Literature

Chapel Hill: Lillabulero, Spring 1967. Signed by Russell Banks on title page. First edition / First printing. Stapled blue wrappers. Very good. Sunning and light wear to covers, short tear to top front cover, no loss. Includes Portfolio 2: The Shaker Dove, by Daniel Patterson inserted into a sleeve on inside rear cover. Also includes William Faulkner: a Story and Five Poems. Poetry by Lucius Shepard, Dabney Stuart, etc.

Random House, New York, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG. 11 1/4 H x 8 1/ 4 W x 1/4 inch. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book Interior NEAR FINE/ Covers Very Good Plus/ Dust Jacket Very Good. Three line Copyright notice on back of title page. Boards and spine are green cloth, spine is printed, cover and spine lettering in dark green, front cover has title, author and leaping fish in black embossed, fish is smiling with what looks to be his mouth shut, on ffep fish is leaping with mouth open. Dust jacket is blue, lettering red/black, full colour pictorial front which wraps around on spine with balance of pictorial on back as well as a white ball with text. Dust jacket is price clipped in a small triangle, has a bit of age darkening on flap folds, spine does not seem to be sunned, dj has no rips but has 5 chips out of all edges biggest is 1/4 W x 1/4 inch H, has various small creases on both flap folds and each side of dj spine, front back and… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. New/No dust jacket as issued. SIGNED on title page + Photo. Signed in person by the late Anne Rice directly on the title page, NOT signed to anyone. Photos of Anne Rice at her book signing event will be included with the signed book. Barnes and Noble First Edition Thus, later printing. Leatherbound, gold gilt block, Hard cover with silk marker. No dust jacket as issued. Book is NEW and UNREAD in pristine condition, opened only for signing. This is a beautiful RARE autographed book. Makes a great gift.

London : T Cadell Jun. and W Davies, 1802 A good to very good copy of the first translation into English of Dante's Divine Comedy. This copy retains the original marbled boards, with new calf spines and corners, so the bindings are clean, sound and tight with some light scuffing to the boards. The translation was completed by Henry Boyd, then Vicar of Rathfryland in County Down. The contents are complete with frontispiece portrait by Stothard and titles and half titles to each volume. Vol I: frontispiece; title; dedication; half title to Inferno; text 408pp. Vol II: title; half title; preliminary essay and text 384pp. Vol III: title; half title; preliminary essay and text with index, errata and addenda 420pp (more detailed collation available on request). All the volumes retain their original endpapers with repair at the joints and stamped ownership details of Richd Hopkins of Huntingdonshire. All the endpapers have some marking and Vol II has lost the corner tip of the rear free endpaper.… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Company, 1910. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Andrew Lang's Color Fairy Books, complete in twelve volumes, all first impressions of the first edition: Blue (1889), Red (1890), Green (1892), Yellow (1894), Pink (1897), Grey (1900), Violet (1901), Crimson (1903), Brown (1904), Orange (1906), Olive (1907), Lilac (1910). The volumes average in Very Good, with fading to spines, foxing, light edge wear, soiling, or rubbing, bookplates or previous ownership markings, and toning to pages. Tear to cloth at base of spine of The Blue Fairy Book; Inner hinges tender or exposed in the Lilac, Orange and Grey; Corner clipped from front free endpaper in The Lilac Fairy Book. A lovely set Andrew Lang's Color Fairy Books, beautifully decorated in ornate gilt stamping.

1674 Boccalini Parnassus Greek Mythology English Satire Italian Authors Monmouth

Trajano Boccalini was a 16th-century Italian author known for his most important work "Ragguagli di Parnaso". This work is a story on mythology in which he satirizes the works and lives of other Italian authors through the lens of Apollo. This 1674 English edition was translated by Henry Carey of Monmouth.

Item number: #8629
Price: $750
BOCCALINI, Traiano
I ragguagli di Parnasso; or Advertisements from Parnassus: in two centuries. WIth the Politik touchstone.
London: Printed and are to be sold by Tho. Guy, 1674.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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References: ESTC T 146672
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Language: English
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Binding: Leather; tight & secure
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Size: ~11.75in X 7.75in (30cm x 19.5cm)
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Knopf, New York, 1946. First edition. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Book has light toning from age, discoloration along top edges but it does not bleed onto pages. Dust jacket has several tears and nicks, creasing along spine. $2.00 indicated on dust jacket. Tan/beige cloth with maroon lettering on spine.Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.The story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. The classic novel of the absurd.

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) By Twain, Mark, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First Thus . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Brehm, Worth. The front cover is loose but binding tight. Chistmas gift note inside front and back covers in pencil 1929. two smears inside front cover. moisture mark on outside cover, but pages not affected.Besides the colorful frontispiece, there are 12 internal duo-tone (black-and-white) glossy plates 421 pages of text. An early printing from 1923, this hardcover book has black matte cloth-covered boards with a colorful front paper paste-down. Corners are bumped.

WE ARE HAPPY TO PRESENT: Flack, Marjorie. THE STORY ABOUT PING. TRUE FIRST EDITION 1933 VIKING PRESS. 3 lines of copyright information. HARDCOVER. BACK DJ FLAP INCLUDES JUNIOR VIKING COUPON. Matching blue floating duck back board and dust jacket panels do not bear weekly reader logo. PLEASE SEE OUR PHOTO OF DJ BACK PANEL. Unclipped Front DJ flap priced at $1.00 . ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. QUITE THE FIND. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD CONDITION DJ. A CLEAN SOLID COPY. PLEASE SEE OUR PHOTOS. Summary " Ping was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank" . Will ship from Oregon.

1682 1ed CLEOPATRA Jean de la Chapelle French Tragedy Play Egypt Octavian Rome

Jean de la Chapelle was a 17th-century French writer known for his tragic plays and novels. One of his first plays was 'Cleopatra', based on the life and military events of the famed Egyptian ruler. The play was first performed in 1681 and this book-version of the play was released a year later. The play does not follow the history of Cleopatra directly by mysteriously having Octavian disappear and having Octavia and Cleopatra have a face-to-face confrontation.
Item number: #14096
Price: $550
CHAPELLE, Jean de la

Cleopatre: tragedie
A Paris : Chez Jean Ribou, 1682.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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Language: French
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Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
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Size: ~6in X 3.75in (15cm x 9cm)
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1874 Missouri & Mississippi Legends INDIANS Negro Murder Native American Tales

Hopewell's book "Legends of the Missouri and Mississippi" is written in a dime novel style as a work of twisted fact and fiction. Hopewell writes on river legends, stories of Indians, Peter Griffin the hunter, Pere Marquette, Hernando De Soto, Negro murders, Blackbird, Pontiac the chief of the Ottawas, Bernard Guillet the first settler of St. Charles Missouri, Jack Pierce, and much more!

This undated edition of "Legends of the Missouri and Mississippi" features 4 full-page plates!
Item number: #12649
Price: $499
HOPEWELL, Menra
Legends of the Missouri and Mississippi.
London, Ward, Lock and Tyler [1874].

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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References: Howes H 628; Graff 1948;
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Language: English
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Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
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Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)
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Quite scarce
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Orange boards. Very fine in near fine dust jacket.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977 First printing of the stated first edition, first issue with the publisher’s code “R49” printed in the gutter of p. 447; in original first issue dust jacket. Basis for the 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation starring Jack Nicholson. Book with light rubbing to spine ends and a tiny crimp to the bottom front corner, else in fine condition; dust jacket with faint toning to spine and flap margins, faint crimping to upper spine end, very faint crease to upper front corner, and light wear to extremities, primarily at the edge of bottom spine, else fine. an exceptional copy indeed.

This vintage volume of Gone With the Wind is from the second printing of the first edition. There is no dust jacket and it remains as a hardcover, original gray cloth. Mitchell's classic was first printed in May and the first two printings are both uncommon and collectible. There is also the inscription of a former owner on the front inside cover. The book is otherwise unmarked.

Plath, Sylvia: 1971 First United States Edition, Harper & Row. THE BELL JAR. BY POET SYLVIA PLATH. States impression 71 72 73 10 9 8 7 6 on page 296. 296 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 3/8. Purple Boards, mauve topstain, purple end-papers. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. VERY GOOD ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED $6.95 BLACK DUST JACKET. States SBN 06-013356-2 on the back dj panel. Summary: "The Bell Jar details the life of Esther Greenwood, a college student who dreams of becoming a poet. She is selected for a month-long summer internship as a guest editor of Ladies' Day magazine, but her time in New York City is unfulfilling as she struggles with issues of identity and societal norms."