Rhetoric

2 Ahl, Frederick: Metaformations. Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets. Cornell UP 1985. 349p cloth, dj, index, index of puns, new £ 14.-

3 Aristotle's Rhetoric. Philosophical Essays. Ed. A Furley. Princeton UP 1991. xv 322p cloth, dj, lib stamp, VG+. Essays by Burnyeat, Most, Sprute et al £ 14.-

4 Austin, Gilbert: Chironomia: or a Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery, containing many precepts for the proper regulation of voice, countenance and Gesture together with a new method of for the notation of Gesture (1806). Ed. M M Robb, L Thonssen. Southern Illinois UP 1966. xxix 583p cloth, dj, index, 11 plates with 122 positions, introd with editorial bibliogr, as new, a paradigm in the regulation of the body in production of discourse £ 18.-

6 Biason, M T: La massima o il "saper dire". Palermo: Sellerio 1990. 152p 21cm wrappers, bibliogr, as new, focus on the Maximes of La Rochefoucauld £ 10.-

7 Blair, Hugh: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Cadell 1812. 3 vols 420p 446p 355p 22cm full leather binding, hinges a bit weakened, some foxing on prelims, frontisp, index, nice copy of 12th Edition £ 48.-

8 Blair, Hugh: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Cadell 1812. 3 vols the same, nicer bindings, well preserved £ 56.-

9 Blair, Hugh: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. With a Critical Preface by L T Berguer. Allman 1827. xi 605p 24cm new covers first 150p with exclamatory pencil marks, VG £ 32.-

10 Bursian, Conrad: Der Rhetor Menandros und seine Schriften. München 1882 (Abhandlungen bayr Akad Wiss, Vol 16). 152p large 4to, no cover, a few pages detached, this paper £ 14.-

11 Cahn, Michael: Kunst der Überlistung. Studien zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Rhetorik. München: Fink, 1986. 204p card cover, index, bibliogr, new £ 12.-

12 Cederberg, Ann: Stil och Strategi i Riksdagsretoriken. En unders"kning av debattsprakets utveckling i den svenska tvakammarriksdagen, 1867 - 1970. Uppsala: Nordiska Sprak, 1993. 174p 24cm card cover, VG £ 8.-

13 Communicators, by I Franck & D Brownstone. NY: Facts on File 1986. (Work through History) xii 228p 24cm half cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, illus, no footnotes £ 10.-

14 Desbordes, Françoise: La Rhétorique Antique. L'Art de Persuader. Paris: Hachette 1996. 303p 22cm card cover, bibliogr, VG+. Incl a selection of original texts £ 10.-

15 Duez, Danielle: La pause dans la parole de l'homme politique. Paris: CNRS 1991. 165p 23cm, card cover, as new £ 10.-

17 The Ends of Rhetoric. History, Theory, Practice. Ed. John Bender, D Wellbery. Stanford UP 1990. 238p card cover, index, VG+ powerful collection: Lurid Figures, Catachresis, American Puritan Rhetoric (S Bercovitch), Rhetoric of Ethnic Identity (R Sennett) £ 10.-

18 Enfield, William: The Speaker or Miscellaneous Pieces selected to facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking, with an Essay on Elocution. New Edition. Johnson 1786. xxxiv 405p pub catalogue, 12mo full calf (quite worn /w loss, covers held by cords). An early school book (Select Sentences, Narrative, Didactive, Descriptive and Pathetic Pieces, also Orations & Harangues £ 20.-

19 Enfield, William: The Speaker; or Miscellaneous Pieces etc, with an Essay on Elocution. New Edition. Derby: Mozley & Sons, 1839. vi 336p, 12mo full calf (better condition). provincial imprint of above £ 22.-

20 Farrell, Thomas: Norms of Rhetorical Culture. New Haven: Yale UP 1993. x 374p 24 cm cloth dj, as new £ 10.-

21 Fogerty, Elsie: Speech Craft. A Manual of Practice in English Speech. Dent 1930. 122p cloth, VG+ £ 8.-

22 Ford, Harold: The Art of Extempore Speaking, Or, How to Attain Fluency of Speech. London: Stock 1906. vii 155p 19cm cloth (minor fault) VG £ 8.-

23 Fox, G Washington: Some Memories. Murby 1931. 152p 19cm cloth, frontisp, on debating societies etc £ 8.-

24 France, Peter: Rhetoric and Truth in France. Descartes to Diderot. OUP 1972. viii 282p 23cm cloth, dj, frontisp, bibliogr essay, index, VG+ ex lib copy £ 14.-

25 Grierson, Herbert: Rhetoric and English Composition. 2nd Ed. Edinburgh: Oliver 1945. ix 161p 20cm cloth, dj, VG £ 10.-

26 Hairston, Maxine: A Contemporary Rhetoric. 3rd Ed. Houghton Mifflin 1982. 544p hb, glossary, VG: contemporary American rhetoric: seller once occupied authors office for one year (Texas) £ 8.-

27 Hampton, Timothy: Writing from History. The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature. Cornell UP 1990. xii 309p card cover, index, new: Budé, Tasso, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes £ 14.-

28 Hilderbrand, Robert: Power and the People. Executive Management of Public Opinion in Foreign Affairs, 1897 - 1921. Chapel Hill: North Carolina UP 1981. viii 262p 24cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, VG+. How to handle to press, press releases, presidential chats w/ journalists etc £ 14.-

30 Kahn, Madeleine: Narrative Transvestism. Rhetoric and Gender in the 18th Century Novel. Cornell UP 1991. 172p card cover, index, bibliogr, new: Male authors of female personas: Moll Flanders, Pamela, Clarrissa £ 12.-

31 Koelb, Clayton: Inventions of Reading. Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination. Cornell UP 1988. xiv 265p coth, dj, index, bibliogr, new: Rhetorical construction, producing writing out of reading £ 13.-

32 Kvetnickij, Fedor: Clavis Poetica. (1732) Ed. B Uhlenbruch. Wien: Böhlau 1985. (Rhetorica Slavica 3) cii 271p 24cm hb, as new. Latin MS as facsimile, long introd Systemkrise der Poetik, as new £ 14.-

33 Lyons, John: Exemplum. The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy. Princeton UP 1990. 317p cloth, dj, new £ 14.-

34 Mahaffy, J P: The Principles of the Art of Conversation: Macmillan 1887. xii 174p 21cm cloth, VG £ 10.-

35 Marucci, Franco: The Fine Delight that Fathers Thought. Rhetoric and Medievalism in Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catholic UP 1994. xiv 267p 23cm cloth, index, bibliogr, as new £ 15.-

36 Meyer, Michel (Ed.): De la Metaphysique a la Rhetorique. Essais a la memoire de Chaim Perelman. Brussels UP 1986. 206p 24cm pb, as new £ 15.-

37 The Modern Orator: The Speeches of the Earl of Chatham (90p); The Speeches of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (150p); The Speeches of Lord Erskine (220p); The Speeches of Edmund Burke (80p). London: Aylott 1845/1846. iv 544p 24cm cloth, fresh, part of a more comprehensive publishing venture £ 14.-

38 Murphy, James: Medieval Rhetoric. A Select Bibliography. Toronto UP 1971. xvi 100p card cover, index, VG ex lib £ 12.-

39 De Quincey, Thomas: Essays. Ed. Charles Whibley. Blackie 1910? xii 356p 16cm red morocco orn gilt (edges sl worn), frontisp, very nice printing, incl Rhetoric, Tartars, Mail Coach, Suspiria etc £ 10.-

40 Quintero, Ruben: Literate Culture. Pope's Rhetorical Art. Associated UP 187p 24cm cloth, index, bibliogr, minor smoke damage £ 8.-

41 Quintilian, M F: Institutionis Oratoriae liber 1, Ed. F H Colson. CUP 1924. xcviii 208p 23cm cloth, masterly edition, philologia triumphans £ 12.-

42 Raabe, Paul (Ed.): Internationaler Arbeitskreis für deutsche Barockliteratur. Erstes Jahrestreffen. Vorträge und Berichte. Wolfenbüttel 1973. 154p 24cm card cover, plates, VG+: Jantz, Wiedemann, Ingen: Barockrhetorik, Emblematik, Titelkupfer, Sprachgesellschaften £ 12.-

43 Rhetorik zwischen den Wissenschaften. Geschichte, System, Praxis als Probleme des Historischen Wörterbuchs der Rhetorik. Ed. Gert Ueding. Niemeyer 1991. 379p card cover, with angry pencil annotations, hence only £ 8.-

44 Rhetorik. Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte in Deutschland vom 16. - 20. Jahrhundert. Ed. Helmut Schanze. Frankfurt: Fischer Athenäum 1974. 355p card cover, with a 130p bibliography of rhetorical handbooks, lib stamp, VG+ 14.-

45 Richards on Rhetoric. I A Richards Selected Essays, 1929 - 1974. Ed. Ann Berthoff. OUP 1991. xiii 187p card cover as new £ 10.-

46 Richards, I A: The Philosophy of Rhetoric. OUP 1936. 138p cloth VG: The interanimation theory of metaphor, 1st ed £ 14.-

47 Righter, William: The Rhetorical Hero: An Essay on the Aesthetics of Andre Malraux. Routledge 1964. ix 92p 23cm cloth, VG £ 10.-

48 Sandlands, J P: The Voice and Public Speaking. A Books for All Who Read and Speak in Public. Hodder 1879. viii 182p 20cm cloth, VG+ copy £ 10.-

49 Schott, Heinrich August: Die Theorie der Beredsamkeit mit besonderer Anwendung auf die Geistliche Beredsamkeit in ihrem ganzen Umfange dargestellt. Leipzig: Barth 1828. xxiii 448p marbeled boards, label, VG+. First pub 1814, this is the second ed. Only vol one, which covers: Sprachdarstellung überhaupt; Prosa & Poesie; Platz unter den Künsten; Kanzelberedsamkeit; Prinzip der Rhetorik (vol 2 +3 re Erfindung & Anordnung; Rednerische Schreibart, körperliche Beredsamkeit £ 16.-

50 Schramm, Wilbur; Roberts, Donald (Ed.): The Process and Effects of Mass Communication. Revised Ed. Illinois UP 1977. vii 997p 24cm cloth, index, bibliogr, many tables, VG copy of a classic £ 18.-

51 Shakespeare, William [Author of Plain Words on Singing]: The Speaker's Art. Putnam 1931. 169p 21cm cloth, dj, plates, Hamlet with pronuncation marks, VG+ £ 12.-

52 Shuger, Debora: Sacred Rhetoric. The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance. Princeton UP 1988. 289p cloth, dj, index, as new £ 12.-

53 Spackman, Barbara: Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio. Cornell UP 1989. xiii 220p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, new: Contains a chap on Lombroso £ 12.-

54 Spence, Donald: The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis. Displacement of Evidence by Theory. Harvard UP 1994. 228p 24cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, new £ 14.-

55 Taylor, Philip: Munitions of the Mind. War Propaganda From the Ancient World to the Nuclear Age. Stephens 1990. 240p 24cm hb, dj, index, plates, VG £ 10.-

56 Tengström, Emin: A Latin Funeral Oration from Early 18th Century Sweden. An Interpretative Study. Gothenburg 1983. 207p 24cm card cover, bibliogr, index, little wear £ 8.-

57 Toffano, Piero: La Figura dell'Antitesi nelle Massime di La Rochfoucauld. Fasano: Schena 1989. 169p 22cm wrapper, index, VG "in che consiste la figuralit... dell'antitesi?" £ 10.-

58 Watkins, Dwight: Effective Speech: Including Public Speaking, Mental Training and Development of Personality. Lesson 1, 2. Psychology Publishing 1920? 64, 62p 21cm cloth, VG £ 10.-

59 White, Eric Charles: Kaironomia. On the Will-to-Invent. Cornell UP 1987. 174p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, as new: Reading Gorgias (Proto-Rhetor) in America, a philosophy of Kairos £ 10.-

60 Wright, Elizabeth: E T A Hoffmann and the Rhetoric of Terror. Aspects of Language Used for the Evocation of Fear. Inst Germ Studies 1978. viii 307p card cover, bibliogr, VG+ £ 10.-

61 Young, Marilyn; Launer, Michael: Flights of Fancy, Flights of Doom. KAL 007 and Soviet-American Rhetoric. Lanham: University Press of America, 1988. xxvi 333p 23cm card cover, index, bibliogr, Korean Jumbo Jet shot down by a Russian MIG: the rhetorical reprecussions £ 8.-