MIlton: Paradise Lost, A Casebook
Hampshire: Macmillan, 1986. Fifth Printing. Paperback. More
Literary Criticims/Essays
The Architecture of Happiness
London: Penguin Books, 2014. Cat Johnston (cover illustrations). Reissued Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture..... More
Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures
London: Biteback Publishing, 2017. UK Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having..... More
The Portable Anais Nin
San Antonia, Texas: Sky Blue Press, 2015. Compiled, edited and introduced by Benjamin Franklin V. Seconding Printing. Paperback. The Portable Anais Nin is the first comprehensive collection of the author's work in nearly 40 years, during which time her catalogue has doubled with the release of the erotica and unexpurgated..... More
The Author
London: Routledge, 2005. First UK Edition. Paperback. More
In Defence of Sociology (Essays, Interpretations & Rejoinders)
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of..... More
Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970. First Edition. Second Impression. Paperback. In Poetic Closure, distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between..... More
Ben's Jonson's Plays and Masques (Texts of the Plays and Masques, Jonson On His Work, Contemporary Readers on Jonson, Criticism)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. More
Beyond East & West: Memoirs, Portraits & Essays
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. More
The Way We Live Now
Sceptre Books, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. It was a great relief to many when in October 1982 Bernard Levin returned to the pages of The Times. In his eighteen months' leave from regular journalism (during which he was alarmed to discover that he didn't miss it) there were those less fortunate..... More
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
London: Transworld Publishers, 2011. First Black Swan Edition. Fourth Printing. Paperback. In these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of the domestic artifacts..... More
Mao Zedong's 'Talks at the Yan'an Conference on Literature and Art': A Translation of the 1943 Text with Commentary
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992. Second Printing. Paperback. More
Words and Images: Australian Novels into Films
Richmond, Victoria: Heinemann Publishers Australia, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Rare. Words and Images is the first Australian book to examine the relationship between literature and film. Taking nine major examples of recent films adapted from Australian novels - including The Getting if Wisdom, My Brilliant Career and The Year of..... More
Design as Art
UK: Penguin Classics, 2008. Bruno Munari (cover art), YES (cover design). Reissued Penguin Classics Edition. Reprint. Paperback. One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh published as part..... More
Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (Gleanings for the Curious)
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1961. Menten Inc. (cover design). Reprint. Revised with a new introduction. Softcover. This 1961 edition is a verbatim reprint of the first 310 pages and chapters of Refractory and Conformity of Sense to Sound of Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-Fields of Literature, third..... More
Hemingway: The Writer as Artist
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. Fourth Edition, Ninth Printing. Softcover. In this fourth edition of the best-known critical study of Hemingway’s work Carlos Baker has completely revised the two opening chapters, which deal with the young Hemingway’s career in Paris, and has incorporated material uncovered after the publication..... More
Bernard de Voto: Four Portraits and One Subject (with a bibliography of his writings)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Four essays about DeVoto: The Historian by Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Writer by Edith R. Mirrielees, The Citizen, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and The Personality by Wallace Stegner. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. More
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 47 (May 2019)
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2019. Steven Schroeder (cover art). Softcover. In Issue 47 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (May 2019), we will publish an English-language section on "Loneliness in the City". What are some of the possible relationships between the individual and a city? What are cultural..... More
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 48
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2019. July 2019. Softcover. Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is a Hong Kong-based print poetry publication. In each issue, we publish Chinese-language poems and critique pieces on poetry. We also have a section of English-language poems. 本刊為雙月刊，創作園地包括詩作、評論、專欄。全年公開徵稿；風格、字數不拘。 《聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse Poetry..... More
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 49
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2020. September 2019. Softcover. Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is a Hong Kong-based print poetry publication. In each issue, we publish Chinese-language poems and critique pieces on poetry. We also have a section of English-language poems. 本刊為雙月刊，創作園地包括詩作、評論、專欄。全年公開徵稿；風格、字數不拘。 第49期 No. 49 【卷首語】鄭政恆..... More
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 50
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2019. November 2019. Softcover. Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is a Hong Kong-based print poetry publication. In each issue, we publish Chinese-language poems and critique pieces on poetry. We also have a section of English-language poems. 本刊為雙月刊，創作園地包括詩作、評論、專欄。全年公開徵稿；風格、字數不拘。 第50期 No. 50 Special..... More
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 51
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2020. January 2020. Softcover. Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is a Hong Kong-based print poetry publication. In each issue, we publish Chinese-language poems and critique pieces on poetry. We also have a section of English-language poems. 本刊為雙月刊，創作園地包括詩作、評論、專欄。全年公開徵稿；風格、字數不拘。 《聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse Poetry..... More
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 52
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2020. 洋小漫 (封面畫作). March 2020. Softcover. Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is a Hong Kong-based print poetry publication. In each issue, we publish Chinese-language poems and critique pieces on poetry. We also have a section of English-language poems. 本刊為雙月刊，創作園地包括詩作、評論、專欄。全年公開徵稿；風格、字數不拘。 《聲韻詩刊 Voice &..... More
How to Analyze Drama
New York: Monarch Press, 1984. Second Printing. Paperback. More
Essays of a Book Collector: Reminiscences on Some Old Books and Their Authors
West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1989. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Locust Hill Literary Studies No. 3. About the author: Claude Prance (1906-2002) was born in Portsmouth, England, and was educated at the Philological School and St John’s College at Southsea. He joined the Midland Bank in 1923..... More
