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
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 182 pp. 6 illustrated plates (including frontispiece); Pronunciation of Proper Names. Publisher's review slip affixed inside front cover. Green pictorial covers in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities; slight darkening to spine). Here are 15 stories detailing "...dramatic..... More
Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2001. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo, xii, 344 pp. Lingvisticae Investigationes Supplementa Volume 23. More
San Francisco: 1957. 1st. Broadside. First Edition, limited to copies of 1000 - 1150. Portfolio with 11 broadsides & accompanying note sheet (lacking note sheet for Louise Bogan and F. T. Prince broadsides), some with illustration. Edited by Richard Wilbur, Stanley Kunitz and Henry Rago. Printed by various private presses..... More
Valencia: Joseph y Tomas de Orga, 1787. First Edition Thus. Octavo; 90 pp. Illustrated with a Prologue and Translator's Notes. (of which 60 pages are prologue) plus Index at rear. Near Fine copy in orginal pigskin lettered at spine. A scarce, early work of Despreau's poetry. The poetic art of..... More
Leicester: Edgar Backus, 1936. Limited Edition to 550 numbered copies (this copy not numbered). Hardcover. 8vo. 63 pp. Illustrations by A.E. Christopherson. Printed by Falconer Scott at the Garswood Press. Yellow cloth spine over illustrated boards in yellow illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (some browing to..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1983. 1st. Hardbound. Quarto, 58 pages. One of 518 copies printed by the Greenwood Press with an original leaf with a woodcut "Aesop and the Impertinent Fellow" 'With an original leaf from the first edition (1818) of The Fables of Aesop and a new..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1947. First Edition. Lovely two-page original watercolor, signed by David Hendrickson, which spreads across the half title and the opposite blank. Additionally SIGNED by Bosworth and Hendrickson. Small 8vo. 188 pp. The book is in near fine condition with decorative bookplate, in very good dusjtacket (price-clipped; minor..... More
San Francisco: Privately printed, 1934. 1st. Boards. 8vo. 15pp (unpaginated). Original oxford grey boards with yellow back and paper label to front cover. A respectful and loving homage to Benson, accomplished poet and author in the early 20th century. (GB 211). More
Monterey CA: Angel Press, 1976. 1st. Paperback. First Edition. Small octavo; 56pp. Fine copy, INSCRIBED by the author on ffep. Errata slip laid in. More
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1956. First Edition. Octavo; 141pp. A Near Fine copy in publisher's 1/4 blue cloth over paper-covered boards; the scarce dust jacket.is complete with very light extremity wear and sun-lightened spine, faint offsetting to pastedowns. The Ascent of Rum Doodle is a parody of the non-fictional..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo, (xiii), 234 pp. More
Paris: Gallimard, 1945. Limited edition. Small octavo; 218 pages. Near Fine copy (faint wear to extremities). Handsome cover design in black and red by Mario Prassinos. 44 b/w plates. #819 of an edition limited to 960 numbered copies in a total edition of 1,000. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 18th..... More
Cologne: Universitats-und Stadtbibliotek, 2006. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 319 pagesi. More
Tucson: Chax Pr, 2009. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 129 pp. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Santa Cruz, CA: The Good Book Press, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Miniature(1 15/16" x 15/16"). [4pp]. Blue leather with a star stamped in gold on front cover. Holiday greetings from Bromer Booksellers, Boston, 1991. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1927. Early printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 250pp. Woodcut of Emerson by James Britton on front and rear dustjacket. Black cloth spine over gilt decorated paper covered boards with cream & black title label to front cover; woodcut illustrated cream and black dustjacket. A near fine..... More
San Francisco: Printed for A.A. Brown by Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1911. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition, Limited to 400 copies. 8vo. 8, [1] pp. Etched title page vignette; title page in black and red. Stiff tan wrappers housed in custom cloth folder. Previous owner bookplate else fine condition. Brief..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; xii, [iii]. 156 pages. New copy in dust jacket - unread. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1974. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 286 pp. Brown cloth in cream dustjacket with black & red lettering. A fine copy in find dustjacket. Another "explosive thriller" by the author of "11 Harrowhouse." More
London: Smith Elder, 1873. Tenth Edition. Complete in 5 volumes. Small 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece by T. O. Barlow after a photograph by Macaire Havre, Sept. 1858. Bound by MacLehose in Glasgow in full brown morocco with gilt lettering & ruling; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers. Engraved..... More