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.
Hardcover. University Park, PA, Penn State University, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, B&W illustrations, 196 pages dust jacket with tape repaired tears
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 416 pages. Gilt title on spine, b/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Slight yellowing on edges, dust jacket is slightly age-worn with a couple water spots on spine. Clean inside.
Hardcover. Iowa City, Univ of Iowa Pr, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Light edgewear and sun-fade to dust jacket with two small closed tears to upper edge. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Saturday Review Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket has edgewear, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Cassell & Co. Ltd. , 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 197 pages Hardcover. AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE PASTED BENEATH TITLE ON TITLE PAGE. Moderate rubbing to green cloth covers. Dust jacket with a degree of darkening along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. Black & white illustrations by author. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket worn with chipping and short tears along edges.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A decades worth of essays and journalism by distinctive writer. Light rubbing to dust jacket, faint remainder mark to top copy edge. Bright and clean, a tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Company, First Edition, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages. Hardcover with vibrant, colorful endpapers. Green cloth covered boards with gilt embossed decoration & black printed titles to cover. Black top edge. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color, black & gilt and bw by Theodore Nadejen. Previous owner's bookplate to front end. Light toning throughout. Stunning illustrations tipped in. Tight binding, deckled edge, clean & unmarked pages throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st English, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Slight yellowing to edges, boards and pages in excellent condition, clean inside and out. Dust jacket unclipped, some yellowing to jacket, but still whole with no rips or tears.
Hardcover. Keene NH, Darling & Co., Unknown, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Black cloth w/ lots of little white spots on it. Gilt titles. Edgewear. Intermittent foxing throughout. Pages clean, unmarked. B/W photographs throughout.
Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 388 pages, b&w photographs. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt. Light soiling to covers. Else a very clean, tight copy.
New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 165 pages. Introduction by Justin O'Brien. Gift inscripiton on front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket torn at spine.
New York , Scribnerner's, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY NORMAN on front fly leaf, dated with a sketch of a flower vase. Dust jacket edgeworm, chipped.
Hardcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of her columns for the London Evening Standard. Remainder mark bottom edge
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ALVAREZ on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Paperback. Chapel Hill, Algonquin, Unc. proof wraps, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY ALVAREZ on title page. Front wraps worn, internally VG.
Hardcover. New York, Payson & Clarke, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 20 pages. Gilt decoration on cover with title in gilt on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Le Roy Phillips, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 652 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers with titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 46 full color tipped-in plates. Pages featuring illustrations show some age darkening. Clean, tight copy.
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