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Les Sept Femmes de Gilbert le Mauvais


Butor, Michel

Softcover. Fata Morgana, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages, b&w drawings by Cesare Peverelli. Number 637 of 1,200 copies. Yellow paper wrappers, French text. Some light pencil markings by Roger Shattuck, former owner and literary historian and critic.

Record # 403421


Price: $35.00 

Letters of Bernard DeVoto, TheVoto, Bernard Augustine De
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Letters of Bernard DeVoto, The


Voto, Bernard Augustine De

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 393 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Several tears to dust jacket repaired with tape. Stains to bottom edge. Slight rubbing to spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466890


Price: $13.00 

 

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 James Gibbons Huneker


Huneker, Josephine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, James Gibbon Huneker, in sepia tones protected with tissue guard. Green cloth covered boards with gilt cameo to cover, gilt titles to spine. Deckled side edge, green dyed top edge. Tight binding, previous owner's signature to front fly leaf, else clean.

Record # 6670157


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters on Various Interesting and Important Subjects


Freneau, Philip

Hardcover. New York , Scholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 142 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket fair only with heavy chipping to spine and edges. Slight discoloration to endpaper, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 809664


Price: $20.00 

Letters To A TeacherPickering, Samuel F.
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Letters To A Teacher


Pickering, Samuel F.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 242 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Some edgewear and creasing to upper edge of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453130


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope - Vol. II


Chesterfield, Lord

Hardcover. London, J. Dodsley, 3rd, 1774, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 2 only of 4 volumes. Leather covers worn, spine lettering faded. Internally Very Good.

Record # 303306


Price: $40.00 

 

Library Essays About Books, Bibliophiles, Writers and Kindred Subjects


Harper, Henry Howard

Hardcover. Boston, The Torch Press, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. In slipcase. Printed on textured paper with rough cut edges. Foxing to top edge. Light spotting to endpapers. Soiling to spine. Wear and fading to slipcase. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 851731


Price: $20.00 

Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889Bartley, Theodore D.
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Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889


Bartley, Theodore D.

softcover. Fleischmanns, New York, Purple Mountain Press, Ltd., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470013


Price: $25.00 

 

Literary History of America, A


Wendell, Barrett

New York , Scribners, Rep., 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. A bit shaken,dusty. Still, a good reading copy.

Record # 302099


Price: $12.00 

 

Literary Scene in East Pakistan, The


Husain, et. al., DR. S.S.

Paperback. E. Pakistan, P.E.N., 1st wraps, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY HUSAIN, one of the contributors. An introduction to the language and literature of East Pakistan. 88 pages.

Record # 58250


Price: $25.00 

 

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century


Paston, George

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton and Co., 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering and decor to spine and front. Minor wear to covers, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 810076


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Living Mirror, The: Five Poets From Leningrad


Massie (Ed.), Suzanne

London, Gollancz, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 344 pages in a lightly worn dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp on title page, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 405578


Price: $25.00 

 

London Films


Howells, W. D.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st , 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust., photos. Turquois cloth with gilt design.

Record # 64272


Price: $23.00 

 

Lunacy Boom, The


Zinsser, William

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 59711


Price: $12.00 

 

Madwoman's Underclothes, The - Essays and Occasional Writings


Greer, Germaine

hard back. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 202241


Price: $15.00 

 

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age


Paret (EDITOR), Peter

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 941 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Spine cracked in center, from paper wrapper. Faded front wrapper. Clean.

Record # 2233794


Price: $23.00 

 

Making Waves


Llosa, Mario Vargas

Paperback. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, proof wraps, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. & transl. from Spanish by John King. Cover creased, curled

Record # 52981


Price: $15.00 

 

Man in the Flying Lawn Chair, The: And Other Excursions and Observations


Plimpton, George

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st ed, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Edited by Sarah Dudley Plimpton. Heavy fading to dust jacket spine. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952587


Price: $13.00 

 

Man of Letters, A - Selected Essays


Pritchett, V.S.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 60936


Price: $18.00 

 

Mania for Magnificence, A


Kronenberger, Louis

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 236 pages

Record # 304694


Price: $18.00 

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the BorderlandsChabon, Michael
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands


Chabon, Michael

Hardcover. US, McSweeney's, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469834


Price: $63.00 

 

Marking The Sparrow's Fall - Wallace Stegner's American West


Stegner, Page (Ed)

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 178074


Price: $9.00 


  
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