Iowa City: The Zetagathian Society, 1911. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt rules and lettering. xii, 248pp (uncut). Top edge gilt. Captioned tissue-guarded frontispiece, 4 captioned tissue-guarded plated. Very good. Homely discoloration at head of spine, else uniformly fine and tight. First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies (this #279)..... More

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, [1963]. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 180pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Spine of otherwise-superb jacket rather age toned. Handsome first U.S. edition -- tight, sharp. Not often seen in this bright, lovely condition. More

London: W.H. Allen, 1963. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 365pp, (2pp), (7pp ads). Fine/near fine. Absolutely outstanding, tight and bright first English edition (following the 1952 first American edition) of this memoir by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning American poet..... More

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930. Hardcover. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Small 8vo. Orange cloth spine with gilt lettering and orange paper over boards, dust jacket. x, 83pp. Near fine/very good. Heavy stock jacket spine a bit age toned, with several tiny edge chips at extremities. Wonderfully tight and..... More

New York: Atheneum, 1970. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy wrappers. xxi, 417pp. Tables, figures. Near fine. Superb, tight and sharp first softbound edition of these twenty essays; contributors include Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Allan G. Bogue, Rodney O. Davis and other notables in the field. More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 521pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, mainly at head and tail of age-toned spine. Most handsome first edition of White's first novel, a thick historical novel about Sir Thomas More's final half dozen..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xiv, 460pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine a bit sunned. Tight and nice "New Edition" of these writings first published in 1932 but here with four new contributions. More

New York: The Modern Library, [1961]. Hardcover. Foreword by Morris L. Ernst. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 783pp. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear only. Uncommon Modern Library Giant (#G52) in outstandingly bright and tight condition. First published in this form in 1940..... More

Monpellier, France: Universite Paul Valery, 1980. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wood-grain wrappers. 121pp. Near fine. Tight and attractive issue of this scholarly Romanian studies journal, almost entirely in French and here focused on "Le Merveilleux Dans la Tradition Orale Roumaine (1)." Contributor's copy, for although it does not bear any..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan ribbed paper over boards with brown lettering and rules. 63pp. Good plus. Tight and internally near fine, though binding a tad edgeworn, with abrasion to front board lower right. Tight, fairly attractive firstedition of the first of Eliot's works published..... More

London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1900. Hardcover. 12mo. Cream cloth spine with black lettering and terra cotta pictorial paper over boards. ix, 102pp, (9pp ads). Numerous line drawings. Very good. A wonderfully tight and nice second printing (printed later the same month, October, as the first printing) of the 26-year-old Cheston's..... More

Bucharest, Romania: Acadamiei dei Stiinte Sociale si Politice, 1985. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff wrappers. 169pp. Very good. Mild wear to outer wrappers (only) -- tight and internally near fine. Attractive issue of this scholarly journal, entirely in Romanian, concerning literary history and theories -- and an extraordinary association copy. Notable..... More

Rotterdam: Joh. Danielum Beman & Filium, 1756. Hardcover. 8vo. Full vellum with gilt spine lettering. 748pp, (120pp index). Frontispiece; title page in black and terra cotta; sewn-in green satin page marker. Very good overall. Binding a tad edgeworn and age toned, but strong and attractive; text block mildly age toned..... More