Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Bookbinding in Early America: Three Essays

French, Hannah D., Joseph W. Rogers, and Helmutt Lehmann-Haupt · 1941

$236.00 (€214.12 | £178.60 | ¥37,691)

Portland, Maine, The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no copies available on-line currently of this First Edition and that is SIGNED by by the first of its three authors, Hannah D. Fren...

Bookbinding in Early America: Seven Essays on Masters and Methods

French, Hannah D. · 1986

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Worcester, American Antiquarian Society, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. With catalogues of bookbinding tools prepared by Willman Spawn. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slig...

Death in Holy Orders

James, P.D. · 2001

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked, bound handsomely in two-tone, paper over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine, cloth-backed. Bright a...

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Chabon, Michael · 2007

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, HarperCollins, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, ...

The Flight of the Silvers

Price, Daniel · 2014

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Blue Rider Press, by Penguin, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. SIGNED by the author in a silver Sharpie at title page. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacke...

Master Humphrey's Clock: Includes the Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge

Dickens, Charles · 2019

$220.00 (€199.60 | £166.49 | ¥35,135)

London, Chapman and Hall, . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable set, complete in three volumes, of the first appearance in book form of an early Charles Dickens title previously published in serial fashion; nothing fancy, but comple...

Any Given Day

Lehane, Dennis · 2003

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, William Morrow, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine condition copy in hardcover format of the stated First Edition, First Printing state. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. The first line of...

The Crown of Columbus

Dorris, Michael and Louise Erdrich · 1991

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Mauve endpapers. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. This husband-wife...

A Piece of My Heart

Ford, Richard · 1987

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

London, Collins Harvill, 1987. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page. Stated First U.K. Edition, the true First Edition having been published in the U.S. in 1976. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition ha...

The Divan-I-Hafiz

Hafiz; H. Wilberforce Clarke, ed., transl. · 2007

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

New York, Ibex Publishers, 2007. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Translated for the first time out of the Persian into English prose, with critical and explanatory remarks, with a Preface, with a note on Sufism, and with a life of the author, by Lieut-Col...

The Mammoth Cod & Address to the Stomach Club

Twain, Mark (Samuel Longhorn Clemens); Gershon Legman, ed. · 1976

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Maledicta Inc., 1976. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Unique in the trade, this Special Limited Edition being copy #93. A cute little copy of an important book, and from the personal library of Gershon Legman and as sold to me by h...

Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism 1902-1934

Bowlt, John E., editor and translator · 1976

$56.00 (€50.81 | £42.38 | ¥8,944)

New York, The Viking Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-librar...

African Folktales & Sculpture, the Bollingen Series, Volume XXXII

Radin, Paul, ed. · 1972

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.37 | ¥4,088)

Princeton, New Jersey, Pantheon Books for Bollingen Foundation, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine-looking, structurally sound copy of the original, true First Edition Thus state, the thirty-second volume in the influential Bollingen Series...

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Eggers, Dave · 2000

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Simon & Schuster, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. It's on my Top-Ten list. Stated First Printing of the First Edition. Bound handsomely in two-tone, gray paper over boards, burgundy cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, sho...

When Will There Be Good News?

Atkinson, Kate · 2008

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Little, Brown and Co., 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Perhaps my favorite of the Jackson Brodie novels, being the third that feature, the "disgraced" ex-homicide detective, private dick, and also lottery winner. He doesn't need the money, ei...

Purity

Franzen, Jonathan · 2015

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Anot...

Life After Life

Atkinson, Kate · 2013

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, A Reagan Arthur Book, an imprint of Little, Brown, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for the previous owner's ink-stamp. Black cloth-over-boards ...

Life After Life; a God in Ruins

Atkinson, Kate · 2013

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

, A Reagan Arthur Books / Little, Brown, . Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Two perfectly serviceable Reprint Edition copies in hardcover, cloth-over-boards format, sharp and distinct lettering to spines. Bright and shiny dust jackets, illustrated, little w...

L" Is for Lawless

Grafton, Sue · 1995

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery, Book 12 in the infamous Sue Grafton alphabetic series. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Sterling condition hardcover...

Poetry, Volume CXX, No. 6, September, 1972: Poetry Against the War

1972

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Poetry, 1972. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An issue of a premier poetry magazine, Poetry, founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, this being an anti-war issue, with contributions by, among others, Richard Hugo, Philip Levine, William Stafford, Arthur Gregor, Geoffrey ...