Jean Giraudoux: His Life and Works.
N.p. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1959. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, dust jacket. 238pp. Very good/good plus. Several edge chips to jacket. First edition, tight and attractive. More
N.p. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1959. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, dust jacket. 238pp. Very good/good plus. Several edge chips to jacket. First edition, tight and attractive. More
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 157pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket wear and rubbing. Handsome first edition of volume #16 in the "TEAS" (Twayne's English Authors Series). More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth spine and cream paper over boards, dust jacket. xiii, 178pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Handsome and tight first edition. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth spine and orange paper over boards, dust jacket. 184pp. Near fine/very good. First U.S. edition. Very handsome. More
Chicago: The Frank M. Morris Co., 1906. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. 80pp. Two frontispiece, full-pages plates, illustration. Very good. Faint edgewear, else internally tight and near fine; 1914 ownership signature on front flyleaf. A handsome first edition of this slim oddball study, first volume in "The..... More
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1967. Hardcover. Edited by Clyde S. Kilby. 8vo. Red cloth with black spine lettering, dust jacket. 121pp. Pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket age toning. Small ownership name inkstamped on front flyleaf. Handsome first edition of these one hundred-plus letters. More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. Hardcover. Preface by Hilaire Belloc. 8vo. Black cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xx, 407pp. Frontispiece, Very good/very good. First U.S. edition. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1991]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 696pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. Just a book club edition of this massive tome, but with a twist: Front flyleaf bears a fine archival..... More
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange cloth, dust jacket. xv, 286pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. Handsome first edition. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and red paper over boards, price-clipped dust jacket. xix, 326pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Tight, clean first edition. More
N.p. Privately Printed, 1949. Hardcover. Small 4to.Tan cloth spine with black lettering and blue paper over boards with paper label. xxxii, 144pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Faint edgewear and age toning, with minor offsetting to endpapers. First edition. Poet, playwright and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) provides the forward..... More
New York: Salem Press, [1958]. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, dust jackets. xii, 1198pp, 11. Near fine/very good. Jackets a bit rubbed and edgeworn. A tight and attractive first edition of this massive gathering of (to cite front jacket panel) "753 Critical Biographies of..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. Hardcover. Translation by Derek Coltman. 8vo. Brown cloth, dust jacket. 250pp. Very good/near fine. Small abrasion on each pastedown and on title page, probably from removal of ownership name. Tight, nice second printing. More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Silver paper over boards. 276pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Minor shelfwear. Second printing, tight and attractive. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and mustard paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 364pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Handsome first edition of this family biography profiling the "First Family of American Conservatism" and bearing a choice..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth. xiv, 435pp. Illustrations. Very good. Obliterated ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight, clean first edition. More
New York: Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1949. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering (issued without dust jacket). 133pp. Very good. Quite mild binding wear only, else tight and internally near fine. Attractive true first edition, with "Limited Edition" on half-title verso, of these jottings about the writer's early years, "preprinted" from..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1924. Hardcover. Translation by Ella d'Arcy. 8vo. Green cloth. vi, 336pp. Very good. Second printing, tight and attractive. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. Hardcover. Translation by Denver Lindley and Jane Lindley. 8vo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. vi, 310pp. Very good/very good. Jacket somewhat edgeworn; bit of offsetting to rear endpaper from long-ago newsprint contact; ownership signature/year on front flyleaf. Tight, attractive first edition of this "book of..... More
New York: Picador, [1998]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 347pp. Pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this literary memoir about this writer's affair at age 18 with the 53-year-old J.D. Salinger. On the half-title page, Maynard pens..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965. Hardcover. Small 4to. Purple cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. v, 259pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Slight jacket edgewear and rubbing; slight abrasion on front fllyleaf. Tight, attractive first edition. More
London: The Grey Walls PRess, [1952]. Hardcover. 8vo. Cream paper over boards with black spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 256pp. Very good/very good. Lower right of front board a bit mottled, else tight and nice; mild jacket edgewear. First British edition of these essays. More
New York: Empire Books, [1982]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and red paper over boards, dust jacket. 477pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of faint jacket wear. First edition, tight and handsome. More
London: Heinemann, 1974. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown paper over boards, dust jacket. ix, 550pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket somewhat edgeworn, with several archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears; a number of page corners show evidence of having been folded over as page markers. Tight, attractive copy of the revised edition..... More
New York: Chelsea House, 1980. Paperback. Introduction by Earl N. Harbert. Small 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 335pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight, attractive facsimile reprint of the second volume (only) of this 1896 text -- a volume in editor Daniel Aaron's "American Men and Women of Letters Series." More