False Papers; Essays on Exile and Memory
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. First edition. 8vo. 182 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (80402). More
Essays
Agate's Folly; A Pleasaunce
London: Chapman & Hall, 1925. First edition. 12mo. 268, [4] pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (96082). More
Common Touch
London: Chapman & Hall, 1926. First edition. 12mo. 247 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (96081). More
Art of Living
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933. First edition. 8vo. 244 pp. Cloth binding, gilt lettering spine, no jacket, else very good condition. (80527). More
Desmond MacCarthy; The Man and His Writings
London: Constable, 1984. First edition. 8vo. 313 pp. ILlustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (82208). More
Abundance; Narrative Essays Old and New
New York: Ecco, HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. First edition. 12mo. [xxvii], 271 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine condition. (75908). Foreword by Geoff Dyer. More
a long the riverrun; Selected Essays
New York: Knopf, 1989. First edition. 8vo. 277 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (81187). More
Vision and Design
New York: Brentano's, [1924]. New impression. 112mo. 302 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, , good condition. (81615). More
Essays of an Ex-Librarian
New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1901. First American edition. 12mo. [viii], 359 pp. Cloth binding, gilt stamped lettering cover and spine, t.e.g., gift inscription ffep, overall very good condition. (87820). More
Essays After Eighty
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. First edition. 8vo. 134 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine condition. (44799). More
Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. First edition. 8vo. 336 pp. Softcover binding, fine condition. (99681). More
Time For Reflection; From the Spoken Word
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Company, 1989. Fifth printing. 8vo. 192 pp. Hardcover binding in clipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (7772). More
Company of Readers; Uncollected Writings of W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from The Readers' Subscription and Mid-Century Book Clubs
New York: Free Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo. [xxx], 288 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine copy. (82838). Foreword by Jacques Barzun. Introduction by Arthur Krystal. More
New Spirit
London: Dennis Dobson, 1946. First edition. 8vo. 144 pp. Cloth binding in dustwrapper, unclipped, edgewear, else very good copy. (84775). More
5,000,000 Widows - 10,000,000 Orphans - Women! Do You Want That Again?
La Jolla, CA: Parenthesis Writing Series, 1996. First edition thus. 8vo. 20 pp. Softcover binding, pictorial cover, very good condition. (98295). Introductory essay: Tina Modotti: The Ink of Resistance by Pasquale Verdicchio. Originally published in German, 1932. More
Man Who Never Was; Essays on Fernando Pessoa
Providence, RI: Gavea-Brown, 1982. First edition. 8vo. 194 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (82573). Introduction by George Monteiro. More
Novelist as Thinker; Focus Four
London: Dennis Dobson, 1947. First edition. 8vo. 167 pp. Cloth binding in dustwrapper, clipped, very good copy. (84950). More
Opera, Sex, and Other Vital Matters
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002. First edition. 8vo. [xviii], 332 pp. Softcover, pictorial wraps, very good condition. (84454). More
Masques & Phases
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1909. First edition. 12mo. [xii], 315 pp. Cloth binding, gilt embossed lettering and tooling, good condition. (76948). More
Inclinations
New York: Scribners, 1949. First edition. 8vo. 246 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (75535). More
Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982. First edition. 8vo. [xv], 288 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclpped dustwrapper, upper corner chipped, else book is in very good condition. (90535). More
Buried Caesars; Essays in Literary Appreciation
Chicago, IL: Covici-McGee Co., 1928. First edition. 12mo. 243 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (76947). More
Oriental Encounters; Two Essays in Bad Taste / Passing of the Eunuch • Old Movements in New China
Chicago, IL: Normandie House, 1938. First edition. 8vo. 45 pp. Signed by Vincent Starrett. Orange cloth binding, gilt lettering cover an spine, without slipcase, else very good condition. (92901). Laid in is a photograph with typed inscription verso: The two oldest eunuchs at Kang Tieh Mu, both in their eighties..... More
Philip Sparrow Tells All; Lost Essays by Samuel Steward, Writer, Professor, Tattoo Artist
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015. First edition. 8vo. [xviii], 244 pp. Illustrations. Softcover, pictorial wraps, fine condition. (63772). Edited by Jeremy Mulderig. Foreword by Justin Spring. More