La Poesia Filosofica
Milan: Cisalpino, 2007. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 446 pages. In Italian. More
Literature & Poetry
The Ancient Hunger
New York: Macaulay, 1927. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 251pp. Green cloth with black lettering. Author's first book. A story of romantic attraction and tragedy set in Oklahoma. More
The Inner Man
New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1913. Hardbound. Octavo, 320 pages. 'Adapted from the French of Michel Corday and Andre Courveur'. More
Lectura Dantis: Il Sesto Centenario Dantesco e Il Carattere della Poesia di Dante...
Firenze: G.C. Sansoni, 1914. Hardbound. Octavo, 19 pp + 4pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Bears bookplate 'The Italian Book Exhibition San Francisco CA MCMXXIX ' ... Discorso del Ministro della Pubblica Istruzione Benedetto Croce Letto nella Sala Dante di Ravenna'b. More
The Robbed Heart: A Novel
New York: L.B. Fischer, 1945. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo. 219 pages. Dark blue boards in decorative dust jacket. The author's first novel provides an "orignal approach to the immemorial theme of love between white and Negro, and touches upon the special fears and prejudices by which the race problem may be..... More
U Cutto: An Old Family Recipe (SIGNED)
1996: Red Wagon Press, [Boca Raton, FL]. First Edition, Red Wagon item no. 6, Limited No. 19 of 65 copies. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 17 unnumbered pages. Illustrations, dating from Renaissance Italy, are used courtesy of Il Collezionista, Milan. Printed letterpress using Centaur and Arrighi types on Genesis paper..... More
A Fable of the Earth (SIGNED)
San Anselmo, CA: Feathered Serpent Press, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. 1st edition thus. Limited #104 of 275 copies. Miniature (2 3/8" x 1 3/4"). (26)pp. Hand-colored illustrations. Blue marbled papered boards; printed title label. Designed and printed by Susan Acker and SIGNED (initials) by her at the colophon. The first miniature..... More
Soldier of the Sea (SIGNED)
New York: William Morrow, 1942. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo, 306 pages. Collectible copy, warmly INSCRIBED "6 August 1942/as exemplified/by Lt. J. G. Harrington,/whom the author was privileged/to have known at the Acadamy./R.W. Daly/New London, Conn." Near fine in dust jacket (mild edgewear and rubbing, small chip missing top, rear jacket spine)..... More
The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe (SIGNED)
New York: Little Brown and Company, 1983. First Edition. Full calf. A personal & heartfelt authorial INSCRIPTION to former Stanford University President Wallace Sterling. 8vo. 178 pp. Light brown paper boards in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy. Darby, award winning Hollywood musical director and composer-lyricist, was one of Wolfe's..... More
TLS on author's personalized notepaper
Pebble Beach: The author, 1992. 1st. Single typed sheet of ~ 150 words. Addressed to a local bookseller, Ms. Davenport with much good humor asks how she can 'get rid of' 'a mass of back copies of GOURMET magazine...' and 'an equal mass of back numbers of CATS magazine-- somebody..... More
Nensokan: Moon in a Dewdrop
Prague: Trigon, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. 12mo; 168 pages. More
The Door in the Wall (SIGNED)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949. Early reprint. Hardcover. INSCRIBED to the Ansel Adams family "Especially for/the Adams Family/with my war/greeting/Marguerite de Angeli/1950." Additionally signed by Ansel's daughter, Anne. 8vo. 111, (1) pp. 3 color plates; black & white illustrations. Green lcoth with silver lettering in color illustrated dustjacket..... More
Thesaurus de la Litterature Interdite au XVIe Siecle. Auteurs, Ouvrages, Editions avec Addenda et Corrigenda
Sherbrooke, Canada: Les Editions de l'Universite de Sherbrooke, 1996. First Edition. Large octavo; 840pp. Index des livres interdits 10. French text. Near Fine copy (faint staining to rear board); appears unread, in publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth. More
Literature and Beyond: Festschrift for Willem G. Weststeijn (2 volumes)
Amsterdam: Pegasus, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 1-491; 494-959pp. Most articles in English; some in Russian. Grey printed wraps. Light water spotting on upper page edges else fine condition. An extensive work to honour Weststeijn upon his retirement as Professor of Slavic Literature at the University of Amsterdam. Contributors representing..... More
The Sweet Miracle
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1906. 1st. Small 12 mo. 33 pp. Printed on Van Gelder paper in old-style roman type, enclosed in rules, after an approved Chiswick format. Gilt decorated green wrappers, publisher's titled acetate dustjacket, housed in publishers titled green slipcase. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket..... More
Paul et Virginie suivi de La Chaumiere Indienne
Paris: Nelson, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. The personal copy of historian Gordon A. Criag, with his signature to ffep. First edition thus. 12mo. 281pp. Beige cloth covered boards; green and purple illustrations and titles to front board and spine; original color illustrated dust jacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (minor..... More
Lectura Dantis: Dante in Patria e Nell'Esilio Errabando - Lettura di Isidoro Del Lungo nella 'Casa di Dante' in Roma
Firenze: G.C. Sansoni, 1914. Hardbound. Octavo, 42 pages. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Bears bookplate 'The Italian Book Exhibition San Francisco CA MCMXXIX. More
Lectura Dantis: Firenze e Italia nella Vita e nel Poema di Dante - Letto da Isidoro Del Lungo
Firenze: G.C. Sansoni, 1921. Hardbound. Octavo, 34pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Bears bookplate 'The Italian Book Exhibition San Francisco CA MCMXXIX' ' ... come Presidente della Societa Dantesca Italiana, nella Sala di Dante in Orsanmichele pel Secentenario del 1921- Ripetuto a Pisa, a Pistoia, a Venezia, a Bologna, a...... More
The Breaker: The Novel Behind Breaker Morant
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. 1st. Hardcover. First U. S. Edition. 8vo. 268 pp. Green paper covered boards in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy, as new. The life of Breaker Morant - poet, horseman, mercenary...murderer? Denton's novel covers the entire range of Breaker's career stretching across three continents..... More
Experimental Music (SIGNED by author)
Np: Jake Books, 2009. 1st. Paperback. 12mo, 48 pages. More
A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Chicago: Monastery Hill Press, (1940). First Edition Thus. 12mo. 148pp. Charming color illustrations by Philip Reed. Printed at the Monastery Hill Press by John B. Reed and Philip Reed. Beautifully bound in full gilt decoated red morocco with color morocco only of a dancing Mr. Fezziwig; top edge gilt; housed..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (6 volumes)
New York and London: George D. Sproul, 1902. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition Thus; Autograph Variorum Edition. Introduction by Percy Fitzgerald and SIGNED by him; Bibliographhical Note by F. G. Kitton and SIGNED by him; three original copper-engraved frontispieces SIGNED by the illustrator, Harry Furniss (volumes I, III, and V)..... More
(Salesman's Dummy) The Manuscript Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens
London: Merrill & Baker, 1900. 8vo. Sample title page for Volume II of "David Copperfield", numerous plates (some in color) with titled tissue guards (lacking one plate) ; 8 pp text, a two-page facsimile letter from Dickens to George Cruikshank and 2 pp facsimile of the orginal manuscript for "Bleak..... More
The Pic Nic Papers. By Various Hands (3 volumes)
London: Henry Colburn, 1841. 1st. Hardcover. 2nd issue. 8vo. Illustrated with 14 plates by George Cruikshank, Phiz and Hamerton. Half-calf over marbled boards; gilt lettering & decoration to spines. A very good set (dampstaining to corners of several plates; darkening to plates; light wear to extremities & fading to spines)..... More
In the Shadow of the Giant: Thomas Wolfe : Correspondence of Edward C. Aswell and Elizabeth Nowell, 1949-1958
Athens OH: Ohio Univ Press, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; xx, 256 pages. More