Criticism And Commentary from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

The Nonesuch Press. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. An about Very Good copy of this famed work from an edition consisting of 1,050 numbered copies printed by the Pelican Press on Arnold Unbleached Hand-Made Paper of which this is Copy 238. The volume is bound in quarter brown buckram and paper-covered boards showing marking and general wear. Per litcharts [dot]… Read more about this item

London: The Adelphi, July, 1934. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good/very good. A set of three SCARCE monthly issues of the "Adelphi", a monthly magazine published in London, England, these being the issues for August, 1933, October, 1933, and July, 1934, each bound in the Publisher's original yellow wrappers and each containing writing cited to Eric Blair, the writer who would… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/fine. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing (being a bit askew and showing some edgewear along with a wound and some glossy spots to the front board) in the Publisher's original green cloth with white lettering and decoration, in an about Fine example of the original… Read more about this item

New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $75. NOW $35. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (slight push to the spine tail), in a fine, bright, unfaded dust jacket), being a set of Essays on Modern Poetry by one of the modern eras great Poets. Paz… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. A Near Fine or better copy of the first edition, first printing in an about Very Good dust jacket with some chipping and rubbing to the rear panel. On its front flap, the dust jacket states: "The present work is a product of over five years' work. It… Read more about this item

London, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Very good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $185. NOW $75. A Very Good copy of The Nation and The Athenaeum for Saturday, April 28, 1923 in the Publisher's original stapled wrappers (consisting of large sheets - each center-folded to form four… Read more about this item

Boston: Crocker, S. R., 1880. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Very good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $225. NOW $125. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing of this Literary magazine, being Volume XI, number 16 published in Boston, Massachusetts in the Publisher's original stitched wrappers (showing some… Read more about this item

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1857. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. An attractive copy of the Third Edition of Bacon's Essays with Annotations by Richard Whatley, Bishop of Dublin, bound in full leather with the spine elegantly decorated and lettered in gilt, showing a red title label and some general wear. Each board shows some modest… Read more about this item

New York: The Grolier Club, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $225. NOW $125. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (some age toning to the board extremities as usual, but a nicer copy than we usually see), being one of only 750 copies issued and rather… Read more about this item

Louisville, KY: Rev. James D. Craik, D. D.; Morton & Griswold, Printers, 1860. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good+ copy of the first edition, first printing in the original string-bound wrappers with some spotting and toning, as well as some minor loss to the spine ends and a tiny bit of loss to the lower right corner… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, tight, and unread copy of the first American edition, first printing, in fine dust jacket; a work of nonfiction in which, using Irish vernacular, Donleavy gives his personal view of Ireland. A Fine, tight, and unread copy.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in book form of Cartoons earlier published in "The Wasp" (some rubbing to the spine ends and leading board corners). The Wasp was an illustrated weekly magazine devoted… Read more about this item

London, 1879. First Edition, First Printing. No binding. Very good. A Very Good or better illustration of author Bret Harte published in Vanity Fair magazine for July 4, 1879, including the Vanity Fair profile of Harte, being Vanity Fair's "MEN OF THE DAY. No. 191." with evidence of the two pages having been removed from a larger volume… Read more about this item

Chicago: Jansen McClurg & Company, 1881. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original green cloth (some rubbing to the spine ends and board corners, faint splash mark to the front board seen when held at an angle to the light) with a prior… Read more about this item

San Antonio: Wings Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Fine. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original wrappers. As Bass states in his Afterword: "If the wild beauty of the made and physical natural world is lost or further compromised, then how much longer can the echoes of that beauty… Read more about this item