Alegria, Fernando La Poesia Chilena: Origenes Y Desarrollo del Siglo XVI al XIX The history of Chilean poetry en espagnol. First edition from the University of California Press at Mexico City, Mexico, 1954. Tear to dustjacket, fine condition overall. 5.5 x 8, 314 pp. $45.

Bakhtin, Mikhail Rabelais and His World First Midland Book edition of 1984, translated by Helene Iswolsky. 5.5 x 8.25, 484 pp. between laminated paper covers in As new condition $30.

Balakian, Anna Literary Origins of Surrealism: A New Mysticism in French Poetry

1965 New York University Press re-issue of 1947 original from the by- then- defunct King's Crown Press of Columbia. Has "Preface to the New Edition', baby blue endpapers and an original drawing by Yves Tanguy opposite the frontis. 5.5 x 8.25, 128 pp. between aqua paper cards stained by smoke on all sides. Text and binding just fine however $20.

Bassanese, Fiora A. Understanding Luigi Pirandello Monograph in the University of South Carolina Press 'Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature ' Series. 6.25 x 9.25, 196 pp. in mint condition. Cloth boards $50.

Bayard, Caroline The New Poetics in Canada and Quebec: From Concretism to Post-Modernism

Parallel study of concrete poetry in Anglo- and Francophone Canada. Jacket cover is graced by a reproduction of Rene Magritte's The Double Secret. 6.25 x 9.5, 374 pp. with extensive bibliography. Some yellowing to the dustjacket, otherwise As New $50.

Beckett, Samuel and others Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Woirk in Progress 1972 paper covered edition of Shakespeare & Company's 1929 run. 5.5 x 7.5, 194 pp. Smudges to lamination, otherwise finely flaked $25.

Beckett, Samuel Proust Evergreen edition 1978 in black paper covers. Originally copyright to Beckett in 1957 it has the odd feel of a text printed by the academy for a trade presentationan. Austere and fine but bottom front corner bunged. Left 'Price in V\Canada' stickers on both front and back -both authors would have loved that - 5.5 x 8, 74 pp. Good to go $20.

Brereton, Geoffrey An Introduction to the French Poets All the major French poets from Villon to the Surrealistes have a chapter. Paper covers from Methuen of 1973. 5.5 x 8.5, 320 pp. in fine condition $25.

Burgess, Anthony Here Comes Everybody Faber Paper Covered edition of 1969. Chatty introduction to Finnegan's wake and james Joyce. 5.5 x 8, 276 pp. in fine condition $25.

Celan, Paul Collected Prose Translated by Rosemarie Waldrop Sheep Meadow Press edition of 1986. Three speeches and various letters and book notices. 5.75 x 9, 67 pp. and clothbound with red dustjacket; all in mint condition $30.

Coleman, Dorothy Gabe The Chaste Muse: A Study of Joachim Du Bellay's PoetryA Medieval and Renaissance Authors title from E. J. Brill (Leiden 1980). 5.5 x 8.25, 122 pp. without its green dustjacket. Blue cloth boards and text as new though $30.

Cooley, Dennis The Vernaular Muse Critical essays on Canadian, especially Canadian Prairie poetry and poetics. Published by Turnstone Pres 1987. 5.5 x 8.5, 311 pp. Buckled upper back corner, good condition overall $20.

Drucker, Johanna The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909 - 1923Best work is on Zdanevich's zaum. First University of Chicago Press edition of 1994. 6.25 x 9.25, 298 pp. Contains extensive bibliography of sources and graphic-centred commentaries. Smoke stains to top face, pink and black boards, text and dustjacket in fine condition however $50.

Duncan, Robert Scales of the Marvelous Published by New Directions in its Insights: Working Papers in Contemporary Criticism Series in 1975. White paper covers a re scuffed lightly, text is typewriter set -presumably at the author's request (he was a consummate typist as well) but overall condition is fine. 5.25 x 8, 245 pp., $30.

Eliot, Thomas Sterns The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry & Criticism Methuen papercovered edition of 1967. Includes, "Tradition and the Individual Talent". 6 x 8, 171 pp. with the usual scratches and stains. In good, readable condition $20.

Espinoza, Cesar and Nucleo Post-Arte, editors Corrosive Signs / Signos Corrrosivos: Essays on Experimental Poetry (Visual, Concrete,Alternative) Compilwed by the editors in Mexico City and published out of Washington D.C. by Maisonneuve Press in 1990 in response to a felyt need for a theoretical context for the language arts as pracrised in South America, Italy, Portugal & Spain. Remarkable coverage and examples in 130 pp. 6 x 9 with some lift to the laminate red, white and black cover and stains to the book's top face. Good overall $25.

Frye, Northrup The Educated Imagination Texts from the second Massey lectures broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting orporation beginning in 1961. This is from the seventh impression of 1970. 5 x 8, 68 pp. a good reading copy $15.

Frye, Northrup Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology Even writing about centuries-old poems, Frye is incapable of inducing boredom5.5 x 8, 265 pp. a fair reading copy from 1963 $20.

Frye, Northrup Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth and Society First Midland Papercovered Book edition of 1983. 5.5 x 8.5, 296 pp. Scratches to green cover and foxing to faces but still good condition, sturdily bound $25.

Fussell, Paul Poetic Meter and Poetic Form Revised edition from 1979. Paper cover and binding are fine but unfortunately the first two chapters contain much underlining in ink. Penned suib on back inside cover as well. Just a reading copy of a classic in its field $15.

Gair, Reavley, Editor in Chief A Literary and Linguistic History of New Brunswick Twenty contributors in this celebration of the Provimce's Bicentennial of 1985. 6 x 9, 2386 pp. including photos and extensive bibliographies. Fine condition $25.

Griffiths, Linda & Maria Campbell The Book of Jessica Actress / Playwright Griffiths and Activist / Author Campbell discuss their treaty/collaboration re: cultural appropriation in the production of the award winning play Jessica. 5.5 x 8.5, 176 pp. Coach House first edition paperback of 1989. Some lift to the laminated paper covers but still fine condition overall $25.

Gugelberger, George M. Marxism and African Literature First U.S. edition of 1986. !3 contributors introduced by the editor. Text and cloth boards are as new but dutjacket has some peel to it so only Fine condition overall.. 6.25 x 9.25, 226 pp. $40.

Gumpel, Liselotte "Concrete" Poetry from East and West Germany: The Language of Exemplarism and Experimentalism A study in the divergence of visual poetries after the partition of Germany. Almost totally divides over the difference of communal concrete from the idiomorphic. Yale Germanic Studies, 6 from 1976. Text and cloth covers in as new condition, dustjacket, with Ferdinand Kriwet's Rolled Up Journey reproduced on it shows sign of wear. 6 x 8.5, 268 pp $45.

Hamburger, Michael Hofmannstahl: Three Essays First Princeton/Bollingen paperback printing of 1971. Text fine and binding secure, paper covers, blue front, silver, back, are stained however as are open faces top and margin. 5.5 x 8.5, 155 pp. Good reading copy $15.

Hassan, Ihab PARACRITICISMS: seven speculations of the times Illini Books edition of 1984. A trajectory in expressionist criticism. Violet front cover, text and paper binding all in fine condition. 6 x 9, 184 pp.$30.

Hofmannstahl, Hugo von Selected Essays Edited by Mary E. Gilbert for Blackwell's German Text Series. 20 essays auf Deutsch, introduced in English. Of note is the last essay concerning the poet and his time. 5 x 7.25, 158 pp. Paper covers are fragile but fine and binding is sturdy; overall As new condition $35

Kirkby, Joan, editor The American Model: Influence & Independence in Australian Poetry Considers the work of 10 Australian poets in light ofAmerican tendencies. !1 contributors, 18 half-tone photos. 5.5 x 8.5, 178 pp. in fine overall condition from 1982. $25.

Lovell, Terry Consuming Fiction In the 'Questions for Feminism' series from Verso Books, this paperback from 1987 correlates the 'rise' of fiction from commodity to art object to the demise of women's participation in its production. 5.5 x 8.5, 187 pp in fine overall condition $25.

Lutz, Hartmut Contemporary Challenges: Conversations with Canadian Native Authors Including with Tomson Highway, Beatrice Culleton and Ruby Slipperjack from Fifth House of 1991. Lovely plush-matte covers over 276 pp in 6 x 9 format with extensive bibliography. As New condition $30.

McCaffery, Steve & bpNichol Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the Book-Machine; The Collected Research Reports of the Toronto Research Group 1973 -1982. Red paper card covers with wrap-around dustjacket, on whose inverse a Toronto research Group Game Board is printed. Text edited and introduced by Steve McCaffery. 6 x 9, 320 pp in Mint condition $40.

Michaud, Guy Mallarme Gotham Library series edition of 1965 published by NYU. translated by Marie Collins and Bertha Humez. 5.5 x 8.25, 180 pp. $35.

Nabokov, Vladimir Notes on Prosody and Abram Gannibal Princeton/Bollingen paperback of 1964. The wittiest insights into scansion i've ever read. 5 x 8, 182 pp. some stains to faded front cover, good overall condition $25.

Perkins, Michael The Secret Record First Rhinoceros edition of August 1992 printed in a mass market format by Masquerade Books. Modern Erotic Literature -not only well thought-out, but the prose is a pleasure in and of itself. 4.25 x 285 pp. withthe usual bumps and scars $20.

Reeve, F. D. Alexandr Blok: Between Image and Idea Study of the Russian Symboliste poet, Number 1 in the Columbia Studies in the Humanities series. First edition of 1962. printed in the Netherlands, the paper is exotically grainy and the binding wobbly. Dustjacket only has a few blemishes. 6.5 x 9.5, 268 pp. Fine overall condition $45.

Richards, I. A. Principles of Literary Criticism Harvest paperback edition from HBJ. Author's preface is from 1928 while the text is from 1925. 4.5 x 7.25, 299 pp. Fine reading copy $20.

Robbe-Grillet, Alain For a New Novel First Northwestern University Press printing of Grove Press translation by Richard Howard first issued in 1965. Green paper covers with Joseph Cornell collage, Aerodynamics on the front. 5.25 x 8.5, 175 pp. in as new condition $20.

Scholes, Robert Elements of Poetry Unique, staplebound format (4.5 x 6.5) for handbook of poetry appreciation. Back cover a bit scuffed but overall good condition for its 86 pages $15.

Svevo, Italo James Joyce Translated by Stanislaus Joyce, this is the City Lights edition, in a wonderful 4.75 x 6 inch format, second printing of December 1969. Front cover photo of its subject is by Man Ray. Author photo with tastefully placed store sticker graces the back cover. 70 pages (unpaginated) $20.

Triquarterly Books Writers from South Aftrica: Culture, Politics and Literary Theory and Activity in South Africa Today Published in 1989 as Number 2 in the Triquarterly Series on Criticism and Culture. 5 x 7, 128 pp with some lift to the paper covers. Good condition $15.

Valery, Paul Eupalinos & L'Ame et la Danse Cloth-bound Oxford University Press study texts of two of the poet's dialogues largely concerned with architecture. Text in French, notes and introduction in English prepared by Vera J. Daniel. Frontis, a photo of the elder valery at work is intact, a later illustration has been lost. pen mark to front page otherwise text clear and well-bound. 5x 7.5, 217 pp. $20.

Van Den Abbeele, Georges Travel as Metaphor: from Montaigne to Rousseau With stops in the texts of Descartes and Montesquieu as well. Parallels exploring the 'New World' with the the French explorers of speculative thought. 6 x 9, 177 pp. in fine condition $20.

Vendler, Helen Part of Nature, Part of Us The classic of American Humanist poetry criticism in red paper covers, third printing, from Harvard University Press of 1981. 6 x9, 376 pp. front cover pretty beat up. fair reading copy $15.

Winny, James Chaucer's Dream-Poems Chatto & Windus monograph of 1973. Some stains but still in fine condition. 5.5 x 8.5, 158 pp. $25.

Woodcock, George Introducing Margaret Atwood's Surfacing "A Reader's Guide" in ECW Press's Canadian Fiction Studies. This is Volume 4. 6 x 9.25, 75 pp. in lavender boards printed in purple in As New condition $40.