July SALE! All books in Poetry, English History / Monarchy / Biography, and China sections priced at $100 and under are 30% off for the month of July.
This sale excludes artists' books, private press, and items sold on consignment.
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New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1875. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Very good in extensively-decorated light brown cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Light soiling to board corners. Interior is clean and bright. 335 pages. English History. ENG3/2262. Very Good. More
Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1974. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. Yellow paper wrappers with red title to spine and front panels. Minor creasing to panels; small orange sticker to spine and remnants of price sticker to front panel. Pristine interior with tight binding. 387 pp. CHINA/020405. Very Good. More
New York: Villard Books, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in ver good blue illustrated price-clipped dust jacket with gilt title to front and spine panels. Minor edgewear to dust jacket which has been neatly laminated. 221 pages. ENGMON/121305. Near Fine / Very Good. More
London, New York, Toronto: The London School of Economics and Political Science, and Longmans, Green and Co., 1952. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor browning to end pages. Else is clean and bright. Light grey dust jacket with maroon title to front and spine panels. Minor toning to edges and spine of dust jacket. Index, 654 pages. English History. ENGHIST/012012. Very Good + in Very Good DJ. More
Cumbria: Westmorland Gazette, (1987). Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in near fine red dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Previous owner's name to half title page. Else is pristine with illustrations throughout and map to rear. English History. ENG11072. Near Fine / Near Fine. More
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2003. Paper Covered Boards. Tall 8vo. Blue illustrated paper covered boards with white title to spine and front board. Pristine interior with bright text. Tight binding. Index, 261 pp. MON/080504. Near Fine. More
Reykjavik: Porhallur Bjarnarson, 1930. Hardcover. Vg- in lightly soiled tan boards/short 8vo./illus./in English & Icelandic/text bright & clean/267 pp. Poetry. POE/5172. Very Good -. More
Bloombury: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Paperback. Thin 8vo. 755 of 1250 copies. Flexible vellum wrappers with author's last name to spine. Clean interior with unopened pages. Minor rubbing to wrappers. Housed in a beige paper covered slipcase with minor browning. POE/041107. Very Good. More
Reid: Oberosterreichischer Landesverlag, circa 1950. Hardcover. Scarce. A somber book of poetry dedicated to "the people of my heart" who fell in World War II. The title translates to "Because I Love You. A Dead Task." Inscription in pencil to front free endpage "Gift from Pfarrer Reinold Simma Damüls / Bregeugewald Voraailberg (sp?) at the request of Frau Natalie Beer." Includes several illustrations. Very good in thin grey boards with gilt title to front cover. Minor wear to edges of boards. Clean with slight browning to margins of pages and edges of boards. Size Octavo. 65 pages. In German. GER1/2042. Very Good. More
Publicacoes Don Quixote, 1987. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. Black paper wrappers with yellow title to spine and front panels. Illustration to front panel. Minor scuffing to wrappers. Based on the movie "The Last Emperor" with B&W film stills. Very clean interior. Tight binding. Written in a language very close to Spanish ... perhaps in Portuguese? 322 pp. CHINA/020405. Very Good Plus. More
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. Paperback. SCARCE. No date. Circa 1946. Grey paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Browning and creasing to edges. Interior is clean and bright with photographic illustrations of Flower. 27 pages. ENGBIO/031418. Very Good. More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1952. Hardcover. Very good. No Jacket. 4to. Red cloth boards with blue title to spine and small white unicorn designs. Minor fraying to spine ends; rubbing to boards and spine. Light bowing to front board. Interior pages are yellowed around edges, but are otherwise very clean w/ bright text. Includes 201 photographs of English scenes from 1850-1951. Index, 164 pages. ENG/042004. Very Good. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1895. Hardcover. Very good in light blue-green cloth with black illustration and gilt lettering. Spine slightly darkened, light rubbing to corners and spine ends, two small spots to top board. Poetry. POE1/02261. Very Good. More
New York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc., 1940. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. Vg brown paper boards. Minor rubbing to edges of boards. Interior is clean and bright. 8 pp. Poetry. POE/3063. Very Good. More
New York: The Co-operative Press, 1926. Paperback. A collection of poems in German inspired by America's national parks. Illustrated. Brown paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Minor wear to wrappers including a few spots of foxing and a few chips to edges. A few smudge marks to interior but clean overall. 64 pages. GER3/2222. Very Good. More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Hardcover. Presentation Copy from the author: "Rev. Derwent Coleridge with the Authors Compliments." English scholar and author Derwent Coleridge (1800 - 1883) was the son of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is an early work by William Cox Bennett (1820 - 1895), who wrote songs as well as poetry. He is best known for "Baby May," a sweet poem about his baby daughter, which appears in this collection. Bound in original navy blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine and embossed design to boards. Chipping to head of spine. Interior rear hinge is cracked and spine is rolled. Ex-library with a few stamps to interior. Clean overall. 262 pages. POE/011916. Very Good. More
London: John Lane, 1895. Hardcover. 1st edition, limited to 550 copies. Very good in brown cloth with gilt lettering. Deckle edge pages. Small, light stain on front board; previous owner's initials on front endpaper. Nice and clean overall, with corners still sharp. Poetry. POE2/5040. Very Good. More
New York: Privately Printed, 1872. Hardcover. 1st edition. Original purple cloth with gilt lettering. Spine faded, boards have some brown spotting. Binding nice and tight, and interior clear except for light foxing to early blank and frontis tissue. Poetry. POE1/8050. Very Good. More
Sussex and New Jersey: The Harvester Press and Barnes & Noble Books, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in grey paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior. Fine light blue dust jacket with white and black title to front and spine panels. Index, 228 pages. ENGHIS/010418. Fine / Fine. More
New York: George Braziller, 1964. First trade edition of this powerful poem by Berry written in response to the horror of President John Kennedy's assassination. Shahn's images invoke the grief, pain, and darkness felt by the nation and the world. Bound in cream cloth with title in black on spine and front cover. Some discoloring and spots to cloth. Interior pages very good. Housed in a black cloth slipcase with titling in silver to cover. Unpaginated. POET/040220. More
Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1923. Paperback. 1 of 200 numbered copies. Grey paper wrappers with black title to spine. Creases to spine. Minor and edgewear to exterior. Clean, bright interior with several illustrations. Includes poetry, essays, and more. 231 pages. In French. FRE/080608. Very Good. More
New York: The F.M. Lupton Publishing Company, No date. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Fading and discoloration to the spine. Minor edgewear. Interior hinges starting. Previous owner's writing to front free end page. Else is clean and bright with frontis. 382 pages. English History. ENG3/4022. Very Good. More
Wien: R. Lowit Verlag, 1935. Hardcover. A book of poems in German translation from Israel's national poet Chajim Nachman Bialik (1873 - 1934). Third edition. Very good in blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front cover. Minor fading to edges of boards and spine. Minor browning to endpapers, else clean and bright. Photographic frontispiece. In light grey dust jacket with blue title to spine and front panels. Minor chipping and wear to edges of jacket. Minor browning to spine and edge of jacket. 193 pages. In German. GER909281. Very Good / Very Good. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo. Translated by Goldblatt, Howard. Yellow cloth boards with black title to spine. Slight bump to spine ends. Pristine interior. Tight binding. Full color illustrated dj with black title to spine. Fading to spine panel of dj and minor edge wear. Index, 150 pp. CHINA/020405. Near Fine in Very Good Plus dj. More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965. Paper Wrappers. Thick 8vo. White paper wrappers with black title to spine. Creasing to spine. Tight binding. Interior is very clean. Minor scuffing to wrappers. 492 pp. CHINA/020405. Very Good. More