Token Love: First Edition (15 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by Author Signed by Author Mild shelfwear. New looking pages. Signed by author on title page. Signed by Author.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4 pp., Photo of Author at Frontis, Poem entitled "The Mountain Encircled," Orig White Pamphlet, 3-ring holes else VG, 1st ed.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4 pp., Photo of Author at Frontis, Poem entitled "Walt Whitman's Sprig of Lilac," Orig White Pamphlet, 3-ring holes else VG, 1st ed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, UK, 1994. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. No dust jacket as issued. Minor cover blemishes. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; children's Picture Books; ISBN: 0001375024. ISBN/EAN: 9780001375024. Inventory No: 11080343. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Wear to head and foot of spine and corners (fraying, rubbing and bumping); slight scuffing, rubbing and browning to covers (cloth; chiefly to edges); slight shaking to few signatures; slight internal browning and/or foxing (chiefly to edges and preliminaries). 232 pages. Probable later issue of the gift book, containing 33 prose and verse pieces in all (notably 'Little Goody Two Shoes' and 'The Birds and the Beggar of Bagdat'). Uncredited editor/compiler; dated 1859 on title page verso. Still a fairly tight and reasonably clean copy internally.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Binding is solid. Glossy cover wraps. Worn along extremities. Corners are rubbed. Interior pages are bright and clean. Signed by Author(s).

Original Pink Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 24 Pp. 6" Tall. Complete In Original Light Pink Printed Wrappers. 1841 Date On Cover And Title Page; This Title In List Of Books At One Cent To Six Cents On Back Cover; There Was Also An 1840 Edition Of This Book. This Printing With 11 Illustrations Of Children's Activities On Front Wrapper, Including Small Illustration Of Three Boys Playing Baseball, Two Girls Playing Badminton, Two Boys Flying Kites, Children With Hoops, Etc. Minute Losses At Edges, Long Tear On Front Cover Neatly Repaired Using Extremely Thin Thread. Original Owner's Inscription On Title Page. This First Edition Is Quite Scarce. Woodcuts (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Bound in green cloth, black titlees and decoration, litho on front board peeled away in places, end-papers replaced.; 6" x 4"; 64 pages.

First Edition. Previous owner's inscription. Very good copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Some scattered foxing internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; viii, 222 pages : 12 cm. ill. Subjects; Love story. Love and friendship stories. Love and friendship. Hymns. Love hymns. 1 Kg.…

Condition: Wie neu. 8°. Volume I.: VIII, 280 pages / Volume II: 247 pages / Volume III: 77 pages / Volume IV: 193 pages / Volume V: 423 pages. Three Volumes in original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar / One Volume in Softcover / One Volume in Hardcover. Very good condition. From the library of Paul de Man. Especially the Durling - Volume of interest. Inscribed by the author: "For Paul de Man with fond regards - Bob". Volume I includes essays by Durling on "Ancient and Medieval Influences", Two Roman Poets, Chaucer, Petrarch, Four Renaissance Epics: Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser. Volume II includes for example the following essays: The Poetics of Becoming: Paul de Man in the Fifties / Poetics, Metaphysics, Temporality: Paul de Man and Martin Heidegger / Language, Nature and the Absence of Being: Paul de Man's Romanticism etc. Volume III is a first edition, signed and inscribed by american poet and editor, Theodore Russell Weiss. Volume IV includes essays like "The Literary Reputation of Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti" / Langston Hughes's Works Translated into Spanish / etc. Volume V inscludes many different and important essays by Harry Levin, like: "Why Literary Criticism is not an exact Science" / A Dialogue with Arthur Lovejoy / Memoirs of Scholars (Milman Parry, Fernand Baldensperger, Renato Poggioli, Perry Miller) / An Introduction to Ben Jonson, On the Earl of Rochester, William Carlos Williams and the Old World etc. etc. Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 December 21, 1983), born Paul Adolph Michel Deman, was a Belgian-born literary critic and literary theorist. At the time of his death, de Man was one of the most prominent literary critics in the United Statesknown particularly for his importation of German and French philosophical approaches into Anglo-American literary studies and critical theory. Along with Jacques Derrida, he was part of an influential critical movement that went beyond traditional interpretation of literary texts to reflect on the epistemological difficulties inherent in any textual, literary, or critical activity. This approach aroused considerable opposition, which de Man attributed to "resistance" inherent in the difficult enterprise of literary interpretation itself. (Wikipedia). …

First edition (?). 8vo. (34) pp. Illustrated from photographs, five plates, all save one featuring children. Cover title: A Token of. Love / by E.B.D. Not recorded on OCLC. Original gilt-stamped brown suede. Some interior storage soiling and foxing, but a good solid copy.

First Edition. Previous owner's inscription. Very good copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Some scattered foxing internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; viii, 222 pages : 12 cm. ill. Subjects; Love story. Love and friendship stories. Love and friendship. Hymns. Love hymns. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Outward bowed boards, light edge wear and dirt staining on boards. Inscription and 1857 date on first blank page. 108 pages with light staining and foxing. Somewhat shaken but all is still attached through string binding in spine. See pictures.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Good minus wraps, softcover. (Pages: 25) cover has tears, chips, rubs and soiling/ text has foxing and wear to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Publisher's gilt-decorated red calf. 8vo. 288pp. Illustrated. All edges gilt. A Victorian-era gift book with a selection of prose and poetry by authors such as Robert Southey, Christoph Durang, Derwent Conway, Theodore S. Gay, Rose Hendrick and others. The book is illustrated with 6 engraved plates. A good copy with some rubbing to the covers and some wear to the corners and spine tips. The text is good with some scattered foxing, occasionally heavy. The front flyleaf is lacking in this copy. The first few pages have a faint stain in the upper left corner.…