Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Utamaro and Hiroshige: In a Survey of Japanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts

Howard A. Link · 1976

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Tokyo, Japan, Otsuka Kogeisha, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Bound attractively as a pictorial softcover, publi...

Japanese Genre Painting from the Kyusei Atami Art Museum

Link, Howard A. · 1980

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980. First Edition. 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. Black-and-white and ful...

Holbein Der Jã¼Ngere

Knackfus H. · 1896

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Bielefeld und Leipzig, velhagen & klasing, 1896. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. German language throughout, a sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfect...

English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century

Sutherland, James · 1969

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Oxford, England, The Clarendon Press, 1969. 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. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately...

Backwater Voyage

Binns, Archie · 1934

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

New York, Reynal & Hitchclock, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. DOUBLE-SIGNED by both the author and artist, at first free endpaper, by the artist, "To Lucile and Billy from Edward & Dorothy," being No. 28 of a Limited Edition of only 200 such copies, a...

King Jesus

Graves, Robert · 1946

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Creative Age Press, Inc., 1946. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. A likely First American Edition. Forward cock to spine, oatmeal cloth covers, gilt-decoration s...

The Family Reunion: A Play

Eliot, T.S. · 1939

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A possible very early reprinting of the First Edition, though with "1939" stated at copyright. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, min...

John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey

Ludington, Townsend · 1980

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, First Printing, bound handsomely in a big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format, two-tone blue and white cloth, silver lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, ill...

This Invisible Riot of the Mind: Samuel Johnson's Psychological Theory

Gross, Gloria Sybil · 1992

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Produced handsomely in brick-red cloth over boards. B...

A History of the Eragny Press 1894-1914

Genz, Marcella D. · 2004

$15.20 (€13.79 | £11.51 | ¥2,427)

New Castle, Delaware / London, England, Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. An unusually handsomely produced copy in hardcover format, bound in brown cloth and with gilt lettering to spine. Published in First Editio...

Report on the Atom

Dean, Gordon · 1953

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. What you should know about the Atomic Energy Program of the United States." Stated First Edition, First Printing. Very handsomely produced in blue cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine, ...

Literature and Medicine During the Eighteenth Century

Roberts, Marie Mulvey and Roy Porter, eds. · 1993

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

London and New York, Routledge, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Marie Mulvey Roberts and Roy Porter, noted historians, have edited a fine collection of learned essays about the relationship between literature and medicine in the 18th century in England...

A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

Nicholas A. Basbanes · 1995

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1995. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An uncommonly fine-looking, structurally sound trade paperback copy, little discernible wear to the exterior, bright, gilt illustrated covers, with a bright interior, unmarked. Handsomely bound, a le...

Year in, Year out

Milne, A.A. · 1951

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1951. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The black-and-white illustrations by E.H. Shepard greatly augment this fine and delightful survey of the wit and wisdom of the beloved A.A. Milne, almost memoirish essays, what Milne calls...

A Medieval Bestiary

Elliott, T.J.; introduced and translated by · 1971

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Boston, David R. Godine , 1971. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Handsomely produced in small quarto hardcover format, bound in two-toned cloth, dust jacket, fully intact, mildly worn, a bit sunned at spine, sans slipcase. Designed and printed in ...

The Atom

Thomson, G.P. · 1930

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A cute little tome, another fine contribution to the series, The Home University Library, penned by George Paget Thomson. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Bound in light blue c...

Nuclear Physics in Peace and War

Hodgson, Peter E. · 1961

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Hawthorn Books, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another contribution to the series, 20th Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism, edited by Henri Daniel-Rops, being Volume 128 under Section XIII, Catholicism and Science. Sturdy, attractive, tight...

The Catch, and Other Short Stories

Dalzell, James · 1865

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

Belfast, Ireland, The Quota Press, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Exceedingly scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available on-line currently. First Edition, bound in what appears to be publisher's original pebbly bluish-green ...

Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Cawley, A.C., ed. · 1962

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, England / New York, New York, J.M. Dent / E.P. Dutton, 1962. . Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Another fine contribution to the Everyman's Library, being #346 in the series, a perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in r...

A Man without Shoes

Sanford, John · 1951

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

Los Angeles, California, The Plantin Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. SIGNED Presentation Copy. "John Sanford" is the name of the protagonist of the novel published in 1933 in The Water Wheel, by Julian L. Shapiro, and Shapiro took on the pseudo...