The Wild Muse

Catalina

Maugham, W Somerset · 1948

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Doubleday & Company Hard cover book club edition. Published Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1948. 8vo., 275pp. Very good. Very Good No Jacket Garden City, NY 8vo

Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts

Kundera, Milan · 1995

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

HarperCollins First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: HarperCollins 1995. 8vo., 280pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a small impression on the rear panel. Examines the art of fiction, focusing on the literature's history, its structure, a...

Skytip

Reed, Eliot (pseud. of Eric Ambler and Charles Rodda) · 1951

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1951. 8vo., 222pp. Black cloth with pink spine titles. Paper age-toned, small tape ghos...

The Din in the Head: Essays

Ozick, Cynthia · 2006

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. 8vo., 243pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing Boston 8vo 243

Wodehouse On Crime: A Dozen Tales of Fiendish Cunning (Library of Crime Classics)

P. G. Wodehouse · 1990

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Intl Polygonics Ltd First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Intl Polygonics Ltd, 1990. 8vo., xvii+282pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Fine Near Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 282

The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life

Fisher, Len · 2009

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Basic Books First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Basic Books, 2009. 8vo., xx+260pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 288

The Battle of Wagram

Lapouge, Gilles · 1988

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New Amsterdam Books First U.S. edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: New Amsterdam Books, 1988. 8vo., 344pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Near Fine Very Good 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 344

Properties of Light: a Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics

Goldstein, Rebecca · 2000

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Houghton Mifflin First edition, third printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 8vo., 244pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine Fine 1st Edition 3rd Printing Boston 8vo 244

Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine)

Andre Malraux · 1984

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Random House First edition thus, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Random House, 1984. 8vo., 359pp., illustrations by Madeline Sorel . Marker stripe on top edge. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Malraux's novel of the 1927 conflict between the Chine...

Andrew Marvell (The Oxford Authors)

Marvell, Andrew; Kermode, Frank (ed.) · 1990

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Oxford University Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. 8vo., xvi+362pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing Oxford 8vo 362

The Little(r) Museums of Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Hidden Gems

Jacobs, Emma · 2019

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Running Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover issued without dust jacket. Published Philadelphia: Running Press, 2019. 8vo., 192pp., illustrated in color. Small bump to corners. Near fine. Near Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing Philadelphia 8vo 192

THE EMPIRE OF REASON: HOW EUROPE IMAGINED AND AMERICA REALIZED THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Commager, Henry Steele · 1977

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Anchor Press Doubleday Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Garden City, NY: Anchor Press Doubleday, 1977. 8vo., xiv+342pp. Very good in good dust jacket. The foremost American historian of his generation delves into the nation's European origins, illuminating how the new co...

The Kennel Murder Case (Gregg Press Mystery Fiction Series)

Van Dine, S. S. · 1980

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Gregg Press First edition thus, with a new introduction by Chris Steinbrunner. First printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. 8vo., 307pp., illustrated with still photos from the 1933 film version. Very good plus in very good dust jacket chippe...

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez · 1983

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Knopf First American edition, first printing. Hard cover in first state dust jacket with publisher's error "One Hundred Days of Solitude" (instead of "Years"). Published NY: Knopf, 1983. 8vo., 120pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ""EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and ...

A Conversation on the Quai Voltaire

Langley, Lee · 2006

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Chatto & Windus First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Chatto & Windus, 2006. 8vo., 384pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny nick at the rear top corner. Fine Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing London 8vo 384

Spy Paramount

E. Phillips Oppenheim · 2008

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Amereon Ltd Hard cover large print edition issued without dust jacket. Published Mattituck, NY: Amereon Ltd, 2008. 8vo., 285pp. Fine. Fine No Jacket, As Issued Mattituck, NY 8vo 294

Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel

Updike, John · 2000

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Knopf First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 2000. 8vo., 359pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. The dozen short stories in John Updike's new collection revisit many of the locales of his fiction: the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger, the l...

Ezra Pound: Poems & Translations (Loa #144) (Library of America)

Pound, Ezra · 2003

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Library of America First edition, second printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Library of America, 2003. 8vo., xxiii+1363pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles, sewn-in ribbon marker. As new in as new dust jacket. Here in one volume is the biggest and best collectio...

A Taste for Death

P. D. James · 1986

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Knopf First American edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 1986. 8vo., 459pp. Light foxing to front edge of page block and covers, else very good plus in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Commander Adam Dalgleish investigates the t...

The Devotion of Suspect X: A Detective Galileo Novel (Detective Galileo Series)

Higashino, Keigo · 2011

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Minotaur Books First U.S. edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Minotaur Books, 2011. 8vo., 298pp. As new in as new dust jacket. As New As New 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 304