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British Writers: Supplement IIStade (Ed.), George
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British Writers: Supplement II


Stade (Ed.), George

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The second supplemental volume to this reference series: Kingsley Amis to J.R.R. Tolkien, 626 pages. Printed board covers, like new.

Record # 402809


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement VStade (Ed.), George and Sarah Hannah Goldstein
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British Writers: Supplement V


Stade (Ed.), George and Sarah Hannah Goldstein

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 5th supplemental volume to this reference series: Alan Ayckbourn to Graham Swift, 571 pages. Printed board covers, very good.

Record # 402810


Price: $30.00 

 

British Writers: Supplement VI


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 6 to this reference series. Some light damp wrinkling to bottom edge of some pages. Otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 402802


Price: $25.00 

British Writers: Supplement XParini (Ed.), Jay
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British Writers: Supplement X


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 10 to this reference series, Ayi Kwei Armah to Jon Stallworthy, 455 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 402804


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XParini (Ed.), Jay
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British Writers: Supplement X


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 10 to this reference series, Ayi Kwei Armah to Jon Stallworthy, 455 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 402807


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XIParini (Ed.), Jay
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British Writers: Supplement XI


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Thomson/Gale, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 11th supplemental volume to this reference series: Iain Banks to Alan Warner, 456 pages. Printed board covers, minor soil to edges of text block.

Record # 402816


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XIParini (Ed.), Jay
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British Writers: Supplement XI


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. New York, Thomson/Gale, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The 11th supplemental volume to this reference series: Iain Banks to Alan Warner, 456 pages. Printed board covers, minor soil to edges of text block.

Record # 402813


Price: $30.00 

British Writers: Supplement XIIParini (Ed.), Jay
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British Writers: Supplement XII


Parini (Ed.), Jay

Hardcover. Farmington Hills MI, Thomson/Gale Group, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Supplement 12 to this reference series, Fleur Adcock to R.S. Thomas, 456 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 402805


Price: $30.00 

 

Dictionary of American Artists: 19th and 20th Centuryr


McGlauflin, Alice Coe (editor)

Hardcover. Poughkeepsie, NY, Glenn Opitz / Apollo Book, reprint, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 372 pages. Reprint of Volume XXVI American Art Annual, 1929. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition. Book clean and well-bound except for one or two pages with underline in blue ink. Dust jacket shows minor edgewear. Clean jacket with illustrations of American flag and painter's palette.

Record # 806955


Price: $40.00 

Dictionary of Irish Biography, ABoylan, Henry
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Dictionary of Irish Biography, A


Boylan, Henry

hardcover. Niwot, CO, Roberts Rinehart Pub, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 462 pages. Hardcover with faded dust jacket. Black and white pictures. Front board lightly warped otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468944


Price: $19.00 

 

Figures of Autobiography: The Language of Self-Writing


Fleishman, Avrom

Hardcover. Berkeley, 1st, February 9, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 486 pages. Light soil to inside of dust jacket upper edge, faint foxing to all edges. Neat readingcopy.

Record # 457662


Price: $13.00 

 

Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright


Dardis, Tom

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Biography of the man who changed American publishing.

Record # 12522


Price: $9.00 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright: A Visual Encyclopedia


Thomson, Iain

Hardcover. London, England, PRC Publishing Ltd., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations throughout. Glossy decorated cover boards. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, wrapped in protective, clear-plastic brodart.. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf bottom. Binding tight, spine straight. Some minor moisture staining to edges and endpapers, doesn't affect inside pages, illustrations or text. Provides a fascinating and comprehensive guide to Wright's life and times, features over 1,000 stunning photographs.

Record # 32291


Price: $25.00 

 

George Washington - The Son of His Country 1723-1775


Van Dyke, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 Pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth with title in gilt on spine, image on front cover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613709


Price: $11.00 

 

Grain of Wheat, A - A Writer Begins


Bulla, Clyde Robert

Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 49 pages, b&w photos.

Record # 602036


Price: $35.00 

 

Grant and His Campaigns: A Military Biography


Coppee, Henry

Hardcover. New York, Charles B. Richardson, 1st, 1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 512 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Black & white illustrations and maps. Previous owners names on inside front cover in pencil and ink. Brown cloth covers with tears along front cover hinges - interior hinge paper still intact. Fade to spine cloth, with fraying at top and bottom. Moderate foxing to edges. Clean, unmarked text. Good reference copy.

Record # 611968


Price: $75.00 

 

Harriet Monroe and the Poetry Renaissance: The First Ten Years of Poetry, 1912-22


Williams, Ellen

Hardcover. Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 8vo, brown cloth. (xiv), 312 pp. ISBN 0252004787. Story of the legendary Chicago editor and poet. Her little magazine, Poetry, was very influential in modernist literature. Some fade to dust jacket spine.

Record # 804506


Price: $10.00 

Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times - Volume I & IIPaulson, Ronald
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Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times - Volume I & II


Paulson, Ronald

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume I: 558 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Dust jacket quite worn along edges with some tape repair to small tears. Clean, tight copy. Volume II: 557 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Fore edge shows slightest foxing. Dust jacket worn along edges with small tears and creases. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511691


Price: $80.00 

 

Horace Ward Bailey - Vermonter - A Memorial by His Friends


Fish (Editor), Frank L.

Hardcover. Rutland, Tuttle, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather spine and corners with marbled paper over boards. Special deluxe edition of 125 copies - this being number 21. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover edges, minor loss of leather at top of spine. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614201


Price: $23.00 

 

Humboldtiana at Harvard


Nelken, Halina

Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Widener Library/ Harvard University, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856792


Price: $15.00 

 

Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West, The


Samuels, Peggy and Harold

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 549 pages. Tan cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, b&w illustrations, comprehensive reference work on Western American art. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 604962


Price: $26.00 

 

In My Garden


Ronan, Frank

Hardcover. US, Macmillan General Reference, 1st, 1995-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463623


Price: $23.00 

 

Jascha Keifetz: Early Years in Russia


Kopytova, Galina

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, Reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 475 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title stamped on spine. Cover boards excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, pristine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. Like new. Tracing Jascha Keifetz's little-known upbringing, this book uncovers the events and experiences that shaped one of the modern era's most unique talents and enigmatic personalities.

Record # 31712


Price: $25.00 

 

Journal of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. - Enlarged from Original MSS., with Notes from Unpublished Diaries, Annotations, Maps, and Illustrations - Standard Edition, The


Wesley, John/Nehemiah Curnock (editor)

Hardcover. London, Epworth Press, Reprint, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 8 hardcover volumes. Volume 1 with marking in pencil and some blue ink. No marking in volumes 2-8. Black & white illustrations and fold-outs throughout the 8 volumes. Price clipped dust jackets with darkened spines, surface stains occasionally - all jackets now with clear plastic protective covers. Good reference set. International orders require additional postage.

Record # 611701


Price: $188.00 


  
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