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Modern Language Association of America, (1942) • ''Hardy's "Imbedded Fossil"'', North Carolina University, (1945) •
Pilgrims Through Space and Time: Trends and Patterns in Scientific and Utopian Fiction, (1947) •
The Southern Humanities Conference and Its Constituent Societies,
University of North Carolina Press, (1951) •
Proper Words in Proper Places, (1952) •
Victorian Poetry, by Edward K. Brown & J. O. Bailey, Ronald Press, (1962) •
British Plays of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology to Illustrate the Evolution of the Drama, ed. by J. O. Bailey, (1966) •
The Poetry of Thomas Hardy: A Handbook and Commentary,
Chapel Hill, NC:
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Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1972) •
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