The Complete Greek Tragedies: Four Volume Boxed Set by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides - 1992

380 pages. Small octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") issued in orange cloth with purple lettering to front cover and offset coloring to spine in original pictorial jacket. First American edition.One of the outstanding literary figures of this generation, Ford Madox Ford is equally distinguished as a poet, essayist, biographer, critic and novelist. Here he has turned his great abilities to the job he likes best of all - the telling of a story, with its psychology, its flavor, its drama, deeply rooted in the present-day; its background in France and America. He takes a study in the exchange of identities, and shows us that, even though Henry Martin Alluin Smith did not commit suicide, as he had planned; even though he took over the identity of a man who did, nevertheless if one changes his identity without changing his nature hi is no better off than he was before. Written with the distinction for which Ford Madox Ford is famous, The Rash Act is a psychological novel of the first importance, permeated with the… Read More

New York: Harrison of Paris, 1934. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition, No. 475 of 895; SIGNED by Porter on title page; later issue with error corrected by a cancel; 8vo, rust cloth in green slipcase; vg (small stain on front board; faint black smudge and mark on rear board; spine sunfaded; spine ends bumped; small black mark on spine tail; eps and pages toning) in good+ slipcase (rubbed and worn; panels toned and sunned; chipping on and near foreedge; edges torn; corners bumped and worn; tears along edges). Note: this was probably signed at a much later date than publication; the signature is not on the limitation page, and it employs a light blue permanent marker-type pen, like a Flair or Pentel. Also, included is The New Mexico Quarterly Review: Volume XV, No. 3, Autumn, 1945 which includes the article 'The Art of Katherine Anne Porter' by Vernon A. Young (good only: covers heavily creased; number written on front cover; tear to front joint; spine torn and splayed; spine ends… Read More

MODERN LIBRARY , NY, 1933. HBDJ, 1933 , States First Modern Library Edition; 245 Titles Verso & Back of DJ with Pre ZipCode Coupon, VG-/GOOD, in the dust jacket. Small Brown cloth with Gilt Streamer man on front Bright & Titled faded on spine Cvr, Book is very slightly faded; Lacking front free end paper; book plate on front paste-down. Dust jacket is slightly time darkened mostly at spine, few small edge chips. Interior is tight and clean. Kent D endpapers. Toledano Spine # 7. (1933), 12mo, 336 pg. + ADS END WITH SELECTED TALES HAWTHORNE, Spine Tanning DJ & small Extremitiy Chips. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London and New York: John Lane the Bodley Head / Dodd, Mead and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Dime-sized nick at center of rear . gutter, jacket rubbed.. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth decorated in gilt. Introduction and notes by translator Richard Aldington. Detailed black and white plates throughout by Tealby. xxxiii, 220pp. One side from cardboard slipcase laid in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1992. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket.

London, United Kingdom: Elkin Matthews, 1903. Inscribed to ffep "To the standard-bearer from his old freind the Author" and with a poem "Aloft he waved his standard in the breeze (A week old Star wrapped round his bread and cheese) The while he cried "Woe, woe betide ! If I shout not excelsior!" CONDITION Burgundy waxed cloth bds with bright Gilt title (spine faded with sl. frayed spine ends and buffed cnrs, scratch to front) pp 108, tight with browned eps, odd mark internally, cnrs folded to 4 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Philadelphia, USA: University Library Association, 1880. Numbered 50/1,000 copies. Not Dated c1880. Each book has hand coloured frontis illus with tissue guard. Green Marbled bds with Black Leather spine and cnrs, Gilt top edge, Marbled eps, each volume paginated separately. Vol I pp vi 357 434 with 4 etched illus (one creased and sl soiled); Vol II pp 485 with 4 illus; Vol III pp 559 with 4 illus; Vol IV pp 338 with 3 illus CONDITION Light rubbing with spine sl chipped to ends, starting to crack top 1 inch of spine on book one, chips to rear of spine leather mid way at hinge, tissue guards to frontis clean, interior tight and clean with very odd fox spot. Overweight. Limited/Numbered. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Large 8vo.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. First Edition. Limited to 325 copies.Signed by author. 38pp A sound copy with chipping at top of spine. Leather label on front cover. Textured covers, spine slightly faded.

New York: Random House, 2017. Signed by George Saunders, dated 2017 in black, red and blue. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, slate paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Small previous owner name at the top of the front-free endpaper. Winner of the 2017 Booker Prize.

London: W Collins Sons & Co, 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Scarce. VG order throughout. Light toning to endpapers, otherwise clean and brght. Green cloth only lightly worn with smart paper label to spine. Spare label laid in. D/j a little worn to edges at top and bottom of spine with minor loss, in removable protective cover. 8vo. 277pp