NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES
Written by Basil Willey.
Stock no. 1331082
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Coleridge to Matthew Arnold. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 287 pages, lower edges untrimmed, top edge red. Second impression. Spine and corners bumped. Covers lightly damp spotted. Name, address and date to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn, foxed on verso and browned to spine. Wrapper is slightly grubby.

HARDY: AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY
Written by Alan Hurst; Thomas Hardy.
Stock no. 1831223
Published by Kaye & Ward. 1st thus 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This book may be used as a dictionary and read as a book. Arranged alphabetically, are entries related to Thomas Hardy and his works. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 215 pages. ISBN: 0718212452. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

AN EXPERIMENT IN CRITICISM
Written by C.S. Lewis.
Stock no. 1831202
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1969. Slightly better than very good condition.

In which Professor Lewis proposes that the quality of books should be measured not by how they are written, but by hProw often they are re-read. Small format. Red cardwraps. 142 pages. ISBN: 0521093503. Reprint. Spine and rear cover lightly browned. Small publisher price label to front cover. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean.

THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 3
Written by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater.
Stock no. 1831184
Published by J.M. Dent. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Volume 3: 'Gone Astray' and Other Papers from Household Words 1851-59. Edited by Michael Slater. Containing works never before collected together. Gone Astray picks up where The Amusements of the People leaves off, after the 1st 18 months of Dicken's contributions to HouseholdWords. Annotated. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxi and 542 pages including index. ISBN: 0460877267. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Cream dustwrapper is faded/sunned to spine.

THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 4
Written by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater; John Drew.
Stock no. 1831176
Published by J.M. Dent. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Volume 4: The Uncommercial Traveller and Other Papers 1859-70. Edited by Michael Slater and John Drew. This is the fourth and final volume of the first annotated edition of Dickens' Journalism. It gathers together articles, essays and recollections published during the last decade of Dickens' life, before his untimely death in 1870, and represents the culmination of a lifetime's work in popular journalism. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxiii and 476 pages including index. ISBN: 0460877283. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Couple of minor 'dints' to prelims else contents clean. Cream pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine, base of spine has a tear, no loss.

THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 2
Written by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater.
Stock no. 1831172
Published by J.M. Dent. 1st thus 1996. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Volume 2: The Amusements of the People and Other Papers: Reports, Essays and Reviews 1834-51. Edited by Michael Slater. Slater reprints some of Dickens' best journalism from the period, including well-known pieces like "Pet Prisoners," "Old Lamps for New Ones," and "On Duty with Inspector Field," along with unfamiliar gems such as "Snoring for the Million" and "Demoralisation and Total Abstinence." Annotated. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxviii and 408 pages including index. ISBN: 0460877275. Slight bump to top of spine. Boards clean. A few minor foxspots to text block and top edge of text block a bit grubby. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

THE FEMININE SUBJECT IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Written by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs.
Stock no. 1330673
Published by Routledge. 1st 2002. Very good condition.

Proposing a new paradigm of readership - irrespective of the sexual identity of the actual reader - that is deeply informed by the consciousness and unconsciousness of language, and demonstrates how feminist analysis can open bold new textual possibilities for children's literature. Pictorial boards. 201 pages. ISBN: 0415929962. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents fine.

ENID BLYTON AND THE MYSTERY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Written by David Rudd.
Stock no. 1330639
Published by MacMillan Press. 1st 2000. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Enid Blyton's work is probably better known that any other chldren's author worldwide but there has been relatively little serious attention paid to her. Negative criticism has been plentiful but this study suggests that previous critics have been misguided. It gives detailed readings of Noddy, the Famous Five and Malory Towers and proposes a new interpretation locating her in the oral tradition. It also unlocks the secret mechanism by which she entrances so many young children. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. 266 pages. ISBN: 0333747186. Spine and corners bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge worn and faded to spine and spine edge of front panel.

HOURS IN A LIBRARY (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Leslie Stephen; Jonathan Steinberg.
Stock no. 1827322
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1991. Very good condition.

Introduction by Jonathan Steinberg. A series of essays. Blue cloth. Gilt titles and decoration. B/w illustrations. Spines are very slightly damp mottled. Else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which has some light scuffing and minor marks.

HOURS IN A LIBRARY (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Leslie Stephen; Jonathan Steinberg.
Stock no. 1827049
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1991. Very good condition.

Introduction by Jonathan Steinberg. A series of essays. Blue cloth. Gilt titles and decoration. B/w illustrations. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is partly split at top open edges.

SHIPBOARD LITERARY CULTURES: READING, WRITING AND PERFORMING AT SEA
Written by Susann Liebich; Laurence Publicover.
Stock no. 1825148
Published by Palgrave Macmillan. 1st 2021. Slightly better than very good condition.

Maritime Literature and Culture series. The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea. Edited by Liebich and Publicover. Matt blue pictorial boards. Printed by Books on Demand, Germany. ISBN: 9783030853389. Lower corners of boards bumped. Rear board lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

READING AND RIGHTING
Written by Robert Leeson.
Stock no. 1323224
Published by Collins. 1st 1985. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. The past, present and future of fiction for the young. ISBN: 0001844156. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page. Covers a little edge rubbed and unevenly browned.