Brookline Village Books

Conversations with a Clown

Welzenbach, Michael · 0

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,075)

New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, c1991. 1st printing. Hardcover. 210 p. Author's first book . Very good condition/good.

The Redress of Poetry

Heaney, Seamus · 1989

$46.00 (€41.73 | £34.82 | ¥7,343)

London, Faber & Faber, c1995. 1st edition 1st printing. Hardcover. 213p. Very good condition/good d.j. "The ten lectures reprinted here were first delivered in the course of my tenure as Professor of Poetry at Oxford between 1989 and 1994"--Pref.

The Promise

Potok, Chaim · 1992

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 1st edition . Hardcover. 211 p. Very good condition/good.

Philip of Spain

Kamen, Henry · 0

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

New Haven, Yale University Press, c1997. 1st printing. Hardcover. 384p. illus. Very good condition/good.

Laurel Leaves: Original Poems, Stories, and Essays...

Gill, William Fearing, ed. · 1876

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,301)

Boston, William F. Gill & Co. 1876. Hardcover. 446p. illus. BAL 116 (A. Bronson Alcott) Holiday annual with first appearances of some authors . Good condition .

The Man in the Ceiling

Feiffer, Jules · 0

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,075)

New York, HarperCollins (Harper Collins), c1993. Later printing. Hardcover. 185p. illus. Very good condition/good, Illus. by the author.

John Hancock, His Book

Brown, Abram English · 1898

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1898. Hardcover. 286p. illus. Very good condition A biography of John Hancock with transcriptions of many documents and letters written by Hancock.

The Standard Book of Bidding. Introduction by W. Somerset Maugham

Goren, Charles H · 1945

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1945. Hardcover. 299 p. Good condition; edges worn .

The Queen Mother's Horses

Herbert, Ivor · 0

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

London, Pelham Books, c1967. 1st edition . Hardcover. 244p. illus. Very good condition/good.

What Cheer: An Anthology of American and British Humorous and Witty Verse Gathered, Sifted, and Salted, with an Introduction

McCord, David, ed. · 0

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

New York, Coward-McCann, c1945. Hardcover. 515p. Good condition .

Life and Heroic Deeds of Admiral Dewey...

Young, Louis Stanley & Northrop, Henry Davenport · 1899

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,629)

Boston, James H. Earle, [1899]. Hardcover. 544p. illus. In pictorial boards . Good condition; boards worn! some plates scribbled! thin paper .

Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women of the Home Front

Litoff, Judy Barrett & Smith, David C., eds. · 1991

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

New York, Oxford University Press, 1991. 1st printing. Hardcover. 293p. illus. Very good condition/good.

Meet General Grant

Woodward, W. E. (William E.) · 1928

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

New York, Literary Guild, 1928. Hardcover. 512p. illus. Good condition; spine faded .

Hunting Lieutenant Chadborne

Corder, Jim W · 1822

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,629)

Athens, Univ. of Georgia Press, c1993. 1st printing. Hardcover. 169 p. Account of the author's search for information about Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne (1822-1846), killed in the Mexican War. Very good condition/good.

The American Indian Craft Book

Minor, Marz & Nono · 1978

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,629)

Lincoln, Univ. of Nebraska Press, [1978]. Hardcover. 416p. illus. Illus. & photographs by the authors. Very good condition/good.

Mexico: A Study of Two Americas

Chase, Stuart in collaboration with Marian Tyler · 1937

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

New York, Macmillan, 1937. reprint ed. Hardcover. 338p. illus. 17 full-page B/W drawings. Ill.: Diego Rivera. Ex-Library in good condition in fair d.j./fair.

Mexico: A Study of Two Americas

Chase, Stuart in collaboration with Marian Tyler · 1931

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,075)

New York, Literary Guild, 1931. Hardcover. 338p. illus. Illus. include frontis. in color & 16 full-page B/W drawings. Ill.: Diego Rivera. Good condition; spine worn! brown cloth w/ blind-stamped cover .

The American Hoyle; or, Gentleman's Hand-Book of Games, Containing All the Games Played in the United States...

Dick, William Brisbane · 1892

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1892. 15th edition . Hardcover. 514p. Very good condition! lacking half-title .

The Threepenny Opera. In the English Version by Desmond Vesey with the English Lyrics & a New Introduction by Eric Bentley

Brecht, Bertolt · 2000

$173.00 (€156.96 | £130.95 | ¥27,617)

New York, Limited Editions Club, c1982. Hardcover. Oversize 155p. illus. One of 2000 copies, signed by the illustrator & by Eric Bentley. Printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress, Hadley, Mass. Ill.: Jack Levine. Very good condition, in slipcase, slipcase edges worn .

Francois Valentijn's Description of Ceylon. Translated and Edited by Sinnappah Arasaratnam

Valentijn, Francois · 1978

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

London, Hakluyt Society, 1978. Hardcover. 395. illus. Hakluyt Society, 2d series, vol. 149. A selection from the 5th volume of his Old & New East Indies, based on 1685-94 voyages. Very good condition/good.