London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-lxii, [3], 2-636, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, bust of Robert Burns in gold on the front board; top edge gilt. A volume collecting Burns' poems and letters..... More
New York: The Modern Library (1968), 1968. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 4-302, [2], [10] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. Toledano 38. The first Modern Library Edition. A Near Fine book with some moderate foxing to the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 11-355, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine; brown stopstain. Price clipped, hints of edge wear to jacket. More
New York: Alred A. Knopf, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [3], 3-308, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Price of $2.75 on front flap of jacket. Ownership stamp of science fiction editor, publisher, and writer Donald Wollheim on the rear endpaper. Near..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1989], 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], vii-xxiii, [3], 3-169, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on front flap of dust jacket. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1980), 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], 17-224, [2] pp. Brown paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $15.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is his first collection..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1995), 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], ix-xviii, [2], 211, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over white paper board with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $22.00 on front flap of dust jacket. A collection of lectures on poetry delivered by Heaney while..... More
London: Printed for J. Mawman, Poultry, 1803. Fifteenth Edition. Hardcover. 3vol. Small 8vo. [13], 2-314, [4]; [9], 2-316, [2]; [5], 2-320, [2] pp. Original sheep, spines in six compartments. Each spine with a red and black morocco label, textblocks decoratively spotted. A collection of essays on Knox's views on education..... More
London: Walter Scott, 1887. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xxiv, [1], 2-392, [12], (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Navy cloth with a paper label printed in black on the spine. Edited, with an introductory note, by Ernest Rhys. Part of The Camelot Classics Series, edited by Ernest Rhys. A nice..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [2], 2, [3], 6-189, [1] pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine, top edge gilt, including a gilt facsimile of W.M. Thackeray's closing for his letters. Illustrated with a frontispiece..... More
New York: The Modern Library (1957), 1957. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], 3-369, [3] pp. Navy cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $2.95 on front flap of jacket. With full-page and in-text drawings by James Thurber. Toledano 70. A later printing, although the copyright page states First..... More