It's a Battlefield
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. First American edition. Scattered light foxing, else very good in original tan cloth, lacking the dust jacket. A nice copy of this early Graham Greene adventure.
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Erklär mir, Liebe. Liebesgedichte deutscher Sprache seit 1945.
St. Gallen: Tschudy Verlag, 1959. First edition thus. Square 8vo; 71 pp.; illustrated from drawings by Hans Erni. Covers spotted and rubbed; owner's bookplate; else a good copy or better in original laminated boards. Text in German. INSCRIBED by Erni, with a full-page variation on the cover illustration to front.....
A Geography
Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1966. Limited/Numbered. Soft Cover. 1/220 copies on Rives paper signed by Gunn. 19 cm; 31 pp.; minute chip to bottom tip rear wrapper; else a very good copy in red wrappers.
The Key to The Name of the Rose
Harrington Park: Ampersand Associates, Inc., (1987), 1987. First edition. A very good copy or better in original pictorial wrappers.
Architectural Notebook of Thomas Hardy: Revised Edition 2007
Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 2007. First Thus. Paperback. With a Preface by John Summerson, edited by C.J.P. Beatty. Hardy, apprenticed as an architect in 1856. His working notebook is reproduced here, with extensive notes on his career and drawings by Beatty. Revised ed. [orig. 1966]; 21 cm; pp.....
The Distant Isle: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Robert H. Brower (Volume 15) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan College of Architecture and Design, (1996). Poems from pre-modern Japan, as translated by Brower's students. First edition. 22.5 cm; 460 pp. A fine copy in black cloth, in a fine dust jacket.
Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
New York: New York University Press, 1971. First american edition., 4to; 240 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in a tape-repaired dust jacket.
Paralipomena zum Hirtenlied: Acht Unveroeffentlichte Szenen
Berlin: maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1932. First edition thus, #264/300 copies. 4to; pp. 38, viii. A fine copy in beige cloth in glassine dust jacket, in defective cardboard slipcase. With an afterword by C. F. W. Behl. Design by Paul Stadlinger.
Herman Hesse: Gedichte, Aquarelle, Prosa, Briefe, Dokumente
Bern: Galerie Kornfeld, 2003. Catalog for the 2003 auction of artwork, letters, typescripts, by the German author Herman Hesse. With list of prices realized laid-in. Text in German. First edition; 27.5 cm; 22 pp.; illustrated with ten full-page color plates hors texte. Some rippling to front wrapper from moisture; else.....
A Time and a Place
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968, 1968. First edition. A very good copy or better in a very good dust jacket.
Edward Lear's Birds
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980, 1980. First American edition. Folio; ninety-six pp.; ninety illustrations from paintings and sketches, including forty in color, many gatefold; bibliography. A fine copy in original blue cloth in a good price-clipped dust jacket with uneven fading to rear panel. A monograph on the.....
Sweete Themmes: A Chronicle in Prose and Verse
London: Max Parrish & Co, 1951, 1951. First edition. 8vo; 272 pp.; bibliography. Light wear to extremities, else a very good copy in gilt-stamped blue cloth in a good dust jacket with several small chips. An anthology of writings about the Thames River.
Swans Reflecting Elephants: My Early Years
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1982), 1982. First edition. 8vo; pp. xiii, 178; illustrated. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Memoirs of the eccentric English art collector and aesthete, as edited by George Melly.
The Awkward Age
New York: Harper & Bros., 1899. First edition. 8vo; 457 pp. Tape reparied tear to title page; else a good copy in original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. BAL 10636.
Notes and Reviews: A Series of Twenty-five Papers Hitherto Unpublished in Book Form
Cambridge: Dunster House, 1921, 1921. First trade edition. Some wear to extremeties, else a good copy or better in original cloth-backed gilt-stamped boards. "A series of twenty-five papers hitherto unpublished in book form." BAL 10708.
Watch and Ward
Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co., 1878, 1878. First edition. 12mo; 219 pp. Marginal stain to final 30 pp.; owner's name & date 1878; slight wear to spine ends; else a good copy or better in gilt-stamped red cloth. First issue, with blank leaf following p. 219.
Children's Books of Yesterday
London: The Studio Limited, 1933, 1933. First edition. 4to; 128 pp.; illustrated, some in color. Two nicks to bottom edges fo covers; else a very ood copy in original green cloth, lacking the dust jacket. A classic survey of antiquarian childrens' books, with an emphasis on illustrations. Useful reference with.....
The Family Romance of The Impostor-Poet Thomas Chatterton
New York: Atheneum, 1988, 1988. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A useful study of the poet Thomas Chatterton.
Sadness Because the Video Rental Store Was Closed & Other Stories
New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, (1988), 1988. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Kostabi, with a drawing incorporated into the sginature.
Jane Austen and Her World
London: Thames & Hudson, (1977), 1977. Later printing. 8vo; 143 pp.; 137 illustrations; bibliography. A very good copy or better in original gilt-stamped blue cloth in a very good dust jacket. A scholarly, illustrated account of Austen's life, family, friends and surroundings.
In the Middle of the Fields and Other Stories
New York: The Macmillan Company, (1969), 1969. First American edition. Stain to bottom edge and discoloration to covers, else a good copy or better in a very good dust jacket.
A Memory and Other Stories
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973, 1973. First edition. A very good copy in a good, price-clipped dust jacket with some edgewear.
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
London: The Cresset Press, 1947, 1947. First edition thus. Owner's name, else a very good copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with soiling to edges and spine and some edgewear.
Legends of Florence: Collected from the People
London: David Nutt, 1910, 1910. First Series, third issue. 8vo; pp. xiv; 280. Owner's name; spine very worn; else a good copy in original printed wrappers. A collection of folk-tales and legends referring to places and buildings in Florence, such as the Cathedral and Campanile, the Signoria, the Bargello, the.....
Max Beerbohm in Perspective
London: Heinemann, 1921, 1921. First edition. 8vo; pp. xvii, 185; colored photographic frontispiece and other illustrations from drawings by Beerbohm and others. Owner's bookplate; rubbing to spine label; else a good copy or better in original cloth-backed boards, in the scarce tape-repaired dust jacket.