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Figures of Speech ~ Sixty Ways to Turn a Phrase

Quinn, Arthur · 1982 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Gibbs M. Smith First edition, trade softcover. Published Salt Lake City:Gibbs M. Smith, 1982, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 103pp. Paper age toned, else near fine. SynopsisWriting is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as t…

Benchley Lost and Found (Dover Humor)

Benchley, Robert · 1970 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Dover Publications First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Dover, 1970. 8vo. wrappers, 183pp., illustrated. Near fine. These "39 prodigal pieces" show Robert Benchley at the height of his whimsicality, damning with gentle urbanity all the things that peeve every one of …

Memories of Mistresses

Luigi Barzini · 1986 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Mcmillan First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Mcmillan, 1986, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 311pp. Very good. Very Good No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 311

No Name

Collins, Wilkie · 1978 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Dover Pubns First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Dover, 1978, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 609pp., with 16 period illustrations. slight foxing edges/endpapers. Very good. Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian Eng…

The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed

Norman Lewis · 1984 · The Wild Muse

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Hippocrene Books First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Hippocrene Books, 1984, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 274pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Tiny ding on edge of last few sheets, else fine. Traces the history of the Sicilian mafia, looks at their feuds, customs, a…

The Great Fire

Hazzard, Shirley · 2004 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Picador Trade softcover. Published NY: Picador 2004, ninth printing. 8vo. wrappers, 326pp. Some age toning to paper, else near fine. The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate af…

Travesties: A Play

Stoppard, Tom · 1975 · The Wild Muse

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Grove Press, 1975, second printing. 8vo. wrappers, 99pp. Paper age toned, else very good. Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James …

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land

Stoppard, Tom · 1976 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Grove Press, 1976, second printing. 8vo. wrappers, 75pp. Near fine. Near Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 2nd Printing NY 8vo 75

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul: Two Plays

Stoppard, Tom · 1978 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Grove Press First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Grove Press, 1978, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 124pp. Near fine. It is Tom Stoppard's very special skill as the master comedian of ideas in the modern theater to create brilliant, biting humor out of serious concerns.…

Appleby's Other Story (28) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2000 · The Wild Muse

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2000, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 179pp. Fine. During a walk to Elvedon House, palatial home of the Tythertons, Sir John Appleby and Chief Constable Colonel Pride are stunned to fi…

Appleby And The Ospreys (35) (Inspector Appleby)

Innes, Michael · 2000 · The Wild Muse

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

House of Stratus First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2000, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 159pp. Fine. Clusters, a great country house, is troubled by bats, as Lord and Lady Osprey complain to their guests, who include first rate detec…

The Tryst (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Dibdin, Michael · 2003 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2003, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 168pp. As new. "One of my patients thinks somebody's trying to kill him," Aileen Macklin says to her husband over breakfast. A psychiatrist…

Thanksgiving (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Dibdin, Michael · 2002 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2002, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 182pp. As new. Thanksgiving is a moving portrait of the profound effects of love when all that seems to remain is loss and grief. Unhinged …

Venere in cucina-Venus in the kitchen

Norman Douglas; Pilaff Bey · 2005 · The Wild Muse

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Edizioni La conchiglia First edition, trade softcover. Bilingual edition, text in Italian and English. Published Capri: Edizioni La conchiglia, 2005, first printing. 8vo. wrappers with French flaps, 325pp., illustrated. As new. The cult classic-now available for the first time…

The Poems of Marianne Moore

Moore, Marianne · 2005 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Penguin Publishing Group First edition, trade softcover. Published London: Penguin Publishing Group, 2005, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, xxviii+452pp. Age toning to paper, creasing to publisher's blurb page, else near fine. This complete collection of Moore's poetry, lovingly…

Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy

Astarita, Tommaso · 2006 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

W. W. Norton & Company First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Norton, 2006, was printed on demand in 2011. 8vo. wrappers, 352pp., illustrated. As new. The history of southern Italy is entirely distinct from that of northern Italy, yet it has never been given its own due…

Delights & Shadows

Kooser, Ted · 2004 · The Wild Muse

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Copper Canyon Press Signed first edition, seventh printing. Trade softcover. Published Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. 8vo. wrappers, xii+84pp. Signed by author on name label attached to half title. As new. Ted Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate (2…

Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and the Brother

O'Brien, Flann · 2003 · The Wild Muse

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Townhouse First edition, trade softcover. Published London:Scribner Townhouse, 2003, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 166pp. Some age tone to the paper, else fine. Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing London 8vo 192

A Venetian Theory of Heaven

Riviere, William · 1993 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Sceptre Second printing. Trade softcover. Published London:Sceptre, 1993. 8vo. wrappers, 189pp. Some age toning to the paper, else fine. Privileged, rich and self-centred, Amedea's passion is for Venice, the city of her birth. Her marriage to an English architect has begun to …

The Wanderer's Guide To Lucca

Brian Robert Lindquist · 2011 · The Wild Muse

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Lindquist Historical Guides, Inc. First edition, trade softcover. Published Bridgeport, CT: Lindquist Historical Guides, Inc., 2011, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 375pp., illustrated b/w photos, plans, color maps. Fine. The only in-depth guide to the fascinating city of Lucca…