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[New York]: New Direction Books, 1948. 8vo. 210 x 150 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. vi, 397 pp. Publisher's tan linen cloth, title on spine in red, and outline image of a leaf in red on upper board, dust jacket; scuff to lower board, dust jacket with chips..... More
New York: Julian Messner, 1960. 8vo. 210 x 135 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [viii], 246 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Jacket with rubbing at the edges, head and tail of spine with minor tears, a bit fading to the color of the jacket, otherwise very good copy.First..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 8vo. 240 x 140 mm., [9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches]. [viii], 291, [23] pp. Publisher's brown boards, red spine, dust jacket. Near fine copy. Well researched and documented story of the love affair of Di Robilant's ancestor Andrea Memmo, one of the last..... 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: Random House, 2003. 8vo. 230 x 155 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 inches]. [xii], 278 [iv] pp. Publisher's black boards, gilt title on spine, dust jacket. Near fine copy.First edition. Interesting historical novel which integrates vast information on the system of aqueducts which were vital to the life..... More
New York: Walker & Company, 2000. 8vo. 215 x 150 mm., [8 1/2 x 6 inches]. [xii], 194 pp. Illustrated with 19 black and white images in the text. Original brown boards, dust jacket; near fine copy. First American edition. "Ross King has brought a novelist's eye and ear to..... 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
New York: Grove Press, ]2000]. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 inches]. xvi, 427 pp.. Illustrated with 8 color plates. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. Very good copy. First American edition. My aunt Iris, who at the age of 93 read and reviewed this work, wrote the following: ..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1998. 8vo. 210 x 145 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [viii], 272, [ii] pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket; rear of jacket with a cut from a blade about two inches in length. First edition, later printing. We received and reviewed historical novel by..... 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
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1957. 8vo. 205 x 135 mm., [8 x 5 1/4 inches]. 229 pp., Publisher's pictorial paper boards with black cloth spine; edges bumped and slightly chipped; wanting dust jacket. First American edition. Reading copy of Moravia's penetrating short stories, related in the first..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. 8vo. 205 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [vi], 319 pp. Original cloth, dust jacket; cloth slightly faded and dust jacket with chips at top edge and spine with pieces missing. Book plate of Douglas Sager, Jr. A good copy..... More
New York: Simone & Schuster, 2016. Original cloth backed boards, dust jacket. 8vo. 308 pp. Endpapers illustrated with a map of Venitian Lagoon. First edition, fine in near dust jacket.By the author of Gorky Park. The novel is set in Venice during the WWII and tells the story of the..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. 8vo. 195 x 130 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches]. [6], 180, [4] pp. Publisher's pictorial boards, dust jacket. Jacket a touch dust-soiled else about Fine. First American Edition, originally published in Milan by Aldo Grazanti in 1955. Coming of age story of..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. 8vo. 190 x 130 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches]. [8], 3450, plus 3 pp. ads. Original red publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Jacket extremities quite rubbed and worn with several shortish tears, including two measuring approximately 1 inch to front jacket..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 1999. 8vo. 205 x 135 mm., [8 x 5 1/2 inches]. [14], 507, [1]1 pp. Illustrated with two maps and full-page illustrations in the text. Publisher's grey cloth, dust jacket. Near fine copy. Set during the Napoleonic wars, The Charterhouse of Parma is set in..... 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
