Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Rim of the Sea: Essays

Loke, William · 1984

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

San Luis Obispo, California, Wagapaw Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A fine collection of essays, "Specters in the Night on the Wing, My Father and I." "We Touch for a Moment Then Fly Off into Space, One to the Farthest Reach of Infinity, and t...

Four Years of Novel Reading: An Account of an Experiment in Popularizing the Study of Fiction

Moulton, Richard G., ed. · 1901

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boston, D.C. Heath & Co., 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Gray linen cloth over boards, black and red lettered printed label at front cover. Chapters devoted to serious rea...

Prayers Written at Vailima

Stevenson, Robert Louis · 1941

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Zodiac Books, for Chatto and Windus, 1941. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. First Edition Thus, scarce item in the trade, there being only a second exemplar available currently on-line. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but ...

The Captain's Doll

Lawrence, D.H. · 1930

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Albert and Charles Boni, 1930. First Printing Thus. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Well-preserved trade paperback-issued exemplar in colorful card stock wrappers in tan, blue and orange, lightly worn and soiled, red lettering to spine is rubbed, slight sunning along ...

Edward Lear

Hofer, Philip · 1962

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Oxford University Press, 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Simple purple softpaper wraps, in gate-fold over simple card stock, staple-bound. Interior bright, replete with illustrations. Essay based on the text of an address the author gave in ...

The Oppenheim Pictures . . Depicting Jewish Ceremonial Life

1930

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Cincinnati, Ohio , The National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Burgundy softpaper wraps, lightly sunned and worn, clean, unmarked interior, and with plentiful duotone and monotone illustrations, just as many as there...

Life and Letters, Vol. 7, No. 41, 1931: The Butler Issue

MacCarthy, Desmond · 1931

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Kingsway, England, Life and Letters, 1931. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of "The Samuel Butler Number," including unpublished extracts from the Note-Books; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Red and black printed...

D.H. Lawrence: An Indiscretion

Aldington, Richard · 1930

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Book Store, 1930. Third Printing. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Stiff, simple card-stock wraps, staple-bound, interior clean and unmarked, cover...

The Entrancing Life

Barrie, J.M. · 1930

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with publisher's "a" in ...

Margaret Fuller

Bell, Margaret · 1930

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Charles Boni Paper Books, 1930. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Pink printed, illustrated wraps, with a black-and-white likeness of the 19th century feminist. Cle...

The New Life (la Vita Nuova)

Alighieri, Dante; Dante Gabriel Rosseti, translator · 1915

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

San Francisco, California, A.M. Robertson, . Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Dampstaining at gutter of spine bottom, unobtrusive, dissipating. No date of publication, bu...

The Ballads of the Big California Woman

Keltner, Jeanie · 1982

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New Yokr, Avon Books, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A Novel in Ballads" is just that: a novel told in short chapters, each being a ballad. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining n...

A Lot of Twelve (12) Ian Mcewan Mystery Novels: On Chesil Beach; Enduring Love; the Child in Time; the Comfort of Strangers; Saturday; Amsterdam; in between the Sheets; the Cement Garden; the Innocent; Black Dogs; First Love, Last Rites; Atonement

McEwan, Ian · 2007

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

New York, Anchor Books, . . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. As uniform and Fine condition a set of Ian McEwan mystery novels as one can find, bound uniformly in illustrated cardstock wrappers, clean, unmarked interiors, without flaw, nearly gift-quality condition, first to last...

Picasso: 45 Gravures Sur Linoleum 1959-1960

Geiser, Bernhard · 1960

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Paris, France, Galerie Louise Leiris, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being currently few additional copies available on-line. A sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of an artist exhibit catalog from a major pla...

Rolito

Armando, Jeanne · 1961

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Radio City, New York, Leeds Music Corp., 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Big, tall, quarto-sized, staple-bound softpaper format, with illustrated card stock wraps, very lightly soiled, moderately worn, mostly at spine. paper over boards with red clot...

Another View of the San Francisco 1856 Vigilance Committee: Robert George Byxbee's Letter to His Sister, June 18, 1856

Nunis, Doyce B., Jr. · 2000

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

Los Angeles, California, The Zamorano Club, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A Keepsake for the Twenty-fifth Biennial Joint Meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, held in San Francisco, October 14-15, 2000. Another handsome production, this bein...

Picturesque Canada, Part 1-14

Grant, George Monro, ed. · 1882

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.25 | ¥28,744)

Toronto, Canada, Art Publishing Company, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A consecutive run of the first fourteen "Parts" of this influential travelogue and promotional publication beneficial to the Canadian government and its nascent tourist industry...

A Selection of Letters and Books by and Relating to Samuel Johnson in the Library of Loren and Frances Rothschild

Rothschild, Loren · 1986

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Pasadena, California, Loren Rothschild, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A stapled checklist of items in the personal library of a major donor to the Huntington Library and a Trustee thereof for many years. Typescript, staple-bound, including letters of Samu...

Pol Bury: Recent Sculptures

Bury, Pol · 1971

$10.40 (€9.44 | £7.87 | ¥1,661)

New York, The Lefebre Gallery, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of an artist exhibit catalog from a show sponsored by The Lefebre Gallery. Minor wear of glossy covers, less to text-block. Replete with reprodu...

Michelangelo: Architect

Contardi, Bruno and Giulio Carlo Argan · 1993

$37.60 (€34.11 | £28.46 | ¥6,004)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1993. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. First English edition, written by Giulo Carlo Argan, and Bruno Contardi provided the history, chronology and documentation for the relevant works in individual entries following each ...