New York: Viking, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Faint shelfwear to jacket - unclipped. Signed by Amis on the title. This is the first US edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Travel & Places. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0670814326. ISBN/EAN: 9780670814329. Inventory No: 046232. More about The Moronic Inferno
London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Faint shelfwear to jacket - unclipped. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Travel & Places. ISBN: 0224023853. ISBN/EAN: 9780224023856. Inventory No: 046233. More about The Moronic Inferno
London: Faber, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Light wear to jacket edges, very slightly soiled. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Inventory No: 043701. More about Secondary Worlds
London: John Nichols, 1789. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Half 19th century calf over green cloth with a bit of the original spine laid down, hinges rubbed but sound. Front endpapers replaced, scattered light foxing, a few small damps stains, 331-335 stained on the bottom right touching some text, very... More about The Town Talk, the Fish Pool, the Plebeian, the Old Whig, the Spinster, etc. Now First Collected...
London: J.D., 1679. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary tree calf, front board detached, spine varnished, old signature to title, scattered browning, mostly minor, trimmed a little close in spots touching the running title, small repaired tear to b1 with no loss; generally bright and unmarked internally. 104, 3-270pp with... More about Baconiana, Or, Certain Genuine Remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of...
Paris: Just Tessier, 1834. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). 2 volumes in 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Spines dry and chipped, joints cracked but binding sound. The fourth edition of the classic of gastronomic reflection. Attractively printed with wide margins, slight foxing, otherwise quite clean internally. 384pp; 412pp. Cagle 98... More about Physiologie du Gout ou Méditations de Gastronomie Transcendante
Italy: garzanti, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed and signed to Camon's English language translator John Shepley. A collection of his newspaper works. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Inventory No: 044498. More about Avanti Popolo: I Fatti della cultura e del costume che hanno contribuito alla storia deglic anni '70
Leiden: Les Elseviers (Elzevier), 1646. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). The first Elsevier edition in full early calf, front board detached despite the addition of 19th century marbled endpapers, spine a little dry, bookplate to later marbled endpaper, old signature to half title. Browning to engraved title, slight wear at... More about De la Sagesse: Trois Livres
New York: Harcourt Brace and Howe, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original black cloth, corners lightly bumped, wear at spine ends, hinges splitting at head of spine on front and rear, joint splitting internally towards tail. Still about good. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available... More about Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
London: Faber, 1934. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Second edition, revised and enlarged. Mild wear to brown cloth, one corner bumped and worn. Jacket variously worn, stained, with largepieces missing at the corners and edges - still largely intact, though, and not clipped. Includes Tradition and the Individual Talent, The... More about Selected Essays
Yolla Bolly, 1995. Aaron Johnson. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Number 20 of 140 signed by John Fowles and illustrator Aaron Johnson. Bound in Belgian linen with a tree decoration in a fine paper covered slipcase. 8 illustrations by Johnson, color woodblocks. Size: Quarto (4to). Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrator: Aaron... More about The Nature of Nature and The Tree
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Jacket chipped at edges, splitting a bit at folds, still very good - slight browning to boards. A nice copy. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Inventory No: 046203. More about Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist
Albany, New York, U.S.A. Whitston Pub Co Inc, 1979. Cloth. Light shelfwear, ownership marks to endpaper else unmarked Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; ISBN: 0878751475. Inventory No: 025901. More about Prometheus Syndrome
Yonkers: The Alicat Book Shop, 1948. Softcover. Light wear to wraps, spine slightly faded. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Inventory No: 044894. More about Pornography and Obscenity (The Outcast Chapbooks No. 13
New York: Doubleday, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Lethem on the title page. Light shelfwear to jacket; unclipped. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 040547. More about The Disappointment Artist: Essays
Boston: Little Brown, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Surface marks to jacket and a slight paper adhesion on the rear panel, short tears to jacket at spine ends, still attractive and very good. Faint wear and discoloration to book edges. Inscribed by Mailer "To Buzz and Carol These were the years, hey... More about Existential Errands
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1903. Hard Cover. Wear at corners just through to boards. 1/4 dark green cloth over paper covered boards. 145pp. Printed at the Lakeside Press. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Inventory No: 033837. More about Walt Whitman the Poet of the Wider Selfhood
Leiden (i.e. Geneva): Jean Doreau, 1602. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 18th century acid calf, front hinge split and front board a little loose, scrape to one board. Place of printing obscured on title and Leyden written above - a false imprint, almost certainly Geneva. Old signature to title, scattered... More about Les Essais de Michel Seigneur de Montaigne. Edition Nouvelle, Prise Sur L'Exemplaire Trouvé...
London: Emman Flon, 1787. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary sponged calf with the arms of Th. de Jonghe on each board - rubbing and slight splitting at the joints, but sound and attractive. 5 1/8" x 3 1/8". Attractively printed collection of thoughts and aphorisms; 104pp. Size: duodecimo (12mo)... More about L'Esprit des Esprits, or Pensées Choisies
Kentfield, CA: L-D Allen Press, 1954. Mallette Dean. Hardcover. Full decorative cloth, slight faded in a few spots. Wear and a few short tears to plain black jacket at edges. One of 175 copies set in Romanée on Crown & Sceptre paper. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked... More about The Private Journals of Stendahl 1811-1817
Dublin: George Faulkner, 1742. Hardcover (Full Leather). Later full black leather, worn mildly at corners and hinges; top of title page removed where it would have said "Volume IV", title page and first few leaves chipped at edges and browned, a few minor paper flaws in margins. Otherwise bright and... More about Volume IV of the Author's Works Containing a Collection of Tracts, Relating to Ireland; Among...
Amsterdam & Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1761. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary acid calf, modest wear and a few surface scrapes, owenr signature to title, fresh internally. The first edition (second was 1764) by the chemist, essayist and translator. (8), 194, (2)pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1... More about De L'Amitié
Paris: Chaubert; Le veuve Pissot; Jean de Nully, 1734. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Finely bound in full contemporary morocco, elaborately gilt on the spine and boards in floral patterns, inner dentelles, painted endpapers (a little rubbed), two old bookplates to the front pastedown, all edges gilt, corners a little... More about Essais sur les Honneurs et sur les Monuments Accordes aux Illustres Sçavans, Pendant la Suite...
Van Nuys, CA: Richard J. Hoffman, 1987. Hardcover. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Inventory No: 041614. More about Through a Tiny Aperture
London: Jarrolds, 1926. Cloth. Dampstain to rear of jacket and moderate general age toning, lgith chipping at head and tail of spine. Faint shelfwear to book else fine and unmarked. Signed by Walpole, 54 of 150. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2... More about Reading