Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The Heart of Black Papua

Merlin Moore Taylor · 1926

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Stated First Edition, published in May 1926. Forward cock to spine, rubbed gilt letteri...

Social Stratification in Polynesia

Sahlins, Marshall D. · 1958

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic work of structural-functionalism by an acknowledge master ethnographer, this being his reworking of his 1958 Ph.D. dissertation. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardco...

Planetes, Tome Un

Bosquet, Alain and Bruno Durocher, eds. · 1954

$156.00 (€141.54 | £118.08 | ¥24,911)

Paris, France, Edition-Imprimerie des Poetes, 1954. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the field, there being no additional copies available on-line currently, and Worldcat dot org shows no current availability in any library, either. Sterling conditi...

Memoirs of Count Grammont, Complete in Three Volumes

Hamilton, Count A. · 1809

$132.00 (€119.76 | £99.91 | ¥21,079)

London, England, T. Bensley, 1809. Second Edition, revised. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Fine-looking set of three hardcover volumes, remarkably handsome of exterior, still bright interiors, clean and unmarked. Translated from the French, with Notes and Illustrations, being ...

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

Otis, James · 1930

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1930. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Loving Christmas gift inscription at first free endpaper, else a clean, tightly bound, unmarked copy of this fetching young adult novel, bound handsomely in bright red cloth over boards, black lettering t...

The Channel Islands

Carey, Edith F. · 1924

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

London, A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1924. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound simply in blue cloth over boards, square and tight, with black lettering to spine and fro...

Three Years in California

Colton, Walter · 1859

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

New York, S. A. Rollo & Co., 1859. Later Printing. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound simply in publisher's brown cloth in octavo hardcover format, decorative blind-stamped title, etc., to spine,...

Faces in the City

Kavanaugh, James · 1972

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Los Angeles, California, Nash Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall. Fancy duotone pictorial paper over boards of this short oblong hardcover format collection of poetry, a stated First Edition, with a Good condition illustrated pa...

Troubling a Star

L'Engle, Madeleine · 1994

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994. 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. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Another fine Y.A. novel in the ...

Sweet Tooth

McEwan, Ian · 2012

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, A Nan Talese Book / Doubleday, 2012. 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...

Rain Gods

Burke, James Lee · 2009

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 2009. 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, ...

Erotique: Masterpieces of Erotic Photography

Ashton, Rod · 1999

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Carlton, 1999. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of the stated first reprint edition, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 224 pp. of exquisite black-and-white and...

Fortune, Volume VII, No. 6, June, 1933

Luce, Henry, ed. · 1933

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

New York, Fortune Magazine, 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Published in First Edition state in New York in 1933, being the June issue for that year, a fine-looking exemplar of an issue of the premiere art and culture magazine at the height of the De...

The Book of Strange New Things

Faber, Michel · 2014

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

London, Hogarth, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound copy of the stated First Edition, a novel that really sits up and barks. Half-dystopian, half-utopian; the magnum opus of any but the most talented writers, this being hi...

The Habit of Loving

Lessing, Doris · 1957

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Award the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, this being a fine collection of 17 short stories. First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal ru...

Collected Translations: Italian French Spanish Portuguese

Smith, William Jay · 1985

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

St. Paul, Minnesota, A New Rivers Abroad Book, New Rivers Press, 1985. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound softcover, bound simply in pictorial wraps, light foxing to fore- and top-edges. 150 pp. including notes and a full index. Augented als...

Army Brat

Smith, William Jay · 1980

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Persea Books, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound hardcover, bound simply, signed by the poet at title page, inscribed warmly to two friends, thusly: "For Elise and Richard, this chronicle of my youth, with love a...

Celebration at Dark

Smith, William Jay · 1950

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Farar, Straus and Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound hardcover, bound simply, signed by the Poet Laureate at title page, inscribed warmly to two friends, thusly: "For Elsie and Richard, these early effo...

The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The True Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II

Shandler, Nina · 2006

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

New York, De Capo Press, 2006. . 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. From the publisher's blurb, "Shandler resurrects explores the unanswer...

A Lot of Five (5) Duotone Photographs from the Men of Character and Achievement Series from the Rice Foundation Society

Rice Foundation Society · 1930

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Houston, Texas, Rice Foundation Society, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A lot of five (5) duotone photographs (one signed) in the Men of Character and Achievement series compiled by the Rice Foundation Society for the Rice Leaders of the World As...