Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles 1935-1970

Bowles, Jane; Millicent Dillon, ed. · 1985

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Santa Barbara, California, Black Sparrow Press, 1985. 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. Light toning to spine, edges, else...

The Marble Threshing Floor

Sherrard, Philip · 1956

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

London, England, Vallentine, Mitchell, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Dark green cloth over boards, some edgewear, some light scuffing to edges, bumping to spine head and ...

Collected Poems, 1944-1979

Amis, Kingsley · 1979

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Viking Press, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Chip missing to the printed paper dust-wrappers, else complete and not price-clipped. Bound simply in two-tone, pumpkin cloth over boards, brown cloth-backed. Clean, bright and unmarked o...

The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Hopkins, Gerard Manley; W.H. Gardner and N.H. MacKenzie, eds. · 1990

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1990. Fourth Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers beyond Sharpied price-sticker on rear panel, less wear to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlight...

The Art of Translating Poetry

Selver, Paul · 1966

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, England, John Baker, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities. Black cloth over boards, with gilt lettering to spine. [9], 10-122 pp.Member, I.O.B.A.,...

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity

Goldhill, Simon · 2011

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, but from the library of a noted scholar, the classicist, Peter Morris Green, and thus heavily not...

Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain

Louis, William Roger · 1995

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England / Austin, Texas, U.S.A., I.B. Tauris Publishers / Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright in...

Children of the Sun: A Narrative of "Decadence" in England After 1918

Green, Martin · 1976

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Basic Books, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Children of the Sun" is how Martin Green dubs the brilliant and influential generation of young men who, following the conclusion of W.W.I., refused to become fathers, husbands and heads of househo...

Thames: The Biography

Ackroyd, Peter · 2007

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Anchor Books, 2007. 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. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs. S...

Sing Sorrow: Classics, History, and Heroines in Opera

Marianne McDonald · 2001

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Westport, Connecticut , Greenwood Press, 2001. . . . Another fine addition to the Contributions to the Study of Music & Dance series, published by Greenwood, 2001, in stated First Edition, First Printing state, and SIGNED by the author at title page, being inscribed warmly to ...

Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

Dundes, Alan and Carl R. Pagter · 1975

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1975. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Laid in is an extremely funny two items . . . Another fine contribution to the Publications of the American Folklore Society series. Bound simply in orange cloth over boards and spine with br...

Against All Reason

Moorhouse, Geoffrey · 1969

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, England, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine journalistic appreciation, a quasi-ethnography of Catholic Church communities, especially Cistercian monks. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but comp...

Here and There, Volume I, II, III and IV

Perkins, Hayes · 1970

$220.00 (€199.60 | £166.52 | ¥35,131)

, Self-published by the family, . Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no additional copies available for purchase on-line currently. Virtually As New condition set of four volumes of the Hayes Perkins memoir, thus absent...

Historical Inevitability

Berlin, Isaiah · 1957

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1957. Second Reprinting. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated second reprinting from 1957 of the original 1955 publication of this Auguste Comte Memorial Trust Lecture, No. 1. 2nd impression, 1957. This is a transcript of a lectu...

The Family, Women and Death: Comparative Studies, Second Edition

Humphreys, S. C. · 1993

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1993. Second 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, though with sunning to spine. ...

Night Letters: A Journey Through Switzerland and Italy

Dessaix, Robert; edited and annotated by Igor Miazmov · 1997

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Uber-scarce in the trade, being the only copy SIGNED by the author, in this case, in his shaky hand at title page, being inscribed to the previous owner, the Classics expert, Peter Morri...

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Patron and Politician

Kibler, William W., ed. · 1976

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brown cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but with a tape-repaired dust-jacket, else complete and not...

Craft of the Ancient Historian: Essays in Honor of Chester G. Starr

Eadie, J.W. and Josiah Ober, eds. · 1985

$68.00 (€61.70 | £51.47 | ¥10,859)

Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and engaging festschrift devoted to the scholarship and teachnig of Chester G. Starr. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. ...

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

Macintyre, Ben · 2010

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Harmony Books, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. . Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, clean, unmarked, minimal rubbing to extremities. From the publisher blurb, "In his celebrated bestsellers, Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable...

The Calumny of Apelles: A Study in the Humanist Tradition

Cast, David · 1981

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustr...