THE HAND OF A STRANGER
London: Elek Books, 1956. First English-language edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with review slip laid-in. More
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THE SING SONG PICTURE BOOK
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. Amazingly well preserved. Pictorial cover is trope of pygmy Blacks (referring to the Ten Little Savages); the white children inside get more docile treatment. La plus c'est change. More
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS; OR ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS (6 volumes complete)
London/ Philadelphia. Gibbings & Company Ltd/ J. B. Lippincott, 1896. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Printed in England for both US and U K distribution. Beautifully preserved Art& Crafts-designed production of the Arabian tales. Small 8vo, light green cloth, boldly-stamped titles in darker green and blue front covers w/ more..... More
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYAM THE ASTRONOMER POET OF PERSIA RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY EDWARD FITZGERALD
London: Macmillan, 1898. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First edition with MacDougall's bold Arts & Crafts decorations. Elaborately gilt-decorated green cloth, 4to, unpaginated, title page in red and black, the rest in black. Green cloth faded, covers worn and stained at upper corners with 2" loss over lower spine, internals fine..... More
The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet Done into English Verse by Shigeyoshi Obata, with an Introduction and Biographical and Critical Matter Translated from the Chinese (The Orient Edition with Chinese texts)
Kanda: Hokuseido Press, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, blue linen, paper label front and spine, gte, map endpapers, 236p + 20p. Spine label soiled and chipped. Gift inscription dated 1938 on half title. More
RECOLLECTIONS OF OSCAR WILDE
Boston: John W. Luce and Company, 1906. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. More
DAS BLINDIS DES MR. W. H. : LORD ARTHUR SAVILES VERBRECHEN
Minden in Westf: J. C. C. Burns, 1903. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First German translation of Wilde's short story, "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." , first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1889. It was later added to the collection Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891). The story..... More
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