Recent Arrivals from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1992. Hardcover. Translation by Hardie St. Martin. 8vo. Quarter red cloth with silver spine lettering and orange paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 184pp. Fine/fine. Handsome first U.S. edition of this Honduran writer's first English-language release.

Paris: Les Editions du Chêne, 1949. Hardcover. 4to. Brown paper over boards with gilt lettering. 30pp, (ca. 100pp). Color frontispiece, map, numerous illustrations (many color tip-ins). Very good. Minor binding wear; internally tight and fine; lacks dust jacket. Sharp first edition of this in-depth study of 12th century Fench religious frescoes. From the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 1991. Hardcover. Translation by Andrew Hurley. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with gilt spine lettering and black paper over boards, dust jacket. x, 435pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome and tight first U.S. edition of this thick novel by the Argentinian writer (1911-2011) and set in Buenos Aires.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989. Hardcover. Translation by Helen Lane. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with copper spine lettering and coral paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 246pp.Very good/near fine. Attractive and tight first U.S. edition of this novel by the renowned Peruvian writer, journalist and politico.

[East Dubuque, IL: Tel Graphics, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 190pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. First edition, a tight and superb copy. Regional cookbook, mixed with much commentary, travelogue, etc.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Hardcover. Translation by Gregory Rabassa. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt and orange spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 389pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight, bright first U.S. edition of this political novel by the prolific, influential Brussels-born Argentinian novelist, short story writer and essayist (1914-84).

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1930. Hardcover. Translation by Edmund Gosse. Woodcuts by Allen Lewis. 4to. Brown blind-embossed cloth over bevelled boards with gilt spine lettering, slipcase. vii, 141pp. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations, decorative borders. Fine/very good. Mild slipcase edgewear and rubbing. Quite tight and handsome copy of the tenth title in the LEC's First Series -- colophon at… Read more about this item

16th president of the United States. Partly-printed AD, 2pp (recto and verso), 7 3/4" X 13", Appalonia Precinct, IL, 1840 November. Near fine. Minor, even age toning. Lincoln ran for elector in the William H. Harrison vs. Henry Clay presidential election of 1840. He failed to get elected as elector, though the Whig candidate Harrison did win. In this… Read more about this item

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970. Hardcover. Edited by Daniel Morley McKeithan. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. xix, 499pp. Fine. Pristine reprint edition of this 1944 collection of 245 letters penned between 1854 and 1881 by the noted Southern poet, editor and critic (1830-86).

This Virginia artist joined the U.S. Forest Service in the early 1930s and helped launch the "Smokey the Bear" campaign in the late '30s -- now the longest running public service campaign in history; he portrayed Smokey in literally hundreds of promotional pieces that encouraged conservation of natural resources and fire prevention. Signed Color Print, 16" X 10¼" (under… Read more about this item

Denver: The University of Denver Press, 1951. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale grey cloth with dark grey lettering. xiii, 242pp. Very good. Quite minor binding wear only, else tight and internally near fine; endpapers a tad age toned as usual. First edition, a tight and attractive copy. Choice presentation inscription from the author in bold black ink filling the front endpaper:… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Hardcover. Foreword by Jorge Amado. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 146pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and nice first edition of this novel by the renowned Brazilian writer.

London: Methuen & Co, 1898. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial giltstamping. 287pp, 40pp ads. Very good. A bit edgeworn and rubbed, with spine a tad sunned; pencilled 1898 ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight and decent first edition by this celebrated amateur English golf champion, pioneering golf educator and avid golf writer (1859-1932), the… Read more about this item

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1955. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with gilt and red spine lettering and red textured paper over boards. viii, 435pp. Pictorial map. Very good. Faint bit of binding wear only, with spine sunned; internally tight and fine; lacks dust jacket. Tight, nice first edition of this Chinese-set novel by the obscure American diplomat… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Hardcover. Translation by David Pritchard with Suzanne Jill Levine. Small 4to. quarter tan cloth with gilt spine lettering and teal green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 352pp. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this novel by the prolific Chilean writer (1924-96).

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986. Hardcover. Translation by Helen Lane. Small 4to. Quarter terra cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering and green paper over boards, dust jacket. 240pp. Fine/near fine. Quite handsome and tight first U.S. edition of this first nonfiction by the famed Peruvian writer, journalist and politico.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Hardcover. Translation by Andrée Conrad. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and pale green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 206pp. Fine/fine. Lovely and tight first edition of this novella trio by the prolific Chilean writer (1924-96).

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. Hardcover. Translation by Glyn T. Hughes. 4to. Merigold cloth with brown spine lettering. 176pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations (some color), map. Very good. Lacks dust jacket, else tight and quite nice. Tight and nice first English-language edition of this German text. Bit of background: Before the 1956 presidential election consumed his time, former Illinois… Read more about this item

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1983. Hardcover. Translation by Mary Fitton. Foreword by Jorge Luis Borges. 8vo. Quarter teal blue cloth with black spine lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 322pp. Genealogical chart. Fine/near fine. Quite nice and tight first edition of this fairy tale by the Argentinian writer (1910-84).

New York: American Heritage Publishing Co. / Bonanza Books, 1981. Hardcover. Chapter introductions by editor Marshall B. Davidson. 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 832pp. Extensive illustrations. Very good/very good. Most minor of wear only, else tight and internally near fine. First of this 2-in-1 edition of an in-depth study first published… Read more about this item