Brookline Village Books

Shelley : An Essay

Thompson, Francis · 1912

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Portland, Maine, Printer for Thomas B. Mosher, 1912. Hardcover. xviii, 67 pages ; 19 cm. Good condition, backstrip pulled and partial missing Limited edition of 900 copies.

English Literature : The Eighteenth Century

Blickensderfer, Joseph P., editor · 0

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

New York, Scribner's, c1929. Hardcover. xxii, 511 pages ; 17 cm. Very good condition .

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated Into English by Edward Fitzgerald

Omar Khayyam · 1910

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

New York, Barse & Hopkins, [1910?]. Hardcover. 55 pages ; 22 cm. Very good conditon .

The Prophet

Gibran, Kahlil · 1975

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. 93rd printing. Hardcover. 96p. Very good condition, owner's name on endpaper .

Byron, an Autobiographical Anthology. [Introduction by Gilbert Phelps]

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron · 1974

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Fenstation, Grasshopper Press, 1974. Hardcover. 126 p. ; 24 cm. Good condition, spine rubbed Limited ed. of 250 copies .

Das Buch Der Bilder

Rilke, Rainer Maria · 1931

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

Leipzig, Insel Verlag, 1931. Hardcover. 173 [2] p. 19cm. Very good condition Colophon: Druck des 32. bis 34 tausends von der Spamerschen Buchdruckerei in Leipzig.

Six Historical Episodes, from the Radio Script Echoes of New York Town, Presented Every Sunday Evening from 6 to 7 P.M. Over Station Wjz

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, inc. · 1936

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

New York, 1936. Paperback. 56 p. illus. incl. port. 26 cm. Good condition, covers worn Contents: Last battle of the Revolution.--In spite of the devil.--The old merchant s house.--Jumbo.--Captain Randall s will.--James Fenimore Cooper.

Pocahontas... By Helen W. Ludlow; Marginal Illustrations by Laban Baird (Te-Yu-Stel-la-Te)

Ludlow, Helen W. (Helen Wilhelmina) · 0

$33.00 (€29.94 | £24.98 | ¥5,270)

[Hampton, Va.] , Hampton Institute Press, c1907. Paperback. [18] p. illus. plates. 22 cm. Ill.: Laban Baird. Very good condition .

Where the Sidewalk Ends : The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein

Silverstein, Shel · 0

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Harper & Row, c1974. Hardcover. 166 [10] p. illus. 23 cm. Very good condition hv .

The Conquest of Canäan : A Poem, in Eleven Books / by Timothy Dwight.

Dwight, Timothy · 1785

$230.00 (€208.68 | £174.09 | ¥36,728)

Hartford, Printed by Elisha Babcock, 1785. Hardcover. [8], 304, [2] p. ; 18 cm (8vo). Very good condition. in full contemporary calf References: Evans 18996; BAL 5040; ESTC W30488; Sabin 21554 First edition of this ambitious epic poem by Timothy Dwight (1752–1817), a prominent...

Merry Christmas, Baby : A Christmas and Kwanzaa Treasury / Edited by Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell

Woods, Paula L. & Liddell, Felix H. · 0

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

New York, HarperCollinsPublishers, c1996. Hardcover. xvii, 221 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. Very good condition/good.

Chinese Rhymes for Children, with a Few from India, Japan and Korea, Translated and Edited by Isaac Taylor Headland... Illustrated by Sui Wesley Chan.

Headland, Isaac Taylor · 0

$98.00 (€88.91 | £74.18 | ¥15,649)

New York, Fleming H. Revell company, c1933. First edition. Hardcover. 156 p. illus. 23 cm. Inscribed by the author "To Mrs Finn, who started me on this work. Ill.: Sui Wesley Chan//. very good condition, slightly cocked A charming compilation of children's rhymes from East Asi...

Enjoyment of Literature

Powys, John Cowper · 1938

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1938. 1st Am. ed. Hardcover. 522 p. Very good condition/worn.

Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself

Loving, Jerome · 0

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

Berkeley, Calif. Univ. of California Press, c1999. Paperback. 545p. Very good condition Advance reading copy signed by the author for James.

The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree : An Appalachian Story / by Gloria Houston ; Pictures by Barbara Cooney.

Houston, Gloria · 0

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, c1988. 3rd printing. Hardcover. [32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. Ill.: Barbara Cooney. Very good condition/good.

The Cat Whose Whiskers Slipped. Decorated by Ve Elizabeth Cadie

Campbell, Ruth · 0

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

New York, The Wise-Parslow company, [c1938]. Hardcover. [126] p. col. illus. 25 cm. Ill.: Ve Elizabeth Cadie. Very good condition A charming children's storybook that tells the whimsical tale of a mischievous cat whose adventures captivate readers of all ages. Ruth Campbell's ...

Sign Talk; a Universal Signal Code, without Apparatus, for Use in the Army, the Navy, Camping, Hunting, and Daily Life...

Seton, Ernest Thompson · 1928

$167.00 (€151.52 | £126.41 | ¥26,668)

Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1928. 1st edition . Hardcover. 238p. illus. Signed by the author for J.E. Leavett. Ill.: Ernest Thompson Seton. Very good condition, top corner lightly bumped Seton, a notable naturalist, writer, and founder of the Boy Scouts of America,...

Judas, or, the Betrayal; a Play in One Act with Prologue and Epilogue, by the Author of Nisi Dominus.

Pepler, H. D. C. (Hilary Douglas Clarke) · 1926

$282.00 (€255.86 | £213.45 | ¥45,032)

Ditchling, Sx. S. Dominic's Press, 1926. Hardcover. 3 p.l. 15 p. 1 l. 20 cm. Ilustrated t.-p. by David Jones. Ill.: David Jone. very good condition, in edge worn black goat No. 29 of an edtion of 200.

Bronson Alcott at Alcott House, England, and Fruitlands, New England (1842-1844) by F.B. Sanborn.

Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin) · 1908

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Cedar Rapids, Ia. The Torch press, 1908. Hardcover. 103 p. illus. 23 cm. very good condition, bottom of 1/4 inch of spine lacking Arare glimpse into the ideals and practicalities of 19th-century transcendentalist communities, making it valuable for historians, literary scholar...

American ÆSop; Negro and Other Humor

Pickens, William · 1926

$98.00 (€88.91 | £74.18 | ¥15,649)

Boston, The Jordan & More press, 1926. Hardcover. 183p. frontis. 20cm. Very good condition Signed by the author for Thomasina Johnson [Thomasina Walker (Norford) Johnson] the First Black woman to serve as a Registered Lobbyist in Washington, D.C. She served as Legislative Repr...