"Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner, 1955, Modern Library 175. Stated first Modern Library edition 1955. Dj edge worn and soiled. Pen inscription on fly, pg 23 wrinkled. Else good condition. Dj blurb: Go Down, Moses is made up of seven inter-related parts, each self-contained, but all illuminating and extending each other. The book might be called a set of variations on two major themes: the changing relationship, from the time of the frontier to the present day, of the Negro and the white man in Yoknapatawpha County, and the relationship of both to the land they inhabit, which in a few generati... View More...
"Leo Tolstoy: Short Novels; Stories of Love, Seduction, and Peasant Life, Leo Tolstoy, 1966. Modern Library 367, stated first. VG with VG unclipped jacket. Some light edge wear to dj. 575pp + ads. 5x7." View More...
"First edition, second printing, 1978. First time Kafka's letters translated for English readers, showing him as a son, brother, critic and in sickness as well. These stand as important literary landmarks, making him one of the great letter writers of the modern age. Near fine, dj slightly worn. 508pp. 6x9." View More...
"Mirror of the World, Tales form the Khamseh of Nizami, Peter J. Chelkowski, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975. Numerous tipped in full color plates. Large format. Deep look into Persian poetry and miniature painting associated with it. VG+. Red cloth boards sunned, else tight and clean. " View More...
"Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale, Herman Melville, 1974. Limited edition Franklin Library. Decorative text ornaments. Full leather, AEG. Near fine condition." View More...
"Scenes of Clerical Life, the Mill on the Floss, and Adam Bede, George Eliot, Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1859-1860. Three fine bindings, each complete, from Collection of British Authors, issued as two volumes within one. 3/4 leather bound, marbled boards and edges. VG condition. Edge worn, corner bumps, some loss to titles as seen in picture. " View More...
"An Anthology of Pure Poetry, Edited with an Introduction by George Moore, Boni and Liveright, New York, 1924. Limited 937/1000. Signed by George Moore. Hand picked poems across the canon of English literature. G/G. Protected worn dust jacket, unclipped, sunned. Spine has some exterior wear, hinges good, uneven pages. " View More...
"Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy, 1998. Second printing before publication. Final volume of The Border Trilogy. Fine condition with fine dj." View More...
"Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler. Modern Library 074. (1947-75 variant) Good dust jacket, edge worn. Text generally clean, pen inscription on front pastedown." View More...
"Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited, Samuel Butler, 1927. Modern Library 136. The book is a satire on Victorian society. Worn dust jacket, clean but a dusty copy." View More...
"Four Plays by Bernard Shaw, Candida, Caesar & Cleaopatra, Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, 1953. Complete and unabridged with the famous prefaces. Modern Library edition 019. Edge worn orn dust jacket. Good / Good." View More...
"Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift, 1974. Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock.. Full leather bound edition, Franklin Press. Fine condition." View More...
"Herodotus, translated by Henry Cary, 1882, A New and Literal Versions from the text of Bachr, with geographical and general index. Embossed dark green cloth, gilt title on spine. Etching of Herodotus with tissue at title. Hinges fragile, reinforced. Spine cloth beginning to separate. Fair condition due to hinge weakness, text aged but generally clean. 613pp." View More...
