The Works of Aphra Behn: Volume 3 - The Fair Jilt and Other Short Stories
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. No markings. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. No markings. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Boston: William F. Gill and Company, 1875. 1st ed., 1st printing (with Welch, Bigelow device). BAL 3363. Decorated brown cloth, large 8vo. Fine, bright, inside and out. A lovely copy. Alas, lacking the final plate, apparently never bound in. First appearance of Mark Twain's "An Encounter with an Interviewer" pp.....
Garden City, NY: n.d. (c. 1934). Orange cloth with illustrated pastedown on front. Previous owner's inscrtiption of front pastedown, dated 1934. Spine slightly faded with mild wear to extremities. 8 color plates, all present. A very nice copy.
London: Collins, 1951. Clean and fresh, no signs of previous ownership. Jacket has some very faint foxing on back. A lovely copy.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co, 1883. 8vo: frontis, [iv], 738 p. Full pebbled brown morocco, gilt spine and inner dentelles; aeg. Covers rubbed at extremities, inscription removed from front pastedown. FOREDGE PAINTING of a foxhunting scene with two horses jumping a fence.
Dublin Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1923. One of 300 copies, unnumbered as was the Cuala custom. 8vo; pale blue paper-covered boards with buff linen spine and paper label. Boards and endpapers browned at extremities. Very good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to his friend George Redding. Gogarty quoted some verse by.....
University of Toronto Press, 1997. Paperback. Minor cover wear. No markings. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.
New York: George P. Putnam & Co, 1853. 2nd edition. 8vo: viii [v/vi repeated, so x], 179 p. Title-page is a cancel. Green vertical ribbed cloth with blindstamped cartouches front and rear reading "Putnam's Popular Library." Covers spotted, two corners lightly bumped, first three leaves foxed with only very occasional.....
Boston dn New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905. First edition. Dark red vertically ribbed cloth, title in gilt on front and spine. 8vo: x, 208 p. Text block bumped, minor stain on spine, else clean and sound. INSCRIBED BY THE OWNER OF WAYSIDE (Hawthorne's house): "For / Mrs. Florence.....
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. First edition, mixed state: first state of p. vi (Works for Novels) and "sojourner" p. 176 with battered type. BAL 9619. Tan cloth stamped in black and gilt, grey endpapers. An exceptionally bright and fresh copy. No signs of previous ownership.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969. Hardcover. No markings. Bookpate. Mylar covered dust jacket is price clipped. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First edition, first state. BAL 10871: p.65 l.16 ends with "was" Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt, all edges stained red, green-black endpapers. Covers lightly worn, front hinge very slightly cracked. Signature of Elizabeth L. Tilton on front blank.
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington [et al], 1820. Full calf, gilt spine, marbled edges and endpapers. 8vo: A4, B-3G8; viii, 832 p. Rebacked with new red leather spine label, covers rubbed and worn at tips. No ownership markings.
Santa Cruz, California: The Cowell Press, 1975. Limited edition; #79 of 100 copies. 4to: gray paper covered boards illustrated with a facsimile of Joyce's handwirting. A lovely production. Near fine in a very good glassine jacket; boards very slightly splayed, glassine edgeworn and with some browning. Otherwise clean and bright.....
San Francisco: City Lights, [1971]. 1st ed., 1st printing. Paperback. Covers browned, occasional mild foxing. Cover photo by William Burroughs. No other printings listed, and $2 price. Charters A27.
Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998. Hardcover. Small bump front corner not affecting text block. Pictorial boards. No markings. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, 1970. Hardcover. No markings. Mylar covered dust jacket is a little toned and has edge wear and a couple of small tears. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. Hardcover. No markings. Floral pattern faded on spine but text perfectly readable. An internal slit (over zealous box opener?) to the front of the mylar covered dust jacket. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Hardcover. No markings. Mylar covered dust jacket. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1925]. Author's edition. Specially bound in half dark blue morocco and blue cloth with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine faded to dark brown, very slight wear to extremities. SPECIAL AUTHOR'S EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on a tipped in leaf: "To my dear.....
New York: Farrar, Straus And Giroux, [1996]. 1st US edition. 8vo: paper covered boards. Fine in a fine jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: "To Joe Brand keeping the level high. With all good wishes and happy memories of our Folger Dinner. Seamus Heaney Bloomsday, 1996." Brand was a longtime member.....
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, [1985]. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Jacket spine sunned, but perfectly legible; otherwise fine in a fine jacket. Inscribed by the author: "For Joe Brand-- at his station in D.C.-- With admiration for your commitment and gratitude for your hospitality-- Seamus Heaney April 1 1991.".....
Longman, 1977. Hardcover. Occasional very light underlining / marginalia. Slight soiling to the edge of the text block. Minor wear to the mylar covered dust jacket. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1995. hardcover. Internally free of markings. Some soiling to the cream colored dust jacket now mylar covered. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Dublin Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1943. A limited edition of 250 copies, of which this one is out of series, as noted at the colophon. Paper covered boards, buff linen spine, paper label. Yellow paper-covered boards darkening around the edges. No sign of previous ownership. Internally fine, bright and fresh.....