LOVE TALES OF THE QUEEN OF NAVARRE. LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 1133
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1926. Stapled Pamphlet. One of the Little Blue Book series. A nice copy. More
Literature and Fiction
HORNED PIGEON.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. Hard Cover. First Edition. Blue stamp to the front flap and front pastedown. Shelfwear to the edges of the dustjacket, and some rubbing to the spine. Dark blue cloth, with overall..... More
APHRODITE IN AULIS.
London | New York: William Heinemann Ltd. | The Fountain Press, [1930]. Full Leather. Limited Edition. Signed. Numbered 937 of 1825 copies, and signed by the author on the limitation page. Worn and slightly soiled full vellum with gilt lettering..... More
THE BROOK KERITH. A SYRIAN STORY.
Edinburgh: Printed for T. Werner Laurie Ltd. by the Dunedin Press Ltd., 1921. Hard Cover. Fifth Printing. Fifth impression, an edition of 500 copies. Previous owner’s name on the front endpaper. Brown cloth over marbled paper boards. Paper dustjacket with..... More
‘HAIL AND FAREWELL!’ A TRILOGY. I. AVE. II. SALVE. III. VALE. (THREE VOLUMES)
London: William Heinemann, 1911, 1912, [1914]. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition of Hail and Farewell!, complete in three volumes. First State of Vol. I, without the additional leaf tipped in after the front endpaper; First State of Vol. II..... More
A MERE ACCIDENT. (VIZETELLY’S ONE-VOLUME NOVELS. XXVI.)
London: Vizetelly & Co., 1887. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition, matching the description provided in Gilcher’s Bibliography of George Moore. With publisher’s advertisements at the front and rear. Paper clipping pasted onto the verso of the front endpaper. Mild..... More
THE PASSING OF THE ESSENES. A DRAMA IN THREE ACTS.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930. Full Leather. Limited Edition. Signed. Numbered 242 of 775 copies, and signed by the author on the limitation page. Leather bookplate on the front pastedown. Full vellum over beveled boards with gilt lettering and vignette..... More
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[EROTICA] A DUMBFOUNDED PRINCESS.
Paris; Havana. Stapled Pamphlet. A sixteen page piece of erotica, titled A Dumbfounded Princess, with six pages of photographic illustrations. Vertical crease to the covers and text. Green paper wrappers, printed red. Overall in Very Good condition. No copies found..... More
THE ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN IN SEARCH OF A HORSE.
Philadelphia: John W. Moore, 1857. Hard Cover. Sir George Stephen’s The Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of a Horse, with in text illustrations. Publisher’s advertisements at the rear. Foxing. Slight sunning to the spine. Green textured cloth with gilt..... More
OLLIE MISS: A Novel
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935. Illustrated by: Lowell Leroy Balcolm. Octavo. Hard Cover. First Edition. 276pp. Blocks by Lowell Leroy Balcolm; Ex-Library in original binding. Usual library marking which are faint on the spine. No pencil or ink..... More
THREE LIVES. STORIES OF THE GOOD ANNA, MELANCTHA AND THE GENTLE LENA.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. Hard Cover. Later edition of Gertrude Stein’s first published book; a trio of novellas from the perspective of different women, dealing with race, gender, romance, and other themes, each set in the fictional..... More
PATRICIAN STREET
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1940. Hard Cover. First Edition. Not an ex-library copy. Previous owner's name written at top of front paste-down. No pencil or ink markings in text. Edgewear to dustjacket with loss; DJ protected with Mylar Cover..... More
LE DECAMERON DE MAISTRE IEAN BOCACE FLORENTIN. TRADVICT D’ITALIEN EN FRANCOIS, PAR M. ANTOINE LE Maçon, CONSEILLER DU ROY, & TRESORIER DE L’EXTRAORDINAIRE DE SES GUERRES.
A Paris: Chez Iacqves Langlois, au mont sainct Hylaire, 1629. Full Leather. Early Edition. An early edition of Antoine le Maçon’s French translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron. A classic of Renaissance literature, containing 100 tales by numerous narrators, set in the..... More
LES FACECIEUSES NUICTS DU SEIGNEUR STRAPAROLE. TOME I & II. (TWO VOLUMES)
[Paris]: [Guerin], 1726. Full Leather. A collection of stories, first published in 1550, 1553, being some of the first literary versions of fairy tales printed in Europe. Text in French, translated from the original Italian. Title page in red and..... More
MASTRO-DON GESUALDO.
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. Hard Cover. First Edition. Orange cloth with purple paper labels on the front board and spine. With an additional paper label laid in. Toning to the endpapers. Minor chipping to the spine label, and sunning..... More
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SCELTA DI COMMEDIE DEL GOLDONI [Archer Anderson’s Copy]
Parigi | New York: J.-H. Truchy, Libraio | Roe Lockwood & Son, 1847. Quarter Leather. This copy with the bookplate of Confederate soldier and president of the Tredegar Company President Archer Anderson. Archer Anderson was the son of Joseph Reid..... More
THE BEAUTIES OF GOETHE’S “FAUST”.
New York | London | Chicago | Paris | Washington: Brentano’s. 64mo. Full Leather. A copy of The Beauties of Goethe’s Faust, being the romantic and more popular “Faust, Part One” written in dramatic form. Text in English, black with..... More
THE ART OF JOY.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2013]. Hard Cover. First Printing. Goliarda Sapienza’s The Art of Joy, translated into English. A clean copy of the First Printing, with no marks of any kind. Near Fine dustjacket. More
ON TOKYO’S EDGE. GAIJIN TALES FROM POSTWAR JAPAN.
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Red Mountain Press, [2017]. Soft Cover. Signed. A Signed copy of Gordon Ball’s memoir, On Tokyo’s Edge. With no marks of any kind. Softcover. Near Fine. More
THE PRIVATEER
New York: Macmillan, 1952. Hard Cover. First Edition. Dustjacket clipped with the $3.50 price still present. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. There is a previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown. The First American edition. More
THE LORD WON’T MIND
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1970. Hard Cover. First Edition. An exceptionally nice First Edition copy of a high point of mid-century gay fiction. There are no marks in the book and a trace of toning to the endpapers. The..... More
SECESSION. No. 5, JULY 1923.
Munson’s circular announcing Secession described it as “an organ for the youngest generation of American writers who are moving away from the main body of intelligent writing in the United States since 1910. They are defining a new position from..... More
IF YOU TOUCH THEM THEY VANISH
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913. Hard Cover. First Edition. An attractive previous owner bookplate to the front pastedown; all in all, a reasonably bright and attractive copy, though the spine is darkened. More
THE KNIGHT OF THE BLACK FOREST.
New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1885. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition of Grace Denio Litchfield’s The Knight of the Black Forest. Engraved frontispiece and two additional plates. Headpieces and tailpieces. Spots of surface loss to the..... More