The Book of the Jaguar Priest: A Translation of the Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin, with Commentary Makemson, Maud Worcestor [Very Good] [Hardcover]

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B&W Photographs, Maps and Plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1108 pages; 1931 Harcourt Brace and Company. Two volumes HC slipcased and with original glassine dust jackets. 952; clvi (notes) pp. Both volumes very tightly bound in original heavy brown... More

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Blue boards and gilt lettering in good order, strong and square, some fading on spine. Pages are clean. More

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From its very first days, the church has been lifting up its songs and poems from the earth to the heavens, whether in praise, thanksgiving, or lament. Join poets from across Syria, Europe, Armenia, Ethiopia, China, and the Philippines in raising More

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VG, no dws. 8vo, 2 vols: xx+506+lxii & xiv+450+xciv pp (plus plates), brown cloth with spines stamped in gold, no dustwrappers or slipcase. A solid copy of the two-volume edition of the works of Rabelais, edited by Albert Jay Nock and Catherine Rose... More

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April 1938 reprint of first edition. Blue cloth hard covers with gilt titles and decoration on the front and spine. Light surface rubbing to the boards. Gilt top edge. Partial tanning on the first and last free endpapers, some short notes on both... More

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Later half-morocco and cloth. 4to. xiv, (14), 600pp. Lacking 8 page index at end. First complete English translation of this Roman agricultural manual by the Roman soldier and farmer. It covers all fields including the estate, fruit and olive trees,... More

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[Lonnrot, Elias] and Johnson, Aili Kolehmainen (prose translator) : Kalevala: a Prose Translation From the Finnish. Hancock (MI) : Book Concern, 1950. Later stamp to the title page, Book Concern copyright 1951. No additional printings identified.... More

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'Sacrament an Alter' (The Sacrament of the Altar) is a Cornish patristic catena selected and translated from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which is attached to the translation of Bishop Bonner's Homilies in the Tregear Manuscript (BL Add. MS 46397). No More

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First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. The book centres on the figure of Ilya... More

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Association Copy. Signed by Merwin on the half title with a note by fellow poet and Poet's Theatre associate William Matchett, noting the book was given to him from Merwin in April 1961; with Matchett's bookplate to the ffep. 311pp. This is Merwin's... More

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Dust jacket has light edgewear, now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Book has been gently read, no apparent defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 306 pages. E1 More

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First Edition Very Good+ Hardcover Very Good+ Price cut Dust Jacket with the Horn of Roland and red and black battle ready drawings and designs Illustrated By Christine Price. Both book and jacket solid, Very Good+ shape NOT a library copy. See our... More

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Marbled boards with maroon pebbled leather spine lettered in gilt with 4 raised bands, marbled EPs. The book has rubbing at corner tips, cracked paper inside hinges but hinges very strong and nowhere near breaking of becoming loose, private owner... More

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Collectible Fine Hardcover Fine Mylar Protected Dust Jacket. Price Intact NOT a library copy. 98 pp. Uncommonly collectible conditon copy of this translation of the Prose "Didot" Perceval. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans. Since only the Grail... More