L'Enfant Criminel & 'Adame Miroir by Genet, Jean - 1949

New York: Random House (1967).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xvi, 428 pp. Dust jacket has a short tear and a lightly faded spine. The price is intact. An attractive copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1969. Signed by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber. First edition / First printing. (Softcover edition) Illustrated wrappers. Fine.

MODERN LIBRARY NY, with #165 Twice on Spine DJ in Red, 1929 FRONT DJ Shows man at door Holding candle with bizarre reflection on door as he opens it & is titled in Red ,J Inner FlapPrice Clip but 95 Cents INTACT, Illustrated Green & White Rockwell Kent RUNNING streamer MAN Endpapers are an aqua blue color Former Owner Inscription, HBDJ, with top edge stained blue. .1929, STATED 1st Modern Library Edition on copyright pg, 1st Edition THUS, NF+/VG-, AS-IS,. Jacket Priced 95 cents with 159 title listed on rear panel with pre Zip code Coupon . Small 4 1/2 X 6 3/4 in. Blue BALLOON flexible Cloth cvr with Gold Gilt man running with Streamer on Front Light WearCloth cvr , . 12mo., xii, 492 pg NO ADS IN BACK., DJ FOXED, Lightly Frayed with TINY holes at DJ Fold & EXTREMITiES Is Titled in Red on Front DJ, ; Titled & Grape Vine design Decorated Gold Gilt on Cvr SPINE, Interior nice clean light wear Fox, Spine DJ end Tiny chips Tears, Jacket has some chipping along rear top edges and… Read More

New York: The Modern Library., 1940. HBDJ, STATED First Modern Library Giant Edition, 1940. NF/GOOD+, ML#54. 274 TITLES ON VERSO OF BACK OF DJ with the highest Giant being G54, Tom Jones, A NF copy in blue cloth with light wear FOX, in a bright, unfaded, red, blue and gold dustwrapper GOOD+, with tiny Tears Wear & end chips to Spine DJ. . Very scarce in this condition. Toledano 54.1. 861 pgs NO ADS IN BACK, The book has Toledano G4 cover, A or blank endpapers and a c jacket. These pointers indicate this is a First Modern Library Edition with a fall 1940 jacket. book is in about NF condition with a decent RED top stain. It has no writing, underlining, or missing pages. The jacket has a ¼? per side triangular chip at the top of the spine, crimping at the bottom of the spine, wear at the flap folds and light soil ,Follow Tom from his humble beginnings; experience his forbidden passion for the beautiful Sophie; and ride along with him on his colorful journey to London - where he finally… Read More

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2004. Signed on the half-title page by Neal Stephenson. First edition / First printing. Brown paper spine,ochre paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. This copy has been stored lying flat on a shelf since publication, and has no sagging of the text block, endemic to the majority of copies of this heavy, oversize book. An exceptionally beautiful copy. Note: extra shipping applies to this title. Winner of the 2005 Locus Award.

[4]+392+[2] pages with a frontispiece from a painting by William Van Dresser. Small Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth illustrated in black,cream and orange, lettered in cream and gilt. (BAL 11966) (Sisson & Martens pg 87) First edition.A tale about a love triangle on a large ranch. Though not published until the year of London's death, he had written this during his bad year of 1913. He spent much of that year visiting a dentist, finally having all of his upper teeth pulled to halt the pyorrhea raging in his gums; at about the same time, his Wolf House burned down two weeks before its completion; and his kidney problems continued to worsen, exacerbated by his drinking and his insistence upon eating raw fish and duck. [The novel] was meant to exalt the splendor of Wolf House and scientific farming and sex." "It is all sex from start to finish", he wrote to the editor of Cosmopolitan, "in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of… Read More

Paris: Hachette & Cie. Very Good+. 1913. Hardcover. Clean paper covered boards with blue cloth spine & corners. Text tight, clean & intact. Volume XIII. Numerous photo & drawing illustrations. Architecture, botany & agriculture. Text in french. Magazines issued on the 1st & 15th of the month. 12 Issues. Bound Magazines; B&W Photos ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

New York: John Furman, 1800. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated by William Roscoe. "Re-printed for William Cobbett." 30, 44, 34 p.; 14 cm. (18mo). Signatures: A-I6. Contemporary binding: half speckled calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt rules on spine; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: The Nurse. All page edges speckled. English translation only, from Roscoe's bilingual edition of 1798. Includes Roscoe's introduction on the life and works of Tansillo, largely adapted from G.A. Ranza's Italian edition of 1767, with Latin passages from book 12 of the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius. Evans, 38604. In Near Fine Condition: corners rubbed; pages are clean and tight. An attractive early 19th-century binding.

Paris: Chez J. Baur, Chez Rapilly. Very Good. 1879. Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Limited edition 94/300 on Holland paper. Original paper (Wraps) cover have light edge wear. Consisting of edge chips & small closed edge tears. Deckle page edges. Decorative chapter head & tail pieces. Text tight, clean & intact. Laid in illustration at rear of text. Art catalogue, 179 items described in detail. Art; Engraved Illustration; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 334 pages .

London: Gibbings and Co. Ltd, 1901. Small Octavo. In five volumes, with the notes of Duchat, Ozell, ad others; introduction and revision by Alfred Wallis, illustrated with engravings, bound by Morrell in 3/4 red polished calf over red cloth, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in a floral gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. A very good set with upper joint weakening on volume one.