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THE RUIN OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 13431More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
THE SCANDAL OF ULYSSES
Edition: First printing
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991. Blue boards. pp xvi, 265, [5]. Chronology at rear. Text paper lightly toned, boards just a little splayed, else fine in jacket. The history of the text and the story of the controversial Hans Walter Gabler edit of Joyce's masterpiece. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50325More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
THE VICTORIANS AND THEIR READING
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Third printing. Published in the UK as THE VICTORIANS AND THEIR BOOKS. Black cloth, pp 444. Ink owner name, small tan spots to fore edges, VG otherwise in like jacket. "This book is concerned with that side fo the history of literature which tells of the readers rather than of the writers of books. It attempts to show what books, good and bad, were actually read by the Victorians during the first fifty years of the Queen's reign, what they thought of them, and how their reactions influenced the future output." - Preface. An important book on this subject.; Octavo
Book ID: 48069More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
THE WESTERN BOOK TRADE: Cincinnati as a Nineteenth-Century Publishing and Book-Trade Center, Containing a Directory of Cincinnati Publishers, Booksellers, and Members of Allied Trades, 1796-1880 and a Bibliography
Edition: First Edition
Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society, 1961. Brown cloth, illustrated endpapers. pp (xvi), 360 + 3 plates. Index. A fine, jacketless copy.; Octavo
Book ID: 52088More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
THEODORE DREISER: a checklist
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1971. Brown cloth. pp (10), 104. Spine sunning, else fine. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 50272More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
THOMAS CARLYLE. A Descriptive Bibliography.
Edition: First Edition
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography, blue cloth stamped in gilt, (xxii), 543, [3] pp, illustrations in text. A fine copy without jacket (as issued). The definitive bibliography. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 42988More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
THOMAS CARLYLE. A Descriptive Bibliography.
Edition: First Edition
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography, blue cloth stamped in gilt, (xxii), 543, [3] pp, illustrations in text. A fine copy without jacket (as issued). Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.; Octavo.
Book ID: 21242More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THOMAS HOBBES: a bibliography
Edition: First Edition
London: Bibliographical Society, 1952. Quarter linen and grey boards. pp. xvii, [1], 83, [1] + frontispiece portrait and 6 other plates. Numerous full-page facsimiles, index. Mildly ex library, with small tape shadow on spine, pastedowns show evidence of removed labels, blind stamp to title leaf, tape stain to front free endpaper, else a VG clean and unworn copy. A descriptive bibliography, the standard. ; Small quarto
Book ID: 50315More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
THOMAS J. WISE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. The life and record of the forger of the nineteenth-century pamphlets. With an Appendix by George Bernard Shaw
Folkestone & London: Dawson's of Pall Mall, 1974. Facsimile reprint of the 1946 edition. Terra cotta cloth. pp 372 + photos. Index. Bookplate and tidy ink name at front; foot of spine pushed, small corner bruise at head; else fine. Jacket slightly sunned to spine and upper margin of front panel, else fine. This text is an expanded version of Forging Ahead (NY, 1939). 1.1 kg parcel ; Octavo
Book ID: 52452More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
THOMAS MANN: erinnerungen an meinen Vater. Thomas Mann in Ubersetzungen Bibliographie
Bonn: Inter Nations, 1965. pp (64), including a frontispiece portrait. Plain card covers with attached jacket. Small bumps to outer corners, bit of fading to rear cover, ink notation to last page, VG otherwise. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 50554More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
THOMAS WOLFE. A Descriptive Bibliography.
Edition: First Edition
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987. Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography, blue cloth stamped in gilt, (xx), 295, [5] pp, illustrations in text. A fine copy without jacket (as issued).; Octavo.
Book ID: 21251More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
THROWN TO THE WOOLFS: Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press
Edition: First US printing
New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1979. Cloth and boards. pp 164 + photos. Index. Fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo. 0030521912
Book ID: 51042More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THROWN TO THE WOOLFS: Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press
Edition: First printing
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978. Olive boards.. pp 164 + photos. Index. Covers a mite splayed, else fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo.
Book ID: 51854More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
TRISTAN TZARA: a bibliography
Edition: First Edition
London: Aloes Books, 1974. Stapled in card covers. Fine copy of a scarce book. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 50933More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
TURGENEV. A Bibliography of Books 1843-1982 By and About... with a Check-List of Canadian Library Holdings.
Edition: First Edition
Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 1985. Printed card covers, xx, 221 pp. Light yellowing to spine, soft crease to front cover and following leaf, else fine, no owner marks.; Octavo.
Book ID: 33342More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
UPTON SINCLAIR: bibliography and biographical data
New York: Burt Franklin, 1971. Facsimile reprint of the 1935 original. Brown cloth. pp 54. Fine copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50658More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
VIZETELLY & COMPAN[IES]. A Complex Tale of Victorian Printing and Publishing. An Exhibition with Essays by Marie Elena Korey, Yannick Portebois, Dorothy E. Speirs, Richard Landon.
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2003. (140) pp. 11 colour & 67 monochrome illustrations in text. A fine copy. Exhibition catalogue. Includes a complete catalogue of the publications of Vizetelly in all its forms, a checklist of French, Vizetelly, othe r British, and American editions of Zola including publication dates, and more. The best reference for the productions of this most interesting 19th century British publisher, and an essential reference for persons interested in the early publicatio n of Zola in English.; Octavo 0772760446
Book ID: 26595More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749
Oxford University Press, 1992. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Black boards. pp 268 + plates; index, checklist of all titles. Bump to lower outer corner of rear cover and jacket, ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket. A thorough revision of the 1966 edition, with many additions and a new chapter. ; Octavo 0192123025
Book ID: 47993More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
WASHINGTON IRVING: a bibliography compiled by William R.Lanfeld, with the bibliographic assistance of Philip C. Blackburn. With a census of Washington Irving manuscripts by H.L. Kleinfeld
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968. Facsimile reprint. Grey cloth without jacket, as issued. pp 90, 11-32. Page edges lghtly yellowed, else fine. A descriptive bibliography.; Octavo
Book ID: 50318More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
WILDE AND THE NINETIES: an essay and an exhibition...Edited by Charles Ryskamp
Edition: First printing
Priceton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1966. Octavo, marble pattern card covers. pp (iii)-(ix), [1, blank], (65), [3] + reproductions on text paper. Light yellowing to covers and page edges, else near fine, no owner names. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.
Book ID: 38976More details Price: USD $10.95 USD $9.86