The Wild Muse

The Traitor's Niche: Kadare Ismail

Kadare, Ismail · 2017

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Harvill Secker First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Harvill Secker, 2017. 8vo.,199pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing London 8vo 208

The Alexandria Quartet: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea (4 Volumes Boxed Set)

Durrell, Lawrence · 1959

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Dutton Hard covers in dust jackets and box. Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea. Published NY: Dutton, 1959 and 1960 printings: Justine 1960 (ninth printing); Balthazar 1960 (sixth printing); Mountolive 1959 (second printing); Clea 1960 (fifth printing). 8vo's. All volum...

Acte

Durrell, Lawerence · 1966

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Dutton First U.S. edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Dutton, 1966. 8vo., 80pp., illustrated with plates. Very good plus in very good dust jacket rubbed along the folds and edges. Very Good Plus Very Good 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo

The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples

Hazzard, Shirley; Steegmuller, Francis · 2008

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

University of Chicago Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 8vo., 129pp., illustrated with photos. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Fine Near Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing Chicago 8vo 140

Beginning Greek : A Functional Approach

Paine, Stephen W. · 1961

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Oxford University Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: Oxford University Press, 1961. 8vo., xxii+327pp., illustrated. Burgundy cloth with black titles. Fine, crisp, bright copy. Fine No Jacket 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo

American Philosophy: A Love Story

Kaag, John · 2016

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Farrar, Straus and Giroux First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 8vo., x+259pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Fine Near Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 272

The king of the two Sicilies

Kus?niewicz, Andrzej · 1980

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. 8vo.,197pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Fine Near Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 197

The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism

Geary, James · 2005

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Bloomsbury USA First U.S. edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Bloomsbury USA, 2005. 8vo., ix+229pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Starting with the ancient Chinese and ending with contemporary Europeans and Americans, The World in a Phrase tells the...

Tree of Paradise

Bleiberg, Edward · 2005

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Brooklyn Museum First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Brooklyn Museum, 2005. 8vo., 65pp., illustrated with color plates. As new in as new dust jacket. As New As New 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 65

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Winchester, Simon · 1998

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

HarperCollins First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: HarperCollins, 1998. 8vo., xi+242pp., illustrated. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Near Fine Near Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 242

Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples

Hofstadter, Dan · 2005

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Knopf First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 2005. 8vo., 247pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Near Fine Near Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 272

Tiepolo Pink

Calasso, Roberto · 2009

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Knopf First American edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 2009. 8vo., 288pp., illustrated with color and b/w plates. Translated by Alastair McEwen. As new in as new dust jacket. Few have even attempted to tackle Tiepolo's series of thirty-...

Ghost of Monsieur Scarron

Lewis, Janet · 1985

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)

Robin Clark Ltd First edition thus, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Robin Clark Ltd., 1985. 8vo., 378pp.Black cloth with gilt titles. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing London 8vo 384

Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's

Scotti, R. A. · 2006

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Viking First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 2006. 8vo., xx+300pp., illus b/w photos. As new in as new dust jacket. Traces Pope Julius II's controversial early sixteenth-century construction of a new basilica in place of the Emperor ...

Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared: The New Translation by Michael Hofmann

Franz Kafka · 2002

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

New Directions First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: New Directions, 2002. 8vo., xv+216pp. Translated and introduced by Michael Hofmann. Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captur...

Less Than One: Selected Essays

Brodsky, Joseph · 1986

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Farrar Straus & Giroux First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986. 8vo., 501pp. Minor smudge on front edge of page block, else fine in near fine dust jacket. Near Fine Near Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 256

Finnegans Wake (Centennnial Edition)

Joyce, James · 1984

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Viking Press Centennial Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Book club edition. Published NY: Viking Press, 1984. 8vo., 628pp. Orange cloth with gilt titles and gold paper covered boards, orange endpapers. Very good plus, clean, bright, unmarked in very good plus dust jacket. V...

Quilts: A Window to the Past

Victoria Hoffman · 1991

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Museum of American Textile History Signed first edition. Published Museum of American Textile History, 1991. 4to. wrappers, 8 1/2" x 11", 45pp., illustrated with full color reproductions. Inscribed by author inside cover. Fine. Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printin...

The Cunning Little Vixen

Rudolf Tesnohlidek; Maurice Sendak (Illus) · 1985

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Farrar Straus & Giroux First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1985. 8vo., color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Green cloth with gilt titles. Creasing to corners of 2 pages, else very good in good dust jacket with sever...

Stories My Father Told Me: Notes from "The Lyons Den"

Lyons, Jeffrey · 2011

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Abbeville Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abbeville Press, 2011. Small 4to., 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", 352pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Inscribed by author. As new in as new dust jacket. As New As New 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 4to 352