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1 WALKED OUT OF 2 AND FORGOT IT
Edition: First printing
Millerton, New York: Something Else Press, 1972. Inscribed by Author; Octavo, red cloth, pale green endpapers, black top page edges. pp (vi), 90. Fine in fine jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "To Christopher with great expectations Love Toby Oct. 1976." A first novel by this Detroit woman who was an expatriate living in Canada. Edition of 1k copies. ; Signed by Author 0871100835
Book ID: 37077More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
11 EDWARD STREET (proof copy)
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Talese/Doubleday, 1992. Uncorrected proof in cream non-pictorial card covers. Corner crease to front cover, light spine sunning, VG otherwise. A novel of Dublin.
Book ID: 32352More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
12 POEMS AT THE END OF ANOTHER 1000 YEARS
Edition: First printing
San Mateo, CA: True Heart Publications, 1998. Octavo, 12 pp stapled in lavendar paper covers. Covers faintly sunned at margins, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 47140More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
17 catalogues from Bannatyne Books of London, UK
17 catalogues, 8-16 pp each, stapled in paper covers. Present are no. 1 (Jan., 1984), 2,3,4,7,8,9, 10,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,21,22 (Nov. 1997). Good-VG condition, some with slight annotation or marks. Bannatyne Books were John Buchan specialists and the catalogues contain only books by or pertaining to Buchan. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50283More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
18 STORIES. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz
Edition: First paper edition
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. Card covers. Orange spine letters faded, VG+ otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53544More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
3 BACKYARD DRAMAS, WITH MAMAS
Edition: First printing
Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn. 12mo, pp [8], sewn in green card covers. Fine copy. 400 copies published, May 26, 1967, on the occasion of Loewinsohn's poetry reading at the Unicorn Book Shop. Printed by Alan Brilliant & Jeffrey Sorenson at the Unicorn Press. An early Unicorn imprint. Reportedly most of the edition was scrapped because the author was unhappy with the printing (some of the inking is not perfect). This is Lepper's state "c" (no priority), one of 270 copies thus. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 47177More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
4 POEMS FOR A CHOCOLATE PRINCESS. Poses by Candy Jones
Bloomington, IN: Phillips Publishing Corporation, no date (1969). Quarto, pp [8], stapled in paper covers. One inch split to top spine fold, creased nick to front cover, VG otherwise. Poems with photos of an African-American woman. You don't see titles like this anymore. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 47156More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
85 Poems
Edition: First printing
London: Hutchinson, 1993. Octavo, card covers. Tidy ink owner name at top margin of front free endpaper, with ink date on the other side, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced. 0091775418
Book ID: 35004More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES JOYCE STUDIES
Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Libraries, 1965. Second printing. Green card covers. pp (8), 180, [4]. Bit of rubbing to spine folds, small tears to upper inner corner of rear cover, VG otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50327More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY
Edition: First Canadian issue
University of Toronto Press, 1974. Brown cloth. 226 pp. Fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50758More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF LOUIS MacNEICE
Edition: First Canadian issue
Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1973. Red cloth. pp 136 + frontispiece photo. Index, bound-in ribbon marker. Fine in VG jacket. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50624More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF WYNDHAM LEWIS. With an Introduction by Hugh Kenner (2 volumes)
Edition: First Edition
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. The trade issue. Corduroy spine with printed paper labels and pictorial boards. Fine copy. Cream dust jacket has nicks and shallow creases across top edge, VG+ otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 55239More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF WYNDHAM LEWIS. With an Introduction by Hugh Kenner (2 volumes)
Edition: First Edition
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. The limited issue. Two volumes, hardcover, corduroy spines with printed paper labels and pictorial boards, in a heavy card slipcase, with original plain acetate wrappers. Number 89 of an edition of 200 copies signed by Morrow, Lafourcade, and Kenner. This limited edition also includes as the second volume CROSSING THE FRONTIER, a previously unpublished Lewis story. Books are fine, slipcase has spotting to edges and rear panel and a small abrasion to cover label, unworn otherwise. 1.5 kg parcel; Octavo
Book ID: 55143More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
A BIRTHDAY OF WATERS. Neil Greenberg drawings
Edition: First printing
New York: New Rivers Press, 1977. Paper issue (400 copies). Octavo, card covers. pp (88). Bit of rubbing to spine ends, soft bump to upper outer corners, VG. Poetry. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 47133More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
A BOND HONOURED. A Play. (from Lope de Vega).
Edition: First printing
London: Faber, 1966. Light red cloth. Slight sunning to foot of spine, light endpaper tanning from binding, VG otherwise, no previous owner names. Price-clipped dust jacket faintly soiled, with the remains of a price-sticker above the flap clip, else fine . An adaptation of de Vega's "La Fianza Satisfecha".
Book ID: 12008More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A BOOK OF JESUS
Edition: First printing
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. Squarish 16mo, xii, 143, 5 pp. Blue cloth. Minute rubbing to spine tips, else fine. Price-clipped jacket lightly dust soiled to rear panel; light rubbing to spine folds; spine lightly sunned,; edge nick to front panel; VG+ otherwise. "This little book offers a joyful promise of abiding love and personal fulfillment. Drawing directly on the four Gospels, it retells the story of Jesus in simple language that reveals the true man not only through his teachings but also in his relationships with other people." - jacket flap. Uncommon book by the noted novelist. 0385059795
Book ID: 7513More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A BOOK OF PICTURES
Edition: First Edition
Dulwich Village (England): Oufpost Publication, 1962. Octavo, 16 pp, card covers, Very soft crease to lower outer corners of covers, else fine. Author's third book of poetry. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 40966More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
A BOOK OF PREFACES
New York: Knopf, 1920. Thirrd edition. Black cloth, red topstain. The spine has three small white flecks, bit of rubbing to tips, and the pale green spine lettering is dulled. Topstain sunned and slightly age-darkened, page edges lightly tanned and foxed, light yellowing and foxing to endpapers; a good, sound jacketless copy. First published 1917, this third edition follows the text of the 1918 second and slightly revised edition, but adds a new HLM preface for this third edition.
Book ID: 12937More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A BOOK OF STRANGE SINS
London: Ward Lock, 1900. 7th printing (first was in 1893). Dark green cloth, spine gilt lettered, top edge gilt. (viii), 52, [8, ads] pp. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard inserted. Small light spots to front and rear covers; thin cream endpapers a bit tanned, with consequent offset tanning to first and last page; ink name to front free endpaper; hairline cracks to inner hinges but hinges firm; a nice, bright and unworn copy otherwise of this collection of short stoires, some (all?) of criminous interest. In Hubin and in Queen, The Detective Short Story.; Octavo
Book ID: 12495More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
A BOOKMAN'S CATALOGUE. The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres in the Special Collections of the University of British Columbia. (2 volumes)
Edition: First Edition
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987. Two volumes, dark grey cloth. Nearly fine. 3 kg parcel.; Quarto; pages
Book ID: 55849More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50