"Famous Women"; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 290 pages; 1883 Roberts Brothers. HC 1st edition. Snugly bound and clean in original brown cloth with decorative ruling in black and titles in gilt and black. Mild shelf tap to corner tips. A light damp outline top edge, visible only to the very top margin of the first and last two or so leaves. Prior owner name penned neatly to front floral patterned endpage. Expected mild toning to page stock. VG+ View More...
Intaglio lithographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1087 pages; J. P. Horn & Co. Two volume set in original dust jackets and slipcase. Limited edition of 1550 sets, not numbered. Well preserved set; bright snug and neat. Top edges gilt; pther edges untrimmed. In original blue paper dust jackets with decorative orange borders and titles replicating the designs to the cloth bindings. Illustrated with tissue guarded, intaglio lithograph plates by Teyssonnieres after Jacques Wagrez. Light/moderate sunfading to jackets at spines. Original slipcase has paper title label to the closed box end' mi... View More...
Blackwell's French Texts with English Notes; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 113 pages; 1963 Blackwell. In original printed wraps. Solid clean copy; no marks. Evidence only of casual perusal. Mild toning to spine panel. VG+ View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 295 pages; HC/DJ. Tight, solid and neat in original pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf wear to jacket corners and spine ends; jacket edges slightly nicked and rubbed. Just a trace of dampstaining to lower corner of front jacket cover. Cloth corners and spine ends mildly rubbed. Penned recipe for fruitcake and signature by author covers front endpaper. Text clean and unmarked. VG+/VG; Signed by Author View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages; HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original black cloth with titles in orange to cover and spine. Orange lettering at spine fading to yellow. Slick orange endpapers clean and neat. Mild shelf bump to top front corners. VG- View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 286 pages; 1970 E. P. Dutton. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $7.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Text fresh and clean; no marks of any kind. Cloth just very slightly fading top edges of boards; superficial shelf tap top front corner of page block. Jacket with superficial shelf rubbing edges and surfaces. Handsome copy. VG++/VG++ View More...
Engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; A New Edition. Complete in ten volumes, uniformly bound in 3/4 grained calf and marbled paper boards with gilt work and titles tooled to spines. "Upwards of 50 engravings" some on doubled leaves. All edges marbled. Extra engraved title pages for each volume from the 1835 edition. Frontis engravings present for all volumes along with half-title pages for all but Vol III. Some dryness to leather at spines with mild stress crazing. Boards tenuous or detached in Vols I, II and X. Mild foxing to front and rear endmatter, but text pages generally bright and clean wit... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1440 pages; 1963 The Heritage Press. 3 volume set uniformly bound in olive green cloth with titles in red and gilt to spine. Each volume in marbled paper covered slipcase. All volumes bright, tight and fresh with no marks. Feel and appear unread. Slipcases bright and neat with just trace shelf evidence to edges. About as new. Sanglass Newsletter S28 laid in at front of Vol I. F/NF ... Oversize book will require additional charges for most shipping methods. View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 321 pages; HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original light gray cloth with titles in silver to spine. Usual and expected toning to endpage hinges usually seen in books from the 1930's. Light soiling to cloth at board edges; publisher top stain a little dulled. Lacking dust wrapper but otherwise near VG View More...
1924 McBride HC blue cloth with titles and designs in gilt. Binding shaken; front free endpage removed. Mod fading to gilt on spine. Cloth a little pulled crown of spine. Sound copy but in a weak binding; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages; HC in blue cloth with titles and designs in gilt. Binding shaken; front free endpage removed. Moderate fading to gilt on spine. Cloth a little pulled crown of spine. Sound copy but in a weak binding. G+ View More...
French Edition; Drawings, blanc and white photos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 223 pages; 1943 Editions Du Milieu Du Monde. In original printed wraps. Solid clean copy; no marks. Just mild shelf evidence to cover edges. Expected light to moderate toning of page and cover stock. Illustrated with photographs. VG View More...
Signed presentation copy x2(1984) As new in as new dj. Inscribed by Brodsky to Georgia Review editor Stanley Lindberg, who has in turn inscribed it (1989) to poet and GR contributor, Sanford Pinsker.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 508 pages; [SIGNED presentation copy x2] 1984 University Press of Mississippi. HC/DJ 1st edition. Inscribed by Brodsky (1984) to Georgia Review editor Stanley Lindberg, who has in turn inscribed it (1989) to poet and GR contributor, Sanford Pinsker. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged pictorial dust jacket with a whisper of sunning to spine panel. NF/VG++; Signed ... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; This listing is for the original dust jacket ONLY. Light green paper with title design and publisher ads and blurbs to other panels lettered in dark green. A nice clean copy of the jacket which was for some reason removed from the book and preserved. Mild toning only; a small nick to the bottom edge of the rear panel. VG or better View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 292 pages; Everyman's Library. 1st Everyman imprint of this title with no indication of subsequent printings. Printer's notice for Turnbull and Spears at rear. Soundly bound in original trade binding of ribbed red cloth with decoratively gilt panelled spine. Trace crimping and light rubbing to cloth at spine ends. Red cloth is lightly sun faded at spine but with gilt still bright. Binding a little shaken. Prior owner name and 1910 purchase date penned neatly to pictorial front pastedown endpage. The 1st printing of the Everyman edition. [Seymour 117.0] VG- to VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 528 pages; Brentano's; 1911. 2nd Brentano's printing, from UK sheets printed at the Edinburgh Press. Original light, bright green cloth with titles boldly and brightly stamped in white to cover and spine. Square, solid and very neat copy of Broster's 1st novel, written in collaboration with her college friend, Gertrude Taylor. Very uncommon example from the year of the novel's 1st appearance. Broster was one of the first few woman students at Oxford; her later novels, including the Jacobin trilogy, have remained popular and widely read through the 20th century. This example ... View More...
Library of America # 103; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 914 pages; 1998 Library of America # 103. HC/DJ 1st printing of the LOA edition. Very tightly bound, unread copy in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $35 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Publisher's silk bookmark sewn in. Trace shelf evidence to jacket surfaces. About as new. F/NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages; A very attractive copy, snug bright and fresh. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine very bright; Buechner's name in blind to cover board. Edges sharp and unrubbed with crisp square corners. Dust jacket uniformly bright to all surfaces, with but a whisper of shelf evidence to spine ends. A rather mysterious set of very light circular "quarter-sized" overlapping impressions to the cloth of the rear board has no apparent cause. The tightly bound book feels unread and the crisp dust jacket has no corresponding set of impressions. As such it is very... View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 220 pages; Oversize thesis is tight and neat in laminate covers; spine unlettered. Just trace shelf soiling to externals. Text clean and unmarked. NF ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
