A glossary of literary terms
Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1988. Sixth edition, 8vo, pp. x, 301; original cream printed wrappers, light wear, else very good. More
Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1988. Sixth edition, 8vo, pp. x, 301; original cream printed wrappers, light wear, else very good. More
Montpelier, [Vt.]: published by J. E. Thompson, 1843. Small 8vo, pp. xv, [1], [17]-216; 32; original green floral-patterned cloth a bit soiled and worn at extremities, front hinge starting, prelims a bit foxed; all else good and sound. "Theology unconnected with Morality, was a phantom which had seduced or frightened..... More
Springer Verlag, [1999]. Second corrected printing, 4to, pp. viii, 199, [1]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in original pictorial laminate boards. More
Phildelphia: printed for John Ormrod by W. Woodward at Franklin's Head, 1794. 12mo (approx. 6½" x 4¼"), pp. 196, [7] Ormrod ads; the last 10 pages consist of a subscriber list, among whom Oliver Evans and Benjamin Rush; engraved frontispiece portrait (top blank margin trimmed); full crimson calf, covers roll-grained..... More
Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, [1965]. 8vo; pp. xiii, [1], 388; numerous b/w illustrations throughout text, color plates; call numbers in ink on upper cover, information slip pasted to rear pastedown. Good in soiled ecru cloth, stamped in burgundy and gilt on spine. Inside is sound. More
London: Philip Allan & Co., [1922]. Second edition, revised and limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. 275; frontispiece, black & white photographic plates; beige cloth-backed paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; extremities worn and soiled, inscription on front free endpaper has been eradicated, overall a good copy. More
New York: Van Norstrand Reinhold Company, [1969]. 4to, pp. 75, [3]; Reprint of The Allen Press limited edition; near fine in original decorated brown cloth, in worn and chipped dust jacket. More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., [1969]. 4to, pp. 75, [3]; printed in blue and black; 10 illustrations plus other decorations and initials; near fine in original pictorial brown cloth, without the dust jacket. Reprint of The Allen Press limited edition. More
Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1980. First edition, 8vo, pp. 270, [1]; fine copy in a very good jacket. Brynhild "is easily the most compelling figure in early Germanic literature and is central to our understanding of the heroic mentality." Issued as vol. XLIII in the publisher's Islandica series..... More
[New York]: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1942. 8vo, pp. 17; original printed drab wrappers. Reprint from the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Volume 36, First Quarter, 1942. Very good. More
[Bangalore: The Bible Society of India and Ceylon, 1963]. 8vo, pp. [582]; 2 leaves of maps; original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; presentation slip signed and inscribed by Angus to the Library of the Baptist Missionary Society, mounted to front free endpaper; very good and sound. Cambridge only in OCLC as..... More
Washington, D.C. Oct. 26, 1875. Quarto bifolium on pre-printed Dept. of the Interior stationery, approx. 30 lines and 375 words; previous folds; fine. Atkinson refers to a letter from William J. Miller of Bristol, R.I. which notes that Nelson Miller from Warren and Israel Potter from Cranston took part in..... More
Boston: press of John Wilson & Son, 1879. 8vo, pp. 13, [3]; self-wrappers, as issued; stab-bound; front wrapper lightly foxed; otherwise near fine. A short critique of opponent of equal voting rights. More
[Charlestown, Mass. Allen & Watts, 1824.]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 60; stitched, as issued; uncut, but a compromised copy, with half the first leaf torn away, with considerable loss of text on recto and verso, including the imprint; stitching loosening. American Imprints 15155 locates only the Harvard copy. OCLC adds..... More
New York: Fowlers and Wells, hydropathic publishers, 1853. 8vo, pp. [5], 6-144, [4] ads; text toned, 3" vertical razor cut in the title page (no loss), title browned; a good copy without wrappers. Surprisingly uncommon. Only AAS and Princeton in the U.S. More
London: Seeley, Service & Co., [n.d.]. First published 1861, 8vo, 320pp., frontis. illus. in color & 8 plates, all after illustrations by H.M. Brock; a bright, near fine copy in original red cloth decorated with a floral trellis design in white, green, black, and gilt, negligible wear to extremities and..... More
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Buffalo: A. R. Orton, 1855. 8vo, pp. [3], 18-267, [1]; wood-engraved frontispiece, chromolithographic title page, full-page text illustrations throughout; original green cloth gilt; gilt worn, edges and corners rubbed, spine ends perished, top of spine split, pages spotted with a few closed tears; fair. No..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1899. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 579; text printed in double columns; original maroon, gilt-tooled cloth, t.e.g., grey glazed endpapers; contemporary gift inscription on front flyleaf; interior fine. Reprint edition; copyright date 1886. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1992. 11" x 15" prose broadside excerpt from Peter Pan accompanied by a relief print, artist unknown. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. First edition, slim 12mo, pp. 22; a very good copy in a slightly chipped dust jacket. More
London: Constable and Co., n.d., [1909]. First edition, 16mo (13.5 x 9 cm), pp. 15, [1]; full-page wood-engraved illustration; uncut and unopened; original cream cloth ruled in red and with gilt lettering on the upper cover; near perfect glassine wrapper printed in red. Fine throughout and unusual thus. Contained in..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]. Edition de luxe limited to 500 copies signed by Thomson (this, no. 117); large 4to, pp. 234, [1]; mounted color frontispiece and 19 plates, additional black & white text illustrations throughout; original full vellum, upper cover ruled in gilt and green with elaborate gilt-tooling within..... More
[Portland, ME: printed for Thomas Bird Mosher, 1919]. 24mo, pp. [31]; frontis. port.; original light blue paper printed in red and grey over flexible boards, green slipcase; some light stains to the covers, dampstain and some splitting of the slipcase; overall a good copy. More
[Richmond, VA]: privately printed by the author for distribution among his friends, n.d. [ca. 1932]. Edition limited to 200 copies, 8vo, pp. 134; frontispiece, 4 full-p. maps, and 43 illustrations on rectos and versos of 15 plates, plus 1 other full-p. illustration; spine slightly dull, else a very good copy..... More
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, [1962]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 102, [2]; title page printed in red and black; frontispiece of Latham; original gray cloth stamped in gilt on spine; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. Cheever 128. More