Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Chant de L’Amour Et de la Mort Du Cornette Christoph Rilke

Rilke, Rainer-Maria; Maurice Betz, translator · 1940

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

Paris, France, Éditions Émile-Paul Frères, 1940. First Edtion Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Translated into French from the original Austrian-German by Maurice Betz, thus a First Edition Thus. Translated into English, "The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Ri...

Quel Est le Fou?: Chansons

Pottier, Eugene · 1884

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.22 | ¥28,747)

Paris, France, Henry Oriol, Editeur, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Eugène Édine Pottier was born on October 4, 1816 and died on the sixth of November, 1887. He was "a French revolutionary, poet, song-writer, and freemason," according to his Wikipedia en...

The Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. , in Prose and Verses, with a Memoir of the Author, by John Corry, to Which Is Added a Rendering Into Simple English of the Dialogue of Tummus and Meary, with the Idioms and Similes Retained, and Explanatory Notes, Etc. , by Elijah Ridings

Bobbin, Tim · 1862

$57.60 (€52.26 | £43.59 | ¥9,199)

Manchester, England / London, England , John Heywood / Simpkin, Marshall, 1862. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, being a sturdy exemplar of The Works of Tim Bobbin, ESQ. The title page contin...

Pagan Rites in Judaism: From Sex Initiation, Magic, Moon-Cult, Tattooing, Mutilation, and Other Primitive Rituals to Family Loyalty and Solidarity

Reik, Theodor · 1964

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,322)

New York, Gramercy Publishing, 1964. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, with "a" in "number" line present. Another in a long list of works in a neo-Freudian stream of works of popular culture and psychology, colla...

This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History

Lester, Julius · 2007

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

New York, Dial Books, 2007. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A particularly fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover exemplar of the reissue of a justifiable classic in Black History. Little discernible wear to the cloth over boards covers, bright interior, unmarked. Br...

Dead Cities

Davis, Mike · 2002

$33.60 (€30.48 | £25.43 | ¥5,366)

New York, The New Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the two-tone, blue cloth over boards, blue cloth-backed, with a bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated. Stated Fir...

Old Gods New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory

Davis, Mike · 2018

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,577)

New York, Verso, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the bright-red paper over boards covers, bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated. Stated First Edition, First Printing, wit...

The Cheyenne Saddle: A Study of Stock Saddles of E.L. Gallatin, Frank A. Meanea and the Collins Brothers

Laird, James R. · 1982

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.22 | ¥28,747)

Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cheyenne Corral, Westerners International, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition, being SIGNED by the author at colophon, a sterling exemplar of the special limited edition of only 200 copies...

The Game of Golf and the Printed Word 1566-1985: A Bibliography of Golf Literature in the English Language

Donovan, Richard E. and Joseph S.F. Murdoch · 1987

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Endicott, New York, Castalio Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. An Introductory Essay by Herbert Warren Wind (!). Bound handsomely ...

Slow Hand: Women Writing Erotica

Slung, Michele, ed. · 1992

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, HarperCollins, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine collection of women's erotica, edited by Michele Slung, and with erotic writings by Susan Dooley, Jenny Diski, Wendy Law-Yone, Bea Wilder, Barbara Gowdy, Carolyn Banks, Carol Banks, Carol ...

Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image

Campbell, Mary · 2016

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,855)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered at first free endpaper, being of the recently deceased oil-based paints artist from Richland, Oregon, Richard Murray, ex- of Salt Lake...

Instructions for the Education of a Daughter

Fenelon, Salignac de la Mothe · 1721

$220.00 (€199.60 | £166.49 | ¥35,135)

London, Jonah Bowyer, 1721. Fourth Edition, Revised and Corr. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Fenelon's collected wisdom in the education of girls in particular, while preserving the innocence and virtue of their youth. The author also penned Telemachus, the Good Reverend...

Kafka and Prague

Bauer, Johann; P.S. Falla, translator · 1971

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

New York, Praeger Press, 1971. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. First English language edition, the original German being translated by P.S. Falla. 191 pp. and with an attractive but moderately worn and lightly chipped pictorial dust-jacket, ...

Music of the Spheres and the Dance of Death: Studies in Musical Iconology

Meyer-Baer, Kathi · 1970

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

Princeton, University, Princeton University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The author was the Music Director of the Music Library Paul Hirsh of Frankfurt/Main from 1922-1936. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, ...

The Robber Bride

Atwood, Margaret · 1993

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

New York, A Nan Talese Book, an imprint of Doubleday, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Trade Edition, with "1" in number line present. Winner of the 1993 Trillium Award. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, clean and unmar...

The Robber Bride

Atwood, Margaret · 1993

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, A Nan Talese Book, an imprint of Doubleday, 1993. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Trade Edition, with "1" in number line present. Winner of the 1993 Trillium Award. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, clean and...

The Hobbit: Or, There and Back Again.

Tolkien, J.R.R. · 1973

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Second Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. As fine condition an exemplar of the reprint of the Second Edition Thus as will be found. Gift-quality condition, inside and out. Bound handsomely in a dark green leatherette over boards...

Poems

Masefield, John · 1941

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, The MacMillan Company, 1941. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Poems by John Masefield, the Complete Edition with Recent Poems. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extr...

The Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America

Crouch, Tom D. · 1983

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,855)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. 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...

Tales of the Terminal

Jenkins, Dale and Frank Nagy · 2022

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

Illinois, Illinois Traction Society, 2022. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals but for previous owner's ink-stamp, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the br...