Literature from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Imprenta Nacional, Bogota, Colombia, 1916; First Edition; 8vo; 287 pages; printed wraps. Over 200 fables in verse demonstrating universal moral truths, offered for purposes of restoring honesty, responsibility, integrity, and charity to Colombian society,which distinguished Columbian national poet Rafel Jose Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo (1833-1912) viewed as being in a disreputable state at the time. All… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers, New York, 1896; First Edition, later printing; 8vo; [blank(2)], [frontispiece], [i-iv], [half-title], [blank], [1], [2-458], [459], [blank], [publisher’s ad], [blank(3)]; royal blue cloth, gilt and silver titles and decorations; untrimmed page edges. Maurus Jokai’s sweeping novel of love, ambition, and the search for truth, from the poverty of the coal mines to the lavish salons… Read more about this item

Gresham Books, Surrey, England, 1978; 8vo, 267 pages; gray cloth; gilt titles; illustrated. Faithful facsimile of John Bunyan’s classic moral allegory, exactly as it appeared when first published in 1678 by Nathan Ponder of Cheapside, of which but one copy is known to exist. Duplicated verbatim from the 1875 facsimile by Eliot Stock of Paternoster Row in the… Read more about this item

Little Brown, Boston, 1978; No statement of edition; 8vo, 366 pages; green cloth; gilt titles; gilt front board illustration; yellow topstain; illustrated endpapers. Evelyn Waugh’s self-proclaimed magnum opus, rated by Newsweek as one of the 100 best books of all time. Source for the the acclaimed 1981 BBC television series and 2008 feature film of the same name.… Read more about this item

Chapman and Hall, London, 1868 ; 8vo; blank; flyleaf; frontispiece; i-vi; 1-522; 4 pg. postscript; vii; flyleaf; blank; half calf boards; pebbled cloth; raised bands; gilt spine decorations; gilt rules; black morocco spine labels; gilt titles; marbled end papers; marbled page edges; illustrated. No printed publication date, but circa 1868, with preface by Dickens in which he deflects… Read more about this item

Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1940; First Edition; 8vo, 471 pages; publisher’s beige cloth; black spine titles over a red field. Hemingway’s dramatic semi-autobiographical tale of fate, courage, and death in the Spanish Civil War, released to considerable critical acclaim and recommended for the 1941 Pulitzer prize, though none was awarded that year. Source of the 1943 Oscar… Read more about this item

Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY, 1967; 8vo, 282 pages; reprinted from plates reset in 1960. Fine, in full calf boards with raised bands, gilt rules, red morocco spine labels, gilt titles, silk headbands, and decorative fleur-de-lis end papers. Original owner name debossed in gilt on lower right corner of the front board. Clean, crisp, bright,sharp, no signatures or any… Read more about this item

Ernest Flammarion, Paris, 1909; 8vo, 716 pages; illustrated. Daudet’s dark novel of the fortunes of a neglected boy born out of wedlock, "a life wholly wrecked by an accident of birth." No printed publication date (circa 1909). The complete novel in one volume, beautifully bound in 3/4 blue leather with raised bands, gilt titles and decorations, marbled boards,… Read more about this item

Inselverlag, Leipzig, 1908; octavo (4 3/4" x 7 1/4"); 959 pages in all; three volumes; vellum; yapped edges; gilt spine titles; top page edges gilt; red silk headbands; red silk marker ribbons; illustrated. "Simplicissimus," a sweeping picaresque epic set in the violent period of the Thirty Years War, was first published at Mompelgard in 1669 and is universally… Read more about this item

Random House, NY, 1975; 4to, 112 pages; illustrated. Random House 1975 reproduction of its 1928 illustrated edition of Voltaire’s CANDIDE, published to mark the occasion of the firm’s 50th anniversary. A verbatim facsimile of the 1928 edition, including all 110 of the Rockwell Kent illustrations. Book-Of-The-Month premium edition, finely bound in brick red cloth with gilt front board… Read more about this item

Librairie Hachette et Cie., Paris, 1904; Fifth Edition; large 8vo, 296 pages; illustrated. Librarie Hachette illustrated edition of Walter Scott’s 1824 novel "Quentin Durward," elaborately bound in red cloth with ornate black and gold floral designs. Text illustrated with thirty-nine b&w engravings. Text in French. Very Good, clean and crisp, binding tight, sound and square, corners sharp. The… Read more about this item

R.F. Fenno & Company, New York, 1898; First American Edition; 8vo, 365 pages. Celebrated Hungarian author Maurus Jokai’s absorbing historical romance of political intrigue in Transylvania at the close of the seventeenth century following the coronation of Prince Michel Apafi, whom the Turks raised to power, up to the murder of the last of the Transylvanian barons, Denis… Read more about this item

American West Publishing Co., Palo Alto, 1967; First Edition; 8vo, 572 pages. Thirty short stories of the American West by such authors as Oliver la Farge, Will Henry, Frederick Remington, Dorothy Johnson, Mark Twain, Emerson Hough, Brett Harte, Jack London, Max Brand, Owen Wister, Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, et. al. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. Very Good Plus, in… Read more about this item

University of Virginia Bibliographical Society , Charlottesville, 1969; First Edition Advanced Proofs; 8vo, 287 pages. A complete bibliographical listing of the books in the personal library of Ellen Glasgow, with ten-page introduction by author Carrington C. Tutwiler, Glasgow’s nephew. Near Fine, in illustrated card wraps bearing a reproduction of Glasgow’s bookplate on the front.