New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First Edition. First printing stated on copyright page. With some uncut pages. In original, clipped, jacket in protective sheet and with price ($2.75) still visible. Jacket with some staining and spotting, relatively minor. Brown cloth over boards with gilded lettering and lines to front.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1956. 2nd or later. Edited with and introduction by Irwin Edman. Lacking jacket. Green cloth over boards with black labels and gilding on front and spine. Some bumping to head and tail of spine and rubbing to edges and corners. Interior is toned, otherwise clean.....
New York: Modern Library, 1927 [Later]. Later Edition. With a new introduction by the author. A second or later edition of Modern Library 137 in original, unclipped ($1.25), jacket and with 348 titles on verso of jacket. Jacket in mylar with some chipping and rubbing. Grey cloth over boards with.....
Strassburg (possibly): Argentorati (per Josiam Rihelium), 1578. Early Edition. Intricate stamped cover. Right side of cover is missing part of the leather and is separating from boards on the bottom. Stamped image of man and woman with child is on front cover with a crest on the back cover. Words.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1958. 3rd or later. Selected, and with an introduction, by Clark Kinnaird. In original, unclipped ($5.95), jacket in mylar. Minor creasing on back of jacket. Rust brown leatherette over covers with debossed device on front and gilded lettering on spine. Former owner signature on ffep.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. First Edition. A critical review of the history and stylizations of poetic verse in English language. In original, unclipped (14s. Net), jacket in protetive sheet. Minor chipping along spine. Blue cloth over boards with gilded lettering to spine. Minor spotting to edges. Siganture on ffep.....
London / New York: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, 1910. 1st Edition. This book is in good/very good condition. The first printing of this book included 1250 books, of which 300 were for the American market – this being one of the 300.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1955. 2nd or later. With a foreward by Philip Blair Rice, of Kenyon College. Lacking jacket. In blue cloth over boards with black labels on front and spine with gilding. Top edge stained blue. Pencil notes on half-title and some pencil underlining and marginal marks.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1929. 2nd or later. With a new introduction by the author. No jacket. Grey cloth over boards with gilded lettering inside blue labels on front and spine; some gilding rubbed, corners bumped, overall holding firmly. Interior is lightly toned, otherwise is clean and clear. Pages: (18) 363.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1950. 2nd or later. The first comprehensive, single-volume edition of the writings of Henry David Thoreau. Edited, and with a biographical introduction, by Brooks Atkinson. In original, clipped, jacket with 388 titles on verso. Jacket in mylar with some rubbing at creasing at lower edge.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893. First Edition. Containing essays on the art of illustration, especially regarding those used in Harpers publishing. Of note are essays on John Singer Sargent and Honoré Daumier. Including seven illustrations in the text plus a frontispiece portrait of Henry James under attached thin paper.....
New York: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1905. Fourth Edition. Fourth edition of this collection of critical essays by Henry James on Emerson, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenieff, among others. Bound in burgudy cloth over boards with debossed rule to covers and gilding on spine. Edges rough cut and a......
New York: The Modern Library, 1945. 2nd or later. In original, clipped, dust jacket in mylar. Reverse of jacket contains 367 titles. Some minor chipping and ceases to jacket, especially at creases and corners. Green cloth over boards with gilded lettering inside black labels on front and spine with additional.....
London: W. Jackson, 1819. New Edition. Volume XLI only. Bound in original ¾ marbled boards with leather corners and spine. Spine labels worn and chipped, but present; four raised bands on spine, gilded letters. General wear to edges with some chipping and creasing at joints. Bookplate inside front cover; ffep.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1958. 3rd or later. Including "A Tale of a Tub," "The Battle of the Books," "A Modest Proposal," and selections from his letters, essays, and poems. Edited, with an introduction by Ricardo Quintana. In original, clipped, jacket with 383 titles on verso. Jacket shows general.....
Venice: Aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri (Aldine Press), 1528 (April). A rare Aldine edition of this work which includes the Dream of Scipio, from Book VI of Cicero's De Republica, and is the most well known exceprt as it survivded in its entirety. It was Macrobe's commentary on this.....
Francofurti (Frankfurt): Melchiorem Hartmannum, 1601. Later Edition. Bound in embossed pigskin with remains of clasps to boards. Beautiful embossing, tightly bound, some foxing/discoloration throughout but does not mar ability to read. Marks and stains to covers. Italic text in Latin. Final blank missing ? of the page, cleanly torn. Pages: 333 Dimensions: 3⅝.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1950. 2nd or later. Edited, with a Biographical Introduction, by Brooks Atkinson. Foreward by Tremaine McDowell. Second or later edition from The Modern Library. No jacket. Blue cloth over boards with gilded lettering in red labels on front and spine; some gilding rubbed, just rounded.....
Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1940. Early. Early printing from Blue Ribbon Books of the collection of humorous essays and stories. No jacket (I did not find any currently for sale with a jacket). Red cloth over boards with black lettering. Gentle bumping to head and tail of spine, as.....
London: J. Haddon, 1819. New Edition. Volume XXII only. Bound in original ¾ marbled boards with leather corners and spine. Spine labels worn and chipped, but present; four raised bands on spine, gilded letters. General wear to edges with some chipping and creasing at joints. Bookplate inside front cover. First.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1956. 2nd or later. Edited with an introduction by Haskell M. Block. In original, unclipped ($1.95), jacket with titles on verso (number not provided). Jacket is in mylar with some chipping at head and tail of spine. Red cloth over boards with debossed device on.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1956. 2nd or later. Edited with an introduction by Haskell M. Block. In original, unclipped ($1.95), jacket with titles on verso (number not provided). Jacket is in mylar with some creasing at head and tail of spine. Red cloth over boards with debossed device on.....