THE GRANDISSIMES CENTENNIAL ESSAYS.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1981. Cloth. Plates First edition in book form. Seven essays on the novel and an annotated bibliography Top edge dusty, else fine in dust jacket.
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW ITALIAN WRITERS EDITED BY... AND SELECTED FROM THE PAGES OF THE REVIEW BOTTEGHE OSCURE.
New York: New Directions, [ 1950]. Grey cloth, stamped in green. First edition. Printed in Rome. Translations by divers hands, including William Packer. Upper spine a bit sunned, small spot to fore-edge, else a very good or better copy in a nice example of the fragile dust jacket that has.....
LE RADEU PREMIER NUMÉRO.
Paris. 31 January 1925. 28pp. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Text stock tanned and partially detached from spine, wrappers a bit smudged, nicked and creased, partial splitting to spine from crown and toe; just about good. The first number (of two published) of this intended monthly, edited by Jacques Calmy, and.....
LITERARY VIEWS CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [ 1964]. Cloth. First edition. Review copy with slip. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a few tiny nicks. Pottle, Trilling, Bowers, Levin, et al.
THE CHRISTIAN BAPTIST, PUBLISHED MONTHLY. Vol. VII.
Bethany: Printed and published by A. Campbell, 1829. 286,[2]pp. Dbd. Moderately foxed. Good. Monthly periodical issued by reform preacher Alexander Campbell (1788-1866). Campbell, a Scottish immigrant to the United States in 1809, was part of the Restoration Movement and founded Bethany College in West Virginia. He edited the CHRISTIAN BAPTIST.....
THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS. THE VOYAGES OF THE BRIG WILLIAMS 1819-1820 AS RECORDED IN CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS AND THE JOURNAL OF MIDSHIPMAN C.W. POYNTER.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000. xv,[1],232pp. plus illustrations. Frontis. Original blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover, gilt- lettered spine. As new. In dust jacket. Poynter's journal is believed to be the only first-hand account of the voyage to survive.
ALBERT CAMUS AND THE MEN OF STONE.
[ San Francisco]: The Greenwood Press, 1971. Large octavo. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. Photographs and facsimiles. Prospectus laid in. A fine copy, in lightly worn slipcase. First edition in English, translated by Gregory H. Davis. One of 750 copies printed by Jack Stauffacher. A gathering of memoirs of Camus.....
CANADA'S FERTILE NORTHLAND A GLIMPSE OF THE ENORMOUS RESOURCES OF PART OF THE UNEXPLORED REGIONS OF THE DOMINION EVIDENCE HEARD BEFORE A SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE OF CANADA DURING THE PARLIAMENTARY SESSION OF 1906- 7, AND THE REPORT BASED THEREON.
Ottawa. 1907. [2],[139]pp. plus plates. 5 large colored folding maps in original accompanying envelope. Envelope chipped and worn, slight chip at base of pamphlet spine, rubberstamp on titlepage. Very good. The maps depict northern Canada, climatic conditions and precipitaion, the Dominion of Canada, northeastern Canada, and locations of mineral deposits.....
CANADA'S FERTILE NORTHLAND A GLIMPSE OF THE ENORMOUS RESOURCES OF PART OF THE UNEXPLORED REGIONS OF THE DOMINION EVIDENCE HEARD BEFORE A SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE OF CANADA DURING THE PARLIAMENTARY SESSION OF 1906- 7, AND THE REPORT BASED THEREON.
Ottawa. 1907. [6],[139]pp. plus sixteen plates, and five folding maps. Book: publisher's green cloth, gilt. Minor wear to spine. Maps: matching publisher's cloth folding case. Bottom edge partially split. Minor toning to maps. Overall very good. The maps depict northern Canada, climatic conditions and precipitaion, the Dominion of Canada, northeastern.....
THE PROLOGUE, A PAMPHLET, CONSISTING OF CONTRIBUTIONS FROM GRADUATES OF SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES: PROSE AND SOME VERSE.
New Haven: Privately printed and to be had of The Dorman Lithographing Company, 1902. Printed wrappers. First edition of this early editorial effort by the educator/critic. Light use at overlap edges, else a nice copy. Apart from Canby, C.B. Tinker is the best known of the other contributors. Fine.
THE DIARY OF A FORTY-NINER.
Boston. 1920. xviii,253pp. Including frontispiece map. Original cloth. Bookplate. Very good. Second printing, after the first of 1906. There has been some question as to the authenticity of this California gold mining diary, but it was supposed to have been kept by Alfred T. Jackson of Norfolk, Ct., and covers.....
CAPRI 1905/1940 FRAMMENTI POSTUMI.
[ Milan]: Feltrinelli, [ 1983]. Oblong octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Heavily illustrated (some in color). Publisher's blindstamp in title, else fine. First edition. A superb overview of the artists, activists and writers resident in Capri for over three decades, both native and expatriated, published to coincide with an exhibition.
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM, OR, UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE, FOR MAY, 1792.
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1792. [4],[181]-248pp. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and cloth, gilt. Titlepage and later typed sheet tipped in at front of text. Text lightly tanned. Very good. May issue for the last year of the AMERICAN MUSEUM..., containing an account of "Western Discoveries" in the "interior regions of America." The.....
GALLERY OF WESTERN PAINTINGS.
New York. 1951. Unpaginated. Small folio. Cloth, pictorial onlay. Inscription on front pastedown. Very good. Reproduces works by Santee, Russell, Leigh, Remington, Dixon, and others.
LETTERS TO AND FROM PERSONS OF QUALITY BEING THE THIRD VOLUME OF IRISH WRITINGS FROM THE AGE OF SWIFT....
Dublin: Printed and Published by The Cadenus Press, 1974. Half calf and marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued. First edition. One of two hundred numbered copies printed by hand. This volume follows the design by Liam Miller for the first volume, which was printed.....
MISCELLANIES IN VERSE BEING THE SECOND VOLUME OF IRISH WRITINGS FROM THE AGE OF SWIFT....
Dublin: Printed and Published by The Cadenus Press, 1973. Half calf and marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued. First edition. One of two hundred numbered copies printed by hand. This volume follows the design by Liam Miller for the first volume, which was printed.....
ANERCA.
[New York / Toronto: New Directions / Dent, 1959]. Oblong quarto. Cloth. Very good, in good, somewhat soiled, rubbed and nicked dust jacket. First edition. The illustrations by the Eskimo artist Enoosweetok were collected by the great film-maker Robert Flaherty while working on his masterpiece NANOOK OF THE NORTH...
ANERCA.
[Toronto: Dent, 1959]. Oblong octavo. Gray cloth, stamped in black. Illustrations by Enooesweetok. Covers darkened at edges and slightly splayed, but a sound copy in tanned and soiled dust jacket, with a few creased tears in top-edge. First edition. The illustrations by the Eskimo artist Enoosweetok were collected by the.....
CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION THE FIRST GOLDEN AGE.
New York: Harper & Row, [1978]. Stiff printed wrapper. Staple marks at top edge of upper wrapper and filing label ghost across lower edge, but very good or better. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition, printing work by Del Ray, Van Vogt, Russell, Sturgeon, Asimov, Heinlein, Wollheim, et al......
THE KINGS' LYRICS LYRICAL POEMS OF THE REIGNS OF KING JAMES I. AND KING CHARLES I. TOGETHER WITH THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT....
New York: Printed for R.H. Russell, 1899. 12mo. Publisher's gilt morocco, t.e.g., with publisher's monogram stamped in gilt on lower board. Portrait and plates. Joints and tips rubbed, spine sunned, bookplate tipped to front pastedown with small old tape tabs, but a good copy, internally about fine. First edition, designed.....
NEW POETS OF IRELAND.
Denver: Alan Swallow, [1963]. Pale green pictorial stiff wrappers. First edition, wrapperbound issue. Trace of sunning at wrapper edges, but very good or better. representative selections by Clarke, Kinsella, Milne, Kiely, Liddy, Montague, Murphy, and others.
THE OLD WIVES' FAIRY TALE BOOK.
New York: Pantheon Books, [1990]. Cloth and boards. Frontispiece. Illustrations by Corinna Sargood. First US edition. Fine in dust jacket.
FLESH AND THE MIRROR ESSAYS ON THE ART OF ANGELA CARTER.
[London: Virago Press, 1994]. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. Introduction by Lorna Sage. A volume of essays in literary criticism on the work of Angela Carter. Contributors include Guido Almansi, Isobel Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, and Elaine Jordan, among others. Uniformly tanned at edges, else about fine.
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MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES [with:] MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES VOLUME TWO.
New York: Privately Printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale, 1930-35. Two volumes. Quarter crimson morocco and gilt black cloth, t.e.g. Pictorial endsheets and illustrations, tipped-in facsimile. Spine ends of first volume rubbed, tiny collector's bookplate and neat calligraphed shelf number of endsheets, otherwise a near fine set. First.....
MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES VOLUME TWO.
New York: Privately Printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935. Quarter crimson morocco and gilt black cloth, t.e.g. Pictorial endsheets and illustrations, tipped-in facsimile. Fine. First edition of the supplementary volume, issued five years after the first. Illustrations by Alban B. Butler Jr. An interesting and important collection.....