Search Results: Literature and Modern Classics from Post Horizon Booksellers

London, England: The Folio Society, 2002. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Waters, Rod. xvi, 651pp. Twenty-four indexed illustrations unique to this edition. Dark blue endpapers. Adhesive ghost to front pastedown. Tan cloth w silver lettering in blue panel, silver decoration to cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Octavo. Deep blue slipcase is clean and without wear, structurally sound. The texts of the stories in this selection follow, with minor emendations, those printed in The Complete Works of O. Henry, published by Doubleday & Co., New York, (1953). - from the colophon

New York, NY, USA: P. F. Collier & Son. Hardcover. Very Good. 218pp. Frontispiece. Brown cloth w orange decoration and lettering on cover, gold lettering and brown decoration on spine. Very light shelf wear. Binding square and sound. Strong sunning to spine. Authorized Edition, date of printing unknown. Companion volumes from The Complete Works of F. Marion Crawford in Thirty-two Volumes also available.

Austin, TX, USA: University Stores, 1974. First U.S. Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 272pp Titled wrapper shows mild sunning. Binding square and sound. Greek language texts with Introduction in English. Quarto. This book presents the Medea and Books 9 and 10 of the Odyssey in large Greek type with line-by-line context vocabulary facing each page of Greek text... so designed to foster success in the reading and enjoyment of these selections from Greek literature. (from the Introduction).

New York, NY, USA: Current Literature Publishing Company, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 376pp. Four unpaginated bw photo plates including frontis w tissue guard paper intact. Pale goldenrod cloth w gold lettering in black title panel on spine. Moderate soiling to boards, heavy soiling to spine. Bumping to head and wear to tail. Binding square and sound. Single volume from a broken seven-volume set.

London, England: Chancellor Press, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rackham, Arthur. 161pp. Thirteen indexed colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Further 15 line drawings in text. Illustrated endpapers. Creamy yellow boards w fine black lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and tight. Illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Octavo. First published in 1907 by William Heinemann Ltd., with a revised edition in 1912. This facsimile edition published in 1985 by Chancellor Press with the poem by Austin Dobson.

California, PA, USA: Arthur and Glee Knight, 1974. Soft cover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 175pp. bw photos, ports. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean, showing small surface scuff along joints. Binding square and sound. Quarto. The Beat Book comprises Volume 4 of the Unspeakable Visions of the Individual

New York, NY, USA: Corinth Books, 1973. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. McDarrah, Fred (photography). 185pp, [8]. bw photos, ports. by Fred McDarrah. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean, showing light scuff to front joint. Binding square and not creased. Duodecimo:208 x 138mm. First published 1960, this is the sixth printing, 1973, stated. Verse and prose. Contents include poems by Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Koch, Michael McClure, Frank O'Hara and Jonathan Williams

New York, NY, USA: George H. Doran Company, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [xiv], 398pp. Fore edge rough cut. Decorative endpapers. Brown cloth w decorative red bands and red lettering on cover, red lettering on spine. Lettering on spine is dulled. Three tiny chips to fore edge of front cover. One tiny chip to back board near top edge. Binding square and sound. No DJ. Originally published in Japan as, Shisen Wo Koete, then in an English edition under the title, Across the Death-line. This edition is a revised translation by the same translators, I. Fukumoto and T. Satchell, published under the new title, Before the Dawn.

P. F. Collier & Son, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Wenzell, A.B.; Sterner, Albert; Lynch, Albert; Hutt, Henry. Twelve indexed stories w individual pagination. Frontispiece. Red cloth w blindstamp decoration on front board, gold lettering and goldstamp decoration on spine. Very light shelf wear. Binding square and sound. Other volumes from The Moromesnil Edition Edition of Guy de Maupassant also available.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dial Press, 1981. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [5], 527pp. Colour illustrated wrapper clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Small octavo: 203 x 138mm. First published by D. Appleton (New York, 1897), this is the first Dial printing of this Virago Modern Classics edition.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 141pp + 5pp unpaginated bibliography. Prev owner name inked on ffep. Fore edge rough cut, top edge of text block dyed red. Black cloth w blindstamp lettering on cover, gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. DJ shows browning on the spine, bumping to head and tail. DJ preserved in BroDart cover. Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask, this is the first American edition, stated. A bold and disturbing theme pervades the deeply moving and tenderly ironic tale of a strange deception. A mastery of psychological analysis and profound perception into the mysterious realm where the physical and the spiritual meet.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1974. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 592pp. Top edge dyed purple but sunned. Purple cloth w gold lettering and border to spine. Tiny scuff to bottom corners. Very light shelf wear. Binding square and sound. Titled DJ showing light handling, shallow wear to tail, sunning to spine. DJ now preserved in mylar cover. Octavo. Rendered into English from the literal and complete French translation of Dr. J.C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers.. First published in this four volume edition in the USA ,1972, this is the second printing, 1974, stated. Volume II only.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1974. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 644pp. Top edge dyed purple, sunned. Purple cloth w gold lettering and border to spine. Bumping to corners. Light shelf wear. Binding square and sound. Titled DJ showing light handling, shallow wear to tail, sunning to spine. DJ now preserved in mylar cover. Octavo. Rendered into English from the literal and complete French translation of Dr. J.C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers.. First published in this four volume edition in the USA ,1972, this is the second printing, 1974, stated. Volume I only.

New York, NY, USA: Current Literature Publishing Company, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vi, 419pp. Three unpaginated plates including frontis portrait of Irving w tissue guard paper intact. Pale goldenrod cloth w gold lettering in black title panel on spine. Moderate soiling to boards, heavy soiling to spine. Bumping to head and tail. Binding square and sound. Single volume from a broken seven-volume set.

London, England: The Folio Society, 1995. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Taber, I.W.. 191pp. Indexed illustrations by I.W. Taber. Soft yellow endpapers. Prev owner name inked neatly on ffep. Illustrated blue cloth w gold lettering and border on cover, gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Deep dark blue slipcase is clean and without wear. Octavo.

New York, NY, USA: P. F. Collier & Son. Hardcover. Very Good. 332pp. Frontispiece. Brown cloth w orange decoration and lettering on cover, gold lettering and brown decoration on spine. Very light shelf wear. Binding square and sound. Strong sunning to spine. Authorized Edition, date of printing unknown. Companion volumes from The Complete Works of F. Marion Crawford in Thirty-two Volumes also available.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Second Story Press, 1995. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 272pp. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo. Originally published as Lankeaa Pitka Varjo by Kirjayhtyma Oy (Helsinki, 1986) and translated from the Finnish by Rhea Tregebov.

New York, NY, USA: Delacorte Press / Eleanor Friede, 1981. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [96pp]. Black endpapers. Prev owner name neatly on ffep. Off-white boards with stamp of author's initials, dark blue half-wrap spine with crisp gold lettering. No wear to covers or spine. DJ clean, showing very small wear at corners, light shelf wear to bottom edges. DJ preserved now in archival cover. Octavo: 22.5 x 17.5cm. First printing, stated.

London, England: The Folio Society, 2014. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jones, Ben. xxii, 214pp. Seven indexed full-page plates including frontis. Black endpapers. Textured black boards w goldstamp figure to cover, gold lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Octavo. Black slipcase is clean and structurally sound showing single vertical surface scratch to one side panel. Originally published by Heinemann, (London,1962), the text of this Folio edition follows that of the restored edition edited by Andrew Biswell (Heinemann, 2012), with a new Introduction by Irvine Welsh.

Johannesburg, South Africa: Jonathan Ball Publishers (Pty) Ltd., 1981. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth w black lettering on cover and spine. No wear to covers or spines. Bindings square and sound. Lettered brown DJs are clean and without wear but spines are heavily sunned. Colour illustrated slipcase is clean and structurally sound, showing heavy sunning to open side edges and partial sunning to titled side. Illustrated side is not sunned. Volume 1: 723pp. Works included: Mafeking Road, Unto Dust, Jacaranda in the Night, Willemsdorp, The Earth is Waiting, with a Foreword by Lionel Abrahams. Volume 2: 594pp. Works included: Cold Stone Jug, A Bekkersdal Marathon, Jurie Steyn's Post Office, Selected Stories, and, A Cask of Jerepigo. First published in individual volumes by Human & Rousseau Publishers.