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New York: Phaedra, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING Book is in mint condition, jacket would be mint if not for very light toning to cover and small dark rub to bottom of spine. Jacket is priced ($4.50) and very fine +. Lolita's author Vladimir Nabokov novel The Eye changes roles of the protagonist through diabolical distorting mirrors; at eh end he is the center of two images, the identity of another man. Nabokov has been compared to james Joye, to Proust, and to Graham Greene. He is all of that and he says of himself: my books are not only blessed by a total lack of social significance, but are also myth proof. Myth proof maybe, but lack of social significance, never. This is a rare and wonderful collectible in perfect conditon. Protected in Mylar.

New York: Viking, 1990. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Naipaul is among one of the most important travel writers and this is his most important travel books to date (1990). Book is near mint with a remainder mark on bottom edge.Jacket5 is unclipped ($24.95) and near mint.

About this Item: Viking, New York, 1991. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition/First printing book in very good condition. Book is slightly tilted or it would be as new. Priced jacket (24.95) is very fine. This is an excellent reading copy. India : A Million Mutinies Now is a rich, as vivid, and as sympathetic as anything Naipaul has written. This book was written a quarter century after the author first visited his ancestral home for the first time in 1962. As Naipaul travels East, West, north and South, his carefully structured journey begin to read like a novel. Each character has his story, and each story reveals another facet of the totality which is India. This is a fine read for those who like to travel and taste what the world offers.

Item Description: knopf-Borzoi Books, New York, New York, 1962. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine book with very readable faded spine in repaired VG Jacket with small chips at extremities. $4.50 price not clipped. A novel of modern Rome, of the refugee ships, and the hill fortresses of israel.In this novel with its wide canvas, its swift and dramatic action, Robert Nathan tells the story of a troubled young newspaperman's quest for love and courage. It is a story of packed refugee ships fleeing the horror of post war Europe, to the shores of embattled israel. It is a love story between Joseph, a wide eyed young man, used to the joy of Rome and the beautiful widow of a murdered Jew on the refugee ship Teti. In Robert Nathan's life affirming story, Joseph begins to understand what it means to be a Jew. A fine collectible of one of the authors later novels.

The McBride Company, New York, 1926. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed, "For. This long ago book, Robert nathan" Book in near fine condition with slightly bumped spine bottom and lightening to top edge. jacked it VG - with very bright cover both front and verso, spine is faded to a point where the lettering is hard to read, though readable. jacket is unclipped($2.00). There are numerous good repairs to verso. Rare First Edition, in even rarer DJ. Here is the story of an old fiddler and his dancing dog. That the fiddler is no common fellow, that his dog is even less ordinary goes to readers familiar with the work of Robert Nathan without saying. the beauty of the book is indisputable, it is a compound of beauty, tenderness ,and fantasy, leavened with a dash of high comedy that most difficult to achieve of all literary ingredients. A rare and important collectible. Signed by Author(

New York, New York: knopf-Borzoi Books, 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two plays by Robert Nathan. Book with slightly faded spine near fine condition with bump to bottom of spine and slight fading to extremities. Bookplate of Ben R. Donaldson and inscription to collector Pat Magarick. Cover is price clipped with wear at bottom of spine and mild wear to bottom front.

knopf-Borzoi Books, New York, New York, 1940. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A book of sonnets and poems. Unopened, with slight fading to spine.This very fine book has slight browning to verso of paste down and fep. Jacket has minor wear to top of spine and front of cover. Book is finely bound in blue cloth over boards with fine gilt lettering and a beautiful gilt blind stamp on the front cover. The clipped jacket is wrapped in mylar and has a rare information band three and one half inches wide and circling the entire book, stating " This volume includes all the best of Mr. nathan's recent verse (1940) the beautiful sonnet sequences A WINTER TIDE AND MEADOW INTERVAL as will as many new poems that speak directly of the problems of today, among them TO THE GERMANS ON THE JEWISH EXILE, FEAR NOT THE NIGHT and THE ROOT AND THE FLOWER. This very fine collectible is protected in mylar.

Delacorte Press, New York, New York, 1975. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book in Unopened and unread condition. Priced ($6.95) jacket VF with minimal wear to spine ends and bottom extremities. A near perfect book.Robert Nathan Has created a fantasy of wonder and delight, an escape into an enchanting world of love and magical occurrences. He tells the story of Sophia and Buckthorne, emissaries from Heaven and Hell, respectively, who are sent to earth to investigate the increase in violence, crime and bad will among men. The two spirit worlds have decided that something must be done about man's inhumanity to man and has directed their two ambassadors to find a cure and remedy matters post haste. This is a very uncommon love story and worth a good read. Very collectible.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1929. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very special Limited Edition of1500 copies, this being 1142. Book fine in beautiful patterned boards and a fine paper label. 1/4 binding issued without spine label .many parts of this small tome are totally unopened. Very Scarce, and for the avid Nathan collector, a fine collectible. That Robert Nathan is in the habit of writing poetry disguised as prose has been known for quite some time (1929). That Robert Nathan is also a poet in verse is a matter of more limited knowledge. Violence and self glory are wholly absent from Mr. Nathans even lines.There is no belligerence or blatancy in this volume. There is, on the other hand, a little sadness, a little shrugging whimsicality, and much wisdom. Forward by Louis Utermeyer.

New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1925. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. book unread, perfect, jacket fine, minor bump on top of spine and minor wear on corners. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book in VG condition, with bumped spine and modest tanning to end papers and paste downs as expected. Fine clear inscription to this presentation copy by author. Interior unmarked except for pencil notations on front paste down by a former bookseller. Jacket is VG bright price clipped and shows some wear to extremities, in tattered original glassine tissue. A very nice Nathan collectible

New York, New York: knopf, 1944. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book near fine with slightly tanned internal pages. Extremities slightly faded. Jacket has wear to spine ends and corners, else quite a good jacket that has been price clipped.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1935. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is in fine condition, sharp, square and with wonderful stain on top of text block. Fore edge and bottom evenly and lightly tanned, jacket is VG with clipped price, and wear to extremities. Spine as in most copies is slightly faded, but very readable. inscribed " this story that didn't happen. yet. by author to a friend. Book is unopened. This book is a realistic fantasy on a grand scale, a story of the Jews driven out of the western world to subsist as best they can in the Gobi desert. The narrative itself concerns their long march across Europe and Asia, during which time Jews of a dozen nations, of every character and class, the strong and the weak, the proud and the humble, the learned and the ignorant, the rebellious and the resigned are brought close together by a common fate. 70 years later Michael Chabon, a very fine contemporary author, with a similar premise, put… Read More

Item Description: Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1938. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The very fine first edition is signed by the author on the first free end paper for P. M. with warm wishes Robert Nathan. Priced ($2.00) dust jacket is near fine with several finely closed tears on the folds and spine ends. Book still retains its original tissue wrap. Tipped in is a New York review of the book dated 18/9/38. Here. with the wit and humor that are present in all his tales and with the iron showing more than ever beneath the silk of his writing the author deals with the emotions and conflicts of the age. Many readers will sa that Winter in April, for all his unique gifts was never more richly displayed than in this beautiful love story. This copy of Winter in April is a rare and very fine collectible. Signed by Author

Item Description: knopf-Borzoi Books, New York, New York, 1964. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Nice book and another King Arthur tale. This is not an accurate history, as far as I know. "Still, there was a Celtic Prince, or king, named Arthur; and battles at BHadon Hill and Salisbury Plain. And there were Saxons; and some people believed in wyverns and sorcerers and still do; and some people believe in angles" Corners on front of book bumped, bottom corner on front of book slightly discolored.Other than that the book is extremely clean, square and probably unread. Jacket spine is nicely repaired on top and bottom and the top front corner has a tiny chip. Spine and folds are discolored with age. All in all a very nice collectible. Signed by author on front jacket flap which has been price clipped. Signed by Author(

House of Books LTD, New York, New York, 1940. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Signed and numbered limited edition #26 of 250. Book in unopened condition, very slight fading to spine. Original tissue jacket VG a few + with a few chips and tears. The Concert, being two chapters from an early and unpublished manuscript composed in 1918, and entitled The Letter of Fra Rombadille, which purports to be the narrative of a monk of the eighteenth century, cast away upon an island off the coast of Africa: in which the narrator describes his meeting with Octave Moll, the virtuoso upon the ocarina, and also describes a concert given by El Ne, the great master upon the drum. This is a rare and wonderful early Robert Nathan collectible. Signed by Author

New York, New York: knopf-Borzoi Books, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine book with one spot on spine and half inch scratch on back. No jacket

New York: knopf-Borzoi Books, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Author. A volume of light verse, small, sweet and sour, with illustrations by the author. Some suffer- with a sense of fright From going Left with all their might When where they mean to go is Right" or what ever. Book in very fine condition with a very good jacket which has two closed tears on top of front and minor chipping at top of spine and bottom of rear fold. A very desirable collectible.

knopf-Borzoi Books, New York, New York, 1965. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Flawless book in perfect unread condition in a near perfect jacket. $3.95 price on flap is circled in ink and marker? Small neatly repaired half inch tear on verso. The Mallot Diaries is, perhaps, a love story of a sort in the customary Nathan vein and at the same time a serio-comic essay in archeology anthropology some where between Gulliver's Travels and his own The Weans and the eternal conflict between generations, between the young and the old. The story is about a young girl Linda who stole into a museum with friends. Need I say more. A fine Nathan collectible.

Capra press/ S.F. Book Co., San Francisco, 1973. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine book, unopened with slight fading to binding and top of verso, where book sat next to a smaller book. No Jacket.#36 of 250 hardcovers. There were also 2500 soft cover copies. There are two very insightful sections at the beginning of this small insightful book. One is by the author about writing as a form of communicating man's dignity, intelligence and self worth or communicating scorn that belittles man is a form of simple malice. Peter S. Beagle writes in his forward and tribute to the author, " that it was a fantasy of mine in High School and College that Robert Nathan would write a forward for one of my books. This is even better". A wonderful limited edition Nathan collectible in near mint condition. Signed by Author(

knopf-Borzoi Books, New York, New York, 1966. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Romeo and Juliet survive the ordeal in Verona and Robert Nathan's play about the happy couple, begins 10 years later. The book is in very fine condition and the jacket which is not price clipped ($3.95) is in VF condition. Imagine, if you will, that Shakespeare's young lovers of Verona survived their ordeal in the tomb and awake the next morning to the gray dawn. The famous couple have been living in exile and poverty, banished from their native Verona by an angry prince and disgruntled parents, The first bloom of love has passed. passion hs given way to boredom, romance to domesticity. The transformation of Romeo and Juliet into Mr, and Mrs Montague proving a happy vehicle in which to discuss a matter close to the hear: the strange peregrinations of love. A fine collectible of one of Robert nathans most imaginative plays.