Wimsatt W K Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-. 202pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second printing.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 2d Printing. 203 pps dozen pages have dented edge.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. 1s Printing of First Collier Books Ed. New York: Hill & Wang, 1967. Near Fine condition. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked. Not a remainder. No store stamp, ink name or bookplate. Includes Prologue, Drury Lane, 1747; two Rambler essays; dedication to Shakespeare Illustrated, 1753; Proposals for Printing by Subscription, 1756; Preface to Johnson's edition, 1765; Notes on 28 individual plays from Johnson's edition. From the rear cover: "Forty years after Pope, Johnson brought out his own Preface. By common consent it is one of the greatest essays on Shakespeare that has ever been written." The text includes a critical introduction by the editor. Selected bibliography. "In the kind of notes which alone could be written if all the libraries in the world were burned, and if we had nothing to guide us but our common sense and what we know of our fellow creatures and of the workings of the head and of the heart, Johnson is supreme. In all those passages where scholarship and historical knowledge fail to give us their aid there is still no more helpful guide than he. Once we know him we may be trusted to ask, when baffled by a difficult passage, 'What does Johnson say?'" - D. Nicol Smith. . 1s Printing of First Collier Books Ed. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xxxv, 115pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [From the library of Richard A. Macksey] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Prior owner's name inkstamped on first page and on page 17, else pages clean; binding tight; minor wear to dustjacket. 115 pages. Size: 4.5" x 7.5".

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 657 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 657 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.56 inches. In Stock.