Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1893, 8vo.  210 x 140 mm., [8 ¼  x 5 ½  inches].  vi, 380 pp.  Illustrated with 20 half-tone plates.  Original decorated white cloth; red cloth dust jacket with title gilt on spine.  A near fine copy in a dust jacket with some minor wear..... More

New York, New York Review of Books, 2014. Small 8vo.  202 x 125 mm., [8 x 5 inches].  111 pp., plus 7 pp. ads.  Pictorial wrappers. First edition of this translation.  "Alberto Moravia's classic, startling portrait of innocence lost was written in 1942 but rejected by Fascist censors and not..... More

Genoa: Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova, 2015, 2016. 8vo.  240 x 165 mm., [9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches].  79 pp.; 175 pp. Both catalogues illustrated throughout with color images.  Pictorial wrappers.  Very good copies.Part I is a history of the library at the University of Genoa with descriptions of its..... More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, A Donald Hutter Book, 1988. 8vo.  230 x 150 mm., [9 x 6 inches].  xii, 388 pp.  Illustrated throughout with maps, 74 photographs, and half tone illustrations.  Publisher's white boards, brown cloth spine, dust jacket.  Very good copy. First edition.  Hofmann was the NY..... More

Boston: Hale, Suchman & Flint, ca. 1950. 8vo.  205 x 160 mm., [8 x 6 1/2 inches].  143 pp.  Illustrated throughout with half tone illustrations.  Publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket; the cloth has some minor soiling at the top edge of the books and some discoloration along the bottom edge..... More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1937. 8vo.  215 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches].  569 pp.  Publisher's light blue linen cloth, dust jacket.  A few scratches to front panel and a s small area of erosion at the crown of spine, otherwise Near Fine Copy.A closely observed study of..... More

Boston: Houghton, Miffllin and Company, at the Riverside Press, 1911. 8vo. 210 x 145 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches]. xxiv, 603 pp. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and a folding map, and 58 photo reproductions printed on glossy paper in the text. Publisher’s decorated green cloth and spine;..... More

New York: Scribner, 2013. 8vo. 230 x 155 mm., [9 x 6 inches].  [4], 383, [5] pp.   Publisher's red boards, white linen spine, dust jacket.  Very good copy. First edition of Rachel Kushner’s second novel, set in New York City and Italy, which explores "the mystique of the feminine, the..... More

With:  The Unique and Splendid Effects of Fonthill Abbey.  Catalogue of the Extensive Assemblage of Costly and Interesting Property, which Adorns this Magnificent Structure: Embracing part of the Furniture, the Bijouterie, Composed of Precious Gems . . . With: The Pictures and Miniatures at Fonthill Abbey.  Catalogue of the Well-selected..... More

N. p., (J. T. Moss). 1909. Large 8vo.  235 x 175 mm., [9 1/4 x 7 inches].  400 pp.   Illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken especially for this volume.  Original cloth, with medallion of the Red Cross in center of the upper board and the title in gilt surrounding the..... More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Large 8vo.  240 x 170 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches].  xxix, [1], 329 pp.  Illustrated with one hundred illustrations throughout the text.  Bound in original red paper boards, white linen cloth spine, red cloth wrapper; tail of spine with some minor transfer..... More

Santa Rosa (CA), Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 8vo.  230 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches].  266 pp., plus a full-page portrait of Fante and a one page biography.  Original printed wrappers.  Very good copy.First Black Sparrow edition, originally printed in 1938.  Fante's first novel, an autobiographical story of..... More

(New York): Europa Editions:, 2020. 8vo.  225 x 150 mm., [9 x 6 inches].  322 pp.  Original white cloth boards, dustjacket.  Very good copy in fine dust jacket.First American Edition.  Follow up to the Neapolitan Quartet that rocked the literary world with it insights into the lives of young girls..... More