Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. First edition, first printing. [x], 323, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's pale red cloth stamped in red and lettered in gilt. Very Good with dulled and rubbed spine, dampstain to back board, faint tidemark along top edge, offsetting to paste down..... More
London: Peter Owen Ltd., 1978. First British edition. Signed by Yusuf Idris and inscribed in English to former owner in the year of publication. xii, 196 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver lettering. Near Fine in Fine unclipped dustjacket. Short stories from a major 20th century Egyptian writer..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1967. First American edition. [viii], 277 pp. Bound in publisher'slcloth and boards lettered in gray and purplish gilt, purple topstain.Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with sunned spine panel, price-clipped. A collection of the Argentine experimental writer's short stories including "Blow-Up," upon which the 1966 Antonioni..... More
New York: Random House, 1996. First edition, first printing. Signed by George Saunders on title page with a personal inscription: "To Gwen - with great thanks for teaching "The Falls" and for being a teacher. [signed] George Saunders." [viii], 179 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth backstrip lettered in gilt..... More
New York: David McKay Company Inc., 1944. First trade edition. New York variant (priority unknown). 31 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated boards. Very Good+ with slight lean to spine, light wear at head, thin hole in rear gutter, in Near Fine dust jacket, faint penciled price on front flap, light..... More