E.P. Dutton, 1917. hardcover. Duodecimo 358pp. Fifth printing October 1917. One of the first WWI novels to be published, based on Barbusse's experiences on the Western Front, it follows a single squad of French infantrymen on the Western Front after the German invasion. Credited as one of the earliest examples.....
Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1991. softcover. 8vo. 489pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05402.
Dent, 1954. Everyman's Library. hardcover. first edition crown octavo size of Everyman Library no. 995 Napoleon's Letters. #00053.
T.N. Foulis, 1919. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 78pp. from publisher's advertisement at back of book: "These letters, here translated so beautifully and sympathetically, were written by Kwei-li, the wife of a Chinese official, to her husband when he accompanied his master, Prince Chung, on a trip round the world. The.....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 181pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05321h.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1912. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 347pp. #01395.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. hardcover. Octavo 222pp. 18th printing, May 1966. Book of personal spiritual meditations, a mixture of haiku-like poetry and prose by the former UN secretary general, discovered and published after his death. In Auden's foreword, he describes it as an "attempt by a professional man of action to.....
Harper and Brothers, 1954. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 455pp. translated from German. from Kirkus Reviews: "In the flood of single volume encyclopedias of information on as varied subjects as archaeology, biology, anthropology, this is exceptional, not only in content but in handling. For here is 'the saga of early exploration.....
David McKay, 1959. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 365pp. first edition. first hand account of a Soviet officer who defects after refusing to organize the murder of an anti-Communist leader in Germany in 1954. No longer in print, rare in this condition, beautiful copy. #00091.
Grove Press, 1960. trade paperback. Octavo 399pp. Evergreen Book E-250. from rear cover: "A classic in its field, The Psychoanalysis of Children stands as a full report of its author's pioneering work in child analysis and as a revolutionary extension of her discoveries to adult psychology as well." #00487.
Vintage Books, 1961. trade paperback. duodecimo 338pp. Vintage V-479. Prix Goncourt winning 1933 novel about Communist revolutionaries in China. #00535.
D. Appleton and Company, 1928. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 379pp. stated first printing February 1928. biography of the influential politician, statesman, and two time UK prime minister during the Victorian era. #00272.
D. Appleton and Company, 1928. first American edition. hardcover. Octavo 377pp. #00261.
Simon and Schuster, 1954. hardcover. 8vo 309pp. story of a Swedish family in America in the 1850s, from the port of New York where they arrive through their journey westward until arriving in Minnesota. #00752.
Three Sirens, 1931. Nino Carbe. first thus. blue cloth quarter bound in purple suede. popular play about the swashbuckling Cyrano de Bergerac who, in spite of his many talents, doubts himself because of his abnormally large nose and hesitates to express his love to the beautiful Roxanne.illustrated throughout by Nino.....
Beacon Press, 1958. trade paperback. Octavo 210pp. Work by 19th/early 20thc. liberal German theologian. From author's preface: "...it seeks to determine how much the Modern Spirit actually owes to Protestantism, and how much it has received from other sources, or, again, has produces as new from its own essence. Only.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 364pp. published April 1925. translated from Swedish by Arthur J Chater. Swedish saga. from Chapter I: "How the dwarfs lost the horn Manegarm and how a seed was laid in the earth from which a great tree was to grow.....
Viking Press, 1933. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 476pp. #00247.
Viking Press, 1946. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 404pp. #00250.
Viking Press, 1946. Book Club Edition. hardcover. Octavo 404pp. biography of Honore de Balzac. Includes Book of the Month Club pamphlet laid in. #03111.
Viking Press, 1946. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 404pp. BCE. biography of French writer Honore de Balzac. from front flap: "He [Stefan Zweig] was a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist, but it was as a biographer that his full genius expressed itself. Besides Marie Antoinette, he has written biographies.....
Viking Press, 1946. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 404pp. BCE. biography of French writer Honore de Balzac. from front flap: "He [Stefan Zweig] was a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist, but it was as a biographer that his full genius expressed itself. Besides Marie Antoinette, he has written biographies.....