Berlin: Williams & Co., 1929. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 170(1)pp. Original decorative stiff gray wrappers with red and light gray lettering on cover. Photo-illustrated front endpapers. Titel page design. The ten vivid b/w photographs depicting London at day and night time printed on red front endpapers are provided by Keystone..... More
New York: Twayne Publishers, (1957). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 409pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Tearing and staining to dj. "...a collection of sixty-odd essays, never before assembled in book form, which presents the noted novelist as a penetrating..... More
Wien; Leipzig: Die Fackel, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 496pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. First edition of this fascinating work compiling essays written by Kraus from 1908 to 1922. Laid in at the end of the book Karl Kraus's obituary folded in four. Minor age wear..... More
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1947. Softcover. Sm. 8vo. 70pp. Gray wrappers. Some creasing, discoloration and rippling to wraps. A New Edition of the Greek text with the Latin translations. Volume II, 2 of "Philosophia Antiqua. A Series of Monographs on Ancient Philosophy." Edited by W.J. Verdenius and J.H. Waszink. 2. Translations..... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan, 1979. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. VIII, 102pp. Original printed wraps with printer's device on front cover. Fascinating work in which Mukarovsky's theory indicates that norm is not statistical; rather, he proposes that cultural behavior, including artistic work, is always understood in relation to a...... More
Pforzheim: Kommissionsverlag von Otto Riecker's Buchhandlung, 1922. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 82pp. 4 Plates. Original illustrated wrappers with black lettering on spine. Illustrated title page. Festschrift to honor Jahannes Reuchling on the 400. anniversary of his death with contributions by various scholars. Reuchling, 1455-1522, was a German humanist and considered..... More
London: Andrew Wilson, 1806. Stereotype edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 118pp. Original calf with gilt border and gold-decorated spine. Raised bands. Some scuffing and staining to boards. Rubbing along,-and to head and tail of spine. Dentelles. Ex libris of "John Berwick" on inside of front board and signature of same on free..... More
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1946. Softcover. Sm. 8vo. 88pp. Gray wrappers. Some creasing, discoloration and rippling to wraps. Volume 1 of "Philosophia Antiqua. A Series of Monographs on Ancient Philosophy." Text in Greek and English. Overall good condition. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (viii) 248pp. Illustrated beige and red dust jacket, with red lettering on the covers and spine. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. This is a first American edition of Virginia Woolf's posthumous collection of essays..... More
Portland, Maine: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. 1/950. Octavo. ix (i), 65 (2)pp. Original gray quarter paper over decorative paper boards with red and black lettering on cream paper label on spine, housed in gray slipcase with black lettering on cover and spine. Title page in red and..... More
Canton: Canton Ledger Company, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 86pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board. Fly leaf inscribed, dated and signed by the author. Frontispiece. Fascinating and scarce work in which the author tells us natural, intimate and characteristic little tales of his home..... More
London: Walter Scott, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vii, (1) 248 (8)pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Preface by Havelock Ellis. Essays on Nietzsche, Casanova, Zola, Huysmans, St. Francis and others by the British pioneer in sexual studies Havelock Ellis. Contains publisher's advertisements, press opinions, a list..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1856. Hardcover. 8vo. 312pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth with title in gold on spine. Chipping on head and tail of spine. Two-inch split along backstrip on tail of spine. Some scuffing and minor staining to boards. Small stamp of previous bookseller on inside of front board..... More
Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1992. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 307, [1]pp. Original printed soft green cloth with white lettering on spine and front cover. The present volume is a collection of essays which examines one important pattern of public discourse in the period from 1776 to 1876, the origins of..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 5-269pp. Very good. Burgundy cloth, the spine is sunned. Top corners bumped. Some normal shelf wear. This collection of essays were compiled for and presented to Georg Swarzenski as a festschrift on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. The essays are..... More
Paris: A. Belin, 1818. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. XV, [1], 416pp. Original full calf with gold lettering and decoration on spine. Marbled endpapers. Printer's device on title page. Ribbon marker. This work contains La Bruyère's masterpiece, the "Caractères", as well as La Bruyère's discourse of admission at the Academy, and his..... More
Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1925. First edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo (8" x 6"). (10), 240, (2)pp. Tan canvas lettered in brown over marbled boards. Publisher's woodcut device on title page. Edition limited to 925 numbered copies (this is #416). Corners rounded and title page with a small spot of soiling..... More
Boston: Robert Brothers, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 117, [1], [8]pp. (advertisements). Original green cloth with black lettering on front cover. Decorative endpapers. Scarce and fascinating work compiling three texts telling about the risks associated with tobacco use. Minor rubbing along edges of binding. Binding and interior in overall very..... More
New York: G.W. Carleton, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (xi) 255pp. + 8pp of publisher's ads. Burgundy blind-stamped cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. This is an original 1871 first edition copy of the thoughts and humorous musings of author M.M. Pomeroy. Includes 6 plates of b/w illustrations..... More
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1971. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. XVIII, 474, VIII, 478pp. Original grey cloth with black lettering on spines. Frontispiece in each volume. Compilations of essays by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, the renowned literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history. In his..... More
New York: Random House, (1937). First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. ix. 281pp. Green cloth with black and green lettering in original dust wrapper. Work by renowned English poet, novelist and essayist Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE, (1909 – 1995), who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1906. Fine-Paper Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. vii,193pp. Half vellum over green cloth board with decorated spine and title-plate. Minor staining and discoloration to binding. Corners rubbed. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Robert Louis Stevensons' thoughts on youth and life. Binding in good-, interior in very good condition..... More
Erfurt: Fr. Bartholomäus, nd. Eighth expanded edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi,493,3pp. Maroon cloth with gilt decorated cover and spine. Slight rubbing of corners and head and tail of spine. 3 pages of publisher advertisement. Die vollständige Sammlung von Toasten, Trinksprüchen, Fest- und Tischreden in Poesie und Prosa für alle Fälle im..... More
Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Baskin, Leonard. First edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto. xxi, (5), 331, (3)pp. White paper, decorated in gilt, with a blue cloth horizontal belly band lettered in gilt. Housed in publisher's blue cardboard slipcase with white horizontal band lettered in blue. Illustrated with 19 mounted black..... More
Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [6], 202pp. Original printed soft blue cloth. This collection of essays presents issues raised by reading Bellow today, reflecting at the same time the range of contemporary Bellow scholarship, its methods, themes, projections, and judgments. The essays have been developed from papers..... More