Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Cavafy: A Critical Biography

Liddell, Robert · 2002

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Duckbacks, 2002. Reissued Edition, First Edition . Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Reissued and with new biographic and editing content by Peter Mackridge. A perfectly serviceable reference copy in mass market paperback format; nothing fancy, but complete and stur...

Skeleton Man

Hillerman, Tony · 2004

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, HarperCollins, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Handsomely bound in two-tone, gray paper over boards, stamped illustration to front cover, copper lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not ...

Harvard College Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books

Mortimer, Ruth (compiler) · 1974

$108.00 (€97.99 | £81.73 | ¥17,248)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Two big, heavy, tall, oversized volumes in quarto hardcover format, comprising the two volumes that make up Part II of the Italian 16th Century B...

Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929

Meckel, Richard A. · 1990

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,577)

Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. 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. A fine exemplar...

Charon's Daughter: A Passion of Identity

De Forêt, Nancy Cummings · 1977

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,577)

New York, Liveright, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine, interesting collage of creativity by the daughter of e.e. cummings, assembled by Nancy Cummings de Foret, including the final eight poems of her beloved father. Trade paperback format, stated...

Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2

E. Annie Proulx · 2004

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor...

Memoir from Antproof Case

Helprin, Mark · 1995

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive copy, inside and out, with little discernible wear to the brown cloth over boards beyond bumping to spine head and foot, tiny dents to board bottom, unobtrusive. B...

The Tale of the Body Thief

Rice, Anne · 1992

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. B.O.M.C.. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition but that was a Book-of-the-Month club selection. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for light foxing along top ed...

Unless

Shields, Carol · 2002

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Random House, 2002. 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, w...

Canada

Ford, Richard · 2012

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Ecco / HarperCollins, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Richard Ford's finest novel, set in the Western landscape. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little wor...

Let Me Be Frank with You

Ford, Richard · 2014

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Ecco, an Imprint of HarperCollins, 2014. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very ...

The Moor's Last Sigh

Rushdie, Salman · 1995

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Pantheon Books, 1995. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another dense and captivating novel from the recently stabbed author under long-term fatwa in Iran, the author of The Satanic Verses and the Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children. Th...

The New Practical Navigator; Being an Epitome of Navigation; Containing the Different Methods of Working the Lunar Observations, and All the Requisite Tables Used with the Nautical Almanac. In Determining the Latitude and Longitude; and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea: Illustrated by Proper Rules and Examples: The Whole Exemplified in a Journal Kept from England to the Island of Teneriffe;...

Moore, John Hamilton; Nathaniel Bowdith, ed. · 1800

$720.00 (€653.23 | £544.89 | ¥114,988)

Newburyport, Massachusetts, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800. The Second American Edition from. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. No matter the "mistakes" and litany of necessitated corrections . . . John Hamilton Moore's (1738-1807) profoundly influential treatise of navigation and na...

The Last Trial

Turow, Scott · 2020

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Grand Central , 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Yet another powerful novel set in Kindle County. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the two-tone paper over boards, black cloth-backed, bright and shi...

The Pillars of the Earth

Follett, Ken · 1989

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, William Morrow & Company, 1989. First Edition. . Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. A big, fat, sprawling novel, and just as sprawling of size and heft, bound in an Imperial octavo hardcover format, simp...

The Shape Shifter

Hillerman, Tony · 2006

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, HarperCollins, 2006. 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. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with ...

The Plains of Passage

Auel, Jean M. · 1990

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Crown Publishing, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. The fourth volume in the so-called Earth's Children series by the beloved author Jean M. Auel. Set in present-day Euro...

October Light

Gardner, John · 1976

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Third Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Third Printing of the First Edition, a nice-looking, structurally sound hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge...

Gone Fishin'

Mosley, Walter · 1997

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Baltimore, The Black Classic Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond skinny remainder mark along bottom edge...

Bone by Bone

Matthiessen, Peter · 1999

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,577)

New York, Random House, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The capstone to the trilogy of Matthiessen's recreation of the life of the legendary E.J. Watson, who was gunned down by a posse of fearful neighbors just before World War One (Killing Mister Wats...