Mythology of the Heart
Owings Mills, MD: The International Library of Poetry, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 251pp. Index. Part of the 'Letters From the Soul' series by The International Library of Poetry. More
Literature & Poetry
One Flesh: Being a Comedy with a Prologue
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 327pp. Tan cloth with brown lettering in near fine condition (light soiling to covers). More
Stories About Dogs
Concord, N.H. Rufus Merrill, ca. 1840s. 12mo. 16 pp. 8 woodcuts (including front cover). Title page stating "Part III. Stories About Dogs," with no imprint statement. Advertising for Rufus Merrill Toy and Juvenile Books on rear cover.Printed tan wrappers, stab-stitched. Light wear else a fine copy. Sections titled: The Dog;..... More
Zane Grey's Western Magazine (Jo Mora story & illustrations)
New York: Dell Publishing, October, 1951. Paperback. Vol. 5 No. 8: Cowboy of the Plains; 2pp with 2 illustrations. More
MASSINISSA ET SOPHONISBE
Algerie: APIC, 2005. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; 175 pages. More
Careless Love (SIGNED)
New York: New American Library, 1966. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page; additionally INSCRIBED in the year of publication "For Mig, with love from Alice June, 1966." SIGNED bookplate laid in. 8vo. 183 pp. Cream cloth in publisher's dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. The..... More
Poems of Endre Ady
Buffalo, NY: Hungarian Cultural Foundation, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 491pp. A Fine copy in publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket is Near Fine with minor edgewear; lovely copy. Prepared for publication by Joseph M. Ertavy-Barath and illustrated with photographs. Published on the 50th anniversary of the..... More
Action at Aquila
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; (xii), 369 pages. '... a romance of the Civil War.'. More
The Echo; and other poems
(New York): Printed at the Porcupine Press by Pasquin Petronius, 1807. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition 8vo. xv, [1], 331, [11] pp. Illustrated with 8 engraved plates, including frontispiece and title page. Contemporary brown leather with gilt decoration & lettering on red label to spine. Wear to extremities; rubbing to..... More
Before the Gringo Came
New York: J. Selwin Tait & Sons, 1894. Hardcover. First Edition. Small octavo; [6]; 306, [1]pp. First Edition in later brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine. Near fine (owner name to ffep). "Revised in 1902 as 'The Splendid Idle Forties.' q.v. adding two more stories." - Baird & Greenwood..... More
A Daughter of the Vine
London and New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. 300 pp. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Blue-grey cloth with white lettering & ruling; deckled page edges; top edge gilt. A very good copy (light wear to extremities, moreso to spine ends; some rubbing..... More
Selected Poems
Cottonwood, AZ: Wayside Press, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. First edition; limited to 25 copies. 8vo. 114pp. Small black & white leaf illustration to the bottom of each page; color hand painted title page. Completely handmade at the Wayside Press. Beige cloth covered boards; illustration and titles to front board; black titles..... More
Children Sing in the Far West: Poems for Children
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Small 8vo. 188 pp. Drawings by Gerald Cassidy. Red pictorial boards with black imprint in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Near fine (short closed tear to spine head) in good dustjacket (tears & splitting to spine; price-clipped). In her preface to..... More
Across the Prairie
New York: Appleton-Century Company, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. [iv], 267pp. Blue cloth covered boards; gilt titles to front board and spine; original illustrated dust jacket. Book is in near fine condition (light wear to spine ends) in very good dust jacket (light wear to extremities, more so to..... More
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England (16 volumes)
London: William Pickering, 1825 - 1834. A new edition by Basil Montagu. Complete in 16 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece and engraved leaf of script. Indices. Finely bound by F. Bedford in full calf with gilt ruling & dentelles; red and green leather gilt lettered titles labels to spines;..... More
By His Own Labor: The Biography of Dard Hunter
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 4to. xxv, 332pp, including appendices, notes, and index, plus 68pp of plates. Full color and black & white illustrations; photographs; woodblock frontispiece illustration. Blue cloth covered boards; gilt titles to spine; original glossy illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy..... More
Prochronisms: Poems
Np: Published by the author, Nd. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. 99pp. TLS by Bale laid in. Beige cloth covered boards; gilt titles to brown leather label on spine; errata and table of contents laid in; typewritten bound manuscript. A fine copy. Unusual book with poems inspired by student life..... More
Five Pieces of Jade (SIGNED)
London: Michael Joseph, 1972. 1st. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 223, [1] pp. Brown cloth in turquoise dustjacket with yellow & white lettering. Slight fading along upper board edges; bump to upper rear corner; else a fine copy. The fourth Virgil Tibbs detective novel by the..... More
Poetes Italiens De La Renaissance Dans La Bibliotheque De La Fondation Barbier-mueller; De Dante a Chiabrera
Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2007. 1st. Quartos; complete in two volumes, 514 pp and 479 pages. No foreign shipping for this heavy two-volume setHardcover. More
The Steep Approach to Garbadale (Review Copy)
San Francisco: MacAdam Cage, 2007. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 390 pages. More
Jane Barker: Printed Writings, 1641-1700 Part 4 (Volume I)
England: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 287 pp. Ex-libris else a fine copy. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
Boris Pasternak and Virginia Woolf: The Development of the Creative Consciousness
Budapest: Eotvos Lorand University, 2006. First Edition. 12mo; 206pp. Fine copy in publisher's color illustrated hardcover. Chapters include Self-Definition: Creation of the Self; Moments of Being & Non-being: Woolf's 'A Sketch of the Past' and Pasternak's "A Safe Conduct"; Elective Affinities & Antipathies: The Romantic Tradition & the (Re) Interpretration..... More
Jade: A Novel of China (Promotional Copy)
New York: St. Martins's Press, 1982. 1st. Softcover. Octavo. 588pp. Color printed wraps in fine condition (minor wear to extremities). More
Confessions of an Actor (SIGNED)
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926. First Edition. SIGNED on a decorative presentation bookplate affixed to the front pastedown (no recipient name). Brown cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's brown and black illustrated dustjacket. Some darkening from binder's adhesive inside covers, else a fine copy in unusually fine dustjacket (2 tiny splits at..... More
Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (INSCRIBED)
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1900. Ninth Edition. INSCRIBED "Miss Stebbins/with the kindest regards of/John Bartlett/Sept 29, 1900." Thick 8vo. xv, 1158 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Light wear to extremities; a near fine copy. Stamp of Lucy Ward Stebbins on ffep; Miss Stebbins was the..... More