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Rodin (GERMAN EDITION)Rilke, Rainer Maria
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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
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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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 Life, Art, and Characters, Volumes I and II


Hudson, Rev. H. N.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Ginn and Company, 4th, 1872, Includes volumes I and II. Approx. 1000 pages. Brown boards with faded gilt title to spine. Soiling to top edge. Overall, clean, nice copies.

Record # 850611


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

Soundings


Brookner, Anita

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

Record # 105834


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Stranger on the Square


Koestler, Arthur/Cynthia Koestler

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. illustrated with black & white photographs. Red remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609361


Price: $12.00 

Subterfuge of Art - Language and the Romantic Tradition, TheRagussis, Michael
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Subterfuge of Art - Language and the Romantic Tradition, The


Ragussis, Michael

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613831


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

Swift and the Satirists Art


Rosenheim jr., Edward R.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations and some underlining in pencil on random pages. Light shelf wear to covers.

Record # 201008


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Thoreau: A Glimpse


Jones, Samuel Arthur

Hardcover. Concord MA, Albert Lane/Erudite Press, 2nd Ed., 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray-green boards over green cloth spine, 35 pages, frontis portrait plus 3 halftone plates. First published in 1890, "It is a pious duty to his memory to correct the errors of fact that were ... reported in the first edition of the Glimpse 1890." Jones was part of the rehabilitation of Thoreau's reputation and appreciation. Previous owner's bookmark on inside front cover, Paper label on spine mostly gone, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 412415


Price: $38.00 

 

Treasure From The National Library of Ireland


Kissane, Noel

Hardcover. London, Alpine Fine Arts, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated in color, b&w. 243 pgs.

Record # 70615


Price: $28.00 

 

Tres Riches Heures, The


Jean, Duke of Berry

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations. Page titled "The Plates with Commentaries" is almost loose from body of book. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Slipcase shows light wear with minor rubbing at corners and edges. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 607749


Price: $80.00 


  
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