New York: HarperCollins, 2014. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; xiii, 558pp. Photographic dust jacket with $29.99 price intact; book in black and white paper-covered boards with silver lettering tos pine. Jacket bumped at top corner with some adjacent creasing..... More
First Edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. First Edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); [xii], 204p. Illustrated dustjacket over mauve paper- and black cloth-covered boards with bronze lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with very light edgewear but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Moderate..... More
South Pasadena: Semiotext(e), 2017. First Edition. Octavo; 345pp. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth-covered boards with silver lettering. Jacket a bit rubbed along edges with some general smudging to surface, but no chips or tears. Boards bowing outward a bit at fore-edge, else sturdy and solid. Binding is sound and..... More
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New York: Macmillan and Company, 1893. First Edition. 24mo (5.25" x 3.75"); 108pp +8pp ads. Portrait frontis with tissue guard. Mottled blue gray linen boards with black and red lettering and illustration. Front board board bumped at top corner with an adjacent run to cloth. Boards otherwise smudged with a...... More
First Edition. Hardcover. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Stated First Edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); xvi, 209p. Printed dustjacket over black cloth-covered boards. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and barcodes to book, but no card pocket. Jacket crisp but with remnants of mostly-removed laminate, now in a...... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"); xviii, 104p. Photo-illustrated dustjacket over gray paper-covered boards with black lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears..... More
Terre Haute: Dictionary Society of North America, 1984. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 97pp. Portrait frontis. Maroon grained leatherette-covered boards with gilt border and lettering. Covers very faintly shelfworn, but sturdy and square with no bumps or marks. Gilt titling a but dulled. Binding is sound and pages unmarked... More
Lausanne: Éditions Rencontre and Erik Nitsche International, 1963. First Edition. Quarto; 112pp including appended chronology 2000 BCE - 1963. Documentary illustrations in B&W and full color throughout, many of them full page. Bottle green cloth with publisher's device on front panel and spine lettering both embossed in gray. Binding by..... More
First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"); xxiii, 900pp. Peach topstain. In photographic dust jacket with original $35.00 price. Bronze textured cloth boards with spine and front cover stamped in silver and gilt..... More
First Edition. Buenos Aires: Editorial Troquel, 1955. First Edition. Small Octavo; 99 pages. Black and orange printed wraps. Text in Spanish. An introduction to the Argentinian poet, novelist, and politician Leopoldo Lugones, whose work was an influence on authors Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Horacio Quiroga, among others..... More
First Edition. Reseda: Mojave Books, 1974. First Edition. Octavo; 81pp. Red leatherette with gilt lettering. Covers very lightly shelfworn with a bit of a roll to spine. Pencil erasures visible on copyright page, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound. A study of Hay's literary writing, often overshadowed by..... More
First U.S. Edition. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. First U.S. Edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6"); xx, 408p. Blue and green dustjacket over black buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with light edgewear but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are square with a small bump..... More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; 372pp. Illustrated dust jacket over maroon buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket and back board bumped at top corner, else jacket is crisp with no chips or tears and boards sturdy and square. A few..... More
Hardcover. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. Octavo; 231pp. Black, white and orange dust jacket with clipped price. Black cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine. Dust jacket has some edge wear including chipped front top corners and a closed tear (>1 inch) about halfway down..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. First Edition. Octavo; xxiv + 336pp, including bibliography and index. A map, calligraphic reproduction, or historical novel illustration opens each chapter. White dust jacket of laid paper with blue and black lettering and cover illustration. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Dustjacket..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. Turquoise and navy decorative dust jacket by noted Czech book designer Rudolph Ruzicka. Binding also by him, in aegean-blue cloth with silver and turquoise spine stamping, including ivy motifs; author's initials, with ivy motif, stamped in turquoise on front panel. Standard Knopf..... More
Paperback. [Paris]: Editiones du Seuil, 2002. Octavo (10" x 7"); 244p. French-language. Covers lightly shelfworn but with no chips, tears, or marks. Spine straight and unbroken. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
[Paris]: Editiones du Seuil, 2003. Octavo (10" x 7"); 476p. French-language. Front cover and first few pages creased along fore-edge, else lightly shelfworn but with no chips, tears, or marks. Spine straight and unbroken. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
[Paris]: Editions du Seuil, 2002. Mass market paperback; 1177p. Covers show a bump and crease at very bottom front corner, also affecting the first 60 or so pages, but with no chips, tears, or marks. Spine straight and unbroken. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
[Paris]: Editions du Seuil, 2002. Mass market paperback; 1350p. Covers lightly bumped at corners but with no chips, tears, or marks. Spine straight and unbroken. Corner-creasing to 50 or so pages near back, not involving text. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
[Paris]: Editions du Seuil, 2002. Mass market paperback; 1074p. Front cover creased at bottom front, but with no chips, tears, or marks. Spine straight and unbroken. Corner-creasing to first 30 or so pages, not involving text. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
[Paris]: Editions du Seuil, 2002. Mass market paperback; 1046p. Covers lightly shelfworn but with no chips, tears, or marks. Spine straight and unbroken. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
London: John Murray, 1851. Fourth Edition. 16mo; xxxii, 351pp. Engraved portrait frontis. Brown cloth-covered boards with leather spine and corners, black leather spine label, and gilt tooling to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Covers lightly shelfworn with a couple bumps and scuffs to leather, a few smudges to cloth..... More
First Edition. New York: New York University Press, 1997. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on front free endpaper to writer and columnist William Safire and his wife with inscription "For Bill and Helene, these Paris pages in all friendship - Tom. NY 3/97." Octavo; 298pp..... More
Bombay: Shakuntala Publishing House, 1975. Presumed First Edition, with no additional printings indicated. Octavo; viii + 245pp, including index. Cartographic three-color dust jacket. Yellow paper on boards with yellow cloth spine and black stamping. Dust jacket slightly soiled and scuffed; unclipped but with no printed price, as issued; one closed..... More