Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Dead Stars: An Entertainment

Wagner, Bruce · 2012

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Blue Rider Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities, previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper and light marking to fore-edge bott...

Killing Mister Watson

Matthiessen, Peter · 1990

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Random House, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The inaugural volume in Matthiessen's fine Florida trilogy, Matthiessen's masterpiece in a long career, set in Florida at the beginning of the 20th century and amidst the ghosts of slavery, slave-...

Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick

King, Richard J. · 2019

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. and an important bibliography of Melville and Moby Dick at the end for the scholar. The author teaches at Woods Hole, MA Included with the book is the original London Revie...

London Characters and Crooks

Mayhew, Henry; Christopher Hibbert, ed. · 1996

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

London, The Folio Society, 1996. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine-looking Folio Society exemplar, a big, thick Imperial octavo format hardcover measuring 10" tall x 7" wide, with fabulously intricate black-stamped illustration to front cover, bound in khaki green,...

The Nigger of the Narcissus

Conrad, Joseph · 1965

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, The Heritage Press, 1965. . Hardcover. . A sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copy of a Heritage Press title, being a First Edition Thus. Clean, bright, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, having been preserved well in a Good condition, paper-...

The Short Stories of John Cheever

Cheever, John · 1985

$27.20 (€24.68 | £20.59 | ¥4,343)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1985. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine addition to the Franklin Library stable of former Pulitzer Prize winners, Cheever having won in 1979 for his work writing fiction. Sterling cond...

Great Expectations

Dickens, Charles · 1979

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1979. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sixteen fine illustrations by F.W. Pailthorpe. Sterling condition hardcover copy, handsomely produced as per usual Franklin Library Limited Edition standards...

Picture Writing of the American Indians, Volume One, Volume Two

Mallery, Garrick · 1972

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Dover Publications, 1972. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive softcover copies, complete in two volumes, with unfurled tips, tight bindings, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial...

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Gordon-Reed, Annette · 2008

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

New York, W.W. Norton, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. It is well known (now, with the publication of this fine genealogy and social history) that Thomas Jefferson often described the people he enslaved at his plantation in Monticello as "my family." ...

The Bone Clocks

Mitchell, David · 2014

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Random House, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Slight forward cock to spine, slight discoloration to blue paper over boards front cover, blue cloth-backed, but signs of neither odor nor dampstaining. Still good-looking, structurally sound. Dec...

War and Turpentine

Hertmans, Stefans; David McKay, translator · 2016

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Pantheon Books, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition. Another fine novel from the noted Flemish author, translated here by David McKay. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright inter...

A Natural

Raisin, Ross · 2017

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Random House, 2017. 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 "...

High Dive

Lee, Jonathan · 2015

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. First American 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 American Edition. ...

Benjamin Franklin

Van Doren, Carl · 1983

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1983. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1939, and illustrated with portraits of Benjamin Franklin. Sterling condition hardcover copy, handsomely produced as per usual ...

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Poe, Edgar Allan · 1979

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1979. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, handsomely produced as per usual Franklin Library Limited Edition standards, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean...

The Fixer

Malamud, Bernard · 1986

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Center, 1986. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine addition to the Franklin Library stable of past Pulitzer Prize winners, in this case for Literature, 1986. Illustrated also by Scott Reynolds. St...

Our Town; the Skin of Our Teeth

Wilder, THornton · 1983

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

, The Franklin Library, 1983. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine addition to the Franklin Library stable of past Pulitzer Prize winners, for Our Town, in 1938, and for The Skin of Our Teeth, in 1943. Sterling condition hardcover copy, han...

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Wilder, Thornton · 1985

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1985. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Augmented greatly by the woodcuts of Clare Leighton, a fine addition to the Franklin Library of past Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1928. Sterling condition hard...

Lord Jim

Conrad, Joseph · 1980

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1980. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The illustrations of Walt Spitzmiller make this edition of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim extra-special. Sterling condition hardcover copy, handsomely produced as ...

Greatest Plays

Chekhov, Anton · 1979

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library, 1979. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine collection of four of Chekhov's finest, best-loved plays: The Cherry Orchard; The Sea Gull; THe Three Sisters; Uncle Vanya. Sterling condition hardcov...