Publisher:
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. First Edition, stated.
Seller ID: 51259bd
Octavo, navy blue cloth & gold boards (hardcover), 485 pp. Very Good+ in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Fool's Progress is the story of Henry Holyoak Lightcap's uncertain advance through life, recounted during a 3,500 mile journey from the acrid wasteland of Tucson, Arizona, to the Ògreen, fuzzy, mist-infested hillsÓ of a fictional Stump Creek, West Virginia. The journey -- Henry is accompanied by his dying dog, Solstice -- takes place in April 1980; the life journey begins over a half a century earlier, with the Òmishap of birthÓ continuing as a series of adven... View More...
Publisher:
The University Press of Kentucky, (1971). First Edition.
Seller ID: 9706gcs
Octavo, cloth (hardcover), brown spine label, gilt letters, 354 pp. Fine in a Near-Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. From dust jacket: Critics and historians of French literature have for years accepted Francois de Malherbe as the fountainhead of French classical poetry, believing that he directly or indirectly influenced the production of most of the French poets of the seventeenth century. Those who opposed him blamed him for imposing restrictions on the century, while Boileau's exultant proclamation of Malherbe as the savior of French poetry has been accepted as the ultimate verdict of t... View More...
Octavo, black & blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 257 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Rita Jackson is a young woman on the skids, spending her time in shelters and on the dot-com-drunk streets of late 1990s San Francisco. She's a young woman haunted by the murder of her mother when she was thirteen, and a young bride haunted by the disappearance of her husband, Jimmy, who split after a nasty argument more than a year earlier. Together Jimmy and Rita were slipping into drugs and hard times. Rita is filled with feelings of guilt and failure, and the hope that she wil... View More...
Octavo, softbound (stiff gray wrappers), 245 pp + [xiv] pp. Very Good, with edgewear to covers, darkened spine and edges. Contents: Sondra J. Stang: Introduction; William H. Gass: Ford's Impressionisms; J. A. Bryant, Jr.: Ford Madox Ford - Tempermental Impressionist; Max Saunders: A Life in Writing - Ford Madox Ford's Dispersed Autobiographies; Eugene Goodheart: What Dowell Knew - A Reading of The Good Soldier; Benjamin Taylor: 37 Fitzroy Square; Sheila Gordon: Parade's End - A Reading; THeoharis C. Theoharis: No More Virgil; Robert L. Caserio: Ford Madox Ford and the Strains of Quo... View More...
Publisher:
London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. Third Edition, Revised. First with illustrations by Hablot K. Browne.
Seller ID: 5628fd
Octavo, bound by Riviere & Son in 3/4 tan levant & marbled boards (hardcover), with original cloth and advertisements bound at rear, top edge gilt, uncut, vi + 353 pp + [vii] ads. Plates. Near-Fine; some minor scuffing, bearing the bookplate of a member of the Peabody family, and a Christmas inscription conveying the book to him. View More...
Octavo, gray boards (hardcover), 372 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Dr. Mackenzie Hagan, CDC Epidemiologist has dedicated her life to chasing and stopping enemies that are one-billionth our size. Nathan Hunter, DOD specialist, is tracking a terrorist cell throughout Central America in an off-the-books operation. Terrorists wage the Final Jihad in a plot to kill millions of innocents around the globe. They're developing a weapon like no other and if successful, it will become the deadliest in history. Dr. Mackenzie Hagan and Nathan Hunter's worlds une... View More...
Publisher:
Amherst, Massachusetts: Amherst College Press, 1988.
Seller ID: 05329scs
Folio, paperbound (stiff blue printed wrappers), [29] pp. Near-Fine, with very slightly rubbed covers. From Introduction: The poetry of Mark Akenside (1721-1770) may not be widely read today, but in the eighteenth century and for much of the nineteenth his work was held in the very highest esteem, and writers as eminent as Wordsworth and Coleridge were considerably indebted to him...The Amherst Akenside holdings were originally mounted in Dyson's own copy of the 1772 Poems, and together they form the largest single collection of his poetic manuscripts in the world...The manuscripts give the... View More...
1st edition. Of an edition of 475 copies designed by Frederic Warde and printed by William Edwin Rudge, this is No. 394. It is signed by the author and the designer. Octavo, cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, 53 pp. Very Good; spine dull. View More...
This copy with an inserted leaf bearing the bookplate of George H. Yenowine (journalist and newspaper owner) on which the author has signed. Octavo, bound by Sickles in blue morocco & marbled boards, with the monogram of Charles Edward Ballard, hotelier and circus owner, on the upper panel gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut, viii, [ii], 419 pp. Fine. View More...
Publisher:
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (1895).
Seller ID: vita5508
Duodecimo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, edges red, 206 pp + ads. Fine. Strong Son of God, immortal Love, / Whom we, that have not seen thy face, / By faith, and faith alone, embrace, / Believing where we cannot prove; / Thine are these orbs of light and shade; / Thou madest Life in man and brute; / Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot / Is on the skull which thou hast made!.. View More...
Octavo, tan boards (hardcover), 58 pp. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: Class pride, utter unbelief in the God of Christianity, and race prejudice -- these were the three big things that grew like rank weed sin the fair garden of Philip Landicutt's virtues, the three things that were ever the subjects of disagreement between himself and his mother, otherwise perfectly attuned. Of the virtues was passionate pity for the oppressed, the eager chivalry that cannot contemplate a wrong unmoved, and the quick self sacrifice of youth. These led the young American t... View More...
Publisher:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First Edition.
Seller ID: 9892gcs
Octavo, gray boards (hardcover), 72 pp. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. From dust jacket (reverse): This is as touching and inspiring a story as even Mrs. Andrews ever wrote, one that might well bring comfort to thousands whose sons fell in the war; a story of a Kentucky boy and his mother, and of how he gave promise of great achievement, when the war came and he enlisted and was, in time, among the missing; and of how in the end a seeming sign from Heaven showed her that he had been selected to be honored by the nations of the world. View More...
Publisher:
New York: The Fountain Press, (1929). Number 512 of 718.
Seller ID: 335487qs
Signed by James Branch Cabell. Royal octavo, tan cloth & patterned boards (hardcover), paper spine label, unpaginated. Good, with darkened and worn covers, light foxing. View More...
