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A MAN OF GENIUS. A Story of the Judgment of Paris. With Ten Illustrations by W. Story
Edition: First printing
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. Green pictorial cloth stamped in black & white, spine gilt lettered, green topstain. pp (xii), 403, [1, blank], [20, ads] + 10 plates. Spine very lightly darkened; lacking the front free endpaper; ink name on recto of frontispiece; text paper lightly toned; small chips to fore edges of a few leaves from careless opening; front inner hinge repaired with rice pape; else a VG copy. A novel of Devon. Handsome cover design. Mary Patricia Willcocks (1869 - 1952), a Fabian and a feminist, lived much of her life in Exeter, Devon. She possibly influenced Mary Webb, the novelist of Shropshire. According to Edwardian Fiction: an Oxford Companion, the present novel is a rewrite of Hardy's JUDE THE OBSCURE.
Book ID: 23362More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
A MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS: an intimate portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US issue
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1977. Black cloth pp (xiv), 210. Many photos in text, index. Just a litt leaned, else fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo
Book ID: 51813More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
A MASTER OF OUR TIME: a study of Wyndham Lewis
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
London: Methuen, 1951. Sewn in pale green wrappers printed in red. pp 32 + frontispiece portrait. Small corner crease to front cover and first leaf, text paper a little toned, spine fold a little yellowed, else fine. ; Octavo; 32 pages
Book ID: 55237More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
A MINOR APOCALYPSE. Translated by Richard Lourie
Edition: First US printing
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983. Cloth & boards. Red remainder stamp to bottom page edges, bit of sunning to upper and lower margins of boards; VG otherwise. Silver jacket has nicks and crease to spine ends; nick to rear panel; VG otherwise, flap price intact. A novel by an acclaimed Polish writer. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53103More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A MOVING TARGET (proof)
Edition: First US printing
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982. Advance uncorrected proof. Two light spots to fore margin of front cover, spine lightly darkened, else fine. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50085More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A MYSTERY IN NAPLES. Translated by Thomas Simpson
Toronto: Guernica, 2003. Card covers. Reading crease to spiine, else fine. Promotional bookmark laid in. ; 16mo
Book ID: 53124More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
A NATURAL CURIOSITY (signed)
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1989. Blue boards. Octavo, 308 pp. Fine in fine jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The sequel to THE RADIANT WAY. Made from US plates.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 7042More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A NEW HISTORY OF TORMENTS.
Edition: First printing
London: Hutchinson, 1982. Green boards. Small remainder dot to top page edges, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket.; Octavo.
Book ID: 9318More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A NEW SIEGE: an historical meditation
Edition: First printing
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1970. Poet Card 1, single wide sheet of card printed in black and orange folded vertically twice to make six octavo panels. Interior contains the the title poem, dedicated to Bernadette Devlin and subtitled "An Historical Meditation". The poem is about the "troubles" in the North. Small bruise to lower outer corner, else fine. Issued Aug., 1970, per cover. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 2779More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A NIGHT WITH JUPITER and other fantastic stories
Edition: First UK printing
London: Dennis Dobson, 1947. Blue cloth. Yellowing to page edges and lightly to text , else fine. Jacket is only fair - yellowed and rubbed spine has a small hole, large chips to ends; chips along top edges of panels. Book designed by Parker Tyler. Short stories by Henry Miller (2), Miguel Asturias, Clay Perry, Giorgio di Chirico, Paul Childs, Montagu O'Reilly, Ramon J. Sender, Leo Poch, Lydia Cabrera, Leonora Carrington (2), Paul Bowles (at age 8 plus 2 translations), Alva N. Turner, and Raymond Roussel. Illustrations by Alexander Calder, Pavel Tchelitchew, Yves Tanguy Man Ray, Klee, Ernst, others. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53538More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
A NOTE IN MUSIC
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Musson, no date (1930). Black cloth, spine stamped in red. Lacking the front free endpaper; ink name and foxing to front fly leaf; foxing to first few leaves and page edges; VG+ otherwise. Dust jacket (yellow, blue & grey on white background ) has small chips, tears to spine tips & corners; spine a little rubbed and quite darkened with lettering hard to read; lesser age darkening to panels; still a good example, with no lettering or illustration lost. The scarce Canadian issue of the a thor's second book, especially scarce in jacket. Made from UK sheets with cancel title leaf. The jacket bears the Chatto & Windus imprint and price (7s6d).
Book ID: 572More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
"A Note on Michael Ayrton", an essay contained on pp 15-18 of "Spectrum", Volume I, Number 2, Spring-Summer 1957
Goleta, CA: University of California, 1957. pp 72, stapled, in cream card covers. Tan spot to front cover, light soiling and foxing to covers, text very softly rippled from damp but no tide marks except on first and last leaf; VG otherwise. Also contains "The Art of Drawing", an essay by Michael Ayrton, and a section "Homage to Wyndham Lewise 1884 [sic, 1882]-1957". Reproduces a chalk drawing of WL by Ayrton. Lewis' essay is said to be the last piece of writing he produced before his death. A very scarce student magazine. ; Octavo
Book ID: 55247More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A NOWHERE FOR VALLEJO. CHOICES. OCTOBER.
Edition: First printing
New York: NY: Random, (1971). Advance copy for review with review slip laid in giving publication date of 21 April, 1971. 8vo, brown cloth. Fine in fine jacket. Author's 6th collection of poetry.
Book ID: 14196More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A PAGAN PLACE
New York: Knopf, 1970. Second printing. Emerald cloth. Yellow topstain dulled, fore edges yellowed, VG+ otherwise. Dust jacket has nicks and small chip to spine ends, short tear to rear panel, generally VG otherwise, flap price intact.
Book ID: 45931More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
A PAGAN PLACE
Edition: First US printing
New York: Knopf, 1970. Blue-green cloth, yellow topstain. Fine copy. Jacket has one tiny nick to head of spine, crease to fore margin of front flap, else fine. A novel by this fine Irish author.
Book ID: 6322More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A PAINTER OF FLOWERS
Edition: First printing
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972. Blue boards. Fine in fine jacket, no owner names, flap price intact. The author and artist's first novel, set in Rome. ; Octavo 0241021332
Book ID: 589More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE FAMILY
Edition: First printing
New York: Ecco / HarperCollins, 2013. Remainder stripe to bottom page edges, else fine in fine jacket. Short stories.; Octavo
Book ID: 52817More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A PERSONAL NOTE
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Basilike, 1974. [12] pp, sewn, in grey marbled card covers with small printed cover label, title page printed in red. Designed and published by Paul James Davies in an edition of 125 copies. Fine copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 29411More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A PLAY OF ST. GEORGE
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Macmillan, 1948. 12mo. Maroon cloth. (vi), 53 pp. Fine copy. Pinkish jacket has spine sunned to pale green; corners (but not price) clipped from front flap; VG. UK edition also 1948. Wight 116a. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 3673More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A POLITCAL SPEECH. A Transcription from a recording taken at the 1320 Club Symposium Glasgow University, 6th April 1968.
Edition: First printing
Edinburgh: Reprographia, 1972. 15 pp, stapled, in black & white photographic card covers. Fine copy. One word on page 12 is corrected by the publishers with a small printed slip pasted over. The speech was about Scottish independence. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 13138More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46