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
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
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
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
Oxonii: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1966. Hard Cover. 8vo (5" x 7"). Latin and Greek. [Aristotle's Poetics, Abridged with Critical Instructional Annotations]. Oxford Classical Texts Series. xiv, 79 p.p. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Ring damp stain to front board, bumping and rubbing to spine ends... More
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
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1980. Hard Cover. 8vo. vii, 191 p.p. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. B&W frontis + illustrations throughout. Bumping to corners and spine ends, some damp staining to top and fore edge of text block. Light age toning to edges of pages but... More
Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1965. Hard Cover. 8vo. Oxford History of English Literature Series. vi, [2], 326 p.p. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Bumping and rubbing to spine ends, creasing to spine, small damp stain to head of front board and foot of spine. Text... More
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
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
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
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
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
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1967. Hard Cover. 16mo. vii, 168 p.p. Cloth. Rubbing along dust-jacket extremities. Stain to front cover of dust-jacket. Very light bumping to spine ends. Otherwise a clean, near fine copy of book. More
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
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
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
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
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. Hard Cover. 12mo. The I Tatti Renaissance Library No. 26. xxxix, 295 p.p. Includes notes on text and bibliography. Blue cloth boards with black spine label, gilt lettering. A near fine copy overall. The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers... More
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
London: Atlas Press, 2009. Soft Cover. 8vo (square). Paperback, 109pp., [3]. Introduction by Stephen Fry. Light rubbing and curling to covers, otherwise near fine. More
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
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
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
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