Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essays and criticism from noted writer. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Rough-cut fore edge. bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1848, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Hardcover. Embossed brown cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Light fraying to bottom of spine. Foxing to preliminary pages, light foxing to some pages. 2 page sections loose from binding - pages 83-102 and 107-126. previous owner's signature on blank prelim page. Author's first book.
Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 680 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and slight bumping on edges of spine. Minor foxing on dust jacket, along spine on front and rear endpages, and around all edges. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 589 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Edges of spine slightly bumped, otherwise no visible wear to cover. Some foxing on dust jacket, spine at front and rear endpage, and edges of pages. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Edited by Bonamy Dobree and Norman Davis.
Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 510 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white photographs throughout.
Hardcover. Madras, Sekar Pathippagam, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 126 pages, blue boards with decorative pattern, green cloth spine. Dust jacket with edgewear. The author was a professor at Madurai University.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Preface by Norman Mailer. A personal biography by his son. Dj price clipped
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Publishers, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 page. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Gilt lettering to spine, light bumping on corner, light pencil markings. Otherwise, bright, tight copy. Black and white pictures in center.
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.
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.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Perry was editor of the Atlantic Monthly at 4 Park Street in Boston. Thus the title of these collected literary pieces. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue, still an attractive gilt-dec. cover.
Hardcover. Chicago, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 315 pages. Slight bump to upper edge of spine, else a clean unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. San Francisco, Grey Fox Press, 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages, with some black & white photographs. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
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.
hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , McGraw Hill Book Company, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light wear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
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.