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(Criticism) Collection of fifteen titles of literary criticism and biography Date Published: 1928-1978 Description: 15 volumes. Each in publisher's cloth with dust jackets. Chiefly first editions. Helpful collection of books covering literature in English, predominately between the early-mid 20th century. Includes biographies or autobiographies of Vachel Lindsay, Malcolm Cowley, and Arthur Koestler, as well as books treating the broader development of literature. Several signed or inscribed by the author. Lot includes: The Memoirs of J.M. Dent 1849-1926 with Some Additions by Hugh R. Dent. London & Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1928. First U.S. edition. Jacket clipped. Temple, Jean. Blue Ghost: A Study of Lafcadio Hearn. New York: Jonathan Cape/Harrison Smith [Printed in the United States of America by the Vail-Ballou Press], 1931. De Selincourt, Ernest. Dorothy Wordsworth: A Biography. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1933. Inscribed by author at dedication(presentation copy to dedicatee, Gordon Wordsworth?). First Edition. Jacket price-clipped; ccasional foxing. Hicks, Granville. The Great Tradition: An Interpretation of American Literature Since the Civil War. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First Edition. Jacket clipped. Literary Opinion in America: Essays illustrating the Status, Methods, and Problmes of Criticsm in the United States since the War. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. Edited, with an Introduction by Morton Dauwen Zabel. First Edition. The Note-Books and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins.. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1937. Edited with notes and a preface by Humphry House. First Edition. Jacket price-clipped. Further Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins Including His Correspondence with Coventry Patmore. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. Edited with Notes and an Introduction by Claude Colleer Abbott. First Edition. Jacket price-clipped. Gilman, Lawrence. Toscanini and Great Music. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First Edition. Jacket price-clipped. Blackmur, R.P. The Expense of Greatness. New York: Arrow Editions, 1940. First Edition. Foxing. Wilder, Robert. Out of the Blue: The Informal Diary of a Reporter. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1943. Drawings by Herbert Stein. First Edition. Harris, Mark. City of Discontent: An Interpretive Biography of Vachel Lindsay... Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1952. Inscribed by author, Mark Harris signed and dated Aug. 16, 1973 at Valencia, CA. First Edition. Gallup, Donald. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography: Including Contributions to Periodicals and Foreign Translations. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. First U.S. edition. Jacket price-clipped, spine sunned and spine tips chipped. The Invisible Writing: Being the Second Volume of Arrow in the Blue. An Autobiography by Arthur Koestler. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. First U.S. edition. Chevalier, Maurice. I Remember It Well. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. Signed by author on the front free endpaper. First Edition. Bookmark laid in stating, "A First Edition, autographed by the Author especially for the members of The First Edition Circle." Cowley, Malcolm. -And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978. New York: The Viking Press, 1978. Inscribed and signed by author on the front free endpaper. Additional shipping charges may apply Condition: Minor to light wear to jackets and cloth, some jakcets with slight chipping and/or toning; leaves generally clean with at most gentle toning and only several leaves with foxing throughout; very good to near fine conditions. Item#: 365777a Headline: 15 books on literary criticism and biography