A Letter from Pontius Pilate's Wife by Catherine van Dyke - 1929

Lipsiae: B.G. Teubneri [circa 1846]. (Hardcover set) 361, 358, 329pp. Good to very good. 3 volumes bound in 3 / 4 green leather with marbled boards. There is what appears to be an official stamp dated 13 May 1846 on the back of each title page. The covers are somewhat worn and rubbed, the edges of the pages are spotted and there is some spotting on the pages, there is an owner inscription on the front inner board of each volume, and the inner hinges are cracked. Text in Greek Language. (Classics, Orations).

Rouen: Antonio Pasquinetti, 1740. Hardcover. Very Good -. Imprint: "A Venise, chez Antonio Pasquinetti, 1740." This is a fictitious imprint; published at Rouen. Cf. Quérard, La France littéraire. 2 volumes: 16, 342, [2] p.; 308, [4] p.: 2 copper-engraved frontispieces, 1 additional copper-engraved plate; 17 cm. Signatures: *(8) A-EE(8+4) FF(4); A-CC(8+4). Full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title and volume numbers in second and third compartments. Gilt-tooled decoration in the remaining compartments. Gilt-rolled pattern along the edges. All page edges red. Green ribbon book marks. Marbled endpapers. Engraved title pages printed in red and black with title vignettes. Front fixed endpaper of vol. 1 bears the 18th-century, engraved armorial bookplate of Ludovic Hieron Raussin: "Ex Bibliotheca Lud. Hieron Raussin D. Medici in Universitate Remensi" [Rheims]. Above the bookplate is written faintly in an old hand "3… Read More

NY/London: The Colonial Press, 1900. *Hippolyte Adolphe Taine listed as Author. Julian Hawthorne, Literary Editor -7 Volumes All Bindings Firm, Pgs/Covers Clean - No Marks. All have Brown Cloth HC Bindings w/gilt spine lettering/Deco, rough cut pgs & gilt tpe. All have frontis+ 2 to 5 photos/illus p/vol. Some Contents incl; Drama:-Medea, Oedipus Rex, Life a Dream, etc. The Rubaiyat, Confucius, Selections from Arabian Poetry. Sold as Incomplete Set only 7 Volumes. USA Media mail only Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Revised Edn. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Clarence Cook (Art Editor).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear at top front flap fold.

MODERN LIBRARY NY, 1941 HBDJ, 1941, Stated 1st Modern Library Edition, BK NF- / DJ GOOD-, AS-IS, BACK DJ MENTIONS OVER 250 GREAT TITLES & 95 CENTS & pre Zipcode Coupon,, Toledano spine #8, listing 271 titles on VERSO of DJ , 7 x 5 x 1. 270 PGS,. plus listing of ML titles ends with Tristram Shandy & Sentimental Journey.NAVYBlue cloth light rub mark else bright and un worn. DJ FLAP priced at 95 cents. MENDED DJ in repaired pieces, edges tattered , Small chips to DJ Spine & Extremites of front of DJ, 5 X 7 1/4 IN. Interior nice tight clean light wear FOX, DJ Protected Clear Mylar , blue boards with FADED turquoise top stain. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by ROCKWELL KENT ENDPAPERS,.

New York: Random House, 1942. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First printing.. New York: Random House, 1942. Stated First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing (Stated "First Printing" on copyright page). Unfaded black cloth boards with unchipped gold lettering on cover and spine. Light soiling (very small faint water spots to cloth boards). Hint of light surface wear to corners, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean, slightly faded red top-stained page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 282 pgs. Unfaded illustrated bright yellow dustjacket has a few short closed edge tears, no chips or missing pieces, not price clipped (2.00 on front inside flap), slightest hint of soiling. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Very scarce book which won the 1939 All-Nations Prize Novel Competition. Set mainly in Cambodia, and by a writer of half-French and half-Cambodian parentage, this is the… Read More

Printed for F. Style. London.,1739. FIRST, AND ONLY, EDITION. 8vo. Front wrapper, ii,28pp. Lacking the half title but with the rare printed front wrapper (showing the price of Six Pence) laid down and bound in. Text complete. Top edge of pages have been cut and gilded, the others are untrimmed. Pages a bit marked and rubbed but overall a very good example. The original front wrapper has some small areas of loss to the edges and corners and has been professionally laid down. Bound in modern half red crushed morocco by C. Walters. Spine with raised bands, ruled in blind. Compartments lettered in gilt. Boards with dark red cloth. Burgundy endpapers. Previous owners bookplate (Douglas Peter Crossman, Earl Stonham) on front pastedown endpaper. Overall a very good copy of this uncommon political satire, mocking the supporters of George II and Prince James Stuart, the Old pretender. Not in Halkett & Laing.:

MODERN LIBRARY, 1932. HBDJ, STATED First ML edition 1932 on copyright pg; Modern Library #8 (Toledano number 008.2); EarlyVintage Dust jacket lists 257 titles ON BACK & Inverse OF DJ WITH 95 CENTS & pre zip code Coupon, VG+/VG, .Brown BINDING WITH STREAMER MAN in Gold Gilt , book has a Toledano 7 cover, a D or Kent endpapers and a g jacket. INTERIOR PGS LITE WEAR ,FOX,557 pgs + ADS end with G5 Plutarch?s Lives, DJ lite wear, Fade & small Extremities Chips NOT Removing Print, Purple topstain lite wear, Fade spine DJ Fox, ,where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels, Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and Minnie's husband, Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles… Read More

Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1972. First edition / First printing. A paperback original. Orange and purple perfect-bound wrappers. Near fine with very slight fading to the orange paper spine. Sharp copy. The author's first book. Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Stone Diaries. Born in the U. S. She lived in Canada most of her adult life. This title was not published in the U.S.

MODERN LIBRARY, 1931. ,INCLUDES , Merry Tattle of Nuns of Poissy, How Chateau D?Azay came to be Built, Dear Night of Love, Monk Amador ETC, HBDJ, 1931, Stated 1st Modern Library edition on copyright pg , VG/GOOD-, On the back of the dust jacket 200 titles are mentioned indicating a 1931 printing and a first with Coupon,. dust jacket is Lightly STAINED especially on the front cover Bound in brown flexible cloth (spine #7) the book is in About Very Good condition with light wear to spine extremities and minimal fading. Solid binding, bright gilt, handsome brown topstain. Bloomingdale's Book Department small, circular stamp on title page. Contents are clean, and there is no writing in the text. Dust jacket is VG- with a browned and faded spine that has minor chipping at the extremities. 553 pgs, EPILOGUE. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.