Search Results: Literature from Kate Mitas, Bookseller

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1899. First American edition. Cloth. Good. 8" x 6". [xiv], 336 pp. Includes frontispiece and 15 (of 16) plates of illustrations. Original red publisher's cloth illustrated in blue, silver foil and black, lettered in silver foil and black. Light wear to extremities; board illustration somewhat rubbed; ink date and ownership blind-stamp to front endpapers; light occasional soiling. LACKING one plate (p. 139), one plate loose. Verne's sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, published in 1838.

Praha: Mladá Fronta, 1959. Very Good. Czech language edition. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Mass market paperback. 275, [3] pp. Black and green cover with red fist, white and red lettering. Light wear, small stain to fore-edge.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. Cloth. Very Good+. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". [2, ads], [4], 120, [2], [16, ads], [2, ads], [4, bound-in advert for "The Select Library of Fiction"] pp + frontispiece. Complete with 14 b&w plates in text. Original green illustrated wraps, bound into new burgundy cloth binding lettered in gilt, with gilt initials "B. G." to front board, new endpapers. Cloth binding clean and sharp; ownership blind-stamp and ink date to front endpaper. Original wrappers lightly edgeworn and rubbed; occasional light foxing or minor soiling. Part of Low's Authorised and Illustrated Editions of Jules Verne's Works, priced at one shilling on the front cover. Set during the American Civil War, the novella features James Playfair, a British merchant who runs the blockade at Charleston to trade military supplies for cotton, and again to rescue a Union prisoner. It was first published in French as Les forceurs de blocus in 1865, and translated into English in 1874.Uncommon in… Read More

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979-1980. Limited edition. Leather. Near Fine. Three volume set, octavo. [xiv], 387 pp; [xii], 551 pp; [12], 400 pp. Bound in full red leather with gilt tooling and edges, moire endpapers, and silk ribbon bookmarks. Some scuffing to text block of Vol. III, else fine. [P]ublished by The Franklin Library exclusively for subscribers to The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World.

[Paris]: Nrf Gallimard, (1949). Limited edition. Near Fine/Very Good. 7-1/8" x 4-3/4". 280, [6] pp. Black paper-covered boards stamped in gilt, red and white, in original cellophane dust wrapper. Spine slightly faded; cellophane wrapper torn near rear joint with minor chipping to spine panel. No. 587 of 1050 specially-bound copies from a design by French bookbinder and designer Mario Prassinos.

Oak Park, Illinois: Think Fast Ink, 1994. First edition. Very Good/Good. Warmly inscribed to the prior owner, "Dear John, We obviously suffer from the same sick racing disease. The good news is -- THERE IS NO CURE!! ENJOY!! Burt 'BS' Levy". 23.5 cm. [4],540pp. Burgundy paper-covered boards lettered in bronze to the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Light soiling to text block; dust jacket edge worn, with short splits to outer corners. Levy's debut novel, drawing heavily and convincingly on his experience as an amateur automobile racer. The novel follows Buddy Palumbo, a New Jersey mechanic who becomes involved in automobile racing during the sport's halcyon days of the 1950s. It is the first in a series of books Levy wrote about the subject.

New York: St. Martin's Press, (1994). Fine/Near Fine. Second printing, signed by Roth on the half-title. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". [12], 290 pp. Green cloth, white dust jacket printed in black and brown. Minor wear to dust jacket, else fine.

Providence, RI: [Nucleus], 1954. Good+. 8" x 5". pp [2], 82 - 123. B/w photographically illustrated wrappers, white lettering. Wear to wrappers, small stain to corner of rear wrapper and outer margin of last few leaves. Includes two poems by Winfield Townley Scott, illustrations from photographs and lithographs, essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Russian drama, and more.

Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Fine in Near Fine Slipcase. No. 70 of a signed, limited edition of 350. 9-1/2 x 6 inches. [14],104,[2]pp. Beige cloth with brown cloth tips, in brown slipcase. Fine; minor, faint spot of soiling to one panel of slipcase. A collection of autobiographical essays recounting Welty's life and progression into being a writer. The book originated in Welty's lectures at Harvard for the inauguration of "The William E. Massey Sr Lectures in the History of American Civilization".Uncommon in the trade.

8-1/4 x 11 inches. 60pp, recto only. Burgundy cloth photo album with gilt title and ornament stamped to spine, brown paper leaves reinforced with cloth at the gutter. 55 b&w photographs + 6 cyanotypes, 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches each; holograph text in verse, in Spanish. All but two photos are pasted in one per page; two additional photographs are laid in, one a duplicate possibly removed from another album, and one on a loose leaf of black construction paper and seemingly unrelated to the text. Light wear to spine ends and corners; front hinge gently split; light dampstaining to edge of front endpaper; text of one page smeared from contact with moisture, although there is no damp-staining and the text is still readable.
An original proto-fotonovella, relating in dramatic fashion the tale of four young couples who fall in love despite opposition from their guardians -- who, it turns out, are themselves a pair of star-crossed lovers who fell in love during an unnamed 19th-century war in the United States… Read More

Tokyo: The John Steinbeck Society of Japan, 2009. Wraps. Fine. 8vo., 8-1/4" x 5-7/8"; 52 pp. Pale blue wrappers printed in black.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Later printing. Cloth. Near Fine. 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". [10], 305, [5, blank] pp. Seventh printing, issued in August, 1920, four months after the book's initial publication. Original green cloth. Corners of boards lightly bumped, very faint water spots to front cover. Otherwise a nearly fine copy, clean and sound.

Praha: Edice Spirála, 1965. First Czech language edition. Mass market paperback. Very Good. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". 258, [2] pp. Mass market paperback. White wrappers printed in green, black and blue. Laminate overlay peeling at some edges of covers, spine creased. Internally clean and bright, binding sound.