Yeats, W.B.

THE HOUR-GLASS AND OTHER PLAYS, BEING VOLUME TWO OF PLAYS FOR AN IRISH THEATRE.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. small 8vo. blue cloth, top edge gilt. vii, 112, (3) pages. First U.S. edition (Wade 52). With the bookplate of D. Lawrence Chambers on the front pastedown and his signature in ink along the top edge of the free endpaper (dated 1904). Rubbed at spine ends. READ MORE about THE HOUR-GLASS AND OTHER PLAYS, BEING VOLUME TWO OF PLAYS FOR AN IRISH THEATRE

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 106262

Adler, Elmer.

BREAKING INTO PRINT BEING A COMPILATION OF PAPERS WHEREIN EACH OF A SELECT GROUP OF AUTHORS TELLS OF THE DIFFICULTIES OF AUTHORSHIP & HOW SUCH TRIALS ARE MET.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. 8vo. embossed black cloth. 196 pages. First collected edition. With facsimiles and other illustrations. Includes Christopher Morley and Rockwell Kent. Spine faded. Corner of free endpaper chipped off. READ MORE about BREAKING INTO PRINT BEING A COMPILATION OF PAPERS WHEREIN EACH OF A SELECT GROUP OF AUTHORS TELLS...

Price: $5.00  other currencies  Order nr. 19

(American Authors).

(CONFIDENTIAL.).

N.P. n.p., n.d. 12mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. A small pamphlet calling for the creation of a union-like organization of the "American Authors and Literature". With the names of W. D. Howells, Thomas W. Higginson, Charles D. Warner, Moncure D. Conway, George W. Cable, Julian Hawthorne, James Erant Wilson, and Charles Burr Todd printed at the end. Once folded into thirds. READ MORE about CONFIDENTIAL

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102364

(Argentina).

BIBLIOGRAFIA DE LOS MIEMBROS DE NUMERO DE LA ACADEMIA NACIONAL DE LA HISTORIA X, JOSE ANTONIO PILLADO, POR.

Buenos Aires: Academia Nacional de la Historia, n.d. large 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. 35 pages. Not in Besterman. Number X in a series of bibliographies of members of the Argentine Nat. Academy of History: 171 consecutively numbered entries in chronological order in 2 sections, books by or co-authored by José Antonio Pillada, and articles and "estudios diversos" by him. Entries include locations; those for books have title page transcriptions. Occasionally annotated. No date, but..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAFIA DE LOS MIEMBROS DE NUMERO DE LA ACADEMIA NACIONAL DE LA HISTORIA X, JOSE ANTONIO...

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(Badcock, Jonathan).

SELECTIONS FROM THE FANCY; OR TRUE SPORTSMAN'S GUIDE BY AN OPERATOR.

With a Foreword by George Plimpton & Etching and Drawings by Randy Jones.
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1972. 8vo. quarter leather, patterned paper-covered boards, all edges speckled, paper-covered slipcase. xvi, 136 pages. With a Foreword by George Plimpton & Etching and Drawings by Randy Jones. Limited to an edition of 1950 copies, this being out of series. It is signed by illustrator Randy Jones, whose bawdy pen-and-ink drawings are scattered through the book. Original etching has been laid-in. Text is usually attributed to Jonathan Badcock, one of the..... READ MORE about SELECTIONS FROM THE FANCY; OR TRUE SPORTSMAN'S GUIDE BY AN OPERATOR

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 93975

Baker, Ernest A.

GUIDE TO HISTORICAL FICTION.

New York: Argosy-Antiquarian LTD., 1968. tall 8vo. cloth. xv, 566 pages. Reprint of the 1914 first edition. Guide to novels which take place during different historical periods with short summaries of each. For instance, if interested in the settling of Ireland, a list of historical novels is given which contains books on that theme. Covers soiled, with spine age darkened. Some wear to head of spine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with..... READ MORE about GUIDE TO HISTORICAL FICTION

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136018

Bannowsky, Phillip.

AUTOPLANT, A POETIC MONOLOGUE. WITH AUTOPLANT POEMS.

(Newark): Broken Turtle Books, (2007). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 67 pages. First edition. "Bannowsky journeys from assembly-line dismemberment to redemption, from student agitator and autoworker to teacher, poet, and activist." READ MORE about AUTOPLANT, A POETIC MONOLOGUE. WITH AUTOPLANT POEMS

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94627

Bayard, Thomas F.

AGAINST EXECUTIVE INTERFERENCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF LOU ISIANA.

Washington: GPO, 1875. small 8vo. self paper wrappers, stitched. 43 pages. Speech given in the Senate by Delaware's Senator on Saturday, March 20, 1875. Cover foxed. Vertical fold in center of pamphlet. READ MORE about AGAINST EXECUTIVE INTERFERENCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF LOU ISIANA

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(Bayne, Stephen).

STEPHEN BAYNE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.

N.P. (Lucie C. Bayne, 1978). tall 8vo. cloth. (vi), 129, (5) pages. A bibliography of all the writings of Stephen Bayne. Slight shelf wear. READ MORE about STEPHEN BAYNE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY

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(Bendix, Hans).

EN BOG OM HANS BENDIX.

Kobenhavn: Selskabet Bogvennerne, (1978). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 175+(1) pages. In Danish. First edition. This festschrift commemorates the life and work of the Danish author and book illustrator, Hans Bendix. Essays are supplied by Niels Birger Wamberg, Elias Bredsdorff and others. Illustrated in black-and-white. Chronology at end. Pages unopened. READ MORE about EN BOG OM HANS BENDIX

Price: $12.00  other currencies  Order nr. 61581

Benson, Alden R.

LOTUS LILIES.

N.P. Privately printed, n.d. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt, dust jacket. (xii), 176 pages. B1-4692. Well printed with decorations in green ink by Star Publishing Co. of Wilmington. Presentation "To Mr. & Mrs H.W. Cullen, most respectfully yours, Alden R. Benson, Dover, Del. October, 9th, 1924". Spotting of endpapers and pastedowns and boards. READ MORE about LOTUS LILIES

Price: $18.00  other currencies  Order nr. 65978

(Biblio Novel). Perowne, Barry.

SINGULAR CONSPIRACY.

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1974). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 209 pages. First edition. A novel in which Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire meet and become friends. Near fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about SINGULAR CONSPIRACY

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 13156

BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1999. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Volume 4, Number 2, Feb., 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: S. Stipes on the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs with a bibliography of other such narratives by C.L. Blockson, N.A. Basbanes on Tom Wolfe, I. Ungar and J.P. Ansell on the illuminator and anti-Nazi caricaturist Arthur Szyk, R. Meador on the Wine and Food Library in Ann Arbor, and MORE. READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS

Price: $4.95  other currencies  Order nr. 54933