New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First American Edition, stated. Octavo. 272 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Light blue and maroon boards with gilt titling to spine. Colored topstain. Price-clipped dust jacket toned and rubbed with a 1" closed tear along top edge of front panel and wear along..... More
![Item #12105 While Rome Burns [Inscribed and Signed]. Alexander Woollcott](/pictures/thumb/12105.jpg?v=1642457776)
New York: Viking Press, 1934. Thirteenth Printing in the year of publication. Large octavo; publisher's cloth in tan pictorial price-clipped dust jacket printed in red and black; viii,328pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities including a number of short closed tears never approaching text, tiny soil spot to front panel..... 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
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
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
![Item #12010 Beginning With My Streets: Baltic Reflections [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Czeslaw...](/pictures/thumb/12010.jpg?v=1642198935)
London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. Publishers, 1992. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in purple pictorial dust jacket, no price as issued; xii,288pp. Light shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. 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
![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
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
![Item #7025 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
![Item #7020 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: 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
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
Norfolk: The Donning Company, 1985. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo; [xii], 548pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $12.95 price intact; bound in black leatherette with silver stamped lettering. Jacket is crisp with faint wear at corners and light scuffing at bottom back. Boards are sturdy and square with a bit..... 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
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. First Edition, limited issue of 300 copies with "First Edition" printed on paper spine label and limitation notice to copyright page. Octavo. 116 pp. Latter 2/3 of pages unopened. Dark gray paper-covered boards with tan cloth spine and paper spine label. Published simultaneously with..... 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