![Item #59997] Cytherea. Joseph HERGESHEIMER](/pictures/medium/59997.jpg?v=1670287445)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (19.25cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-371,[7]pp. Trivial offsetting to endpapers, with a tiny crimp at crown, else a fresh, Fine copy. In the yellow variant dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.50), with trivial..... More
![Item #59996] The Glass Key. Dashiell HAMMETT](/images/noimage.png)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First American Edition. Hammett's fourth novel, set in a nameless city modeled on Baltimore, MD, where he grew up. "Like Personville in Red Harvest, the city is controlled by crooked politicians in league with various mobster factions; but in The Glass Key Hammett gives..... More
![Item #59995] Gravities: A Collection of Poems and Drawings [Signed]. Seamus HEANEY, Noel CONNOR,...](/pictures/medium/59995.jpg?v=1670287445)
New Castle Upon Tyne: Charlotte Press Publications, 1979. First Edition. First Impression. Oblong quarto (24.25cm x 17.75cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [iv],22,[2]pp; illus. Signed by Heaney on the half-title page, dated April 1985. Light wear to extremities, a few mild surface scuffs to wrappers, else contents clean; Very Good+ or..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. First American Edition. "Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne – the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a...... More
![Item #59992] Stations [Signed]. Seamus HEANEY](/pictures/medium/59992.jpg?v=1670287445)
Belfast: Ulsterman Publications, 1975. First Edition. First Impression, with spelling error on p.3, line 10. Slim octavo (21.75cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [2],3-24pp. Signed by Heaney on the title page, dated August 1985. Trivial wear to wrapper extremities, tiny stain to lower edge of textblock, else very Near Fine. A...... More
![Item #58948] Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War [Presentation Copy]. Frances Butler...](/pictures/medium/58948.jpg?v=1670012283)
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Purple cloth, stamped in black and gilt with statue of R. E. Lee on front; dark blue coated endpapers; [xii],347,[1]pp. Inscribed "With the Authoress' sincere regards" on half-title. a straight, sound copy, faded at spine and board edges..... More
![Item #59489] Permit Me Voyage. James AGEE, Archibald MACLEISH, poems, foreword](/pictures/medium/59489.jpg?v=1669766405)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); light green cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[4],5-59,[3]pp. Gentle sunning to spine ends, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), edgeworn and spine-sunned, with numerous tears and creases, and some..... More
![Item #59365] An Early Christmas [Limited Edition, Signed]. Reynolds PRICE](/pictures/medium/59365.jpg?v=1669766404)
Rocky Mount, NC: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, 1992. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.68. Octavo (22.5cm); marbled paper-covered boards and brown cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],53,[5]pp. A Fine copy..... More
![Item #59980] The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE,...](/pictures/medium/59980.jpg?v=1669242724)
New York: Dryden Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm). Blue cloth titled in black on gilt panels; xviii,1082pp. Former owner's name in pencil on f.f.e.p. Sound, lightly rubbed, paper mildly toned: Very Good. An "impressive and indispensable anthology" of African-American writing from Phillis Wheatley to Richard Wright, considered at its..... More
![Item #59785] The Marvelous Musical Prodigy, Blind Tom, The Negro Boy Pianist, Whose Performances...](/pictures/medium/59785.jpg?v=1669242724)
New York: French & Wheat, N.d. [ca 1868?]. First Edition. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet; original pictorial wrappers; 30,(2)pp. Expert paper restoration at bound edge, with stitching renewed; mild wear to wrapper edges; a complete, attractive copy. Tom Wiggins, born into slavery in 1849, revealed his prodigious musical abilities at a very..... More
![Item #59459] Ulysses S. Grant [Inscribed to Isaac J. Wistar]. Owen WISTER](/pictures/medium/59459.jpg?v=1669242724)
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1900. First Edition. Sharp copy of Wister's contribution to the "Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans" series, a short biographical treatment of Ulysses S. Grant. With a contemporary inscription to American author, lawyer, and Union Army General Isaac J. Wistar, who began his military career with..... More
![Item #58422] Und Sie Bewegt Sich Doch! Freie Deutsche Dichtung. RADICAL, PROLETARIAN LITERATURE,...](/pictures/medium/58422.jpg?v=1669242724)
London: Freie Deutsche Jugend, 1943. First Edition. Attractive copy of this important collection of exile anti-Fascist verse, published by the Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth), an underground socialist network that operated in exile from 1938 to 1946. Foreword by the Austrian Expressionist painter and poet Oskar Kokoschka, whose work..... More
![Item #55069] The Western Guide Book and Emigrant's Directory; Containing General Descriptions of...](/pictures/medium/55069.jpg?v=1669680150)
Buffalo: Oliver G. Steele, 1834. Second Edition. 12mo (14.5cm). In original green paper-covered boards, printed in black, sympathetically rebacked with light brown cloth; plain endpapers; 90, 2pp; ads to rear board. With numerous contemporary ink inscriptions to endpapers, including a note about the birth of a child in 1842. A...... More
![Item #46766] An Address Delivered to the Inhabitants of New Lanark, on the First of January,...](/pictures/medium/46766.jpg?v=1669680149)
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Third Edition. Robert Owen first purchased the textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland, from his father-in-law in 1799 and set about experimenting his socialist theories in the management of the business and its community. Owen's greatest success was revolutionizing the early education..... More
![Item #59976] From Bishop to Witch: The System of the Sacred in Early Modern Terra d'Otranto....](/pictures/medium/59976.jpg?v=1669601648)
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Black cloth in light brown dust jacket; [xii],292pp; black and white map. Bumped at spine ends, lightly dusty at top edge, else Near Fine. Jacket faded at spine, lightly rubbed at edges, else Very Good. More
![Item #59974] Father Six: Parish Priest and Viceroy. GRAHAM GREENE, Armand OLICHON, Graham Greene,...](/pictures/medium/59974.jpg?v=1669601648)
London: Burns & Oates, (1954). First Edition. First impression. 12mo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; publisher's red top-stain; viii,100pp. Church library stamp to rear pastedown; small spot of sticker residue at base of jacket, else a Fine copy. Includes a brief (2pp) introduction by Graham Greene. A somewhat under-the-radar Greene contribution..... More
![Item #59973] Nahida Remy's The Jewish Woman. With a Preface by Prof. Dr. Lazarus (Fourth...](/pictures/medium/59973.jpg?v=1669601648)
New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1923. Fourth edition. 12mo. Publishers ribbed red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 293,(1)pp. Mild cover soil; text a bit toned at margins; a tight, Very Good copy. Translation of Remy's Das Jüdische Weib (1892). More
![Item #59971] Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man. Thomas REID, Baruch A. Brody, introd](/pictures/medium/59971.jpg?v=1669677847)
Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, (1969). Reprint. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover; xxxix,808pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else a tight, unmarked copy, Near Fine. Reproduced from volumes II and III of Reid's Collected Works (1814-1815). More
![Item #59970] Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind. Thomas REID, Baruch A. Brody, introd](/pictures/medium/59970.jpg?v=1669677847)
Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, (1969). Reprint. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover; xxiv,481pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else a tight, unmarked set, Near Fine. Reproduced from volumes III and IV of Reid's Collected Works (1815). More
![Item #59969] French Ways and Their Meaning. Edith WHARTON](/pictures/medium/59969.jpg?v=1669601648)
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1919. First Edition. First printing, with "(1)" on final page of text. Octavo (19.5cm). Green cloth stamped in gilt, red, and blue-grey, with dark grey topstain; [xiv],[150]pp. Occasional pencil side-lining. Pushed at head and tail, else Very Good or better. More
Bologna: Società Editrice il Mulino, 2009. First Edition. Octavo. Three cloth hardcover volumes in dustjackets; fourth volume (supplement) in wrappers; 2922+117pp; in original publisher's slipcase. A fine, apparently unread set. The slipcase is complete but beginning to separate at edges, just Very Good. Fourth and final installment of the Mulino..... More
![Item #59967] Selected Poems. D. H. LAWRENCE, David Herbert](/pictures/medium/59967.jpg?v=1669601648)
London: Martin Secker, 1934. First Edition. First impression. 12mo. Red beveled cloth-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; red publisher's top-stain; 184pp. A few faint and inconspicuous spots of foxing to endpapers, else Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 5s. net at base of front flap); lightly edgeworn and a shade darkened..... More
![Item #59962] Segregation: the Inner Conflict in the South. Robert Penn WARREN](/pictures/medium/59962.jpg?v=1669601648)
New York: Random House, 1956. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 66pp. Mild bumps to board corners, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.95 on front flap); lightly edgeworn; Very Good. More
![Item #59960] Do What You Will: Essays. Aldous HUXLEY](/pictures/medium/59960.jpg?v=1669601648)
London: Chatto and Windus, 1929. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, trade issue, one of 5,600 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; tan topstain; dustjacket; vi,310,[2]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, faint dust-soil to upper and right edge of textblock, else a bright, clean, Near Fine..... More
![Item #59959] Hacienda. Katherine Anne PORTER](/pictures/medium/59959.jpg?v=1669677847)
Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1934. First, Limited Edition. Number 235 of 895 numbered copies. Second issue, with corrected text on p.52, that leaf a cancel. Octavo. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on spine; t.e.g.; publisher's slipcase; 81pp. A Near Fine copy, a shade sunned on spine as usual. In..... More
