London: Dai Torchj Di R. Zotti. Hardcover. 1808-9. 12mo. Half bound in contemporary calf on marbled boards. In 4 volumes. Vol. 1: xlii, 418, frontis of Dante Alighieri; Vol. 2: 419 p.p.; Vol. 3: 422 p.p.; Vol. 4: cck, 211-448 p.p., iv p.p. (table), 8 p.p. (names of associate lords)... More about La Divina Commedia...Illustrata Di Note Davarj Comentatori Scelte Ed Abbreviate Da Romualdo Zotti
London: Macmillan & Co., 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. First Edition thus, of Laurence Binyon's acclaimed translation of Dante's Dante's Divine Comedy. This is the first part, Inferno, which was published in 1933, followed by Purgatorio (1938), and Paradiso (1943). Original jacket and purple cloth boards. Top edge in red... More about Dante's Inferno: With a Translation Into English Tiple Rhyme By Laurence Binyon
New York: The Ungar Publishing Company, 1987. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). From "A Library of Literary Criticism" Series, edited by Rita Stein. xxxiii, 370 p.p. Orange cloth boards with black spine labels and silver titling. Light bumping and rubbing to spine ends, and rubbing to corners. One small spot of... More about Modern Arabic Literature
Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1973. Hard Cover. 8vo (super). xxii, 136 p.p. B&W photos throughout. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Bumping to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket has a few short tears, chips to spine head, bumping to extremities, crease to rear cover at head. Map..... More about My Own Story
Toronto: Anansi, 2004. Hardcover. 8vo. 422 p.p. Signed by Margaret Atwood on title-page. Light rubbing to jacket covers. Small bruise to spine head with small chip and dents to foot of front and rear boards. Some light scuffs to edges. Interior clean. In very good condition. More about Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982 -2004
New York: The Modern Library, 1953. Hard Cover. 12mo. The Modern Library No. 285. xxx, 475 p.p. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, Modern Library device stamped in blind to front board. Eight unnumbered pages of B&W illustrations. Spine ends lightly bumped, corners lightly rubbed, small white spot of glue... More about Selected Poetry and Prose of William Blake
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Soft Cover. 8vo. Oxford World's Classics. lvi, 507 p.p., [13 p.p. ads]. Paperback. Light rubbing to edges, long red scuff to rear cover, pages lightly tanned. This is the first anthology to gather British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English. Interweaving stories... More about Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
New York: The Modern Library, 1952. Hard Cover. 12mo. The Modern Library No. 282. Abridged, with an introduction by Bergen Evans. xv, 559 p.p. Red cloth boards with black spine label and black label to front board, gilt lettering. Top edge black. Spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed. Pictorial... More about The Life of Samuel Johnson
Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1966. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Oxford History of English Literature Series. viii, [1], 680 p.p. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, rubbing and bumping to spine ends, spine is slightly bowed, sticker ghost to head of rear board. Minor foxing to... More about English Literature in The Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660
Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1964. Hard Cover. 8vo. Oxford History of English Literature Series. [6], 247 p.p. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Bowing to spine and bumping and rubbing to head, light rubbing to corners. Dust jacket is price clipped and has chips to spine ends, sunning... More about English Literature at the Close of The Middle Ages
London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891. Hardcover. 5" x 7" Ruby red cloth boards. Title in gilt on spine.260 p.p. plus [4] p.p. ads. Light rubbing to boards. Spine gently titled with ends worn. Light stain to head of rear board. Joints and edges worn. Corners frayed at... More about Dante And Other Essays
London: Andre Deutsch, 1968. Hard Cover. 8vo. 253 p.p. Orange cloth with gilt titling to spine. Light bumps to spine ends, else fine. Vibrantly illustrated dust jacket is price clipped, lightly sunned at edges of rear cover, and has some very light edge wear. Nothing More to Declare is an... More about Nothing More to Declare
Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 1996. Soft Cover. 8vo. x, 267 p.p. plus [1] p.p. list of subscribers. Includes [2] maps. Bottom right corner of front cover slightly bumped and creased. Rubbing to spine and edges. Faded red pen mark on bottom edge. Otherwise in very good condition. Features an appendix with... More about Breton Ballads
Milano: Giovanni Silvester, 1820. Hardcover. Tall 12mo, halfbound vellum on marbled boards. In two volumes. Vol. 1: 307 p.p., 1 p.p. ads.; Vol. 2: 332 p.p., 1 p.p. corrections, 1 p.p. ads. Rubbing to boards, and head and tail of spine with bumped edges on vols. 1&2. Foxed pages. Loose... More about Della Letturatura Italiana Dal Secolo XIV , Fino al Principio Del Secolo XIX. Traduzione Dall...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. xi, 357 p.p. Black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Light bumping to spine ends. Illustrated dust jacket. Text is bright and clean. This study offers a detailed comparative description of the functions, forms and rhetoric of medieval... More about The Medieval European Religious Lyric: An Ars Poetica
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1966. Hardcover. 16mo. Reprint. Original jacket and light green cloth. 173 p.p. A collected of medieval Irish lectures on gaelic literature and the bardic tradition originally delivered by Robin Flower [1881-1946] at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1938. Tears to jacket edges and extremities. Small... More about The Irish Tradition
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. Stated first edition. With a preface by Simone de Beauvoir. ix, 117. Quarter bound in green cloth with cream cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Numerous B&W photos throughout. Some spotting to boards, rubbing and bumping to... More about James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years
London: Peter Owen Publishers, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo (super). 931 p.p., 32 p.p. of B&W plates. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to spine Rubbing to spine ends and corners, light chafing to boards in spots. Third volume of the Stage By Stage Series. Illustrated dust jacket. Touching..... More about Dramatic Personae: The Rise of Medieval and Renaissance Theatre
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1971. Soft Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. vi, 106 p.p. Light soiling to covers. Wear to edges, extremities. Square red sticker on rear cover, otherwise in very good condition. More about Beowulf & the Seventh Century. Language and Content. With a New Chapter By Rupert Bruce-Mitford
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1962. 16mo. Reprint. Original green jacket and navy blue cloth. xv, 188 p.p. Text in Latin and Greek. A look at Bucolic Poets, from Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion. Jacket sunned, with small tears to jacket edges, extremities. Front inner flap clipped. Boards clean. Very... More about Bucolici Graeci
Elizabeth, Maine: Io Publications, 1971. Soft Cover. 8vo. Io Magazine, Issue No. 10/8. 323 p.p. B&W illustrations. Cream paper wraps with black stamped lettering and illustration to front, sewn and glued binding. Rear cover has been decorated with an abstract colour drawing that appears to be done from a previous... More about Dreams; Issue on Oneirology
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Hardcover. 8vo (tall). Oxford Classical Monographs Series. Original green jacket, black cloth binding. xxxi, 309 pp., poem in latin with facing English translation, tear to upper rear endpaper, small stain to f.f.e.p., bump to lower front board, and tiny bumps to top edges, corners and spine..... More about Claudian: De Raptu Proserpinae
Tokyo: Sophia University, 1969. Hardcover. New Edition, revised and reset. Original dust jacket, bound in Tall 8vo, 133 p.p. Nice gilt frontispiece of Hsi K'ang playing his lute. Some rubbing and wear on extremities and small tear to top spine of jacket. Red spine lable rubbed and flaking, affecting text... More about Hsi K'ang and His Poetical Essay on the Lute...Annotated English Translation Accompanied By the...
Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., Publishers, 1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (square). Brown leather binding. Title on spine in gilt. xviii, 110 p.p. Spine and edges lightly bumped. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown endpaper. Embossed ex-library stamp on title page and appears sporadically throughout. Notes in blue pen..... More about Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem, Translated from The Heyne-SocinText
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. Soft Cover. 8vo (imperial). xi, 269 (6) p.p. Paperback. Rubbing to spine ends, otherwise clean. A fine copy of book. The Body Impolitic is a study of tradition, looked at as a product of a person's heritage, but also as a millstone of... More about The Body Impolitic. Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value