VIRGINIA WOOLF
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by David Daiches on the front flyleaf. An early and important study of Woolf's life and work, tracing her evolution as an artist, with..... More
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LUPUS OF FERRIERES AS SCRIBE AND TEXT CRITIC: A Study of his Autograph Copy of Cicero's De oratore, With a Facsimile of the Manuscript
Cambridge: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. The Benedictine monk Lupus Servatus (c.805-c.862) made a tireless quest of manuscripts of classic authors, as it has long been known to readers of his..... More
LECTURES ON THE COINAGE OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS; Delivered in the University of Oxford
Oxford: Printed by S. Collingwood for John Murray, 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. Though his major works were in the field of English church history, Cardwell (1787-1861) published an edition of the Ethics of Aristotle (1828)..... More
THE ENORMOUS ROOM
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. The second state with "shit" expurgated from p.219. The poet’s first separately published book: the account of his wartime incarceration by the French. An auspicious debut..... More
THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. A series of short episodes, including both accounts of the narrator's day-to-day activities in contemporary London and fanciful tales set in Kensington Gardens and elsewhere, this novel..... More
THE MAKERS OF AMERICAN WINE: A Record of Two Hundred Years
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thomas Pinney on the title page. "Americans learned how to make wine successfully about two hundred years ago, after failing for more than two..... More
THE ANCIENT BOEOTIANS: Their Character and Culture, and Their Reputation
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Scholarly treatise on Boeotia, a district of ancient Greece with a distinctive military, artistic, and political history. Octavo: vi, [1], 92 p. with a two-panel map. Original..... More
THE RISE OF THE GREEK EPIC: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard University
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. With a lengthy handwritten note from Gilbert Murray to Charles Raun Kennedy, a Birmingham barrister and classist, tipped in on the front pastedown. Kennedy's signature and date..... More
IDEA MAN: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
New York: Portfolio / Penguin, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Allen on the title page, with a printed presentation note on Vulcan.com stationary laid in. Autobiography of Paul G. Allen (1953-2018), the co-founder..... More
THE OXFORD BOOK OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VERSE
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958. Hardcover. Reprint. Octavo: xi, 727 p. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Some mild sun fading along the spine; otherwise very good. From the library of revered English actor..... More
PTOLEMAIC ALEXANDRIA
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Hardcover. "Peter Fraser's account of Alexandrian life in the Ptolemaic period was enthusiastically welcomed by scholars when it first appeared in 1972 and it has remained unsurpassed in the scope..... More
AN HISTORICAL GREEK GRAMMAR, Chiefly of the Attic Dialect, As Written and Spoken from Classical Antiquity Down to the Present Time
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is a book which should be in the hands of every one who is interested in the study of later Greek. The object of the..... More
TRAJAN'S PARTHIAN WAR
Chicago: Ares Publishers, Inc., 1985. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1948 first edition. An engaging treatment of Trajan's campaigns, with a translation of Arrian's Parthika by James G. DeVoto. Octavo: xv, 262 p. Original blue cloth..... More
KASSIA: The Legend, the Woman, and Her Work
New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Kassia (c.810-c.865), a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer, and poet, holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in..... More
THE PLAIN OF TROY DESCRIBED: and the Identity of the Ilium of Homer with the New Ilium of Strabo Proved, by Comparing the Poet's Narrative with the Present Topography
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. A thoroughly revised and expanded version of the author's Dissertation on the Topography of the Plain of Troy (1822). Scottish journalist and geologist Charles Maclaren (1782-1866)..... More
A ROMAN CITY IN ANCIENT CHINA
London: The China Society, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. In this controversial work, Dubs (1892-1969) purports to show that a Roman legion that had been part of the army of Marcus Licinius Crassus defeated at the..... More
THE HISTORY OF THEOPHYLACT SIMOCATTA: An English Translation with Introduction and Notes
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Later printing. "The History of Theophylact Simocatta, the last major historian of classical antiquity, is our most important source for the reign of the emperor Maurice (A.D. 582-602) ....... More
CHINATOWN DREAMS: The Life and Photographs of George Lee
Capitola, California: Capitola Book Company, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the editor and all six contributors on the half-title, with program from the book release event laid in. An intimate portrait of a Chinese..... More
THE EARLY DIARY OF ANAIS NIN, Volume Two: 1920-1923, with a Preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title by Rupert Pole, the second husband of Anaïs Nin, as well as her literary executor, to Jean Sherman, who translated..... More
FIRE: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937, with a Preface by Rupert Pole and Biographical Notes and Annotations by Gunther Stuhlmann
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title by Rupert Pole, the second husband of Anaïs Nin, as well as her literary executor: “For Charlotte [Hyde], Anaïs..... More
INCEST: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934, with an Introduction by Rupert Pole and Biographical Notes by Gunther Stuhlmann
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title by Rupert Pole, the second husband of Anaïs Nin, as well as her literary executor, to Jean Sherman, who translated..... More
LINOTTE: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920. Translated from the French by Jean L. Sherman, with a Preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf by the translator, Jean Sherman: “For Charlotte [Hyde], who introduced me to Anaïs, and without whose love and help..... More
HENRY AND JUNE: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
San Diego and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title by Rupert Pole, the second husband of Anaïs Nin, as well as her literary executor: “For Charlotte..... More
CALIFORNIA'S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS, 1849-1869
San Francisco: David Magee, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 475 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. "In the two decades following 1849, artists and printers in the West produced thousands of vivid..... More
ORIGINES SACRAE or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Christian Faith, as to the Truth and Divine Authority of the Scriptures, and the matters therin contained.
London: Henry Mortlock, 1663. Hardcover. The Second Edition corrected and amended. First published in 1662, this work defends the authenticity and credibility of the Scriptures in three books. The first attacks the unreliability of the..... More