Athens: Archeos Ekdhotikos Ikos Dhim. Dhimitrakou & Vivlos, 1954-1955. 6 volumes, quarter black calf, cloth boards, about fine, complete set. In Greek. The author (1851-1911) was considered among the greatest writers of his time, revered by many as the finest Greek writer of short stories, the "top of the peak".....
Madrid: Typographia Mercurii, 1749. 12mo, old limp vellum, good with some rubbing and darkening to covers, old tidemark of damp staining to first several leaves and last several leaves, but generally good, solidly bound, rare on the market.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1882. Paperback. c. 1882. Softcover, in original tan wraps. 30 pp. Catalog of 254 items, with one illustration. Very Good- copy; faint vertical crease affecting the whole book; wraps lightly soiled; top right corner of the front wrap is chipped; small piece of.....
London: Religious Tract Society, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 1925. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in blue cloth with gilt titles, dust jacket. 324pp. 32 illustrations, including 4 in color, by Constance N. Baikie. Very good in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket extremities toned, shallow chipping to dj corners and spine.....
France: Librairie Grund, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. Eight volumes. New edition ("Nouvelle Edition"), 1966. Maroon cloth hardcovers with gilt titles on the spines and front cover, illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine volumes, light foxing or age-toning to the page-edges. All 8 vols. housed in protective mylar (as issued?), some.....
(Boston): The Bibliophile Society, c. 1913. First edition. Hardcover. No date, c. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover, folio, rebound in library buckram. 7 etchings, each mounted and signed by Bicknell. Book measures 15 x 18 inches -- etching sizes vary, but most around 8 x 10 inches. Title page with unsigned.....
Correspondence between the poet and his skin doctor (cummings had a longtime problem with his hands that proved a major distraction psychologically and a significant obstacle to his creative output), the Viennese intellectual Richard Hoffman (1893-1963), a Cambridge area dermatologist who was worldly and well-read, on friendly terms with Hesse.....
Paris: Albin Michel, (1925). First printing. Paperback. First edition (1925), wraps, inscribed by both to theatrical director and actor Edmond Roze (d. 1943 Auschwitz), good copy in original yellow printed wraps, wraps moderately edgeworn, text tanned. Curnonsky was one of the greatest writers and most celebrated writers on French cuisine.....
Akron: The Werner Company, 1900. First printing. Hardcover. First edition. Cloth hardbound that appears to be re-backed (boards look to be original, but black spine-label looks new) with new endpapers, 181 pp., heavily illustrated with chromolithos, clean unmarked text, Good copy only, soil/discoloration to some pages of the text, wear.....
London: Published at the Offices of Country Life by George Newnes, 1903. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1903. Small 4to, original blind embossed and decorated full mahogany leather, Pre-Raphaelite pictorial sepia decorated endpapers, title page in red and black, printed on heavy all-rag paper, 135 (1) pp., illustrated throughout with.....
London and New York: Dent / Dutton, 1909. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1909, tall 8vo, three volumes bound in half crushed cinnamon brown calf, marbled boards, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for Dutton, very good plus, just a touch of spottiness and soil to bindings, contents crisp and clean, numerous.....
York: Old Gaol Museum Press, 1981. First printing. Paperback. This copy is inscribed by Garrett on the titlepage to close friend (and fellow writer) Hilary Masters. First edition, 1981. Softover, 50 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, a bit of age-toning and rubbing to the book's covers. Book housed.....
Paris / Greenwich: Au Vent d'Arles / New York Graphic Society, 1957. Limited ed. loose in folder. Number 157 of 300 copies. 1957. 13 color plates by Braque, reproduced in pochoir by Daniel Jacomet, plus text. Also includes a linen chemise with color cover design produced especially for this edition.....
Philadelphia: J. G. Auner, 1837-1839. First printing. 2 volumes, quarto (11.75 inches tall) uniformly bound in half red leather and marbled boards. The "Nerves" volume very good with light strengthening to joints and inner hinges, small burn mark on front cover (fore edge), contents VG but somewhat foxed, some of.....
New York: Dingwall Rock Limited, 1925. Limited ed. Hardcover. Number 49 of 1,000 copies of the American issue, SIGNED by Clarke, from a total run of 2,000 copies. 1925. Hardcover, 4to., vellum-backed boards, gilt title, teg. 255 pp. With 8 color plates by Clarke, plus numerous B&W plates, in-text figures.....
London: NP, 1779. Hardcover. Stated Second Edition, 1779. 8vo, contemporary flame calf, gilt spine, red morocco title label, very good copy, some neat restoration to outer joints, lacking black spine label, probably with a volume number, as this was uniformly bound with a Dublin 1779 2-vol. printing of Hume's essays.....
Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1775. Hardcover. Although stated Fourth Edition, this is the first American edition. Small 8vo (6.8 inches), contemporary sheep, 299 (11) pp, good plus copy, usual rubbing and scuffing, light wear along joints; front flyleaf replaced with similar laid paper, some damp stain tide marks to rear blank.....
Paris: UNESCO, 1979. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1979. Spiral-bound softcover, unpaginated, illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, some soiling or discoloration to the page-edges and covers, covers also with some rubbing or wear. With braille type. Rare book.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1986. Reprint. 2 Volume set, gray cloth boards in dust jacket, 1518pp.
![La Polvere e la Gloria, Romanzo [Italian translation of Andersonville]. MacKinlay Kantor, Luciana...](/pictures/thumb/0086679.jpg?v=1527887930)
Milan: Rizzoli, 1956. First Edition in Italian. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author to his editor William Targ, in Italian, on the fly leaf. 1956, First Italian edition of Kantor's "Andersonville," a Civil War novel that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Hardcover, red cloth. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust.....
Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1892. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1892. Cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine, 63 pp., Good ex-library copy with typical treatments (bookplates, blindstamp on the titlepage, bar-code sticker on the rear flyleaf, writing to the front cover), soiling and age-toning to the pages and.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1856. First printing. 8vo, half dark green morocco gilt, by Tout, five raised bands, very good, most minor wear, bookplate, with half title, engraved title, frontispiece, letterpress title. Illustrations by Phiz.
Paris and Orleans: André Marty & Marcel Marron, 1907. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, no. 89 of 250. Large quarto (37 cm) bound in half midnight blue levant with raised bands and inlayed fleurs-de-lis on spine, marbled boards, gorgeous blue and red marbled endpapers, binding by Vauthrin relieur. Short texts.....
New York: Thomas C. Watkins, 1895. First edition thus. Hardcover. 1895. First American edition in book form, extra illustrated. Hardcover, small 4to. in three-quarter rich brown morocco and marbled boards, with five raised bands, gilt top edge, and marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound by Blackwell's of London. 587pp. frontis of Du.....
Leipzig: Wolfgang Heinrich Schönermarck, 1745. Hardcover. 3rd edition, 1745. Thick small quarto (8.5 inches, 21.5 cm), good copy, lacking front flyleaf, last two pages of index with edgewear, binding good but dry and rubbed, with some loss of leather to bottom edges of boards, light wear and loss to rear.....