Search Results: Literature from Lippincott Books

Norfolk, CT,: New Directions, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/VG. The title story is the opening fragment of an unfinished novel. This and seven other stories appear here in book form for the first time. Rolph B27. The American edition precedes the first English edition. Near Fine in VG dust jacket.

Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia,, 1985. Stated First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine. xxi, 359, [3] pp. Publication of the Bibliographic Society of Virginia. Includes indices of authors, Jane Austen titles and subjects. Previous owner's name label on front pastedown.

New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine. x, 744 pp, with indices. Green cloth, spine title gilt. "Each bibliography would be as comprehensive as possible, fully annotated, cross-referenced, and thoroughly indexed...complete surveys of current knowledge and critical opinion presented in such a way that the reader could retrieve that information rapidly and easily.

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1963. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good+. xxiii, 814, [2] pp. Reprinted from corrected sheets of the 1941 Edition. Illustrations include 11 black & white plates, and additional facsimile title pages. The complete Masques of Jonson printed here for the first time in a scholarly text. Green cloth with gilt device on front and gilt spine titles. Pencil marginalia of previous owner, else near fine.

Yellow Springs, Ohio: Antioch Press, 1941. Second Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 198 pp. Green cloth, titles in red and black on white labels on front board and spine. Clean & tight, very attractive. Dustjacket, with price intact, has edgewear and soiling.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 318 pp. Author's first novel. In original dust jacket with design by Cleon, short for her full name: Cleonike Damianakes, known for her jacket art of Hemingway and Fitzgerald titles and other novels of the period. Spine slants slightly to right, bottom of spine bumped. Dust jacket yellowed, with stained areas on back panel spine, minor chips at top and bottom of spine. Presents well; photographs supplied on request.

London: Wm Collins, Sons & Co, 1970. First English Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 384 pp. Originally published in Italy under the title of L'Autobiografia de Giuliano Sansevero. Very slight spine slant keeps this volume from being Fine. Dustjacket has a touch of wear at spine edges and corners.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First English Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 443,[1] pp. In second issue dustjacket, with kudos from Nelson Algren, James Jones, Irwin Shaw, Kenneth Tynan and the New York Times on back panel. Red cloth, spine title gilt. Green dye on top edge faded near spine, and faint spot on bottom edge. Dustjacket is priced 21s.net on front flap, with wear on corners, and light soiling on back panel.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good to Very Good. Volumes 1- 3 with corrections from the 1963 edition. Volumes 4 - 5 are first editions. This is the first comprehensive edition of Swift's correspondence since the Ball edition of 1910-1914, adding a number of letters not found in Ball and reproducing the spelling and punctuation of the original letters where available. Volume I: 1690-1713; Volume II: 1714-1723; Volume III: 1724-1731; Volume IV: 1732-1736 ; Volume V: 1737-1745. With plates. Appendices and indices for the complete works in Volume V. All volumes Very Good or better. The dust jacket of volume I has a piece out of 1/3 of spine, the dust jackets of Vol. II-V are VG or near VG. Oversize/multiple books: all orders will require additional postage - at cost. International customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the books will ship to overseas destinations at cost.

Los Angeles: University of California, 1952. Facsimile of the 1763 Edition . Paper Wrappers. Near Fine/None Issued. Augustan Reprint Society: Publication # 35: James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. viii, 24, iv pp., with list of Augustan Reprint Society publications at back. Facsimile of the 1763 edition. Includes an introduction and notes by Boswell scholar Frederick Pottle. Tan paper wrappers.

Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. xvi, 350 pp. Index. Brown cloth, titles and decorations gilt on front cover and spine. Corners and spine edges bumped, thumb soiling. Dustjacket has sunned spine, edge wear. Text is in GERMAN.

Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale / Cengage Learning, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. xi, 557 pp. Biographical sketches of 80 writers who began writing after 1945, or whose most significant work was done after that date. Each entry has a complete (through 1978) bibliography. Corners bumped, and spine slightly slanted.

Munchen: Winkler, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 1006 pp. Green cloth, title gilt. In dustjacket and slipcase. A few corners have been folded over; dustjacket has a touch of wear at top edge of spine; slipcase shows very little wear. Text is in GERMAN.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited,, 1923. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Spine faded, head of spine bumped else VG, with attractive period book-plate on front paste-down. In creased and soiled dust jacket; the jacket has been internally repaired in a few places with linen tape.

Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971. Limited/Numbered . Decorative Hardback Cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Dore, Gustav. No. 49 of 200 copies handbound by Earle Gray in Los Angeles and signed by Durrell. The text is set upon color illustrations of Gustave Dore. Near Fine

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 362 pp. Green cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges lightly sunned on both covers and dustjacket. Dustjacket is NOT price-clipped. REVIEW copy with publisher's letter laid in.

n.p.: Privately Printed, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good+. [ vi], 26, [4] pp. Excerpt from Mark Twain A Biography, by Albert Bigelow Paine. Paine became Twain's literary executor, and lived with Twain in Redding, Connecticut. In 1906, Twain began dictating his autobiography to him; during the process,Twain acknowledged authorship of this fragment which he titled 'Conversation as it was at the Social Fireside in the time of the Tudors.' It was considered obscene and thus unpublishable, but was printed in several private editions. Dark blue cloth, title gilt. Light foxing to endpapers, a touch of wear at corners.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG/Good. 298 pp. Red cloth, title stamped in black on spine. Foxing to edges, front hinge cracked. Dustjacket has chips, long closed tear on back panel. Author's first book. "This is a stinging satire on the literary life, a mosaic of mockery and wit, a first novel of striking talent by an author of real promise... Readers with a taste for refined satire will rejoice in Flaw Dexter.

New York: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. 299, [1] pp. Navy blue cloth, decoration on spine and front panel stamped in gold, title gilt. Second edition of author's second book, a compilation of Klondike stories which had previously appeared in McClure's, Ainslee's, the Overland Monthly, the Wave, the National and the San Francisco Examiner. Gilt is crisp and unworn. Spine slant, corners bumped , GVG.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. xii, 562 pp. Brown cloth, titles gilt on black, blue top edges. One corner bumped, very slightly musty. Price-intact dustjacket has a little wear at corners. Charles Bell, writer, poet, and scholar, grew up in Greenville, Mississippi, with Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. His first novel, The Married Land, Houghton Mifflin, 1962, was praised by William Carlos Williams. His works include three volumes of poetry, two novels, and an audio-visual opus, "Symbolic History". VG+ in VG dust jacket.