Berryman
New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1999, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Mint/Mint, 0374112053 Berryman, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, literary critic and devoted scholar of Shakespeare. His writings have been collected and edited in this edition. The book opens with an essay on Shakespeare's early dramatic years, continuing with Berryman's brilliat reconstruction, "Shakespeare at Thirty," and 7 other essays, including "The Tragic Substance" and "Shakespeare's Last Word" (in The Tempest). A whole section devoted to King Lear, to the textual differences between the quarto and folio editions of this masterpiece, and to Berryman's exchange of letters about the play's problems with Shakespearean scholar W.W. Greg. After a group of essays on various plays, including Henry VI and Macbeth, the book concludes with "Shakespeare's Reality". Green boards, black cloth spine. Mint condition, DJ illustrated, black spine, yellow lettering. 396 pages, tall 8vo. First Edition
(Shakespeare, John, Berryman, Shakespearean, Scholar, English, Literature, Literary, Criticism) Cat No. 997m.
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Mayfield, Sara.
The Constant Circle H. L. Mencken and His Friends
New York, Delacort Press,
1968, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Portrait of Mencken, one of America's outstanding literary critic of his generation; and its most prominent iconoclast. A personalized portait as seen through the eyes of his friend & confidante. Comprised of unpublished letters, diaries, notes and private converstations. Mencken, journalist, critic, editor and author famous for his violent and vitriolic attacks on the hypocrisy, stupidity and bigotry of much of American life as he saw it. Brown boards, borwn cloth spine, gilt lettering. Publsihers letter of introduction enclosed. DJ not price clipped, brown, picture of Mencken. Mild scuff mark to flap edge, flap edges smallest clip (not price) all else vg+ to nf. tall 8vo, 307 pages. First Edition
(H, L, Mencken, Victorian, Era, Writers, Biography, First, Edition, Literary, Criticism, Letters, Diaries, Menckeniana, Rabelaisian, Critic, American, Literature, American, Writers, Iconoclastic, Authors, Jazz, Age, Writers, Mencken, And His, Contemporaties, Jazz, Age, Literary, Circles) Cat No. 998m.
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Mayfield, Sara.
The Constant Circle H. L. Mencken and His Friends
New York, Delacort Press,
1968, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Portrait of Mencken, one of America's outstanding literary critic of his generation; and its most prominent iconoclast. A personalized portait as seen through the eyes of his friend & confidante. Comprised of unpublished letters, diaries, notes and private converstations. Mencken, journalist, critic, editor and author famous for his violent and vitriolic attacks on the hypocrisy, stupidity and bigotry of much of American life as he saw it. Brown boards, borwn cloth spine, gilt lettering. Publsihers letter of introduction enclosed. DJ not price clipped, brown, picture of Mencken. Mild scuff mark to flap edge, flap edges smallest clip (not price) all else vg+ to nf. tall 8vo, 307 pages. First Edition
(H, L, Mencken, Victorian, Era, Writers, Biography, First, Edition, Literary, Criticism, Letters, Diaries, Menckeniana, Rabelaisian, Critic, American, Literature, American, Writers, Iconoclastic, Authors, Jazz, Age, Writers, Mencken, And His, Contemporaties, Jazz, Age, Literary, Circles) Cat No. 998m.
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Mayfield, Sara.
The Constant Circle H. L. Mencken and His Friends
New York, Delacort Press,
1968, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Portrait of Mencken, one of America's outstanding literary critic of his generation; and its most prominent iconoclast. A personalized portait as seen through the eyes of his friend & confidante. Comprised of unpublished letters, diaries, notes and private converstations. Mencken, journalist, critic, editor and author famous for his violent and vitriolic attacks on the hypocrisy, stupidity and bigotry of much of American life as he saw it. Brown boards, borwn cloth spine, gilt lettering. Publsihers letter of introduction enclosed. DJ not price clipped, brown, picture of Mencken. Mild scuff mark to flap edge, flap edges smallest clip (not price) all else vg+ to nf. tall 8vo, 307 pages. First Edition
(H, L, Mencken, Victorian, Era, Writers, Biography, First, Edition, Literary, Criticism, Letters, Diaries, Menckeniana, Rabelaisian, Critic, American, Literature, American, Writers, Iconoclastic, Authors, Jazz, Age, Writers, Mencken, And His, Contemporaties, Jazz, Age, Literary, Circles) Cat No. 998m.
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Mayfield, Sara.
The Constant Circle H. L. Mencken and His Friends
New York, Delacort Press,
1968, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Portrait of Mencken, one of America's outstanding literary critic of his generation; and its most prominent iconoclast. A personalized portait as seen through the eyes of his friend & confidante. Comprised of unpublished letters, diaries, notes and private converstations. Mencken, journalist, critic, editor and author famous for his violent and vitriolic attacks on the hypocrisy, stupidity and bigotry of much of American life as he saw it. Brown boards, borwn cloth spine, gilt lettering. Publsihers letter of introduction enclosed. DJ not price clipped, brown, picture of Mencken. Mild scuff mark to flap edge, flap edges smallest clip (not price) all else vg+ to nf. tall 8vo, 307 pages. First Edition
(H, L, Mencken, Victorian, Era, Writers, Biography, First, Edition, Literary, Criticism, Letters, Diaries, Menckeniana, Rabelaisian, Critic, American, Literature, American, Writers, Iconoclastic, Authors, Jazz, Age, Writers, Mencken, And His, Contemporaties, Jazz, Age, Literary, Circles) Cat No. 998m.
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