Literature from First Landing Books & Art

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 2004. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Very Good Soft Cover. Thick And Heavy Book. Among The Best Writers This Company Has Published Is Ireland's Benedict Kiely. His First Book To Be Released In This Country, The State Of Ireland, Received A Front Page New York Times Book Review Notice In Which Guy Davenport… Read more about this item

New York: Russell & Russell, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Study in the Literary Relationships of Sir Walter Ralegh. 1965 reissued of the 1936 edition. SCARCE. 189pp plus a page of an Index. Black hardcover with gilt title on spine. no jacket. There is a Christmas gift inscription on the first… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1977. Book. Illus. by Borja, Robert & Corinne. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black leather with extra gilt. Raised bands with gilt title on spine. 382pp, A limited first edition by the Franklin Library..

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. By James Branch Cabell. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With Exhibits, including the Court's Opinion, and the Brief for the Defendants on Motion to Direct an acquittal. Limited edition # 143 of 1080 copies. This copy has been inscribed to Alvin Hutzler and Signed by Jame… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. previous owners name on front free end paper, a book written purely for amusement, a novel in a new manor, discussing Finnley Wrens notions and opinions, together with a haphazard history of his career and amours in these moody years ,… Read more about this item

London: R. Wilks, Printer. 89, Chancery-lane, 1808. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. We are offering a Gallic classic translated into English by William Henry Ireland in London in 1808. And 90 years later was cased and bound in half-leather and marbled boards wit extra gilt on spine with six compartments and a gilt… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth hardover with the title stamped in Gilt on front cover. title in gilt letters faded on spine. solid copy. There are a few sections toned. 5 6 full page illustrations. This is an early edition. No dust jacket. 205pp… Read more about this item

United States: Janelle Press Ltd., 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed & Inscribed By Author. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. signed & inscribed by author; IN THE ORIGINAL JACKET which is in NEAR FINE condition; a novel.

Philadelphia: CSM Press, 2013. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. interior is prestine; a few letters of title smudged; 1st edition; Limited edition of100 copies. (copy 100) Oscar Wilde On Dress Including The Philosophy Of Dress by Oscar Wilde; "In print for tthe First Time in 128 Years In Book Form for the First… Read more about this item

United States of America: Univ of Virginia Press, 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 170 pages plus notes and index. A structural approach to the works of Shakespeare. The author's analysis of individual plays is concerned mostly with how a group of exterior systems (author's typology of sexual relationships) are recognized and incorporated… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine hardcover in a like dustjacket. 299pp including notes and index. This book takes the biographical work done on Bishop and Lowell to a new, much deeper level. With a masterly use of sourcesno one had had access to, genuine… Read more about this item

Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 342pp including index. Alexander Pope (Writers and their background. Beautifully bound with silver gilt on spiine.

New York: D Appleton & Company, 1868. Book. Illus. by Gasten Fay. Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete in one volume. Brown textered cloth, rubbed and worn at the extremities. Illustrated with b/w engravings. 271pp good only with a sound binding and clean interior.Spine sunned..

Great Britain: Routledge, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 279 pages. Games of Venus presents the whole spectrum of erotic poetry from Sappho to Ovid in translations which evoke the full range of styles and tones present in the original Greek and Latin. Brief biographical sketches accompany the work of each poet as… Read more about this item

Sara Mitchell, 2012. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 490 pages. Annie lives in a world that is being torn apart by economic upheaval and conflicts. Her career and avenging her parents' murders were the only things that mattered to her. Working for a secret military unit and being head of an elite team,… Read more about this item

United States of America: University of California Press, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 257 pages plus index. this book is the study of the origin of panegyric in the festival ceremonies of greece, its adaptation for purposes of political propaganda and education in imperial rome, its revival in renaissance england, and its… Read more about this item

Great Britain: Harvard, 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 264 pages plus appendices. inscribed and signed by irvin ehrenpreis (author). in this first volume of three the author treats in detail the events of swifts life, the historical and social setting of those events, the composition and interpretation… Read more about this item

Great Britain: Harvard, 1967. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. volume 2. 763 pages plus appendices. deal with the period 1699-1714. swift's ecclesiastical career, his search for preferment and the gradual transformation of his social life are examined..

Great Britain: Olympic Marketing Corp, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 187p including index hard back jacket. Delightful and unpretentious book tells us what some of the french and English have said about one another's countrymen during the last five centuries. His book is often intstructive, entertaining and also surprising- just what a… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. About the book: Pages, 585, including index and bibilography George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period. He was the principal author of The Rehearsal (1671), an enormously successful burlesque play… Read more about this item