Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Laughing Death: The Untold Story of Kuru

Zigas, Vincent · 1990

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Clifton, New Jersey, Humana Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Foreword by D. Carleton Gajdusek. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Forest green...

Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific

Fortune, Reo · 1932

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in the original publisher's grayish-blue cloth, bumping to spine head and foot, tips, but not broke...

Handbook for Conducting Research on Human Sexuality

Wiederman, Michael W. and Bernard E. Whitely, Jr., eds. · 2002

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,136)

Mahwah, Nj, Lawrence Erblaum Associates, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade, being only three additional copies available on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only ...

Light Through Darkness

Michaux, Henri · 1963

$128.00 (€116.13 | £96.89 | ¥20,440)

New York, The Orion Press,, 1963. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, bright interior, lightly worn and soiled grey cloth covers, still sharp white and gold lettering to front cover and spine, minimal rub...

Haste to the Wedding

Comfort, Alex · 1962

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, a collection of then new, coherent poems from the English poet, poems of love and sensuality and private pleasure and delight. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcove...

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters

Hubbard, Elbert · 1900

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. As per usual, a fine and accessible lesson in art history in the form of little artist biographical monographs, bound in a flexible suede over boards, sharply and deeply gilt-stamped brown...

Selected Poems

Childe, Wilfred Rowland · 1936

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn and a bit soiled, ...

Folle Avoine Page-Chevalier

Bourg de Thizy · 1945

$33.60 (€30.48 | £25.43 | ¥5,365)

Lyon, France, Editions Optic, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Publisher's cardboard, vignette on the cover. An artistic rendition of the medieval legend of the young â€oeFolle Avoine” and Princess Jehanne. Plentiful vignettes printed in duotone and...

Le Paysan: Dans L'Oeuvre de J. -F. Millet

Roger-Miles, L. · 1895

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Paris , Georges Petit / Flammarion, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Published in Paris jointly by Camille Flammarion and Georges Petit in 1895, bound in an attractive for...

A Lot of 23 Volumes Written by Johann Gottfried Von Herder

von Herder, Johann Gottfried · 1820

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.25 | ¥28,744)

Carlsruhe, Germany, Im Bureau der Deutschen Classiker, . . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A lot of 23 volumes from a larger, more complete set of the works of Johann Gottfried von Herder, Historischer Schriften, etc., published in Carlsruhe, Germany in 1820-1821. 23 volumes on...

Heinrich Heine's Sã¤Mmtliche Werke, 22 Volumes in 11

Heine, Heinrich · 1861

$116.00 (€105.25 | £87.80 | ¥18,524)

Hamburg, Germany, Hoffmann und Campe, . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A First Edition Thus set, a sturdy, attractive exemplar, tightly bound in hardcover format in two-tone, dark blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering, decorations at spines, with gilt...

Goethe, Werke: Vollstã¤Ndige Ausgabe Letzter Hand. 1827-1830, 56 of 61 Volumes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von · 1749

$380.00 (€344.77 | £287.63 | ¥60,681)

Tubingen, Germany, J.G. Cotta, . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. An incomplete but considerable collection (56 volumes out of the original 61), wholly in German, the First Edition Thus, the â€oepocket edition" of the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

Dantons Tod: Ein Drama, Mit 18 Kolorierten Federzeichnungen Nach Der Auffã¼Hrung Des Deutschen Theaters Zu Berlin Von Ernst Stern

Büchner, Georg · 1917

$96.00 (€87.10 | £72.66 | ¥15,330)

Berlin, Erich Reiss, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Handsomely bound in oatmeal cloth over boards, white vellum-backed spine, with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Light wear to spine, light cracking to front joint at spine bottom. With ...

Obscenities: A Bummer

Casey, Michael · 1972

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New Haven, Connecticut , Yale University Press, 1972. Third Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Third Printing of this addition to the Yale Younger Poets series, a sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, ...

Kinfolks

Cobb, Ann · 1922

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Printed for Houghton Mifflin by the Riverside Press in New York. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Decorative clo...

Poems

Calkins, Clinch · 1928

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Presumed First Edition but not so stated. 69 pp.. No dust jacket as issued, but pictorial paper covered boards, rubbed and worn a bit, chipping to spine head but still attractive, and with pape...

Academie de France a Rome, Ses Directuers Ses Pensionnaires, Tome I, Tome II

Alaux, Jean-Paul · 1938

$92.00 (€83.47 | £69.64 | ¥14,691)

Paris, Aux Editions Duchartre, 1938. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. This is a sturdy, tightly bound copy of the First Edition, published by Duchâtre, Paris, 1933, complete in two volumes, being bound in a tall, heavy quarto format. The illustrated, simpl...

Darwin and the Naked Lady

Comfort, Alex · 1962

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, George Braziller, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First American Printing of this valued collection of essays about poetry and biology, life and evolution. Contents include "On Hard and Soft Centres"; "Darwin and Freud"; "Phoebus and Pan"; "T...

Modern Ballads and Story Poems

Charles Causley (Editor) · 1965

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Franklin Watts, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine collection of the work of poets such as Edith Sitwell, Thomas Blackburn, David Wright, Robert Graves, Edwin Muir and many others. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, gene...

Person to Person

Ciardi, John · 1964

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. John Ciardi (1916-1986) provides here a collection of poems from his later work, having fallen out of favor as a poet in the 1970s and '80s. Sturdy, attractive, tightl...