Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The Beast

Houghton, Claude · 1936

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.45 | ¥10,220)

Belfast, Ireland, Quota Press, 1936. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Special Limited Edition, being Number 242 of 250 numbered copies, multiply signed, a gorgeously illustrated copy that is signed at the Page of Limitation by artist, illustrator ...

Gedeon Mecano

Rabier, Benjamin · 1929

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

Paris, France, Librairie Garnier Freres, 1929. Reprint. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Unpaginated, but 24 leaves (= 48 pages); 139 color illustrations, thumbnails and full pages, quite lovely. Pictorial paper over boards, red cloth-backed, covered now in plastic jacket...

Re/Search #4/#5

Vale, V. and Andrea Juno, eds. · 1982

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

San Francisco, California, Re/Search Publications, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Ring in the New Year with a Very Good condition copy of the iconic double issue of RE/Search devoted near wholly to William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, and Brion ...

Jean-Francois Millet: Painter-Etcher

Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer · 1814

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Frederick Keppel & Co., . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. No date of publication but c...

Manuelo's Narrative: California Three Hundred and Fifty Years Ago, Translated from the Portuguese by a Pioneer

A Pioneer · 1888

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

San Francisco, Samuel Carson & Co., 1888. . Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with lightly bruised and scuffed tips, neat and tidy paste-downs, and decorated endpapers; not ex-library, with neither highligh...

Philip Mavor; or, Life Amongst the Kaffirs

Kingston, William H.G. · 1860

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, . . Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. Publication date not given, but probably mid 1860s, and the first edition was published in 1865 a...

York Minster

Purey-Cust, A.P. · 1897

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London1897, Isbister & Co., Ltd., 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A sweet, cute little homage to a church in York. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned, minimal rubbing to extremities, bound as a small octavo, marbled p...

Letters of Junuis, in Two Volumes, Volume I

Junius · 1800

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, Printed by C. Whittingham for Vernor & Hood et al., 1800. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Published in 1800, an apparent later edition, with Stat Nominis Umbra under fine title vignette. Short 24mo in hardcover format, rubbed and edge-scuffed leathe...

Memoirs of Elizabeth Collins

Collins, Elizabeth · 1833

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Uriah Hunt, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Cute, little pocketbook-sized memoir by a leading member of the Quaker faith, the Society of Friends. 153 pp., measuring es. 6" x 3 1/2" in height and width, respectively. Soiled ...

Ballads

Thackeray, W.M. · 1857

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1857. Reprint. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a very early reprint edition, the first edition having been published the year prior; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Brown cloth over boards, crackin...

The Smart Set

Carl R. Dolmetsch · 1966

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

, The Dial Press, . . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Compiled in 1966 but based upon articles drawn originally from the 1900-1930 period, with stories, plays, and verse by James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Mill...

The Audubon Book of True Nature Stories

Terres, John K., ed. · 0

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Bonanza Books, . Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, sunned at spine, chipped along top edge, pr...

The Middle Ages: The Old English Period (to 1100) & the Middle English Period (1100-1500)

Malone Kemp; Albert C. Baugh · 1948

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Two books-in-one, an apparent First Edition, with title page, Preface, Table of Contents, List of Abbreviations. Scuffing to blue cloth at spine, top edge, else an internally cle...

Rueful Death

Albert, Susan Wittig · 1996

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine China Bayles mystery. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jack...

The Oxford Companion to French Literature

Harvey, Paul and J.E. Heseltine, eds. · 1959

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Oxford, England, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Clean pale blue dust jacket with mild wear...

The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fifth Edition

Drabble, Margaret, ed. · 1985

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 1985. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition hardcover copy of a stated Fifth Edition, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not e...

Mary of Nimmegen: A Fascimile Reproduction of the Copy of the English Version in the Untington Library

Ayres, Harry Morgan and Adriaan Jacob Barnouw · 1932

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1932. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This prose romance, originally printed about 1518-19, and reproduced here from the unique copy in the Huntington Library, is the only version in English, and t he o...

The Smart Set

Carl R. Dolmetsch · 1966

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

New York, The Dial Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Compiled in 1966 but based upon articles drawn originally from the 1900-1930 period, with stories, plays, and verse by James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawren...

English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (Xivth Century)

Jusserand, J.J. · 0

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, . Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Printed by the Gresham Press, for T. Fisher Unwin. Publication date not listed, but an Eighth Edition of the original First Edition, translation from the French of J.U. Jusserand by Lucy Toulmin. Au...

Etchings and Engravings: What They Are, and Are Not, with Some Notes on the Care of Prints

Short, Frank; revised with notes on woodcuts and wood engravings by Malcolm Osborne · 1952

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

London, The Print Collectors' Club, 1952. Revised Third Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in red cloth over boards, gilt lettering ...