New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First Edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 624 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edge worn with small closed tears, not affecting text. Pages clean and unmarked. This issue includes a reproduction of an 1882 drawing, titled "Rain-in-the-Face,"..... More
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1959. First Edition (1044 copies printed). 12mo; publisher's decorative staplebound card wrappers, yapp edges; [4],xlii pp. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, else Very Good and sound. "[B]eing an examination of certain myths, together with an explanation about unfinished manuscripts left by Lovecraft..... More
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1922. First Edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 344 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Cover lightly toned. Edge wear with some small closed tears. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Trimming error by publisher left pages 279 -..... More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Octavo. 300 pp. Black and white photographs. Brick red boards stamped in black. No dust jacket. Boards gently rubbed along edges. Binding is sound. Faint "CC" stamp to bottom edge of text block, but otherwise pages unmarked. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. Stated First Edition. Signed on title page with various inscriptions to "Holly" by Marie Arana, Alice McDermott, Carolyn Parkhurst, and Mary Kay Zuravleff. Octavo; 231pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly shelfworn with a couple small bumps along top front and a...... More
Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2000. Stated First Edition. Octavo; [x], 350pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $30 price intact; book in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; lxxxix, 468pp. Illustrated dust jacket over purple paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with light shelfwear but no chips or tears. Faint bumps to boards at corners and spine ends. Binding is sound and..... More
![Item #9427 Introducere in Shakespeareologie [Introduction to Shakespeare Criticism]. Dan A....](/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
![Item #12001 William Cullen Bryant [American Authors]. David J. Hill](/pictures/thumb/12001.jpg?v=1641916507)
New York: Sheldon and Company, 1879. First Edition. 16mo; 240pp. Engraved frontis with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with black stamped lettering and decoration and gilt title square to spine. Boards rubbed along edges and joints, with light bumping to corners, nudging to spine ends, and some general scuffing to..... More
New York: Russell & Russell, 1966. Reissue. Octavo; xv, 264pp. Beige printed dust jacket with $7.50 price intact; book in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly edgeworn with a few faint smudges but no chips or tears. Light bump to bottom corners of boards, nudging to spine..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; x,[2],300pp.; map endpapers printed in green. Light dust-soil to top textblock edge, slightly later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound overall. More
New York: Horizon Press, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo; 222pp. Printed dust jacket with $4.95 price intact; book in blue paper- and dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, with some smudging and toning to surface. Boards a bit faded along..... 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
Philadelphia: WM. Rutter & Co., 1875. Two Quarto Volumes. 990 p.; 1054 p. Black and white illustrations. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Worn at extremities; corners cracked. Rear joint of volume 1 cracked and separation at spine but binding is holding. Two inch tear to front..... More
![Item #7046 Ezra Pound (Two Vols) [Cahiers de l'Herme series]. Ezra Pound](/pictures/thumb/7046.jpg?v=1597954521)
Paris: Minard Lettres Modernes, 1965. Two volumes; large 4to; pp. 328; [329]-719, [2] leaves of advertisements; 13 photographic plates and facsimiles, one of which is laid in; original white pictorial wrappers (some light soiling), binding a bit warped from damp, general minor shelf wear; a very good set. Prosectus for..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [8],376pp. General shallow shelf wear to jacket extremities including small chip at top margin of rear panel not approaching text, the whole rather toned and lightly dust-soiled, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper..... More
Naples: Riccardo Ricciardi Editore, 1927. First Edition, one of 200 copies printed. Octavo (25x17x1cm); 79pp, including appendix and index. Laid paper wrappers of warm limestone gray, imprinted with publisher's elegant naval emblem and motto: Ventis Secundis—Under Favoring Winds. B&W portrait of Vico as frontispiece. Entirely in Italian. Covers shows..... More
Zurich: Memory/Cage Editions, 1997. Stated First Printing. 12mo; 109pp. Printed paper-covered boards with no jacket, as issued. Bilingual edition in English and German. Boards a bit bumped at corners and spine ends, with some stray smudging. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Text of an conversation between Vetsch..... More
![Item #8452 Il Volgo di Roma: Raccolta di Tradizioni e Costumanze Popolari [Vol. I only]....](/pictures/thumb/8452.jpg?v=1610742489)
Roma: Ermanno Loescher & Co., 1890. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary half vellum over decorative textured boards, black gilt-lettered spine onlay, top edge stained red, decorative endpapers; 252pp.; illus. Light spotting to vellum, spine a bit toned, boards slightly bowed, endpapers and title page somewhat browned due to inferior paper..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. 377 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed along edges to edges and flaps with brief split to rear fold. Boards show very mild shelfwear. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. First U.S. Edition. Four octavo volumes. 574 pp.; 477 pp.; 435 pp.; 555 pp. Frontispiece to each volumes. Printed dust jacket, each with $10.00 price present. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jackets lightly chipped at extremities with some..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. First Edition. 12mo. 350 pages + 1 p. advertisement. Green boards stamped in black and gilt. Forest green endpapers. All edges stained red. Light wear to extremities. Slight lean to spine. Hinges with exposure but binding is holding. Some spotting and scuffing..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Limited Large Paper Edition, numbered 43 of 50 copies and signed "Charles Whittingham & Co." (the Chiswick Press). Bound by J.P. Gray and Son, Cambridge, with binder stamp at bottom of front pastedown. Bookplate of Percy Lancelot Babington, Esquire of Cossington in County..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1930. First Edition. Octavo; xxvii, 378pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Covers lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends, with a bit of fading to spine. Some humidity rippling to preliminary and terminal pages. Long tear lengthwise across 3/4 of pp. 21-22; almost..... More
![Item #7123 The Dial, December 1921, Volume LXXI, Number 6 [featuring Black Spot by O'Keeffe]....](/pictures/thumb/7123.jpg?v=1599931807)
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First Edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 728 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edges rubbed and worn. Chip to top edge of spine with a small closed tear that wraps around to the front cover, text is unaffected..... More