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. [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.]

8. [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.]

9. 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.]

10. Chambers, Sir Edmund.

The Timelessness of Poetry. Presidential Address 1940.

First Edition. London, The English Association, 1940. 8°. 16 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Handwritten notes made on a few pages. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]

11. Crofts, J.

Wordsworth and the Seventeenth Century. Warton Lecture on English Poetry.

First Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1940. 8°. 20 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Fair condition. Signs of wear – wrappers chipped and bumped. No text markings internally. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XXVI.]

12. Ellison, Ralph / Shapiro, Karl.

The Writer’s Experience – Ralph Ellison: “Hidden Name and Complex Fate: A Writer’s Experience in the US” / Karl Shapiro – “American Poet ?”.

First Edition. Washington, Library of Congress, 1964. 8°. 32 Pages. Stapled brown and cream wrappers. Fair condition. Typical stains around staples where rusted. Pages clean internally. No text markings. Some signs of external wear on covers. [Lectures Presented under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund.]

13. Gray, J.M.

Serialism in the “Idylls”: Songs.

Lincoln, Keyworth and Fry, 1974. 8°. 23 Pages. Printed cream wrappers (Softcover). Very good. Clean copy.

14. Gray, J.M.

Tennyson’s Doppelgänger: Balin and Balan.

Lincoln, The Tennyson Society, 1971. 8°. 61 Pages. Printed Purple Wrappers (softcover). Excellent condition.

15. Gray, J.M.

Tennyson’s “Idylls” : Cyclic Imagery and Syntax.

Lincoln, Keyworth and Fry, 1974 8°. 19 Pages. Printed cream wrappers (softcover). Good condition.

16. Grierson, Prof. H.J.C.

Lord Byron: Arnold and Swinburne. Warton Lecture on English Poetry XI.

1st Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1920. 8°. 31 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear – corners bumped, pages chipped. Some text markings. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. IX.]

17. Hughes, A.M.D.

The Theology of Shelley. Warton Lecture on English Poetry.

First Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1938. 8°. 15 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Fair condition. Signs of wear – wrappers chipped and bumped. No text markings internally – pages clean. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XXIV.]

18. Inge, The Very Rev. W.R.

Modernism in Literature. Presidential Address 1937.

1st Edition. London, The English Association, 1937. 8°. 16 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. No text markings. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]

19. Jones, Henry.

Tennyson.

1st Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1909. 8°. 15 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear – corners and spine bumped. No text markings. Pages yellowed. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. IV.]

20. Maclean, Kenneth.

England in the Eighteenth Century.

Toronto. The University of Toronto Press, 1942. 8°. 19 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Good condition. Some signs of external wear – corners bumped. Some lines marked in pencil in margins. Binding tight, no loose pages. “With best wishes, Kenneth Maclean” inside front wrapper.

21. Meckier, Jerome.

Evelyn Waugh.

Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 8°. 12 Pages (pp.98-109) Original stapled papers (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. No text markings. Inscribed by author on first page: “For Jerry Buckley, with best regards, Jerry Meckier”. [Offprint from: “Contemporary Literature”, Vol. XVIII, No.1]

22. Newbolt, Sir Henry.

Poetry and Time. [Warton Lecture on English Poetry IX].

1st Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1918. 8°. 17 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Good condition with minor signs of wear – corners and edges bumped. No text markings. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. VIII.]

23. Samuel, The RT. Hon. Viscount.

On Style. Presidential Address 1941.

1st Edition. London, The English Association, 1941. 8°. 16 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Pen in margin made on a few pages. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]

24. Steegmuller, Francis / Bornstein, Dean (illust.).

The Incident at Naples.

First Edition. New York, Privately Printed, 1992. 8°. 35 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Excellent condition. No text markings. Pages inside clean, fresh and bright. Illustration on p. 7 by Dean Bornstein.

25. Steiner, George.

Dissenters from the Book.

First Edition. Boston, Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 2001. 14 x 21.5 cm. VII; 24 Pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor external signs of wear. No text markings – very clean copy. [Delivered on the Occasion of the Twelfth Annual Bromsen Lecture. May 5, 2001.]

26. Steiner, George.

The Uncommon Reader. Originally delivered at Bennington College as Lecture One in the Ben Belitt Lectureship Series, October third, 1978.

LIMITED EDITION. Vermont, Bennigton College, 1978. 8°. 22 Pages. Original ice blue card wrappers, stapled (softcover). Excellent condition with minor external signs of wear. No text markings. [Offprint from: “The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature”]

27. Stetz, Margaret D. / Grubgeld, Elizabeth / Samuels Lasner, Mark et al.

Turn-of-the-Century Women.

Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1986. 8°. 56 pages. Printed wrappers with reproduced pen and ink drawing on front wrapper. Very good condition. Pages clean. [Offprint from: “Turn of The Century Women”, Volume 3, No. 2, 1986.]

28. Stone, Harry.

Dickens “Conducts” Household Words. (Illustrated)

London, The Dickens Fellowship, 1968. 8°. 15 Pages (pp.71-85). Printed green wrappers (softcover). Very good condition. Some slight foxing internally. Some text markings in pencil. [Offprint from : “The Dickensian”, Vol. LXIV, 1968.]

29. Stone, Harry.

Dickens Rediscovered. Some Lost Writings Retrieved.

Berkley, University of California Press, 1970. 8°. 22 Pages (pp. 527-548). Printed (illustrated) Card Wrappers (softcover). Good condition. Clean internally. Wrappers show some signs of wear. Signed by author on front wrapper: “Sincere regards, HS”. [Offprint from: “Nineteenth Century Fiction”, Vol.24, No.4, The Charles Dickens Centennial.]

30. Stone, Harry.

Fairy Tales and Ogres : Dickens’ Imagination and “David Copperfield”.

Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1964. 8°. 7 Pages (pp. 24-30). Stapled blue wrappers (softcover). Good condition. Some rust marks from staples. “DICKENS” and “Sincere regards, HS” (Harry Stone) written in pen on front cover. Some text markings. [Offprint from: “CRITICISM, a Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, Vol.VI, No.4, 1964.]

31. Temple, The Most Rev. William.

The Genius of Poetry. Presidential Address 1939.

1st Edition. London, The English Association, 1939. 8°. 15 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Very Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Copy of F.W.Roe, with is name on cover and pen markings on a few pages. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]