The Comedies of Ariosto
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. Hardcover. Red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, review slip laid in. DJ has mild edgewear.
Literature
The Birds & The Frogs -- Easton 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
Norwalk: Easton Press, C. 1979. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, deep green full leather gilt, fine sharp copy, no bookplates or marks, watered silk endpapers, illustrated by Marian Parry.
A Night of Watching
New York: Charles Scribner's, 1967. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page. Also signed by the author's wife and dedicatee of the book, the actress Glynis Johns, on the copyright page. 1967, First Printing, 441 pp. Hardcover, light purple cloth. Near Fine copy with minor shelfwear.....
The Time of the Gringo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 612pp., not illustrated. Book has hint of rubbing to rear board, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild edgewear that includes a small chip to spine head that is reinforced with tape.....
The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Volume VII. God and the Bible
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1970. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book about fine, jacket very good, spine has lost all of its blue color and is now a yellowish cream color. 593 pp.
Sheila's Daughter
New York: Original Novels, Inc., 1952. First edition. Paperback. Presumed first edition, 1952, paperback, octavo, 128pp., not illustrated. Book VG with mild shelfwear to wrap, stapled binding tight, text has toning throughout and some creasing to corners. No DJ.
Alibiforain alias Clochemerle -- inscribed
Monte Carlo: Le Pied a L'Etrier, 1967. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil, inscribed in 1970 by the author. A Swiftian satire based on the fictionalized town made famous by Chevallier. Uncommon.
The Body-Builder's Book of Love (Brevario de Amor de un Halterofilo)
New Brunswick, NJ: ESTRENO Plays, 1999. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 43pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of wear to corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Harper's Monthly Magazine, No. 637, June 1903
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First edition. Paperback. Wraps, 10x7 inches. Good with expected wear and soil. International magazine of literature, humor, art, and science; featuring stories, poems, essays, illustrations, advertisements, etc.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 587, April 1899
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First edition. Paperback. Wraps, 10x7 inches. Good with expected wear and soil. International magazine of literature, humor, art, and science; featuring stories, poems, essays, illustrations, advertisements, etc.
Out in the World, a novel
New York: Carleton, 1865. Hardcover. Early printing. Cloth 8vo, good with light wear to spine ends. 312 pp.
The Wedding Guest: A Friend of the Bride and Groom
Philadelphia: Theodore Bliss, C. 1869. Hardcover. Later edition. 8vo, purple cloth gilt, good with some wear and fading to spine, contents very good, 300 pp, occasional plate.
Three Years in a Man-Trap
Philadelphia: J. M. Stoddart & Co., 1872. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1872. Rust cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine and black designs to the front cover and spine, 364 pp. + ads., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, soiling or age-toning to the pages and page-edges.....
Beauties and Achievements of the Blind
Dansville, NY: Published for the Authors, 1854. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, dark brown cloth gilt, very good, lightest wear to bottom of title page, some discoloration to endpapers, edges of textblock appear to have been neatly gilded by a long-ago owner, contents very good, binding nice and bright. 387 pp......
A Calabash of Life: A Novel
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1968. Second printing. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 153pp., not illustrated. Book has rubbing and wear to wrap, binding tight, previous owner's small initials to front endpaper, otherwise text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Red Moon, Red Lake; Stories by Ascher / Straus
Kingston: McPherson & Company, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1988. Green cloth hardcover with paper onlay in acetate dust jacket, 128, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light rubbing to the tips of the book's covers, minor wear to the dust jacket, ISBN label.....
A Nest if Ninnies
Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. octavo, white and blue cloth boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good + condition, jacket shows edgewear and rubbing, book shows light wear, 191pp.
A Nest of Ninnies -- inscribed by Ashbery to Harry Rigby (Tony award winning writer-producer)
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1975. Paperback. Reprint of the Dutton original of 1969. Small 8vo, wraps (cover design by Brainard), light rubbing and wear, very good, inscribed to Harry Rigby in 1977 by Ashbery. Rigby (1925-1985) was born in Pittsburgh and went on to be a 6-time Tony winner for.....
From a Surgeon's Diary
Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, 1977, hardcover with brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 196pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of wear to spine ends, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with hint of rubbing, now in archival.....
The Young Visiters; or, Mr. Salteenas Plan
London: Chatto & Windus, 1919. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1919. Cloth-backed marbled boards with paper spine-label, 85 pp., clean unmarked text, Good copy, minor ex-library treatments (bookplate on the front pastedown, small library stamps to a couple of pages), off-setting or discoloration to some pages, rubbing and wear to.....
P. Terenti Afri Comoediae: The Comedies of Terence
New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. Second edition. Hardcover. Fourth printing of second edition, 1957, hardcover with brown cloth boards, octavo, staggared pagination, not illustrated. Book VG+ with rubbing to boards and spine, mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout, with.....
Valentino: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century in Italy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885. Hardcover. Green and gilt stamped gray cloth boards, octavo, 325pp., not illustrated. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, rubbing, small spot of soil to spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
The Mulatta and Mr. Fly
London: Peter Owen, 1963. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild edgewear to boards and spine, binding tight, endpapers foxed and off-set, otherwise text clean and unmarked but edges of block are foxed. DJ has edgewear that includes small tears and related creases, rubbing.....
The White Morning
New York: Stokes, 1918. First. Hardcover. First edition, rare in dust jacket. 195 pp. Hardcover, red cloth, 8vo., gilt titles, picture label at front board, tissue-covered frontis. Very Good copy in Good dust jacket. Cloth shows light edgewear, minor bumping at head and foot of spine; label and gilt lightly.....
Literary Criticism in Antiquity: A Sketch of its Development (Volume II, Graeco-Roman)
Gloucester, Mass: Peter Smith, 1961. Reprint. Hardcover. 1961 Hardcover. This is volume No. 2 only in this 2 volume set. In Very Good condition, with light shelf wear, and moderate soil to the boards.