BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS (TRANS)

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night a Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments with Introduction and Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of the Nights (Bagdad Edition, Ten Volumes, Complete)

London: The Burton Club, N.D.. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Bagdad Edition, limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is No. 957. Publisher's full light green cloth, paper labels on spines, t.e.g, fore-edge deckle. nd (c. 1900). Illustrated with numerous tissue-protected half-tone plates, including frontispiece in each volume. Spines moderately worn, labels worn and soiled; all ten volumes unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD.. B&W Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Keywords: 1001 Nights Arabian Nights Sir Richard Burton Fairy Tales Novels, Poetry & Literature Erotica

BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS (TRANS)

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night a Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments with Introduction and Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of the Nights (Bassorah Edition, 16 Volumes Only, of 17)

London: The Burton Club. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Bassorah Edition, limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is No. 942. Publisher's full beige cloth, paper labels on spines, t.e.g, fore-edge deckle. nd (c. 1903). Illustrated with numerous tissue-protected half-tone plates, including color frontispiece in each volume. Includes the seven volume supplement and Index. Lacking only Volume One. "A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertaainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th-13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890). It stood as the only complete translation of the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) of the "Arabian Nights." Burton's translation was one of two unabridged and unexpurgated English translations done in the 1880s; the first was by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (1882–1884, nine volumes). Burton's ten volume version was published almost immediately afterward with a slightly different title. This, along with the fact that Burton closely advised Payne and partially based his books on Payne's, led later to charges of plagiarism. Owing to the sexual imagery in the source texts (which Burton made a special study of, adding extensive footnotes and appendices on "Oriental" sexual mores) and to the strict Victorian laws on obscene material, both translations were printed as private editions for subscribers only, rather than being published in the usual manner. Burton's original ten volumes were followed by a further seven entitled The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night (1886–1888). Burton's 17 volumes, while boasting many prominent admirers, have been criticised for their "archaic language and extravagant idiom" and "obsessive focus on sexuality"; they have even been called an "eccentric ego-trip" and a "highly personal reworking of the text." His voluminous and obscurely detailed notes and appendices have been characterised as “obtrusive, kinky and highly personal”. Spines moderately worn with some soiling on a few, labels mildly worn and soiled; all 16 volumes unmarked, tight, square, and clean. An extremely large and heavy set (approximately 40 pounds) - additional shipping charges may apply. VERY GOOD.. Color and B&W Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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BUTLER, SAMUEL

The Way of All Flesh

New York: Carlton House, N.D.. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth, spine in seven compartments separated by gilt borders, gilt lettering on green panels in two compartments, reverse gilt lettering in one compartments, green and gilt decoration in remailder, green and gilt medallion on cover, top edge green, red printed endpapers. Gilt on spine mildly faded, edges lightly worn, head or spine lightly chipped, otherwise fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. World's Great Novels Series. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (iv), 410 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 27171

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Keywords: Victorian Era; Hypocracy; Domineering Parents; Church of England; Bible; Sexual Assault; Prison Term; Father/Son Relationship; Religion; Religion & Mythology Novels, Poetry & Literature Historical Fiction

BUTLER, SAMUEL

The Way of All Flesh

New York: Walter J. Black / Classics Club, c. 1950. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full beige boards, Gilt lettering on red panels, and gilt decoration on black panels, on spine; red and gilt medallion on cover, top edge burgundy, endpapers gold. Former owner's name on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (iii), 389 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 27708

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Keywords: Victorian Era Hypocracy Domineering Parents Church of England Bible Sexual Assault Prison Term Father/Son Relationship Novels, Poetry & Literature Historical Fiction Fiction

CALDWELL, TAYLOR

Answer As a Man

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. 0399125663. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0399125663. Quarter bound in publisher's ivory cloth over green boards, tan endpapers. Covers lightly soiled, else fine. The unclipped dust jacket is mildly schpped with one small open tear on the rear panel. VERY GOOD/GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 445 pp. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 25320

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Keywords: 0399125663 Fiction; Literature; Romance First Edition Novels, Poetry & Literature Romance Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

CALDWELL, ERSKINE

Poor Fool

New York: Rariora Press, 1930. 0 To Be Determined. First Edition. Illustrated by Alexander Couard. First, Limited Edition (No. 847 of only 1000 copies). Publisher's full blue buckram, gilt lettering on spine and cover, all edges deckle. Illustrated with full-page woodcuts and head and tail-pieces by Alexander Couard. This limited printing comprised the entire edition of Caldwell's second book; there was no trade edition. Published in 1930, Poor Fool was Erskine Caldwell's second novel. Like most of his fiction, it revolves around a gallery of grotesque characters motivated by the basest urges. The novel's central figure is Blondy Niles, a down-and-out boxer who exists at the very fringes of society. The garish nighttime world of bars and prostitutes, con men and petty crimes is the milieu in which he moves. When he is approached by Salty Banks to be an unwitting fall guy in a rigged boxing scheme, a calamitous chain of events is set in motion, and death is the inevitable result.. Spine sunned and the gilt on the spine faded, some pages opened unevenly, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. Woodcuts. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 188, (1) pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 29413

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Keywords: Literature Limited Edition Novels Fiction Erskine Caldwell

CAMP, MAXIME DU

Paris Bienfaisant

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1888. 1st Edition. First Printing. Leather. Half brown morocco over marbled boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment, intricate gilt tooling in remainder, double gilt borders on covers, t.e.g, marbled endpapers. In French. Covers and corners moderately rubbed, small corner torn off first preliminary page, former owner's name on first preliminary page, otherwise unmarked, else near fine; tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 546, (1) pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 27978

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature; Fine Binding; French Literature; First Edition; Novels, Poetry & Literature Fiction Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

CAPOTE, TRUMAN

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

NY: Random House, 1965. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full burgundy cloth, gilt lettering on spine, author's initials, gilt, on cover, top edge black, fore-edge deckle, burgundy endpapers, burgundy and black title page. Former owner's name on first blank preliminary page, else fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. viii, 343, (1) pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 28934

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: True Crime Truman Capote Literature Suspense Mystery Novels Murder First Edition Novels, Poetry & Literature Mystery & Suspense Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

CAREY, PETER

His Illegal Self

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First US Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over tan boards, silver lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 272 pp. As New in As New dust jacket .

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Book number: 16546

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Keywords: Fiction and Literature Novels, Poetry & Literature

CAREY, PETER

My Life As a Fake

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 0375414983. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0375414983. Stated first American Edition. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over red boards, silver lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle, photographic endpapers. Following the triumph of his Booker Prize-winning "True History of the Kelly Gang," Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal. Using a real literary hoax that transfixed Australia in Carey's boyhood, this is a novel of literary forgery and obsession which ranges from Melbourne to Malaysia, to Bali, to Sumatra and Java. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine, unread, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), 264, (12) pp. As New in As New dust jacket .

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Book number: 26226

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: 0375414983 Literature; Fiction; Novels; Literary Forgeries Novels, Poetry & Literature Books About Books Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

CAREY, PETER

Parrot & Olivier in America

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. 0307592626. First US Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0307592626. Stated first US edition. Quarter bound in publisher's dark blue cloth over blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author comes an irrepressibly funny novel set in early nineteenth-century America. Peter Philip Carey AO (born 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda, and won for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang. In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine, unread, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 380, (4) pp. As New in As New dust jacket .

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Book number: 26225

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Keywords: 0307592626 Literature; Novels; Fiction; Voyages; Travel; French; America; Master & Servant; Aristocracy; Novels, Poetry & Literature Humor Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

CAREY, PETER

Theft: A Love Story

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 0307263711. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0307263711. Stated first American Edition. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over red boards, silver lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction. This book won the 2006 Vance Palmer Prize, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award prize for fiction.. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 269, (2) pp. As New in As New dust jacket .

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Book number: 26224

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Keywords: 0307263711 Literature; Novels; Romance Humor Suspense Psychology; Novels, Poetry & Literature Mystery & Suspense Romance

CARLYLE, THOMAS

Past and Present

London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1924. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover. Spine faded with a 1" tear along front hinge, and covers lightly soiled, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD.. Everyman's Library Series. Vol. 608. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xvi, 304 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 29508

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature Essays History History Novels, Poetry & Literature Essays

CARR, JOHN C.

The Craft of Crime Conversations with Crime Writers

New York: Houghton Mifflin (P), 1983. 0395331218. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Trade Paper. ISBN: 0395331218. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 349 pp. As New with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 11782

Catalogue: Mystery/Literature

Keywords: 0395331218 Conversations with Crime Writers 13 Crime Writers Mystery Literature; Novels, Poetry & Literature Mystery & Suspense

CARROLL, JAMES

Firebird

NY: E. P. Dutton, 1989. 0525247262. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0525247262. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over red boards, gilt and white lettering on spine.. Remainder mark on bottom edge, else as new. The unclipped dust jacket shows only the slightest shelf-wear. FINE/NEAR FINE. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 437 pp. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 10258

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: 0525247262 Novels; Fiction; Literature; Cold War Historical Fiction Spies Espionage Novels, Poetry & Literature Mystery & Suspense