The College Chaucer.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929. Boards. 8vo. 713 pp. Some shelf wear and rubbing to covers. Light browning to page edges, former owner's ink stamp fpd. Anthology of Chaucer's work, with glossary.
LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
Thoreau: His Home, Friends and Books.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1902. Cloth. 343 pp. 8vo. Cloth. Scuffed, edgeworn. Bumping to sp. ends and corners. 1" open tear to spine. Rough cut textblock, t.e.g.
Chateaubriand.
New York: Harper & Brothers. Hard Cover. 8vo. 360 pp. Cover and edges of pages somewhat sunned. Edges of pages worn. Biography of the French writer Chateaubriand.
The Constant Circle:; H. L. Mencken and His Friends
New York: Delacorte Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 307 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Very light flexing & shelfwear to boards. Some sunning, shelfwear, cocking & shaking to cloth spine but binding sturdy. Faint soiling to textblock edges. Sticker & some pencil marks to fpd otherwise pgs clean.....
The Highland Jaunt:; A Study of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson Upon Their Highland and Hebridean Tour of 1773
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955. Hardcover. 272 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Illustrated w/ 15 drawings. Light shelfwear, white spotting to boards & spine; light raised bumping along joints. Binding sturdy. Light browning to eps, brown marks to pgs 232-33, opening at title pg, otherwise lightly yellow textblock very.....
James Branch Cabell.
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1927. First edition. Pamphlet. 33p, 12mo. Green wraps, stapled spine. First edition. Slight sunning front edge of cover, light curling to lower corner. Small foxing/soil spot to title pg. Else fine. B/w photo frontis.
George Meredith: Letters; Collected and Edited by his Son, 2 volumes.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Cloth. 8vo. 328 pp. 324 pp. Cloth rubbed slightly, spines sunned. Faint browning to page edges. Former owner's ink inscription ffep volume one. Two volumes from "The Works of George Meredith- Memorial Edition"
Lion in the Garden:; Interviews with William Faulkner 1926-1962
New York: Random House, 1968. First edition. Cloth. 298 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover in dj. First edition. Each interview w/ prefatory note. Also includes the Nagano seminars. Slight cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Textblock clean & crisp. Heavy rodent edgewear to dj; bottom of spine missing.....
A Different Person.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1993. First edition. Cloth Hardcover. 8vo. 270 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, very light rubbing along dj edges. Book is in excellent condition. A Memoir.
The Intervals of Robert Frost.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ of California Pr, 1947. Cloth. 91 pp. 8vo. Cloth. Light bumping to spine ends and corners. Interior clean and tight. With an introduction by Fulmer Mood.
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend.
Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1998. Cloth w/ Dustjacket. 8vo. 306 pp. Bumping and light rubbing to dj spine ends, corners, and top dj edges. Offsetting to dj edges. soiling to back dj cover. Dj flaps corners creased lightly. Light rubbing and bumping to book spine ends and.....
Pedigree:; A Memoir
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. 130 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. A rare glimpse into the life of a Nobel laureate. Boards fine. Binding tight. Textblock clean & crisp. Dj fine.
Katherine Morris: An Autobiography.
Boston: Walker, Wise, and Co., 1860. Cloth Hard Cover. 8vo. 353 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped, lightly rolled, spotty foxing scattered throughout margins of text. By the author of "Step by Step" and "Here and Hereafter"
Miscellanea Moreana: Essays for Germain Marc'Hadour.
Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1989. Cloth Hard Cover. 8vo. 569 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, light rubbing along dj edges. Book is in otherwise excellent condition. Moreana 100: Volume XXVI Melanges Marc'hadour.
Remembering Anna Akhmatova.
London: Peter Halban, 1991. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 240pp. Slight bumping to spine ends & cover corners. Slight shelf wear to dj edges. Biography of great Russian poet by her literary secretary & disciple during her last years. Illustrated.
Jonathan Swift.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1937. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 432 pp. Spine soiled, bumped; light soil to cover. Bookplate ffep. Biography of the satirist/poet/pessimist/hero of Dublin. B/w photo frontispiece.
Thomas Carlyle.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. First edition. Cloth. 12mo. 257 pp. + 6 pp. ads. English Men of Letters series. Cloth sl. soiled, spine and corners sl. bumped. Light pale spotting to endpapers. Several 1/4" closed tears to ffep. Text clean.
A Bundle of Letters from Belgian Friends.
Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1916. Hardcover. 39 pp + 8 photos. Unbound leaves enclosed in decorative paper-covered boards, with tri-color string tie closure. Decorative boards are detached at front joint. Brown spotting to front cover title label and to eps. Floral bookplate belonging to Edith Wetmore to fpd. Library blind.....
"Life Is Painful, Nasty & Short . . . In My Case It Has Only Been Painful & Nasty":; Djuna Barnes, 1978-1981
New York: Paragon House, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 233 pp, 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Minor bumping to spine head, p.o.'s bookplate to fpd. Else fine, clean and tight. Dj lt shelfworn, minor soil to rear panel, spine lt sunned. B&w; illustrations. Full title: "Life Is Painful, Nasty &.....
Letters for Origin, 1950-1955.
New York and London: Grossman/ Cape Goliard, 1969. First edition. Cloth. 141 pp. 8vo. Cloth in clear dj. First edition. Soiling and edgewear to dj, some scratches to panels, bumping to sp. ends and corners w/ sm. tears/chips, slight cocking, shaking & & browning to spine, but binding very sturdy.....
Running in the Family.
New York: Vintage Books, 1982. Wraps. 8vo. 207 pp. Reader's Edition of the story of the author's visit to his native land of Sri Lanka. By the author of the English Patient. Signed by author on tp. B&w; photos throughout. Signed.
Self-Portrait of the Other: a Memoir.
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1990. First edition. Quarter Cloth. 8vo. 247 pp. In very good+ condition. Rubbing to corners, slight sunning/soiling to edges, stamp to head of textblock. Very light age-discoloration to textblock and endpaper margins. Interior clean, binding tight. Light bumping to dj spine ends and corners.....
Ogden Nash:; The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005. Hardcover. 316 pp., 8vo. Quarter-cloth hardcover in dj. Signed by author, Douglas M. Parker, on title pg. Some light indents to boards; sm black mark to front board. Binding tight. Some faint foxing to textblock top edge. Interior clean & crisp. Dj fine. Signed by.....
Prison Memoir:; (Excerpts)
Providence, RI: Amalia Press, 2010. Paperback. 28 pp., 8vo. Stapled paperback. English text, translated from the Farsi. Chapbook published in an edition of 350, printed "to coincide w/ the awarding of an honorary Doctorate of Letters to the author by Brown University on 30th May 2010." Very light soiling to.....
Ben Jonson's Conversations with Drummond of Hawthorneden.
Glasgow: Blackie and Son Limited, 1923. Cloth. 60 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Spine & corners bumped. Slight sunning discoloration & edgewear to boards & spine; head of spine chipped & frayed. Binding sturdy. Po ink inscription to fpd. Heavy foxing to free eps, light foxing throughout rest of interior. Text perfectly.....