London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. First Edition. Octavo. 303 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Red topstain. Unclipped dust jacket lightly chipped along edges with a few short closed tears. Bit of spotting and rubbing. Boards show just a touch of toning along top edge. Binding..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. 312 pages. Printed dust jacket. Light green boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket chipped along top edge with a 1" closed tear along spine. Heavy toning to spine. Boards worn and toned along edges with brief exposure. Binding is..... More
New York: Roy Publishers, 1954. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 140 pages. Black and white photographs including La Belle et la Bête 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
Brooklyn: Journal of Croatian Studies / Czas Publishing Co., 1971. Reprint from the Journal of Croatian Studies. Inscribed (see note below). Octavo (23x15x0.5cm); 47pp. Stapled gray card covers. Cover shows light sunning, with the negative outline of a sun-blocking bookend on the cover. Textblock unmarred and unmarked, apart from inscription..... More
![Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits [Signed by Both]. Art Spiegelman, Chip...](/pictures/thumb/7300.jpg?v=1600462272)
[San Francisco]: Chronicle Books, 2001. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by Spiegelman with waving arm doodle and by Kidd in enclosed box on front free endpaper. Tall octavo (10.25" x 7"); [145pp.]. Illustrated vinyl wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with a bit of curving at fore-edge. Binding is sound and..... More
![A Passing America: Considerations of Things of Yesterday Fast Fading from our World [Signed]....](/pictures/thumb/7471.jpg?v=1601826578)
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1932. First Edition. Signed by Weygandt on front free endpaper without inscription. Octavo. 330 pages. Color frontis, black and white photographs. Green boards with blue spine label lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. Business card of Clarence Griffin Child laid in at front... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in orange decorative dust jacket; [6],258pp. A few shallow chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, minor darkening at margins of both jacket and boards, corners gently bumped, else a Very Good copy overall. Articles..... More
London: Martin Secker, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in cream photo-illustrated dust jacket printed in maroon; 215pp. A number of small losses and closed tears to jacket extremities, none approaching text, tiny damp stains to spine panel, light dustiness to top text block edge, else a Near Fine..... More
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black; vii,[1],310pp. Spine cloth toned, hair line crack to rear hinge, ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Early collection of travel essays, the..... More
![Introducere in Shakespeareologie [Introduction to Shakespeare Criticism]. Dan A. Lăzărescu](/pictures/thumb/9427.jpg?v=1619626900)
Craiova: Editura Sim Art, 2008. First Thus reprint edition of 1974 limited issue from Editura Univers. Octavo (21x14.5x4cm); 689pp, including chronologies, appendices, and indexes. Entirely in Romanian with the exception of an opening two-page review of Lăzărescu's life and works in English. Pictorial coated wraps. Only the slightest signs..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. First Edition. Octavo. xiii + 646 pages. Seven B&W historical painting reproductions. Cloth-backed boards with gilt spine stamping. Folger Library discard with front pastedown label and pocket at rear. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is sound. A few speckles to edges of text..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 244 pages. Paper-covered boards with paper spine label. Lacks dust jacket. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure, toning to edges, general rubbig, and light spotting at bottom of spine. Binding is sound. Writing in pen to front..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 330 pages. Black boards stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. A series of biographical sketches on such figures as Frederick the Great, Bismarck, and Machiavelli. Boards are lightly worn at edges with some general scuffing. Binding gives a little..... More
New York: John R. Alden, 1887. Small 12mo (161cm.); publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black; 217,[1],[6](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, corners gently bumped, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, sound copy in attractive publisher's cloth binding. You've already deduced that παιδεραστής = pederast, haven't..... More
Bogota: CO: Villegas Editores, 1996. First Edition. Quarto. 147 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Mustard boards stamped in gilt. Color and photo photographs throughout. Black endpapers. Book-length photo essay on the history of Colombia, touching upon race, colonialism, and environmental degradation. Dust jacket is lightly worn at..... More
![Living Up the Street: Narrative Recollections [Inscribed and Signed]. Gary Soto](/pictures/thumb/7025.jpg?v=1597777891)
[New York]: Laurel Hill Books, [1992]. Reprint. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; [8],167pp. Old price sticker to rear wrapper, else Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author to the late Minnesota poet John Rezmerski. Autobiographical essays by the Chicano memoirist and poet. More
![A Summer Life [Inscribed and Signed]. Gary Soto](/pictures/thumb/7020.jpg?v=1597868165)
[New York]: Laurel Leaf Books, [1991]. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; [8],150pp. Wrapper extremities a bit toned, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author to the late Minnesota poet John Rezmerski on title page. Collection of short essays by the Chicano poet and memoirist. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 317 pages. Printed dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Black boards stamped in gilt. Orange topstain. Decorative endpapers. Errata slip tipped in. Dust jacket chipped along edges with heavy toning to spine. Boards show light shelfwear, with gilt along spine..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pale green pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; xi,[3],279pp. Some chipping and a few short closed tears to jacket extremities, most notably small loss at top fore-edge corner of upper panel not approaching text, external panels quite faded..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. First Edition. Octavo. 250 pages + 2 pages advertisements. Red boards with spine stamped in gilt. Chipped at spine ends, more heavily at top. Corners bumped and cracked. Boards somewhat crudely recased but binding now sound. Interior unmarked. A very..... More
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. Limited Edition of 500 copies, this being number 61. Octavo. 31 pages. Drab gray-green dust jacket. Gray boards with white spine and paper spine label. Cardboard corner protector appears contemporaneous. A posthumously published essay on forcible resistance. Employs military metaphors to draw out..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 305 pages + 6 pages advertisements. Blue cloth with silver filigree and gilt lettering to spine. Includes essays on Flaubert, Ibsen, and ends with "An Animated Conversation." Boards show a bit of wear to extremities..... More
Norfolk: New Directions, 1941 [1946]. New Directions offset reprint of 1941 Colt Press edition. Octavo (22x14x2.5cm); 244pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering and rules on spine. [Harrison, Newth, and Candido p. 16] Binding solid; panels show some slight shelf rubbing. Moisture has leeched some pigment from the cloth onto..... More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Art History Research Society, 2006. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's tan decorative paper-covered boards; [2],390pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Corners gently tapped, else Near Fine condition. More
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1920 [but 1929]. Quinzième Édition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's green printed card wrappers; [4],xxviii,303pp. Upper cover and spine toned to tan, the former a bit spotted, textblock uniformly toned, else Near Very Good. Collection of essays on literary theory by the major influencer of the works of..... More