The Art of Worldly Wisdom [first edition, inscribed] by Rexroth, Kenneth - 1949

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Signed and inscribed "with the author's best wishes" by author Phyllis Bottome on fep. All that remains of the dust jacket is a small amount at top back and the back dust jacket fold about the author "a writer by profession and a nomad by inclination." Slight tear in page margin of pages 177, 179 and 181. Back cover has fragment of dust jacket and some residue. Slight bleed of orange end papers to dust jacket fold and blank back endpage. Bumped corners. Three very small holes on front cover at hinge and a small line of glue or white paint at top spine. 240 pages in good overall condition. Bumped corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: Pantheon. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Top corners bumped, jacket grubby and has . several chips, one small water spot to jacket at center of spine.. [1951]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Yellow boards with title stamped in various fonts in black on front. Black cloth spine with title stamped in yellow. A comic classic of modern Irish literature, first published in England in 1939. Though Graham Greene championed the novel (his Pantheon front jacket blurb trumpets "A book in a thousand...in the line of Ulysses and Tristram Shandy." ) , and later book blurbs quote Dylan Thomas' mini-book review: "This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." ) , it was initially not a hot seller. All of the unsold first edition copies were destroyed during World War II bombings. At Swim-Two-Birds appears on Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels list, The Modern Library Reader's List of 100 best novels, and The Guardian's list of… Read More

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine copy, in jacket with minor wear to extremities, and a tiny scrape on front panel. Signed on the half title page..

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1911. Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. 4 plates of which 1 is folding and the others are double-page. Ownership signature "Ric" and short note on the upper wrapper. Wrappers a little toned at the extremities, lightly rubbed, lower corner bumped, contents faintly toned. A very good copy. Offprint, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the upper wrapper, "Schrader, with kind regards of the author". Cell biologist Kristine Bonnevie (1872-1949) was Norway's first female professor and the first woman member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. She studied with chromosome researcher Theodor Boveri in Germany, and was awarded a PhD in 1906 for her study of sex cells. "The problem of chromosome halving in the sex cells was not well understood at the time, and her work challenged the classic work of the Norwegian cytologists Alette and Kristian Emil Schreiner. In response to criticism by the Schreiners about her chromosomal work, Bonnevie went to Columbia… Read More

Harcourt Brace and Company. A lovely clean crisp hardcover copy in good plus condition, age toning and foxing to pastdowns and endpapers, light age toning along foreedge of cloth. Stated first edition. Inscribed by author. DJ, clipped, in good condition with sunning to spine, edgewear including small chips and closed tears, now in protective mylar cover. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1956.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Signed and inscribed "with the author's best wishes" by author Phyllis Bottome on fep. All that remains of the dust jacket is a small amount at top back and the back dust jacket fold about the author "a writer by profession and a nomad by inclination." Slight tear in page margin of pages 177, 179 and 181. Back cover has fragment of dust jacket and some residue. Slight bleed of orange end papers to dust jacket fold and blank back endpage. Bumped corners. Three very small holes on front cover at hinge and a small line of glue or white paint at top spine. 240 pages in good overall condition. Bumped corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: Pantheon. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Top corners bumped, jacket grubby and has . several chips, one small water spot to jacket at center of spine.. [1951]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Yellow boards with title stamped in various fonts in black on front. Black cloth spine with title stamped in yellow. A comic classic of modern Irish literature, first published in England in 1939. Though Graham Greene championed the novel (his Pantheon front jacket blurb trumpets "A book in a thousand...in the line of Ulysses and Tristram Shandy." ) , and later book blurbs quote Dylan Thomas' mini-book review: "This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." ) , it was initially not a hot seller. All of the unsold first edition copies were destroyed during World War II bombings. At Swim-Two-Birds appears on Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels list, The Modern Library Reader's List of 100 best novels, and The Guardian's list of… Read More

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine copy, in jacket with minor wear to extremities, and a tiny scrape on front panel. Signed on the half title page..

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1911. Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. 4 plates of which 1 is folding and the others are double-page. Ownership signature "Ric" and short note on the upper wrapper. Wrappers a little toned at the extremities, lightly rubbed, lower corner bumped, contents faintly toned. A very good copy. Offprint, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the upper wrapper, "Schrader, with kind regards of the author". Cell biologist Kristine Bonnevie (1872-1949) was Norway's first female professor and the first woman member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. She studied with chromosome researcher Theodor Boveri in Germany, and was awarded a PhD in 1906 for her study of sex cells. "The problem of chromosome halving in the sex cells was not well understood at the time, and her work challenged the classic work of the Norwegian cytologists Alette and Kristian Emil Schreiner. In response to criticism by the Schreiners about her chromosomal work, Bonnevie went to Columbia… Read More

Harcourt Brace and Company. A lovely clean crisp hardcover copy in good plus condition, age toning and foxing to pastdowns and endpapers, light age toning along foreedge of cloth. Stated first edition. Inscribed by author. DJ, clipped, in good condition with sunning to spine, edgewear including small chips and closed tears, now in protective mylar cover. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1956.