Robert P. Tristam Coffin. The Third Hunger & the Poem Aloud. Denton, TX: Texas State College for Women, 1949. First edition, one of 2,000 copies printed. Octavo. 122pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, green top-stain, fore edge deckled, original unclipped dust jacket. Designed by Carl Hertzog. From the.....
![Item #2829 The Elements of Dramatic Criticism [First Edition]. William Cooke](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2829.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771445035)
William Cooke. The Elements of Dramatic Criticism. Containing an Analysis of the Stage Under the Following Heads, Tragedy, Tragi-Comedy, Comedy, Pantomime, and Farce. With a Sketch of the Education of the Greek and Roman Actors; Concluding with Some General Instructions for Succeeding in the Art of Acting. London: Printed for.....
![Item #2910 Walt Whitman: Der Dichter der Demokratie [Inscribed]. Karl Knortz](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2910.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774454344)
Karl Knortz. Walt Whitman: Der Dichter der Demokratie. Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer, 1899. First edition. Inscribed by Karl Knortz. Octavo. 93pp. Publisher's green paper wraps, stringbound, most pages remain unopened, housed in custom titled leather and cloth slipcase. Text in German.
Greger, Debora. Bret Lott, editor. The Southern Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, Autumn 2007. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 2007.With Autograph Letter Signed by Debora Greger laid-in. Inscribed to Larry McMurtry and dated December 11, 2007.Octavo. pp. 737-973 + [8]pp. ads. Debora Greger poem to page 755. Illustrated with photos. Publisher's.....
Ford Maddox Ford. Mightier Than the Sword: Memories and Criticisms of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Thomas hardy, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Ivan Turgenev, W. H. Hudson, Theodore Dreiser, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. London: George Allen, 1938. First edition. Octavo. 292pp + 4pp ads. Illustrated with b/w photos.....
Georgianne Ensign. Great Beginnings: Opening Lines of Great Novels. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. First edition. Octavo. 256pp. Publisher's black quarter paper over black paper boards, spine lettered in silver, front board decorated in red, original unclipped dust jacket. McMurtry mentioned on pages 102-104. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in.....
John Updike. Hawthorne's Creed (Targ Edition No. 12). New York: Targ Editions, 1981. Limited first edition, one of 250 copies. Signed by John Updike. Octavo. 13pp. Portrait frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy quarter cloth over marbled boards, illustrated pastedown to front cover, original buff colored paper dust wrapper. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home.....
![Item #1859 Werner [First Edition]. Lord Byron](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1859.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755198093)
Lord Byron. Werner, A Tragedy. London: John Murray, 1823. First edition. Octavo. viii + 188pp + 7pp catalogue. Handsomely bound in brown half-leather over marbled paper boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, pages untrimmed.First issue without imprint or "The End" to last leaf.
H. P. Lovecraft. August Derleth, introduction. Supernatural Horror in Literature. New York: Ben Abramson, 1945. Second printing. Octavo. 106pp + 5pp index. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original dust jacket.
![Item #3151 Royal Decree: Conversations with Rex Stout [Inscribed]. John McAleer](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3151.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1780348276)
John McAleer. Royal Decree: Conversations with Rex Stout. Ashton, MD: Pontes Press, 1983. Limited edition, No. 41 of 1,000 numbered copies. Inscribed by John McAleer: “For Mike, stout friend, / from one of his stout / admirers, / John M. McAleer.” Octavo. 73pp. Publisher’s blue pictorial card wraps.
![Item #670 Literary Life [SIGNED]. Larry McMurtry](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/670.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1720732433)
Larry McMurtry. Literary Life: A Second Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. First edition.Signed by Larry McMurtry. Octavo. 175pp. Publisher's black quarter cloth over hardcover paper boards, spine lettered in silver, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $24.00.
Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. Early printing (Sept., 1936). Octavo. 1037pp. Publisher's grey cloth, stamped in blue to spine and front cover.
[Thomas Nevile]. Remarks on Mr. Mason's Elfrida, in Letters to a Friend. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752. First edition. Octavo. 61 pp. Rebound in modern marbled boards, edges speckled red. First and only edition. A rare example of eighteenth-century literary (as opposed to moral or political).....
![Item #1823 Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction [Signed]. Ray Bradbury](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1823.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752872064)
Jonathan R. Eller and William F. Touponce. Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2004. First edition. Signed by Ray Bradbury. Octavo. 570pp (indexed). Illustrated. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in purple, endleaves in black, original unclipped dust jacket.
![Item #2824 Remarks on the Beauties of Poetry [First Edition]. Daniel Webb](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2824.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771439377)
Webb, Daniel. Remarks on the Beauties of Poetry. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1762. First edition. Twelvemo. [2], 123 pp. Nicely rebound in modern quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-stamped title to spine, five raised bands, endleaves refreshed. Daniel Webb (1718 -1798) came from a reasonably wealthy Irish family and spent.....
Peter Whalley. An Enquiry into the Learning of Shakespeare. With Remarks on Several Passages of his Plays. In a Conversation between Eugenius and Neander. London: Printed for T. Waller. 1748. First edition. Octavo. 84 pp. Disbound. This short essay is one of the more innovative expositions on Shakespeare in the eighteenth century. .....
Ross MacDonald and Eudora Welty. Ralph B. Sipper, introduction. The Faulkner Investigation. Santa Barbara, CA: Cordelia Editions, 1985. First edition, one of 500 copies printed by Graham Mackintosh. Ralph B. Sipper inscribed business card laid-in. Octavo. [11]pp. Publisher’s mauve card wraps. Contains essays William Faulkner’s The Hound by Rodd MacDonald.....