NY, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Nan A. Talese, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. 440 pp. 8vo. Hardcover in dustjacket. First edition. Shelfwear to dj, bumping to spine ends and corners, lightly to edges. Bumping to book spine ends and corners.
New York: J. F. Taylor & Co., 1904. Cloth. 8vo. 2 volumes, 345 pp. each. Some uncut pages. Binding stiff. Illustrated with b&w engravings. Pages fine. Cover slightly rubbed. Biography of a British writer.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 219 pp. Dj has rubbing, light wear to top edge, tiny tear to head of spine. Fowlie's life history and the creative process.
London: Carrefour, 1962. Third Printing. Paperback. 411 pp., 4to. Ribbon-bound paperback. Third printing. Illustrated. Pages uncut. Includes spine labels & photos. Moderate soiling w/ slight chipping & edgewear to covers & spine. Binding sturdy. Some light creases & soiling scattered to very clean textblock.
New York: The Spiral Press, 1965. Paperback. Unpaginated, approx 10 pp. 16mo. Stapled booklet. A keepsake celebrating The Robert Frost Library dedication on October 24, 1965. Lightly soiled, slight edgewear. Includes facsimile of handwritten poem by Frost.
New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2009. Hardcover. 2482 pp., 8vo. Hardcovers. 5 vols. Featuring more than 180 entries on American authors w/ historical essays and chronologies. Some very light shelfwear to boards. Bindings tight. Textblocks clean & crisp.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 328 pp. Cover has light wear to corners, corners bumped, light soiling, spine lightly creased. Dj has light edgewear, light soiling. Biography of Chaucer and a history of medieval times and literature.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1949. Cloth. 50 pp. 8vo. Cloth in dustjacket. Shelfwear and soiling to dj, sunning to spine, bumping to spine ends and corners w/ small chips and tears, 3/4" to upper front corner. Slight edgewear to book. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Cloth. 8vo. 282 pp. Dj has very light crease to bottom of front flap. A biography of the German author of "Jacob the Liar." A crisp, clean copy.
Bolinas: Grey Fox Press, 1974. Wraps. 12mo. 42 pp. Rubbing to covers, spine ensd, joints, edges, and corners. Light bumping to spine ends. Some knicks to back cover. Spine sunned. Small peeling white sticker on back cover. Former owner's name to corner of ffep. Glue action to hinges. Interior otherwise.....
Berkeley: University of California, 2005. Wraps. 8vo. 498 pp. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped and rubbed, sticker residue to back cover, light rubbing to covers. Book is an uncorrected adavance proof. Biography of the most influential figure in the histoer of American Letters.
London: Macmillan, 1917. Hardcover. 364 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Biography of a controversial 19th century poet. Illustrated w/ b&w plates. Slight shelfwear & soiling to boards & spine. Slight shaking but binding sturdy. Slight foxing to textblock edges. Po bookplate sticker to fpd, light po pencil signature to ffep, light foxing.....
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. 416 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. First edition. Mild edgewear w/ slight scuffing to boards, creasing to spine. Textblock edges slightly soiled; book shaken w/ po pencil inscription to ffep; pgs otherwise clean. Openings to front hinge but binding holding.
1969. Paperback. A sm, single pg letter from William Goyen ( American novelist, playright, best known for 1969 film "Midnight Cowboy" based on his book of the same name) thanking reviewer for a glowing review of Goyen's well-received 1st novel "House of Breath" (published 1950). Penned in ink on Goyen's.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Hardcover. 510 pp. 8vo. Quarter cloth in dj. Inscribed by author to authors Robert Jay Lifton and wife, with inscribed card laid in. Scuffing and lt edgewear to dj, bumping to sp. ends and corners. Bumping to book sp. ends and corners, few.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Hardcover. 217 pp., 4to. Hardcover in dj & slc. English text. "This edition of Markings, newly designed in its entirety by George Salter; includes reproductions of 2 pgs of the original manuscript w/ a note of explanation by Leif Belfrage to whom Hammarskjold left.....
New York: Tor, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. 351 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Very light edgewear to boards & spine ends. Very light creasing to joints. Pgs clean & crisp. Very light shelfwear to dj.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 274 pp. 8vo. Quarter cloth in dj. First edition. Scuffing and sl. edgewear to dj. Sl. wear to book sp. ends, sl. scuffing and faint orange scuff mark to front board. Illustrated with b/w plates.
Newark, N.J. The Carteret Book Club, 1910. 1/2 Cloth. 12mo. 130 pp., Volume II only; light foxing on edges of page block; light soiling to covers; title plate on spine browned; second I of 'Volume II' on title page rubbed off.
Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 430 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. First edition. 21 letters, 11 writings, & 5 facsimiles. Ex library w/ usual writings, stamps, stickers & card holder. Soiling & wear to boards & spine; spine top edge missing, sticker residue near bottom edge, tears to title sticker. Shaking.....
Edinburgh: T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1898. Half Calf. 348 pp., 12mo. Half-calf hardcover. Slight wear & soiling to boards & spine, head of spine bumped, crease to joints; dampstaining along spine board leather. Brown calf with 5 raised bands with gilt emblems in compartments, marbled boards and end papers. Riviere.....
New York: Ballantine Books, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 493 pp, 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Lightly shelfworn, sm. bump to textblock foot. Text clean, binding tight. Dj lightly shelfworn, sl. scuffing to rear panel.
Illinois State University: Dalkey Archive Press, 2004. First edition. Cloth. 742 pp, 8vo (lg). Cloth, no dj. First edition. Light bumping/ wear to sp. ends and corners, faint sunning to spine. Minor soil to textblock. Crease to upper corner of beg. pgs. Interior clean and otherwise crisp, binding tight.
New York: William Morrow, 1997. First edition. Boards. 8vo. 572 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, light rubbing along dj edges. The lives of Samuel Longhorn Clemens. Signed first edition.
New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc, 1997. Hardcover. 572 pp. 8vo. Hardcover in dustjacket. Inscribed by author on title page. Light shelfwear to jacket, damp staining to lower front edges. Light edgewear to book, bumping to spine foot. inscribed.
