Structure, Verses, Agency Books

A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana

Storm, Colton · 1968

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.37 | ¥4,088)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume comprising a uniquely valuable and useful reference tool to the collection, preservation and use of Western Americana. Bound handsomely in a brick...

Of Gods and Men

Frederic Raphael · 1992

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

London, The Folio Society, 1992. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Augmented with the lovely illustrations from the paintings by Sarah Raphael, a sterling condition exemplar of a fine contribution to Greek myth and folklor, a hardcover copy bound in illu...

Guilt and Sin in Traditional China

Eberhard, Wolfram · 1967

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The author, a noted Sinologist for several decades, looks particularly at shan-su literature to reveal emotions and conflicts in traditional Chinese personality. Stur...

Anglo-American First Editions 1826-1900: East to West: Describing First Editions of English Authors Whose Books Were Published in America Before Their Publication in England

Brussel, Isidore Rosenbaum · 1981

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Sol Lewis, 1981. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bound uber-sturdily in green buckram cloth, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Introduction by Graham Pollard, a quite treatise partly about piracy and copyright history. Reprints the scar...

Dohaschtida "I Will Not

Harders, Gustav; Alma Pingel Nitz, translator · 1958

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Milwaukee, Northwestern Publishing House, 1958. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Translated for the author by Alma Pingel Nitz from the original German, being a novel by a Lutheran Mission missionary built upon his work in the 19-teens among the Apach...

Darkness Visible

Golding, William · 1979

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An engrossing novel, a fine story of Matty, who survived the London blitz as a very young boy, who became orphaned and horribly scarred, disfigured, and whose life and future i...

Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Musician

Wallace, Daniel · 2007

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Doubleday, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. SIGNED by the author at title page, being warmly inscribed to a fan. Gift inscription opposite. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruise...

The Breaker

Walters, Minette · 1998

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, Macmillan London Limited, 1998. First Edition. . . SIGNED by the author at title page. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not...

Man in the Gray Flannel Suit II

Wilson, Sloan · 1984

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Arbor House Publishing Company, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and ed...

The White Gallery

McClellan, Douglas · 1993

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Santa Cruz, California, Many Names Press, for the author, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. SIGNED by the author, being warmly inscribed to the former owner, Richard L. Press, of Sacramento, California. Simple white printed wraps, an edition of only 300 copie...

Baudolino

Eco, Umberto · 2000

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Harcourt, 2000. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition, having been translated from the original Italian by William Weaver. A little tank-like exemplar, bound handsomely in aquamarine cloth over boards. A superior cop...

The Cunning Man

Davies, Robertson · 1995

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, The Viking Press, 1995. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ...

The Witch of Exmoor

Drabble, Margaret · 1996

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1996. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition, with "a" in "number" line present. Bound in an olive-drab green cloth over boards format, light bumping to, scuffing of spine head and foot, ...

Alfred Kazin: A Biography

Cook, Richard M. · 2007

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Hartford, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Jewish literary critic Alfred Kazin was at the time of his death in 1998 one of the most prominent intellectuals of post-war America. Heavy focus on the journals that Kaz...

The Death of the King's Canary

Thomas, Dylan, with John Davenport · 1977

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, The Viking Press, 1977. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition Thus, with Errata sheet laid in that says "On the front flap of the jacket, the information concerning the composition of The Death of the King's Canary should read: 'In 193...

De Alfonce Tennis: The Superlative Game of Eccentric Champions - Its History, Accoutrements, Rules, Conduct & Regimen

Donleavy, J. P. · 1985

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, E.P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlinin...

Working Men: Stories

Dorris, Michael · 1993

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Henry Holt, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Short story collection including "The Benchmark," "earnest Money," "Qiana," "Name Games," "Groom Service," "Anything," "The Vase" and others. S...

The Island of the Day Before

Eco, Umberto; translated by William Weaver · 1995

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1995. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. After a violent storm in the South Pacific (the year is 1643), Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked." Thus opens a bracing novel, a stated First American Edition, with ...

Seek My Face

Updike, John · 2002

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of Mr. Richard L. Press, formerly of Richard L. Press Fine Art Books of Sacramento, California. Stated First Edition, a sterling condition hardcover copy of Updike's 2...

Ireland: Industrial and Agricultural; Handbook for the Irish Pavilion, Glasgow International Exhibition, 1901

Coyne, William P., ed. · 1901

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

Dublin, Ireland, Alexander Thoma & Co. (Limited) for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine introduction to the work of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instructions for Ireland, edited by William P. Coyne, ...