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1931WRCLIT78606Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1931. Gilt lettered lavender cloth. Top edge and rear board a bit dust speckled but a very good copy in pictorial dust jacket with faded spine some dust spotting on verso and a few short edge tears. First US edition of work published in the UK as THE CALENDS OF CAIRO. Two brief comments by Mitchell's friend H. G. Wells appear in the prelims along with an Introduction by Leonard Huxley. This book occurs in at least two bindings of which this is the form most likely to be primary; the other is cheap orange cloth lettered in black. BLEILER p.141. NCBEL IV:588. Bobbs-Merrill hardcover books
1906117051New York: McClure 1906. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-293 294-296: blank note: last leaf is a blank original decorated green cloth. front panel stamped in white and blind spine panel stamped in white bottom edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. Stories told by an old Boer woman to her household especially her granddaughter Katje grim tales about life and death on the frontier. "The Vrouw Grobelaar believed most entirely in Kafir magic in witchcraft and second sight in ghosts and infernal possession in destiny and in a very personal arch-fiend who presided over a material hell when not abroad in the world on the war-path." Of the seventeen stories here at least six are supernatural: "The Dream Face" "The Avenger of Blood" "The King of the Baboons" "The Peruvian" "Tagalash" "The Sacrifice." Hubin 1994 p. 323. Day The Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature p. 34. Not in Bleiler 1948; 1978 or Reginald 1979; 1992. Cloth rubbed at edges some staining along rear fore-edge inner hinges mended offsetting on pages 84-85 probably from an old laid-in newspaper clipping still a good solid copy. #117051 McClure unknown books
192726343London: The Grayhound Press 1927. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall bound wrappers. One of 460 hand-numbered copies printed on thick arches paper. A very good example. Poems by Gibbon with both color and black and white designs by Picart Le Doux. Remains of the publisher's printed belly band laid in. The Grayhound Press paperback books
192723143London: Greyhound Press 1927. hardcover. very good. 49 hand-colored illustrations by Picart Le Doux. 83pp. 8vo original decorative boards. London: The Grayhound Press 1927. Very good.<br/><br/> One of 460 copies on Arches paper printed in France.<br/><br/> Greyhound Press unknown books
1927WRCLIT30971London: The Grayhound Press 1927. Printed wrappers. Quarto. Covers a bit grubby three-inch split along the spine with a half-inch loss of paper from the bottom edge short tear to lower cover near head of spine but internally very nice with the prospectus laid in. First edition of the Irish poet's third book one of 460 numbered copies printed in France on Arches. The Le Doux illustrations are accompanied by a disclaimer emphasizing their tenuous relation with the text. The Grayhound Press unknown books
1959019540London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1959. 226p. b/w illus. original blue cloth slightly frayed at head of spine ex libris. Rupert Hart-Davis unknown books
1926WRCLIT70816Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. Some foxing to cloth but a very good copy in slightly sunned dust jacket with internally mended edge tear. First edition of the poet's first book. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
1926WRCLIT46885Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. First edition. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. Boards irregularly darkened some offset on endsheets tiny nick in top-edge of three leaves but a good sound copy. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
2000702712Boston: Little Brown. 2000. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Little, Brown paperback books
200018647Boston: Little Brown 2000. 1st edition. Purple cloth spine with green paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. NF remainer mark on bottom edge/F. 205 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Little Brown hardcover books
1948UGIBRED00MELSaturn Press 1948. Very Good. Gibbon Mark. The Red Shoes Ballet: A Critical Study. London: Saturn Press 1948. Second edition. 95pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with remains of an old sticker on front free endsheet. Saturn Press hardcover books
1994Embry 138722Indiana U. Press 1994. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Indiana U. Press, 1994. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1932124744London: Jarrolds Publishers 1932-1934. First editions of each volume of Gibbon's classic trilogy describing the life of Chris Guthrie a woman from the north-east of Scotland during the early 20th century each volume inscribed by him to George Malcolm Thomson. Octavo original cloth 3 volumes. Sunset Song is inscribed on the title page "For G. Malcolm Thomson L. Grassic Gibbon." Cloud Howe is the dedication copy inscribed on the title page "For the 'dedicatee' with kind regards. L. Grassic Gibbon." Grey Granite is inscribed on the title page "For George Malcolm Thomson with good wishes L. Grassic Gibbon." Each are in very good condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form deft and humorous in its use of language courageous in its characterization and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. In Sunset Song Gibbon's finest achievement the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons the weddings the funerals the grind of work the gossip. As the Great War takes its toll machines replace the old way of life. Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and the desperate years of the Depression. Gibbon attracted attention from his earliest attempts at fiction notably from H. G. Wells but it was his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair and in particular its first book Sunset Song with which he made his mark. A Scots Quair with its combination of stream-of-consciousness lyrical use of dialect and social realism is considered to be among the defining works of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance. All three parts of the trilogy have been turned into serials by BBC Scotland written by Bill Craig with Vivien Heilbron as Chris. Additionally Sunset Song has been adapted into a film released in 2015. Jarrolds Publishers hardcover books
199745442London: Laurence King Publishing in association with Alan Marcuson 1997. First edition large 4to pp. 368; numerous color illustrations throughout many full-page; fine copy in the dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/> Laurence King Publishing in association with Alan Marcuson unknown books
193342239NY: Frederick A. Stokes 1933. First Edition. Greenwood C. R. 8vo pp. xv 128. Discography index. Illustrations by C. R. Greenwood. Spine and corners little scuffed o/w a VG tight copy. About setting words to classical melodies. Musical examples given. Frederick A. Stokes unknown books
193956508Toronto: The Ryerson Press. Very Good. 1939. Hardcover. Inscribed by the Author; red cloth boards with gilt stamping are toned spine is sunned otherwise contents are clean and very good with illustrations. . The Ryerson Press hardcover books
19949022167Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1994. 1st . Hardcover. fine/fine. Edited by Alan and Maureen Gaff. <br/><br/> Indiana University Press hardcover books
1929030442London and Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons 1929. Harmonizations by Geoffrey O'Hara and Oscar O'Brien. xxii 105p. music original cloth. Reprint of the 1927 first edition. J. M. Dent & Sons unknown books
1913M9012New York:: E. P. Dutton 1913. 1913. 8vo. xv 296 pp. Tables index. Full gilt stamped red cloth; minor shelf-wear front inner hinge starting. Early ownership signature of Charles Russell Bardeen. Very good. First edition. Bardeen was the first Dean of the Wisconsin Medical School. E. P. Dutton, 1913. hardcover books
1963UGIBDEC01AGGWashington Square Press 1963. Very Good. Gibbon Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Selections from the Writings of Edward Gibbon. Trevor-Roper editor and abridgment Hugh R. NY: Washington Square Press 1963. 456pp. Indexed. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges and previous owner's name on first page. Washington Square Press paperback books
1963UGIBDEC00AGGWashington Square Press 1963. Very Good. Gibbon Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Selections from the Writings of Edward Gibbon. Trevor-Roper editor Hugh R. NY: Washington Square Press 1963. 456pp. Indexed. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped and rubbed edges and previous owner's name on first page. Washington Square Press paperback books
20001212153London: Folio Society 2000. Special Folio Society Edition Eleventh Printing. Octavo; VG/VG Slipcase No Jackets; White red and blue spines with gilt lettering; 8 Volumes housed in 2 red slipcases; Boards and covers are straight and with light rubbing to some covers and spines; Bindings are strong; Text blocks are pristine; 8 Volumes. Shelved in Folio Society. 1212153. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Folio Society unknown books
19602311036New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1960. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Book club edition. Very good hardcover in fair jacket. Jacket rubbed and creased with some tears and loss from corners. 1960 Hard Cover. 924 pp. Map illustrated endpapers. The classic abridgment by D.M. Low. "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776 and went through six printings. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV V VI in 1788 Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1940WRCLIT79066London: Jonathan Cape 1940. 288pp. Large octavo. Gilt polished black buckram untrimmed. Portrait. Plates. Slight tanning to edges and endsheets but a near fine copy in good somewhat darkened and soiled dust jacket. First edition the uncommon first issue. Keynes notes in his autobiography that the first printing sold poorly due to the war and a significant portion of the edition was destroyed in the blitz. Rupert Hard-Davis wrote in THE BOOK COLLECTOR that "Gibbon's Library was duly brought out in one of the worst months in publishing history - April 1940. It achieved the splendid record of selling fewer copies than any other book ever published by Cape - under a hundred I remember - and since most of the unsold stock was soon destroyed by enemy action the book must be the rarest in all Geoffrey's extensive oeuvre." In 1950 the Bibliographical Society bound up some sets of rescued sheets with a missing signature reprinted constituting the second issue. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1946012282NY: Limited Editions Club 1946. 1s US Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. 7 volumes complete simply yet elegantly bound in half black leather over black cloth gilt ruled spines. 1500 copies this #847. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
