New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943]. Stated First American Edition. Octavo. 218 pages. Busoni-illustrated dust jacket with original $2.00 price present. Light blue boards stamped in black. One of Simenon's first "hard novels," as opposed to his more popular mystery novels often featuring Inspector Maigret... More

New York: S.F. Vanni, 1950. Octavo. 243 pages. Navy cloth stamped in gilt. Text in original Italian with English translation facing. No dust jacket. Originally published in 1877, Odi Barbare is the sixth book of poetry from the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Light..... More

London: Chatto & Windus, [ca.1880]. New Edition. Two octavo volumes; I: viii, 531pp, II: [iv], 550pp. Marbled paper-covered boards and leather spine and corner tips, with leather spine labels and gilt lettering and decoration down spines. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Boards edgeworn with scuffing to leather at corners..... More

Los Angeles: Cloverfield Press, 2006. Limited Edition of 1000 copies, this being no. 844. 12mo. Unpaginated. Illustrated dust jacket. Turquoise wraps. Text in English. Basis for the 2004 film, this short story was also included in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, published in the US and UK in 2006... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's grey decorative paper-covered boards stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; vii,[1],185pp. Minimal shelf wear, light foxing and brief soil to textblock with a faint curve to front board, else a superlative, Very Good to Near Fine copy. Copyright..... More

London: Printed for the Translator, By A. Wilson, Wild-Court, 1803. Octavo. 76 pages. 41 fold-out plates, as there are two plates number 35s. All present. Original blue and tan paper boards with brown spine label. Volume II only. Boards are chipped along spine with some loss. Edges worn with..... More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1872]. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's green cloth, upper cover lettered in blind, gilt-lettered spine; [2],291pp.; portrait frontispiece. Boards slightly scuffed with brief exposure at corners, spine a bit cocked and cloth rather toned, covers quite dust-soiled and discolored, front hinge cracked; overall Good, internally..... More

La Habana / Havana, Cuba: Maria Luisa Gómez Mena, 1944. First Edition. Octavo; 207pp. Twenty full-page color plates bound in; nearly 80 full- and partial-page B&W reproductions; 14 B&W photographic or painted portraits of the artists covered. Text in parallel Spanish and English throughout, including a separate title page for..... More

N.p.: Golden Hind Press, 1935. Privately Printed; Limited Edition of 1000 copies of which 950 were for sale. Octavo; 218pp. Illustrated title page, with few charts and tables throughout. Patterned paper-covered boards and ivory spine with gilt lettering and erotic illustration. Boards bumped at corners with the bottom front corner..... More

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. First English Edition. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "For Jeffery Paine, very best wishes, Kjartan Fløgstad." Octavo; [viii] + 203pp. Three-color dust jacket with Pegasus Prize image and explanation on back. Tan boards with red metallic stamping on spine. Unclipped jacket with..... More

Boston: Joseph Bumstead, 1804. First American Edition. Small octavo; original full sheep, red gilt spine label; viii,296[i.e. 299]pp. Leather rather dried and scuffed at extremities, some peeling to upper cover, lacking front endpapers, long shallow loss along bottom margin of title page and first leaf of text not quite touching..... More

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Octavo; 32pp. Illustrated beveled boards with red cloth spine. Patterned endpapers. Full color chromolithographic illustrations in mid 19th-century pastels on every page. All textblock edges stained in red. Boards soiled with eroded and bumped edges and corners. Irregular horizontal abrasion runs across front panel. Cloth..... More

London: David Nutt, 1893. First Thus. Duodecimo. 209 pages. Blue cloth stamped in decorative gilt. Worn at extremities and cracked at top of front joint. Binding and interior are sound. A sensation upon its publication in 1669, this epistolary work of fiction has had its authorship disputed over the..... More