Letteratura

Elective Affinities (Penguin Classics)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von · 1978 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Penguin Trade softcover. Published London: Penguin, 1978. 8vo. wrappers, 300pp. Mild age tone to paper. Near fine. Condemned as immoral when it was first published, this novel reflects the conflict Goethe felt between his respect for the conventions of marriage and the possi...

Benchley Lost and Found (Dover Humor)

Benchley, Robert · 1970 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Dover Publications First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Dover, 1970. 8vo. wrappers, 183pp., illustrated. Near fine. These "39 prodigal pieces" show Robert Benchley at the height of his whimsicality, damning with gentle urbanity all the things that peeve every one o...

Memories of Mistresses

Luigi Barzini · 1986 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Mcmillan First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Mcmillan, 1986, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 311pp. Very good. Very Good No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 311

No Name

Collins, Wilkie · 1978 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Dover Pubns First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Dover, 1978, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 609pp., with 16 period illustrations. slight foxing edges/endpapers. Very good. Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian E...

The Great Fire

Hazzard, Shirley · 2004 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Picador Trade softcover. Published NY: Picador 2004, ninth printing. 8vo. wrappers, 326pp. Some age toning to paper, else near fine. The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate ...

Travesties: A Play

Stoppard, Tom · 1975 · The Wild Muse

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Grove Press, 1975, second printing. 8vo. wrappers, 99pp. Paper age toned, else very good. Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- Jame...

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land

Stoppard, Tom · 1976 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Grove Press, 1976, second printing. 8vo. wrappers, 75pp. Near fine. Near Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 2nd Printing NY 8vo 75

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul: Two Plays

Stoppard, Tom · 1978 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Grove Press, 1978, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 124pp. Near fine. It is Tom Stoppard's very special skill as the master comedian of ideas in the modern theater to create brilliant, biting humor out of serious concern...

Appleby's Other Story (28) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2000 · The Wild Muse

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2000, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 179pp. Fine. During a walk to Elvedon House, palatial home of the Tythertons, Sir John Appleby and Chief Constable Colonel Pride are stunned to ...

Appleby And The Ospreys (35) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2000 · The Wild Muse

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2000, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 159pp. Fine. Clusters, a great country house, is troubled by bats, as Lord and Lady Osprey complain to their guests, who include first rate det...

The Tryst (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Dibdin, Michael · 2003 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2003, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 168pp. As new. "One of my patients thinks somebody's trying to kill him," Aileen Macklin says to her husband over breakfast. A psychiatri...

Thanksgiving (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Dibdin, Michael · 2002 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2002, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 182pp. As new. Thanksgiving is a moving portrait of the profound effects of love when all that seems to remain is loss and grief. Unhinge...

The Poems of Marianne Moore

Moore, Marianne · 2005 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Penguin Publishing Group First edition, trade softcover. Published London: Penguin Publishing Group, 2005, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, xxviii+452pp. Age toning to paper, creasing to publisher's blurb page, else near fine. This complete collection of Moore's poetry, loving...

Delights & Shadows

Kooser, Ted · 2004 · The Wild Muse

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Copper Canyon Press Signed first edition, seventh printing. Trade softcover. Published Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. 8vo. wrappers, xii+84pp. Signed by author on name label attached to half title. As new. Ted Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate ...

Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and the Brother

O'Brien, Flann · 2003 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Townhouse First edition, trade softcover. Published London:Scribner Townhouse, 2003, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 166pp. Some age tone to the paper, else fine. Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing London 8vo 192

The Noise of Time : The Prose of Osip Mandelstam

MANDELSTAM, Osip, Clarence Brown (Trans). · 1986 · The Wild Muse

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

North Point Press First edition, trade softcover. Published San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 249pp., illustrated. Light foxing on edges, else near fine. Near Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing San Francisco 8...

Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Musil, Robert · 1994 · The Wild Muse

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

University of Chicago Press Trade softcover. Published Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 299pp. Near fine. Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937...

The Cruellest Month

Louise Penny · 2011 · The Wild Muse

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Sphere First edition thus, trade softcover. Published London: Sphere, 2011, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 454pp. Some wrinkling at bottom edge, else very good. Very Good No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing London 8vo 464

Antonia Saw The Oryx First

Maria Thomas · 1988 · The Wild Muse

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Soho Press First edition thus, first paperbound edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Soho Press, 1998, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 296pp. Some wrinkling, page corners creased. Good. Good No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 298

The Red Queen: A Haunting Historical Mystery - A Korean Princess's Lost Memoir Across Centuries

Drabble, Margaret · 2005 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Harcourt First edition thus, trade softcover. Published NY: Harcourt, 2005, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, xii+334pp. Milt age tone to the paper, else fine. Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princ...