Science and Literature: A Conference
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1985. First printing. Paperback. octavo, paper wraps, book is in very good condition with sunning and discolorization to boards, 170pp.
Literature
Europe in the Spring
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Second printing. Hardcover. With inscribed business card from Henry Luce (Boothe's eventual husband)! First and second printings before publication, 1940, hardcover with green cloth boards, octavo, 324pp., not illustrated. Book VG with toning to spine, mild soil to boards, binding tight, previous owner's signature.....
Duke Writers and Rhymersa, poems - tales - essays by Students of Creative Writing (English 65-66) 1940-1941
Durham, NC: Duke University, (1941). First printing. Paperback. 12mo, pictorial wraps, good with light wear, 102 pp. Uncommon.
Ashes of Conflict
New York: Milestone/Comet Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. RARE! Signed by Bordas! Presumed first edition, 1958, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 174pp., not illustrated. Book fair with front board showing hard vertical crease that breaks board underneath and tears front pastedown from top to bottom, rear.....
Discusion
Buenos Aires: Emece, 1961. Second Edition. Wraps. 8vo, pale green wraps, very good, minor wear. 181 pp. Part of the publisher's Obras Completas.
El Informe de Brodie (Obras Completas)
Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, 1970. Second printing. Paperback. 1970, Softcover, Spanish text, second printing, 153 pp. Very Good copy: minor wear to wraps; pages have browned, but text remains bright and unmarked.
Labyrinths -- inscribed to Robert Lima by the two editors, Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby
New York: New Directions, C. 1964. Third Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light general wear, some light creasing along spine, inscribed to Robert Lima on title page by the two editors of this book, Yates and Irby. As a young professor, Lima selected for publication, edited, and translated Barrenechea's.....
Leopoldo Lugones
Buennos Aires: Editorial Pleamar, 1965. Second edition. Paperback. 1965, Second edition, Softcover, SPanish text, 114 pp. illustrated. Very Good copy: light soil to wraps; pages have browned, but text remians bright and unmarked.
Otras Inquisiciones
Buenos Aires: Emece, 1960. First Printing. Wraps. First edition from this publisher, part of their Obras Completas of Borges. 8vo, publisher's pale green wraps, very good, light rubbing and minor abrasions. Originally published by SUR in 1952.
Revista Seleccion Cuadernos mensuales de Cultura, No. 3 (1933), with movie reviews by Borges and Lynch's "El Estanciero"
Buenos Aires: 1933. Paperback. 3rd and final issue of this important cultural journal, 7.5 x 5.5 inches, wraps, very good, light wear and soil, with 2 pp. of film reviews by Borges including of King Kong, and printing the whole of Lynch's "El Estanciero" -- Lynch was a reclusive Argentine.....
In Praise of Darkness A Bilingual Edition
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1974. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in very good+ dust jacket, minor edgewear to the dust jacket. Review slip loosely inserted.
Suenos del seductor abandonado: novela vodevil
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Corregidor, 1995. Paperback. Inscribed by the author on business card stapled to front flyleaf. 1995. Paperback. Text in Spanish. 191 pp. Near fine. Very light wear to extremities. Contents clean, bright and unmarked.
Bound volume of publications: The Bible in Spain (1843); Curiosities of Literature (1835); The Rebuke of the Lord, a Sermon (1835); L'Utilité au Ministere Evangelique, Prononcé a New York (1816); La Seule Chose Necessaire, Sermon D'Adieu at la Congregation de L'Eglise Protestante...New York (1826, inscribed by Peneveyre); American Notes (1842)
Philadelphia, Jamaica (NY), New York: Various, 1816-1843. Hardcover. Bound volume, 8vo, half leather, good with some rubbing and wear to boards, contents very good. The Bible in Spain is a stated 4th edition, printed in two columns. Curiosities of Literature appears to be an entire issue of Alexandrian, printed in.....
Storie di animali e persone
San Giovanni Valdarno: Mastrociliega, 1990s. Hardcover. A finely printed limited edition, author unknown, but apparently sold at the artisanal craftworks of Mastrociliegia in San Giovanni Valdarno, ca. 1990s. 8.5 x 6.25, cloth backed orange cloth boards, 31 pp, illustrated. Very good. A group of very short stories with charming illustrations.....
Conseils a ma Fille, 2 volumes
Paris: Chez Rosa, 1812. Hardcover. Second edition, 2 volumes, small 8vo, old calf gilt, very good, light wear and stains. 19 plates and two engraved title pages. French playwright best known for a play about a woman who dresses as a man to rescue her husband from prison, the basis.....
Le Diamant de la Reine, suivi de Le Louveteau - inscribed copy - no. 10 of 12 on Japon
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1932. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1932, no. 10 of 12 on Japon, wraps bound into plain undyed buckram with red leather spine label, inscribed by author to a Msr. Robert Maringuet. Bourget was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature five times, but now is largely.....
Venus
new york: Tor, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by author at title page. 302 pp. Hardcover. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Book looks and feels new, like right off the shelf. All contents clean, bright and unmarked. DJ housed in mylar sleeve. This book came from a......
A World of Love
New York: Knopf, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 1955. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo., 244 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Sunning to covers and spine. Light offsetting to endpapers. Edgewear to DJ, especially at spine-ends. Light sunning spine of DJ.
Reversal
New York: Eloquent Books, 2008. First printing. Hardcover. octavo, illustrated boards, no DJ, book is in very good + condition with mild wear to boards and mild soiling to the text block, 287pp.
Feminine Wiles
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First edition. Paperback. First paperback edition, 1976. Softcover, illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, a bit of soiling or discoloration to the covers.
The Delicate Prey and other stories
New York: Random House, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good or better with expected toning of pages, jacket good plus with general moderate wear and light loss and rubbing to corners, tips and extremities, spine of jacket green whereas front is an earth brown.
Let It Come Down
New York: Random House, 1952. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good in dust jacket, book very good with some toning, previous owner's bookplate owner jacket flap (William Targ, editor, author and bibliophile); small abrasion on flyleaf where his address sticker probably used to be, and previous owner (we can hardly believe.....
A Little Stone
London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, green cloth in dust jacket and in black cloth slipcase. Book near fine with just a touch of tiny fox marks sprinkled on fore-edge of text block and light offsetting to endpapers; jacket is fine, crisp and bright. Author's second book.....
The Spider's House, a novel of Morocco today
New York: Random House, 1955. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book near fine, just a touch of toning to contents, jacket very good with general light rubbing and soil but no chips, tears or creases. Housed in handsome black cloth slipcase.
Up Above the World
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, grey cloth in dust jacket. Pages are mildly toned, with offsetting to endpapers. Fading to edges of boards and bumping to spine ends. Unclipped dust jacket has shallow rubbing and wear to extremities, and light creasing to front flap.