The Wild Muse

Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

Graves, Robert · 1935

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Harrison Smith and Robert Haas First U.S. edition, first printing. Hard cover ex-library rebound in library cloth. Published NY: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. 8vo., 583pp., illustrated with folding tables, map. Very good. Very Good No Jacket 1st Edition 1st Printing N...

Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style inAmerican Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 (LOA #330) (Library of America)

Hofstadter, Richard · 2020

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Library of America First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Library of America, 2020. 8vo., 1047pp. Small spot at front edge of four sheets, else fine in fine dust jacket. Together for the first time: two masterworks on the undercurrents of the...

Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960: On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans / Tristessa / Lonesome Traveler / Journal Selections (LOA #174)

Jack Kerouac · 2007

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Library of America First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Library of America, 2007. 8vo., 864pp. As new in as new dust jacket. The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's On the R...

Later Novels & Stories: The Chateau / So Long / See You Tomorrow / Stories & Improvisations, 1957-1999 (LOA No. 184)

Maxwell, William · 2008

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Library of America First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Library of America, 2008. 8vo., 994pp. Marker stripe on bottom edge, else as new in as new dust jacket. On the centennial of William Maxwell's birth, here is the second volume in a two...

William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories (Loa #179)

William Maxwell · 2008

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Library of America First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Library of America, 2008. 8vo., 997pp. As new in as new dust jacket. With his second book, They Came Like Swallows (1937), William Maxwell found his signature subject matter-the fragil...

Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (LOA #59) (Library of America Sinclair Lewis Edition)

Lewis, Sinclair · 1992

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Library of America First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Library of America, 192. 8vo., 898pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no write...

Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That

Harry Mount · 2006

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Short Books Fifth printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Short Books, 2006. 8vo., 269pp., illustrated. Short, closed edge tears on four sheets, uniform toning to paper, else very good in fine dust jacket. Those endless afternoons where you struggled to rememb...

Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator

Guadalupi, Gianni · 2001

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Carroll & Graf First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Carroll & Graf, 2001. 8vo., xiii+258pp. As new in as new dust jacket. It extends 24,000 miles, farther and longer than any other measure on earth. Yet the equator is a wholly imaginary con...

Germinie Lacerteux

De Goncourt, Edmond and Jules; Ernest Boyd (intro and transl) · 1922

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Knopf First edition, first printing limited to 3,000 numbered copies, #2319. Hard cover in decorative cloth. Published NY: Knopf, 1922. 8vo., xvi+329pp. Bookplate on pastedown. Very good, clean, tight copy. Very Good No Jacket Limited Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo

Rhymes for the Irreverent

Harburg, E.Y. · 1965

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Grossman Publishers Second printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Grossman Publishers, 1965. 8vo., 97pp., illustrated by Seymour Chwast. Humorous short poems by the noted lyricist. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Near Fine Near Fine 1st Edition 2nd Printing NY 8vo

Jack London: Novels and Stories (LOA #6): The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and other stories: 1 (Library of America Jack London Edition)

London, Jack · 1982

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

The Library of America First edition, second printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Library of America, 1982. 8vo., 1021pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Near Fine Near Fine 2nd Printing NY 8vo 1021

Crime Novels of the 1960s: Nine Classic Thrillers (A Library of America Boxed Set)

O'Brien, Geoffrey · 2023

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Library of America First edition, first printing. Hard covers in dust jackets and slipcase. Published NY: Library of America, 2023. 8vo., 1900pp. 2 volumes. As new in as new dust jackets and slipcase. 9 timeless novels, including 4 lost classics now restored to print. In th...

It Can't Happen Here

Lewis, Sinclair · 1935

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)

Doubleday, Doran & Co First edition, first printing. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Garden City, NY:Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1935. 8vo., 458pp. Black cloth with blind embossed cover design, gilt spine titles. Spine lettering rubbed, some wear at the spine ends and tips,...

Tomás Nevinson: A novel

Marías, Javier · 2023

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Knopf First American edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY:Knopf, 2023. 8vo., 641pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. The final novel from Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited...

O Albany!: An Urban Tapestry

Kennedy, William · 1984

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Viking Sixth printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1984. 8vo., xii+402pp., illustreated with b/w photos. Very good in very good dust jacket. An historical profile of the capital of New York documents the neighborhoods, ethicity, culture, society, and col...

Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture

Lukacs, John · 1988

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Weidenfeld & Nicholson First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1988. 8vo., xiv+255pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Closed tear along length of flyleaf, else very good in near fine dust jacket. Very Good Near Fine 1st Edi...

Ray Farabee: Making It Through the Night and Beyond [SIGNED}

Farabee, Ray · 2008

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Rockingham Books Signed first edition, first printing. Softcover. Published Rockingham Books, 2008. 8vo. wrappers, illustrated with b/w photos. xi+322pp. Inscribed by author on title page. Mild cover curl, else fine. Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing 8vo 336

A Ghost in Trieste

Cary, Joseph · 1993

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

University of Chicago Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 8vo., xi+289pp., illustrated with drawings by Nicholas Read. Fine in fine dust jacket. SynopsisGem of the Adriatic, Trieste sparkled a...

Patagonia: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination)

Moss, Chris · 2008

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Oxford University Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. 8vo., xxii+299pp. As new in as new dust jacket. As New As New 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 299

The Tuesday Club Murders: A Miss Marple Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection)

Christie, Agatha · 2007

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Black Dog & Leventhal Pub First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, 2007. 8vo., 256pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. The unifying premise for this short story collection is the Tuesday Club: six people who meet socially on...