William Rickey and Company, 1911. Hardcover. This novel explores the lives of rough characters in Paris, or as they were called, "Apaches". "As New York has its gangsters, and London its Hooligans, so Paris has more or less organized bands of street ruffians of the lowest type, who, within the.....
Galerie Morpheus International, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Artist Wayne Douglas Barlowe's response to Dante's Inferno. With an introduction by Tanith Lee and a foreword from Barlowe discussing his inspiration. Slight wear to the corners of the jacket, protected in a mylar cover. Bumping to the front and back upper corners.....
Chicago: The Rielly & Lee Company. Neill, John R. Hardcover. A later printing in a bright, attractive jacket and illustrated boards. Undated; the rear flap of the jacket lists thirty two books ending with 1939's 'Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz'. Wear and small losses to the clipped jacket, as.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover. The Modern Library's 1932 "Adult Selection" of Burton's Arabian Nights, in scarce jacket. As the jacket promises, "The perpetual enchantment and multi-colored pageantry of the Arabian Nights are offered here in Sir Richard Burton's rendering for the delectation of adult minds. Shahrazad spins.....
London: John Murray; John Hunt; James Cawthorn. Hardcover. Four volume 'set' of Byron's works assembled by the nineteenth-century English politician John Hodgetts Hodgetts Foley. Having acquired the third volume of John Murray's 1819 three volume 'Works of Lord Byron' he bound later works (and one earlier) to almost match. While.....
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first American edition of "La Peste" translated by Stuart Gilbert. From the jacket: "When in the spring of 1947 "La Peste" was published in Paris, it created an immediate sensation. Camus was recognized all over Europe as having realized to.....
London: John Murray, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED first edition, first issue. Decorated spine panel in gold, blue cloth covers, top edge plain, missing bracket on title page ("Walter Ramal". Signed on the free endpaper "Walter de la Mar, November 19 1904, With all good wishes". Slight wear with loss.....
![Item #2024-Q282 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club [Lombard Street Edition]. Charles Dickens](https://bstreetbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2024-Q282.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1726357150)
London: The Picadilly Fountain Press, 1932. Seymour, Robert; Buss, Robert William; Browne, Hoblot Knight; Phiz. Hardcover. The two volumes of the Lombard Street Edition, bound as one by "W.H. Smith and Son, Ltd." Three quarter paper vellum binding, with slight darkening to the spine. Top edge gilt. Slight foxing to.....
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837. Soft cover. The first appearance of Oliver Twist in America. The first two chapters of Oliver Twist were published in Bentley's Miscellany in February 1837. By April of the same year the American publisher Carey, Lea and Blanchard, eager for new Dickens material, published.....
The Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1978. Soft cover. Slight scuffs to blue covers, minor bumping of corners. Interior is bright and clean. 51pp. 9.5 x 6.5". Very Good. Three stories written in 1974 with an introduction by Didion reflecting on the process of creative writing, printed for the Friends.....
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. Fred Meyer. Leather Bound. A collection of 7 books, which includes all 5 of the great American author's novels as well as 2 of his short story collections. The books are beautifully leather-bound and illustrated, with clean and unmarked pages. Novels included: This Side.....
San Francisco: Eastside Editions, 2001. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A large accordion book of prints by Art Hazelwood, inspired by Francois Rabelais, in a signed limited edition of twenty-five, of which this is no. 1. The ten prints form a continuous image measuring 18" x 288". They are accompanied by the.....
Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Hardcover. Herrick's early utopian novel, in a repaired dust jacket. From author's description from the dust jacket: 'My effort is to picture a new human society of a future age busy with its most important task, with the supreme adventure and to present some of the.....
New York: Random House, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing of Sinclair's satirical novel, SIGNED on the free endpaper. Unclipped jacket, now in mylar, with creasing and wear, with loss to the corners and the upper edge of rear panel. Slight soiling to cloth covers, mildest toning to pages.....
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 6" x 4.5" Twain's collection of nine sketches, beginning with the story of the jingle you can't get out of your head. Green cloth with blue endpapers, now in a protective mylar dust jacket. The first edition, first printing. On.....
Big Sur: 1944. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Henry Miller's "Excursus on War", with the disclaimer that "neither the publisher nor the printer is responsible for or subscribe to statements made herein by Henry Miller". Fading and wear to the spine of the red wraps. Stapled text is beginning to come.....
New York: New Directions, 1947. Hardcover. Fist edition, SIGNED on the free endpaper by Miller. Noticeable fading to the head and tail of the spine, slightest toning of the pages throughout. xxxvii, 427pp. 8 glossy plates from photographs. 8.75 x 6"
![Item #2025-R270 The Rosy Crucifixion [Sexus, Nexus, Plexus]. Henry Miller](https://bstreetbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2025-R270.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762226502)
New York: Grove Press Inc. / Evergreen Black Cat, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An unusual set of Miller's trilogy. As far as we can determine, an unknown Miller enthusiast has rebound the 1965 Grove Press paperbacks in handsome hardcovers, with a quarter leather spine and marbled paper boards. Sexus is.....
Easton Press. Hardcover. Easton Press edition, as new in publisher's shrink wrap. 8.75 x 5.75"
![Item #2024-Q29 Impressions and Opinions [Bayntun slipcase]. George Moore](https://bstreetbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2024-Q29.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1708232789)
London: David Nutt, 1891. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing with twelve page publisher's catalog. Original cloth covers, with wear to head and tail of the spine, bumping to corners, small split along lower joint. Custom slipcase from the Bayntun bindery, in style of three-quarter blue morocco binding, with.....
London: Duckworth, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the first English-language collection of Pirandello's short stories. Unclipped orange jacket with slight fading to spine. Black cloth boards, faint toning to pages. Old bookseller's stamp to the rear endpaper. 284pp. 7.5 x 5.25"
Libraire Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1910. Hardcover. Five plays by Rostand in attractive uniform bindings. Quarter leather spines with gilt ornamentation and titles. Top edges gilt. Bindings signed "Em. Terquem Rel." All later printings, dated 1910 or 1911. marbled boards; marbled endpapers; pages faintly toned. "Chantecler" only has original pale green.....
1948. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Founding issue of the journal, opening with an extract from Sartre's play "Les Maines Sales", with contributors examining the emerging existentialist movement. Yellow paper covers darkening, splits along top and bottom of front joint. Stapled pages, faintly toned with age. 127, [1]pp 9 x 6".....
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated 4th impression of March 1932. The "First Cheap Edition" in jacket, with 2/6 price. Fading to spine of yellow jacket, prior owner's name in pencil near the price on the front panel. Fading to spine of red cloth boards. Map endpapers.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the delightful novel by the once popular writer Mrs. Sigourney, narrated in the form of a journal of a young girl in early nineteenth-century America. Cloth binding described in the Bibliography of American Literature as "slate cloth embossed.....