Scarce first edition (76 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. A gorgeous as new unread American first printinting of the first edition. Flawless portrait of a true American radical thinker. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. Superb novel and this is especially scarce as a first edition in the UK. Wry, brilliant, amusing and ultimately sobering. Clean and tight, as new, protected perfect jacket. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. An important study which traces the history of architectural style and interior design in relation to the furnishing and decoration of the English country house. Brilliant photographs from the Country Life archives. Book has an owner's blind stamp and the unclipped jacket has one tiny tear on the top of the spine. Apart from these small defects this is an unread looking copy of what is now a scarce edition. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. …

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. SIGNED with a deication on the title page, and the author has cancelled his printed name. A superb collectable first printing of the first edition. Language: eng Language: eng. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first British publication of this extraordinary collection, and few readers will surely disagree that the best work here will survive as long as poetry is read. Fascinating introduction by the editor, Robert Fitzgerald. Clean but used copy of the paperback edition. Strong card wrapper. Tight binding, still firm. No irritating notes! Large format softback with stiff cover. 0.0 0.0 0.0.…

First Edition. NOTICE TO FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY, London, 1947, first edition vg. One page. A plea for more money by raising the fellowship subscription rate. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SCARCE first edition hardback; a book that was swallowed up by the libraries, and therefore a copy that looks to be unread. No abuses, no former owner names, and only a faded spine to indicate its age. This fabulous account of the start ups that gave us the Modern World is the antidote to those who would deny the excellent achievements of this brilliant group. This is history as it should be taught. A stunning book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a scarce first edition of the Virago issue, which was later reprinted with a completely different livery. A tight clean and firmly bound paperback, it is hard to find in this almost new state. Superb introduction by Helen McNeil.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. A mint perfect SIGNED first edition. Perfect collectable. Protected mint jacket. No marks other than the signature on the title page. UNREAD. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. It begins, startlingly, on the deliberately rough finished grey cover board, and continues on the endpapers, and proceeds right through to the rear end papers, which are scarlet. And there you find the signature of the author, scrawled boldly in black marker, opposite the copyright details. This extraordinary and most unusual book is very attractively produced by Penguin, and this is an unread copy. SUPERB SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. This is possibly the ONLY signed first edition of the UK hardback first. SIGNED on the title page. The issue had its price changed on publication and so this has the customary clipped price on the front end flap, with the revised price sticker, PUBLISHER'S PRICE: £10.95. Crisp and clean binding, this book looks to be UNREAD. Did I mention this is a SUPERB novel? Well, it is. George Steiner wrote, 'Purdy is a writer of fantastic talent.'. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Now hard to find in this collectable edition. A stunning and timely edition, with a special introduction by Thomas Karshan. Nabokov's first love was poetry, and his fascination for it was something he pursued all his life. By incorporating poetry into his novels, most notably in Pale Fire, he probably sent many of his readers off in search of his poetry collections. The Shade poems from Pale Fire are not included in this collection, perhaps because Nabokov was consciously adopting the voice of another character. But what is refreshing about this volume is the new translations from the Russian by Nabokov's son, Dmitri. This is a fabulous volume containing work that is decidedly 'modern' but easily accessible. It is enormously enjoyable. Always clever, frequently charming, this is a delightful volume for poetry lovers everywhere. It is essential for Nabokov fans. Protected jacket, first hardback printing, and unread.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Considering its age - 1987 - this is a first rate collectable. Gentle signs of usage, with a small crease here and there, but no owner names or annotations. The cult that swept the graphic novel world. This is a first printing of the first edition and it is quite a rarity. Language: eng.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. When this definitive complete edition was launched Faber issued a separately printed stiff card of the poem 'POSTSCRIPT' exclusively for the first 100 (or was it 200?) people who ordered it. Luckily I was one of those! 'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John CareyThis is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney's poetry. It encompasses all the poems Heaney published in his lifetime as well as the small number that appeared after his death: twelve single volumes, from Death of a Naturalist (1966) to Human Chain (2010), and those poems published in pamphlets, journals and magazines or with limited circulation. In addition, the book includes a selection of unpublished material chosen by the poet's family.It is a body of work that, in its entirety, resounds with the 'lyrical beauty and ethical depth' cited by the Nobel committee: poems 'which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.'Critical introductions to each collection and notes that illuminate the history and development of the poems make this the essential volume for admirers of Heaney's work.'Heaney's voice, by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive, is one of a suppleness almost equal to consciousness itself.' Helen Vendler'His is "closeup" poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.' John Banville 'These poems find - in the dowser's gift and the child's perception of the world - images of the marvellous that are also wonderfully grounded. . . Heaney is a poet who deserves to be read in entirety.' Jamie McKendrick'For Heaney, there were marvels enough in this world, and never mind the next. Ordinary objects and places - a sofa, a wireless, a satchel, a gust of wind, the sound of rain - were sanctified.' Blake Morrison Here is the definitive edition of Seamus Heaney's poetry, with illuminating critical notes, including a substantial number of uncollected poems and a selection of poems never published before.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. A very fine first printing in a likewise unclipped dust wrapper. Unread gift condition and SIGNED by Christopher Hitchens to the title page, An outstanding copy of the very elusive first print. Also includes essays by Robert Browning and Graham Binns.BOXED DESPATCH. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 271pp, [1]. Publisher's black cloth, title in gilt on the spine. The first printing, with "Scribner's A" on the copyright page. Lightly bumped top corner. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. In the publisher's dust jacket, price clipped, but with $3.00 stamp on front flap. Chipping along edges, some loss at heel of the spine, but scarce in any condition. First published in Russian in 1939 as "O rabstve i svobode cheloveka." Translated from the Russian by R. M. French, with the first English language edition published in London in 1943. Nicolas Berdyaev (1874-1948) was a Russian religious philosopher and political thinker. Initially influenced by Marxism, he broke with revolutionary socialism and became a prominent critic of both communism and authoritarianism. Expelled from Soviet Russia in 1922, he settled in France, where he continued to write on Christianity and the spiritual consequences of modern political systems. His best-known works include The Meaning of the Creative Act, The Destiny of Man, The Origin of Russian Communism, Slavery and Freedom, and The Russian Idea. The first American edition of Slavery and Freedom by Nicolas Berdyaev, in a scarce dust jacket. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 222pp, [2]. The first printing, with no additional printings noted on the copyright page. Illustrated with portraits and genealogical tables. Publisher's blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, light sunning along top quarter. Internally clean. In the publisher's scarce dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on the front flap, a few short closed tears, light soiling to the spine, a very good example. (Halter, T226) Johnson traces Roosevelt's ancestry through the Roosevelt, Delano, Aspinwall, Howland, Church, Lyman, and Robbins families. Also issued in scarlet cloth by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard in 1933, no priority established. The first edition, first printing of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors by Alvin Page Johnson, in the publisher's scarce dust jacket. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Very good. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, 336pp. Brown cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Stated "First published in 1928" on copyright page. Light rubbing to tips of the spine, solid text block. Complete with 27 illustrations, including maps and diagrams, and eight plates. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. A very good example. A collection of Gould's essays on unexplained historical, scientific, and folkloric subjects, including the Devil's hoof-marks, the moving coffins in the vault at Barbados, Mersenne's numbers, Orffyreus' wheel, the Planet Vulcan, the Berbalangs of Cagayan Sulu, and the prophecies of Nostradamus. Gould was a retired lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy. This work was updated and reprinted numerous times. The scarce first edition, first impression of Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts by Lieutenant-Commander Rupert T. Gould. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [4], 441pp, [1]. Russet pictorial cloth, title stamped in brown on spine and front cover. Coward-McCann colophon on copyright page, with no statement of later printing. Top edge dyed green. Internally clean. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on front flap, touch of shelf wear, a few short closed tears, a very good example. Translated from the Norwegian by Eugene Gay-Tifft, August was first published in Norway in 1930 and forms the second volume in Hamsun's August trilogy, following Wayfarers and preceding The Road Leads On. The first edition, first printing of August by Knut Hamsun, in the publisher's scarce dust jacket. (illustratore). …

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: near fine. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, vi, 280pp. Publisher's blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Published by Hodder and Stoughton in London and New York in 1914, issued as part of The Chalmers Lectures series. Top edge dyed blue. Bookplate on front pastedown. In the publisher's dust jacket, soiling to the spine, solid hinges. Dust jacket not previously recorded. No known examples have appeared on the public market. MacKay's work traces the history of evangelical religion in Gaelic Scotland from the arrival of the Columban-Celtic Church in the sixth century through the medieval church, the Scottish Reformation, the Covenanter period, eighteenth-century decline, and the evangelical awakening in the Highlands and Islands through 1843. The first edition of The Church in the Highlands; or, The Progress of Evangelical Religion in Gaelic Scotland, 563-1843 by Reverend John MacKay. With the scarce dust jacket. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xii, 415pp, [1]. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt. The first printing, with no additional printings noted on copyright page. Light dust along top edge of text block, internally clean. Includes 17 illustrated plates, complete. In the publisher's dust jacket, retail price clipped on the front flap, light shelf wear, old tape repairs to verso, bright illustrations, a near fine example. In The Shadow Of Lincoln's Death follows an earlier work by Eisenschiml, titled Why Was Lincoln Murdered?, which argues that Abraham Lincoln's assassination was part of a broader conspiracy rather than the act of a lone actor. Eisenschiml presents evidence suggesting that John Wilkes Booth, along with other conspirators, had connections to influential individuals who opposed Lincoln's policies. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton is implicated in the plot. (Monaghan, 3561) Both books have been largely discredited by historians. The first edition of In The Shadow Of Lincoln's Death by Otto Eisenschiml, in the publisher's scarce dust jacket. (illustratore). Signed.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, xx, [2], 297pp. Purple cloth, title embossed in black and pink on cover. No additional printings mentioned on copyright page. A near fine example, solid text block, free of soiling or notable wear. In the publisher's scarce dust jacket, price-clipped, closed tear through front panel with archival tissue repair, chipping along top edge. This work is complete, with 206 reproductions of the original woodcut illustrations. A scarce work in the publisher's dust jacket. The Sins of America is a follow-up to The Sins of New York (1930), both originally appeared in tabloid publication, The National Police Gazette. There are no other known copies in the publisher's dust jacket. The first edition, first printing of Sins of America: As "Exposed" by the Police Gazette, in the publisher's scarce art-deco era dust jacket. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, 227pp. Gray cloth, title in maroon on spine and front cover. Top edge dyed maroon. Stated "Second Printing, August, 1929" on copyright page. Solid text block, light foxing to spine, a touch of toning to edges. A near fine example. Complete with ten illustrated plates, including frontispiece. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, sunning to spine and covers, some shelf wear, chipping to edges. A beautifully illustrated piece. First edition of Chéri by Colette in the scarce dust jacket. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: near fine. First Edition, First Impression. Folio, 98pp. Green cloth spine over buckram boards, title stamped in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, remaining edges uncut. Stated 1937 edition, with no subsequent printings noted. Gift inscription dated 1937 on second free endpaper, small bookplate on front pastedown. Complete with 42 tissue-guarded mounted color plates after paintings by Edward Seago. In the publisher's near fine dust jacket, not price-clipped, closed tear along lower edge of spine, light toning to spine, a near fine example. (Wight 94) (Errington A123). This collaboration pairs Masefield's poems with Seago's English rural landscapes, issued while Masefield was Poet Laureate. The first edition, first impression of The Country Scene by John Masefield, with pictures by Edward Seago, in the publisher's scarce dust jacket. (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition. Octavo, [unpaginated]. Brown cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine and cover, profusely illustrated with black and white images from the actor's life. Solid binding, toning to endpapers, intermittent foxing throughout. Gilt on spine rubbed, spine ends worn. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. In publisher's original dust jacket, price-clipped, light soiling, spine darkened, creases to front flap, chipping and tears to top/bottom edges and flap folds, tape repairs to verso. A nice example of John Barrymore's autobiography. First edition of John Barrymore's Confessions of an Actor, in scarce dust jacket. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: good. First Edition. Octavo, vii, [5], 259pp. Maroon buckram cloth, title printed on label affixed to cover and spine. Some leaves unopened. Uncut outer edge. No additional printings mentioned on copyright page. Previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper. In publisher's scarce dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on front flap, long closed tear to front cover, large chipping to spine and back panel, archival repair to verso, bright illustrations. A rare find in the publisher's dust jacket. First edition of Roosevelt: His Mind in Action by Lewis Einstein, in scarce dust jacket. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, viii, [2], 52pp, [2]. Full blue cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Stated "First published 1990" on copyright page, no additional printings listed. Solid text block, appears unread, fine condition. Signed by Elizabeth Alexander on the title page. This rare cloth hardcover edition was published simultaneously with a glossy paperback edition. Signed first edition of The Venus Hottentot by Elizabeth Alexander, in the scarce cloth binding. (illustratore). Signed.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, v, [3], 277pp. Maroon cloth, title in white on spine and front cover. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, light rubbing to spine, foxing to edges and endpapers, near fine. In the publisher's dust jacket, $1.50 retail price printed on spine, worn along creases, small chips to corners. A very good example. First edition of The Twenty-Six Clues by Isabel Ostrander, in the publisher's scarce dust jacket. (illustratore). …

Cloth. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: fair. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 331pp. Green cloth, title in yellow on spine and front cover. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, wear to edges, small puncture to spine, a very good example. In the publisher's scarce dust jacket, soiled covers, sunned spine, archival tape restoration to verso and hinge flaps, multiple losses. Previous ownership inscription on front endpapers. Octavus Roy Cohen (1891-1959) was a white author from South Carolina who wrote dialect comedy and detective stories about African Americans, which were adapted into short films. First edition of Highly Colored by Octavus Roy Cohen in the scarce dust jacket. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: good. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 307pp. Brick red cloth, title in gilt on spine, black topstain. Stated "first printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, touch of wear to corners, a near fine example. Previous bookseller's label affixed to read endpaper. In the publisher's dust jacket, price clipped, sunned spine. Dampstain and tape remnants to verso. A well-presenting example of a scarce dust jacket. The Delicate Prey was first published in 1949 in Paris, in the literary journal Zero. In 1950, Random House published the story, along 16 other short works by Bowles. First edition of The Delicate Prey by Paul Bowles in the publisher's scarce dust jacket. (illustratore).…