The Complete Nonsense Book.
New York: Dodd Mead, 1934. Later printing. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 430, illustrated w/ drawings by the author. Nice early copy of famous nonsense. More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1934. Later printing. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 430, illustrated w/ drawings by the author. Nice early copy of famous nonsense. More
London: Hogarth, 1946. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 160. Scarce copy of author's second book of stories. Sansom has been compared to Kafka: he turned wartime firefighting experiences in the London Blitz into charged and intimate literature where the everyday becomes symbolic and is imbued with sinister overtones..... More
Philadelphia: Art Alliance Pr, 1985. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small Quarto, pp. 249, indexed, richly illustrated w/ b/w drawings. More
Barre, MA: Barre, 1971. First edition thus, Limited to 1,000. This copy is signed by the illustrator but unnumbered. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 47, richly illustrated w/ monochrome drawings. More
International Exhibitions Foundation, 1967. Oversized Paperback. Oblong Octavo, pp. unnumbered. With 117 b/w and color figures. Catalog of an exhibition of designs for court masques from the Devonshire Collection. Inigo Jones is widely regarded as the first significant British architect of the modern period. He was also known as a...... More
London: Cassell, 1917. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 206. More
New York: Pellegrine & Cudahy, 1949. First American edition. Blue Cloth over Boards, Gilt Lettering. Octavo, pp. 308. Nice copy, first American edition of the widely read author's second novel. Williams was an important associate of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. More
New York: Pellegrine & Cudahy, 1949. First edition thus. Blue Cloth over Boards, Gilt Lettering. Octavo, pp. 236. Nice copy, early American edition of the widely read author's second novel. Williams was an important associate of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. More
New Haven, CT: Print Council of America, 1995. First edition. Original Wraps. Octavo, unpaginated, approx. pp. 150. More
Newark: The Historical Records Society, 1940. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. 305. This book is in great condition, with only minor library markings. More
London: W.H. Allen, 1956. First English language edition. Original Red Cloth. 12 mo (5 1/4 X 8), pp. 175, translated from the French by Margaret Crosland, profusely illustrated by the author. Cocteau's childhood and youth in Paris. A very nice copy of an uncommon title. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1933. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 221. More
Munich: Hugo Schmidt Verlag, 1920. First edition. Original Wraps. Oversized folio, pp. 32 [2] plus 50 full color plates. Number 710 of 1,000 copies. More
Geneva: Ch. Eggimann et Cie, 1901. First edition. Original Wraps. Folio, vol. 1 pp. 10; vol. 2 pp.14; vol. 3 pp. 10 + 6 plates (#1 missing); vol. 4 pp. 16 + 9 plates; vol. 5-7 pp. 66 + 18 plates. More
Kiev: Academy of Sciences, Ukrainian RSK, Institute of Literature, 1955-1957. Cloth over Boards, gilt lettering. Large Octavo, pp. approx. 720, 900. More
Paris: Flammarion, 1928. First edition. Original Wraps. 12 Mo (4 3/4 x 7 1/4), pp. 282. Scarce in US, novel or memoir by famous novelist and journalist Barbusse, anti-war chronicler of World War I and sometime Communist revolutionary; with inscription to photographer Lotte Jacobi, who had photographed him in the..... More
Paris: Editions de la Plume, 1902. First edition. Original Wraps. 12 Mo (4 1/2 x 7 1/2), pp. 113. Often known as "L'Amazone, Natalie Barney is legendary for her pioneering lesbian lifestyle and her dazzling Parisian salon. Her writings have been somewhat overlooked, but the reputation of her poetry, prose..... More
New York: Johannespresse, 1946. First edition thus. Blue Cloth over Boards, Gilt Lettering. Octavo, pp. 188. More
New York: Dutton, 1972. First American edition. Octavo, pp. 128. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1941. First edition. Cloth over Boards. 12 Mo (5 1/2 x 8 1/4), pp. 100. An important, ground-breaking biographical study of the great French poet, among the creators of the modern sensibility... a hero to the surrealists, among many others. More
Paris: Armand Colin, 1969. First edition. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 284, indexed. More
New York: Macmillan, 1940. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 229. More
San Paolo, Italy: San Paolo, 2004. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 820. More
Parigi: Baudry, 1830. Tenth Printing. Marbled paper over boards. 12 Mo, pp. 326, 339. Scarce and attractive early edition of the Italian classic. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1941. First edition. Original Wraps, mylar-protected. Octavo, pp. 105, indexed. More