London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1823. Third edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (7 5/8 x 5"). [6], 427, [1]pp (Vol. 1); [4], 323, [1]pp (Vol. 2); [4], 380pp (Vol. 3). Original 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and ruling to spines. Originally published in 1821 by Charles..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1867. First edition. Softcover. Small octavo (7 1/2 x 5"). [2], 55, [1]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers. Originally published in "Macmillan's Magazine" (Edinburgh, Vol. XVI, April 1867), "Shooting Niagara: And After?" was written after the passing of the Electoral Reform Act of 1867 in which Carlyle "reaffirmed..... More
Los Angeles: Fremont University Press, 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. 207pp. Half cloth over decorated paper-covered boards with cover plate. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Hand written title-pate. Rubbing to edges and corners. Tiny stains to cover plate. Mimeographed typescript. Small bookplate and address plate from postal service to inside..... More
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1904. First edition. Softcover. 84/200 - Octavo. 30pp. Original green wraps with blue, decorative ruling and blue lettering on cover. Red, green and black lettered title page. Historiated head piece and initial. "These pages contain a Reprint of Mr. Oscar Wilde's Introduction (L'Envoi) to Rose-leaf..... More
Darmstadt: März Verlag, 1969. Softcover. 4to 419 pp. Stiff double wrappers with cut-out grid over multicolored image. Tiny chips on cut out and edges. The text, including poems, is illustrated with b&w photographs, comic strips and pages of facsimile by various literary snd graphic artists. Signature of previous owner. In..... More
Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat der DDR, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Unpaginated. Original vellum covered boards with red lettering on cover and spine. With an epilog by Hans Henning. Treatise of the Faust literature starting with the 16th century with a facsimile reprint of the 17 pages of the "Höllenzwang" located in..... More
Warsaw: Family of the author, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 246pp. Original olive clothe with gilt lettering on spine. Sketches of literature in Jewish jargon. Written by a gentile describing divers Jewish topics, e.g. the difference between Yiddish and Hebrew, contemporary daily life, and fictional life and romance in Jewish..... More
London: Martin Secker, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 215 (1)pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering in dark brown protective dustjacket and modern brown chemise and slipcase with gilt lettering and ruling on red leather label on spine. "Most of these articles were written for newspapers and have appeared in..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd/Left Book Club, 1937. Book Club editon. Softcover. Octavo. (xxiv) 264pp. Orange wrappers, with black lettering on front cover and spine. This is the first book club edition of the nonfiction work by George Orwell. The book is divided into 2 parts. The first part examines and..... More
Berlin: Vortrupp Verlag, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original printed dust-jacket over raw linen spine with blue pattern, over paper covered boards. Fly leaf inscribed by the author. First edition of this fascinating work on Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Kafka. Dust-jacket slightly age-toned. Minor age-toning along edges of binding. Spine slightly..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/155. Quarto. 129, [3]pp. Original cloth spine over decorative paper covered boards, with title-label laid on spine. Frontispiece. Printer's device on title-page. Decorative initials. Mabbott has pulled together here in first book publication a number of short stories previously known only..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 31pp. Original rose colored paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on cover. Frontispiece drawing of Pound by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. First edition of the anonymously published version of this wok. "by T.S. Eliot" in pencil on title page. The manuscript for this..... More
Goettingen: Dieterichsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1877. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. 232pp. Original gray wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Paul de Lagarde (Paul Anton Bötticher) was a noted linguist and a proponent of folkloristic oriented Christianity, German imperialism and known for his anti-Semitism. His writings were widely red and..... More
Berlin: S. Fischer, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XXXXIV, 611, [5]pp. Original half cloth over printed paper covered boards. Ribbon marker. Thomas Mann wrote this essay as a riposte to his brother Heinrich’s criticism of Germany and the war. Mann’s essay justified the authoritarianism and inward “culture” of Germany against..... More
Paris: Editions Flinker, 1955. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/1000. Quarto. 169, [5]pp. Uncut. Original glassine over printed wrappers. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Mann. Limited edition of this work being an homage rendered by the most eminent personalities of the arts and literature at the occasion of Thomas Mann's 80th birthday..... More
![Item #45269 Impressions [SIGNED]. John Updike](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45269.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1556918168)
Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1985. Limited edition. Hardcover. One of 330, out of series, signed John Updike on colophon. Quarto. 76 (1)pp. Gray cloth with gilt-stamped decor on cover, gilt lettering on spine; housed in matching gilt paper-covered slipcase. Original embossed lithograph on title page. First published by Stathis..... More
Moscow, Leningrad: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 278 (1)pp. Original red cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Red top edge. Reports and speeches from the first All-Union of Soviet writers in August 1934. Essay by the "great proletarian author"..... More
![Item #45861 Colloquial Language in Ulysses. A Reference Tool [INSCRIBED]. Robert William Dent](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45861.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1569010089)
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed "To Jack Kolb - In memory of earlier stages of the Joyce project - Bob" on front free endpaper. Original anthracite cloth with gilt lettering on spine, in original dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. "For..... More
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1988. First edition. Softcover. 32mo. 125 (6)pp. Original color-illustrated wraps with gilt lettering on cover, black on spine. Frontispiece. Various writings by the painter Max Beckmann spanning the years 1914 to 1950, including a postwar address from 1950. The final section of the book..... More
Santa Barbara: Joshua Odell Editions, 1994. Reprint. Softcover. Inscribed "Dorothy! Harold! Enjoy! Love! - Ray Bradbury 2/26/95" on recto of frontispiece. Octavo. xv, 174 (2)pp. Original wraps with typographic design on cover, black and whit lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait of Ray Bradbury. Expanded Edition. "Here are eleven exuberant essays..... More
New York: Aurora Verlag, (1946). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 81pp. Stiff wraps with original dust wrapper. Browning to wraps. Some creasing, sunning and minor chipping to dw. Most pages unopened as published. Text in German. Wraps and dw in good, interior in very good condition. Oskar Maria Graf (1894-1967) was..... More
Berlin: Fr. Kortkampf. Buchhandlung fur Staatswissenschaften und Geschichte. Verlag der Reichs-Gesetze, 1885. Hardcover. Ex library. 8vo. 54,[2],pp. Half cloth over marbled boards. Library inventory plate pasted-down on upper left corner of front board. Small plate "1937" pasted across tail of spine. Minor wear to edges. Ex-libris of "Bibliothek Heinrich Stiebel..... More
Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1902. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. (1) 255 (1)pp. Original light plum wraps with brown lettering, decor and publisher's device on cover, brown lettering on spine. Decorative headpieces on each page, decorative and historiated endpieces. First book publication of the German foreign minister to be, including the controversial..... More
Spain: Ian Robertson, 1992. Third edition. Hardcover. 4to. 225,202pp. 1/2000. Beige cloth, blue lettering stamped on front and spine, in original pictorial dust jacket. Sparsely illustrated with color & b/w reproductions of paintings and drawings. Martin Eyries, Chairman of Vallehermoso, compares the investors to which this book is dedicated to..... More
New York: Aurora Verlag, (1946). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 110,[2],pp. Stiff wraps with fold-out flaps with text. Some chipping, sunning, rubbing and minor closed tears to wraps. In 3 parts: I: Gefahrten im Exil, II: Stimmen der Zeit, III: Farewell. Wraps in good-, interior in overall very good condition. Austrian-born..... More