Search Results: Literature & Criticism from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1989. First edition. Black cloth. 8vo. pp. xiv, 242. Fine/In like jacket/No price in mylar..

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (John Greigs, Bergen), 1966. First edition. Title Series to four volumes 1966-1973; Imprint label c.pg. Oxford University Press. Blue cloth. 8vo. pp. 340. Near Fine/Good/Unclipped price in mylar. Yellow uncoated soiled jacket has several chips, tears and sunned spine. Multi-contributors, American Institute, University of Oslo in co-operation with Dept. of American Civilization, Graduate School Arts & Sciences University of Pennsylvania. American Studies Movement. Jacket rear contents scanned..

Athens & London: University of Georgia Press, (1995). Illustrated by pp [8] b/w centerfold. First edition. First Book. Cloth. 8vo. pp. 233. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Fine/In like jacket/No price in mylar. On the known 43 works of Shakespeare, Jonson, Fletcher, Massinger, Chapman, Websger, Marston, Rowley, Heywood and Lodge. ISBN: 0820316725..

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1919. Second state of First (SD) edition. appar- ently (on two lines pp. 5). Blue cloth (B), gilt stamped top and title. 12mo. pp. 385, [1] Country Life Press Logo. VG/No jacket. Light (white) cap and corner wear, slightly dulled spine, tiny tears to fore-edges of pp. 27-35. Hinges sound, no ownership..

Wien: Kais. Kšn. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1914. Illustrated by Rudolph Junk design and illumination (double title, 10 chapter). 1914 Limited edition. [c.1844]. "...Wien im Jahre 1914...in 500 numerierten Exemplaren... Dieses Exemplar trŠgt Nr. 421" (421/500 copies). Illustrated paper covered boards and matching end papers, paste-on spine and top board titles, thick paper issue, t.e.g. Super Royal 8vo (24cm). pp. 214-[5], [1] blank, [1] Inhalt, contents, [1] colophon. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Added spine reinforcement, light cover soil/stain, quill owner ffep, internally fine. Ten beautifully illuminated studies..

New York: Wm. H. Wise, [1924, 21 volume reprint]. Testimonial edition. (c.1895 Portland, Maine). This set is complete in twenty volumes (vol. 21 Index) 4500 copies printed in boards Bibelot style of which this is No. 1525. 21 volumes. Cloth backed blue grey boards with paper matching jackets, red and black printed spine, uncut, unopened. 16mo. Fine/Near Fine/No price in mylar. Many sections unopened, several jackets have tiny holes or occasional chip. A total of 240 nos. ran monthly from 1895-1914 at five cents each or fifty cents for an annual subscription. Mosher wrote and introduction and/or notes to each number and wrote "If the Bibelot means anything, it is definitely an aid to self-culture in literature". (Mott, History of American Magazines Vol. 4)..

New York: MacMillan, (May) 1916. First US (SD) edition. c.1916 London. Greed cloth, stamped dentilles, deckled fore-edges. 8vo. pp. [vi], 486, x [ads]. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Traces of cap and corner wear, no ownership. Controversial novel based on Christ being nursed back to health after crucifixion and travelling to India to find wisdom..

Boston: Ginn and Health, 1879. Translated by George Theodore Dippold. First thus English edition. c.1857 German. Original blind-stamped brown cloth stamped gilt. Inscribed by "To Professor Arlo Bates with compliments of G.T. Dippold". 16mo (<17cm). pp. xxxvii, [3], 116. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Light cap and corner wear with one bumped corner, ink owner. Arlo Bates (1850-1918) American newspaperman, author and educator at MIT where he taught with Dippold..

Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1968. First French edition. (Note: English edition same year). Printed card wraps. Royal 8vo (24cm). pp. 501. Bibliography, Index, Table. Very Good. Cover and page edges toned, no spine crease, tiny ink owner and two short yellow strips on half-title. "His great book, Les Belles infideles and the formation of classical taste: Perrot d'Ablancourt and Guez de Balzac, an essay from his thesis prepared under the direction of Rene Pintard, is in no way a profession of libertinism, as the title might suggest. suggest, but a pioneering book published by Armand Colin in 1968. Centered on the figure of Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, Protestant writer in the service of the King of France and Richelieu, who was one of the first members of the French Academy , at a time when all seemed forgiven to the Reformed Protestants under the monarchy, he inventories the abundant work of a translator or rather adapter, in turn of Tacitus, Arrian, Xenophon, Caesar, Lucian and finally… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988. Illustrated by b/w line drawings and vignettes. Stated First (separate trade) edition. Blue publisher's review slip and 2-page FSG review from Helene Atwan [now Director of Beacon Press] laid in. Black cloth printed gilt with topboard emblem illustration (cat with fleeing girl in mouth). 8vo. pp. [viii], 214, [1] Notes on First Publication. Fine/Near Fine/Unclipped price in mylar. Tiny chip/nicks to bottom corner of rear jacket flap. Beatrice Potter, Jean de Brunhoff, Maxfield Parrish, Walt Disney, and Erik Blegvad are several artists mentioned in the 32 Sendak shorts with notes..

Inverness: Club Leabhar, (1976). First 'Limp' edition. Illustrated card wraps. 8vo. pp. 106, [2]. Near Fine. Unread copy with traces of cover wear and soil. Thirteen shorts..

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1963. 2nd edition. Green cloth. 8vo. pp. 322. Near Fine/Very Good/Unclipped price in mylar. Light stain on front panel jacket, light soil..

Paris: Didot, 1808. Stereotype edition. c.1770. Half leather over marbled boards. 13cm. pp. [iv], 256. Series ads. Good. Spine section missing, boards edge worn, light foxing internally. Livres I-IV. Volumes 1 of 4 (missing 2, 3 and 4)..

Durham: Duke University Press, 1984. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. pp. vi, 165, [3] about author, ad. Index. Fine/In like jacket/No price in mylar..

Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, (1966). First edition. Black cloth. 8vo. pp. xvi, 304. Index. Near Fine/VG-/Unclipped price in mylar. Short tears, some chips and rubbing to jacket..

Boston: The Horn Book, (1977). First edition. Clay cloth, gilt print & dec. 8vo. pp. xiii, 359. Index. Very Good/In like jacket/No price in mylar. Jacket has one closed tear and edge and fold wear, (Ink owner and embossed stamp). Multi-contributor essays on juvenile literature and fiction..

New York: The Century Co, April 1886. Illustrated by b&w reproductions and period ads. First edition. Illustrated stitched wraps. Royal 8vo (25 cm). pp. viii, [10] ads, 13-16, [2] plate, 807-964, [26] ads. Near Fine. Caps chipped and edgewear to cover, internally fine. Contents: Index to Vol. XXI (New Series Vol. IX), The Colossus of the North (plate of Beaverpoint Mountain, Canadian Pacific Railroad, "pp.13-16"), Creole Slave Songs (7 songs scored for voice and piano), John Bodewin's Testimony (Mary Hallock Foote), Italy from a Tricycle (Elisabeth Robins Pennell), The Water Text (Louise Imogen Guiney, poem), The Minister's Charge, or the Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker (W.D. Howells), April's Lady (Arlo Bates), Toy Dogs (James Watson), Glimpses of Longfellow in Social Life (Annie Fields), Sister Tabea (Edward Eggleston), Young Love is Lord (John Vance Chaney, poem), Life on the "Alabama" by One of the Crew (P.D. Haywood), Cruise and Combats of the… Read More

London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. Translated by John Payne. Illustrated by Louis Chalon plates, vignettes & illuminations. later edition. Original green cloth, gilt spine and top emblem. 4to. pp. xii, 383. VG/No jacket. About very good, some plate foxing, hinges starting, cap & corner wear, one bump, (owner card) Volume 2 of 2 Only..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood (1850-1928) from the Russian. First thus Popular edition. (c.1850) c.1903-4, "Novels and Stories" 8vo, 16 volumes. Popular edition issued separately in 14 volumes, Spring-Fall 1907 with single volumes of Virgin Soil and Memoirs of a Sportsman. Green ribbed cloth, gilt print spine. 12mo. pp. [viii], 344. VG-/No jacket. Light edgewear, slightly crushed caps, faint dampstains to several pages, 2 upper corner chips to last two pages. Other: Three Portraits (1840), Three Meetings (1851), Mumu (1852), The Inn (1852)..

Leipzig: Hesse & Becker, 1921. Illustrated by B&w frontis. First thus edition. Illustrated yellow cloth. 8vo. pp. 320. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Ink owner, small orange bookseller ticket: G. E. Sttechert & Co. (Alfred Hafner) New York. [The wisdom of Goethe, A collection of sayings]..