New York: Intercultural Publications, 1952 - 1955. First Edition. Volume 12 was published in London. Cover illustrations by Alvin Lustig. Previous owner name & stamp in two issues. Color illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities; light general wear). Perspectives U.S.A. was a magazine of art and..... More
London: Cassell and Company, ca. 1891. Early reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. 340 pp. 4 plates. 3/4 blue calf over marbled boards; 5 raised bands, gilt ruling & lettering to spine; marbled endpapers. A near fine copy (minor foxing). The author (1858 - 1884) was a Ukrainian-born Russian diarist who became one..... More
London: Privately Printed, 1931. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition #219 of 300 copies SIGNED by the author. Small 8vo. 25 pp. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine & front board; TEG. Decorative bookplate of Paul Heymann. A very good copy (darkening to spine, less so to covers). A previous owner..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. INSCRIBED "This, my second attempt at novel writing, was done in a great hurry and doubtless shows it but in it is a character like Cherry Malotte, who persisted in being written over again in "The Winds of Chance." Rex Beach' 8vo..... More
Whitewater WI: Wonderside Productions, 2006. 1st. Paperback. Oblong quarto. More
New York: W. J. Watt and Company, 1909. 1st. Cloth. 8vo. 317pp. Color frontispiece with tissue guard by Howard Chandler Christy; 2 black & white illustrations by Bert Knight. Original brown cloth with color portrait pastedown, gilt decoration and white lettering. More
San Francisco: Privately Printed for Edgar Newton Kierulff, 1966. Limited Edition No. 7 of 50 copies. Paperback. Not for Sale. For Private Distribution Only. Small 8vo. [15] pp text. INSCRIBED "To David and Dorothy/Magee, with my/affectionate regards/Edgar N. K./ April 25th 1966." Printed and bound by The Mercury Press. Cream..... More
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 123 pp. INSCRIBED by Humphries on ffep. Red paper boards in red & white dustjacket, black lettering. Near fine in very good dustjacket (sunning to spine; wear to extremities; some watermarks). Adaptations by Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Dillon, Genevieve..... More
New York: Farar, Straus, & Giroux, 1942. 1st. Boards. Octavo. ((xiv) 487pp; 483pp. Bound 3/4 red leather, boards single-ruled in gilt, spines tooled in gilt in compartments, t.e.g. Includes Benet's narrative poem of the American Civil War, "John Brown's Body", published in 1928 for which he won a Pulitzer Prize..... More
Chicago: Obsidian Press, 1961. 1st. Original wrappers. 8vo. 40 pp. stiff yellow wrappers with brown lettering. Uneven darkening to covers; a near fine copy of the author's scarce first book. Number 2 in 'The New Frontier Series in American Literature.' George Harold "Hal" Bennett (1936 – 2004) also wrote under..... More
New York: Viking, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 472pp. Photo-illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author. Black cloth spine & cream paper covered boards in photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Biography of Stegner, arguably the greatest contemporary writer of the American West, author of more than two dozen works including..... More
Atlanta: Banner Press, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Warm, lengthy inscription, including a brief poem, to Mrs. Phillip M. Stone (to whom 'Pictures in Words' on page 23 is dedicated). 12mo; 28pp. Near Fine copy (offsetting to ffep from several newspaper articles on author) in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gold..... More
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; vii, 349pp; First Edition. Library markings, but unused and otherwise a Fine copy. More
Blida: Editions du Tell, 2004. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; 556 pages. More
Bologna: Cisalpino, 2000. 1st. Softcover. Octavo, 591 pages. More
Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance & Company, 1973. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 332pp. Red cloth in illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (price-clipped; small piece missing at center of rear cover; minor wear to extremities). The author's first published book. "A story of unrequited love, of searing, terrible passions which..... More
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Company, [ca. 1887]. Hardcover. 12mo. 353pp. Red cloth with ornate black decoration and lettering; gilt spine label. More
Milan: Cisalpino, 2006. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; xxiii, 620 pages. near Fine, unread copy. Volume 81 of Quaderni di Acme. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, 1891. First Edition. Small octavo; 300pp. A Very Good copy (light rubbing and extremity wear) in pale green cloth (not noted by BA 1109); front and spine panels stamped in gold. Binding variant A (no priority). More
England: Holland Studio Craft, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 167pp. Color illustrations by the author/artist. SIGNED. Maroon cloth in color printed dustjacket. Fine condition. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
England: Holland Studio Craft, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 200pp. Color illustrations by the author/artist. SIGNED. Brown boards in color printed dustjacket. Fine condition. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. Octavo;x, 246 pages. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Paris: Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1938. Reprint. Original wrappers. Octavo; 18 pages Staplebound wraps, ex-libris Middle Eastern historian J. Heywourth-Dunne with his label (and small bookseller's label) to front cover. A very good copy. Reprint from: Revue des études sémitiques. More
Paris: Librarie Orientaliste Paul Guenthner, 1938. 1st. Paperback. First Edition Thus. Octavo; 18pp. Edgewear to stapled wrappers w/a few chips, else Very Good copy. Ex-libris J. Heyworth-Dunne with his label and bookseller label to front cover. Reprint from: Revue des etudes semitiques.- 1938. More
n.p. Glenfruin, 1991. 1st. 8vo. 182; 153; 148pp. SIGNED "With best regards/John Black." Black cloth with gilt lettering in photo-illustrated dustjacket. Two replacement pages has been added, presumably by the publisher or author, inserted and glued over the original pages. A fine copy in fine dustjacket (short closed tear to..... More