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Phoenix House, 1964. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1964. First Edition. 346 pages. Blue and green dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to boards. Small marks to boards. Textblock is shaky. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Notable tanning to spine. Visible rubbing to surfaces.

London: Readers Union, 1965. Hardcover. Jacket is slightly marked, with tanned spine; a few minor nicks, with inch-long tear by spine head, and shorter tear with crease at one corner. Interior is clean and sound - a very good copy in good jacket. TS. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.

London: Phoenix House, 1964. (UK) Stated first publication, No markings, Very Good; lacking the dust jacket. Blue cloth hardcover, xxii, 346pp, index. Allen (1911-1995) was an English literary critic and novelist and one of the Birmingham Group of authors.] He is best known for his classic study The English Novel: a Short Critical History (1951).This is a sequel to that book. It starts with Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Lawrence, and continues on to about 1960. (1.8 JM HOJ 302/0. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking the Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Phoenix House, 1964. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1964 first edition of Allen's study of modern novel. Book is in good to VG condition - tight and clean with slight spotting to endpapers. Unclipped. Small ownee inscriptions. DJ is intact with no major damage - one or two nicks to front and back. Small Coffee stain on flyleaf Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Pheonix House, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Regarded a the first survey of modern American fiction by an English critic. In VG clean crisp an bright order throughout. Smart blue cloth with bright gilt titling to spine. VG unclipped d/j a little toned and worn to edges. 8vo. 346pp

London England: Phoenix House. Hardback. Previous owners name to inside cover. Very slight shelf wear to top and bottom of spine of D/J. Price clipped to D/J. In this book the author considers the story of the development of English and American fiction from the nineteen-twenties to prominent writers of our time - in fact from the days of Joyce and Lawrence to such contemporary writers as Kingsley Amis and iris Murdoch. In following the significant growth of American fiction in the same period, this book deals with such famous names as Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and Willa Cather, concluding with William Styron, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor and others. This section of the book is therefore probably the first survey of modern American fiction by an English critic, the author discussing a number of important American novelists as yet almost unknown in this country in the course of its pages. 346 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and… Read More

PhOENIX Book. FIRST. A very good first in blue cloth. STAMPED FROM THE LIBRARY OF GORE VIDAL. Tipped in cover of Isherwood paperback, xerox of Penguin publishing list, with SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION, tipped in KING ARTHUR CROSS illustration. Writing on four pages (not Gore Vidal's) Mr. Vidal is in one chapter..

London: Phoenix House, 1968. library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear, library sticker spine.. 3rd Impression. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.

Hogarth Press, London, 1986.. 1986. Soft cover. 0701206926 paperback, 358pp, edges browning, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, spine not creased, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0701206926 .

London: Readers Union, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. pp XXII, 246. An unread book. DJ complee, shows slight use to tail of spine.