1. Atwood, Margaret.

Collection of four important association copies of poetry by Margaret Atwood (plus two signed Novels), given to her friend Jerome Hamilton Buckley, influential Professor of English Literature. All four association copies in first edition and all beautifully inscribed. The Novel only signed. The collection includes: 1. The Animals in that Country (1968 / Hardcover) [Signed and with the printed dedication “For J.” and a personal inscription on the halftitle to Jerome Buckley] / 2. The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970 / Softcover) [Signed and inscribed] / 3. You are Happy (1973 / Hardcover) [Signed and inscribed] / 4. Murder in the Dark – Short Fictions and Prose Poems (1983 / Softcover) [Signed and inscribed]. / 5. The collection also includes a signed copy of Atwood’s “The Robber Bride” (1993 / Softcover) / 6. The collection also includes a signed and inscribed copy of “The Tent” (signed as “Margaret Atwood”).

Toronto / New York, Oxford University Press / Harper & Row / Coach House Press / Doubleday, 1968 – 1993. Octavo. 69, 64, 96, 62, 466, 155 pages. Original Hardcover and Softcover – publications with the rare illustrated dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. All inscriptions beautifully signed as Peggy or Peggy A. or in one case even Peggy Atwood.

2. Atwood, Margaret.

Murder in the Dark. Short Fictions and Prose Poems.

First Edition. Toronto, Coach House Press, 1983. 12,5 x 21 cm.` 62 pages. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. Very good+ condition. Beautiful association copy: Inscribed and signed by Margaret Atwood to Jerry Buckley and his wife Elizabeth on the title page in 1983. Very clean and tight copy with only minimal signs of wear to the spine.

3. Atwood, Margaret.

The Animals in That Country.

First Edition. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1968. 13 x 22 cm. 69 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good+ condition. Association copy, inscribed by Margaret Atwood to Jerry Buckley and his wife on the half title. One of the earliest dedications from Atwood to Jerry Buckley (1968).

4. Atwood, Margaret.

The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Poems by Margaret Atwood.

First Edition. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1970. 12,5 x 21,5 cm. 64 pages. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition. Association copy with one of the first dedications by Margaret Atwood to later life-long-friends Jerry Buckley and his wife Elizabeth on the title page. The dedication still very formal and emancipation from the law of coverture has not yet set in. Atwood addresses Buckley’s wife in her inscription as “Mrs. J.H.Buckley”: “For Dr. and Mrs. J.H.Buckley – with best wishes – Peggy Atwood – March 1970” / Very clean and tight copy with slight discoloration of the cover only.

5. Atwood, Margaret.

You Are Happy.

First Edition. New York, Harper & Row, 1973. 14 x 21 cm. 96 pages. Original Hardcover with blue cloth spine and orange paper-covered boards. With original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good+ condition. Beautiful association copy, inscribed by Margaret Atwood’s to Jerry Buckley and his wife Elizabeth on the half title.

6. Blunden, Edmund.

Romantic Poetry and the Fine Arts. Warton Lecture on English Poetry.

1st Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1942. 8°. 20 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear – edges bumped and chipped. Internally clean – no text markings. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XXVIII.]

7. Buckley, Jerome [Jerry] Hamilton.

Collection of Books & Pamphlets from the private library and collection of Harvard Professor Jerome [Jerry] Hamilton Buckley, specialist on Victorian Literature and Poetry [e.g. Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Arnold, Dickens etc.]. The collection includes numerous publications dedicated, inscribed, signed to Jerry Buckley from his colleagues in the field of Literary Criticism focusing of 19th and 20th century Literature.

Boston / Toronto / New York etc. etc. c. 1960 – c. 1995 Octavo. Original Softcover / Stapled offprints etc. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Offprints often signed and inscribed.

8. [Cary, Joyce] O’Connor, William Van.

Joyce Cary.

First Edition. New York & London, University of Columbia Press, 1966. 8°. 47 Pages. Original brown and blue illustrated wrappers, stapled (softcover). Very good condition with minor external signs of wear. No text markings, pages clean. [Columbia Essays on Modern Writers. Number 16.]

9. [Cather, Willa] Edel, Leon.

Willa Cather. The Paradox of Success.

Washington, Reference Dept, Library of Congress, 1960. 8°. 17 Pages. Stapled softcover wrappers. Good condition. No text markings. Browning along spine. Staples rusted. Front wrapper and first few leaves slightly creased. [″A Lecture Delivered Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, October 12, 1959.]

10. Chambers, Sir Edmund.

Matthew Arnold.

First Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1932. 8°. 25 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition. Signs of wear – wrappers chipped and bumped. Some underlining and pencil markings within. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XVIII.]