Edited David Erdman (15 results)

First edition Very close top fine and bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. Tiny sticker price to cover.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 2nd New & Revised Edition. NEW Trade Paperback: Second New & Revised Edition (Orig. 1988) Twenty-Fifth printing (c. 2022). * 5.96" x 6.16" x 2.04", 1.28 kg, xxviii+994, 1022 pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: An "Approved Edition" of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association: Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, if includes up-to-date work on variants, chronology of poems & critical commentary by Harold Bloom. * ABOUT THE POET: WILLIAM BLAKE was born in London in 1757. He was educated at home & then worked as an apprentice to the engraver James Basire before joining the Royal Academy in 1779. In 1782 he married Catherine Boucher, & a year later began his career as a poet when he published "Poetical Sketches". This was followed by "Songs of Innocence" (1789) & "Songs of Experience" (1794), which he also designed & engraved. His other major literary works include "The Book of Thel" (1789), "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" (c. 1793), "Milton" (1804-8), & "Jerusalem" (1804-20). He produced many paintings & engravings during his lifetime. Blake died in 1827. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: DAVID V. ERDMAN was an American literary critic, editor, & Professor Emeritus of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor Erdman established his reputation as a William Blake scholar. Erdman is the author of "Blake: Prophet against Empire", "The Poems of William Blake", "The Illuminated Blake: All of William Blake's Illuminated Works with a Plate-by-Plate Commentary", and more. HAROLD BLOOM was a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University & a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than 40 books include "The Anxiety of Influence", "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human", "The Western Canon", & "The American Religion". He was a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, & the recipient of many awards & honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres & Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, & the Alfonso Reyes International Prize of Mexico. He lived in New Haven, Connecticut, & in New York City. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for an additional cost-determined fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at fees determined by most recent international postal rate increases.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Norman Fruman's copy.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. viii, 591-637pp. Wrapper lightly age-toned, chip on rear wrapper foredge, very good. "The Ghost at Brede Place" by John D. Gordon". "Irving's Knickerbocker and Some of Its Sources (Part II, Conclusion)".

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 6 x 9in. xxiv. 476pp. + 121 plates. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the spine ever so lightly tanned, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with three black and white plates. Wrappers. Small quarto. 243-288pp. Spine sunned, near fine. Features "Harry Miller Lydenberg 1874-1960: A Tribute" by Edward G. Freehafer, "Stephen Crane's Last Novel" by Daniel G. Hoffman. Other contributions by David H. Stam, Madeleine B. Stern, Jack D. L. Holmes, and W. Arthur Boggs.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with a drawing by Glen Coleman, map drawings. Wrappers. Small quarto. 347-408pp. Spine sunned, near fine. "Front Matter: Emerson's 1841 Lecture *Surnames* Reissued." "Gilder Poetry Collection" by Lewis M. Stark. Other contributions by Paul Fussell, Jr., Michael G. Kammen, Clarence Gohdes, Richard D. Altick, and Carl J. Stratman.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with three black and white plates. Wrappers. Small quarto. 243-288pp. Spine sunned, near fine. "Harry Miller Lydenberg 1874-1960: A Tribute" by Edward G. Freehafer, "Stephen Crane's Last Novel" by Daniel G. Hoffman. Other contributions by David H. Stam, Madeleine B. Stern, Jack D. L. Holmes, and W. Arthur Boggs.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 420-470pp. Wrapper lightly age-toned, near fine. "Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Wedgwood Fund (Part I)." "Stephen Crane: Some New Stories (Part I).".

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 473-524pp. Wrapper spine tanned, near fine. "Stephen Crane: Some New Stories (Part II), Raft Story and Diamonds and Diamonds". "Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Wedgwood Fund (Part II).".

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 243-288pp. Page edges lightly foxed, near fine. "Stephen Crane's First Story" by Daniel G. Hoffman.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated with a black and white plate and a map. Wrappers. Small quarto. 485-546pp. Spine sunned, one inch tear on spine tail, very good. Inscribed by contributor Robert W. Stallman to fellow author Daniel Hoffman on the front wrapper with his penned correction on page 496. "Stephen Crane as Dramatist" by Robert W. Stallman. Other contributions by Herbert Weisinger, Stephen Crane, Earl Miner, Philip L. Barbour, and Dena J. Epstein.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 317-364pp. Wrappers corners creased, some chipping of the spine, very good. "The Earliest Manuscript of Whitman's 'Passage to India' and Its Notebook" by Fredson Bowers, and more. Laid in is a typed letter presumably to poet Daniel G. Hoffman and Signed by the editor.

Condition: Very Good. 4to., pp.xvii,120,120,107, paperback, b/w facsimile accompanied by transcription; partial sunning to wrappers, with crease to upper corner of front wrapper, and just slight creasing to other corners, internally fresh, overall a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. Square quarto. B&W illustrations. Condition: edge-tears, creasing & sunfading to DJ; inked name & date on 1st free endpaper; else very good in fair DJ.