Search Results: Literature from Trevian Books

Prag: Gesellschaft Deutscher Buecerfreunde in Boehmen, 1937 First edition, #34/300. 4to; 59 pp.; illustrated with two facsimiles of Stifter's manuscripts. Light wear to top edge of spine; else a very good copy or better in original boards with printed label to front cover, lacking any wrapper or slipcase. A selection of early poems from 1823 to 1831..

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1970), 1970. First American edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket..

Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 2007 With a Preface by John Summerson, edited by C.J.P. Beatty. Hardy, apprenticed as an architect in 1856. His working notebook is reproduced here, with extensive notes on his career and drawings by Beatty. Revised ed. [orig. 1966]; 21 cm; pp. 55 (text), 190 (notebook); illustrated. A very good copy or better in wrappers.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good.

Paris: Gallimard, 2013 The Princesse was a great friend and devoted correspondent of Marcel Proust. Text in French. Later printing. Originally published in 1928. 19 cm; 142 pp. Soft crease to front cover; else a good copy or better in wrappers..

New York: Macmillan, 1927 First American edition thus. 8vo; 477 pp.; illustrated. A good copy in original green cloth with gilt backstrip..

New York: Harper & Bros., 1899 First edition. 8vo; 457 pp. Tape reparied tear to title page; else a good copy in original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. BAL 10636.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955, 1955. First American edition. Light soiling to cover edges, else a good copy or better in a soiled, chipped and torn dust jacket..

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954), 1954. First edition. A very good copy in a good dust jacket. Drawings by Gluyas Williams..

London: The Folio Society, 1985, 1985. First edition thus. A fine copy in original blue gilt-stamped, cloth-backed pictorial boards. A Folio Society reprint of Boswell's journal which was first published in 1950..

Buenos Aires: Manzi Publicidad, (1996), 1996. First edition, # 967/3000. 4to; 109 pp.; illustrated from color photographs. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. A promotional piece for the ITT Sheraton Park Tower Hotel, documenting the elegance and luxury available to all in Buenos Aires. Accompanied by brief selections from Borges, Cortazar, others..

New York: Randon House, (1982), 1982. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket..

New York: Random House, (1997), 1997. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author..

London: Werner Laurie, (1956), 1956. First edition. 8vo; 219 pp.; map endpapers and thirteen illustrations from photographs and drawings; bibliography. A good copy or better in original grey cloth, lacking the dust jacket. A biography of the legendary writer, aesthete and collector focusing on his residences. With an introduction by Nikolaus Pevsner..

New York: Alfred A. Knopt, 1974, 1974. First edition. Spotting to foredges; slightly cocked; else a very good copy in a very good dust jacket..

Lausanne: Editions Jean Marguerat, (1945), 1945. First edition. 12mo; 100 pp.; eighty-four illustrations from photographs. A very good copy in original beige cloth, in a chipped dust jacket. In French. Colette supplies five short essays on cats and presumably the witty captions for the photographs. A very nice copy of this early example of the Cat Book, a publishing phenomenon which heralds the looming collapse of western civilization..

London: The Studio Limited, 1933, 1933. First edition. 4to; 128 pp.; illustrated, some in color. Two nicks to bottom edges fo covers; else a very ood copy in original green cloth, lacking the dust jacket. A classic survey of antiquarian childrens' books, with an emphasis on illustrations. Useful reference with nice illustrations..

London: Heinemann, 1912, 1912. First edition. 8vo; pp. vii, 197. Slight darkening to spine; else a very6 good copy in original gilt-stamped blue cloth. A collection of Beerbohm's parodies of contemporary writers. (Gallatin 10).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1981), 1981. First edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Robert Penn Warren..

London: Granta, 2001 A collection of short stories and novellas translated by Michael Hofmann. First edition thus. 22 cm; 291 pp. Owner's name; else a very good copy or better in a fine dust jacket.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine.

London: Hamis Hamilton, (1960), 1960. First English edition. 8vo; pp. xi, 260; nineteen illustrations from drawings. Cancellation stamp, else a very good copy or better in original green cloth in a very good dust jacket with minor edgewear. An informal portrait of the writer and cartoonist Sir Max Beerbohm by the American playwright..