Los Angeles: Lookout Publication Co., 1975. Paperback. Paperback yellow octavo. 192 pages ; 18 cm. Translation of Les onze mille verges and Les exploits d'un jeune don Juan. || "Two French Classics of Erotic Realism" -front cover. Eros, erotica, sexuality. || Series: A Biblion classic ;; BC 108;. More
Cambridge, Mass. Houghton Mifflin, 1950. first edition. Hardcover. Octavo in grey cloth boards in color illus. (spine) and white dust jacket; 248 p., 22 cm. Contents: The Miracle -- Maud -- The Fall of a Sparrow -- Finish, Good Lady -- The Unholy Three -- The Ambassadress -- The Edification..... More
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., N.D. Early reprint. Hardcover. Hardcover quarto with tan cloth. Color Illustrated pastedown to front cover with black text and illustration to spine. 270 pages : b/w illustrations throughout (no color plates) ; 23 cm. 1907 is only date listed; presumably printed sometime between 1929 and..... More
London: Methuen, 1974. First UK edition. Hardcover. Medium Octavo in white photo-illus DJ; 349 p. ; 21 cm. Transvestites, cross-dressing; Novel; fiction. More
Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1921. First edition? Hardcover. Octavo in dark green boards; 223 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. Boy Scouts -- Juvenile fiction. More
New York: Barefoot Books, 2000. Hardcover. Hardcover large quarto with yellow spine. 95 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm. Includes 2 CDs. || Contents: Children of Lir -- Fair, brown, and trembling -- Twelve wild geese -- Lusmore and the fairies -- Son of an otter, son of a...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Third printing. Hardcover. Hardcover large octavo with red dust jacket, 491 pages ; 23 cm. Author signed on title page. "The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book..... More
New York: Poseidon Press, 1989. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Hardcover quarto in white and black DJ. 320 pages ; 23 cm. Signed by author on title page. || "Steve Erickson takes us on a journey through another twentieth century, eliding conventional borders of time and place..... More
Istanbul: Can Sanat Yayinlari, 2015. Paperback. Paperback octavo with green spine and color illustration on cover. 461 pages ; 20 cm. In Turkish. Translated by Selvi, Seçkin. Translated Title: One hundred years of solitude. Uniform Title: Cien años de soledad. || Macondo (Imaginary place) -- Social conditions. Historical fiction. Latin..... More
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928. 1st ed. Hardcover. Large octavo wine cloth, mustard d.j. in archival mylar wrap, deckle edge; 320 pages 20 cm. Jazz age novel || "With this poignant love story, Philip Gibbs has woven together the threads of immensely exciting modern events as they..... More
New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. 1st Ballantine books hardcover ed. hardcover. Octavo maroon cloth spine; illus maroon d.j. xvi, 399 pages ; 22 cm. "Westley, a farm boy, goes off to seek his fortune shortly after declaring his love for Buttercup, the most beautiful woman in the world, but..... More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto green boards, brown spine in gold illustrated d.j.; olive green slipcase; 248 pages ; 25 cm. Signed by author || "A middle-aged autistic resident of a therapeutic community where he was sent as a young child rebels against changes in..... More
New York, New York: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Hardcover quarto in blue and green DJ. 343 pages ; 24 cm. Author inscribed on second free end paper. "Signed copy" sticker on front of DJ. || Series: An..... More
New York: Viking, 2014. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Hardcover quarto in multicolored DJ with black and green decorated spine. 401 pages : b/w maps on lining papers; 25 cm. Series: Magicians trilogy ;; bk. 3. || Abstract: "Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., [1911]. Twenty sixth edition. Hardcover. Hardcover brown octavo, stamped and illustrated boards with gilt title to front and spine, old attractive bookplate on front inside cover; 404 pages : plates, b&w illustrations ; 20 cm. Traditional tales told by slaves, written in dialect; African American Folklore..... More
New York: Scribner, [1954?]. Presumed first edition, later unknown printing. hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, illustrated DJ, mylar wrap; 140 pages ; 22 cm. $3.00 price printed to flyleaf. Rear jacket panel incudes a large b&w photo of Hemingway beneath his name and "Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1954"..... More
New York: A.L. Burt, 1890s. Hardcover. Hardcover green octavo with gilt title band to spine and red designs. iv, 427 pages : frontispiece, plates ; 19 cm. Sepoy Rebellion (India : 1857-1858). History. Juvenile Fiction. More
New York: Macaulay Co., 1931. 1st ed. Hardcover. Large octavo aqua-blue cloth, black illus d.j. in archival mylar wrap; 415 pages 20 cm. "But the rogue can write."– H.L. Mencken. More
New York: New American Library (Signet), 1958. First printing, September 1958. Paperback. Pocketbook with color illustrated cover. 254 pages ; 18 cm. Signet D1619 || Beat generation. New York. San Francisco. Mexico. New Orleans. Fiction. Travel. More
Egypt: The American University in Cairo Press, 1989. Presumed 1st English language edition. Fifth printing (stated). Paperback. Red paperback octavo; xi, 246 pages ; 20 cm. Uncommon in this English langage Egyptian editoin, with red wrappers illus with b/w portrait of the author. "Never has Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's talent..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1924. Hardcover. Hardcover large octavo in blue fabric. Gilt title and illustrations on front and spine. 301 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, color frontispiece ; 20 cm. Illus. by Boris Artzybasheff. At head of title: Martineau./ Published originally as one of her series entitled..... More
[Birmingham, Ala.]: [Manchester Press], 1977. Paperback. Large octavo paperback in white illus wraps; 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Signed by author on title page. Author apparently did active tours of U.S. Naval duty on subs. || Submarines, United States Navy, Fiction, Military. More
New York: William Morrow, 2012. 1st ed; first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Quarto illus. blue boards; 403 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm. Inked inscription by author on title page || Map on lining papers. || Baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to..... More
London: Harvill Secker, 2011. 1st UK printing. Hardcover. Black cloth quarto, black dj with color illus; 364 pages ; 24 cm. English; Translated from the Japanese. "An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo in olive green boards; xxxvi, 295 p. ; 21 cm. Married women -- Fiction. More