Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. "...the first comprehensive critical study of the figure of the underworld boatman Charon as it is found in the literary tradition from Classical Antiquity through the Italian..... More
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Masterful study of senryu, a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction: three lines with 17 morae. Senryu tend to be about human foibles..... More
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. Some light fading along the extremities; else a crisp and clean copy. More
Clarkston, Georgia: White Wolf Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "This first volume of a projected 20 part library contains a rare collection of Ellison artifacts unseen for more than 25 years, Over the Edge, featuring..... More
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Tracing the visual history of ideal childhood: the pictorial invention of childhood innocence in eighteenth-century portraits, its diffusion in nineteenth-century popular paintings and illustration, and its..... More
Totnes, Devon: Prospect Books, 1999. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy. Near fine. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. With a Preface by Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B., M.S. Foreword by Hohepa Te Rake. 32 plates, with 18 textual figures. Octavo. Original..... More
Delegacion Coyoacan: Siglo Veintiuno, 1992. Hardcover. Text in Spanish. Octavo. Original cloth binding, with red, gilt, and black stamping. Issued without a dust jacket. A very good copy. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. A selection of signatures recipes from the famous Los Angeles chain of restaurants. Octavo. Original yellow cloth binding, with black stamping. The dust..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. "...a dazzling variety of the best in Indian cuisine. There are dishes from the Punjab, India's Cordon Bleu region, from the Gangetic plain, from the Deccan, from..... More
Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1962 E.P. Dutton edition. Octavo. Original green buckram binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. "As a reference work, An Encyclopedia of Fairies is the first and only one of its kind. But it is also a marvelous anthology, in which..... More
Pasadena, California: The Zamorano Club, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. This is copy 87 of 125 copies (one of the 50 copies bound in cloth). A special collection of original essays, published in celebration of the..... More
Sebastopol, California: Holly Downing, 2013. First Edition. A stunning collaboration, featuring seven mezzotint engravings by Holly Downing inspired by her experiences in the Peruvian Andes, and six poems by David St. John influenced by the..... More
Santa Cruz, California: American Graphic Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Special Edition, numbered (no limitation stated) and signed by Cooney. Published on the 85th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, and in collaboration..... More
New York: J.H. Colton, Publisher, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. “Perhaps the most ambitious guidebook of the 1859 group was the Hand-Book of Kansas Territory and Rocky Mountains’ Gold Region by James Redpath and Richard J...... More
London: R.H. Laurie, 1842. Hardcover. The second edition of this scarce anatomy for artists, first published in 1743 under the title Compendium Anatomicum. Tinney was a print seller and renowned engraver who produced maps and..... More
Paris: Etienne Charpentier, 1758. First Edition. Hardcover. An exquisite anatomy for physicians and artists, prepared by the noted professor of surgery and drawing master at the Academy of Painting in Paris. Disdier also directed the..... More
Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher’s slip tipped in on the front flyleaf. From the library of journalist Elizabeth Brough (1867-1943), with her signature to the..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. A longtime Red Cross member who had volunteered in 1940 as an Army nurse, Archard was at the end of her one-year tour of duty..... More
Philadelphia and London: The Vir Publishing Company, 1905. New Revised Edition. Hardcover. Wood-Allen (1841-1908) was an American doctor who emerged as a leading voice for the social purity movement during the late 19th century. In..... More
Philadelphia and London: The Vir Publishing Company, 1913. New Revised Edition. Hardcover. Wood-Allen (1841-1908) was an American doctor who emerged as a leading voice for the social purity movement during the late 19th century. In..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Johnston on a prefatory blank leaf. An American novelist and women’s rights advocate from, Johnston (1870-1936) was one of the best-selling authors..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. The author’s second novel, concerning an English soldier turned Virginian explorer in colonial Jamestown. Johnston (1870-1936) was a popular American novelist who leveraged..... More
New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1949. Hardcover. Second printing. "...the somewhat unorthodox account of the pungent doings in some state governments as observed by a civil service stenographer." Octavo. Original tan cloth binding, with gilt..... More