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Bech: A Book


Updike , John

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , reprint , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 206 pages. Gilt lettering on spine. Decorative stain to top edge. Clipped dust jacket. Faint odor. Slight staining to bottom edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857427


Price: $10.00 

 

Brave Coward, The


Buchwald, Art, Illust. by: Tomi Ungerer

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 211 pages, illustrated in b&w by Tomi Ungerer. Dust jacket price-clipped. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 602224


Price: $9.00 

 

Children of the Alps


Spyri, Johanna

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Hardcover. 8 full color illustrations. Previous owners last name at top right corner of front endpaper. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611060


Price: $19.00 

 

Conversation Pieces: A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America


Praz, Mario

Hardcover. University Park, PA, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 287 pages. Both black-and-white and color illustrations throughout. Some edge wear and tanning of dust jacket. Dust jacket now protected by clear, plastic cover. A little foxing on top edge. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856437


Price: $50.00 

 

Cricket Beneath the Waterfall, The


Krleza, Miroslav

Hardcover. New York, The Vanguard Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Six stories on the human condition by noted European writer. Moderate rubbing, fading, and edgewear to dust jacket. Light age toning to top text block edge. Chipping and fading to top dust jacket edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952104


Price: $25.00 

 

Exploits of Tommy Hambledon


Coles, Manning

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st Thus, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Features 3 stories - 'Drink to Yesterday', 'A Toast to Tomorrow', 'Alias Uncle Hugo'. Covers with moderate wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 611764


Price: $19.00 

Farewell, CowboySavicevic, Olja

Farewell, Cowboy


Savicevic, Olja

Softcover. London, Istros Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 468361


Price: $19.00 

 

Hilltop on the Marne, A


Aldrich, Mildred

Hardcover. London, Constable and Company Ltd., 4th Printing, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Previous owners inscription on half title page. Light stain on right edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610538


Price: $25.00 

 

Historical Nights' Entertainment, The


Sabatini, Rafael

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages. Volume IX of the Autograph Edition series, limited to 750 copies. Gray boards, maroon cloth spine with spine label, b&w tissue-protected frontispiece. Spine lightly faded; otherwise, a neat, tight copy.

Record # 850858


Price: $25.00 

I Curse the River of Time (SIGNED)Petterson, Per

I Curse the River of Time (SIGNED)


Petterson, Per

Hardcover. Minneapolis, MN, Graywolf Press, 1st English, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. Dust jacket covered in protective plastic. From the front flap: "Norway, 1989: Communism is unraveling all over Europe. Arvid Jansen, thirty -seven, is trying to bridge the yawning gulf that opened up years earlier between himself and his mother. He is in the throes of a divorce, and she has just been diagnosed with cancer. ...In its piercing portrait of their layered relationship, I Curse the River of Time bears all the hallmarks of Petterson's compassion for humanity that has won him readers the world over."

Record # 30511


Price: $38.00 

 

It Does Not Die - A Romance


Devi, Maitreyi

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, Reprint, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A memoir of a young Indian girl's love affair with a European intellectual (Actually Mircea Eliade who fictionalized the affair in Bengal Nights). Dj edgewear, light pencil marks in margins.

Record # 60505


Price: $15.00 

 

Lost Provinces - How Vansittart came back to France


Tracy, Louis

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 408 pages plus 4 pages of ads. 12 black & white illustrations. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover - ghost of bookplate on front endpaper. Small area of foxing on rear endpaper. Spine cloth darkened with title absent. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609858


Price: $30.00 

 

Modern Slovak Prose: Fiction Since 1954


Pynsent (Editor), Robert B.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan Press LTD, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, all edges. Small tear to dust jacket bottom spine. rubbing to boards, confined to top and bottom edges. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951270


Price: $48.00 

Napoleon: An Intimate Account of The Years of Supremacy 1800-1814Jones, Proctor Patterson

Napoleon: An Intimate Account of The Years of Supremacy 1800-1814


Jones, Proctor Patterson

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Inc, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 444 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. A Napoleonic museum within covers, with pages filled with hundreds of paintings, engravings, maps, and reproductions covering Napoleon's career as soldier, lover and head of state. Red cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine. White pictorial dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and a minor tear to bottom edge of spine, else a beautiful copy in excellent shape.

Record # 606479


Price: $65.00 

 

Northern Europe: Norway, Russia, The Netherlands, France, Germany and Switzerland


Lane, ed., M. A.

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn & Co, na, 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature in pencil on front end paper.

Record # 803327


Price: $8.00 

 

On the Edge of Reason


Krleza, Miroslav

Hardcover. New York , The Vangard Press, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. One of the great European novels of the first half of the twentieth century. Translated by Zora Depolo. Mild rubbing and age toning to dust jacket. Inner dust jacket flap slightly creased. Mild age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952109


Price: $25.00 

 

Retreat - A Novel of 1918


Benstead, C. R.

Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages. Hardcover. Orange cloth with spot of rubbing at bottom of front cover hinge, Slight darkening to spine. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Light foxing to preliminary pages.

Record # 612546


Price: $35.00 

Seven TerrorsAvdic, Selvedin

Seven Terrors


Avdic, Selvedin

Softcover. London, Istros Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 149 pages. Softcover. Small stain to back cover. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 468367


Price: $13.00 

 

Short Stories


Slavici, Ioan

Hardcover. Bucharest Rumania, The Book Publishing House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages, translated from Rumanian by Ana Cartianu. Introduction by Silvian Iosifescu. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 404520


Price: $50.00 

 

Siberia, To


Petterson, Per

Hardcover. Saint Paul, Graywolf Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609762


Price: $15.00 

 

South


Sansom, William

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages. Review slip laid-in. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608494


Price: $12.00 

 

Stickluft (Black Damp)


Dornik, Franc

Hardcover. New York, Vantage Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 272 pages. Some sun-fading along dust jacket spine. Chipping and tears on dust jacket covers. Dust jacket protected with clear, plastic cover. Front flyleaf clipped. Minor spotting on fore and bottom edges. Underlining in pen on about five pages. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856284


Price: $25.00 

 

Strolling Saint, The: Being the Confessions of the High and Mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, Tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the State of Piacenza


Sabatini, Rafael

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 442 pages. Volume XIII of the Autograph Edition series, limited to 750 copies. Gray boards, maroon cloth spine with spine label, b&w tissue-protected frontispiece. Spine lightly faded; otherwise, a neat, tight copy.

Record # 850856


Price: $15.00 

 

Trudi and Hansel - A Story of the Austrian Tyrol


Demuth, Averil/Nora Lavrin

Hardcover. Chicago, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 174 pages. Hardcover. Illustrations by Nora Lavrin. Minor wrinkling to page bottom - from page 139 to rear endpaper. Dust jacket worn with wrinkling, closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611091


Price: $19.00 

 

Wailing Mountain, The


Lalic, Mihailo

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 244 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Translated from the Serbo-Croat by Drenka Willen. Heavy rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Age toning to inner flaps. Edgeweat to top and bottom board edges. Heavy bumping to corners. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952205


Price: $15.00 

 

Watching Europe Grow


N/A

Hardcover. New York, The Junior Literary Guild Inc., 2nd, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 489 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A unique travel history of Europe. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. Red toning to top text block. Heavy chipping and rubbing to dust jacket. Mild rubbing to boards. Profusely illustrated. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951767


Price: $19.00 

Year of the Horsetails, TheTapsell, R. F.

Year of the Horsetails, The


Tapsell, R. F.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages, In a bright, unclipped dust jacket that has a faint purple stripe along top and bottom edge. Not noticeable on wraparound design but evident on the flaps. An epic novel of nomads and warfare in medieval Eastern Europe. Scarce original 1967 printing in exceptional condition.

Record # 410540


Price: $75.00 

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