Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 381 pages; 1987 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. HC/DJ 1st edition and printing. Tightly bound and neat in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket a trifle sunned at spine and with several very short closed edge tears. NF/VG+ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; Snug and neatin black cloth over peach, paper covered boards with title-lettering in orange to spine. Spine just slightly shelf-cocked. Prior owner's name and catalog note penned neatly in tiny script to front endpaper. Text clean and unmarked. Lacking dust jacket; otherwise VG+ View More...
Library of America #56; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 887 pages; 1991 Library of America. HC/DJ 1st printing of the LOA edition. Unread copy in sharp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with just trace shelf evidence to edges. Publisher's silk bookmark sewn in. Unread copy; no marks. F/F View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 195 pages; Soundly bound in original blue cloth with publisher's printed paper title label to spine. Trace soiling to cream colored title label; superficial shelf rub to board edges. Mild split between front endpage and half-title page - with the front fly starting slightly along the front edged and a little furred where it has protruded. Solid clean copy with mild split at front. G+ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 19 pages; Slim paperback in saddle-stapled, pictorial paper wraps. Clean, neat copy. No marks. The 2nd printing issued by Ralston Press after a 1980 initial publication. Includes a complete alphabetical list of Buck's books. Nice copy. Uncommon. NF View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 323 pages; Stout large 8vo in original laid paper dust jacket with decorative title design to spine. Limited to 2050 copies as one in the set of Zola works issued by Boni. Tightly bound in original black cloth with printed paper title label to spine. Flawed only by a few very small areas of mild silverfish evidence to the sizing of the cloth - lower front corner of the cover and in the gutter of the front hinge. Additional publisher provided title label tipped in at rear. Edges untrimmed and in some places unopened. Text printed on laid paper. Uncommon dust ja... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages; 1954 Presses Universitaires De France. Paperback in pictorial title lettered covers. Snugly bound and clean; no marks. Most pages unopened. Mild toning to page stock. VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 458 pages; In a translation by Eric Sutton. Square, snug copy in original dust jacket. Bound in black cloth with title lettering bright to cover board but flaked and indistinct to spine -- as is common in this title. Pictorial dust jacket is uniformly bright with small spots of rub at spine edges and ends, corners and panel edges. Publisher's $2.50 issue price intact on unclipped front flap. Spidered stress creasing to jacket at crown of spine panel is light. A few very short closed tears at jacket edges. Publisher's red top stain is bright and uniform. Illustrated w... View More...
Etchings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 640 pages; 1841 Thomas Tegg, London. Stout HC in 1/2 leather and cloth sides. Titles and ruling brightly in gilt. With 40 etchings by Hablot Browne. 1st edition. Text block sound and clean, though the paper on which the Phiz etchings are printed is of a lower quality than the printed leaves and they are significantly toned; offset from adjoining printed leaves apparent in the paltes. Leather splitting and tenuous at joints. Prior ownership in pencil top edge of title page. Uncommon. G+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 373 pages; Cased in 1/2 leather and marbled paper boards with lettering and ruling to spine in gilt. 373 pgs and [8] pg Harper catalog appended at rear. University literary society bookplate mounted to front pastedown. Leather spine scuffed, rubbed and nicked but still sound; small hand lettered paper catalog label affixed at crown. Catalog pages at rear have penciled notes and practice manuscript. Occasional mild soiling and pencil annotation to mildly toned pages of the text. G+ View More...
Classic Reprint; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages; 1836 E. L Carey & A. Hart. Philadelphia. HC 1st American edition. Bound in cream quarter cloth backed spine and drab paper covered boards with paper title label to spine. A complete but somewhat distressed example of this uncommon humorous novle of "travel" to a remote English town. Prior ownership of a small college's oratorical society with much manuscript ownership notation to front endpages, the bottom hlaf of the flyleaf lost. Cloth at spine splitting along the joints, fraying at edges and distressed generally. Some period undergrad sketches ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages; New York, George Adlard; 1838. Volume II, only. Paged [3] - 208 with [4] pages of Adlard publisher ads at rear. Bound in original patterned green cloth with lettered paper title label to spine. 1st edition of this very uncommon volume of short pieces by the highly regarded early 19th century Southern writer, historian and novelist, William G. Simms. This 2nd volume contains three of Simms' Cherokee related tales and though sadly lacking the 1st volume of stories, stands independently and thus complete in itself. A well preserved example in the full texture... View More...
