New York: Harper & Row, [1989].. Gilt cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Very good or better in dust jacket. Publisher's promotional material and photograph laid in. ... (more information)

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New York: Grove Press, [1986].. Cloth boards. First trade edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... (more information)

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New York: Grove Press, [1993].. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition of the playwright's first novel. Fine. ... (more information)

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London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892.. Two volumes. Large quarto. White linen, stamped in gilt. Portrait and plates after designs by Louis Chalon. Spines somewhat darkened, with light dust soiling at edges, internally very good and largely unopened. Bookplates of Robert Hoe and Henry Sherwin. One of two hundred and ten numbered sets, printed on Japan vellum, in addition to an ordinary issue of one thousand sets on paper. Translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter A. Motteux, with an introduction by Anatole d... (more information)

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London: Printed for T. Evans, 1784.. Four volumes. Contemporary gilt calf. Engraved frontispiece in each volume, and engraved portrait vignette on first title. Bindings considerably worn, with cracking to hinges and most labels wanting; armorial bookplate of one Lt. Col. Kent-Murray, with his 1878 gift inscription on first free endsheet and ink name on title. Internally a very good set. First printing in this format of J. Ozell's text, with a long "Life" by Peter Motteux. Ozell edited and corr... (more information)

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[Amsterdam: L. & D. Elzevier], 1663.. Two volumes. [24],488,[10] (with 215/16 repeated); [2],489-946,[8]pp. 12mo. 12.2 x 7 cm. Full brown morocco, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endsheets, a.e.g., by Gapé. Astrolabe device on each title. Bound without the two terminal blanks in volume one, trace of minor rubbing at extremities, old bookseller's description tipped to rear endsheet, faint old ink name on first title and some minor marginal spotting to a few leaves, otherwise very good ... (more information)

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London & Philadelphia: Alexander Moring The De la More Press / J. B. Lippincott Company, [nd. but ca. 1920s].. Two volumes. xvi,474,[2]; xvi,462,[2]pp. Large octavo. Gilt navy blue cloth, t.e.g., others rough-trimmed. Frontis. Black & white line drawings and decorations. Some foxing to prelims and endleaves, slight bowing of boards, one corner bumped, otherwise a very good, moderately bright set. Very small bookseller's label on front free endpaper. A modest redaction of the Navarre Society octa... (more information)

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New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.. Printed boards. First edition. Foreword by the editor. Crease in spine incurred in binding, else very good in dust jacket. ... (more information)

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Santa Fe: Privately Printed, [1937].. Large octavo. Stiff wrappers, printed label. Light use at overlap edges, else near fine. First edition. Inscribed, as usual, but in this case to Santa Fe art and letters patron Elizabeth de Huff. ... (more information)

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Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce D'Oro, [1958].. Large quarto. Gilt boards. Plates and facsimiles. Spine ends lightly bumped, few patches of sunning to boards, endsheets faintly dust spotted, but a good, sound copy in moderately worn dust jacket, with a heavily creased tear at the lower edge of the front panel, and several smaller nicks, tears and chips. First edition. One of one thousand numbered copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Poet/translator Cid Corman's copy, bearing his occasional i... (more information)

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Milan: All'Insegna del Pesce Doro, [1958].. 24mo. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition (5000 copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega). With the ownership signature of the author's occasional translator, poet Peter Wigham. Fine. ... (more information)

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Milan: All'Insegna del Pesce Doro, [1958].. 24mo. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition (5000 copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega). Fine. ... (more information)

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Florence: Sansoni, [1958].. Small octavo. Cloth boards. Plates. First edition, published as "Le Piccole Storie Illustrate 16." Publisher's blindstamp in title, else fine in lightly nicked dust jacket. ... (more information)

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[Aix-en-Provence: Éditions Ophrys, 1957].. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. First edition. Issued as New Series, No. 16 of the <Annales de la Faculté des Lettres>. Spine tanned, light wear at edges of wrappers, but a very good, unopened copy. Publisher's prospectus laid in. ... (more information)

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New York: New Directions, [1972].. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Faint dampstain to bottom edge, else near fine in dust jacket. ... (more information)

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Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant [et al.], 1751.. xxviii,240,[2],241-245,[1],xx,75pp. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra. Extremities slightly worn, small pin hole in extreme outer blank corner of leaves, otherwise a very good copy. The sixth edition, revised and corrected, of the chief works by the son of the dramatist. The title poem was first published in 1742, and "La Grace," which occupies the latter portion of the volume, was first published in 1720. Pope's 1742 letter to Raci... (more information)

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New York: [Published by the Artist], 1945.. [4]pp. plus eight copper plate engravings and interleaves. Folio (53.5 x 37 cm). Loose sheets laid into wrappers, enclosed in a folding cloth portfolio, stamped in black. Small spot in lower corner of upper portfolio board, some creases to tissue interleaves, else about fine. One of only fifty numbered sets, signed by the artist on the justification, and with each individual print signed and numbered as well. The upper wrapper incorporates yet another engraving (n... (more information)

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Dublin: Printed by William Porter, for P. Wogan [et al], 1795.. vi [i.e. viii, p.vi is misnumbered],499pp. Large octavo. Modern three- quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt labels. Small Irish stationer's blindstamp on title, title remargined at gutter, still a good or better copy. First Dublin edition, printed in the same year as the London edition. The author's account of the trip she made while her celebrated novel, THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO, was in press. ESTC T114797. ... (more information)

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Oxford: J. Fletcher, 1797.. 15,[1]pp. Quarto. Extracted from bound volume. First edition. Text in Latin and Greek. Faint old discoloration in fore- margin, else a very good copy. ESTC locates seven copies. ... (more information)

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New York: Knopf, 1973.. Cloth and boards. First edition. Spine a shade sunned through jacket, otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket. ... (more information)

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