Literature from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Kyiv: Drukar, 1920 Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly frayed at extremities and spine, with a small part of the front wrapper restored at the head near the spine, paper somewhat toned inside as usual). "Sun Clarinets", in Ukrainian. This is the second enlarged edition of the first collection of poetry by Pavlo Tychyna (1891-1967), one of the finest Ukrainian poets and… Read more about this item

St. Petersburg: Tipografiya Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk, 1888 4to (31.5 cm), [2], 76 pp, 2 plates. Uncut in original printed wrappers (wrapper somewhat sunned, soiled and frayed at extremities, paper slightly toned inside, tear to the second plate). In Russian. A study and the text of the Russian translation of Czech medieval romance about the king Brunswick and his queen Neomenia.… Read more about this item

London: Readers Union / Faber and Faber, 1946 12mo (19 cm), 264 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj worn, parts of paper missing, some foxing to endpapers and facing leaves, edges slightly dusted and stained). George Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), a British journalist, writer and publisher, was widely recognized as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. "This anthology… Read more about this item

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970 4to (26 cm), XI, [1], 240 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities, paper somewhat toned). "With the advent of serialized monthly parts the illustrators suddenly assumed a dramatic role in the novelist's life. Author and artist combined their talents with extraordinary effect, and our memory of many of these novels is… Read more about this item

The Macmillan Press, 1978 8vo (22 cm), XI, [1], 264 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear, dj slightly frayed at the head of the spine). "The Victorians were fascinated by history. In the fifty years following Sir Walter Scott's death, historical fiction had a vogue and a prestige throughout Europe and America. This book appraises works by eleven… Read more about this item

University of Utah Press, 1993 8vo (22 cm), [6], 64 pp. Combined green cloth boards with imitation of leather spine (minor shelf-wear). Two lectures, on reading and writing.

London: William Pickering, 1834 4 volumes 8vo (22 cm), XII, 530 pp; [2], PP. 531-1054; [2], PP. 1055-1528; [2], PP. 1529-2002. Cont. calf, gilt supralibros "Gang forward" on all front and back boards, gilt-lettered spines, all edges gilt, silk bookmarks (spines expertly rebacked, edges rubbed, endpapers toned, few spots to guard leaves). "First edition of what is still the best… Read more about this item

Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1971 4to (28.5 cm), 92 pp. Publisher's boards and slip-case (minor shelf-wear). Limited to 1950 copies, this no. 416. The stories translated in this volume have been chosen from an early fifteenth century manuscript of Le Fatiche d'Ercole, a fanciful account of the Labors of Hercules by Pietro Andrea di Bassi. The handsome illuminated manuscript belongs… Read more about this item

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010 8vo (24 cm), XI, 825 pp. Cloth-backed boards and dust jacket. From the blurb: "When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wrote with a warmth and clarity that belied his fluency in… Read more about this item

London: Maggs Bros Ltd, 1998 8vo (21.5 cm), unpaginated. Printed wrappers (name written top of front wrapper). 489 entries.

Washington: Library of Congress, 1946 12mo (19.5 cm), XXII, [144] pp. Publisher's combined cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. Second printing. A facsimile of a poem by Burgundian courtier Olivier de la Marche (1425-1502). The first edition was printed by Antoine Vérard in Paris. An introduction by Elizabeth Mongan.

Princeton University Press, 2007 8vo (24 cm), X, 281 pp. Publisher's cloth-backed boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under… Read more about this item

Verona: Editiones Dominicae, 1965 4to (26,5 cm), 29, [3] pp, 2 etchings by Walter Piacesi. Publisher's vellum backed boards over printed paper, in slip-case. Limited to 150 copies, this is no. 138. "Some pleasant epistles" by Felice Feliciano (1433-1479), a fascinating yet often overlooked Renaissance figure: a calligrapher, antiquarian (with expertise in Roman antiquities and a collector of inscriptions), author… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1959 16mo (17 cm), [4], 63 pp. Printed wrappers (pencil note on the front wrapper). The essay was published in 1765 as a preface to a proposed edition of the plays of William Shakespeare, which Johnson intended to edit himself. In the preface, Johnson discusses Shakespeare's literary merits and contributions to English drama, as well as his… Read more about this item

Paris: Maison Quantin, 1888 4to (26.5 cm), [4], VIII, 584 pp. Red chagrin with raised bands, a mute spine, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers, with original wrappers bound in. A fine copy of a bibliography covering the first editions of French writers from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Illustrated with nearly 300 facsimiles.

Edinburgh: The National Library of Scotland, 1971 4to (29.5 cm), 60, [2] pp. Printed wrappers. Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held at the Parliament House, Edinburgh 15 August - 11 September, 1971.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1946 12mo (19 cm), 31 pp. Printed wrappers and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities and dusted).

Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop, 1982 4to (28 cm), XX, 120, [4] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly sunned, stained and frayed at extremities). "The purpose of this bibliographical catalogue is to provide book collectors, dealers, and librarians with descriptions of Dickens's novels and "Sketches by Boz" in their original cloth bindings. I compiled the descriptions from an… Read more about this item

London: Grafton & Co, 1939 8vo (25 cm), XI, 367 pp. Publisher's two-tone cloth, gilt-lettered spine (biding slightly rubbed at extremities, minor browning of paper inside).

Faber and Faber, 2001 8vo (24 cm), XVI, 377 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear and toning of paper). Larkin's "Required Writing", his selection from his miscellaneous prose 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. It was the last book to be published by him during his lifetime and won the W. H. Smith… Read more about this item