In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles
New York: FSG, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected proof. 8vo, paperback. Mild shelfwear including faint sunning to spine, with contents clean. Related item tipped in. Wraps are housed in mylar.
Literature
A reply to the charges brought by the reviewer of Spence's Anecdotes in the Quarterly review for October 1820 against the last editor of Pope's works
London: A. J. Valpy, 1820. First Printing. Wraps. Disbound pamphlet from "The Pamphleteer," a compilation of various pamphlets, speeches, articles and letters published quarterly and with uncirculated stock bound up at the end of each year and issued as an annual volume. Two staples along left edge else very good.....
Letters to Mr. T. Campbell, as far as regards poetical criticism, &c. &c. and the answer to the writer in the Quarterly review, as far as they relate to the same subjects. Together with an answer to some objections; and further illustrations
London: A. J. Valpy, 1822. Second Edition. Wraps. Disbound pamphlet from "The Pamphleteer," a compilation of various pamphlets, speeches, articles and letters published quarterly and with uncirculated stock bound up at the end of each year and issued as an annual volume. Two staples along left edge else very good.....
Observations on the poetical character of Pope; further elucidating the "Invariable principles of poetry," &c. with a sequel, in reply to Octavius Gilchrist
London: A. J. Valpy, (1820). Wraps. Disbound pamphlet from "The Pamphleteer," a compilation of various pamphlets, speeches, articles and letters published quarterly and with uncirculated stock bound up at the end of each year and issued as an annual volume. Very good, two staples along left edge. 18 pp. This.....
Roll River
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First printing. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, slight mustiness, 603pp.
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Roll River [inscribed]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth, appears to be inscribed by Boyd on the front flyleaf, clean unmarked text, good copy, previous owner's last name in pencil on the front flyleaf above Boyd's inscription, soiling and discoloration to the outer pages, wear to the cloth covers.....
Dorn
New York: Walker and Company, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. Brown paper covered boards in dust jacket, octavo, 190pp., not illustrated. Book has hint of edgewear to spine ends, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has rubbing and mild edgewear.
Due to an Underwhelming Sex Education System in America and Other Works [Inscribed by Boyer!]
no place: Kindle Direct, 2019. First edition. Paperback. Inscribed by Boyer! Printed paper wrap, octavo, 105pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome wrap and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
At Night All Cats Are Grey and Other Stories
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1966. Hardcover. Maroon cloth, gilt spine titles. 8vo. 256pp. Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Mild shelfwear, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, light age toning to contents. Moderate rubbing to dustjacket, sunning to spine, light soiling.
When the Killing's Done - signed copy
New York: Viking Press, 2011. First printing. Hardcover. Boards in dust jacket, fine copy. Signed.
Modern Chivalry, containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan, his servant, Vol. 1 only
Wilmington: George Metz, 1815. Paperback. An early printing of the first volume of this important early American novel by a Pittsburger. 8vo, in early supplied marbled wraps, contents good to very good, has some evidence of old dampstaining and some foxing. Title page lightly worn and soiled.
Phogey!, or How to Have Class in a Classless Society
London: Max Parrish, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1960. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt spine titles. 8vo. 124pp. very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Light soil to edges. Mild wear to dustjacket, a couple of short, closed tears along rear edge, light soil. Inscribed by Malcolm Bradbury to Greg Gatenby.....
Mohawks
New York: Hurst & Co. Hardcover. Arlington Edition. Hardcover. No date. ca.1886. Brown cloth, gilt spine titles. 8vo. 451pp. Very Good (minus). Moderate rubbing to spine-ends and corners, light soiling to edges of text block, moderate age toning to contents.
The Story of Flamenca: The First Modern Novel, Arranged from the Provencial Original of the Thirteenth Century. With Woodcuts by Florence Wyman Ivins
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1922. First Printing. Hardcover. No. 683 of 750 copies. 8vo, cloth backed pictorial boards, very good, lightest wear, handsome little bookplate of a Marnie Weaver. 66 pp, illustrated.
The Jealous God
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition, 1965, hardcover with brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 286pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with handsome boards and tight binding, front inner hinge cracked, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with small tear to rear spine hinge, edgewear.....
Fishing
Toronto: BookThug, 2007. First printing. Paperback. Edition of 100 copies, wraps, about fine. 18 pp.
Boccaccio: The Man and His Works
New York: New York University Press, 1976. Hardcover. 1976, Edition not stated. Hardcover in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear. Owner notation to the front down end paper. Also, underlining and margin notes to pages 5-9, 13-20, 20-22, 28-31, 88-89, 94, 199-206, 217-218, 265-270 . No jacket present...
O vinho do Porto, processo d'uma bestialidade Ingleza, exposicao a Thomaz Ribeiro
Porto: Livraria Chardron, 1903. Hardcover. 8vo, pictorial rose red cloth, very good, light wear and soil, pages tanning. 99 pp. In Portuguese.
Luck
Lincoln, Nebraska: University Of Nebraska Press, 1997. Reprint. Hardcover. 1997, Reprint. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. Condition rates as Fine, in a Near Fine Dust Jacket that shows light shelf wear.
The Untamed
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. First edition thus. Hardcover. Reprint but first edition thus, 1994. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 374 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light wear to the tips of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.....
Lo Real Maravilloso -- inscribed by author -- en la narrativa Latinoamericana actual; Cien Anos de Soledad; El Reino de Este Mundo; Pedro Paramo
Lima: Editorial Unidas, 1978. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear. Inscribed fondly in 1978 to Robert Lima, a Cuban-born poet, playwright and professor of literature and drama at Penn State who worked a lot with South American and Latin American authors, notably Borges and Llosa. Very uncommon.....
Schriften Zum Theater (Uber Eine Nicht-Aristotelische Dramatik)
Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1962. Hardcover. 1962 Hardcover, edition not stated, in Very Good+ condition, corners are bumped, and there is a previous owner name to the front free end paper, and the pages are lightly tanned, else clean and tight. The dust jacket is Good+ condition, showing a neatly closed.....
Brecht Fibel
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Paperback. 1970 Softcover, edition not stated, in Very Good+ condition, with very light shelf wear, and a previous owner name to the front free end paper, else clean and tight. The text is in both German and English. 213 pp.
The Threepenny Opera
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. Hardcover. Hardcover with gilt stamped brown cloth boards, 1993, small quarto, 155pp., illustrated in color. Book near fine with top rear board showing white paint from bookshelf, otherwise fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked, handsome gilt to edges.....
Die Geheimnisse von Wien; Sittengemälde aus der Gegenwart; Vols. 1-4; : Die Ritter vom Griff
Wien: Jasper's Wwe. & Hügel, 1852. First printing. Hardcover. Four vols. bound together in a more recent hardcover binding with new endpapers, 186 + 199 + 177 + 170 pp., Good copy, bookseller stamps on the titlepages, a few erasable pencil notes to some pages of the text, soiling and.....