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NY: Crown, 1977. 4to, pp. 96. Translated from the French by Alice Sachs. Fifty-one color reproductions, 17 in black and white. Rear hinge completely separated, o/w Vg in scuffed and somewhat soiled dj.

NY: Holt, 1997. First printing. 8vo, pp. 354. Bibliography, index. A nice copy in little soiled dj. A "biography" of a fictional sleuth.

NY: Barnes & Noble, 1974. 8vo, pp. xi, 243. Notes. Illustrated wtih several drawings. A nice copy in little chipped and soiled dj. Fourteen essays, by Kingsley Amis, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Collins, John Sullivan, among others.

Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1957. First Edition. 4to, pp. 193. (as in all copies) pages 133-150 are apparently missing and yet without any loss of text as everything Indexed in extant.) Glossary, biographical notes, references. Introductory essays by Herbert Read and Leslie Martin. With 132 plates, some in color. Tan cloth. A small pair of plastic glasses for viewing the ten stereoscopic reproductions, from plates 102 to 111, is cached in the rear cover, with instruction sheet laid in. Top and front edges, and spine little darkened, o/w a nice copy.

NY: McClure, Phillips, 1902. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xi, 448. Red cloth, blind-stamped, with lettering in gilt. Cover slightly worn at corners and ends of spine, front hinge slightly tender, o/w fine. BAL 7149, Johnson p. 213.

New Haven: Yale, 1992. First printing. 8vo, pp. xviii, 269. Notes, index. A nice copy in lightly scuffed dj. A reexamination of d'Annunzio's philosophical and poetic thought.

London: W. H. Allen, 1949. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 498. Illustrated. VG in somewhat chipped and worn dj. The Gaity theatre was the birthplace of musical comedy, and a theater that, over the years, presented an incredible variety of plays and entertainments.

London: Spring Books, 1966. Reissue of 1958 Hulton edition. 4to, pp. 296. Indices, bibliography, chronology, 292 plates in black and white, eight in color. VG in price clipped and somewhat scuffed dj. A survey of Gainsborogh's life and work by an expert in the field.

London: Oxford, 1964. Large 8vo, pp. 72. Bibliography, index. Illustrated wtih reproductions in black-and-white. Blue cloth, stamped in black. Cover little scuffed at edges, o/w a VG tight copy in somewhat scuffed and chipped dj. A biography for young people.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 436, plus 21 of booklist. Brown cloth, faded on spine and slightly worn at ends and corners, o/w VG tight copy. (BAL 4705). Includes A call to my countrywomen, and other essays. The author's second book. She was an advocate of liberal causes, but believed women should wield indirect influence in politics and was opposed to women's suffrage.

NY: Knopf, 1953. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 242. Cover little stained, o/w a VG tight copy. No dj. A novel.

NY: Appleton, 1929. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 396. VG in worn dj.

Lyon: Scheuring, 1876. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 310. Illustrated with many gravures of the Comedie stars by Fugere and each chapter devoted to an immortal of the French stage. Bound in rubbed 3/4 calf, TEG. In French. VG copy.

Berlin: Deutchen Akademie Der Kunste, 1958. First Edition. Large 8vo, pp. 37, 63, 90. In German. Three volumes in a publisher's cloth folder. All paper wraps. The three volumes are: Aufbau Einer Rolle, Laughtons Galilei; Aufbau Eine Rolle, Buschs Galilei (these two are mainly photographs); and the text of Brecht's play, Leben Des Galilei. Books nice, folder little worn. llustrated with Laughton's 1947/48 performance in the U.S. Performed when he worked with Brecht on the English language version, and the later performance by Busch in 1956, in Brecht's Berliner Ensemble.

Princeton NJ: Princeton Uniersity, 1987. First Edition. 8vo, pp. x, 356. Documents, index. Translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal. With several illustrations. Black cloth. Fine in slightly scuffed and chipped dj. A reinterpretation of Galileo's trial for heresy, whose premise is that the Jesuits plotted Galilio's downfall because his new naturalistic philosophy threatened dogma about the eucharist, rather than because of his theories about astronomy.

Princeton NJ: Princeton University, 1952. First Edition. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, illus.. 8vo, pp. 43. With several Beardsley illustrations. Paper wraps. A nice copy.

Columbia MO: University of Missouri, 1979. First Edition. 8vo, pp. x, 276. Illustrated wtih phjotographs. Edited, with an afterword, by Robert M. Farnsworth. Brown cloth stamped in black. Edges slightly scratched, o/w a nice copy in dj.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. One of 200 numbered copies. 8vo, pp. 312. Edited by Taylor Stoehr. Volume IV of the collected stories. Paper over boards with cloth spine and paper spine label. A nice copy in little scuffed glassine dj.

London: Heinemann, 1946. small 8vo, pp. 620. Fold-out map. This is poet Barbara Howes copy with jher sifgnature on the end paper and the bookplate of Barbarta Howes and William Jay Smith on the end paper.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1967. First Edition. Klee, Paul. 4to, pp. 124. Translated by W. D. Snodgrass and Lore Segal. Illustrations by Paul Klee. Near fine in very slightly scuffed dj.