Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Volume I, 1971

Katz, Joseph, ed. · 1971

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The inaugural edition of a fine series published to enable the work of bibliographers and textual studies mavens everywhere, and from the personal library of ...

American Fiction 1876-1900: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography

Wright, Lyle H. · 1972

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

San Marino, California, Huntington Library, 1972. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Strains of a familiar America echo in the 6,175 titles of this bibliography encompassing a brilliant quarter century of fiction writing." Fine-looking, structurally sound ha...

American Fiction, 1851-1875: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography--Additions and Corrections Appended

Wright, Lyle H. · 1968

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

San Marino, California, Huntington Library, 1968. Revised. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the rich burgundy colored cloth covers, still sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, with a bright interi...

A Primer of Book Collecting

Winterich, John T. and Randall, David A. · 1966

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Bell Publishing Company, 1966. Third Revised Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if moderately and evenly toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, prote...

The Founding Documents of Los Angeles: A Bilingual Edition

Nunis, Doyce B., Jr., ed. · 2004

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Los Angeles, California, Zamorano Club and Historial Society of Southern California, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder...

First Printings of American Authors: Contributions Toward Descriptive Checklists, Volume 1, 2, 3, 4

Bruccoli, Matthew J. and C.E. Frazer Clark, Jr., eds. · 1979

$148.00 (€134.28 | £112.02 | ¥23,634)

Detroit, Michigan, Gale Research Company, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volumes, four of them. An indispensable collection of four of the five volumes of the influential compendium of American authors and first edition, f...

Christopher Isherwood: Liberation--Diaries 1970-1983

Christopher Isherwood; Katherine Bucknell · 2012

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

New York, Harper, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. SIGNED by the editor, "For Robert [Allen, the Altadena, California-based bookseller and appraiser], with admiration and many thanks--fondly Kate 20 Nov. 2012." SIGNED above also by perhaps another coll...

Christopher Isherwood: The Sixties--Diaries 1960-1969

Christopher Isherwood; Katherine Bucknell · 2010

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York , Harper, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A big, fat, heavy, oversized volume, the second set of diaries in the trilogy thereof, edited and with Introduction by Katherine Bucknell, and with a Foreword by Christopher Hitchens. This volume open...

The Old Man's Place

Sanford, John [Julian Shapiro] · 1935

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

New York, Albert and Charles Boni, 1935. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The second novel of the Jewish-American novelist, set in the post-World War I Adirondacks of upstate New York, a story that centers on the criminal gang of game poachers there. "John Sanford" is the...

The Color of Air: Scenes from the Life of an American Jew, Volume 1

Sanford, John [Julian Shapiro] · 1985

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Santa Barbara, California, Black Sparrow Press, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. John Sanford" is the name of the protagnonist of the novel published in 1933 in The Water Wheel, by Julian Shapiro, and Shapiro took on the pseudonym then and there. Sturdy...

A Walk in the Fire

Sanford, John [Julian Shapiro] · 1989

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Santa Rosa, California, Black Sparrow Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. John Sanford" is the name of the protagnonist of the novel published in 1933 in The Water Wheel, by Julian Shapiro, and Shapiro took on the pseudonym then and there. Fine-look...

Crooked Hallelujah

Ford, Kelli Jo · 2020

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Grove Press, 2020. 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. From the publisher's blurb, "It’s 1974 in t...

Sacred Clowns

Hillerman, Tony · 1993

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, HarperCollins, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine Tony Hillerman novel set on the Navajo reservation and featuring Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unma...

A Very Good Land to Fall with: Scenes from the Life of an American Jew, Volume 3

Sanford, John · 1987

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Santa Rosa, California, Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the printed, decorated covers beyond forward cock to spine, else with a bright interior, unmarked. Publi...

Textual Vision: Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture

Erwin, Timothy · 2015

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 2015. 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. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition. SIGNED by the au...

The Dawson 80: A Selection of Distinguished Southern California Books Made by Members of the Book Collectors of Southern California

Robinson, Stuart, ed. · 2007

$220.00 (€199.60 | £166.52 | ¥35,131)

Los Angeles, California, The Book Collectors of Southern California, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Dawson 80 represents the eighty publications that best capture the history and spirit of Southern California up to 1920" (Foreword, by S.F.R., the ...

Hunting Badger

Hillerman, Tony · 1999

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, HarperCollins, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Illustrated dust wrapper, protected by Brodart, but price-clipped. Bound handsomely in a two-tone c...

The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D. , with Memoirs of His Life and Writings, the Fifth Edition, Volume II, IV, V, VI

Smollett, Tobias; Robert Anderson, ed. · 1817

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

Edinburgh, Scotland, Duncan, Stevens, & Co., for Silvester Doig & Andrew Stibling; Peter Hill & Co.; John Fairbairn, Edinburgh; W. Otridge; Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy; R. Scholey; G. Cowie & Col.; M. Fenner; B. Reynolds; W.H. Reid, London; Wilson & Sons, ork; and Johnston & Deas,...

The Iliad of Homer, Volume II, V, VI

Homer; translated by Alexander Pope · 1720

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,136)

Between the Temple-Gates, London, Printed for J. Belttenham for Bernard Lintot, . Second Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Three odd volumes from the stated Second Edition of six volumes, published in London in the 1720s. Short tomes measuring 6" tall x 4 1/2"...

California and Californians, Salesman's Dummy

Rockwell D. Hunt · 1930

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Chicago, Lewis Publishing, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Salesman's dummy for the eventual four-volume work of California-based social history of California and Californians. The full set feature Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez's "The Spanish Period," "T...