Literature And Literary from The Country Bookshop

Boston, Mass: Walter H. Baker Co., 1923. Play by Laurence Binyon, English poet, art scholar, and playwrite, in lovely edition. Blue cloth with wrap-around buckram spine, tipped-in title and author on spine and front cover in black letter type. Paper cover, cream with letter-press black border, decoration, and same type as on tipped-in bits on hard cover, with original… Read more about this item

New York: Brentano's, 1904. Lovely ediition of Shaw's essays on the phenomenon of "Ibsenism" bound in dark green with a tipped in title/author paper on spine; this glued-on label is faded, scuffed, & slightly chiped away around edges, but is fully legible and seems to me at least to retain a dainy prettiness.Inside pages with deckled edges are clean… Read more about this item

Avon, CT: The Limited Edition's Club/Cardavon Press, 1975. #1543 out of 2000 Limited Editions, Signed and hand-numbered by Artist in green ink. Book planned by Robert L. Dothard and printed at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. Beautiful green cloth and marbleized paper binding with gilt and black touches in black slip cover. Slip cover shows some wear (slight… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1989. 4 Volumes in As New condition of complete biography of Shaw by Michael Holroyd, each with paper covers in As New condition with different photographs of Shaw and different colored bands along top edges. Inside endpapers also with different photographs. Very attractive set of this exhaustive biography, written over 15 years, and ppublished between… Read more about this item

London: Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1918. The first vampire story in English literature! First edition, first printing of this last of the five issues of this tale, and the third with the Sherwood, Neely, and Jones imprint. Much scarcer than the second issue. Originally thought to be a tale by Lord Byron. This rare copy is in original wrappers… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Mutual Book Company, 1900. . First Edition/Second State (corrected "fivc", p.16, l.5).Grey-green wrappers, VG, save for small chip on corner of back cover and some separation between title page and inside binding. Cover printed in red and black type with black decorative border, very attractive. Inside pages clean and complete. With a biographical sketch of the author by… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1977. SIGNED BY KATE MILLETT. 322pp. Autobiographical novel about the author's relationship with the fiery Sita. Millet is also the author of SEXUAL POLITICS. A beautiful, clean, bright, tight copy - and also signed!. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Kate Millett and Rachel Ackerman. 8vo -… Read more about this item

Urbana, Illinois: Ex Aedibus, 1976. 57 pages; black cloth with gold lettering; slight wear to top edge of striking black and gold dust jacket; review copy with publisher's slip laid in; author's second book of poems. Copy No. 158/1000. Black cloth over board with gilt lettered title on fr cover and spine both in very bright, very good, like… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed, and Frields, 1952. 2nd Edition of a classic work by Hawthorne. An early printing that includes a catalogue (bound into book) dated January 1953. Hobart & Robbins imprint on verso. The catalogue title reads "New Books and New Editions Published By Ticknor, Reed, And Fields." Some foxing on free-end papers but not on catolague. Book plate… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. Gold atop page edge. Bright cover with embossed drawing of French castle, golden sky, and moon. Gilt lettering along spine. Extemeites show light wear. Some minor fraying at top of spine. Overall a fine copy -- price has been cut in half!. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Pennell,… Read more about this item

Royal Street New Orleans: The Pelican Bookshop Press, 1926. Fabulous caricatures and drawings: "A gallery of Contemporary New Orleans"! Images of bohemian life, drawn by Wm. Spratling & Arranged by Wm. Faulkner. Rare First Edition. #145 / 230 copies. Lacking the spine. Otherwise Good condition. Previous owner name on first page and ghost tape. "When Bill Faulkner came to… Read more about this item

Myers, Florida: Harborage, 2005. Very nice association copy. Author inscription on title page reads "To Ted [Enslin], all in one book. Loren". This copy appears like new.. Association Copy from Loren Keller to Ted Enslin. First Edition. Hard Cover. Like New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Florence, MA: Quale Press, 2002. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Association copy. Incribed on title page "For Ted [Enslin]--Love, David 24 March 2003". No visable wear. . Association Copy from David Giannini to Ted Enslin. Paper. Like New/None. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Manchester, England: The University Press of Kentucky, 1922. On the vital relations between Dante's successive works. Name inside front cover in small delicate handwriting. A nice looking, solid, green cloth-bound copy with gilt lettering on spine. . Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Two Essays.

Cambridge MA: The Riverside Press, 1905. Limited to 400 copies. Fading of spine. Name inside front cover. Good Condition. . Large Paper Edition, Limited. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Pennell, Joseph. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Jerome Kern, 1924. This is a limited printing of a Christmas gift - privately printed for the famous song writer and book collector, Jerome Kern. The printing is limited to only 83 copies of which this is number 53. There is an Introduction by Temple Scott, and notes on the Bluebeard Legend by Charles Vale. The book was… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1927. Limited to 850 copies, of which this is no. 257. -- Half (vellum?) (spine and corners) with green cloth boards; gilt seal on front, gilt lettering on spine. "Venerable and Subtle Aesred" bust on frontispiece in b&w, protected by tissue. Uncut pages. -- Spine darkened; minor dampstaining… Read more about this item

Boston, MA, USA: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904. The complete 2 volume set. This is the rare 1904 issue. (Bibliography of American Literature #10655, setting "B." ) A clean, bright and tight, Very Good copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Leicester, England: Edmund Ward, 1946. Hard Cover. Good (see description)/Good (see description). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cover cloth is loose (as if bubbling) around edges, particularly in front, otherwise book in Good to Very Good condition. Dust jacket spine has 1/2" piece missing from top, and a tear that goes from there about an inch into front… Read more about this item

Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1826. Volume I ONLY. Spine board gone. Covers chipped and worn. "50" written inside front cover. Stains inside front cover and on front end paper. Foxing on back end paper. Candidate for rebinding. Keywords: Reformation, Prelatical Episcopacy, Church Government, Ireland, Puritans.. Hard Cover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.