Resultados de búsqueda: Rare Literature and Fiction from Respectful Exits

Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2002. First edition. 145 pp. Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel -- a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Winner of a 1977 O. Henry Prize, Dixon calls his 14 Stories "urban dramas". Dustjacket has three small internally repaired tears, corners bumped. Near fine in a very good dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover..

New York: Angell, Engle & Hewitt, Publishers Book. Fair. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Sections of "A Child's History of England" appearing in periodical form. Chapter XX, XXII, XLI in various copies of Household Words bound together as "Selections from Household Words" and published by James Miller. Front hinge cracked, pages toned. Tear to edges of cloth, bubbling. Fair condition..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886. Book. Good. Half-Leather. Early Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Early reprint. 12mo. Half calf over marble boards, matching marble endpapers and matching marble page edges. Contemporary signature of Gertrude M. Cleveland dated in year of publication. 380 pp. Leather spine labels cracked, some pieces missing, revealing calf underneath. Edges rubbed. Solid book in otherwise good condition..

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Book. Fine. Cloth. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Maroon cloth binding, blindstamped ruling and titles. 312 pp. Light wear top and bottom of spine, bookplate on ffep. Poor dustjacket, missing significant material at spine, but with entire front cover which has blurbs about the book. An exposition of the controversial idea to eliminate inherited wealth. Fine book in poor dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover..

Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1983. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983. SIGNED BY PAUL MAGRIEL inside front board. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 332 pp. "Act of Darkness is a passionate novel of evil and redemption" that takes place in Colonial India in the 1930s. Spotting to page edges. Spine sunned, light wear to extremities of dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.. Signed - Association Copy. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1985. Milan: Mondadori, 1985. First edition, third printing. 8vo. Cloth binding, 189 pp. IN ITALIAN. Spotting to page edges, else fine. Very good in fine dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Carleton, 1875. Book. Illus. by Author. Very Good. Silk. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. No edition stated, possible first. Decorative green silk binding, blindstamped in black with gold titles. 112 pp. Purple endpapers. Antique ex-library with attractive hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate (no pocket, minimal markings). Boards skewed, some rubs to boards, fraying top of spine, light edgewear. Very good condition..

Unknown: Unknown, 1867. Book. Illus. by Unknown. Very Good. Silk. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sadly lacking the title page. An interesting edition of The Adventures of Gil Blas in English. Library bookplate dated January, 1867, so published before that date. Illustrated throughout with engravings and decorations. 767 pp. Unusual red silk decorative binding with a moire diamond design, gold titles. Light foxing. Complete in one volume. Very good condition..

New York: Cassell & Company Book. Illus. by Dore, Gustave. Very Good. Decorative Silk. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No publication date, c. 1900. Highly decorative gold silk binding, blindstamped, with different textures and colors of gilt, black titles and floral decorations, continued to spine. Rear board stamped in blind with floral pattern. Lemon endpapers. Frontispiece plus 30 full-page black and white illustrations by Dore, plus additional illustrations in the text. Two short 5 cm. tears top of spine and a couple of nicks to edge of front board, soiling to rear. Pages lightly toned. Very good, highly decorative copy of this classic..

London: Cresset, 1949. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. London, Cresset, 1949. Reprint. 8vo. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering embossed on spine, 460 pp. This delightful book has been entertaining readers since it was first published in 1824. Told in the first person, it allows the author to stand aside and let the anti-hero Hajji Baba reveal and confess himself freely to us, without interruption. We cannot judge him; he amuses too well. Very minor dog earring at top and bottom of dust jacket spine. Binding's spine is slightly sunned. Text block is clean, tight and appears gently read. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..

New York: Dodd Mead, 1933. Book. Illus. by Farleigh, John. Good. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo. New York: Dodd Mead, 1933. First American edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 75 pp. Designed and engraved by John Farleigh. Decorated endpapers. John Farleigh, also known as Frederick William Charles Farleigh, was an English wood-engraver, noted for his illustrations of George Bernard Shaw's work The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, which caused controversy when released due to the religious, sexual and racial themes within the writing and John Farleigh's complementary (and risqué) wood engravings commissioned by Shaw for the book. Repaired cracking along spine. Previous owner bookplate. Solid copy. Good..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904. Book. Illus. by Justice, Martin. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904. First edition. 12mo. Beige cloth boards decorated with black inn and old red car, red car on rear board. Frontispiece plus 5 illustrations. Soil mark to one page. Very good..

London & Glasgow: Gowans & Gray Ltd., 1933. Book. Illus. by MacNaughton, Alan G.. Near Fine. Wrappers. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. London: Gowans & Gray, 1933. First edition. 16mo. Wrappers. Previous owner's bookplate. Near fine in fine printed tissue jacket..

London & Glasgow: Gowans & Gray Ltd., 1933. Book. Illus. by MacNaughton, Alan G.. Near Fine. Wrappers. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. London: Gowans & Gray, 1933. First edition. 16mo Wrappers. Previous owner's bookplate. Near fine in fine printed tissue jacket..

New York: Macmillan, 1900. New York: Macmillan, 1900. First edition. 12mo. SIGNED by Missouri Senator James Reed as a juvenile and again on free front endpaper as an adult. Decorative cloth binding with two cardinals, gilt, red, black decoration, decorated spine, 138 pp., 5 pp. advertising. Very good.. Signed - Association Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 mo..

New York: Triangle Books, 1942. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint. 12 mo. Turquoise cloth binding with black decoration to front board and spine, black on yellow titles. All edges yellow. 275 pp. "Love for an R.A.F. Lieutenant complicates the life of Jane Lambolt of the WAAFs." Light toning to paper. Light skew to boards. Bright dustjacket with wear mainly at spine, a couple of small chips. Near fine in very good dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover..

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition (London, March, 1872, published posthumously). 8vo. Bound in new cloth binding, gilt titles. Written in 1844 but suppressed by the author for private reasons. A memorial to his daughter, who pre-deceased him. 166 pp., double-column format. Flattened fold to corner of title, a few ticks in pencil. Very good in new binding..

Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1697. Book. Very Good. Quarter Leather. First Edition. Folio. Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1697. First edition. Folio. Quarter leather. Frontispiece engraving. Engraved title page. Imprimatur Fitz-herb. Adams. iii. Lycophronis vita e suida, 2 pp. In hoc Libro continentur, 1 pp. Prolgeomena in Greek and Latin, 4 pp. Alexandra, in Greek and Latin, 145 pp. with notes and variants; Cassandra in Latin iambic, pp. 149-183. Index of Greek words, 22 pp. Index or words appearing in commentaries, 4 pp. Author index, 2 pp. Annotations to Cassandra by Gulielmi Canteri, 11 pp. Canteri prolegomena, 4 pp. Canteri annotations, 30 pp. in Latin. Epitome Cassandrae Graeco-Latina, 4 pp. Commentary on Cassandra by Johannis Meursii in Latin, 70 pp. Johannis Potteri commentary on Cassandra in Latin, 68 pp. Index of Canteri annotations in Latin, 4 pp. Index of Meursii commentary in Latin, 8 pp. Index of Potteri commentary in Latin, 6 pp. Corners rubbed. Solid hinges. Clear rag paper. Very good..

New York: G. P. Putnam, Hurd & Houghton, 1865. Book. Good. Quarter Cloth. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First thus. Marble boards over cloth. Double vignettes. 425 pp. Antique ex-library. Purchased directly from the historical collection of one of the USA's oldest institutions and bearing its hand-dated and hand-numbered bookplate. Water stain on last page and endpaper. Occasional foxing. Hinges cracked. Good condition..

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1865. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. Early. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. New York: Putnam's, 1865. Originally written in 1851. 16mo. Dark green leather, gilt decoration and title on front and spine. Gilt top. Vignette with protective tissue. Decoration at the top of each new chapter or section, end of chapter, and first letter of chapter. A travel book describing an expedition from Seville to Granada. Spine faded, fraying top and bottom of spine, corners bumped, light edgewear. Previous owner (1877) on title page. Very good condition..