Charlottesville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, (1993).. (1993).. Fine. - Octavo, yellow cloth titled in black, in dw. ix & 229 pp. Near fine.
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- Octavo, maroon boards backed with maroon cloth & titled in gilt in a dust wrapper. There is some minor soiling to the rear panel of the dust jacket. [viii] & 114 pages. Full- & double-page illustrations in black & white by Frances Halsband. Fine in a near fine dust wrapper. First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Kobenhavn: G. E. C. Gads Forlag, 1952.. 1952.. Very good. - Large octavo, softcover bound in printed light blue wrappers. The binding is bumped with the spine darkened & creased & with the edges of the wraps slightly darkened & lightly chipped. There is a tear to the bottom inner corner of the rear wrap. xxiv, 217 & [1] pages, unopened. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece. Very good. L. L. Hammerich was Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Copenhagen and Chairman of the Lecturers Committee [Danish Lecturers Abroad] since its commission by the Danish Ministry of Education in 1... View More...
(Pittsburgh, PA): University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979.. 1979.. Very good. - Octavo, grayish blue cloth titled in silver. A bit soiled. xiii & 186 pp. Illustrated. Very good. View More...
(Kent, OH): The Kent State University Press, (1968).. (1968).. Fine. - Small octavo, olive green cloth titled in gilt. [vi] & 52 pp. A bit dusty, else near fine. The Serif Series: Bibliographies and Checklists, Number 13. View More...
- Small octavo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, mass market paperback bound in orange, black & yellow wraps. The covers are creased with minor wear to the head and tail of the spine. The top and bottom edges of the rear cover are lightly dampstained. 363 & 11] pages. There is a vertical crease to the inner edge of one leaf and the bottom edges of the last several pages are lightly stained from the red dye. Good. First printing. Includes Dashiell Hammett's novelette, "The Farewell Murder", a Continental Op story first published in 1930 which was then adapted as "Another Thi... View More...
Vancouver, BC: William Hoffer, 1980.. 1980.. Fine. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt with vignette stamped in blind on front cover. x & 230 pp. Illustrated in B&W. Near fine.
First edition, limited to 526 copies. First Edition. View More...
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1916).. (1916).. Good. - Small octavo, blue boards titled in gilt, in dw. Bumped; gilt titling faded; dw chipped & darkened with front panel detached. 39 &[1] pp. Very good in a fair dw.
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1978).. (1978).. Very good. - Octavo, black cloth titled in gilt, in dw. Minor dampstain to rear cover; dw rear flap slightly dampstained. ix, [v], 387 & [1] pp. Very good.
Second printing of the corrected 1968 edition. Dust jacket present. View More...
Prague, Czechoslovakia: Artia, (1965).. (1965).. Very good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide. White cloth titled in black on the spine with an illustration in black on the front cover, in a printed white dust wrapper. The corners of the covers are bumped, the top corner of the front cover especially so. The dust jacket is darkened and slightly creased along the edges. 145 & [2] pages, plus a folding list of illustrations. Profusely illustrated throughout. The edges of the pages are darkened. Very good. The Czech humorist and satirical writer Jaroslav Hasek (1883-1923) was a social... View More...
- Octavo, 9-3/4 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, disbound & removed in the distant past from a larger collection of bound periodicals, with remnants of the spine. iv, 48 & [2] pages, illustrated with 2 full-page plates and 2 full-page illustrations, including a bright polychrome lithographic frontispiece of a peacock and other birds by Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan of Philadelphia. There is light dampstaining along the front and bottom edges of the pages. Good. The first appearance of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Drowne's Wooden Image", which was later published in his collection of stori... View More...
(Frankfurt am Main und Paris): Qumran Verlag, (1981).. (1981).. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed wrappers in original glassine dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped & the tail of the spine is slightly darkened. 195 pages & [4] pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine. "Portrait 1". This is the first of a series of "portraits" of cultural figures issued by Qumran Verlag fur Ethnologie und Kunst. A brochure announcing the series and this book is laid in.Helmut Heissenbuttel [1921-1996] was a German novelist and poet. Among his works are "Das Textbuch... View More...
- Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Orange boards backed with a black cloth spine, in a printed brown dust wrapper. The dust jacket is rubbed & soiled with some minor chipping to the edges. [viii] & 213 pages. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition, first printing. A collection of 15 short stories including "World Full of Great Cities" by Joseph Heller, "Address by Gooley MacDowell to the Hasbeens Club of Chicago" by Saul Bellow, and "Entropy" by Thomas Pynchon. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Octavo, 7-1/4 inches high by 5 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in green and black boards titled in black on the spine with a photograph by Mark Tucker on the front cover and repeated on the spine. [8], & 168 pages, illustrated throughout with silhouettes by Brett Helquist. Near fine. First English edition, first printing, with the full number line. Signed, in a manner of speaking, with the author's embossed seal annotated in ink by him "with all due respect 1.X.2010". Lemony Snicket is the pseudonym of Daniel Handler. First Edition. View More...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951.. 1951.. Fine. - Octavo, gray cloth titled in black on the spine. The covers are very lightly bumped & the spine & extremities are slightly darkened. 63 pages with an erratum printed on page 51. Near fine.
"The first and only printing consisted of 750 copies." [Hanneman B-51]. The preface is by Hemingway. View More...
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1963.. 1963.. Very good. - Octavo, rust brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine in a dust wrapper. The rear panel of the dust wrapper is lightly soiled. 200 pages. 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Near fine.
First English edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
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