New York: Barnes & Noble Books / Harper & Row Publishers, Inc, 1976. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 152pp. Author's inscription to title page: "Peter Ackroyd - to Howard, with love. 20 June, 1976". Pencilled note to..... More

Fredericksburg, VA: Department of English, Mary Washington College, 1975. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Femi Ojo-Ade, David C. Meyer, A. Fisch, James Olney, Isaac Sequeira, and W.T. Lhamon. DANKY 5701. Quarto (28cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 21,[3]pp. Wrappers unevenly toned, starting oxidation to staples, with recipients address label to..... More

Boston: Boston University, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers printed in black and brown; [4],90pp. Some light wear and toning to wrapper extremities, title page slightly soiled, else Very Good and sound. Collected papers presented at a symposium held at Boston University, April 12, 1975. More

Paris: Jean Jacques Pauvert, 1965. First French Edition. Octavo. 25cm. Publisher's printed glossy card wraps. 642pp.; [6]. Light wear and scuffing to corners and spine ends, with some chipping and wear to the head of the spine, some soiling to the white rear panel, sunning to spine panel; internally clean..... More

New York: Gotham House, 1939. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); green cloth-covered boards with paper title label on spine; dustjacket; fore-edge untrimmed; [xvi],302,[2]pp. Modest shelf-wear and -soil, with light sunning to crown; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00), lightly tanned, with shelf-wear and -soil, and tape mends along verso..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in grey pictorial dust jacket; 159pp.; illus. Jacket spine a bit toned, else Near Fine. More

New York: David Lewis, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Green buckram in yellow dust jacket; [xiv],[552]pp. Straight and sound, with dustiness and minor spotting to edges of textblock, otherwise clean: around Near Fine. Jacket unclipped, lightly rubbed, with gentle soiling to front and rear panels: around Near Fine..... More

[Belmont, NC: Sacred Heart Junior College], [1941]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth titled in gilt; [xiv],190pp; frontispiece portrait and 5 inserted plates. With a card laid in signed "Frances C. Fisher, Christian Reid." Sound and clean, with external signs of biopredation along edges: Very Good. Christian Reid was the..... More

Arles: Actes Sud, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (20cm); white paper wrappers; 1814pp. Text in French. From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) with his pictorial ownership blind stamped to half-title page, and his very occasional pencilled markings throughout. Modest shelf-wear, with light creases to..... More

Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836. First Edition. Lecture delivered by the instructer in German at Harvard University during which he recites in the original German (reprinted here), Goethe's poem "Der Erlkönig." Of this piece Bokum argues that it "will suffice to persuade my hearers that the German language is..... More

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1989]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in olive decorative dust jacket; xiii,[3],272pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn. Includes chapters on the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson. More

Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundatioin, Inc. / University of Maine at Orono, 1981. Softcover. Octavo (23cm); white pictorial paper wrappers; 427pp; black-and-white photographic halftone illustrations. From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) with his inked ownership to half-title page. Trivial surface wear, else Near Fine..... More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Black paper and blue cloth over boards, in pictorial dj; [xvi],287,[1]pp; illus. Fine. Jacket unclipped, lightly rubbed and chipped at head, minor abrasions to rear, Near Fine. More