New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Hardcover. Translation by Gregory Rabassa. Small 4to. Red cloth with blind-embossed spiral, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 332pp. Very good/very good. Small red remainder stamp on top page edges and slight bit of minor foxing to outer page edges -- but overall a tight, clean..... More
London: Dent, 1965. Hardcover. Translation by W.P. Baines. 12mo. Purple cloth, dust jacket. vii, 242pp, 4pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Good plus/very good. Tight, decent copy of this later printing of Everyman's Library #920 -- an ex-library copy, with some but not too offensive markings. More
Stockholm: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Translation by Guy Endore. Illustrations by Yngve Berg. Small 4to. Beige cloth spine and corners and tan pictorial paper over boards, slipcase. 207pp. Top edge gilt. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slipcase a bit age toned and lightly edgeworn, but complete and strong. Tight, handsome..... More
Paris: Charles Carrington, N.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ed. Zier. Small 4to. Burgundy marbled paper over boards. xvi, 412pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Tight, handsome edition limited to 1000 numbered copies (this #786). Quite attractive. More
N.p. Privately Printed, 1925. Hardcover. 8vo. White cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. xiv, 252pp. Top edge gilt. Very good/good plus. Faintest of edgewear, with endpaper lightly age toned; jacket edgeworn, rather age toned and rubbed and with a few small edge chips. This..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 1933. Hardcover. 16mo. Brown cloth. xviii, 264pp, (6pp ads). Decorative endpapers. Very good. Spine slightly sunned, else tight and quite attractive. First of this edition. More
New York: Ernst Kaufmann, n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with black spine lettering and large color plate on front board. 96pp. Color frontispiece, 2 full-page color plates, decorative endpapers. Very good. Mild edgewear, and text block moderately age toned as usual. A tight, nice copy of this Horatio Alger..... More
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, [1988]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 159pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition of these three Czech novellas. More
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1916. Hardcover. Translation by Florence Crewe-Jones. Illustrations by John B. Gruelle. Small 8vo. Teal green mesh cloth with gilt lettering and rules and gilt-encircled color plate, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 372pp. Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, 3 full-page called-for illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Rubbed and edgeworn..... More
New York: Random House, 1936. Hardcover. Translation by Haakon M. Chevalier. 12mo. Rust brown cloth with black and gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 174pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and rubbed, lacking price on front flap. A tight and attractive book club edition (despite "First Printing" slug on..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Buchergilde Gutenberg, [1954]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with white spine lettering, dust jacket. 459pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive reprint edition of publisher S. Fischer's 1954 edition of "Selected Stories," entirely in German, by the Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and short story..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Hardcover. Translation by Willard R. Trask. Small 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. 141pp, (5pp). Near fine/very good. Minor soiling to jacket, whose spine is slightly age toned. First U.S. edition, tight and attractive. More
New York: The Heritage Press, 1962. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine and blue decorative paper over boards, slipcase. xxiii, 366pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Tight, attractive copy of this "poor man's LEC." More
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, [1951]. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt and blue lettering and decorations. xxiii, 249pp, (1p ad). Decorative endpapers. Very good. Tight and handsome #497A of this new American edition of the "Everyman's Library" collection containing the title romance and also 15 other short romances..... More
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lily Harmon. Small 4to. Full red calf with gilt lettering and extensive decorations. 356pp. All edges gilt. Sewn-in beige satin page marker. Color illustrations, beige watered silk endpapers. Fine. Tight and most handsome leatherbound edition of these 19th century French..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1960. Hardcover. Translation by Merloyd Lawrence. 8vo. Purple cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 320pp. Near fine/very good. Some jacket edgewear. First edition. YOUNG 2586. More
New York: George Braziller, 1962. Hardcover. Translation by Richard Howard. 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 311pp. Near fine/very good. Some jacket edgewear. First edition. YOUNG 2588. More
New York: Royal Books, n.y. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 316pp, (4pp ads). Good plus. Mildly edgeworn; text block moderately age toned as usual. A tight and decent later printing (ca. 1955) of No. 26 in the "Royal Giant Book" series. Leers the front wrapper, "The Complete Adventures of..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Francis Fergusson. 12mo. Rust brown cloth with gilt lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 364pp. Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Tight, handsome later printing of #78, first published in 1924 but here undated (though jacket and binding details suggest..... More
London: W. Miller, White and Cochrane, Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1811. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. Small 4to. Modern fall calf binding with gilt compartments and borders. 530pp; 545pp; 458pp, (81pp index). All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very good overall. Original text blocks clean and lovely and free of foxing; modern..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1902. Hardcover. Translation by George P. Upton. Illustrations by Blanche Ostertag. 8vo. Brown cloth with circular plate tipped to front cover and decorative gilt. 135pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations, decorations, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Quite minor edgewear. Tight, handsome later printing of this 1874..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, [1991]. Hardcover. Translation by Peter Theroux. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with copper lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 554pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight and attractive first U.S. edition of the Jordanian-Saudi novelist's second volume of the "Cities of Salt" trilogy... More
New York: Pantheon Books, [1993]. Hardcover. Translation by Peter Theroux. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with copper lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 333pp. Very good/near fine. Red remainder mark on top page edges. A tight and attractive first U.S. edition of the Jordanian-Saudi novelist's concluding volume..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 335pp. Fine/fine. Small ownership signature/date on front pastedown. A pristine, tight first edition of this short story collection by the Canadian Nobel Prize winner. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. Hardcover. Translation by Lovett F. Edwards. 8vo. Light blue cloth with gilt lettering and dark blue pictorial spine stamping, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 589pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket quite edgeworn and rubbed, with small edge chips -- yet complete and fairly attractive nonetheless. A tight..... More