New York: Roy Publishers, 1954. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 140 pages. Black and white photographs including La Belle et la Bete frontis. Price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Green boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is chipped along edges with soiling and rubbing throughout, predominantly to edges. Spine..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; 352pp. Illustrated dustjacket over red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Price-clipped dustjacket shows a couple small tears along edges with creasing to top back and some fading to spine. Boards are sturdy and square. Old phone..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 251 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with original 3.50 price inatct; book in gray boards with spine stamped in gilt. Red topstain. Dust jacket is heavily chipped at edges, corners, and spine ends. Toned and rubbed throughout, but now..... More
![The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine [3 Volumes in Slipcase]. Dante Alighieri, Dorothy...](/pictures/thumb/5991.jpg?v=1579803306)
New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1962. First Edition Thus. Three octavo volumes in slipcase. 346p; 390p; 400p +3 pages charts. Illustrated with a selection of black and white William Blake drawings. Blue cloth-covered boards with navy spine labels, housed in orange slipcase with paper title label. Includes Hell (L'Inferno)..... More
London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 246 pages. Black and white illustrations; folding map at rear. No dust jacket. Red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Institutional copy from the Middle East Institute with white library markings to spine. Bookseller ticket to front board. Corners bumped..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. Stated First American Edition. Octavo; xvii, 199pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; book in silver-stamped patterned cloth-covered boards with beige cloth spine with silver lettering. Jacket very lightly rubbed at bottom corners and tail of spine, but with no chips or tears. Boards..... More
New York: Roy Publishers, 1953. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 170 pages. Black and white illustrations. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with original "$2.75" price present. Mustard boards with spine stamped in light blue. Dust jacket is heavily chipped at spine ends and corners and stained across front and rear..... More
![Dollar Road [Dalen Portland]. Kjartan Fløgstad, Nadia Christensen, trans](/pictures/thumb/5878.jpg?v=1578338771)
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
Boulder, CO: The Golem Press, 1969. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 439 pages. Black and white equations, charts, and graphs throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over red boards with black lettering. Unclipped jacket is faded at spine, with some very light chipping and rubbing to extremities and some toning along top edge..... More
Bethesda: Private Edition [Decatur Press], 1998. Octavo; 127pp. Celadon paper binding with black lettering on face. Haiku verses printed in three parallel formats: original Japanese script; romanized Japanese; and English. Slight fading to spine. Half-dollar-sized light water mark on back cover; goes through to back couple pages. Textblock clean, square..... More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1977. First Edition. Quarto; 144pp, including bibliography and index. Photographic dust jacket. Tan boards with gilt spine lettering. Documentary B&W photographs throughout. Unclipped dust jacket with a hint of fading, showing very polite shelfwear; slight nudging to crown and foot of jacket spine. Boards show..... More
First Edition. London: Cassell and Company LTD, 1956. First Edition with original decorated publisher's box. Octavo. 274 pages. Blue/Purple silk boards in glassine with spine and front board in gilt. White publisher's box printed with title page info on front and price of 31s 6d. net on back. Errata slip..... More
![Quintilian's Institutes of the Orator [Institutio Oratoria] in Twelve Books. Translated from the...](/pictures/thumb/5794.jpg?v=1575486471)
London: B. Law, 1774. First Thus. Octavo; Vol I xii + 404pp; Vol II xii + 441pp + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses bound in. Contemporary tree calf with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine. Gilt filleting on all board edges, and additional trio of small gilt stamps on spine crowns..... More
London: James Duncan, 1827. First Thus. Octavo. xxviii, 551 pages. Drab olive cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Worn with some exposure to extremities. Spine a touch faded. Some staining and scuffing to boards. Markings in pencil to endpapers; some light foxing to pages; binding is sound and pages otherwise..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Stated First Edition. Octavo; xx + 288pp + fold-out storyboard. Black and yellow dust jacket unclipped, but with docked flap corners, as published. Blue-gray cloth with paper title+author panel on spine. Chipping of 1/4" to top and bottom of jacket spine; some jacket..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First American Edition, with integral New York title page and printer's attribution (Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., Edinburgh) on verso. Stub from errata slip attached to inner margin of page [1], but slip itself is missing. Octavo; xiii, 510pp. Publisher's blue cloth-covered boards..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 166 pages. Unclipped dust jacket over beige boards with green lettering. Jacket is toned and rubbed along edges with a few small chips and closed tears along edges. Boards are foxed, with a moderate lean. Interior is clean and unmarked. More