Category: Literature

Ray Bradbury Review.

By: (BRADBURY, RAY). WILLIAM E. NOLAN, ED.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: San Diego, The Ray Bradbury Review : 1952

Seller ID: 8545

Condition: Very Good

63 pp.; stapled, illustrated black & white wrappers; vignettes, drawings, including a full page illustration for Bradbury's, Time Intervening. Chips and creases to wraps at corners; soil to white back cover.
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Perseus and His Philosophies. (Inscribed by the author to his mother).

By: (Howard, Charles F.).

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Saunders and Otley : 1852

Seller ID: 6723

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

267 pp.; 8vo; patterned green cloth lettered in gilt. Splitting and wear through along joints, but firm, likely repaired; hinges somewhat roughly repaired; signatures sprung; page 263 with closed 3 inch slice at bottom leading corner slightly into text block; scattered foxing lower margins p. 262 on. Ownership name top leading corner front pastedown [R. McMurray, Manchester]; also written in pencil top margin of title page. Inscribed " To My Mother, from her ever affectionate son, 30 June 1851, The Author." Holding together as serviceable example of a scarce title, and after all his first book...
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Image for The Portfolio. View of St. Bride's Church, and the Ruins Caused by the Recent Fires in Fleet Street. No. XCVIII [or No. 113 of Vol. IV]; Saturday, Dec. 11, 1824.

The Portfolio. View of St. Bride's Church, and the Ruins Caused by the Recent Fires in Fleet Street. No. XCVIII [or No. 113 of Vol. IV]; Saturday, Dec. 11, 1824.

By: (JOURNAL).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, William Charlton Wright. : 1824

Seller ID: 8971

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

(15 pp.) from continuous p. 209-224; 8vo; cover illustration. Perfect bound into later blud card covers with owner's cover label in pen, View of St. Bride's Church. Cover and text, occassional light foxing.
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Mark Twain's Sojourn in Tuolumne County, California. Genesis of a Literary Giant.

By: (Mark Twain).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sonora, CA, Tuolumne County Historical Society : 1987

Seller ID: 8082

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

162 pp.; 8vo; pictorial yellow wrappers. Illustrated with photographs and other reproductions. A few faint spots of soil.
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Norman Douglas (1868 Thu ringen - 1952 Capri), Schriftsteller.

By: (Norman Douglas).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bergenz, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum : 2000

Seller ID: 10317

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Exhibition Catalog with text in German, English, and Italian. 364pp.; 8vo; wrappers; illustrations. Catalog A (171 items), Catalog B (72 items) in back, also illustrated with photographs and other reproductions.
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Image for [3 items] 1. Norman Douglas (1868 Thu ringen - 1952 Capri), Schriftsteller 2. Norman Douglas 9. Symposium 3. Norman Douglas [Twayne's Authors Series].

[3 items] 1. Norman Douglas (1868 Thu ringen - 1952 Capri), Schriftsteller 2. Norman Douglas 9. Symposium 3. Norman Douglas [Twayne's Authors Series].

By: (Norman Douglas); Lindeman, Ralph D.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Bergenz; New York, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum 2000; 2001; 1965 : 2000

Seller ID: 10315

ISBN-13: 9783901802058

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

3 volumes; 8vo; first two fined condition in wrappers, third is cloth in price clipped jacket with light wear. First volume is an Exhibition Catalog with text in German, English, and Italian. 364pp.; 8vo; wrappers; illustrations. Catalog A (171 items), Catalog B (72 items) in back, also illustrated with photographs and other reproductions. SYMPOSIUM: 45pp.; green wrappers; photographs and other reproductions. LINDEMAN, contains a select bibliography.
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The San Francisco of Robert Louis Stevenson. The San Francisco Westerners, Argonaut, Number Eight, February 1980.

By: (ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: San Francisco, San Francisco Corrall of the Westerners : 1980

Seller ID: 9218

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

(29) pp., including inside back cover; 12mo; stapled, printed white wrappers with moderate tanning to extremities. Frontis; vignettes from engravings atop each page. Reprinted to honor the Centennial of Robert Louis Stevensons visit to San Francisco, as presented by Dr. Albert Shumate, February 26, 1980. Printed by John F. Hard, Clamprinter.
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The Hermit in York: a series of essays on a variety of subjects.

By: (Sidney, Philip F.).

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Hull Printed for Rich. Allanson sold by J. Craggs (1823) : 1823

Seller ID: 7470

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

(i), title, (ii) advertisement,129 pp., 16mo; original printed paper over boards, spine repaired with later paper backstrip; later catalogue description label on front pastedown; covers soiled; hinges probably repaired, holding very firm. The Essays were composed for the Yorkshire Gazette and published in the columns of that journal.
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STANFORD SHORT STORIES NINETEEN FORTY-NINE.

By: (Stegner, Wallace) Ed.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Palo Alto, California, Stanford Univ. Press : 1949

Seller ID: 95

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj, in Mylar Wrap

8vo. Beige cloth in chipped & lightly soiled dust jacket.

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Seven Irish Tales [signed].

By: ABBE, ELFRIEDE, WOODCUTS BY.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press (1957) : 1957

Seller ID: 9043

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No. 256 of 275 copies, signed on the limitation page by Elfriede Abbe. Designed, illustrated, hand-set, and hand-printed by Elfriede Abbe for Cornell University Press. The illustrations were printed from the original wood blocks. 44 pp.; 4to; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With large and small text illustrations, illustrated chapter heads, vignettes, and 4 full page plates. Including: The legend of Knockgrafton, by T.C. Croker; Far Darrig in Donegal, by L. Maclintock; Daniel O'Rourke, by T.C. Croker; The Giant's Stairs, by T.C. Croker; Flory Cantillon's Funeral, by T.C. Croker; The Long ...
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Correspondance Avec Elie et Florence Halevy.

By: ALAIN.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Gallimard : 1958

Seller ID: 8777

ISBN-13: 9782070200696

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

467 pp.; 8vo; wrappers; one plate with photographs of Alain & Elie Halevy. Light foxing, tanning and soil to covers; half-inch loss at foot of spine. Text in French.
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To Be In England, An American literary man's personal view of the England he found while exploring its literary sites. Together with, Victorian Studies in Scarlet, murders and manners in the age of Victoria.

By: Altick, Richard.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: N.Y., W. W. Norton & Company Inc. 1969, 1970 : 1969

Seller ID: 6284

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Two separate volumes; 8vo; cloth in dust jackets. Moderate foxing to top edges, else solid, clean reading copies. very good s in protective mylar
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The Enchanted Galleon.

By: Anderson, David.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Privately Printed : 1930

Seller ID: 5725

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

No. 33 of 60 copies printed. 18 pp.; tall quarto; gray cloth; printed green paper cover label; without slipcase. Frontispiece of the Stevenson Monument by Ansel Adams, pencil signed lower right corner. Frontis has the usual hotizontal shadows of offset from facing, printed page. Faint scattered flecks of soil to cover; hint of darkening to spine. The colophon states: "This book was privately printed for Garfield D. Merner and is didicated by him to Flodden W. Heron in apperciation of a Stevenson Night given by Mr. Heron before the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. It was printed by Cecil and Ja...
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Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia. With the collaboration of Biljana Sljivic-Simsic.

By: Armistead, Samuel G., and Joseph H. Silverman, editors.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philidelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press : 1971

Seller ID: 9747

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

129pp.; 8vo; green wrappers. Preserving for posterity, the uncommonly rich balladry of the Sephardic Jews of Bosnia.
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Donn Byrne, a Descriptive Bibliography, 1912-1935

By: Bannister

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York & London, Garland Publishing : 1982

Seller ID: 10444

ISBN-13: 9780824095024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Green cloth; half-tone reproductions; 27 half-tone figures reproducing jackets, endpapers, manuscript pages, etc. Forward by Paul Mellon. ; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 226; 10.0 X 8.0 X 2.0 inches; 311 pages
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Five Stories of Ferrara.

By: Bassani, Giorgio.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: N.Y., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1971

Seller ID: 9515

ISBN-13: 9780151314003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

8vo; cloth in dust jacket. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Touch of soil to white back panel of jacket. Near Fine , with protective mylar wrap
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Njal's Saga.

By: Bayerschmidt, Carl F., and Lee M. Hollander, translators.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: N.Y., New York University Press : 1955

Seller ID: 4224

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Very Good dust jacket, in protective mylar wrap

389 pp., including extensive notes; 8vo; cloth in dust jacket with chips & short closed tears at extremities, fading to spine.

The best known and best loved of the medieval Icelandic sagas.
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Early Middle English Verse and Prose. With a Glossary by Norman Davis; Second Edition.

By: Bennett, J.A.W. And G.V. Smithers, Editors.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford, At the Clarendon Press : 1968

Seller ID: 9748

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

620pp; 8vo; blue cloth in price-clipped jacket, with small chips at top of spine. Near Fine , with protective mylar wrap
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The Epistolary Novel in the Late Eighteenth Century, A Descriptive and Bibliographical Study.

By: Black, Frank Gees.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Eugene, University of Oregon : 1940

Seller ID: 9804

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

184pp, incl. indexes, appendices, alphabetical & chronological lists; 4to; printed tan wrappers with stain across front leading top corner, otherwise clean.
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The Epistolary Novel in the Late Eighteenth Century, A Descriptive and Bibliographical Study.

By: Black, Frank Gees.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Eugene, University of Oregon Press : 1940

Seller ID: 10022

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

184pp.; 4to; printed tan wrappers. Includes index; chronological and alphabetical lists of epistolary fiction; appendices, including epistolary fiction in vers, and in periodicals. Closed 1" tear at foredge of page 171.
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Category: Literature