New York: The Heritage Press, 1961. Ayrton, Michael. Reissue. Large Hardcover.
Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Spine faded, slipcase edges toned.
In the "Oresteia" - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1961. Ayrton, Michael. Reissue. Large Hardcover.
Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Slipcase edges toned, spine faded.
Translated from the Greek by E.D.A. Morshead, with an introduction by Rex Warner. Illustrated by Michael Ayrton. In the 'Oresteia' - the only trilogy in Greek drama which.....
Allentown, Pennsylvania: The Story Classics, 1948. Balet, Jan. Hard Cover.
A near fine copy in a near fine slipcase. Minor general wear to slipcase.
228 pp. Includes publisher's slipcase. Illustrated by Jan Balet. CONTENTS: "A Fine Haul!"; The Nail; The Account Book; The Gypsy's Prophecy; Moors and Christians; The Cornet.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1944. Blake, William. Hard Cover.
Lacks Sandglass insert. A near fine copy in a good slipcase. One joint of slipcase starting but still holding, slipcase edges rubbed.
xxii, 491 pp. Translated into English verse by Melville Best Anderson. Notes and elucidations by the translator. Introduction.....
Boston / New York / Chicago: D.C. Heath & Co., Publishers, 1913. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1913 printing of the first annotated edition of the original Italian text. Spine faded, boards lightly rubbed, hinges just beginning to weaken, pencil underlining and marginalia, ink name on front endpaper.
xxxviii, 283, [1], 297.....
. The Bibliophilist Society, 1930. Dore, Gustave. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. No publisher date. Very good in fair jacket (lacks rear panel).
xxxii, 650 pp. Engravings by Gustave Dore throughout. Balzac’s Contes Drolatiques, or Droll Stories, were originally published in three volumes in the 1830s. Set in medieval Europe, these.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1954. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1954-59 printing, Toledano 193.1, binding/jacket style 8i with 388 titles on verso, $1.95 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Good in very good jacket. Ink underlining and marginalia throughout, jacket corners a bit rubbed, jacket lightly toned.
xi, 553 pp. Honoré.....
New York: Illustrated Editions Company, 1931. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Ink name on front endpaper.
154 pp. In The Girl with the Golden Eyes, the hero is a dandy whose attractiveness for the mysterious Paquita has an unexpected origin.
Cambridge: Dedalus, 2015. Trade Paperback.
Faint edge wear.
In Balzac's classic study of obsession, a chance meeting changes Balthazar Claes' life as it introduces him to alchemy and initiates his quest of the absolute. Throughout, our sympathy is equally divided between Balthazar's single-minded determination to push back the frontiers of.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1961. ben Sussan, Rene. Hard Cover.
Includes slipcase and Sandglass insert number VII:26. A fine copy in a fine slipcase.
xvi, 271 pp. 8vo. Translated by Ellen Marraige. Introduction by Richard Aldington. Illustrated by Rene ben Sussan. 'Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet'' This.....
Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1967. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Spine creased, light edge wear, page ridges lightly soiled.
xiii, 791 pp. Gustave Flaubert, (born December 12, 1821, Rouen, France—died May 8, 1880, Croisset), novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature.....
London: Henry and Co., 1893. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First edition of the Burton translation. Split along front joint of first volume, front and end matter lightly foxed.
xvi, 282; vi, [283]-562 pp. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt titles. Translated into English from the Italian by Sir Richard Francis Burton, best.....
![Item #2336246 A Renaissance Storybook [Story Book]. Morris Bishop](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2336246.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691169839)
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1971. Kingsbury, Alison Mason. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Very minor general wear.
viii, 304 pp. Drawings by Alison Mason Kingsbury. 29 Renaissance tales from Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and England.
. The Bibliophilist Society, 1940. Large Hardcover.
No jacket. Ink name on second blank, first few pages foxed.
xii, 310, vii, 307 pp. Two volumes in one. Engraved plates. In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They.....
. The Bibliophilist Society, 1930. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Boards lightly soiled, jacket a bit toned and lightly rubbed, ink stamp on front jacket flap.
xii, 310, vii, 307 pp. Two volumes in one. Engraved plates. In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young.....
![Item #2272713 The Decameron, or Ten Days' Entertainment of [Giovanni] Boccaccio. Giovanni Boccaccio](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2272713.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1644907783)
New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1855. Hard Cover.
No date, circa 1855. Rear hinge loosening, boards soiled, spine toned with loss of gilt, front free endpaper removed.
500, [4] pp. Lavender blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. Illustrated with 18 steel engravings. Boccaccio's 14th century collection of 100 stories, controversial at the time.....
![Item #2281490 The Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio. in Three Volumes. [Decameron]....](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2281490.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1657815478)
Londra [London]: Guglielmo Pickering, 1825. Full-Leather.
Edges rubbed, spine labels mostly absent, minor splits to spine heads and feet along joints, first gathering of volume 1 (free endpaper, flyleaf, and half-title page) loose but included. An attractive set that could be beautiful with some minor restorations.
Complete in three volumes.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1940. Kredel, Fritz. Hard Cover.
Lacks slipcase and Sandglass insert. Bookplate on paste-down endpapers.
xxi, 536 pp. Preserved to posterity by the renowned John Boccaccio. Translated into English anno 1620, with an introduction by Edward Hutton. Wood-cuts in the Renaissance manner by Fritz Kredel. Set.....
New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert. 1880. Memorial Edition. Full-Leather.
1880 Memorial Edition. Edges rubbed, one gathering slightly sprung and a bit proud at fore edge, 1/2 inch chip from front free endpaper.
1100 pp. Full leather with stamped designs on front and rear boards, gilt titles and fleur-de-lis in.....
. Gallimard, 1947. Mass Market Paperback.
Ink underlining on just a couple pages.
255 pp. Often translated as "The Plague", this French-language novel tells the story of a plague that sweeps through French Algiers.
New York: Vintage, 1961. Mass Market Paperback.
1961 printing. Ink stamp on bottom edge.
Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed the "nakedness of man faced with the absurd."
New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Trade Paperback.
Book club edition. A fine copy.
278 pp. A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1971. Maffia, Daniel. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase and Sandglass insert Number XII:36. Boards faintly soiled, slipcase lightly rubbed, slipcase edges slightly faded.
xix, [1], 181 pp. Yellow cloth, burgundy titles. Camus's classic novel of existentialism and the absurd, translated from the original French.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1981. Campbell, Jim. Reissue. Full-Leather.
273 pp. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Jim Campbell. A collection of short stories by the author best known for O Pioneers!, My Antonia.....
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1906. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1934 12th printing. Front hinge of first volume just starting, small internal tear to vol. 1 backstrip.
xxix, [1], 359, [1]; vii, [1], 386, [1] pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles, decorations, & rules, top edge gilt. Reproductions of forty original.....