London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. First edition, fourth impression (before publication). Publisher's blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 222 p.p. Sunning to spine and top edges of boards. Bumping to spine ends. Dust jacket has chips to head and foot of rear cover, smaller... More about The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1970. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Goldenrod cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Map endpapers. 410 p.p.+ [8 p.p.] B&W plates of photos. Spine ends bumped, corners lightly chafed with minor wear to upper corner of rear board. Closed tear to spine head..... More about Rajahs and Rebels: The Ibans of Sarawak Under Brooke Rule, 1841-1941
New York: Behrman House, 1944. Hard Cover. 12mo. Red cloth boards with green stamped lettering and ruling to front board and spine. Roughly cut edges. Bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends, chafing to joints, age toning to edges of pages. More about The Making of the Modern Jew
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. Hard Cover. 8vo. Orange cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine, gilt device to boards. Top edge red. Patterned endpapers. vii, [6], 379 p.p. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, a little foxing to fore edge. Text clean. Dust jacket lightly... More about Anthology of Islamic Literature, From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times
Ithaca, New York: Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library By Cornell University Press, 1966. Hard Cover. 8vo. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt device of the Folger Shakespeare Library to upper front board. xxxii, 201 p.p. Light bumping to spine ends. Dust jacket is price clipped, small... More about Eikon Basilike: The Portraiture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings
London: Chapman and Hall, 1888. Hard Cover. 8vo (5" x 7.75"). Three volumes in one. Copyright edition. With the author's latest corrections. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. xv, 351, 1-372, 1-376 p.p. B&W frontis. portrait of Cromwell with facsimile signature and inscription. Spine ends bumped and chafed... More about Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, with Elucidations By Thomas Carlyle
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo (5" x 7.25"). Second edition, edited with notes and an introduction by W. Crooke. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind panels to boards. xxviii, 442 p.p. Spine sunned, bumping and rubbing to spine ends and... More about Observations on the Mussulmauns of India, Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and...
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. 2 vols. Studies in Political History Series, edited by Michael Hurst. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, with dust jackets. B&W maps in-text. Volume I: Morley, Minto and Non-interference in Tibet. xi, 267, i-xx [index]. Lightly bumped... More about The McMahon Line: A Study in the Relations Between India, China and Tibet, 1904 to 1914
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. Still in shrink wrap. Approx. 320 p.p. [per WorldCat]. Dada, the international revolutionary artistic and political movement, emerged amid the unprecedented carnage of the First World War. Although short-lived, the movement - a heady mix of anarchy and... More about The Dada Reader: A Critical Anthology
London: The Harvill Press, 1960. Gillick, John (photography). Hard Cover. 12mo (large). Red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. 193 p.p. Numerous B&W photos. Near fine condition. Interior is bright and clean. Dust jacket is price clipped, bumped and worn at extremities, has some short tears to edges and..... More about The Life Story of the Mass
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. Hard Cover. 12mo. The Oxford Miscellany Series. Green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt to spine and front board, blind stamped panels to boards and decoration to rear. xxxi, 208 p.p. + 3 p.p. ads. Rubbing to spine ends and corners, bumping to... More about Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes Selected and Set Forth with an Introduction
Toronto: University of Toronto, 1966. Hard Cover. 8vo. Blue-grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. viii, 218 p.p. Bumping to spine ends and a stain to top edge of text block, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has some bumping and chipping to edges, spine ends and corners, a.... More about That Invincible Samson: The Theme of Samson Agonistes in World Literature, with Translations of...
Leicester: Dryad Press, 1960. Soft Cover. 8vo. Paperback. 55 p.p. + [17] p.p. B&W plates, incl. frontis. More B&W figures in-text throughout. Folding B&W diagram for construction a marionette laid into a pasted pocket inside rear cover. Sunning to spine, creasing to joints and covers, light wear to extremities and..... More about Hand Puppets and String Puppets
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, 1974. Aislin. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Stated first edition in the U.S.A. Quarter red cloth with black cloth boards, silver letting to spine. Red endpapers. xxii, 259 p.p. [16] p.p. B&W illustrations. Tail edge speckled red. Bumping to spine foot and corners, else..... More about The Great Hockey Thaw, or The Russians are Here!
New York: Random House, 1988. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. SIGNED by author to half title. Stated first edition. Translated by Stefani Hoffman. Quarter burgundy cloth with tan paper boards, gilt lettering to spine and gilt stamped author signature facsimile to front board. xxii, 437 p.p., [4] p.p. B&W photos..... More about Fear No Evil
New York: Grove Press, 1969. Soft Cover. 5" x 8" Paperback. Edited with an introduction by Ben Belitt. Spanish and English, facing translations. 274 p.p. Damp staining to covers, title page, and select bibliography at rear. Age toning to pages. Curling to front cover and light wear to edges. Ink... More about Pablo Neruda: A New Decade - Poems 1958-1967
New York: New Directions, 1964. Soft Cover. 12mo. First paperback edition. 256 p.p. Some damp staining and foxing to covers, bumping to spine ends, creasing to corners. A six cent U.S. postage stamp pasted to front hinge with Franklin D. Roosevelt's image, offsetting from stamp to facing page. Ink ownership... More about Selected Writings of Paul Valery
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Hard Cover. 4to. Navy cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Navy endpapers. xx, 598 p.p. Numerous colour and B&W photographs and figures thoughout. A few spots of staining to tail edge of text block. Light bumping to dust jacket in a few places, but..... More about Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. With a foreword by H.R.H. Prince Peter of Greece. ix, 410 p.p. First American edition. Text is clean. Bumping and wear to spine ends, corners, and tail edge, smudge to..... More about The Dangerous Hour: The Lore and Culture of Crisis and Mystery in Rural Greece
New York: Routledge, 1997. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Paperback. xiv, 457 p.p. A few scuffs to edges of text block, corners lightly bumped. Both reference work and general overview of medieval German literature, this book provides a comprehensive survey of this Germanic body of work from the eighth century... More about Medieval German Literature
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. Hard Cover. 8vo. Edited from the British Library Manuscripts with Commentary. English and Old English. Grey cloth boards with black stamped lettering to front board and spine. xi, 185 p.p., [1]. Spine ends bumped, two small red stains to boards, else fine. This edition... More about The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979. Hard Cover. 8vo. Second printing. Black cloth boards with red stamped lettering to spine. ix, 382 p.p. Spine heel lightly bumped. Some ink underlining and annotations. Dust jacket darkened at spine, light bumping to edges, small chip to head of front joint and short... More about The Greek Concept of Justice: From Its Shadow in Homer to Its Substance in Plato
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1996. Soft Cover. 8vo. Third printing, and first paperback printing. [12], 210 p.p. Two B&W photos. Slight bumping and curling to corners, else a fine copy. This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical..... More about The Sorrows of The Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Hard Cover. 8vo. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. xviii, 464 p.p., [24 p.p. B&W photos]. Includes 44 B&W photos + 18 B&W in-text figures and maps. In near fine condition overall. The early development of a diverse economy, in which the importance..... More about Wealthy Corinth: A History of the City to 338 BC
Edinburgh: Canongate, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Paperback, 69 p.p. English and Scottish Gaelic. Light creasing to joints and scuff to foot of rear cover, else fine. This book marks the arrival of a major new talent in Scottish poetry. Kevin MacNeil's voice and vision, while rooted in the... More about Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides