The Complete Greek Tragedies: Four Volume Boxed Set by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides - 1992

London, United Kingdom: Elkin Matthews, 1903. Inscribed to ffep "To the standard-bearer from his old freind the Author" and with a poem "Aloft he waved his standard in the breeze (A week old Star wrapped round his bread and cheese) The while he cried "Woe, woe betide ! If I shout not excelsior!" CONDITION Burgundy waxed cloth bds with bright Gilt title (spine faded with sl. frayed spine ends and buffed cnrs, scratch to front) pp 108, tight with browned eps, odd mark internally, cnrs folded to 4 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Philadelphia, USA: University Library Association, 1880. Numbered 50/1,000 copies. Not Dated c1880. Each book has hand coloured frontis illus with tissue guard. Green Marbled bds with Black Leather spine and cnrs, Gilt top edge, Marbled eps, each volume paginated separately. Vol I pp vi 357 434 with 4 etched illus (one creased and sl soiled); Vol II pp 485 with 4 illus; Vol III pp 559 with 4 illus; Vol IV pp 338 with 3 illus CONDITION Light rubbing with spine sl chipped to ends, starting to crack top 1 inch of spine on book one, chips to rear of spine leather mid way at hinge, tissue guards to frontis clean, interior tight and clean with very odd fox spot. Overweight. Limited/Numbered. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Large 8vo.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. First Edition. Limited to 325 copies.Signed by author. 38pp A sound copy with chipping at top of spine. Leather label on front cover. Textured covers, spine slightly faded.

Rouen: Antonio Pasquinetti, 1740. Hardcover. Very Good -. Imprint: "A Venise, chez Antonio Pasquinetti, 1740." This is a fictitious imprint; published at Rouen. Cf. Quérard, La France littéraire. 2 volumes: 16, 342, [2] p.; 308, [4] p.: 2 copper-engraved frontispieces, 1 additional copper-engraved plate; 17 cm. Signatures: *(8) A-EE(8+4) FF(4); A-CC(8+4). Full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title and volume numbers in second and third compartments. Gilt-tooled decoration in the remaining compartments. Gilt-rolled pattern along the edges. All page edges red. Green ribbon book marks. Marbled endpapers. Engraved title pages printed in red and black with title vignettes. Front fixed endpaper of vol. 1 bears the 18th-century, engraved armorial bookplate of Ludovic Hieron Raussin: "Ex Bibliotheca Lud. Hieron Raussin D. Medici in Universitate Remensi" [Rheims]. Above the bookplate is written faintly in an old hand "3… Read More

Italia [Firenze?]. Hardcover. See Description. Third Edition. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Volume I, p. vii, [1], 492, [8]. Volume II, pp. [493] – 1040. Full title page in volume I and half title in volume II. Bound in quarter vellum with marbled boards, gilt spines, red morocco spine labels and sewn-in ribbon bookmarks. Binding shows some spots of bumping to the board edges. The half title in volume II contains a bottom corner crease. Interior pages are generally clean. A history of Italian literature first published in Milan, 1807.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. Gold cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine jacket. An attractive copy.

MODERN LIBRARY, 1932. HBDJ, STATED First ML edition 1932 on copyright pg; Modern Library #8 (Toledano number 008.2); EarlyVintage Dust jacket lists 257 titles ON BACK & Inverse OF DJ WITH 95 CENTS & pre zip code Coupon, VG+/VG, .Brown BINDING WITH STREAMER MAN in Gold Gilt , book has a Toledano 7 cover, a D or Kent endpapers and a g jacket. INTERIOR PGS LITE WEAR ,FOX,557 pgs + ADS end with G5 Plutarch?s Lives, DJ lite wear, Fade & small Extremities Chips NOT Removing Print, Purple topstain lite wear, Fade spine DJ Fox, ,where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels, Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and Minnie's husband, Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles… Read More

MODERN LIBRARY, 1931. ,INCLUDES , Merry Tattle of Nuns of Poissy, How Chateau D?Azay came to be Built, Dear Night of Love, Monk Amador ETC, HBDJ, 1931, Stated 1st Modern Library edition on copyright pg , VG/GOOD-, On the back of the dust jacket 200 titles are mentioned indicating a 1931 printing and a first with Coupon,. dust jacket is Lightly STAINED especially on the front cover Bound in brown flexible cloth (spine #7) the book is in About Very Good condition with light wear to spine extremities and minimal fading. Solid binding, bright gilt, handsome brown topstain. Bloomingdale's Book Department small, circular stamp on title page. Contents are clean, and there is no writing in the text. Dust jacket is VG- with a browned and faded spine that has minor chipping at the extremities. 553 pgs, EPILOGUE. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Fourth Estate Limited, 1998. Signed by the author on bookplate laid into the book. First edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers with French flaps. Fine. A paperbound original. First book publication of the story (one year before the collection Close Range), that was adapted for the 2005 Ang Lee film, starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhall, Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams. Brokeback Mountain won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was honored with Best Picture and Best Director accolades from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globe Awards, Producers Guild of America, Critics Choice Awards, and Independent Spirit Awards. Brokeback Mountain won three Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. The film was widely considered to be a front runner for the Academy Award for Best Picture, but lost to Crash.

How Does Your Garden Grow? by Beverley Nichols, Compton Mackenzie, Marion Cran, V. Sackville-West. Decorations by Nora S. Unwin. 1935 Doubleday, first U.S. edition. Includes essays on gardening by these four British writers. Beverly Nichols was an accomplished novelist and playright, Compton Mackenzie was a proud Scottish activist and writer, Marion Cran was the first woman gardening broadcaster, and Vita Sackville-West was an unconventional, accomplished novelist, essayist, gardener, and lover and companion to Virginia Woolf, Violet Trefiss, and others.
Condition: Jacket in good condition, tear on front cover on head and tail of spine, tear on back cover, book in good condition, wear and discoloring to boards, bookstore sticker on front pastedown, stamp on end paper, see photos.
"The true gardener is always wanting to rearrange and to improve his schemes."