Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Palestine Sixty Years Later: Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank 2008-2009

Suarez, Thomas · 2010

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Riverside, California, Americans for Middle East Understanding, 2010. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Square softcover format, a stated Second Edition exemplar, replete with black-and-white and full-color photographs. Full-color pictorial card-stock...

Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition

Barr, Alfred H., Jr. · 1957

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1957. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of an artist exhibition catalogue, minor wear of covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly re...

Illiberal America: A History

Hahn, Steven · 2024

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner's bookplate at first free endpaper. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustr...

Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion

Dalai Lama · 1996

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Rizzoli International, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Photographs by Phi...

Alamein to Zem Zem

John Waller, G.S. Fraser, J.C. Hall, eds. · 1974

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

New York, Chilmark Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Lawrence Durrell provides the Introduction to this fine account by Keith Douglas of the tank-fighting at Alamein and the offensive that finally drove the Germans out of Africa. Edited by John Wa...

After the Trail of Tears: The Chreokees' Struggle for Sovereignty 1839-1880

McLoughlin, William G. · 1993

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Fifth Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers (faint sticker residue on back), less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor hig...

The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945-1992

Dickey, James · 1992

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Hanover, New Hampshire, Wesleyan University Press, by the University Presses of New England, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. . Another fine contribution to the Wesleyan Poetry Series, and this copy is SIGNED by the author (1923-1997) and inscribed warmly to one of his finest s...

Ummer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son

Dickey, Christopher · 1998

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The personal copy of a student of James Dickey, with her bookplate at first free endpaper. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Fine-looking, structu...

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back

Moore, Kate · 2022

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Sourcebooks, 2022. . 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. From the publisher's blurb, "From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wal...

Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being

Fitzgerald, Sally, ed. · 1979

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, but a perfectly readable, usable copy. Lightly toned interior. Extensive penciled notations at final two blank leaves...

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard & Isabel Burton

Lovell, Mary S. · 1998

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1998. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A truly fine, staggering biography of two giants of 19th-century travel and exploration. Stated First American edition, and First Printing thereof number line starting with 1. Fine-...

Coasting

Raban, Jonathan · 1986

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, England, Collins Harvill, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A brilliant memoir of a 1982 trip the author took to sailing 2,100 miles to and throughout the British Isles. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright ...

Palimpsest: A Memoir

Vidal, Gore · 1995

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Random House, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "...

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

Uglow, Jenny · 2017

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Faber & Faber, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the decorated, pictorial covers, burgundy cloth-backed, and with sewn-in silk linen ribbon. Apparently unread...

Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing

Cocker, Mark · 1992

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Pantheon Books, 1992. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the two-tone, tan cloth over boards, light brown cloth-backed, bright and shiny dust jacket, evocative and pict...

Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby

Wolff, Geoffrey · 1976

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Random House, 1976. 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. Handsomely bound in light mustard cloth over boards, design stamped...

A Companion to Greek Studies

Whibley, Leonard, ed. · 1963

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

New York, Hafner Publishing Company, 1963. Fourth Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the burgundy cloth over boards, gilt lettering over black label at spine, bright, clean, tightly boun...

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798, Complete in Eight Volumes

Casanova, Jacques · 1940

$188.00 (€170.58 | £142.31 | ¥30,021)

Edinburgh, Scotland, Printed for the The Limited Editions Club by R. & R. Clark, 1940. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Eight excellent condition exemplars of an important set of 18th-century memoirs and that look great on the shelf. Now fully anno...

An Unhurried View of Erotica

Ginzburg, Ralph · 1958

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, The Helmsman Press, 1958. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Ralph Ginzburg pens a fine, accessible survey, he having also been a publisher, and...

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, the Venetian Years; Paris and Prison

Jacques Casanova de Seingalt; Arthur Machen, translator · 1959

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

New York / London, England / Toronto, Canada, G.P. Putnam's Sons / Elek Books / Longman, Greens & Co., . Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A stated first, complete, unexpurgated English Edition (from the translation by Arthur Machen), being two volumes of t...