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20th Century Book - Its illustration and design - New and revised edition


Lewis, John

Hardcover. London, Herbert Press, 2nd Revised, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated - some color. Foxing to edges, preliminary pages. Light wear to dust jacket. Unmarked copy.

Record # 612721


Price: $44.00 

 

A Map of Misreading


Bloom, Harold

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 206 pages. Blue cloth w/ gilt lettering on spine. Beige dust jacket w/ faded spine and minor edgewear. Previous owner's name/date on front flyleaf. Cut-out newspaper article (review of the book) tucked into endpapers.

Record # 803801


Price: $32.00 

 

Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop


Paton, Priscilla

Hardcover. Hanover [N.H.], New Hampshire, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages, with illustrations. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456414


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

After the Avant-Garde: Essays in Art and Culture


Boyers, Robert

Hardcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, spine cocked, light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 402759


Price: $15.00 

 

Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model & Her Own Desire


Lipton, Eunice

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar with minor rubbing.

Record # 804118


Price: $10.00 

 

Allice and Look Who Else Through the Looking Glass


Bernice Steinbaum Gallery

Softcover. New York, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Complete with looking glass tied on with gold cord. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Very light soiling and edge-wear on covers. Minor wear and sun-fading along spine. Nice, unmarked copy.

Record # 856494


Price: $19.00 

 

American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature


Miller, David C.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale Univrsity Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 344 pages. b&w illustrations. Cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Like new, in shrinkwrap. A beautiful copy.

Record # 605361


Price: $42.00 

 

American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature


Miller, Mr. David C.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993-09-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, b&w illustrations. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463561


Price: $23.00 

 

American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism 1885-1917


Crunden, Robert M.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Dust jacket unclipped, some tanning to back cover, very good. Tan cover boards, brown quarter cloth, brown title on spine. Binding tight. Pages clean. Edges have a touch of foxing. Provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to our entry into World War I.

Record # 33506


Price: $15.00 

American Writers: Supplement IV Part 1Parini (Ed.), Jay

American Writers: Supplement IV Part 1


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 4th supplemental volume this reference series, Part 1 only. Maya Angelou to Linda Hogan. 418 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402827


Price: $25.00 

American Writers: Supplements I - X (14 Volumes)Parini (Ed.), Jay and Leonard Unger

American Writers: Supplements I - X (14 Volumes)


Parini (Ed.), Jay and Leonard Unger

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprints, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The first 10 supplemental volumes to this reference series, 14 volumes in all as Nos. 1-4 have two parts. Each is approximately 300-400 pages. Printed board covers, all clean, very good.

Record # 402814


Price: $500.00 

Andre & Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar WildeFryer, Jonathan

Andre & Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde


Fryer, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, St Martins Pr, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468927


Price: $10.00 

 

Anna Akhmatova - Poet & Prophet


Reeder, Roberta

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 5185


Price: $30.00 

 

Art and Psychoanalysis


Phillips, William (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Criterion Books, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 552 pages. Green top edge. Black cloth covers w/ light rubbing to corners, small burn mark on front gutter; spine slightly faded. Light soiling to edges. Hinges slightly weak. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 851550


Price: $12.00 

 

Artificial Wilderness, An - Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature


Birkerts, Sven

Paperback. Boston, Godine, Rep. wraps , 1990, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 430 pages.

Record # 301631


Price: $25.00 

 

Autobiography by Eric Gill


Gill, Eric

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, Reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine edge. Red top edge. Frontis illustration, Eric Gill, Self Portrait (1927), in black & white. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751210


Price: $19.00 

 

Baudelaire and Caricature: From the Comic to an Art of Modernity


Hannoosh, Michele

Hardcover. University Park, Pa., Penn State University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages, Baudelaire's illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean, bright and tight copy.

Record # 457439


Price: $60.00 

 

Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Art


Marsh, Jan

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt & Co, 1st, 1996-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463258


Price: $10.00 

 

Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, The (4 Vols.)


Mathers, Powys (trans.)

New York , St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Four volume set, rendered into English from the literal and complete French translation of Dr. J.C. Mardrus. 644, 592, 569,537 pages. Clean, tight set in very good dust jackets.

Record # 512020


Price: $100.00 

 

Books Abroad: An International Literary Quarterly - Spring 1969


Sellin, Eric and others

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages, lead article by Sellin: Surrealist Aesthetics and the Theatrical Event. INSCRIBED BY SELLIN on cover to literary critic and historian Roger Shattuck. His former copy with light marking by him. Other articles on aspects of surrealism.

Record # 403473


Price: $15.00 

 

Brief Chronicles


Atkinson, Brooks

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCain, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, dj chipped

Record # 11104


Price: $15.00 

Bront's, The Barker, Juliet R. V.

Bront's, The


Barker, Juliet R. V.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1003 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Faint soil to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460333


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

Burn the DiariesDavey, Moyra/Alison Strayer

Burn the Diaries


Davey, Moyra/Alison Strayer

Softcover. Wien, mumok/ICA/Dancing Foxes Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Softcover. Previous owners name and date on title page. Illustrated with full color photography. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614171


Price: $188.00 

 

Cain: The Biography of James M. Cain


Hoopes, Roy

Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 684 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 405443


Price: $25.00 

 

Caldecott Medal Books 1938-1957: With their Authors Acceptance Papers & Related Material Chiefly from the Horn Book Magazine


Miller, Bertha Mahoney and Elinor W. Field

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 4th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 329 pages, b&w illustrated dust jacket with light edgewear. Vol. 2 of the Horn Book Papers.

Record # 405870


Price: $38.00 


 

Candor & Perversion - Literature, Education, and the Arts


Shattuck, Roger

Paperback. NY, Norton, Uncorrected Proof, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 415 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 220916


Price: $26.00 

 

Candor & Perversion - Literature, Education, and the Arts


Shattuck, Roger

Paperback. NY, Norton, uncorrected proof wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Slightly bent but otherwise good, clean condition. paperback, 389 pgs.

Record # 108823


Price: $12.00 

 

Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education and the Arts (SIGNED)


Shattuck, Roger

Softcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 415 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Signed and inscribed by author on title. Tight copy.

Record # 2233611


Price: $19.00 

Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the ArtsShattuck, Roger

Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts


Shattuck, Roger

hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Illustrated title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469130


Price: $13.00 

Cassatt and Her Circle: Selected LettersMatthews, Nancy Mowll

Cassatt and Her Circle: Selected Letters


Matthews, Nancy Mowll

Hardcover. New York, 1st, April 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451533


Price: $20.00 

Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40'sBeaton, Cecil

Cecil Beaton: Memoirs of the 40's


Beaton, Cecil

Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. line drawings, Diary entries about Greta Garbo and other famous persons. Dust jacket with closed tears, edgewear.

Record # 178030


Price: $15.00 

 

Cezanne, The Steins and Their Circle


Rewald, John

Hardcover. New York, Tames and Hudson, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610621


Price: $15.00 

 

Chandlertown: The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe


Thorpe, Edward

Hardcover. New York , St. Martin's, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 407070


Price: $19.00 

 

Complete Immortalic, The


Hart, Harold H.

Hardcover. NY, Hart, unk, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white drawings by Lindi. Dj with closed tears, chips

Record # 54056


Price: $18.00 

 

Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist


Lake, Carlton

Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st thus, None, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 190 pages, b&w photos. Light de-lamination on front cover of dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460505


Price: $13.00 

 

Critical, Historical & Miscellaneious Essays (6 Vols.)


Macaulay, Lord

Hardcover. NY, Sheldon & Co., rep., 1861, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol 4 with tear of cloth over board at spine - partial only otherwise VG, previous owner's signature 1st blank pages

Record # 53068


Price: $70.00 

 

Crossfire


Azama, Michel/Nigel Gearing (Translator)

Softcover. London, Oberon Books, First Thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light, marginal wear and toning. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, clean unmarked copy.

Record # 751482


Price: $15.00 

Curious World - A New Yorker at LargeHamburger, Philip

Curious World - A New Yorker at Large


Hamburger, Philip

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613452


Price: $10.00 

 

Darkening Glass - A Portrait of Ruskin's Genius, The


Rosenberg, John D.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 274 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. Some underlining in ink with notation in margins. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Dust jacket worn with tears and chipping.

Record # 607540


Price: $12.00 

 

David Saunders


Saunders, David

Softcover. New York, New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 11 full page b&w and color plates, excerpts from famous works of literature, catalogue of the exhibition. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 806397


Price: $8.00 

 

Day I Met a Lion, The


Kantor, MacKinlay

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of his essays and articles. 341 pages

Record # 124906


Price: $18.00 

 

Dialogue with Nature: Landscape and Literature in Nineteenth Century America


Asleson, Robyn and Barbara Moore

Softcover. Washington. D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of 19th century American landscape painting; color plate front cover, white back, minor marking and rubbing. Paper wrappers. 19 plates, 13 in color. Three essays relating to landscape painting in addition to textual commentary on the plates. 48 pages. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 808504


Price: $15.00 

 

Dickens' London


Vallance, ed., Rosalind

Softcover. London, Folio Society, reprint, 1966, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages in black cardboard slipcase. Essays selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance. Engravings by George Cruikshank. Beige covers with brown cartoon on cover and brown and gold lettering on spine.

Record # 802842


Price: $8.00 

 

Discussions on Philosophy and Literature


Bart, Sir William Hamilton

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros , unk, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st pub in UK 1852, intro essays by Robert Turnbull, previous owner's bookplate front pastedown, spine faded, internally VG

Record # 16104


Price: $55.00 

 

Dutch Jokes No. 1


Wehman Bros.

Softcover. New York, Wehman Bros., na, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small 64 page booklet with color wrappers. Paper is browning and brittle, several pages with folded corners. There is a small insect hole to the last 2/3rds of the book. Full of period jokes in German dialect. Light edgewear to paper cover which features a color cartoon of two German "types". Scarce.

Record # 40218


Price: $38.00 

 

Dylan Thomas - No Man More Magical


Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Top of spine chewed with similar damage at top of dust Jacket - Text and strength of spine not effected by damage. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609358


Price: $15.00 

 

Earth-Hunger and other essays


Sumner, William Graham

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages, b&w frontispiece. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners, several small dents to edges. Front hinge starting to crack. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851416


Price: $12.00 

Eddie's Own Aquarius (SIGNED COPY)Carroll, Tony Ed. Short Constance and

Eddie's Own Aquarius (SIGNED COPY)


Carroll, Tony Ed. Short Constance and

softcover. US, Cahermee Publications, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Light bump to top right corner of text block that affects front wrapper and first quarter of pages. Binding tight. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDDIE LINDEN.

Record # 470601


Price: $31.00 

 

Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, An: Comprising the Whole Range of Arts, Sciences and Literature (New and Revised Edition)(2 volume set)


Mackey, Albert G., Charles T. McClenachan, Edward L. Hawkins, William J.

Hardcover. Chicago, Masonic History Company, 2nd, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hard covers. Color and b/w illustrations. Cover boards bound in textured dark brown leather, gilt stamped titles and decorations on spine and front cover. Cover boards have some rubbing/chipping along edges. Gilt edges. Both books have some tanning from age throughout. Vol. 1: 455 pages. Frontispiece oil painting on canvas. Vol 2: 913 pages. B/w illustrated frontispiece. Very handsome 2 volume set.

Record # 31467


Price: $88.00 

 

Ernst Benkert - Travel Books - Drawings, Notes, and Photographs 1994-2004 - A Selection


Benkert, Ernst

Softcover. Winooski, Photo Lounge, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Black & white illustrations. INSCRIBED BY BENKERT ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612558


Price: $25.00 

 

Essays of Richard Steele


Steele (Ed.), L.E.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., reprint, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages, b&w frontispiece portrait. Bound in three-quarter red leather with gilt rules, raised spine bands with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt, Golden Treasury Series. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Record # 402716


Price: $28.00 

 

Estelle Doheny Collection Part 4: Printed Books and Manuscripts including Early Printing, Literature and Fine Bindings


N/A

Hardcover. London , White Brothers, Ltd. , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 345 pages, fourth volume in this series-- catalogue of the sale of Countess Estelle Doheny by Christie's of London; b&w and facsimile color photographs throughout. Red cloth cover with gilded titles on cover and spine. Gilded "Ex Libris Estelle Doheny" on reverse cover. Upper fore corners of boards slightly bumped. Interior tight and clean-- all plates intact. Prices realized list laid-in.

Record # 401592


Price: $30.00 

 

Estelle Doheny Collection Part 5: Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana, Literature and Fine Bindings


N/A

Hardcover. London , White Brothers, Ltd. , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, fifth volume in this series-- catalogue of the sale of Countess Estelle Doheny by Christie's of London; b&w and color photographs throughout. Red cloth cover with gilded titles on cover and spine. Gilded "Ex Libris Estelle Doheny" on reverse cover. Corners of boards slightly bumped. Interior tight and clean-- all plates intact. Prices realized list laid-in.

Record # 401593


Price: $30.00 

 

Expressing Abstraction: Writings on Art for The Nation


Faison, Jr., S. Lane

Softcover. Williamstown, Mass, Williams College, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855761


Price: $15.00 

 

Extended Travels in Romantic America: Being a Nineteenth Century Journey through the most Picturesque Portions of North America, Reconstructed form Accounts by European Visitors; the Whole Embellished with Watercolour Drawings and Engraving

Hardcover. Lausanne, Switzerland, Edita, Not indicated, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. As is. (HInge cracked.) Red leather w/ gilt in green slipcase. Clean, unmarked, little to no edgewear.

Record # 804499


Price: $10.00 

Fables in Frames: LA Fontaine and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century FrancePowell, Kirsten H.

Fables in Frames: LA Fontaine and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century France


Powell, Kirsten H.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, April 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 180 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451684


Price: $30.00 

 

Faerie Queene, The: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues (2 Volumes)


Spencer, Edmund, Illust. by: Agnes Miller Parker

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Limited Editions Club, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Two large quarto volumes (7-3/4" x 11-3/4") bound in gilt-decorated green cloth and illustrated with pen decorations by John Austen and wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 992 pages. Copy #563 of 1500 SIGNED by Parker on the colophon page. A nicely printed set retaining Spenser's original English and beautifully illustrated. The uncommon dustwrappers are present with some sunning to the spines, light foxing. There is a chunk gone from the bottom of rear on Volume 1. The slipcase is also present with edgewear to the label. Volume 1 has a previous owner's bookplate inside the front cover. Otherwise a clean, handsome set.

Record # 411335


Price: $200.00 

 

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 

 

Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick


Ozick, Cynthia

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Deckled fore edge. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped. Very clean inside and out. In excellent condition. Dust jacket in protective brodart.

Record # 30785


Price: $13.00 

 

Farm Festivals


Carleton, Will, Illust. by: A.B.Frost, Nast, Abbey, others

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., Rep., 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated by many of the Harper artists: A.B.Frost, Nast, Abbey, others. previous owner's signature. Gilt & black decorated brown covers with bevelled edges

Record # 300333


Price: $25.00 

 

Felled Oaks - Conversations With DeGaulle


Malraux, Andre

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 59974


Price: $20.00 

 

Fifty Days of Solitude


Grumbach, Doris

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 114 pages, b&w photos. Postcard handwritten by the author and related news articles laid-in. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460404


Price: $35.00 

 

Floodgates & the Wonderworld: A Moby-Dick Pictorial


Del Tredici, Robert

Softcover. Kent, OH, Kent State University Press, 1st Edition, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 146 pages. Soft cover with French flaps. Wrapper excellent. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Pages clean and bright. Small spot of light soil on top edge, otherwise edges unmarked. Binding tight. In beautiful condition. Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Melville's Masterwork, Moby Dick.

Record # 32898


Price: $25.00 

 

Fortunes of Faust, The (Magic in History)


Butler, Elizabeth M.

Softcover. University Park, PA, Pennsylvatia State University Press, Reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations. Wrapper excellent. Binding tight. Pages bright. Bottom edge has small spot of soil, otherwise clean inside and out. The final part of Elizabeth Butler's acclaimed trilogy on the Faust legends. Traces the evolution of the Faust tradition and its relationship to the practice of magic in European history.

Record # 31388


Price: $19.00 

 

From Desire To Godot - Pocket Theater Of Postwar Paris


Cohn, Ruby

Berkeley, CA, California University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Rubbing and light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 201547


Price: $20.00 

 

From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel: Parts 1 & 2: The Works of Rudyard Kipling, (Volumes 15 & 16)


Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Vol 15 (Part 1): 494 pages. 3 b/w plates with tissue guards. Vol 16 (Part 2): 553 pages. 3 b/w plates with tissue guards. Hardcovers. Deckled untrimmed edges. Early editions in the Scribner's series, bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt decoration and elephant and swastika sign (Kipling's trademark) on the front cover and title page, top edge gilt. Just a touch of age wear to spine and cover boards, fading, soil, chipping. Bindings tight. Lovely, clean copies from this collection.

Record # 31474


Price: $25.00 

 

Genet - A Biography


White, Edmund

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 728 pages. Hardcover. Canvas cloth boards with silver titles. Bright dust jacket with illustration in black & white and only marginal wear to edges. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751359


Price: $25.00 

 

Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation


Johnson (Editors), Ronna C./Nancy M. Grace

Softcover. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, First Thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Softcover. Bright illustrated wraps with light, marginal wear to edges. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751483


Price: $38.00 

 

Gleanings from Popular Authors - Grave & Gay


NA

Hardcover. New York, Cassell, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Illustrated with black & white engravings by various artists. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Features stories by: Dickens, Longfellow, Byron, Blake, J. Fennimore Cooper, Poe, and many more. One plate loose. Gilt edges. Light foxing throughout. Bottom corners bumped and worn.

Record # 604212


Price: $16.00 

 

Glimpses of Authors


Ticknor, Caroline

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 335 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Dust jacket chipping, worn, fair only, but protected in clear brodart covering. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering and decorations to front and spine. Light wear and fading to spine, else a very nice, clean copy.

Record # 607700


Price: $50.00 

Glossary of German Literary Terms, A Herd, E.W.

Glossary of German Literary Terms, A


Herd, E.W.

Softcover. Dunedin, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago, 2nd, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Light soil and rubbing to wrappers. Internally very good.

Record # 460649


Price: $23.00 

 

Great Trade Route


Ford Ford Madox, Illust. by: Biala

Hardcover. NY , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 408 pages. Color frontis. 24 B&W illust. by Biala. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, small piece gone from top of spine. Covered in brodart.

Record # 300529


Price: $60.00 

Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of One WorldSwift, Jonathan, Illust. by: Arthur Rackham

Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of One World


Swift, Jonathan, Illust. by: Arthur Rackham

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, 1st thus, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Red cloth covers with ornate gilt decoration to front and spine. A revision of Rackham's 1899 Ed. New color plates. Excellent condition. Previous owner's signature on end paper

Record # 59069


Price: $150.00 

 

Gypsy Folk Tales


Groome, Frances Hindes

Hardcover. Hatboro, PA, Folklore Associates, Inc., First Thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light toning throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751311


Price: $31.00 

 

H. L. Mencken and the Debunkers (SIGNED)


Martin, Edward A.

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Geoorgia Press , 2nd printing, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Neatly SIGNED BY MARTIN on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 854845


Price: $20.00 

 

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure


Auster, Paul

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 449 pages. SIGNED BY AUSTER on bookplate. Minor wear to dust jacket in protective brodart cover, else like new.

Record # 450235


Price: $35.00 

 

Heartbreakers - Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature


Hendin, Josephine Gattuso

Hardcover. NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages.

Record # 69654


Price: $8.00 

 

Henry Fielding


Thomas, Donald

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609370


Price: $12.00 

 

Higher Gossip


Updike, John

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A.Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 501 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Later essays and criticism by John Updike. Light rubbing to dust jacket.Red toning to top text block. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951534


Price: $48.00 

 

Historians at Work (2 Vols)


Gay, Peter, Gerald J. Cavanaugh (Ed.) and Victor G. Wexler

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol 1: Heradotus to Froissart, Vol 2: Vaila to Gibbon. Dj with spine fade, light soil, spine slightly cocked

Record # 57006


Price: $30.00 

 

Hockney's Alphabet


Spender (Editor), Stephen, Illust. by: David Hockney

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 92 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Adhesive residue on front dj along with bleeding on reverse side rear from red cover board. Faint water damage on front and back dust jacket near spine. Faint water damage to the top of the last couple of pages. Clear and bright illustrations by David Hockney.

Record # 750325


Price: $50.00 

 

Horse Tradin'


Green, Ben K.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Decorative stain to top edge. Light rubbing, soiling to dust jacket in brodart. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 851847


Price: $30.00 

 

Ideas of Good and Evil


Yeats, W. B.

Hardcover. London, A. H. Bullin, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages. Hardcover. Narrow water stains to corners, and along foredges of front and back covers. Foxing to endpapers. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612613


Price: $63.00 

 

Il Romanzo di Scampolo


Niccodemi, Dario

Softcover. Milano, Fratelli Treves, Reprint, 1926, Book: Poor, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Front cover and spine missing. Signatures falling apart. Pages browned, especially around the edges. Edgewear.

Record # 804000


Price: $10.00 

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost WarWolf, Tobias

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War


Wolf, Tobias

Hardcover. New York, Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. Remainder-mark to bottom edge, top edge cosmetic stain. Very nice in brodart cover.

Record # 606465


Price: $20.00 

 

Irish Protestant Letters. Etc., Etc; Also, an Address on Ireland the Cradle of European Literature; To Which Is Added a Choice of Collection of Original and Selected Poetry


Dublin, R. R. B., J. B. Finlay

Hardcover. New York, De Witt & Davenport, 1st, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Light-brown, embossed cloth covers. Covers fairly worn, particularly along spine and edges. Covers somewhat soiled. Previous owner's signature, sticker, and notes on front end paper and flyleaf. Foxing throughout and on all edges. A few pages with minor pen markings. About 20 pages with creases or tears on bottom edge. Page 166 has small chunk out of it. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856389


Price: $50.00 

 

Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition


Calvino, Italo

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Princeton University Press, 1st Paperback, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 640 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 2230276


Price: $15.00 

 

Jack London: A Life


Kershaw, Alex

Hardcover. New York, NY, St. Martin's Press, First US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Black boards with silver titles to spine. Deckled edge. 16 pages of illustrations in black & white plus four maps. Dust jacket in very good shape with only light, marginal wear to edges. Clean, tight and unmarked.

Record # 6670093


Price: $19.00 

 

Jane Austen: A Life


Tomalin, Claire

Hardcover. New York, NY, Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with gilt titles to maroon cloth spine. Deckled edge, black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670049


Price: $23.00 

Japanese Warriors, Rogues and Beauties: Woodblocks from Adventure StoriesBrown, Kendall, H (Editor)

Japanese Warriors, Rogues and Beauties: Woodblocks from Adventure Stories


Brown, Kendall, H (Editor)

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Heroes, villains, and damsels in distress abound in these richly colored, dramatic images from the Japanese equivalent of dime-store novels. These illustrations were selected from woodblock-printed covers and frontispiece illustrations from 64 popular books published in Osaka from 1898 through 1903. They include samurai and strong men, demons and detectives, courtesans, sumo wrestlers, and other vivid characters in scenarios ranging from romantic to grotesquely violent. Printed in the color woodblock method in use since the late eighteenth century, they provide a link between an ancient storytelling tradition and the beginning of mass-published popular literature.

Record # 471560


Price: $23.00 

 

Jean Cocteau: The Man & the Mirror


Sprigge, Elizabeth/Jean-Jacques Kihm

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings and photographs. Dust jacket worn with small tears and chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608453


Price: $15.00 

 

Joffre


Recouly, Raymond

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 369 pages, b&w frontispiece. Chipping, tears, light soiling to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851380


Price: $20.00 

 

John Brown's Body


Benet, Stephen Vincent, Illust. by: Peter Harritos

Hardcover. Pennsylvania, Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Illustrated by Peter Harritos. Fully bound in black leather. The boards and spine are luxuriously decorated with gilt tooling. The title, the author's name, and the publisher's name are gilt-stamped to the spine and are separated by five raised leather bands. All edges gilt. The endpapers and pastedowns are beautifully executed in tan silk moire. A tan silk ribbon marker is laid-in. Limited Edition. Part of The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature edition. Previous Owner's Library sticker on front end paper. Else a very clean, tight, and new looking copy.

Record # 401623


Price: $28.00 

 

John Stanislaus Joyce - The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father


Jackson, John Wyse and Peter Costello

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&w illust. 494 pgs.

Record # 105677


Price: $28.00 

 

Journal of American Folklore - April-June 1953 Number 260


Luomala (Ed.), Katharine

Softcover. Richmond VA, American Folklore Society, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pg. 93-188. Articles on Drama in Shaman Exorcism, The Riddle of The Flying Cloud, Role of Humor in the Hupa Indian Tribe, Mexican Version of the Bear's Son Folktale, A Shoshone Hand Game Gambling Song, others. Light soil to covers otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 410695


Price: $31.00 

 

Journal of American Folklore - January-March 1962 No. 295


Hand (Ed.), Wayland D.

Softcover. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pg. 1-93. Articles on Peyote Jokes, Clackamas Chinook Myths, The Proverb in Bonaventure des Periers' Short Stories, Old Corn Meal: Urban Negro Folksinger, others. Clean, very good.

Record # 411234


Price: $25.00 

 

Journal of American Folklore - October-December 1951 No. 254


Hand (Ed.), Wayland D.

Softcover. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pg. 347-477. Articles on Texas Poltergeist, Acculturation in Northern Haiti, More Light on Paul Bunyan, The Huanancha Dance, Ainu Folklore, others. Light soil to covers otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 411232


Price: $31.00 

 

Journal of American Folklore - October-December 1951 No. 254


Hand (Ed.), Wayland D.

Softcover. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pg. 347-477. Articles on Texas Poltergeist, Acculturation in Northern Haiti, More Light on Paul Bunyan, The Huanancha Dance, Ainu Folklore, others. Light soil to covers otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 411233


Price: $31.00 

 

Journal of American Folklore - October-December 1963 No. 302


Dorson(Ed.), Richard

Softcover. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pg. 277-366. Articles on Riddling Traditions in Northeastern Scotland, The World of Joe Strickland, Castles in Spain, The Japanese Popular Christmas, Themes in Folktales, others. Clean, very good.

Record # 411235


Price: $25.00 

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Spring 1977 No. 4Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Spring 1977 No. 4


Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

Softcover. Bowling Green OH, Journal of Popular Culture, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages 701-909. Articles include: Philip Gordon on Ayn Rand. Louis F. Helbig on Struwwelpeter: an inquiry into the effects of violence in children's literature. French folksongs. D. L. Ashliman on the American Indian in German Travel Narratives and Literature. Clean.

Record # 411779


Price: $13.00 

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Summer 1976 No. 1Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Summer 1976 No. 1


Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

Softcover. Bowling Green OH, Journal of Popular Culture, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages 1-258. Articles include: The tragedy of Bert Williams, mystery writer John D. MacDonald, Edward R. Murrow's WW2 radio broadcasts, the dance marathon craze, Spider-Man - Superhero in the Liberal Tradition, others. Clean.

Record # 411781


Price: $13.00 

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Winter 1976 No. 3Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Winter 1976 No. 3


Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

Softcover. Bowling Green OH, Journal of Popular Culture, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages 501-683. Articles include: Radio Comedy and the Great Depression, Chicano Street Murals Hadacol - The Last Great Medicine Show, The Comic Art of Lyonel Feininger, others. Clean.

Record # 411782


Price: $13.00 

Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph HellerDaugherty, Tracy

Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller


Daugherty, Tracy

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 560 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470011


Price: $13.00 

 

L. Tolstoy Art Time


N/A

Softcover. Moscow, Sovetskaya Russia, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of art, illustrations & photographs depicting Tolstoy and his time. Color, black & white illust. Eng. & Russian text. Very Good in a frayed cardboard slipcase.

Record # 65607


Price: $56.00 

 

Last Essays


Young, G.M.

London, Rupere Hart-Davis, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Previous owner's stamp on front endpaper. Newspaper review pasted to front paste-down. Minor pencil underlining, margin marking.

Record # 502524


Price: $15.00 

 

Le Recueil des Inscriptions 1558: A Literary and Iconographical Exegesis


Jodelle, Estienne, Victor Graham and W. McAllister Johnson

Hardcover. Toronto, University of Toronto Press , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 210 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear, minor soil.

Record # 405501


Price: $15.00 

 

Lettera Ai Romani


San Paolo

Hardcover. Rome, Edizioni D'Italia, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. Limited edition of 499 copies - this being #293. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Full color illustrations. Slipcase shows light wear with splitting at top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608592


Price: $50.00 

 

Letters of Eric Gill


Gill, Eric/Walter Shewring (Editor)

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, First Edition, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Pink top edge. Light marginal sunfade to spine edge. Front hinge cracked, tender & held in place with light threads of cloth at bottom edge. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751230


Price: $19.00 

 

Letters of Virginia Woolf, The: Volume 2 1912-1922


Nicolson, Nigel (Editor), Joanne Trautmann (Asst. Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st American edition, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 627 pages. Hardcover. Volume II only. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, purple quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tanning from age on spine, otherwise in good shape (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Page clean. In very good condition. Even richer than it's predecessor, Vol. II of Virginia Woolf's letters covers the first decade of her marriage; the publication of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, and Jacob's Room; the founding of the Hogwarth Press; and the years of World War I.

Record # 32340


Price: $23.00 

Letters to Bab - Sherwood Anderson to Marietta D. Finley, 1916-33Sutton (Ed.), William A.

Letters to Bab - Sherwood Anderson to Marietta D. Finley, 1916-33


Sutton (Ed.), William A.

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Illinois, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Sunning to dust jacket spine. Covered in brodart.

Record # 69535


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters to Dorothy L. Sayers, The - 1899 to 1936: The Making of a Detective


Reynolds (Ed), Barbara

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pgs.

Record # 100934


Price: $25.00 

 

Lies of Art, The - Max Beerbohm's Parody and Caricature


Felstiner, John

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 58 black & white plates, 283 pgs.

Record # 108478


Price: $25.00 

 

Life of Reason, The: Or The Phases of Human Progress


Santayana, George

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 504 pages, new one-volume edition revised by the author in collaboration with Daniel Cory, relevant article about the letters of Santayana in the Atlantic Monthly laid-in. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge wear and spine fade, cover separated from spine but all pages intact, overall, clean and bright copy.

Record # 854664


Price: $20.00 

 

Literature of Vermont: A Sampler


Biddle, Arthur W. & Paul A. Eschholz (Ed.)

Hanover, NH, University Press of New England, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages & index.

Record # 304848


Price: $25.00 

 

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers: Swedenborg


Hubbard, Elbert

Hardcover. East Aurora NY, Roycrofters Press, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft brown suede covers with gilt lettering, pages with deckle edges, frontispiece portrait, color text and initial decorations by the Roycroft artists. Ribbon marker.

Record # 404645


Price: $30.00 

 

Little Rivers - A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness


Van Dyke, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, Rep., 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 241 pages. Front hinge starting.

Record # 60522


Price: $15.00 

 

Lytton Strachey by Himself - A Self Portrait


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. price clipped dust jacket shows wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609344


Price: $10.00 

 

Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman


Coates, Thomas F. G. and R. S. Warren Bell

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Red cloth covers, gilt titles, tissue-protected b&w frontispiece, b&w plates throughout printed on stiff papers. Cocked spine, light edgewear and soiling to covers, bookplate to paste-down front endpaper, small dark stain to bottom edge of page block, inside of hinges partially cracked; otherwise a neat, tight copy.

Record # 808695


Price: $30.00 

 

Mark Twain's Four Weeks in England 1907


Lathem (Ed.), Edward Connery

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Mark Twain House & Museum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages, two-tone cloth with illustrated pastedown on front cover. Limited to 1,500 copies, like new condition, no dust jacket issued.

Record # 402845


Price: $35.00 

 

Mark Twain: A Bibliography of the Collections of the Mark Twain Memorials and Stowe-Day Foundation


McBride, William

Hardcover. Hartford, Conn., 1st, June 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 487 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451644


Price: $30.00 

 

Masterpiece and the Man, The - Yeats As I Knew Him


Gibbon, Monk

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 226 pages, B&W photos. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 302418


Price: $20.00 

 

Meditations and Contemplations in Two Volumes


Hervey, James

Hardcover. Troy, NY, Solomon Wilbur, 1st, 1813, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes in one. 212 and 177 pages. Brown leather covers w/ edge wear, rubbing, small tears to front cover and bottom of spine. Front hinge starting to crack on outside. Foxing and soiling to pages and end papers. Else binding tight.

Record # 851078


Price: $50.00 

Memoirs of a Dada DrummerHuelsenbeck, Richard

Memoirs of a Dada Drummer


Huelsenbeck, Richard

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, Reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Softcover. Heavy foxing to textblock edges. Sunfading to dust jacket. Otherwise a clean copy with minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 471653


Price: $13.00 

 

Memoirs of a Publisher, The


Doubleday, F. N.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. B&w frontispiece. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Light rubbing to dust jacket in brodart. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 851930


Price: $25.00 

 

Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully (Volume 3)


de Bethune, Maximilian

Hardcover. London, 1757, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 3 only. 416 pages. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Rubbing, edge wear to covers. Hinges starting to crack. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Discoloration to endpapers and title page. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 851525


Price: $60.00 

 

Mind and Art of Henry Miller, The


Gordon, William A.

Hardcover. LA, Louisiana State University Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857093


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

Modern Language Quarterly March 1941Heffner (Ed.), Ray

Modern Language Quarterly March 1941


Heffner (Ed.), Ray

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages, literary journal with articles on language in early literary work. Essays on Hoffman as a Lyric Writer, Edmund Spenser, Cooper's "The Prairie", Moutesquieu and Hume, others. Vol. 2, No. 1. Clean.

Record # 411520


Price: $25.00 

 

My Own River Kwai


Boulle, Pierre

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket covered in brodart, shows chipping, and rips. The author's own true adventures as a secret agent in the Far East during WW II. Light fading to cover boards. Gilt "PB" initials on front cover.

Record # 58240


Price: $15.00 

 

Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


Schechter (Editor), Ronald

Softcover. Boston, Bedford/St. Martin's, Reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610059


Price: $15.00 

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The American Years


Cantwell, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, light browning, residue to front end paper, otherwise VG

Record # 53140


Price: $11.00 

 

Nell Gwyn - Mistress to a King


Beauclerk, Charles

Hardcover. New York, NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, First US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of full page, full color illustrations. Mustard cloth covered boards with navy titles to spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. A nice copy, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751277


Price: $15.00 

 

New American Selection of Lessons on Reading and Speaking, A


Dana, Joseph

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Thomas and Andrews, 3rd Edition, 1799, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Leather binding with red leather text block & gilt titles to spine. Gilt compartment lines to spine. Binding is worn and solid, intact. Soiling throughout as would be expected for its age, light pencil to last page. Copperplate engravings by Samuel Hill. Early colonial printing in good condition for its age.

Record # 6670125


Price: $75.00 

 

New York, New York: The City in Art and Literature


Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Universe Publishing, 1st, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 143 pages. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, introduction by Brooke Astor, illustrated throughout with color and b&w plates. Clean covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; an extremely neat, tight copy in excellent condition.

Record # 401429


Price: $20.00 

 

Noisiest Book Review in the Known World - The Best of Ralph: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities - 2 Slipcased Volumes, The


Lark (Editor), Lolita

Hardcover. San Diego, Mho & Mho Works, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 volumes in slipcase. Still in original publishers shrinkwrap. Slipcase corners square.

Record # 612727


Price: $50.00 

 

Olden Time Series Number Four, The - Quaint and Curious Advertisements


Brooks, Henry M.

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Company, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover. Small brown cloth volume containing "gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts." Previous owner name in ink. Newspaper article laid in front end pages. Rubbing to corners.

Record # 501794


Price: $12.00 

 

On the Teaching of Creative Writing - Responses to a Series of Questions


Stegner, Wallace

Hardcover. Hanover, Dartmouth College, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A commentary from a tape recorded discussion at Dartmouth College in 1980. 72 pages. Edited by Edward C. Lathem. No dj issued. Scarce

Record # 57033


Price: $26.00 

 

Origins of Faulkner's Art


Sensibar, Judith Levin

Hardcover. Austin, Univ of Texas Pr, 2nd printing, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages, b&w illustrations. Soiling to rear endpaper, light wear to dust jacket. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 453575


Price: $10.00 

 

Paris and Vienne: Translated from the French & Printed by William Caxton. Early English Text Society 234 (SIGNED COPY)


Leach, MacEdward

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. brown cloth stamped in gilt, 120 pages. INSCRIBED BY LEACH on the front fly leaf. Originally published by Caxton in 1485, Paris & Vienne marked a change in the style of Literature being written in Europe at the time. Instead of tales of Knightly Romance & Chivalry a move was made towards more realistic down to Earth tales, closer to actual life. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 411549


Price: $38.00 

 

Paris Review, The - Summer, 1984


Plimpton (Editor), George/Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine

Softcover. Flushing, NY, Deborah S. Pease/The Paris Review, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations throughout, including an ads section. Features writers & interviews, Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine. Previous owner's signature lightly erased to preliminary page. Else, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751380


Price: $19.00 

 

Passeggiate in Magna Grecia


Maiuri, Amedeo

Hardcover. Napoli, L'Arte Tipografica, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 235 pages. Blue cloth, red title label/gilt on spine. Spine is fraying at bottom. B/W pictorial dust jacket shows a lot of edgewear and is stuck to boards in a few spots. A bit of yellowing along pages and foxing along edges, otherwise clean, tight, unmarked.

Record # 804004


Price: $51.00 

 

Pastoral Days or Memories of a New England Year


Gibson, W. Hamilton

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, Reprint, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 153 pages. Illustrated with black & white engravings by various artists. Previous owners name on prelim. page. Narrow damp stain along very bottom edge of first 8 pages - this does not effect text or illustrations. Front cover features four color illustration with gilt highlights. Spine title with gilt intact. Minor foxing to endpapers. A very nice copy.

Record # 609194


Price: $50.00 

 

Pastoral Dreams


Schorsch, Anita

Softcover. New York, Universe Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Anthology containing works of art and literature dedicated to the representation of sheep in the pastoral landscape. 71 pages with 37 illustrations (full-color and black/white). Book is in near fine condition, very clean/bright copy. Dust jacket is in good condition, some curling on the edges.

Record # 805536


Price: $10.00 

 

People, People Everywhere - Footprints of a Wanderer


David, Bob

Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes, 1st, 1936, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. A collection of articles which first ran in the New York Sun.

Record # 55891


Price: $18.00 

 

Petite Folie Collective


Corvin, Michel and Copi

Hardcover. Paris, Tchou, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, b&w cartoon drawings by Copi. White cloth covers with black design. A collection of quotes from writers of the Surrealist movement in France. Long preface by Corvin. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR (HIS WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD) to Roger Shattuck, author and chronicler of the period. Publishers complimentary card laid in. Small tan stain to cloth at top of front cover, otherwise very good.

Record # 403415


Price: $80.00 

Picnic, LightningCollins, Billy

Picnic, Lightning


Collins, Billy

Softcover. PIttsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Softcover. Full number line starts with 1. Some light fading along cover edges. Minor bump to bottom right corner. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613966


Price: $31.00 

 

Poetry & Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens


Bloom, Harold

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 293 pages. Dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Dark blue dust jacket w/ minor edgewear and marking/rubbing. Former owner's name/date in upper righthand corner of front flyleaf. Newspaper article (review of the book) tucked into front end papers, caused some browning on the endpapers. Pages in great shape.

Record # 803799


Price: $19.00 

 

Preferences in Art, Life, and Literature


Quilter, Harry

Hardcover. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 404 pages, large volume with heavy paper. Scholarly review of the art and literature of late 19th century England. Harry Quilter (1851-1907) was a critic, journalist, and collector, as well as a practicing artist. He states in the preface that about half of the material in the book originally appeared in various publications over the past several years, although much of it was rewritten. The contents include a history of Pre-Raphaelitism, with sections on such artists as Madox Brown, Rossetti, Holman Hunt, and Millais as well as the "lesser" Pre-Raphaelites. Other chapters are on Amy Levy, Millet Watts, Wilkie Collins, and much more. With numerous full page b&w plates with tissue guards throughout. This is a LIBRARY BINDING, maroon cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, with handlettered numbers above it. Bookplate on inside cover and paper residue to rear end papers .Interior is clean, very good. Heavy item will require additional postage for International orders.

Record # 411032


Price: $150.00 

 

Presenting Robert Cormier: From I am the Cheese to Beyond the Chocolate War--Insights into the Life and Work of a Leading Novelist for Young Adults.


Campbell, Patricia J.

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket price clipped, in good shape, slightly yellow with age and wrapped in protective brodart. Super clean and bright inside. In excellent condition.

Record # 30803


Price: $10.00 

 

Principals of Playmaking, The


Matthews, Brander

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. deckled foredge, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise in good condition.

Record # 176019


Price: $18.00 

 

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters - Second Series.


N/A

Hardcover. Boston, Amer. Academy of Art & Letters, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Numbers 1-5. The annual proceedings for 1951-1955, bound in hardcover. Each with many speeches, addresses by notable American writers. 416 pages.

Record # 57254


Price: $80.00 

 

Pushcart Prize, The - 1988-89 - Best of the Small Presses


Henderson (Ed.), Bill

Hardcover. Wainscott, New York, Pushcart Press, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover edition 425 pages. Signed letter from editor laid-in. Bottom corner bumped.

Record # 60219


Price: $15.00 

 

Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 1994-1995


Henderson ( Ed.), Bill

Hardcover. Wainscott, NY, Pushcart Press, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover edition.

Record # 60227


Price: $8.00 

 

Pushkin's Button


Vitale, Serena

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1st US, 1999-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462920


Price: $10.00 

 

Quarterly Review of Literature - Poetry Series III


Weiss (Ed.), T. & R.

Paperback. Princeton, NJ, QRL, 1st wraps, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Poetry by So Chongju (transl. by D.R. McCann), Phyllis Thompson (What the Land Gave), David Barton (Surviving the Cold), Mairi MacInnes (Herring, Oatmeal, Milk and Salt), Carlos Nejar (transl. from Portuguese by M. Picciotto).

Record # 600390


Price: $15.00 

 

Recollections of Mr. James Lenox of New York and the Formation of His Library


Stevens, Henry

Hardcover. London, Henry Stevens & Son, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages, three-quarters white cloth with marbled boards. Illustrated with 3 engraved portraits with tissue guards. Frontispiece plate is loose, otherwise very good, clean and tight.

Record # 402744


Price: $50.00 

 

Relationship of Painting & Literature, The


Huddleston , Eugene L.

Hardcover. Detroit Michigan, Gale Research Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, xxiii + 184 pages. Volume 4 of the American Studies Information Guide Series. Red pictorial boards with gilt titles to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light wear to spine still very good.

Record # 605843


Price: $26.00 

 

Reminiscences (2 Volume Set)


McCarthy, Justin

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages (Vol. 1), 424 pages (Vol. 2), hardcover. Two volumes of the reminiscences of Justin McCarthy, M.P. and advocate of home rule for Ireland. Illustrated frontispiece intact. Previous owner's inscription to title page. (Volume 1) Light bumping, edgewear, and light rubbing to both volumes, as well as light age toning to text blocks. Gilted top edges. Tight and clean copies.

Record # 951510


Price: $31.00 

 

Renegade in Power: The Diefenbanker Years


Newman, Peter C.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 2nd pr, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 414 pages. SIGNED BY NEWMAN ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket. Edgewear, chipping and mild rubbing to dust jacket, previous owner's pencil notations to rear endpaper.

Record # 807280


Price: $25.00 

 

Richard Harding Davis Years, The - A Biography of as Mother and Son


Langford, Gerald

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj with edgewear, chipping. black & white photos

Record # 55465


Price: $11.00 

 

Rip Van Winkle - A Legend of the Kaatskill Mountains, The Jefferson Edition


Irving, Washington

Hardcover. New York , Putnam and Sons, 1st thus illustrated , 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated by Hoppin, Darley & other artists. 4 photographs in carbon of Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle by Sahony. gilt decorated green covers

Record # 175320


Price: $102.00 

 

Robert Frost - A Tribute To The Source


Frost, Robert

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Text by David Bradley. Color Photos by Dewitt Jones. Light edgewear and chipping to dust jacket.

Record # 203478


Price: $20.00 

 

Robert Frost - The Trial By Existence


Shepley Sergeant, Elizabeth

New York, Holt Rinehart Winston, 3rd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 451 pages. Black & white photography. Previous owner's stamp and signature on front end paper. Related articles laid in.

Record # 207934


Price: $18.00 

 

Robert Frost and J. J. Lankes - Riders on Pegasus


Taylor, Welford Dunaway

Hardcover. Hanover, Dartmouth College Library, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Illustrated with black & white examples of woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 610235


Price: $100.00 

 

Robert Frost and the Lawrence, Massachusetts, High School Bulletin: The Beginning of a Literary Career


Connery Lathem, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Grolier Club, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Hardcover with plastic protective cover. Ivory pages with illustrations in black and white. Clean, tight copy. Gilt top edge.

Record # 2233170


Price: $38.00 

 

Robert Frost: A Pictorial Chronicle


Morrison, Kathleen

Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1974, Dust Jacket: Good, 133 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket shows light wear, sunning to covers and a small rubbed patch inside the front flap from an old sticker. Upper edge of front end paper is price clipped. Nice, bright copy.

Record # 809832


Price: $12.00 

 

Robert Lowell: A Biography


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 527 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled foreedge. Cover boards bound in burgundy cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, very good, wrapped in protective clear plastic brodart. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. This definitive biography is the first extended study of the life and works of the poet Robert Lowell.

Record # 32455


Price: $23.00 

 

Robertson Davies Discoveries : Early Letters 1938-1975


Davies, Robertson

Hardcover. US, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 2002-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 413 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463546


Price: $10.00 

Rodin (GERMAN EDITION)Rilke, Rainer Maria

Rodin (GERMAN EDITION)


Rilke, Rainer Maria

Hardcover. Leipzig, Im Insel-Verlag, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original quarter black cloth and blue paper-covered boards; spine lettering in gilt. With 96 full-page illustrations. GERMAN TEXT. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Publisher's flyers laid in. Top of text block darkened, light foxing to endpapers otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 412018


Price: $63.00 

Rogues, Vagabonds & Sturdy Beggars A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue LiteratureKinney (Editor), Arthur F., Illust. by: John Lawrence

Rogues, Vagabonds & Sturdy Beggars A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature


Kinney (Editor), Arthur F., Illust. by: John Lawrence

Softcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st Thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations by John Lawrence on coverboards and throughout. Minor foxing to edges. Clean, unmarked and tight copy.

Record # 750140


Price: $23.00 

 

Romantic Re-Vision: Culture and Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century American Painting and Literature


Wolf, Bryan Jay

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 402758


Price: $50.00 

 

Rossetti and the Fair Lady


Sonstroem, David

Hardcover. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 252 pages, with illustrations. Light dust jacket edge wear and rub, price clipped, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 457814


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Scene Before You, The - A New Approach To American Culture


Brossard, Chandler

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 202195


Price: $25.00 

 

Scenes Along the Road


Charters (editor), Ann

Softcover. New York, Portents/Gotham Book Mart, Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 52 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Herbert Hunke, and other characters associated with the Beat movement. Front cover has 2 small stain spots that have also left impression on front endpaper. Small tears (1/4") at top and bottom of spine that do not effect interior of book. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606832


Price: $35.00 

 

Scott Bicentenary Essays - Selected Papers read at the Sir Walter Scott Bicentenary Conference


Bell (Editor), Alan

Hardcover. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 344 pages. 14 pages of black & white illustrations. Foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket worn with chipping along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610082


Price: $15.00 

 

Scrambles Amongst the Alps


Whymper, Edward

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, Burrows Brothers, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 plus 75 pages. Down the Rhine by Lady Blanche Murphy is the 2nd part of the book. Contains black & white illustrations. Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard. Beveled edges. Soiling to covers. Light rubbing to edges. Corners a little bumped. Gilt edges. Bookseller's label on rear endpaper. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf.

Record # 801711


Price: $30.00 

 

Selected Poems Francis Thompson


Thompson, Francis/Wilfrid Meynell

Hardcover. New York, John Lane Company, First Edition, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 141 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with gilt decoration & gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt top edge. Deckled bottom & side edges. Previous owner's signature in pencil to prelim page. Frontis illustration, Francis Thompson, in black & white, protected with tissue guard. Light toning throughout. Otherwise very clean & unmarked.

Record # 751186


Price: $25.00 

 

Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet (2 Vols.)


Benet, Stephen Vincent

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol I: Poetry 487 pages. Vol II: Prose 483 pages. Spine lettering faded.

Record # 60137


Price: $18.00 

 

Shakespeare and the Artists


Merchant, W. Moelwyn

Hardcover. London, UK, Oxford University Press, First Edition, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with ex. lib. sticker to spine, dime sized chip to lower right corner, now protected with a plastic cover. Ex lib markings to endpapers. Wonderful illustrations in black & white throughout, over 85 plates. Clean inside and out.

Record # 6670124


Price: $23.00 

 

Shakespeare's Wooden O


Hotson, Leslie

Hardcover. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 2nd imp., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 335 pages. Dark top edge. Some markings to covers. Covers slightly warped. No dust jacket.

Record # 503050


Price: $10.00 

Shakespeare: The Evidence : Unlocking the Mysteries of the Man and His WorkWilson, Ian

Shakespeare: The Evidence : Unlocking the Mysteries of the Man and His Work


Wilson, Ian

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 498 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped with light edgewear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453995


Price: $12.00 

Shakespeare: The Tragedies (Analysing Texts)Marsh, Nicholas

Shakespeare: The Tragedies (Analysing Texts)


Marsh, Nicholas

Softcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 470422


Price: $23.00 

 

Short Work of It: Selected Writing


Harris, Mark

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, slate-gray cloth w/ silver lettering on spine; maroon end papers; 246 pages. 29 articles, essays & stories; black dust jacket with some rubbing leaving a pattern. Flap unclipped with price sticker. Clean, no markings. Essays spanning nearly thirty years. One of his less common books, having been published by a university press that did a small first printing.

Record # 385


Price: $15.00 

Sinhalese LiteratureGodakumbura, Dr. C.E.

Sinhalese Literature


Godakumbura, Dr. C.E.

Softcover. Battaramulla, Department of Cultural Affairs, 2nd Edition, 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Softcover. French flaps. Yellow wrapper, has some age wear (see image). Binding good, front flyleaf corner clipped. A history of Sinhalese Literature.

Record # 33532


Price: $19.00 

 

Soundings


Brookner, Anita

Hardcover. London, Harvil, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 105834


Price: $20.00 

 

Sphere History of Literature: English Poetry and Prose 1540-1674


Ricks, Christopher (ed.)

Hardcover. London, Sphere Reference, Reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 468 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt. Very good color dust jacket has partial sticker markings.

Record # 604529


Price: $10.00 

 

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks - Volume XXVII - Part I - Six Months - November 1899 to April 1900


Dodge, Mary Mapes/St. Nicholas Magazine

Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1st US, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 568 pages. Hardcover. Collects six months of St. Nicholas Magazine for Young Folks - Volume XXVII - Part I - November 1899 to April 1900. Black & white illustrations. Brown leather spine and corners, with black pebbled cloth. Title in gilt on spine. Moderate abrasions to leather. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613854


Price: $38.00 

 

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks


NA

Hardcover. London, Century Co - Frederick Warne & Co. , 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 576 pages. Volume XLII. Part I - November 1914-April 1915. Periodical of children's literature. Several Rackham & T. Burgess & Cady illustrations. Black & white illustrations and photos. Leather spine with gold lettering and bands. Spine and corners worn, otherwise good

Record # 500835


Price: $35.00 

 

Star Papers - Or. Experiences of Art and Nature


Beecher, Henry Ward

Hardcover. NY, Derby & Jackson, reprint, 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 359 pages, hardcover. A collection of newspaper articles from The New York Independent.

Record # 602685


Price: $15.00 

 

Steeplejack


Huneker, James Gibbons

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons , First Thus, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 327 pages. Hardcover, publisher's dark green cloth. Gilt cameo to cover, faded gilt titles to spine. Deckled edge, some pages unopened. Frontis illustration, James Gibbons Huneker, in sepia tones, protected with a tissue guard. Small 2mm dent to right side edge. Wonderful illustrations in black & white throughout, clean and unmarked pages, with only light toning.

Record # 6670142


Price: $31.00 

 

Stills


Levenson, Christopher

London, The Hogarth Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A collection of poems by Christopher Levenson. 48 pages. Dust jacket with few light tears.

Record # 175901


Price: $18.00 

 

Successors of Mary The First, The


Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, Illust. by: Arthur L. Keller

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. 7 black & white illustrations by Arthur L. Keller. Light fraying at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603580


Price: $13.00 

 

Swinburne Ms. Facsimiles


Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Hardcover. Boston, The Bibliophile Society, rep, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue and cream colored cloth folder containing 13 blue sheets of paper (plus cover sheet) with Swinburne's written essay: Mr. Whistler's Lecture on Art. Signs of a ribbon tie which is gone.

Record # 404692


Price: $15.00 

 

Synonyms and Antonyms - Or, Kindred Words and Their Opposites


Smith, C. J.

Hardcover. London, George Bell and Sons, Second Edition Revised, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine edge. Previous owner's stamp to front endpaper. Light toning throughout. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751276


Price: $15.00 

 

Talking with Artists (vol. 2)


Cummings, Pat

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Illustrated with color photographs and paintings. Very good pictorial dust jacket.

Record # 803957


Price: $10.00 

 

Telling Line, The: Essays on Fifteen Book Illustrators


Martin, Douglas

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st U.S.A, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket spine lightly yellowed from shelf wear. Otherwise very clean inside and out. From the font flap: "The art of book illustration is too often overlooked, rarely getting the attention that it deserves. Art historians, students of children's literature, librarians, teachers, and general readers will be pleased to find that Douglas Martin helps to fill this void. In The Telling Line, he focuses on fifteen significant modern illustrators: their backgrounds, influences, and techniques."

Record # 30480


Price: $15.00 

 

Tennessee Williams' Letters to Donald Windham: 1940-1965


Windham (Editor), Donald

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 333 hardcover with dust jacket. First collected letters by Tennessee Williams to be published. Dust jacket enclosed in a plastic protective sleeve. Moderate fading to dust jacket. Slight fading to prelim pages. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952596


Price: $24.00 


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