Search Results: Literature from Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Martin, Johnson and Company Steel. Edition not stated, assumed late 1800s. Hardcover. Quarto. 11 x 8.75 inches. Complete three-volume set. Good. Blind embossed dark brown full leather on thick beveled boards, gilt double-ruled edges, blind inside dentelles, five raised fillet bands with gilt-stamped lettering in two chambers. Original owner's name (O. B. Sappington) gilt stamped at foot of spine. All edges gilt. Comedies volume, pages [liv] 1-621; Historical Plays volume, pages 623-1097; Tragedies volume, pages 1099-1725. "Carefully Collated and Compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier: With Historical and Critical Introductions, and Notes to Each Play; and A Life of the Great Dramatist, by Charles Knight. Illustrated with New and Finely Executed Steel Engravings, Chiefly Portraits in Character of Celebrated American Actors, Drawn from Life, Expressly for This Edition." Pages age toned and foxed. Cases edgeworn and quite rubbed. Front hinge and bands of Tragedies volume… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1902. Hardcover. Octavo. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. 442 pp. Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. Later printing. Original ribbed green cloth. Decorative blind stamping and title stamped in white on front board and spine. Large halftone photograph of San Francisco before the earthquake mounted on front board. Endpaper cracked at front hinge, but hinge holding. Short tears at head of spine. Spine ends and tips mildly softened. Text block tight. Pages lightly toned. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown endpaper.

Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1960. First Edition, First Printing (stated). Hardcover. Octavo. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 204 pp. Near Fine / Good. Black cloth over board, with white stamping to spine. Publisher's black topstain. Leading edge deckled. Illustrated endpapers. White dust jacket printed in black. Binding tight. Tips sharp. Slight lean. Interior clean and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket toned and with material loss at head of spine. Two closed one-inch tears to front panel, clumsily repaired with tape. Chipping to top edges and tips. Several small stains. Spine and edges rubbed and browned. Dust jacket now in removeable archival cover. Author's first work. Freedman A1.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967. First Edition, Second Printing. Flat signed by author on front free endpaper. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 550 pp. Near Fine / Very Good. Yellow-brown cloth over board, with brown and green stamping to spine. Orange endpapers. Tan dust jacket with illustration printed in brown, green, and white. Binding sound and square. Tips sharp. Interior clean and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket shows three small closed tears, one near lower leading corner of rear panel, one at upper edge of real panel, and one near upper leading corner of front panel. Creasing to head and heel of spine. Light chipping to head of spine, top edge of front panel, and both upper tips. Spine and edges rubbed and toned. Dust jacket now in removeable archival protective cover. Freedman A5.

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. First Edition (stated), First Issue with correct date code of I-M (September 1962) on copyright page. (Reprints also state "First Edition.") Hardcover. Octavo. 8-1/2 x 6 inches. 597 pp, plus author bio. Near Fine / Good. Full contemporary publisher's red cloth over boards with publisher colophon stamped in gilt at lower right of front board. Flat spine with title and particulars stamped in gilt. Leading edge of textblock untrimmed. Cartographic front and rear endpapers showing China South. Inked signature of previous owner, author Joe Hensley, at lower right corner of front free endpaper. Pictorial dustjacket with front panel showing boat on river flying American flag and Chinese figure with rifle in foreground. Sunburst announcement, "1963 Harper Prize Novel," on the front panel. Black-and-white author photo and bio on rear panel. No BOMC selection indication on dustjacket flap. Binding solid. Tips sharp with very slight wear. Text block square with edges slightly toned.… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner; 1891. Leather. Sextodecimo. 6.5 x 4 inches. [2], xxvii, [ii], 308, [2] pp. Very Good. Full vellum on thin boards. Lettered direct in black and red to front board and spine. Publisher's device (arbor scientiae, arbor vitae) stamped in black at lower right corner of front board. Top edge gilt. Pages uncut and untrimmed. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Vignette title page bearing motto (Sperate miseri, cavete felices) and publisher's device. Thirty-two chapters. Preface and notes by Austin Dobson. Minor shelf wear and soiling. Binding firm. Hinges tight. Spine square. Browning to leading rough page edges and endpapers. Previous owner's signature at top of front pastedown, else internally bright and unmarked.