Literature from Bucks County Bookshop IOBA

London Chatto Windus, 1970, hardcover. These essays "compose a critical biography" of Dostoevsky. Hardcover. Condition: very good (edge bumped) with bright, very good dust jacket (light edgewear; price-clipped). ISBN 0701115327

USA Two Keys Press, 2017, paperback. Signed by author, inscribed to a book club. Called an "unsettling collection . . . seemingly bizarre, sensational, and disturbing." -- Softcover, 89 pages. Condition: near fine. ISBN 9780998614069

Franklin Center PA Franklin Library, 1989, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing thus by Franklin Library, SIGNED by the author on the publisher's bound-in sheet and with a 2-page "special message" by Naipaul, telling how "travel became essential to my life as a fiction-writer"; this edition also has a frontispiece painting by Bart Forbes. -- Hardcover, full brown… Ler mais sobre este item

Franklin Center PA Franklin Library, 1989, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing thus by Franklin Library, SIGNED by the author on the publisher's bound-in sheet and with a 2-page "special message" by Irving giving his own synopsis of his novel; this edition also has a frontispiece painting by Cary Henrie. -- Hardcover, full green leather with gilt decorations,… Ler mais sobre este item

New York St Martin's Press, 391963, paperback. Parallel text: original French and translation by Donald M. Frame on opposite pages. Includes 13-page introduction and glossary. -- Softcover, 496 pages. Condition: very good (corners bit curled).

Norfolk CT New Directions, 1941, hardcover. A new American translation by Carlyle F. MacIntyre, with illustrations by Rockwell Kent, together with the German text. -- Hardcover, 435 pages, 7x10 inches, variant cover is gray linen with deep-red and gilt surrounding title. Condition: good-only (spine tanned and cover soiled; edges and endsheets foxed; owner name; no jacket). Pages and art… Ler mais sobre este item

Garden City NY Doubleday, 1964, hardcover. First Edition, First Printing in U.S. The author was a Polish literary critic and scholar; this book "related the power struggles of Elizabethan times to the 20th century." [Pynsent, Reader's Encyclopedia of Eastern European Literature]. Translated from Polish by Boleslaw Taborski. -- Hardcover, 241 pages. Condition: very good (owner name; no jacket).

Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1988, paperback. Reprint, newly edited with introduction by George Hendrick. Sandburg shared these humorous pieces with friends in 1949, then later agreed to have them published. -- Softcover. Condition: near fine. ISBN 0252060180

New York Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935, hardcover. Second printing, tan cover. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (light color cover is irregularly tanned; owner name; no jacket).

Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1891, hardcover. Volume 4 in the Riverside Edition of Holmes' writings. -- Title page has stamped impression of the Riverside Press device designed by Ralph Mackay [Chumley & Pepys on Books]. Torn half of a sewing thread trade card is laid in dated 1896, used as a bookmark. -- Hardcover, dark red cloth with black spine… Ler mais sobre este item

San Francisco Big Fish Books, 1992, First Edition. hardcover. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies, and first printing by this publisher. Originally published in a 1949 periodical, the text here is a reprint of the Scribner's edition, and the introduction by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was previously published. Duotone photos of Hemingway and his crew by Roberto Herrera Sotolongo. -- Hardcover.… Ler mais sobre este item

Garden City NY Sun Dial Press, 1943, hardcover. Reprint edition. Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (spine faintly sunned; corners bumped; owner name; no jacket).

Franklin Center PA Franklin Library, 1977, hardcover. First printing of this 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of the Great Books of the Western World. Illustrated by Walt Spitzmiller. Translated by Constance Garnett. -- Hardcover, pressed leather with raised spine bands, gilt stamped decoration and AEG all-edges-gilt. Condition: near fine (owner name; moire endsheets have narrow sunned strip).

London Folio Press, 1979, hardcover. Second edition. Illustrated with reproductions from the era discussed. -- Hardcover, rich blue cloth with gilt design, fine printing and paper, 214 pages, with lightweight cardboard slipcase. Condition: fine, with fine slipcase.

New York Orion Press, 1962, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing in U.S. Translated from Italian by Barbara Kennedy. Hardcover. Condition: Very good (corner bumped) in very good minus dust jacket (small chip; spine bit tanned). -- Original language publication was 1947. Novel of siblings, described by the author as "a conversation with his dead… Ler mais sobre este item

London Folio Society, 1993, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing for The Folio Society with introduction by Bel Mooney. Copper engravings by Chris Daunt. -- Hardcover. Condition: fine with fine slipcase.

London Folio Society, 1977, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing for The Folio Society. Water-colour drawings by Quentin Blake. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine (owner name) with fine slipcase.

London Folio Society, 1980, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing for The Folio Society, with new introduction by Auberon Waugh. Illustrated by John Lawrence. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine (owner name) with fine slipcase.

London Folio Society, 1964, hardcover. Fifth printing 1975. Lithographs by Charles Keeping. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine (owner name) with fine slipcase.

Baltimore Penguin, 1955, paperback. Later printing 1961. Volume 2 has folded map at rear, and index. -- Softcover, 5.4x7 inches 2 volumes, 370+412 pages. Condition: very good (covers a little darkened).