London: Faber and Faber, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A bit smoky.
369, [5] pp. 8vo. The second novel by the award-winning British Pakistani author. "In an unnamed town in England, Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared - and Chanda's brothers have been arrested for their murder. What follows.....
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2021. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
258 pp. The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl's fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father. The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadhrami girl in Mombasa.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1976. Goodenow, Earle. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Jacket edges rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped. Board edges lightly rubbed.
337 pp. Color frontispiece, plates, and endpapers, black-and-white illustrations by Earle Goodenow. "A selection of thirteen tales told by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights which enchanted the.....
New York: Books of Wonder / Morrow Junior Books, 1992. Foreman, Michael. First Thus. Large Hardcover.
First thus. Jacket edges rubbed and bumped, half inch tear along top edge of jacket, minor sticker remains on rear jacket panel. Light edgewear.
191 pp. Journey back to the magic days of sultans.....
Ipswich / Great Britain: The Limited Editions Club / W.S. Cowell, Ltd., 1954. Szyk, Arthur. Hard Cover.
Small surface tear on base panel of one slipcase. Boards of volume one lightly soiled. Gilt on spine of all volumes lightly rubbed.
Four volume set in two slipcases: The First Volume; Notes.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1955. Szyk, Arthur. Reissue. Large Hardcover.
Includes publisher's slipcase and Sandglass insert Number X-XI: 20. Slipcase edges rubbed with splits beginning at top and bottom seams.
xiv, 330, vi, 136; ix, 331-674, v, 137-262 pp. Translated by Sir Richard Burton, with color plates by Arthur.....
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Large Hardcover.
No jacket. Cloth on rear board wrinkled, some pages wrinkled.
117 pp. 25 color plates (26 if you count the one mounted to the front board), comprising a frontispiece and 24 plates in the text, all on glossy sheets mounted.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Jacket spine head bumped.
553 pp. In his first novel since Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Gibran, Kahlil. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
1925 second printing. Early printings are scarce. No jacket. Ink name on front free endpaper.
64 pp. The wisdom, poetic outlook, and deep humanity for which Gibran's best-known work, The Prophet, is famous are also amply present in.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1970 fourteenth printing. Includes publisher's slipcase. Near fine in good slipcase. One slipcase seam just beginning to split, slipcase edges and title panel rubbed.
84 pp. Tall 8vo. White cloth spine, black cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, paper spine and.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Ink name on front free endpaper, minor general wear.
92 pp. Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese American of Assyrian descent, an artist, poet and writer. He was born Gibran Khalil Gibran in Lebanon (at the.....
New York: A Citadel Press Book, 1990. Trade Paperback.
Page ridges foxed.
128, 95, 94 pp. Translated from the Arabic by Anthony R. Ferris. In this magnificent volume Gibran's writing in his beloved mother tongue, Arabic, have been translated superbly into Englis by his great friend, Anthony Rizeallah Ferris. Included.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2005. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Minor general wear.
xii, 371 pp. plus reader's guide. Author's first novel. "“I sat on a bench near a willow tree and watched a pair of kites soaring in the sky. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Edges rubbed and bumped.
371 pp. plus reader's guide. Author's first novel. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2004. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Spine creased.
xii, 371 pp. plus reader's guide. Author's first novel. "“I sat on a bench near a willow tree and watched a pair of kites soaring in the sky. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Corners lightly pushed.
372 pp. "Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a......
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Faint edge wear to jacket.
372 pp. "Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a......
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1914. Hanscom, Adelaide. Small Hard Cover.
No jacket. General wear.
Unpaginated. As translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With illustrations by Adelaide Hanscom. "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written.....
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co. James, Gilbert. Small Softcover.
Rear wrapper lightly toned, pages lightly foxed.
74 pp. As translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With illustrations by Gilbert James. "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his translation of a selection of.....
New York: De Luxe Editions / Three Sirens Press, 1935. Sullivan, Edmund J. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Spine heavily toned, minor wear to corners.
193 pp. 8vo. Suede spine over red-brown cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations on spine. The first and fifth editions of Fitzgerald's translation, with introduction. Includes beautiful.....
New York: The Heritage Club, 1940. Szyk, Arthur. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Lacks slipcase. Spine toned.
[36 pp.] Beige cloth, gilt decorations, blue titles (these colors were flipped in later Heritage Press edition). Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Color illustrations in color and gold by Arthur Szyk. Rubaiyat of.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1946. Szyk, Arthur. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Slipcase edges rubbed and discolored, spine a bit faded.
[36 pp.] Blue cloth spine, beige paper over boards, blue decorations, gilt titles (these colors are flipped compared to the design of the earlier.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1946. Szyk, Arthur. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Lacks slipcase and Sandglass insert. Boards rubbed.
[36 pp.] Blue cloth spine, beige paper over boards, blue decorations, gilt titles (these colors are flipped compared to the design of the earlier 1940 Heritage Club edition). Rendered into English verse.....
Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1886. Vedder, Elihu. Reprint. Large Hardcover.
Early (1886) reprint of the trade edition released the same year (1884) as the scarce limited edition of 100 copies. Boards rubbed with corners slightly exposed, hinges weakening, a few pages faintly foxed
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Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1894. Vedder, Elihu. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Signed by illustrator ('Elihu Vedder, Rome') on title page. Hinges just beginning to weaken, corners slightly exposed, a few minor scuffs and spots to boards, light stain along bottom page margin (does not.....