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These Precious Days: Essays

Patchett, Ann · 0

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, HarperCollins, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author of this fine collection of literary essays, being inscribed warmly to "Ted" and dated. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shin...

These Precious Days: Essays

Patchett, Ann · 2021

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, HarperCollins, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author of this fine collection of literary essays, being inscribed warmly to "Ted" and dated. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and ...

Inheritance of Horses

Kilgo, James · 1994

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page, inscribed warmly there to the previous owner in full. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior...

Out of Place: A Memoir

Said, Edward W. · 1999

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An imposing, brilliant, rich autobiography from the noted Palestinian literary critic, ranging from his birth in Jerusalem in 1935 to the schools he attended in Cairo, Egypt to the holidays he ...

Ummer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son

Dickey, Christopher · 1998

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The personal copy of a student of James Dickey, with her bookplate at first free endpaper. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Fine-looking, structu...

Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being

Fitzgerald, Sally, ed. · 1979

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, but a perfectly readable, usable copy. Lightly toned interior. Extensive penciled notations at final two blank leaves...

Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays

Eco, Umberto · 1986

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, for Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in gray cloth over boards, "UE" b...

Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays

Eco, Umberto · 1986

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

San Diego, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but for some...

The Biography of Alice B. Toklas

Simon, Linda · 1977

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Co., 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner's penned signature at first free endpaper. Bright and shiny du...

Conversations with Ian Mcewan

McEwan, Ian; Ryan Roberts, ed. · 2010

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

, University Press of Mississippi, 2010. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, less to text-block, and with slight, unobtrusive penciled markings here and there, else a perfectly readable, usable copy. Photograp...

Dead Philadelphians

Frost, Frank · 1999

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Santa Barbara, California, Capra Press, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. A fine novel of Greek-American ancestry an...

Foreign Words

Alexakis, Vassilis · 2006

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Iowa City, Iowa, Autumn Hills Books, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine memoir of and in travel to and immigration from paris to Greece to the Congo, and in translation from the original Greek to English by Alyson Waters. Sterling condition softcov...

Laundry

Adam, Suzane; Becka Mara McKay, translator · 2008

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Iowa City, Iowa, Autumn Hill Books, 2008. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine novel of and in immigration from a village in Transylvania to Israel. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing onl...

Hide & Seek: The Story of a Wartime Agent

Fielding, Xan · 2013

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Paul Dry Books, 2013. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Stated First Edition Thus. 19 bla...

Flaubert's Parrot

Barnes, Julian · 1985

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition, a fine, fine, engrossing novel by the incomparable author Julain Barnes. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior...

A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Fruge on University Publishing

Fruge, August · 1993

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Berkeley, California, University of California, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author and inscribed warmly to the former owner, the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green, now of Iowa Cit...

One Fat Englishman

Amis, Kingsley · 1960

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, England, Victor Gollancz, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in red cloth over boards, sunned at spine and a bit to edges, else sturdy, tightly bound, clean, lig...

Take a Girl Like You

Amis, Kingsley · 1960

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1960. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Light foxing to top edge. Mustard cloth over boards,...

The Complete Ronald Firbank

Firbank, Ronald; Anthony Powell · 1961

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, England, Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, being a First Edition Thus edition, compiling the entirety of the works of Ronald Firbank and with ...

Farewell My Lovely

Chandler, Raymond · 1982

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, England, Heron Books, 1982. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Nice-looking, structurally sound copy of the Heron Press reprint edition of Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely, bound in a creamy red cloth over boards, gilt-stamped designs ruling and borde...