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A GREAT INIQUITY. Translated by V. Tchertkoff and I.F. Mayo with Note by the Latter.
Edition: First UK edition
Book ID: 5887More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
A LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARS. With portraits and facsimiles. Fourth edition of the revised version (rewritten and enlarged)
New York: Macmillan, 1929. Maroon cloth. pp xlviii, 776 + plates; index. Light wear to head of bit sunned spine (gilt lettering oxidized); glue remains from removed label inside front cover; page edges yellowed; else a VG clean and unworn copy, no owner names. 1.4 kg parcel; Octavo.
Book ID: 52523More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A LITERARY HISTORY OF PERSIA. Volume I: from the earliest times until Firdawsi. Volume II: from Firdawsí to Sa-di. Volume III: the Tartar Dominion (1265-1502). Volume IV: modern times (1500-1924) (4 volume set)
Edition: Later Printings
Cambridge: 1962-1987, 1977. Four volumes. Red cloth. pp xiv, 521; (xvi), 568; (xvi), 586 + plates; xvi, 530 + plates. Indexed. Books are in fine condition, no owner marks. Cream jackets have small tears but VG generally. Volume III is in maroon cloth and lacks its jacket. 3.6 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.; Octavo
Book ID: 55012More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
A LITERARY HISTORY OF THE ARABS
Cambridge University Press, 1985. Octavo; (xxx), 506 pages
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 54672More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
A VOYAGE TO PARNASSUS; Numantia, A Tragedy; The Commerce of Algiers. By Cervantew. Translated from the Spanish by Gordon W#illoughby James Gyll
Edition: First of this translation
London: Alex. Murray & Son, 1870. Octavo, original purple cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered. pp (viii), 288. Nicks, mild wear at head of lightly sunned spine; 1873 ink private owner name at front; foxing to page edges and text early and late; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy of this uncommon edition, a volume in Murray's Reprint series.
Book ID: 31733More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00 -
Absalom and Architopel: a poem
Edition: First Dublin edition
London: Printed and sold by H. Hills, in Black-Fryars, near the Water-Side. For the benefit of the poor, 1708. Disbound. 19.3 cm. 24pp. Recent marbled paper wrappers, front wrapper with paper label. Text has untrimmed edges, somewhat ragged: title leaf creased, with a chip out of lower margin. Two instances of small early marginalia. VG. ESTC N30278; Foxon D450. Untrimmed copy of this anti-whig, biblically themed piece directed primarily against the Earl of Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth. This edition of one of Dryden's greatest satires, first published in 1681, provides at the end of the preface a convenient key to the cast of characters. Absalom and Achitophel is "generally acknowledged as finest political satire in the English language" (Michael Stapleton, in The Cambridge Guide to English Literature). Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 49686More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
ABU NAWAS: genius of poetry
Oxford: Oneworld, 2007. Ink owner name at rear.; Makers of the Muslim World; Octavo; xii, (146) pages
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 54789More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century. Volume I: Earliest era to mid-nineteenth century. Volume II: from 1868 to the present day. (two volumes in one)
New York: Grove Press, 1955. Black and blue cloth. Page edges yellowed; sunning to spine and lower edge of covers, ink owner name at front. Jacket spine has a vertical crease, slight rubbing, shallow chips across head; short tears and rubbing to flap folds. 1.23 kg parcel.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 440 pages
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Book ID: 54256More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
ARABESQUE: narrative structure and the aesthetics of repetition in the 1001 Nights
Edition: First printing
Evanson, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1991. Blue cloth without jacket, as issued. pp x, 155. Index. Fine copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54398More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, to divert the Sultan from the Execution of a bloody Vow...
Book ID: 22873More details Price: USD $875.00 USD $787.50
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BEOWUF: a student edition
Oxford University Press, 1994. Octavo; 244 pages
Condition: Very Good+
Book ID: 54500More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
BEOWULF: an edition with relevant shorter texts. Revised. Including 'Archaeology and Beowulf' by Leslie Webster
Edition: Revised; Eighth Printing
London: Blackwell, 2007. Corner crease to one leaf, else fine. ; B&W Photographs; Octavo; (xiv), 318 pages
Book ID: 54518More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BESPIEGELINGEN van Godt en Gotsdienst...Den Tweeden Drück...[bound with four other works]
Book ID: 24415More details Price: USD $650.00 USD $585.00
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BRIEF LIVES and other selected writings. Edited with an introduction and notes by Anthony Powell
Edition: First Edition
London: Cresset, 1949. Black cloth gilt. Ink owner name at front; a VG unworn jacketless copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 51160More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
CASA GUIDI WINDOWS: A Poem
Edition: First Edition
London: Chapman & Hall, 1851. Original vertically ribbed blue-grey cloth decorated in blind, modern rebacking in grey cloth with leather spine label, original cream endpapers. pp (viii), 140, no publisher's ads at rear, half-title leaf present. Outer corners professionally repaired at tips, mostly erased pencil notations on front endpapers; in all a VG or bit better clean and tight copy, text paper lightly toned but unsullied. Colbeck Collection I, p. 95. Wise 14. The poem was written in support of Italian independence.; Small octavo
Book ID: 28976More details Price: USD $275.00 USD $247.50 -
CLIEVELANDI VINDICIAE, or Clieveland's genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. Purged from the many false & spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true copies...
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 49672More details Price: USD $350.00 USD $315.00 -
COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF SLAVIC LITERATURES. Translated by Richard Noel Porter and Martin P. Price. Edited, with a Foreword, by George A. Zenkovsky.
Edition: First American Edition
Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971. Octavo, pale green printed cloth without dust jacket, as issued. (xii), 225, [3] pp. Bookplate and small ink date to front pastedown, else a fine copy, no marks in text.
Book ID: 14987More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
COMUS, a masque. presented at Ludlow Castle 1634....with notes and critical and explanatory by various commentators, and with preliminary illustrations...by Henry John Todd...
Canturbury: W. Bristow, for Rivingtons, W. Clarke, Fletcher & Co., and J. Deighton, 1798. pp xxi,[3],62,[2];199. With the half-title leaf. Contemporary calf, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, sprinkled page edges. Cracked front joint neatly repaired, now sound; Browing from binding to margins of endpapers and binder's fly leaf front and rear; VG otherwise, text clean, tight, fine. Armorial bookplate at front of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. with ink name at top of Lady Amelia Hume. Both Sir Abraham and Amelia Egerton Hume were keen cultivators of roses. Their friend Joshua Reyolds painted her portrait. The first major variorum edition, containing the first bibliography of the work (pp 193-99). A scarce book.
Book ID: 49741More details Price: USD $275.00 USD $247.50 -
CONFERENCE AVEC M. CLAUDE MINISTRE DU CHARENTON SUR LA MATIERE DE L'EGLISE.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 13146More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
CONFESSIONS: unpublished sonnets, translated from the French into English Verse by Walter Roberts
London: A.W. Mowbray, 1956. Blue cloth. pp (xiv), 72, [2] + frontispiece portrait. Ink owner name at front, offset yellowing to endpapers, else a near fine jacketless copy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo.
Book ID: 52126More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46