The Wild Muse

The Tryst (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Dibdin, Michael · 2003

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2003, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 168pp. As new. "One of my patients thinks somebody's trying to kill him," Aileen Macklin says to her husband over breakfast. A psychiatri...

Thanksgiving (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Dibdin, Michael · 2002

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2002, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 182pp. As new. Thanksgiving is a moving portrait of the profound effects of love when all that seems to remain is loss and grief. Unhinge...

The masque of Capri (Atyidae)

Cerio, Edwin · 2000

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Edizioni La Conchiglia Trade softcover. Published Capri: Edizioni La Conchiglia, 2000. 8vo. wrappers with French flaps, 207pp., illustrated. As new. As New No Jacket, As Issued capri 8vo 205

Venere in cucina-Venus in the kitchen

Norman Douglas; Pilaff Bey · 2005

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Edizioni La conchiglia First edition, trade softcover. Bilingual edition, text in Italian and English. Published Capri: Edizioni La conchiglia, 2005, first printing. 8vo. wrappers with French flaps, 325pp., illustrated. As new. The cult classic-now available for the first ti...

The Poems of Marianne Moore

Moore, Marianne · 2005

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Penguin Publishing Group First edition, trade softcover. Published London: Penguin Publishing Group, 2005, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, xxviii+452pp. Age toning to paper, creasing to publisher's blurb page, else near fine. This complete collection of Moore's poetry, loving...

Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

Rainer Maria Rilke · 1994

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

W. W. Norton & Company Trade softcover. Published NY: Norton, 1994, fourth printing. 8vo. wrappers, 122pp. Fine. Combining passion and sensitivity, the poems on love presented here are often not only sensual but sexual as well. Others pursue perennial themes in his work?deat...

Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy

Astarita, Tommaso · 2006

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

W. W. Norton & Company First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Norton, 2006, was printed on demand in 2011. 8vo. wrappers, 352pp., illustrated. As new. The history of southern Italy is entirely distinct from that of northern Italy, yet it has never been given its own d...

Delights & Shadows

Kooser, Ted · 2004

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Copper Canyon Press Signed first edition, seventh printing. Trade softcover. Published Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. 8vo. wrappers, xii+84pp. Signed by author on name label attached to half title. As new. Ted Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate ...

Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and the Brother

O'Brien, Flann · 2003

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Townhouse First edition, trade softcover. Published London:Scribner Townhouse, 2003, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 166pp. Some age tone to the paper, else fine. Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing London 8vo 192

A Venetian Theory of Heaven

Riviere, William · 1993

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Sceptre Second printing. Trade softcover. Published London:Sceptre, 1993. 8vo. wrappers, 189pp. Some age toning to the paper, else fine. Privileged, rich and self-centred, Amedea's passion is for Venice, the city of her birth. Her marriage to an English architect has begun t...

Greene On Capri

Hazzard, Shirley · 2001

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Virago Press Trade softcover. Published London: Virago Press, 2001. 8vo. wrappers, 151pp., illustrated. As new. 'When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hop...

Capri and No Longer Capri (Nation Books) [Idioma Inglés]

La Capria, Raffaele · 2003

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NATION BOOKS Trade softcover. Published NY: NATION BOOKS, 2003. 8vo. wrappers, xi+158pp. Marker stripe on bottom edge, else near fine. Raffaele La Capria creates a portrait of Capri that begins in the time of Ulysses and moves to our present complex and hectic reality, and c...

On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal (Vintage Departures)

Simeti, Mary Taylor · 1995

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Vintage Trade softcover. Published NY: Vintage, 1995, later printing. 8vo. wrappers, 334pp., illustrated. Fine. An American woman residing in Sicily for the past twenty years portrays the Sicilian landscape and customs-both rural and urban-from the perspectives of both a "fo...

The Wanderer's Guide To Lucca

Brian Robert Lindquist · 2011

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Lindquist Historical Guides, Inc. First edition, trade softcover. Published Bridgeport, CT: Lindquist Historical Guides, Inc., 2011, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 375pp., illustrated b/w photos, plans, color maps. Fine. The only in-depth guide to the fascinating city of Luc...

Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments

Cohen, Martin · 2004

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Blackwell First edition, trade softcover. Published Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004, second printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", ix+135pp. Fine. Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments invites readers to participate actively in discovering the surprisingly ...

The Noise of Time : The Prose of Osip Mandelstam

MANDELSTAM, Osip, Clarence Brown (Trans). · 1986

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

North Point Press First edition, trade softcover. Published San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 249pp., illustrated. Light foxing on edges, else near fine. Near Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing San Francisco 8...

America's Constitutional Soul (The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought)

Mansfield ,Jr., Jr Harvey C. C. · 1993

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Johns Hopkins University Press First edition, trade softcover. Published Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", xi+236pp. Fine. In America's Constitutional Soul, one of America's leading political theorists and most pen...

Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Musil, Robert · 1994

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

University of Chicago Press Trade softcover. Published Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 299pp. Near fine. Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937...

The Cruellest Month

Louise Penny · 2011

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Sphere First edition thus, trade softcover. Published London: Sphere, 2011, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 454pp. Some wrinkling at bottom edge, else very good. Very Good No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing London 8vo 464

Antonia Saw The Oryx First

Maria Thomas · 1988

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Soho Press First edition thus, first paperbound edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Soho Press, 1998, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 296pp. Some wrinkling, page corners creased. Good. Good No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 298