The Wild Muse

The last leopard: A life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Gilmour, David · 1988

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Quartet Books First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Quartet Books, 1984. 8vo., 223pp., uillustrated with b/w photos. Toning to the paper, else fine in fine dust jacket. David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life...

The Great Merlini: The Complete Stories of the Magician Detective

Rawson, Clayton · 1979

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Gregg Pr First edition thus with a new introduction by Eleanor Sullivan. First printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Gregg Press Limited, 1979. 8vo., xi+151pp. Bright white cloth with red titles and red and black playing card design, black endpapers. Fine, cri...

No Coffin for the Corpse

Rawson, Clayton · 1979

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Gregg Press First edition thus with a new introduction by Lynn Biederstadt. First printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Gregg Press Limited, 1979. 8vo., viii+253pp. Bright white cloth with red titles and red and black playing card design, black endpapers. Fine...

The footprints on the ceiling (Gregg Press mystery fiction series)

Rawson, Clayton · 1979

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Gregg Press Limited First edition thus with a new introduction by Robert L. Fish. First printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Gregg Press Limited, 1979. 8vo., ix+255pp., Bright white cloth with red titles and red and black playing card design, black endpapers....

Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider (Everyman's Library)

Mann, Thomas · 2005

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Alfred a Knopf Inc / Everyman's Library First edition. First printing of the first inclusion in Everyman's Library. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Alfred a Knopf Inc / Everyman's Library, 2005, Thick 8vo., xl+1492pp. Dark red cloth with gilt titles in black reverse b...

Exit a Dictator

Oppenheim, E. Phillips · 1939

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Little, Brown and Co. First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1939. 8vo., 315pp. gray linen cloth with red titles. Soiling to edges of page block, dust jacket glued on with tape residue on edge of endpapers. Binding t...

The Saga of Grettir the Strong [Everyman's Library #699]

Foote, Peter (ed.); Hight, G.A. (trans.) · 1968

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Dent: Everyman's Library Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Dent: Everyman's Library, 1968. 12mo., xxii+265pp. red cloth with gilt titles. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Fine Near Fine London 12mo

Young Archimedes and Other Stories (Transaction Large Print Books)

Huxley, Aldous · 2000

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Transaction Pub Large Print First edition, first printing. Large Print hard cover issued without dust jacket. Published New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Pub Large Print, 2000. 8vo., 124pp. As new. In these semi-autobiographical stories, Huxley discourses on life and death, acc...

Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village

Yeadon, David · 2004

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

HarperCollins First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: HarperCollins, 2004. 8vo., xii+4636pp., illustrated. As new in as new dust jacket. A year in the life of a remote Southern Italian hill town rich with local characters, strange pagan-laced ...

Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison

Daly, Michael · 2013

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Atlantic Monthly Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013. 8vo., viii+369pp. As new in as new dust jacket. In 1903, on Coney Island, an elephant named Topsy was electrocuted. Many historical forces conspired t...

The King of Inventors

Peters, Catherine · 1993

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Princeton University Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. 8vo., xiii+502pp., illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. In this major biography, Catherine Peters explores the complicated life o...

The Ruin of Kasch

Calasso, Roberto; Weaver, William; Sartarelli, Stephen · 1994

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Cambridge, MA First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge, MA: Cambridge, MA, 1994. 8vo., vi+385pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. In this brilliant work, Roberto Calasso cracks the code of what Baudelaire named the Modern--the increasingly ...

Thrones, Dominations: A Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane Mystery

Dorothy L. Sayers; Jill Paton Walsh · 1998

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

St Martins Pr First edition, first printing. First American edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: St Martins Pr, 1998. 8vo., 386pp.As new in as new dust jacket. Newlyweds Lord Peter Winsey and Harriet Vane explore another mysterious turn of events during the shor...

Final Witness: A Novel

Simon Tolkien · 2002

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Random House First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Random House, 2002. 8vo., 283pp. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. "The grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien makes a thrilling debut as a novelist in this suspenseful courtroom drama tha...

Every Man Dies Alone

Hans Fallada · 2009

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Melville House First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2009. 8vo., 544pp., illustrated with map endpapers. Fine in fine dust jacket. "The greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis."-Primo LeviTh...

Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon~ in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)

Kingsley, Charles · 1992

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Scribner's First edition thus, first printing of Reissued Scribner Illustrated Classics. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Scribner's, 1992. Small 4to., x+413pp., illustrated with 14 color plates of N.C. Wyeth. Brown cloth with gilt titles, pictorial endpapers. Marker s...

The Tattooed Map: A Novel

Hodgson, Barbara · 1995

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Chronicle Books First edition, third printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995. Square 8vo., illustrated with color reproductions. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine Fine 1st Edition 3rd Printing San Francisco 8vo 120

Rome from the Ground Up

McGregor, James H. · 2005

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

The Belknap Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 2005. 8vo., 344pp., illustrated with color and b/w reproductions, maps, endpaper maps. As new in as new dust jacket. As New As New 1st Edition 1st Printing C...

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

King, Ross · 2003

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Walker Books First edition, third printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Walker Books, 2003. 8vo., 373pp., illustrated with color and b/w plates, drawings. Fine in fine dust jacket. In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II comm...

The Temptation of Forgiveness: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Leon, Donna · 2018

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Atlantic Monthly Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018. 8vo., 300pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light creasing at the bottom of front cover. Fine Near Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 272