Berlin: Mayer & Müller, 1903. Softcover. 8vo. 44pp. Original printed wraps. Critical study by Joseph Unna of the poem "The Spider and the Flie" by English dramatist John Heywood (c. 1497-c. 1580). Heywood was employed at the court of King Henry III as a singer, playwright and musician. When Elizabeth..... More
Leipzig: Julis Zeitler, 1905. Hardcover. 8vo. 65pp. Brown paper covered boards. Top edge maroon. Forepage edge untrimmed. Brown endpapers. Work on Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874 – 1929). Written by renowned German writer and translator Rudolf Borchardt (see below). Age wear and staining..... More
Mexico: Linotipografia Economica, (1944). Softcover. 8vo. vii,285pp. Original wrappers. Name of previous owner in pencil on front wrapper. One-inch closed tear along tail of spine. Minor chipping to tail of spine. Creasing, discoloration, rubbing and slight staining to wrappers. Frontispiece of Gabriel Aguirre Gomez. Long inscription by Gomez on title-page..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1986. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Red buckram boards with gilt ruling, devices and lettering on covers and spines. The volumes feature facsimile reproductions of the original scholarly biographies that were included as introductions to the works of various Victorian era poets, in A.H. Miles's original publication "The..... More
Lewistown, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo. 80pp. Brown cloth with publishers signature stamped in gold on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. "...as adapted in Middle English by the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, together with Treatise on Discretion of Spirits and Epistle on..... More
Tokyo: Meiji-Shobo, 1956. Softcover. Ex library. Folio. Original wrappers with glassine jacket. Heavy chipping and tearing on glassine. Library bookplate on inside of front wrapper. Usual age toning to outer edges of pages. Small library stamp on free rear endpaper. Text by Ichitaro Kondo. Notes on Kabuki Subjects Teruji Yoshida..... More
Nürnberg: "Der Bund" Nürnberg, 1921. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 70pp. Half cloth over dark gray boards with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Head of spine bumped. Minor chipping to tail of spine. Front corner bumped and worn. Minor discoloration to upper area of boards. The book is in two..... More
Paris: Presses De La Fondation Nationale Des Sciences Politiques, (1990). First edition thus. Softcover. 8vo. 309pp. Illustrated stiff paper wraps. Inscribed by author to the famous historian Yosef Yerushalmi on half title page. Overall very good condition. Text in French. More
Llanidloes: John Pryse, 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 3/4 x 6"). xxii, 762, [20]pp. Original blind-stamped pebbled cloth, with gold lettering to spine. All paper edges red. First edition of Reverend William Bowlands' compilation of a Register of Books published in Wales, or having reference thereto. Includes a list of subscribers..... More
Mexico: Imp. de V. Agüeros, Editor, 1897. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo. Original half calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers. Decorative title page. Fifth volume of this captivating work on one of Mexico's foremost historians and archeologues. Joaquin Garcia collected historical documents and translated them..... More
Paris: Librairie Victor Lecoffre, 1900. Second edition. Hardcover. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4"). xvi, 444pp. Modern green cloth, with white lettering to spine. Original printed wrappers bound in. To this day, Rubens Duval's History of Syriac Literature remains one of the best - and most readable - introductions to Syriac..... More
Bern: Limited Editions Club, 1966. First edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto. xxiv, 308, (2)pp. Gilt illustrated black cloth, green spine label. Housed in publishers yellow cardboard slipcase with green spine label. Illustrated with 6 color plates by Hans Erni (5, are double-page). Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363)..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. Vol.1: (xviii) 432pp. + 25pp. of publisher's catalog at rear. Vol.2: (vi) 495pp. (including index). Burgundy buckram boards, with gilt lettering on spine. Top and side edges uncut. Portrait etchings of Carlyle and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle, at..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (vii) 270pp. + 32 pages of publisher's ads at the rear. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Pages uncut. Albumen portrait frontispiece of Tennyson. The work is a biography of Tennyson's life and work, including six pages of..... More
Toulouse: J. Castellvi, 1931. 8vo. 153 + (1-TOC) pp. In French. Green wrapping. Book is in fair condition. This is the doctorate theses of Ber Krakowski, on the Psychology of the German and Jewish people as depicted in the writings of Romain Rolland, French novelist, dramatist, essayist, mystic and pacifist..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a friend on free front endpaper. Octavo. viii-262pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Fore and bottom page edges partly uncut as issued. 'i wish in this volume to present a conception of poetry freed from..... More
New-Haven: Peck and Newton, 1834. Reprint. Hardcover. Large quarto. [6], 468, [2], 260pp. Original 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and ruling on spine. This remarkable volume contains all of the 12 issues of the Metropolitan magazine published from January to December 1834, as well as..... More
London: Arthur Press, 1929. First edition. Softcover. 4to. viii. 100 pp. Illustrated paper wrappers. Parts of backstrip missing, but binding intact and book firmly attached. Tears, creasing, scuffing and staining to wrappers. Some staining to first few and last few pages not affecting text. "The 'Enemy' is the notorious author..... More
Lipsiae (Leipzig): Libraria Weidmannia (Weidmann), 1808. Ninth edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 5 1/2").lxvii, [1], 924pp. Modern green cloth, with gold lettering to spine. "Ellipses Graecae" is Dutch scholar Lambert Bos' most famous book. It was originally published in 1702 and was translated into English by John Seager in 1830. Our copy..... More
Madrid: Tip. de la "Revista de Arch., Bibl. y Mus." 1925. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 303pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wraps with printer's device on front cover and title-page. Scarce and fascinating work on the life and work of the Spanish scholar and humanist Francisco Cascales. It is..... More
Stuttgart: Chr. Belser Verlag, 1940. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 61 (1)pp. Original photo-illustrated wraps with black lettering on cover. Frontispiece photograph. "Satchel-Script" by the High Command of the armed forces, department homeland, no. 32. publisher's device on title page. Patriotic writing to strengthen and encourage soldiers in their duties while..... More
Berlin: Verlag Scherl, ca. 1933. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 127 (1)pp. Original design of wraps with black and rose lettering on cover, black on spine, protected by modern mylar. Publisher's device on title page. Hussong was the editor in chief for Scherl publishers. He is know for his antidemocratic stance..... More
Graz: Leuschner & Lubensky, 1887. Second edition completely revised and greatly expanded. Hardcover. Quarto. xi, (1) 887pp. 3/4 green cloth over decorative paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. In depth account of the history of Slavic people in relation to their literature. Covers history of Aryan and Non-Aryan periods..... More
Madrid: Iberoamericana; Vervuert, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 609, [1]pp. Original decorative printed paper covered boards."More than a thousand and one tales of the Golden Age" is a fascinating collection of six manuscripts on sayings and deeds running by word of mouth among the Spanish people during the sixteenth century..... More
London: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vii. 386pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Some scuffing and discoloration to boards. Gilt top edge. Fore-and bottom edges untrimmed. Name of previous owner to front..... More