Kai Lung's Golden Hours
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1923. First American reprint. Illustrated boards with paper label on spine. More
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1923. First American reprint. Illustrated boards with paper label on spine. More
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1905. Number 207 of 1200. Hardcover. Cream-colored boards with gilt lettering; text block top is gilted; 351 pp; pages are untrimmed on the side and bottom and most are uncut. Text in German. This is Volume I of two Volumes. This is number 207 of 1200 copies. More
Munchen: O.C. Recht Verlag, 1922. Hardcover. Colorfully illustrated boards with red, yellow, blue, grey and black lettering; unpaginated; richly illustrated. Text in German. This is a very cute children's book, containing ten colorfully illustrated stories. More
London: Griffith Farran Okeden, 1884. Hardcover. Green decorative cloth boards with multicolr design. 190 pages. More
Wien: Kunstverlag Anton Schroll & Co., 1918. Low, Fritzi. First. Hardcover. This is a small book, 4.5 x 3.5 inches. Illustrated boards with green lettering; carboard slipcase; illustrated endpapers; 319 pp.; 16 unnumbered pages of plates; richly illustrated. Text in German. This book has bright and colorful illustrations of German..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Hardcover. Purple cloth with gilt lettering on cloth and spine; color illustrated dust jacket, xvii, 129 pp, bw illustrated throughout. Translated by mary Ann Caws from the French edition. "...An undisputed classic of the surrealist movement. Its adulation of love as both mystery and..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1929. Original edition. Hardcover. Red faux wood-grain paper/boards. Black cloth spine. 183 pp. with no illustrations. Publisher's note about spelling, syntax, etc. laid in. The Testament of Beauty is a long poem in four books, and was the last work of the English Poet Laureate..... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. Softcover. Mint green and teal card wraps; 292 pp. with no illus. Broch portrays an apathetic and debased European society - the "guilty guiltless" who unknowingly nurtured the growth of fascism. Broch follows the lives of people, over 3 decades before WWII, who sense..... More
Marlboro, Vermont: The Marlboro Press, 1988. Softcover. Grey wraps with black lettering. 204 pp.; no illustrations. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, this was first published in the US in 1935. Broch continues with his theme of life within a culture whose values are in decay. Includes an afterword by..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Ten-gray cloth, tan dust jacket in mylar cover, 317 pp. A collection of 15 essays by the author, exploring the themes of self and community in literature. "Shows why the public-mindedness of the eighteenth century is as limited a model for readers now..... More
Oxford: OUP, 1974. The World's Classics. Hardcover. Midnight blue cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Pale grey paper dj with red illlus. and lettering. 4x6. 480 pp. with no illus. Anne Bronte's masterpiece, published the year before she died. Includes her preface to the second edition. No. 67 in OUP's series, The World's..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905. Hardcover. Bound in green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; top edge gilt; bw frontispiece in each volume. Volume 1 is 354 pp. Volume 2 is 348 pp. "Anne Brontë's second and last novel was widely and contentiously reviewed upon its 1848 publication, in part because..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; bw illustrated frontispiece with protective guard sheet; xi, 378 pp; 4 unnumbered leaves of plates. Orphan William Crimsworth, raised by aristocratic uncles and educated for the clergy, rejects that life for work at his brother's Yorkshire mill. Treated..... More
London, England: The Folio Society, 1991. Hardcover. green, reflective silk boards w/ gilt spine printing. seven volumes, various pagniations w/ select bw illustrations. green, reflective silk slipcase w/ bold gilt printing. All volumes remain very tightly bound; likely unread. All remain, bright and sharp but for the light sunning to..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905. Hardcover. Two volume set bound in green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; top edge gilt; each volume with bw illustrated frontispiece. Volume 1 is 421 pp. Volume 2 is 406 pp. "With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment..... More
New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Color pictorial cloth, different color pictorial dust jacket in mylar cover, unpaginated, profusely illus. in color. A new approach to the tale of Noah, Mrs. Noah, and the animals. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930. Hardbound. Brown cloth with 3/4 leather tooling 5 raised bands on spine, top edge gilt, [4] 192pp, 1 BW photograph. Introduction by George Edward Woodberry and biographical information by Margaret Lavington. Poem portions are broken down in years for certain portions and by..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1922. Signed. Hardcover. Wood-grained paper/boards. Beige cloth spine with black lettering. Tan paper wraps with black lettering. 53 pp. with no illustrations. 28 poems in rhyming verse on various topics by the brother of American literary critic, biographer, and historian, Van Wyck Brooks. More
Berkeley, California: Oyez, 1969. Hardcover. Beige cloth over boards; Off-white vellum with gilt titling at spine; 23 pp.; Color illus. title page; No other illustrations. 1969 poem by beat poet Brother Antoninus (aka William Everson); Includes an essay by the poet, about the poem; Hand-numbered and signed by Brother Antoninus;..... More
London: Brovan Society, 1922. Number 142 of 250 printed. Hardcover. Half-bound boards with black spine with gilt lettering and design, and red covers; top-edge gilt; 244 pp. (untrimmed). This is one of 250 copies printed on antique paper for private circulation among the members of the Brovan Society. More
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1896. Hardcover. Olive green cloth with dark green decoration, gilt letters on spine and cover, 70 pp. 51 poems by American poetess Alice Brown (1857-1948). More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Blue and white and BW illus. cloth, 154 pp. The psychological self-portrait of English author Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Edited and annotated by James Winny. More
New York: New York University Press, 1968. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt decoration on front cover, blue and black dust jacket in mylar cover, 646 pp. A collection of works by English author Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), with an introduction, notes and variants supplied by Norman Endicott. Contains Religio Medici..... More
New York: Coventry House, 1929. Copy number 44 of 325 printed. Hardcover. half-bound green cloth spine and marbled green and brown boards, with a mounted black title card with gilt lettering; unpaginated. Copy number 44 of 325 printed. More
Concord, Massachusetts: The Sign of the Vine, no date given (circa 1900-1910). Hardcover. Grey paper over boards with small white title plate; Unpaginated, approx. 25 pp.; Illustrated title page and text decoration, but no other illustrations. A small, slim, handsome volume. More