Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Hand to Mouth

Auster, Paul · 1997

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, tightly bound, clean copy with little discernible wear to exterior beyond remainder mark along top edge. Bright and shiny dust jacket, not price-clipped, a clearly unread c...

The Long Fall

Mosley, Walter · 2009

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Riverhead Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The first Leonid McGill mystery by the acknowledged master of urban detective thrillers and mystery novels. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extr...

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Rushdie, Salman · 1991

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Viking Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine collection of literary critical essays covering a wide variety of topics, including the novels of Rudyard Kipling, critical reactions to Midnight's Children, "Outside the Whale," "'Co...

Bernard Shaw: A Biography--the Search for Love (Volume 1); the Pursuit of Power (Volume 2)

Holroyd, Michael · 0

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,065)

New York, New York, Random House, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound set of two hardcover copies, little discernible wear to the two-tone covers, handsomely bound, with silver lettering to covers and spines, with bright inter...

Christopher Isherwood: Liberation--Diaries 1970-1983

Christopher Isherwood; Katherine Bucknell · 2012

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

New York, Harper, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. SIGNED by the editor, "For Robert [Allen, the Altadena, California-based bookseller and appraiser], with admiration and many thanks--fondly Kate 20 Nov. 2012." SIGNED above also by perhaps another coll...

Christopher Isherwood: The Sixties--Diaries 1960-1969

Christopher Isherwood; Katherine Bucknell · 2010

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

New York , Harper, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A big, fat, heavy, oversized volume, the second set of diaries in the trilogy thereof, edited and with Introduction by Katherine Bucknell, and with a Foreword by Christopher Hitchens. This volume open...

A Lot of Five (5) Contributions to the Mermaid Series: George Farquhar; Christopher Marlowe; John Dryden, in Two Volumes; Sir John Vanbrugh

Archer, William; Havelock Ellis; A.E.H. Swain; George Saintsbury · 1887

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, . . Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. The Mermaid Series was published by Vizetelly & Co.; T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd.; Ernest Benn, Ltd.; Charles Scribner's Sons; A.A. Wyn, Inc.; from 1887-1966. This is a serviceable lot (with no dates of publication lis...

A Guide to Trollope

Gerould, Winifred Gregory and James Thayer Gerould · 1976

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,043)

London, The Trollope Society, 1976. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to illustrated covers, gray and black, floral patterns galore, and particularly sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spi...

Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World

Nathan, Rhoda B., ed. · 1986

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Greenwood Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Rhoda B. Nathan has edited this fine, scholarly compendium of 19th-century women writers and provides a bibliographic essay at book's end. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little dis...

Dorothy L. Sayers: A Biography

Brabazon, James · 1981

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,043)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Initial endpaper clipped, else a clean, tightly bound, bright of interior examplar as can be found of this fine and accessible biography of the beloved Dorothy Leigh Sayers. Bound hands...

Such a Strange Lady: A Biography of Dorothy Sayers

Hitchman, Janet · 1975

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, chipped along edges, sunned a bit at spine...

A Lot of Works About Thomas Hardy: Hardy's Use of Allusion; Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928; Hardy's Wessex Re-Appraised, Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy, the Nature Novel from Hardy to Lawrence; Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form; the Second Mrs. Hardy; the Poetry of Thomas Hardy: A Study in Art and Ideas; Hardy: An Illustrated Dictionary

Springer, Marlene; Dennis Taylor; Denys Kay-Robinson; Rosemarie Morgan; John Alcorn; Penny Boumelha; Penny Boumelha; William E. Buckler; Alan Hurst · 1983

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

, , . . . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound set of nine (9) works about the poetry and prose of Thomas Hardy, seven in hardcover format, two in softcover. Some moderate foxing of fore-edges here and there, a few bumped tips here and there, else clean,...

The Shimmering Maya and Other Essays

Brosman, Catharine Savage · 1994

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing in fresh glossy black leatherette boards, tightly bound and clean and unmarked of interior, gilt titles to spine. Catharine Savage B...

The Play of the Eyes

Canetti, Elias · 1986

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in two-tone, turquoise cloth over boards, oatmeal cloth-backed. Bright and shin...

John Crowe Ransom; Critical Essays and a Bibliography

Ransom, John Crowe; Thomas Daniel Young, ed. · 1968

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the lime-green cloth covers, gilt lettering over green label, bright interior, unmarked, ap...

Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein

Brenda Wineapple · 1996

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A big, fat, accessible social history of the Stein family and of two of its more prominent members. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and sh...

Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond

Lycett, Andrew · 1996

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Atlanta, Georgia, Turner Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound handsomely in two-tone...

Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of West 86th Street

Kresh, Paul · 1979

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, The Dial Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Slight torque to spine, else handsomely bound in gray linen cloth, sharp and distinct blue lettering...

The Colophon: A Quarterly for Bookmen, New Series

Adler, Elmer, Alfred Stanford and Jhn T. Winterich, eds. · 1935

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, The Pynson Press, for The Colophon, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine looking exemplar of the first volume of the New Series of the influential house organ for bookmen (and women) everywhere, with articles about Burt Emmett (by Sherwood An...

Personal Remarks

Strong, L.A.G. · 1953

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,043)

New York, Liveright Pub Co, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Orange cloth boar...