Letteratura

The Straw Man

Giono, Jean; Johnson, Phyllis · 1983 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

North Point Pr First edition, trade softcover. Published San Francisco: North Point Pr, 1983, first printing. 8vo. wrappers in dust jacket,viii+461pp. Translated from the French by Phyllis Johnson. Band of toning on verso of front cover from newspaper clipping, else near fine ...

The Late Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind (Vintage Contemporaries)

Goldstein, Rebecca · 1990 · The Wild Muse

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Vintage First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Vintage, 1990, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 261pp. Mild toning to paper, some edge curl to covers. Very good. A sensual love story, drawing on Plato and Spinoza to examine the conflicting claims of reason and desire.Eva...

The Vatican Cellars (Modern Classics)

Gide, Andre · 1973 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Penguin Trade softcover. Published London: Penguin, 1973, reprinted 1986. 8vo. wrappers, 237pp. Paper age toned. Very good. Very Good Fine London 8vo 240

Five Tales (English and Russian Edition)

Leskov, N. S. · 1984 · The Wild Muse

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Ange Books First edition, trade softcover. Published London: Ange Books, 1984, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 189pp. Fine, clean, bright. The most perfectly 'Russian' writer of the nineteenth century, Leskov conveys a unique, memorable image of the Russia he wayward and undi...

James Joyce

O'Brien, Edna · 2000 · The Wild Muse

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Phoenix First edition, trade softcover. Published London: Phoenix, 2000, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 182pp. Near fine. Near Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing London 8vo 192

Voyage: The Coast of Utopia, Part I

Tom Stoppard · 2002 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Faber & Faber First edition, trade softcover. Published London:Faber & Faber, 2002, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 114pp. Paper lightly toned, else fine. This play is one of three sequential, self-contained plays which tell the story of some of the main actors in the drama o...

The Real Inspector Hound

Stoppard, Tom · 1969 · The Wild Muse

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Grove Press First edition thus, trade softcover. Published NY: Grove Press,1969, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 59pp. Author's second play. Rubber stamp of letter "R" on fly leaf. Very good, clean. Very Good No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo

Appleby Talks Again (15) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2001 · The Wild Muse

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2001, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 185pp. As new. Ralph Dangerfield, an Edwardian playwright who belonged to the smartest young set of his day, kept a scandalous diary recording t...

Ignorance: A Novel

Kundera, Milan · 2003 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Harper Perennial First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Harper Perennial, 2003, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 195pp. Flattened crease on top corner of one page, else fine. A brilliant novel set in contemporary Prague, by one of the most distinguished writers of our ti...

Immortality

Kundera, Milan · 1992 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Harper Perennial First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Harper Perennial, 1992, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 345pp. Mild age tone to paper, else fine. Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 352

Appleby Plays Chicken: Death on a Quiet Day (16) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2000 · The Wild Muse

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire:House of Stratus, 2000, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 187pp. As new. David was hiking across Dartmoor, pleased to have escaped the oppressively juvenile and sometimes perilous behaviour of his fellow...

Appleby Talking: Dead Man's Shoes (14) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2001 · The Wild Muse

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2001, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 201pp. Fine. Arbuthnot is paying for a rash decision - he recently married a beautiful but slightly amoral girl whose crazy antics caught his rat...

Het scherp van de snede

John Harvey · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 1e druk; Uitgeverij Rainbow Bv; 303pp.; Conditie: Goed; ISBN10: 906766524X, ISBN13: 9789067665247

Orbis Sensualium Pictus: The Visible World in Pictures

Comenius, Johann A · 1981 · Klondyke BV

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

Gebonden, hardcover; 1981; London/Sydney : The Bodley Head; Conditie: Goed; Original gilt lettered brown boards, illustrations in b/w, translated by Charles Hoole, facsimile edition, (18),197,(9) pages, decorated board slipcase, 8vo.; Engels

Crook's vendetta

Teed, Hamilton · 1939 · Aucott & Thomas

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Fair with no dust jacket Columbine Publishing Company Ltd. First Edition Clean hardback tightly bound in faded red cloth with black titles, cloth worn at edges notes on front endpaper and remains of a name on the front pastedown. 254 pages

Murder in the Taj Mahal

Taylor, Walker · 1946 · Aucott & Thomas

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Fair in Poor dust jacket Eyre & Spottiswoode First Edition Thus Reading copy, an ex private library hardback with the remains of a label on the front endpaper, in an unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed and worn with 2 inch loss at the base of the spine and minor loss at the f...

Inspector Frost and the Waverdale Fire

Smith, H. Maynard · 1931 · Aucott & Thomas

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Good with no dust jacket Ernest Benn Limited First Edition Clean hardback tightly bound in black cloth with red titles and decoration, top of boards marked, no inscriptions. 256 pages

Othello's occupation

Strong, L. A. G. · 1945 · Aucott & Thomas

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Good with no dust jacket Collins Crime Club First Edition Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with black titles, spine sunned, cloth rubbed at edges, no inscriptions. 192 pages

A treasury of Sayers stories

Sayers, Dorothy L. · 1967 · Aucott & Thomas

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Fair in Fair dust jacket Victor Gollancz Ltd Reprint; Fourth Printing Clean and tightly bound hardback book, pages age tanned, closed vertical tear to base of contents page and to top of pages 205 - 230, library stamp on title page verso but no other inscriptions, in a an uncl...

Alias the Lone Wolf

Vance, Louis Joseph · 1925 · Aucott & Thomas

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Fair Hodder and Stoughton Reprint Tightly bound hardback book, pages age tanned with notches in the page fore edges (remainder marks?) with name stamped on front pastedown and front foldover in a an unclipped dustjacket which is chipped and worn with short closed tear at botto...