Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The Laughter of Dead Kings

Peters, Elizabeth · 2008

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, HarperCollins, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine Vicky Bliss novel of suspense. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, clean interior, unmarked, very lightly toned. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illust...

Moby Dick or the Whale

Melville, Herman · 1946

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

London, England, The Cresset Press, 1946. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green, recently passed at age 99. His ink-stamp at first free endpaper, else clea...

Shantaram

Roberts, Gregory David · 2003

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, St. Martins Griffin, 2003. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A big, fat, sprawling, satisfying novel set in India. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 936 pp.Mem...

The Aegean Civilization

Glotz, Gustave; M.R. Dobie, translator, E.M. Riley, translator · 1925

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, England, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1925. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Stated First English Edition, translated from the original German by M.R....

Conversations with Ian Mcewan

McEwan, Ian; Ryan Roberts, ed. · 2010

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

, University Press of Mississippi, 2010. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, less to text-block, and with slight, unobtrusive penciled markings here and there, else a perfectly readable, usable copy. Photograp...

Shadows on the Grass

Raven, Simon · 1982

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, England, Blond & Briggs, 1982 . Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and evocative English cricketing memoir, the first edition, second printing, complete with dust wrapper. Simon Raven tells of the progress of matches played at Charterhouse, Cam...

A Lot of Two (2) Frederic Raphael Works: There and Then: Personal Terms; There and Then; the Latin Lover

Raphael, Frederic · 0

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

, , . . . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A Near Fine lot of two works by by Frederic Raphael. There and Then: personal terms, 6, is a trade paperback, with 201 pp. and a full index. Illustrated card-stock covers. The Latin Lover is in hardcover format, 214 pp., blue cloth over board...

A Lot of Two (2) Mary Renault Novels in First Edition: The Praise Singer; Funeral Games

Renault, Mary · 1978

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Pantheon Books, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A lot of two (2) Mary Renault novels, both in First Edition, The Praise Singer being a stated Second Printing thereof, publishe in 1978, Funeral Games, published in 1981, being a stated First Printi...

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

Mantel, Hilary · 2003

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, England , Picador, 2003. First Edition Thus. 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 to the illustrated card-stock wrappers. Stated Firs...

The Head in the Soup

Levi, Peter · 1979

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, England, Constable, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An engaging and fine mystery deploying Ben Jonson, archaeologist by trade, in an international caper involving trade secrets and a cache of gold. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, li...

Georges Rouault 1871-1958: Catalogue Raisonne ~

1984

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.37 | ¥4,088)

Paris, France, Musee d`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. A fine catalogue raisonne of the works of the French painter Georges Rouault, held at Exposition Au Palais Des 30 Juin ~ 2 Septembre 1984, and published in...

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Chabon, Michael · 2007

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

New York, HarperCollins, 2007. First 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 ex-library, ...

Once in My Saddle

Lamson, David · 1940

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with Scribner's "A" at copyright page present. A fine and engaging social history of Northern Alberta, Canada. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in...

Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonnã© of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994

Burchette-Lere, Deborah; William C. Agee · 2011

$260.00 (€235.89 | £196.77 | ¥41,524)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover in a big, fat, heavy, tall quarto format, little discernible wear to the cloth over boards, with a bright interior, clean...

I Was Lonelyness: Complete Works of John Maufangejo

Gilmour, Pat · 1992

$144.00 (€130.65 | £108.98 | ¥22,998)

, Struik Publishers, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume comprising a catalogue raisonne, edited by Pat Gilmour, and with a Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Sumptuously illustrated quarto format, and with 262 reprodu...

Ben Sira and Demotic Wisdom

Sanders, Jack T. · 1983

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Chico, California, Scholars Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series, being No. 28, another fine contribution to the scholarship of Jewish history and Jewish culture but through Hellenistic lenses. Sterling...

The English Paracelsians

Debus, Allen G. · 1966

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Franklin Watts, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A really fine social history of science and the Old and New worlds in European medicine and scien. Five chapters, augmented with seven black-and-white plates and then also a single wood...

Greek Painted Pottery

Cook, R.M. · 1960

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, England, Methuen, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Ex-library copy but with unusually few markings thereof. Ink-stamp inside front flap, along bottom edge and top edge (which is top-stained in red), else tightly bound, attractive, clean and bri...

The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey

Pedley, John Griffiths · 2012

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy condition, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound simply in black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Plentifu...

Archaeology and the Types of Greek Coins

Gardner, Percy · 1965

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Chicago, Argonaut Publishers, 1965. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A First Edition Thus exemplar of the original 1883 edition, but with a lengthy Introduction by Margaret Thompson. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, raspberry cloth...