Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Erma Jaguar (No. 2)

Varenne, Alex; Elizabeth Bell, translator · 1991

$15.20 (€13.79 | £11.51 | ¥2,427)

New York, Catalan Communications, 1991. First English Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. First Printing of this First English E...

Jane Freilicher

Kertess, Klaus · 2004

$108.00 (€97.99 | £81.75 | ¥17,246)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Introduction by John Ashbery, and a long essay by Thomas Nozkowski to augment this loving, due homage to the important New York artist, best known and loved for her lush skylines and still li...

Walter Crane Hazelford Sketch Book: A Sampler with Autobiographical Notes from the Manuscripts in the Caroline Miller Parker Collection in the Harvard College Library

1937

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, John Barnard Associates, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine sampler of duotone and black-and-white illustrations by Walter Crane (1845-1915), an English graphic artist, and Introduction by Caroline Miller Dabney Parker (...

Life Before Man

Atwood, Margaret · 1979

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, McLelland and Stewart, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author Margaret Atwood at the half-title. Margaret Atwood would later win the 1993 Trillium Award and a number of others. A superior copy inside and out, bei...

Samtliche Werke

Buchner, Georg; Paul Stapf, ed. · 1961

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Berlin, Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1961. . Hardcover. . Particularly attractive exemplar of the German language collection of representative texts, comprising the broad range of Georg Buchner's plays. Bound in thin blue paper over boards, moderately sunned along edges, gray c...

Goethe's Werke, in Four Volumes

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Stapf, Paul, ed. · 1404

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Berlin, Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Particularly attractive set of four volumes, German language texts, comprising the broad range of Goethe's interests, from plays to criticism, poetry to novels, biographical sketches to philosophy. Bou...

Mountain Man

Bright, Verne · 1949

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Press, 1949. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Verne Bright (born in 1893) was an Oregon author of poetry who also worked as a newspaper reporter and English teacher. An extensive collection of his work is available that collected cor...

A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium; Revelations of the Medieval World; Passions of the Renaissance; from the Fires of Revolution to the Great War; Riddles of Identity in Modern Times

Aries, Philippe and Georges Duby, general editors · 1987

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press, at Harvard Univeristy, . First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A justly celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, revealing in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world and up to thro...

Bridge of Clay

Zusak, Markus · 2018

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, penned by the author of The Book Thief, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highligh...

Chicago

Mamet, David · 2018

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

, Custom House, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition, First Printing stated, with "1" in number line present, and SIGNED by the author at title page. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised ti...

A Child's Garden of Verses

Stevenson, Robert Louis · 1926

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, David McKay, 1926. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, bound in olive-drab green cloth, pictorial paper illustration pasted, inset, being one of plentiful illustratio...

Kangra Valley Painting

Randhawa, M.S. · 1954

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Delhi, India, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. From the personal library of Raymond A. Hare, whose black-and-white bookplate graces inside front flap, and apparently a presentation copy to Arthur Hare from Arthu...

Tracings: A Book of Partial Portraits

Horgan, Paul · 1993

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Racy, revealing, fascinating portraits (partial) of Greta Garbo, Vachel Lindsay, Somerset Maugham, Peter Hurd, Michelangelo, T.S. Eliot and other literary luminaries and artists. Sterlin...

The Secret Supper

Sierra, Javier · 2004

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Atria Books, 2004. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First English Edition, translated by Alberto Manguel, a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-...

Pechuck: Lorne Knight's Adventures in the Arctic

Montgomery, Richard G · 1948

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 1948. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A rousing, accessible tale of arctic travel and exploration. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with n...

And Sometimes I Wonder About You

Mosley, Walter · 2015

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Doubleday, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present, being another welcomed Leonard McGill mystery. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showi...

Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains; Performed in the Years 1819, 1820

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. · 1906

$224.00 (€203.23 | £169.55 | ¥35,770)

Cleveland, Ohio, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1906. Reprint . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. But for two round and faint scuffs to front cover of first volume, particularly nice-looking exemplars of the four- volume run, reprinted from Volumes XIV, XV, XVI and XVII of Thwaites's...

Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait

Baker, Carlos · 1996

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Viking, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Carlos Baker's magnum opus, published just posthumously, focusing on the 19th Century Romantics and environmentalists including Ralph Waldo Emerson but also Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Am...

Shaken Realist: Essays in Modern Literature in Honor of Frederick J. Hoffman

Friedman, Melvin J. and John B. Vickery · 1970

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. As fine and nice-looking a as a 50-years-old festschrift as you'll ever find. From the personal library of the Sacramento-based bookseller Richard L. Press, a for...

Birds of Paradise

Abu-Jaber, Diana · 2011

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, W.W. Norton, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page, being inscribed "For Chris, you have a great Dad." Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. A 13-yearold street kid in Miami and his scrounging for...