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Whispers: Volume 1, Number 4, July 1974


Schiff (Editor), Stuart David

Softcover. North Carolina, Stuart David Schiff, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, with illustrations throughout. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854071


Price: $30.00 

 

Whispers: Volume 2, Number 1, November 1974


Schiff (Editor), Stuart David0

Softcover. North Carolina, Stuart David Schiff, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, with illustrations throughout. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854073


Price: $15.00 

 

Whispers: Volume 2, Number 4, December 1975


Schiff (Editor), Stuart David0

Softcover. North Carolina, Stuart David Schiff, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages, with illustrations throughout and supplement laid-in. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, "$2.00" stamp on first page, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854074


Price: $12.00 

 

Whispers: Volume 2, Number 2-3, June 1975


Schiff (Editor), Stuart David0

Softcover. North Carolina, Stuart David Schiff, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 132 pages, with illustrations throughout and supplement laid-in. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854075


Price: $18.00 

 

Arabian Nights, The: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights


Detmold (Illustrator), E. J.

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 4th Printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages, with color paintings by Detmold throughout, gilt decorated cover and spine, red slipcase.

Record # 854176


Price: $40.00 

 

Labors of Hercules, The


Di Bassi, Pietro Andrea

Hardcover. Barre, Massachusetts, Imprint Society, 1st thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages, illustrated with facsimiles from the 15th century manuscript, translated by W. Kenneth Thompson. Minor rub and crack to slipcase, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 854474


Price: $40.00 

 

Oedipus


Durrenmatt, Friedrich

Hardcover. Limited Editions Club, 1st English, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED by translator, Leila Vennewitz, and photoengraver, Marie Cosindas. Number 618 of a limited 650 copies, dark blue cloth slipcase with suede interior, leather spine with cloth gray cloth boards, foreword by Durrenmatt. Beautiful, large format, copy with tissue covered photogravures.

Record # 854503


Price: $180.00 

 

Spanish Stories and Tales


de Onis (Ed.), Harriet

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 270 pages. Slight wear to price clipped dust jacket with lightly faded spine and small stain on front cover. Internally very good.

Record # 854641


Price: $20.00 

 

Zane Grey: Outdoorsman


Reiger (Ed.), George

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 349 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, soil and chipping to price clipped dust jacket with small sticker-scar to lower edge of spine. Internally very good.

Record # 854696


Price: $12.00 

 

When Montana and I Where Young: A Frontier Childhood


Bell, Margaret

Hardcover. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 854790


Price: $12.00 

 

Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's Writings and Ana, A


Dyer, Isaac Watson

Hardcover. New York, Octagon Books, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 587 pages, minor edge wear and foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 854875


Price: $15.00 

 

Unbelievers, The: English Agnostic Thought 1840-1890


Cockshut, A. O. J.

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages, dust jacket edge wear and fade, foxing on edges and preliminary pages, otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 854883


Price: $15.00 

 

Account of the English Dramatick Poets, An: In Two Volume


Langbaine, Gerard

Softcover. Los Angeles, University of California Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First published in 1691, reprinted with an introduction by John Loftis in both volumes. Light edge wear and fade, foxing on edges, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 854987


Price: $38.00 

 

Rustics in Rebellion: A Yankee Reporter on the Road to Richmond 1861-1865


Townsend, George Alfred

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press , 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 292 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855253


Price: $13.00 

 

Essays on Amherst's History


NA

Hardcover. Amherst, MA, The Vista Trust, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 452 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and small closed tear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855283


Price: $19.00 

 

In a Green Shade: Essays in Landscape 1970-1983


Mabey, Richard

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 185 pages. Slight tanning/yellowing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855304


Price: $19.00 

 

You Who Can Help: Paris Letters of an American Army Officer's Wife - August, 1916 - January, 1918


Churchill, Mary Smith

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Small, Maynard & Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to boards, spine slightly faded, faint foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855313


Price: $31.00 

 

Reference and Generality: An Examination of Some Medieval and Modern Theories


Geach, Peter Thomas

Hardcover. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 202 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and front cover, dust jacket edge wear and fade, price clipped, otherwise, internally very clean and bright copy.

Record # 855354


Price: $38.00 

 

Essays on Russian Liberalism


Timberlake, Charles E.

Hardcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Dust jacket has rubbing and crinkling to edges. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855485


Price: $15.00 

 

Semantics


Lyons, John

Softcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1: 371 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Previous owner's signature also on front cover. Fading to covers. Otherwise, tight clean copy. Volume 2: 897 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Fading to covers. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855496


Price: $38.00 

 

You Call this Living?: A Collection of East European Political Jokes


Bane, C. and Dundes, Alan

Softcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Light shelf wear and pencil underlining. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855665


Price: $13.00 

 

American Woman, Italian Style: Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women


Albright, Carol Bonomo and Moore, Christine Palamidessi

Softcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st ed., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855690


Price: $19.00 

 

Poiesis: Structure and Thought


Kitto, H. D. F.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 407 pages. Teal cloth boards with gilt lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket has some shelf wear/rubbing. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855781


Price: $15.00 

 

Musrum


Thacker, Eric & Earnshaw, Anthony

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press Inc., reprint, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering. Remainder spray, top edge. Chipping to edges. Water damage to bottom corner of last half of pages. #458 of 500 copies. Tight copy.

Record # 855831


Price: $50.00 

 

Buoyant Billions: A Comedy of No Manners in Prose


Shaw, Bernard

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Constable & Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. #514 of 1025 copies. B&w and some color illustrations by Clare Winsten. Cloth pictorial boards. Gilt lettering along spine. Gilt top edge. Some tinting to end papers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855832


Price: $75.00 

 

Annotated Catalogue of the Papers of Charles S. Peirce


Robin, Richard S.

Hardcover. MA, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light edgewear and sunning and a small sticker-stain to front cover.

Record # 855910


Price: $100.00 

 

Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life


Child, Lydia Maria

Hardcover. New York , Negro Universities Press, reprint., 1969, Book: Very Good, 493 pages. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855999


Price: $15.00 

 

Garment of Praise, The: The Necessity for Poetry


Chilton, Eleanor Carroll & Herbert Agar

Hardcover. Garden City, Ny, Doubleday Doran & Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 401 pages. Black cloth, top edge gilt. Slight fading to spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856022


Price: $19.00 

 

EIMI: The Journal of a Trip to Russia


Cummings, E. E.

Hardcover. New York, William Sloan Associates, Inc., 2nd, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 432 pages. Light edgewear, chipping and soil to dust jacket with tears and chinks missing along spine, and minor soil to rear flap. Slight separation of cloth along spine. Binding cracked along half-title page. Otherwise, good, unmarked copy, protected by mylar cover.

Record # 856392


Price: $50.00 

 

Discourse on Hamlet and Hamlet: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry


Eissler, K. R.

Hardcover. New York, International Universities Press, Inc., 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 656 pages. Light foxing to dust jacket and front and rear end paper and flyleaf. Small pen mark on front of dust jacket. Tiny closed tear on rear of dust jacket. Minor edge wear. Dust jacket price-clipped. Rear cover bumped along top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856420


Price: $13.00 

 

Rise of the Common Player: A Single Study of Actor and Society in England, The


Bradbrook, M. C.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 320 pages. Four pages of black-and-white illustrations. Some edge wear on dust jacket. A little shelf-wear evident on rear cover. Dust jacket price-clipped. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856426


Price: $19.00 

 

Boy in the Model-T, The: A Journey in the Just Gone Past


Longstreet, Stephen

Hardcover. Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages, illustrated with line drawings by the author. Light edgewear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket with minor sunning to spine. Internally very good.

Record # 856712


Price: $23.00 

 

Tale of Gargantua and King Arthur, The


Girault, Francois

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st thus, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, The French original of a lost Elizabethan translation edited with introduction and glossary by Huntington Brown. Intro is in English, but text itself is in French. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Light edgewear, soil and fading to dust jacket. Nice readingcopy.

Record # 856735


Price: $25.00 

 

Bibliography of Alaskan Literature 1724-1924: Volume 1


Wickersam, James

Hardcover. N/P, Privately Printed, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volune 1. 635 pages. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856793


Price: $63.00 

 

Plain Dealer, The: One hundred Years in Cleveland


Shaw, Archer H.

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 402 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. No dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856813


Price: $19.00 

 

Country Talk: A Miscellany


Robertson-Glasgow, R.C.

Hardcover. London, Anthony Blond, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856814


Price: $19.00 

 

English Novel, The: A Catalogue Including Prose Romances, Short Stories, and Translations of Foreign Fiction


Block, Andrew

Hardcover. London, Dawsons of Pall Mall, revised edition, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Ex-Library with usual markings and stamps. Light wear to red cloth covers. No dust jacket present, but pieces of dust jacket flaps are glued to front end paper and prelim page. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856816


Price: $15.00 

 

Face of England in a Series of Occasional Sketches, The


Blunden, Edmund

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 178 pages. Light wear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight chipping to edges of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856822


Price: $25.00 

 

Because I Was Flesh


Dahlberg, Edward

Hardcover. Norfolk, Ct, New Directions, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 234 pages. Light foxing to end papers, top edge and dust jacket. Light sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856835


Price: $50.00 

 

On Prose and Verse


Stephens, James

Hardcover. New York, The Bowling Green Press, limited ed, 1928, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 41 pages. limited to 1000 copies. Some wear and age-tanning to boards and spine with faded label. Light fraying to uopper edge of spine with 1/4" strip missing from lower edge. Previous owner's bookplate and yellow tape residue to end papers.

Record # 856856


Price: $19.00 

 

English Men of Letters: Jeremy Taylor


Gosse, Edmund

Hardcover. Grosse Pointe, MI, Scholarly Press, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages. Maroon cloth, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856872


Price: $15.00 

 

History of British Journalism - 2 volumes


Andrews, Alexander

Hardcover. New York , Haskell House Publishers, rep, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volume set. 339 + 365 pages. Blue cloth, no dust jackets. Light shelf-wear to covers, else a clean, tight set.

Record # 856882


Price: $38.00 

 

Kerouac


Charters, Ann

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Straight Arrow Books, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856900


Price: $31.00 

 

Children of Dickens, The


Crothers, Samuel McChord

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, rep, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 259 pages. Illustrated by Jesse Willcox Smith. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with small chip missing from top of spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856996


Price: $15.00 

 

Journal of William Beckford in Portugal and Spain 1787-1788, The


Alexander, Boyd

Hardcover. New York , The John Day Company, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages, fold-out maps. Red cloth boards with gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Light fading to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857028


Price: $38.00 

 

Shakespeare and Medicine


Simpson, R. R.

Hardcover. London, E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 267 pages. Wear, light soil and chipping to price clipped dust jacket, previous owner's marks in text. Nice reading copy.

Record # 857066


Price: $25.00 

 

Beauties


de Quincey, Thomas

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1862, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight crack to front gutter. Heavy foxing to frontis piece and tissue guard. Light edgewear and fraying to spine.

Record # 857111


Price: $38.00 

 

Mishima: A Vision of the Void


Yourcenar, Marguerite

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st US, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 152 pages. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857124


Price: $10.00 

 

All the Extant Works of Francois Rabelais Physician


Putnam, Samuel , Illust. by: Jean de Bosschere

Hardcover. New York, Covici Friede Publishers , 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1274 pages across three separate volumes. Full page color and b&w illustrations throughout by Jean de Bosschere. Top edge gilt. Includes eight appendices and extensive notes from translator. Illustrated color frontispiece to each volume. This set #370 of 1300 sets printed. Musty odor, but otherwise each volume is clean and tight.

Record # 857433


Price: $375.00 

 

Tragedy And Comedy


Kerr , Walter

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster , reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt titles on spine. Decorative stain to top edge. Includes extensive bibliography. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 857512


Price: $15.00 

 

Nothing Remains the Same


Lesser, Wendy

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951105


Price: $16.00 

 

Modern Slovak Prose: Fiction Since 1954


Pynsent (Editor), Robert B.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan Press LTD, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, all edges. Small tear to dust jacket bottom spine. rubbing to boards, confined to top and bottom edges. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951270


Price: $48.00 

 

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings


Kerouac, Jack

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Edited by Paul Marion. More than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one. Bumping to lower spine. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Bottom edge boards mildly rubbed. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951273


Price: $19.00 

 

Crown of Life, The


Knight, G. Wilson

Paperback. Methuen & Co., University Paperbacks , reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages, paperback. Study of plays, from Pericles to Henry VIII. Bumping to spine, light creasing to front wraps. Faint soiling to top text block. Mild edgewear. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951353


Price: $16.00 

 

African Treasury, An


Hughes (Editor), Langston

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Stories, poems, articles, and essays on Africa, selected by Langston Hughes. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, mostly to spine. Fading and rubbing to dust jacket as well. Light bumping to spine and corners. Faint age toning to text block top edge. Unmarked. A tight and clean copy.

Record # 951810


Price: $19.00 

 

City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy, and Film


Caws (Editor), Mary Ann

Softcover. New York, Gordon and Breach, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages, paperback. Historical and concrete perspectives of New York, Paris, London, and Chicago to the abstract city of the mind. Slight crease to upper fore edge corner on page 179. Price sticker residue on front flyleaf fore edge corner. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Slight fading to spine. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952095


Price: $25.00 

 

Yale French Studies, Number 98: The French Fifties


Weiner (Editor), Susan

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages, paperback. Interdisciplinary exploration of the French-speaking world during the "long" decade of the 1950s- from the Liberation (1944) to the Evian accords between France and the provisional government of Algeria (1962). Fading to spine. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. A tight copy.

Record # 952099


Price: $15.00 

 

Voice From the Chorus, A


Tertz, Abram

Hardcover. London UK, Collins & Harvill Press, 1st UK, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Based on author's letters to his wife during six years imprisonment in a Soviet forced labor camp. With an introduction by Max Hayward. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light bumping to corners. Light soiling to fore edge text block. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952110


Price: $19.00 

 

Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy


Bloch (Editors), R. Howard and Frances Ferguson

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages, paperback. Essays exploring the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms. Minor rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Unmarked. A clean and tight

Record # 952119


Price: $13.00 

 

Saint John Perse: A Study of His Poetry


Knodel , Arthur

Hardcover. U.K., Edinburgh University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Price-clipped. Heavy rubbing and fading to dust jacket. Light pencil marking to front panel of dust jacket as well. Heavy edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Age toning to top text block edge as well. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952168


Price: $15.00 

 

Down on The Shore: The Family and Place That Forged A Poet's Voice:A Memoir


Holden, Adele V.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Woodholme House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Memoirs of a African-American woman poet. Moderate soiling and rubbing to dust jacket. Front flyleaf missing. Black-and-white photos throughout. Rough-cut edges. A tight copy.

Record # 952275


Price: $15.00 

 

Country Girl: A Memoir


O'Brien, Edna

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 357 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Memoir of Irish writer. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952313


Price: $19.00 

 

Compleat Lover, The (SIGNED)


Geoffrey (Editor), William

Hardcover. New York, Harrison-Hilton Books, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 291 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY EDITOR on front flyleaf. A compendium of literary references on love. Gilt titling and decoration to spine and front panel. Moderate fading to spine. Bumping to upper and lower spine, mild bumping to corners. Red toning to top text block edge. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952416


Price: $19.00 

 

Edgeworks: Volume Three, The Collected Ellison


Ellison, Harlan

Hardcover. Clarkston GA, White Wolf Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 537 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Featuring two complete Ellison titles, one a rare screenplay. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light age toning to top and fore edge text blocks. Unmarked. Bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 952429


Price: $31.00 

 

Man in the Flying Lawn Chair, The: And Other Excursions and Observations


Plimpton, George

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st ed, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Edited by Sarah Dudley Plimpton. Heavy fading to dust jacket spine. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952587


Price: $13.00 

 

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006


Vidal, Gore

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Gore Vidal's memoir. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight tear to dust jacket spine at top edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952599


Price: $13.00 

 

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life


Webb, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, NY, Copernicus Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean and unmarked inside. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Record # 2230388


Price: $19.00 

 

Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity


Parsons, Deborah L.

Softcover. Oxford, UK , Oxford University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A very clean copy. Previous owners inscription in red pen on title page.

Record # 2230421


Price: $31.00 

 

Perseus and the Gorgon


Hulst, Cornelia Steketee

Hardcover. La Salle, IL, Open Court Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy gilt on front cover and lettering on spine. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges.

Record # 2233327


Price: $15.00 

 

Horses of the Conquest, The


Graham, R.B. CUNNINGHAM, Illust. by: J. Craig Sheppard

Hardcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st US, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Hardcover with cloth covers, red stamped horse and conquistador on front. Red lettering on spine. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Light page chipping. Illustrations throughout by J. Craig Sheppard.

Record # 2233360


Price: $19.00 

 

Russian Proverbs: 100 Favorites of Professor Nadezhda Timofeevnaq Koroton


Politis, Vera; Reich, Alan A.; Sheldon, Richard

Hardcover. US, Dartmouth Triad Associates, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt lettering on front and spine. Previous owner's pencil markings throughout.

Record # 2233406


Price: $100.00 

 

Charlestan Bulletin Supplements


Woolf, Virginia; Bell, Quentin

Hardcover. London, British Library, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color illustrations by Bell throughout. Light rubbing on edges.

Record # 2233446


Price: $19.00 

 

Forbidden Territory: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo 1931-1956


Goytisolo; Bush, Peter (Translator), Juan;

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press , rep, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean. toght copy. Minor wear to edges. Small abrasion on fore edge bottom.

Record # 2233490


Price: $15.00 

 

Realms of Strife: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo 1957-1982


Goytisolo; Bush, Peter (Translator), Juan;

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press , rep, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean. toght copy. Minor wear to edges. Small abrasion on fore edge bottom.

Record # 2233492


Price: $15.00 

 

Publishing Experience, The (SIGNED)


Canfield, Cass

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 73 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Inscribed and signed on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233498


Price: $19.00 

 

Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr.


Amestoy, Jeffrey L.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 365 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light bumping to bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233610


Price: $23.00 

 

Fallen God, The


Kennard, Joseph Spencer

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, George W. Jacobs & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Three-quarter suede spine, with gilt lettering on front and label on spine. Limited to 1200 #263. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Balck and white plates throughout.

Record # 2233637


Price: $19.00 

 

Agony and The Triumph, The: Papers on the Use and Abuse of Myth


Weisinger, Herbert

Hardcover. US, Michigan State University Press, 2nd, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Chipped jacket and darkened spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233643


Price: $19.00 

 

Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight


Langewiesche, William

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to edges. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket.

Record # 2233648


Price: $15.00 

 

In the Middle of the Fields and Other Stories


Lavin, Mary

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st us, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 215 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate wear to edges, fraying. Tape repair on underside spine of dust jacket. Light soil. Gilt lettering on spine and green cloth covers. Light tears on top dust jacket.

Record # 2233655


Price: $19.00 

 

McLuhan Hot and Cold: A Primer for the Understanding of a Critical Symposium With a Rebuttal by McLuhan


Sontag, Susan; Macdonald, Dwight; Gossage, Howard, et al.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 312 pages. Hardcover with fair dust jacket. Fraying and chipping to dust jacket. Previous owner's marking on rear fly leaf. Tight copy.

Record # 2233712


Price: $19.00 

 

Language in the Inner City: Studies of the Black English Vernacular


Labov, William

Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 9th, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 412 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233793


Price: $19.00 

 

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age


Paret (EDITOR), Peter

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 941 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Spine cracked in center, from paper wrapper. Faded front wrapper. Clean.

Record # 2233794


Price: $23.00 

 

Faces of Philip


Mitford, Jessica

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A memoir of Philip Toynbee. Fading and mild rubbing to dust jacket. Remainder mark to lower text block edge. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Rough-cut fore edge. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 4450006


Price: $13.00 

 

New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion 1620-1860 (SIGNED)


McWilliams, John

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. The development of New England's influential cultural identity. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 4450076


Price: $31.00 

 

Chambers Dictionary of Etymology: The Origins and Development of over 25,000 English words


N/A

Hardcover. New York, NY, Chambers Harrap Publishers, 3rd, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1284 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy with only light edgewear to dust jacket. Light soil to top text block.

Record # 4450174


Price: $38.00 

 

Folklore of the British Isles


Hull, Eleanor

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co, Ltd., 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Hardcover. Deckled edges. Embossed title on front cover. Boards bound in tan cloth. Cloth frayed at top and bottom of spine. Light spotting and page yellowing throughout. Binding a bit loose, cracked at gutter in some places. All pages still attached. British Council book plate to front endpaper. Previous owner's dated signature and pencil notes on front flyleaf and pencil underlining throughout.. Well-read book, perfect for collectors.

Record # 5560130


Price: $500.00 

 

More Chapters of Opera, Being Historical and Critical Observations and Records Concerning the Lyric Drama in New York From 1908 to 1918


Krehbiel, Henry Edward

Hardcover. New York, NY, Henry Holt and Company, First Edition, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 474 pages. Hardcover. Brick publisher's cloth boards with gilt harp vignette to cover & gilt titles to cover & spine. Light scuffing to board corners. Light toning throughout. Wonderful illustrations in black & white of various opera performers on stage. Frontis illustration of the author. Clean & unmarked pages throughout, a couple unopened. Features wide array of authors, includes appendices on authors, notes on production of plays, index of characters among other topics.

Record # 6670089


Price: $188.00 

 

Letters of James Gibbons Huneker


Huneker, Josephine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, James Gibbon Huneker, in sepia tones protected with tissue guard. Green cloth covered boards with gilt cameo to cover, gilt titles to spine. Deckled side edge, green dyed top edge. Tight binding, previous owner's signature to front fly leaf, else clean.

Record # 6670157


Price: $25.00