Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Hardcover. "Cox-Rearick's ground-breaking book explores the message hidden in the frescoes and altar panels of the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo, painted in the early 1540s by Agnolo Bronzino..... More
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. Second Edition. Hardcover. "Kurdistan was erased from world maps after World War I, when the victorious powers carved up the Middle East, leaving the Kurds without..... More
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1887. Hardcover. Third edition, with a Wilport Press cancel on the title page. Laid in is a one sheet (4 ½” x 7”) with instructions for measurements used in the..... More
London: Torchstream Books, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited Edition, this is number 284 of 1,375 copies. A wide-ranging exploration of aphrodisiacs with a particular emphasis on food and diet, including a section with recipes designed..... More
New York: R. Craighead, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. The rare first edition, published by subscription. Octavo: vi, [9]-312 p. Original blind-stamped blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some foxing throughout, with a bit of rubbing..... More
Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by W.S. Merwin on the title page. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, this 540-page distillation - selected by Merwin (1927-2019) from..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated from the Polish by Louis Iribarne. Signed and dated by Czeslaw Milosz on the front flyleaf. A lyrical account of a...... More
Brooklyn, New York: Archipelago Books, 2013-2018. First Edition. Hardcover. The first volume is a second edition, first printing; volumes two through six are first edition, first printings. All volumes are signed and dated by Karl..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by Karl Ove Knausgaard on the title page. A deeply personal meditation on the creative process by the award-winning Norwegian novelist..... More
New York: Penguin Press, 2017-18. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American editions, translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey. Each volume is signed and dated by Karl Ove Knausgaard on the title page. Among the..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (consisting of only 2,500 copies). Includes 'dying is fine)but Death,' 'when serpents bargain for the right to squirm', and 'i thank You God for..... More
Edinburgh: Printed for Charles Elliot; and Thomas Cadell, London, 1778. Hardcover. The Third Edition, carefully compared and revised by the first edition, "with a compleat index, historical, chronological, genealogical and biographical, not annexed to the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Brilliantly satirical lessons-in-prose and a selection of famous poems, all imperishably illustrated by the whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities. Quarto. Original printed paper-covered..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Burlesque lyrics, including a selection of famous love affairs retold in rhyme - King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, Paris and Helen, Laura..... More
Susanville, California: Lassen Advocate, circa 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. The Monticola Club was established on April 20, 1912, by Philenda Spencer, whose battle to promote the rights of women went on for many years, culminating..... More
New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by Tad Mosel on the front flyleaf. Adapted from the James Agee novel A Death in the Family (1957), this play received the..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn on the front flyleaf. A pair of comedies by the prolific British playwright and director. Sisterly Feelings is the first of Ayckbourn's..... More
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. An estranged relative becomes heir to a Chesapeake Bay fortune and his family’s ghostly history in this stand-alone novel by the American writer described..... More
Great Neck, New York: Stage, circa 1937. Hardcover. Quoting the laid in description: “Original designer’s mock-up for a short unpublished book by Perelman. Appararently the text was derived from a Stage magazine article by Perelman..... More
New York: Random House, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by John Monks, Jr. and signed by Fred Finklehoffe on the front flyleaf. The successful Broadway production of this comedic play about cadets at the Virginia..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Laid in is a typed letter signed (TLS) by Peter De Vries to bookseller Joanna Taylor that alludes to the scarcity of this, his first collection..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. Hardcover. Seventh printing (September, 1927). Praised by Lawrence Clark Powell as "a novel of high California octane," Oil! served as the basis for the motion picture There Will..... More
