Birth and Education
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1871. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering, 290 pages. By Marie Sophie Schwartz. Tr. from the Swedish, by Selma Borg and Marie A. Brown. More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1871. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering, 290 pages. By Marie Sophie Schwartz. Tr. from the Swedish, by Selma Borg and Marie A. Brown. More
Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1847. Hardcover. French. Tan half-leather binding with marbled paper boards. 592 pp. B&W frontispiece. "Of Germany." Writings concerning German culture and especially German Romanticism. Helped to introduce the concept of Romantic literature to French and other European readers and was thus considerably influential. More
Boston/Toronto: Little Brown and Company, 1974. First. Hardcover. Yellow cloth boards with forest green spine and gilt stamped lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 312 pp. The Ebony Tower, comprising a novella, three stories, and a translation of a medieval French tale, echoes themes from John Fowles's internationally celebrated..... More
London: H.G. Baron, 1860. Hardcover. Green leather boards with gilt design, 5 raised band spine with red title block and gilt lettering/design. Full marbled bookblock. MArbled end pages. viii, 432 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. with illustrations by George Cattermole. More
London: Harrison and Co., 1793-1797. Hardcover. Vols 1-8. Brown leather boards. Red title block with gilt lettering on 5 raised band spine. Gilt decorative elements on spine. Each work has a separate letterpress title page and separate pagination. Contents: v. 1. The rambler ; Letters from a Persian in England..... More
Berlin: Voss, 1779. Hardcover. Original paper wraps are rebound in full green leather boards, gilt lettering on spine with four raised bands, untrimmed pages, 253 pp. Written in German. Nathan The Wise, a dramatic poem, in five acts. More
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt title lettering. 394 pages. More
Philadelphia: J.J. Woodward, 1830. Hardcover. Tan leather boards. Red title block with gilt lettering on spine. Marbled bookblock, inside fornt/back cover, end pages. xlii, [1], 44-484 p. Frontispiece portrait of Pope. More
Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye, 1903. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt and white title lettering. 181 pages. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Hardcover. Gray cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, illustrated dust jacket with black and red lettering, 205 (1) pp. 2 bw illustrations. "Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically..... More
Paris: L. Conard, 1925. Hardcover. Three-quarter leather binding with 5 raised bands, marbled paper boards, and marbled endsheets. Top edge gilded. Book plate on front pastedown. Signed. French. 408 pp. B&W incidental engravings. Volume I of III. Illustrations of Fred-Money engraved on wood by Victor Dutertre. Written in collaboration with..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Green cloth boards wih gilt lettering and illustration. ix pages, 1 leaf, 68 pages frontispiece, 28 plates. More
New York: Modern Library, 1921. Hardcover. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering and decoration. 276 pp. First Modern Library edition. Original title: "Markens grode." The novel which won Hamsun the Nobel Prize for literature just four years before the publication of this edition. A stream of consciousness narrative in the..... More
New York: F. A. Stokes, 1917. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with black lettering and graphics. 317 pages portrait. With candid memoirs like I, Mary MacLane, this controversial Canadian writer helped to usher in a new era of confessional autobiography and to remake the notion of what constituted acceptable subject matter..... More
Lugd. Batav: Apud Elzevirios, 1640. 1st. Hardcover. 3 volumes in 1, B&W frontispiece, brown full leather binding with gilt decoration and lettering. 552 pp. Woodblock capitals. Red speckling on foredge. Latin. The complete philosophical works of L. Annaeus Seneca and the exstant rhetorical works of L. Annaeus Seneca. Works of..... More
Lugd. Batav: Apud Elzevirios, 1649. 2nd. Hardcover. 3 volumes in 1, color frontispiece, brown full leather binding with gilt decoration and lettering. 552 pp. Woodblock capitals. Red speckling on foredge. Latin. The complete philosophical works of L. Annaeus Seneca and the exstant rhetorical works of L. Annaeus Seneca. Works of..... More
London: 1815. Hardcover. Brown leather boards with gilt edging. Red title block with gilt lettering on 5 raised band spine. Marbled end pages Full edge gilt 400pgs. Pictorial engraved title page, 15 aquatint plates, 1 etching, 2 maps (one of which is folding). With aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson... More
Los Angeles: Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2007. Paperback. Black cover with photograph. 631 pages (2 gate- folded) : illustrations (some color), portrait. " WG (Max) Seabald wrote four works of prose fiction before he dies in December 2001 at the young age of 57. Vertigo, The Emigrants, and The Rings..... More