Branner, H. C

Drommen Om En Kvinna

Stockholm: A/B Ljus Forlag, (1942). (1942). Stockholm: A/B Ljus Forlag, (1942). (1942). Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial cream wrappers. The spine & extremities are darkened & there is a piece out of the top corner of the front cover. 360 pages. There is a small piece out of the top corner of each of the first 12 leaves & the top corner of the following page is darkened. The bottom edges of the inside rear wrap & the last page are darkened. Good.

"Oversattning fran Dansken av Ingrid Prytz". Swedish translation of the 1941 Danish novel. Good .

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Book number: 22757

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE; DANISH AUTHOR; SWEDISH TRANSLATION; H. C. BRANNER; DROMMEN OM EN KVINNA; TRANSLATOR; INGRID PRYTZ.

Braude, Michael

A Question of Identity / and Other Poems

New York: Lieber-Atherton, 1976. 1976. New York: Lieber-Atherton, 1976. 1976. Good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MICHAEL BRAUDE - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The top & bottom edges of the covers and the head & tail of the spine are darkened. The rear panel of the dust jacket is lightly soiled & foxed with a stain to its bottom corner and there is a small price-sticker on the front flap. 80 pages. Good.

First edition.

Inscribed by the poet on the front endpaper: "To Dick / with affection / Mike". Good .

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Book number: 32877

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POET; MICHAEL BRAUDE; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; A QUESTION OF IDENTITY AND OTHER POEMS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Breton, Nicholas

A Mad World My Masters / and Other Prose Works by Nicholas Breton. Edited by Ursula Kentish-Wright. Two Volumes

London: The Cresset Press Ltd. 1929. 1929. London: The Cresset Press Ltd. 1929. 1929. Very good. - Octavo, decorative gilt & green cloth with gilt-lettered maroon labels on the spine. The top edges are gilt. The spines are slightly faded & the Vol. 1 label is chipped. xxix, [ii], 227 & [1] pages; and [vii] & 249 pages; partially unopened. Very good.

Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Very good .

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Book number: 7928

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; ENGLISH; ELIZABETHAN; NICHOLAS BRETON; PROSE WORKS; DIALOGUES; A MAD WORLD MY MASTERS AND OTHER PROSE WORKS; URSULA KENTISH-WRIGHT; FANTASTICKS; WITS TRENCHMOUR; CHARACTERS UPON ESSAIES; THE COURT AND THE COUNTRY; ELOGY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH; THE

Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas

Les Nuits de Paris Ou le Spectateur-Nocturne

(Paris: Livre Club du Libraire), (1960). (1960). (Paris: Livre Club du Libraire), (1960). (1960). Very good. - Octavo, blue cloth with a black-and-white illustration mounted on the front cover. The binding is lightly rubbed. viii, 319 & [4] pages plus colophon. Full-page black-and-white facsimiles of illustrations & pages of text from the original edition. There is a previous owner's blind stamp on the flyleaf. Very good.

Copy 1382 of an edition of three thousand copies printed exclusively for members of the Livre Club du Libraire.

Restif de la Bretonne worked for eight years on his massive project which was first published in London in 1788. The introduction, notes and bibliography are by Henri Bachelin.

The text is in French. Very good .

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Book number: 31070

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; FRENCH LITERATURE; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH AUTHOR; 18TH CENTURY FRENCH AUTHOR; NICOLAS RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE; NUITS DE PARIS; HENRI BACHELIN; FACSIMILES; ILLUSTRATIONS.

(Bridges, Robert). McKay, George L

A Bibliography of Robert Bridges

NY/London: Columbia University Press/Oxford University Press, 1933. 1933. NY/London: Columbia University Press/Oxford University Press, 1933. 1933. Fine. - Octavo, three-quarters green cloth & marbled boards titled in gilt. xii & 215 pp. With B&W portrait frontispiece. Fine.

Total edition of 500 numbered and 50 unnumbered copies. This copy is probably 1/50 as it is printed "canceled" where the number would have been. Fine .

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Book number: 6766

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POET; ROBERT BRIDGES; BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE; GEORGE L. MCKAY; LIMITED EDITION. (Literature). (Poetry). A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT BRIDGES. (Bridges, Robert). McKay, George L.

Bridges, Robert.

Eden: An Oratorio. Set to Music by C.V. Stanford. [from the Library of Mrs. Humphry Ward. ]

London: Geo. Bell & Sons/Novello Ewer and Co. 1891. 1891. London: Geo. Bell & Sons/Novello Ewer and Co. 1891. 1891. Good. - Octavo, 7 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in cream boards titled in brown on the front cover and on the spine. The top edge is gilt. The covers are lightly soiled and the corners bumped. 40 deckle-edged pages. With the bookplate of Merton College, Oxford mounted on the front endpaper & the library's blue stamp on the versos of the front and rear endpapers. The contents are bright and near fine. Number 19 of 110 numbered copies on handmade paper. From the library of Humphrey and Mary Ward with their bookplate mounted on the front pastedown. Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920) was an English novelist who wrote under her married name, Mrs. Humphry Ward. She was a leading figure in the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. Her husband, Thomas Humphry Ward (1845-1926), was an English writer and journalist who wrote under the name Humphry Ward. An ink notation on the front pastedown indicates that the book was given by A. B. Burney to the library of Merton College, Oxford in 1934. Good .

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Book number: 98634

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; ROBERT BRIDGES; ORATORIO; POET; BRITISH; EDEN: AN ORATORIO SET TO MUSIC BY C.V. STANFORD; LIMITED EDITION; NUMBERED; HUMPHREY WARD; MARY WARD; MERTON COLLEGE; OXFORD; 19TH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

Bridges, Robert; Tarkington, Booth; van Dyke, Henry; et al. Fosdick, Raymnd Blaine; editor

Princeton Verse

Buffalo, NY: Hausauer, Son & Jones Co. 1904. 1904. Buffalo, NY: Hausauer, Son & Jones Co. 1904. 1904. Good. - Octavo, dark green cloth titled in gilt with a coat of arms stamped in gilt on the front cover. The extremities of the binding are rubbed. There is some discoloration to the edges of the rear cover with a small piece out of the cloth near the tail of the spine. 213 pages with a few rear pages unopened. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece view of Princeton. The rear hinge is cracked. There is a previous Princeton owner's ink name & date ["07"] on the front endpaper. The front edges of a few pages are chipped with tears & small pieces out where they have been roughly opened. Good.

First edition, limted to 1,000 copies.

The editor writes that the poems have been collected from various Princeton undergraduate publications. Good .

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Book number: 32764

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; UNDERGRADUATE POETRY; STUDENT POETRY; PRINCETON UNIVERSITY; PRINCETON VERSE; RAYMOND BLAINE FOSDICK, EDITOR; ROBERT BRIDGES; BOOTH TARKINGTON; VAN DYKE, HENRY; LIMITED EDITION; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Bridges, Robert

The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges

London: Geo Bell & Sons, 1891. 1891. London: Geo Bell & Sons, 1891. 1891. Good. - Small octavo, maroon cloth with a paper label on the spine. The covers are bumped with light spotting to the front cover & some small blue stains to the rear cover. The head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped & the label is rubbed, chipped & darkened affecting the first word of the titling. 91 pages. The front hinge is cracked. A label has been partially removed from the front pastedown & there is foxing throughout. Good only.

Second edition. Good .

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Book number: 16832

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; POET; BRITISH; THE SHORTER POEMS OF ROBERT BRIDGES; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

O'Brien, Flann.

The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor.

New York: Pantheon Books, (1962). (1962). New York: Pantheon Books, (1962). (1962). Good. - Octavo, dark teal boards backed with red cloth in a dust wrapper. The rear cover is lightly spotted and the head & tail of the spine are slightly faded. There is a very small stain to the front joint. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed & chipped with its spine & extremities darkened. There is foxing to the jacket's panels with some soiling to the rear panel. [x] & 179 pages. There is light foxing to the bottom edge of the book. Good.

First American edition. Good .

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Book number: 33693

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; COMIC NOVEL; IRISH AUTHOR; FLANN O'BRIEN; THE HARD LIFE; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

O'Brien, Edna

Night. Signed by Edna O'Brien

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1987). (1987). New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1987). (1987). Very good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly spotted & the extremities of the dust jacket are darkened. 117 pages. Very good.

Revised from the original 1972 edition. First American edition of this revised edition.

Signed by Edna O'Brien on the title page. Very good .

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Book number: 20223

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; NOVELIST; IRISH; EDNA O'BRIEN; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; NIGHT; FIRST AMERICAN REVISED EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN REVISED EDITION.

O'Brien, Tim

Tomcat in Love

NY: Broadway Books, (1998). (1998). NY: Broadway Books, (1998). (1998). Fine. - Octavo, black cloth backed black boards titled in gilt, in dw. [xiii], 347 & [2] pp. Fine.

First edition.

Signed by the author on the title page. Fine .

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Book number: 1856

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; NOVELIST; AUTHOR; AMERICAN; TIM O'BRIEN; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; MODERN FIRST EDITION.

Brinckle, J. G.

Poems.

Philadelphia, PA: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1872. 1872. - Octavo, dark green cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is rubbed & bumped with some rippling to the cloth on the bottom edges of the covers. The head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped. iv & pages 13-183. The front hinge is just starting. There is a small tear & chip to the front endpaper with a previous owner's gift inscription on the flyleaf. Page 161 is mis-cut. There is foxing to a very few pages. Good, This collection includes a translation of Sophocles' "Antigone". Rare. Good .

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Book number: 95168

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; J. G. BRINCKLE; VERSE PLAY; GREEK DRAMA;SOPHOCLES; TRANSLATION OF ANTIGONE; NINETEETH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

Broda, Rudolf.

The Call of the Nirvana: Drama in Five Acts by Rudolf Broda. English Version with the Collaboration of Selma B. Stone.

Boston: The Four Seas Company, (1924). (1924). INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR RUDOLF BRODA - Octavo, 7-3/8 inches high by 5 inches wide. Green marbled paper over plain boards, titled & decorated in black on the front cover. The top corner of the front cover is lightly chipped. 47 pages. The top front corner of the pages are lightly bumped. Very good. First edition in English. Inscribed & signed by the author Rudolf Broda on the front endpaper. The sociologist Rudolf Broda (1880-1932) was an Austrian Social Democrat who was active in the international worker's movement. Very good .

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Book number: 96871

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; THE CALL OF THE NIRVANA; DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS; RUDOLF BRODA; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; INSCRIBED; SIGNATURE; ENGLISH VERSION; SELMA B. STONE; FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH; 1ST EDITION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; SOCIOLOGIST.

Brodeur, Paul

The Stunt Man

New York: Atheneum, 1970. 1970. New York: Atheneum, 1970. 1970. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The binding is very lightly bumped with the extremities slightly faded. The spine of the dust jacket is sunned. [vi] & 278 pages. Very good.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 7561

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; THE STUNT MAN; PAUL BRODEUR; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; MODERN FIRST EDITION.

Brodkey, Harold; Price, Reynolds; Minot, Susan; Hall, Donald; Herbert, Zbigniew; Tomlinson, Charles; et al. Plimpton, George; Matthiessen, Peter; et al; editors

The Paris Review. (Vol. 33, No. 121, Winter 1991)

(New York): The Paris Review, Inc. (1991). (1991). (New York): The Paris Review, Inc. (1991). (1991). Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial blue wrappers. The binding is very lightly bumped & slightly rubbed at the extremities. 251 & [5] pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including 8 pages of portraits by David McDermott and Peter McGough. Near fine.

Among the contents of this issue are interviews with Harold Brodkey and Reynolds Price; fiction by Susan Minot and Paul West; an article by Donald Hall about his teachers Archibald MacLeish and Yvor Winters; and poetry by Zbigniew Herbert, Charles Tomlinson, April Bernard and Kuroda Saburo. Very good.

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Book number: 27433

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; PERIODICAL; THE PARIS REVIEW; POETRY; POEMS; FICTION; INTERVIEWS; HAROLD BRODKEY; REYNOLDS PRICE; SUSAN MINOT; PAUL WEST; DONALD HALL; ARCHIBALD MACLEISH; YVOR WINTERS; ZBIGNIEW HERBERT; CHARLES TOMLINSON; APRIL BERNARD; KURODA SABURO; PORTRAI