1ster festival du roman et du film policiers du 2 au 13 mai, maison de la culture andré malraux reims 1979
1979. Softcover. French language program. Quarto, 28 pp. Black & white illustrations. Stapled wraps. More
Literature
Golden Millet Dream and Other Stories (Chinese-English Readings)
Knowledge Press, 1982. Softcover. 296 pages. In wraps. From private collection. Wraps curl out. Pages remain clean and unmarked. More
The Holiday Wreath
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, n.d. Hardcover. Octavo, 80 pp. Decorative blue cloth binding. From private collection. Cloth is heavily worn along crown of spine. Previous owner's name on ffep. More
James Joyce: A Catalogue of His Works
Melvin Rare Books: London, n.d. Softcover. No date. 12mo, [14] pp. 80 catalogued items. In stapled wraps. Clean and unmarked. More
New Connecticut: An Autobiographical Poem
Philadelphia: Albert Saifer, 1970. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of 1880 edition. 12mo, 158 pages. Blue cloth. Clean, unmarked copy. More
Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952
Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Octavo, 455 pp. Black cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Top corner of approximately 30 pp. bumped. Pages remain clean and unmarked. In like dust jacket. More
An A-Z of FantasyCon 2000: The UK's Premiere Fantasy Convention for Fans and Professionals
FantasyCon 2000, 2000. Softcover. Program to FantasyCon 2000 held from 8-10 September 2000 at the Britannia Hotel, Birmingham. Upper wrap features publisher's promotion of George R. Martin's Game of Thrones books. Quarto, 56 pp. Stapled wraps. Light rubbing and wear to wraps, with sticker scuff to upper wrap... More
American Poetry Through 1914
Chelsea House, 1987. Hardcover. Quarto, 576 pp. Blue cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. No ownership ink or bookplates. Clean, unmarked copy in like dust jacket. More
Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace
0230507840: Palgrave Macmillan, 207. Hardcover. Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace. Octavo, 216 pp. Paper-covered boards. No..... More
Love in Idleness: A Tale of Bar Harbour
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1894. Hardcover. Beautifully illustrated novel set in Maine. Octavo, 218 pages. Decorative blue cloth binding. From private collection. Binding is a bit shaken with fraying to about 1" of cloth along front joint, near spine. Pages are lightly foxed throughout. Offered here as a serviceable..... More
Collected Works of William Hazlitt
Dutt Press, 2008. Softcover. Collected works of noted English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. Facsimile reprint of 1903 edition. Octavo, 523 pp. In wraps. Spine lightly creased. Clean, unmarked copy. More
The Eildon Tree: A Journal of Fantasy, Volume 1, Number 1.
Los Angeles: The Fantasy Association, 1974. Softcover. Articles include William Morris: Dreams and the End of Dreams by Donald G. Keller, Lord Dunsany, Master of Wonder by Darrell Schweitzer, The Death of Robin Hood by Joe R. Christopher, and Which Does Not Touch Upon Mirror and Pigeon by E.E. Farley..... More
Two Years Ago and Yeast
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1900, 1902. Hardcover. "Charles Kingsley, (born June 12, 1819, Holne Vicarage, Devon, England—died January 23, 1875, Eversley, Hampshire), Anglican clergyman and writer whose successful fiction ranged from social-problem novels to historical romances and children’s literature." (Encyclopedia Britannica). Two handsomely bound reprints of works by Anglican..... More
Debits and Credits
London: Macmillan, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 416 pp. Red cloth with decorative gilt stamping on elephant on front board; title on spine. Light rubbing to edges of boards. Name in pencil on ffep. Dust jacket is browned and shows some edgewear. More
Home by Dark
Privately Printed, 2002. Hardcover. Privately printed novel about black sharecroppers in 1940s Mississippi. Octavo, 308 pp. Gray cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Name of Donald's relative stamped on ffep. Pages remain clean and unmarked. In handsome dust jacket... More
Proper Boskonian 42, November 1997
Framingham, Massachusetts: New England Science Fiction Association, 1997. Gunn, Ian. Softcover. 8.5" x 11" 44 pp. Stapled sheets. Minor sticker scuff on back, else Fine. More
A King's Ransom
Ipswich: Pawsey & Havyes / London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1893. Leather. No copies in OCLC as of this writing. 19 cm x 12.5 cm. 207 pp. Rebound in decorative black leather with title gilt-stamped on spine. Previous owners' names printed on original front flyleaf. Single dog-eared corner returned to..... More
It Can't Happen Here
New York: Sundial Press, 1935. Hardcover. Early reprint of timely work. Octavo, 458 pp. Blue cloth. From private collection with owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Cloth faded with darkening along the spine. Cloth starting to fray along crown. Endpapers browned, most noticeably along hinges. Lacks dust jacket... More
David the Hero
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1903. Hardcover. Scarce work by noted writer and leader in Philadelphia's movement for women's suffrage. Lowrie was a columnist for the Philadelphia Evening Ledger and a staff member of the Ladies' Home Journal. Octavo, 237 pp. Green cloth with profile of David gilt-stamped on front board. From..... More
The Member of the Wedding
New York: New Directions, 1951. Hardcover. Early printing in dust jacket with photographic frontispiece of Broadway stage setting. From private collection. Endpapers are agetoned with name printed on ffep. Dust jacket is in only Good Condition, with chipping and heavy wear ($275 price on front flap)... More
Seven: The New Magazine, No. 6, Autumn 1939
Cambridge, England: 1939. Softcover. Issue includes contributions from Nicholas Moore, Kay Boyle, Dylan Thomas, Larence Durrell, Herbert Read, David Gascoyne, G.S. Fraser, Dorian Cooke, Joan Bennett, Parker Tyler, and Henry Treece. Octavo, 33 pp. Stapled wraps. Wraps are a little agetoned and starting to split along crown of spine... More
The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 3: Into the Millennium (The Criminals)
London: Secker & Warburg, 1979. Hardcover. "Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef." Volume..... More
Bouchercon XXIII, 8-11 October 1992, Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Privately Printed. Softcover. 1992 program for the 23rd Annual Anthony Boucher Memorial Mystery Convention. Quarto, 76 pp. In wraps. Includes program flyer ("Progress Report") Clean, unmarked copy. More
Spicy Armadillo Stories
Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, 1990. Softcover. Publication does not state volume or issue number. Quarto, paginated by section. Stapled. More
Spicy Armadillo Stories, Volume One, Number One
Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, 1990. Softcover. Quarto, 44 pp. Stapled. Lacks back wrap (blank sheet). More