![Catching Light: Poems [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/725/248/1624248725.0.m.jpg)
Catching Light: Poems [Inscribed]
by BYER, Kathryn Stripling
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in metallic blue on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-62,[2]pp. Title page inscribed, "For Julia Mason / All good works - / Kay Byer / 7/10/06" and signed by Byer in full above. A Fine copy. Dustjacket with impression mark at barcode on... Read More
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![New Poems 1960 [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/757/158/1253158757.0.m.jpg)
New Poems 1960 [Limited Edition]
by BYNNER, Witter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1960]. First Edition. Limited to 1750 copies of which this is no. 1265. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in black decorative dust jacket, red topstain; [14],134pp. White portions of upper and lower jacket panels rather dust-soiled, some light shelf wear else Very Good and sound.
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Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition
by BYRD, Richard Evelyn; Claude A. Swanson, intro
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Edition. Large octavo (24cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Paul Laune; xxi,[3],405pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 23 leaves of plates, map endpapers by James Darley. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a few very short closed tears, spine faded. Fine in Very Good jacket. Generously illustrated account of the second Byrd... Read More
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A Daughter of the Medici: and Other Stories
by BYRNE, Donn
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935. Later Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 282pp. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00), tiny nick and tanning to spine panel, with tiny tears and rubbing to spine ends and extremities; Very Good+. The Irish-American author's collection of... Read More
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Field of Honor
by BYRNE, Donn
New York: The Century Company, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. [July, 1929]. Octavo (19cm); brown cloth covered boards titled in black on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 435pp.; spine ends gently pushed; dusty upper textblock; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00) with minor nicks and short tears to the extremities; toning to spine with publisher's "first printing"... Read More
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ALONG THE DARK SHORE
by Byrne, Edward; John Ashbery
Brockport: BOA Editions, 1977. First edition. One of 50 in a special binding - not signed as called for (of a total of 500 in different configurations, including 350 in wraps, and 100 in a jacketed hardcover). Octavo; cloth-backed marbled boards. Bottom a bit shelfworn, otherwise quite Fine. A nice production, with an introduction by John Ashbery.... Read More
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Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order
by BYRNE, Jeffrey James
New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. First Edition. Octavo. Paper-covered boards in dust jacket; xv, 388pp. Trivial shelf wear to boards and jacket, minor soiling to back cover of jacket, else a tight, unmarked, near-new copy. Fine. In publisher's series "Oxford Studies in International History.
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Manfred / Hebrew Melodies
by BYRON, George Gordon, Lord
London: John Murray, 1817 / 1815. First Editions. Second issue of Manfred, with the imprint on the half-title verso and no quotation on the title page. Undetermined issue of Hebrew Melodies. Octavo (20.5cm), both titles bound together. In twentieth-century marbled paper-covered boards, titled in black on paper spine label, all edges marbled; later off-white endpapers; [1-7] 8-80, [viii], [1]-53,... Read More
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Don Juan. Cantos 1-XVI
by BYRON, George Gordon Noel (Lord)
London: Thomas Davison / John Hunt, 1820-24. Six volumes bound in three. Demy-octavos (16.5cm); contemporary full diced calf; bound including original title pages; half-titles and terminal leaves where called for. An attractive set in contemporary binding, sympathetically re-backed preserving the original endpapers as well as most of the original spines and spine labels. Early printed bookplate of John Colston... Read More
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth
by BYRON, Lord
London: John Murray, 1818. First Edition. Second issue. Octavo (23.5cm.); original drab boards with printed paper spine label, edges uncut; xiv,[2],257pp. Boards a bit worn, spine label darkened, early 20th-century bookseller's small description tipped to front free endpaper; Very Good and sound. Contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Second issue with all points as delineated in WISE, pp. 60-61.... Read More
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The Prisoner of Chillon
by BYRON, Lord
London: John Murray, 1816. Softcover. Octavo (20.5cm); marble printed wrappers, with title label on front cover; 60pp. Tanning to edges of textblock, with interior foxing and finger-soil; Very Good+. Collection of verse focused on the imprisonment of François Bonivard, a Genevois monk. Concludes with 4pp. of Mr. Murray ads dated November 1816. [84276].
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Mazeppa, a Poem
by BYRON, Lord
London: John Murray, 1819. First Edition. Second issue with p. [70] blank and imprint moved to p. 71 verso. Octavo (22.5cm.); original drab wrappers in custom-made cloth four-flap chemise; [4],71,[1],[8](ads)pp. Light dust-soil, shallow loss to spine foot, very faint contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper. Very Good and sound. WISE I, p. 131-133.
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![Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of Dante, a Poem [BOUND WITH] Sardanapalus, a Tragedy. The Two Foscari, a Tragedy. Cain, a Mystery](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/945/882/814882945.0.m.jpg)
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of Dante, a Poem [BOUND WITH] Sardanapalus, a Tragedy. The Two Foscari, a Tragedy. Cain, a Mystery
by BYRON, Lord
London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. Two volumes bound in one. Octavo (21.75cm.). Contemporary three-quarter maroon marocco over marbled boards, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges speckled red, marbled endpapers. Extremities a bit scuffed, some foxing to preliminaries, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary armorial bookplate of a Robert Frederick Boyle to front pastedown. 1. First edition, second... Read More
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An Introduction to Germany for Occupation Families
by [UNITED STATES FORCES] Information and Education Service (prepared by)
[n.p.]: Headquarters, U.S. Forces European Theater, [1947]. Oblong octavo (16cm); brown cloth covered boards, with titling stamped in light brown on front cover; map illustrated rear endpaper; 186pp; photographic frontispiece, with black and white photographic halftones and additional illustrations throughout. Modest rubbing to spine ends and edges, with two small indentations to upper board edges; Good. Unofficial... Read More
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The Jewel Merchants
by CABELL, James Branch
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1921. Limited Edition. #311 of 1040 numbered copies. Octavo (22cm). Brown cloth in dark green dust jacket; 63,[1]pp. Unopened. A straight copy, slightly rubbed at edges, gilt dulled and slightly worn, but tight: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed, toned at spine, with short cracks to flap folds: just Very Good. [63903].
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The Music From Behind the Moon: An Epitome
by CABELL, James Branch (text); Leon Underwood (wood engravings)
New York: The John Day Company, 1926. First Edition. One of 3000 copies. Publisher's typed note, regarding 25 copies with signed engravings, laid in. Quarto (28cm); black cloth-covered boards, with paper title label on spine; lower edge untrimmed; 54pp; eight wood engravings at frontispiece and throughout text. Previous owner's name inked to front endpaper. Shelf-soil to covers and interior,... Read More
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Chivalry
by CABELL, James Branch; [Howard Pyle, illus.]
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. First Edition. First printing. Original cloth, stamped in white, green, and gilt, top edge gilt, with later protective glassine; red and white endpapers; [xii],224pp; 12 color plates. Straight but rubbed, with design on front and spine flaking off; internally clean: Good or better.
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Taboo: A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Saevius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
by CABELL, James Branch
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1921. First Edition. First Printing. This edition is limited to nine hundred and twenty numbered copies, this being 349. Octavo (21cm); brown boards titled in gilt on spine; 40pp. Former owner's decorative bookplate of Nat Wollf to front pastedown, causing faint offsetting to endpaper; small bookseller's ticket from "Sunrise Turn" [one of the first... Read More
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![The Jewel Merchants: a Comedy in One Act [Limited ed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/635/155/1308155635.0.m.jpg)
The Jewel Merchants: a Comedy in One Act [Limited ed]
by CABELL, James Branch
New York: Robert McBride, 1921. First, Limited Edition. First printing. One of 1040 hand-numbered copies in the first edition. Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 63pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, with text partially unopened. In the original printed dustwrapper, also Near Fine.
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![Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/922/900/1398900922.0.m.jpg)
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice [Limited Edition]
by CABELL, James Branch (author); Frank C. Papé (artist); Hugh Walpole (intro.)
London: John Lane, 1921. UK Edition, Limited. One of 3,000 copies. Octavo (25cm); black cloth covered boards titled in gilt on front cover and spine; red topstain; 325,[4]pp; illustrated endpapers and 13 plates by Papé, including tipped in frontispiece. Spine ends pushed; rubbing to the joints, corners and lower board edges; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. "Jurgen... Read More
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Straws and Prayer-Books
by CABELL, James Branch
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1924. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm); textured maroon cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with publisher's logo in gilt to front board; dustjacket; 302pp. Tight, clean and unmarked, Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped ($2.50 price on front flap), with small loss at crown and old clear tape repairs at crown and... Read More
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![Something about Eve: A Comedy of Fig-leaves [Signed, numbered]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/984/828/1671828984.0.m.jpg)
Something about Eve: A Comedy of Fig-leaves [Signed, numbered]
by CABELL, James Branch
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1927. Limited Edition. Large Paper Edition, one of 850 copies signed and numbered copies (831 intended for sale), of which this is no.320. Octavo (25cm); vellum spine and corners over green paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; 364pp; frontispiece illustration. Spine-tanned, with light shelf-soil;... Read More
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Between Dawn and Sunrise: Selections from the Writings of James Branch Cabell
by CABELL, James Branch; John Macy (ed.)
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. First Edition. Large octavo (22.5cm); tan cloth boards, stamped in brown on spine. in blue pictorial dustwrapper; xxvii, 291pp. Dustwrapper soiled and toned; chipping and small tears to extremities with minor material loss (especially along top edges); inner panels foxed. Textblock also foxed intermittently, with toning to preliminaries and top edge;... Read More
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![Ballades From the Hidden Way [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/876/033/1524033876.0.m.jpg)
Ballades From the Hidden Way [Limited Edition, Signed]
by CABELL, James Branch (poems); DWIGGINS, W.A. (design)
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First, Limited Edition. One of 831 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.524. Octavo (24.5cm); blue paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and covers; [ii],[9],10-41,[5]pp; typography and decorations designed by W.A. Dwiggins. Light wear to extremities, especially the... Read More
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The Silver Stallion, a Comedy of Redemption
by CABELL, James Branch
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1928. Illustrated Edition. First Impression Thus. Octavo (24cm); black cloth covered boards, decorated in pictorial gilt on cover and titled in gilt on the spine; red topstain; map endpapers; dustjacket; 359pp.; illustrated with eleven full-page drawings plus head and tailpieces by Frank C. Papé. Spine ends and corners are gently pushed; former owner's printed... Read More
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