Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary [TWO VOLUMES].
Oxford, 1979. Later printing. Blue cloth, housed in publisher's two-slot slipcase. Includes original publisher's magnifying glass in sliding tray and acetate pulls.
Criticism & Essays (Literary)
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford, 1994. Second Edition, later printing. Blue cloth, housed in publisher's slipcase, with magnifying glass and User's Guide in stapled wraps. Includes original publisher's magnifying glass and User's Guide.
Kleist, Moos, Fasane
Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer Verlag. 1987. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Signed and inscribed to poet Christopher Middleton.
Algospeak : How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. First US edition. Harcover, in dust jacket. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
The Second Plane : September 11: Terror and Boredom.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First North American edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Collection of nonfiction plus two short stories by prize-winning author.
Different Speeds, Same Furies : Powell, Proust and Other Literary Forms.
Verso, 2022. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Burning Questions : Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021
New York: Doubleday, 2022. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
Writing with Intent : Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983 - 2005.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Jane Austen and the English Landscape.
London: Barn Elms, 1996. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Why Write?
Providence: Burning Deck, 1996. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Limited to 500 hardcover copies.
The Orthoëpist : A Pronouncing Manual.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1891. Seventeenth edition. Publisher's full green cloth, decoratively stamped in black and gilt. HOW DO YOU SAY...? Are you always tripping over your pronunciation? Do words like ophthalmy or gubernatorial have your knees shaking? Well, Alfred Ayres, the pseudonym of Thomas Embly Osmun.....
Dinner at Magny's.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1971. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Satyr Square : A Year, A Life in Rome
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1992. Seventeenth Edition. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Edited by Justin Kaplan.
Simple & Direct : A Rhetoric for Writers
New York: Harper & Row, 1975. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
A Guide to English Literature
Aldine Publishing, 1966. Second printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
The Walker : On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
London: Verso, 2020. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Rotten Rejections : A Literary Companion
Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1990. Later printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Introduction by Bill Henderson.
Whose What? : Aaron's Beard to Zorn's Lemma.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. A reference book for all the strange expressions that have entered the American language.
Tolstoy and China.
Princeton U. Press, 1950. First edition, first printing. Teal cloth, spine title stamped in silver.
Ulysses as a Comic Novel.
Syracuse U. Press, 1989. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
The Superior Person's Third Book Of Well-Bred Words.
Godine, 2002. Later printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism
Paragon House, 1993. First American edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
Unlocking the English Language
London: Faber and Faber, 1989. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.