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30 YEARS WITH G.B.S.
London:Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1951. 256pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. Jacket is worn with a few small chips and tears to the edges. Jacket also shows some significant soiling to the covers but is otherwise in good condition. Book itself shows only some mild shelf-wear. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings.
$17.50
A CALENDAR.
West Branch, Iowa: Morning Coffee Chapbook Five. 1984. One of 600 signed, numbered copies. Soft cover. A fine copy. Title page illustration DAY LILIES, is by Ann Mikolowski. Handsewn into Takeyabu Tan wrappers. TS275.
$35.00
A FRANZ KAFKA MISCELLANY. PRE-FASCIST EXILE.
New York: Twice a Year Press. (1946). 120 pp. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Binding is significantly sun-faded on the covers and spine with some light soiling. Edges and stop/bottom of the spine show some wear. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, though the page edges do show some light age-toning. Overall, a very good copy.
$20.00
A GOLD STANDARD FOR LITERATURE.
Norton:The Periwinkle Press. 1938. No pagination. Hardcover in decorated boards. One of 200 copies. Reprint of a section of A.E.'s THE LIVING TORCH. Covers show some wear to the edges and edge-points bu otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings.
$25.00
A GOODLY HERITAGE. A History of Jane Austen's Family.
Manchester:Carcanet New Press. (1983). 238 pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very good condition with just a hint of browning to end-pages. The dust jacket is sun-faded on the spine but otherwise in very good condition. Some wear also to the edges and spine. Internally clean and free of stray markings.
$15.00
A MODEL FOR MURDER.
New York:Rinehart & Company Inc. (1956). 242pp. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good condition with pages slightly age-toned; dust jacket also in very good condition with a bit of overall shelf-wear and soiling.
$25.00
A NEW ENGLAND BOYHOOD. 1st. ed.
267pp. + (8)pp. publishers advs. Ex-library copy. Internally tight and clean. Library book plates and circulation card pasted down inside front and back binding. Spine frayed at ends; light blue binding and fore-edges partialy soiled. Includes all the sections that orginally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1892.
$15.00
A STRANGE MARKET
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press. 1992. 217pp. 1st edition. Hardcover with clear acetate jacket. Number 32 out of 125 signed numbered copies. In very good condition. Interior is clean and bright with no stray markings.
$40.00
ABOUT FICTION. REVERENT REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURE OF FICTION...
WITH IRREVERENT OBSERVATIONS ON WRITERS, READERS, & OTHER ABUSES. NY: Harper & Row. (1975). 182pp. 1st. ed. Dust jacket clean, with a 1/2 inch tear at spine. Price cut from inside flap. Some shelf wear to boards. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. A very good copy.
$10.00
ADVENTURES OF A LITERARY HISTORIAN.
A Collection of His writings Presented to H. CARRINGTON LANCASTER by His Former Students... Baltimore:Johns Hopkins Press. 1942. 392pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Binding is shelf-worn at the edges with some soiling to the covers. Spine shows some sun discoloration, though gilt lettering remains bright. Otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, a very good copy.
$15.00
AGNES OF SORRENTO
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company. 1882. Fifteenth edition. 412 pp. Hardcover. Pages age-toned, otherwise in very good, clean tight condition. Brown boards very lightly mottled on front cover; gilt still bright; spine lightly soiled and gilt lightly faded; rear board has a bit of mottling and a vertical scratch of something white. Overall, a very good copy.
$45.00
ALLAN RAMSEY. A STUDY OF HIS LIFE AND WORKS
Cambridge:Harvard University Press. 1931. 1st edition. Hardcover. 203pp. Covers lightly rubbed and worn. Internally, pages are clean and bright. This copy is signed and inscribed by the author on the last free-endpaper, upside down. He must have been holding the book in the wrong direction. A very good copy.
$20.00
ALLITERATIVE POETRY IN MIDDLE ENGLISH. The Dialectal and Metrical Survey
[New Haven]: Archon Books. 1968. 2 volumes in one. Hard bound. With dust jacket. Minor fraying of jacket, otherwise a very good, tight, clean copy. Vol. 1 originally published in 1930 and vol. 2 in 1935. S279.
$75.00
AN AMERICAN ROMANCE. THE ALAN POEMS, A JOURNAL.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press. 1969. 88pp. One of 150 copies, handbound, numbered and signed by author. With glasssine wrapper. Fine copy. Light shelfwear to boards; light foxing to page tops. Otherwise, a very good, clean copy.
$35.00
ANCESTORS' BROCADES. The Literary Debut of Emily Dickinson.
New York:Harper and Brothers, Publishers. 1945. 1st edition, stated. xviii+464pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very good, clean copy, inside and out. The dust jacket is very good, slightly soiled and shelfworn, and now encased in brodart. It is not price clipped.
$25.00