Berkeley: University of California Press, [1993]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 331pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature. Handsome and tight first edition of the 214th volume in general editor Stephen Greenblatt's "New Historicism" series. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and green paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxiii, 415pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Front pastedown ownership signature. Superbly tight and handsome first edition. More
New York: The Viking Press, [1981]. Hardcover. Edited by Henry Hardy. Introduction by Noel Annan. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxx, 219pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Attractive first edition of this memoir by the British philosopher and historian (1909-97). More
New York: Oxford University Press, [1968]. Hardcover. 8vo. Teal blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 616pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn; front pastedown ownership signature. Quite tight and quite handsome first edition of this massive and definitive biography of British novelist Mary Ann..... More
New York: New Directions, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Light blue cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 491pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild foxing to outer page edges (only); mild jacket edgewear. Quite tight and lovely first edition of this uncommon biography of the influential French poet (1854-91). More
New York: Random House, [1980]. Hardcover. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Margaret M. Duggan. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxx, 640pp. Illustrations. Very good/near fine. Faint binding edgewear; front pastedown ownership signature. Tight and quite nice first edition of this large letter collection..... More