London: Jonathan Cape, [1967]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xx, 448pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear only; small front pastedown ownership signature. Quite sharp, nice and tight later printing of this thick 1936 classic, "with a long new introduction by the author." More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, [1971]. Hardcover. Preface by J. Dover Wilson. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 236pp. Fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature; jacket age toned but edgewear-free. Superbly tight and handsome later printing of this 1951 study. More
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, [1969]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 205pp. Fine/very good. Small front pastedown ownership signature; faint jacket edgewear, with couple of archivally closed (on verso) minor edge tears. A tight and quite handsome reprint edition on this notable..... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1981]. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 281pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Bit of foxing to couple of preliminary leaves and more to page edges; small front pastedown ownership signature; jacket spine sunned. Tight and nice..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 88pp. Fine/very good. Spine age toned on otherwise superb, bright, edgewear-free jacket. Attractive and tight third printing of this slim 1956 study. More
London: Oxford University Press, [1967]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with copper spine lettering, dust jacket. x,131pp. 5 full-page plates. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with single edge chip; small front pastedown ownership signature. Tight and quite handsome first edition of these four lectures. Rather uncommon. More
Cleveland: The Press of Western Reserve University, 1966. Hardcover. Foreword by John S. Diekhoff. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 286pp. Frontispiece. Near fine/near fine. Endpapers a bit age toned; front pastedown ownership signature of literature professor and critic John D. Soley (1935-2016), whose..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, [1972]. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale orange cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 232pp. Near fine/very good. Endpapers a tad age toned and faintly foxed, though text block tight and bright; small ownership signature on front pastedown; jacket lightly age toned and a bit spotted..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Navy blue cloth with copper spine lettering, dust jacket. xvi, 302pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature of literature professor and critic John D. Soley (1935-2016), whose graduate thesis was "John Milton's Idea of the 'Right Poet'." Exceptionally tight and attractive..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1971]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale greeen cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xxiv, 440pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature of literature professor and critic John D. Soley (1935-2016), whose graduate thesis was "John Milton's Idea of the 'Right Poet'." Later printing..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ghika. Translationm, introduction and notes by Kimon Friar. Small 4to. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxxviii, 824pp, (2pp). Line drawings. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear only; small front pastedown ownership signature. Super, tight and sharp..... More
New York: Basic Books, [1984]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xi, 372pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature. Tight and bright first edition. Interestingly, front pastedown bears an archival decorative-edged bookplate signed boldly in full in turquoise ink by Gay..... More
New York: The Viking Press, [1977]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with gilt lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 541pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature of literature professor and critic John D. Soley (1935-2016), whose graduate thesis was "John Milton's Idea of..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 157pp. Very good/very good. Bit of foxing to endpapers and page edges; small front pastedown ownership signature; faint jacket edgewear. Tight, nice first edition of this (to cite jacket flap) "provocative theory and... manifesto..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 293pp. Very good/very good. Faint age toning and foxing to preliminary leaves; mild bit of jacket rubbing only; small front pastedown ownership signature. An attractive first edition of this (to cite jacket flap)..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Teal blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 206pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature. Quite tight and attractive first edition of this early title on (to cite jacket flap) "the first formal advance in the techniques of closely..... More
New York: The Modern Library, [1960]. Hardcover. Edited by Robert N. Linscott. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and rules, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 463pp, (2pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature. Quite handsome early printing of #192, first published in this form in..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1975]. Hardcover. Translation by Paul Schach and Sonja Lindgrenson. 8vo. Pale blue cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 219pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. Single small tear (archivally closed on verso) at head of otherwise-superb and bright jacket; small front pastedown ownership signature. Handsome..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, [1977]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 413pp. Very good/very good. Binding quite tight and nice but for inoffensive spotting to top page edges; jacket free of edge tears, spine ever-so-faintly sunned and minor scrape to front panel; small..... More
New York: The Viking Press, [1962]. Hardcover. 8vo. Cream cloth spine with green lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 344pp. Fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and mild age toning. Wonderfully tight and handsome first edition of the sixth novel by the celebrated British writer and philosopher (1919-99)..... More
German-American magicians and entertainers famed for their Las Vegas show and its white tiger act -- which ended their joint career when Roy was severely wounded by their tiger in 2003. Bold and large "Siegfried & Roy / Siegfried Fischbacher" and "Siegfried & Roy / Roy Uwe Horn" both in..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1996]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with copper lettering and mauve paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 704pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. First edition, tight and handsome, of this highly-regarded and surprisingly uncommon study. More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, [1968]. Hardcover. Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Complete 3-volume set. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jackets. xix, 523pp; v, 312pp; v, 547pp, 4pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Minor rubbing to jackets; small ownership signature on each front pastedown. Quite..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1978]. Hardcover. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. x, 359pp. Near fine/near fine. Front pastedown ownership signature. Handsome and tight early printing. More
New York: Random House, [1979]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with silver spine lettering and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 190pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature. Tight and quite nice first edition of these essays (to cite jacket front panel) "on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Flaubert, Stendhal..... More