Black Sparrow Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated) As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. xiv+256 pp. Introduction by John Updike. In the spring of 1937, Daniel Fuchs, already a 27-year old author of three acclaimed novels of Brooklyn tenement life, went to Hollywood to produce a treatment for.....
Buffalo: Courier Company, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in dark brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. 314 pp. plus 3 pp. ads for additional works by Darnell. Decorated chapter headers. A tight, generally fine example, spine gilt a hint dulled. Darnell was a London born author and.....
Berkley Publishing/ Putnam, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. First printing (no statement as is correct). Fine in fine, bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. 286 pp. Re-imagined historical adventure in which a vicious, uncouth King Arthur and his fool magician Merlin, Mael and Starkad, two barbarian adventurers, bold and ruthless, to further.....
Northwestern University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Hardcover. Introductory essay + 121 pp. Translated from the Old French by Campbell. Very good, some foxing to the edges of the text block. Issued without dust jacket. The Balain section of the 13th century French romance called "The Continuation of the Merlin"
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First printing; publisher's persentation card laid in. Hardcover. xiv+ 281 pp. with bibliography, index of poems discussed. The author's approach to Horace's most important lyric collection is through a close sequential reading of the eighty-eight poems.....
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Fine, apparently unused copy (some foxing to the top edge of the text block) in crisp dust jacket with a tiny fault otp edge of rear panel. Presentation slip form the publisher laid in. Hardcover. 428 pp. with index.....
London: Wesleyan University Press, 1993. First edition. Paperback. First Edition. Paperback. In fine condition. Inscribed by the author. 178 pages with index.
Random House, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. As new. Dust jacket as new. Hardcover. First edition. xiii+ 480 pages. Anthology of superb NewYork-centric short fiction by many of The New Yorker Magzine's most accomplihed contributors. Included are pieces by Updike, isaac Bahevis Singer, Cheever, Woody Allen, John O'Hara, Salinger and many.....
New York: Pyramid, 1952. First edition thus. Softcover. First softcover edition. Color illustrated softcovers. 286 pp. plus one page publisher ads. Pyramid Giant G52. A generally fine, tight copy. " A powerful story of explosive passions...and monsterous consequences which result from an affair between a lustful white man and his.....
London: John Murray, 1968. Second edition. Hardcover. Second printing. Hardcover. xv+ 280 pp. with index. Illustrations Fine in fine dust jacket. Biography of Edward Lear. Lear is known around the world as the beloved "nonsense-writer" but most know little if anything of the life of this lonely, melancholy man, traveller.....
Steerforth, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. New in dust jacket. Dirst edition/ printing. Hardcover. xxii+ 452 pp. Introduction by Tim Page. Contains two novels and a selection of Powell's best short fiction. Dawn Powell (1896-1965) did not achieve a wide readership during her lifetime but included among her admirerers were many.....
New York: Macmillan, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Blindstamped forest green cloth lettered in gilt. 158 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads at rear. A tight, bright example. In the original printed dust wrapper, very good with modest wear to the extremities. Inscribed on the front pastedown, "To Little.....
London: John Lane, 1897. First edition. Softcover. Small 8vo. on light tan printed stiff wrappers. 98 pp. plus publisher's ads at rear. Very good. Some rubbing to the outer edges of the slightly obersized wraps and the spine strip. A clever parody of Richard Le Gallienne's book "The Quest of.....
London: Martin Secker, 1914. First. Cloth. First edition, review copy with publisher's blindstamp on the title page reading "Presentation Copy for Review". Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt; 251 pps. plus publisher's ads at rear; frontis photogravure of Whitman at age 53. Scarce early British critical study of American.....
Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard, 1864. Cloth. Blindstamped dark blue-green cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gilt with a depiction of Crusoe. 417 pps. , "illustrated with characteristic engravings" (woodcuts). A tight, rather handsome copy with spine gilt a touch tarnished but still generally bright. Rear cloth has a small.....
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Three quarter dark brown leather over marbled paper covered boards, spoine stamped in gilt. 152 pp. printed in double columns. Wear about the edges of the boards, front gutter split but hinges and binding firm; foxing to the firat few.....
New York: Vertigo/DC Comics, 2012. Hardback. As new in dust jacket. Slim hardcover, unpaginated. Graphic novel adaptation of Larsson's famed novel. This is Book 1 of what would eventually be three books though not issued simultaneously.
Viking Adult, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. New in dust jacket. Unused publisher's M.C. Escher-design bookplate front free endpaper. First editon/ printing. Hardcover. xx+ 361 pp with index, bibliography. Illustrated with photographs. Drawing on a trove of newly discoveerd papers, the biographer revisits the life of Ted Hughes, the man who.....
NY: Harper & Bros. 1866. First. Wrappers. First American printing of Dicken's annual Christmas offering, this for the year of 1866. String bound in original printed wrappers with "Price 10 Cents" at upper right; 47 pps. with publisher's ads inner front and outside rear wrappers. A solid, very good copy.....
NY: Harper & Bros. 1863. First. Wrappers. First American edition of the 1863 Christmas offering from Charles Dickens. 146 pps. in original printed wrappers (rear wrap is publisher's ads). "Price Ten Cents" imprinted top corner front wrap. mall oval vintage library stamp upper right portion of the front cover; small.....
New York: D. Appleton, 1872. Wraps. 12mo (5" x 7 1/2") in illustrated tan wrapperes printed in darker brown with center design of a holly-topped christmas pudding and various characters in the borders. 103 pp. plus one page publisher's ads at rear. Verso of the front wrap is advert for.....
New York: E.J. Hale, 1873. First edition. Leather_bound. First edition, Large 8vo in dark brown three-quarter leather over marbled-paper covered boards; spine lettering gilt. Marbles endpapers. 564 pp. with index. Encyclopedic collection of longer and shorter quotations from all of Dickens writings--phrases, characters, varoius sayings, etc. A tight example, some.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1929. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo hardcover in dark olive green cloth lettered in gilt. Second printing, sma e month and year as the first. Top edge gilt. xx+ 208 pp. with index of first lines. A tight, clean very good example, some dulling to the.....
London: Putnam, 1969. Hardcover. Hardcover in pale violet cloth with gilt spine lettering. 508 pp. A tight, fine example in pale blue printed dust wrapper, near fine with U.S. price clipped by the publisher but Britsih price intact on the front flap, slight spine fade. A rather uncommon edition (in.....
NY: Interscience, 1964. Second. Hard Cover. Cloth, 833 pps. with index. The second edition, revised. A complete course on physical and geometrical optics, a classic which became an established part of advanced physics literature. A tight, clean copy, prev. own. stamp front pastedown and also on bottom edge of text.....
