Flips Fine Books
1061 Penfield Way,
Greensboro,
GA 30642 USA
5165515325
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The Dream King Ludwig II of Bavaria / With a Chapter on Ludwig and the Arts By Dr. Michael Petzet $30.00 Description: Near fine(-) copy in near fine(-) dust jacket; top edge faded to dark grey; dj has only negligible rub at spine head and gilt lettering at back & on flaps is now undecipherable, unfortunately common to this printing; else fine. Sm. 4to 10"x 7 3/4" dark-blue cloth w/ gilt lettering & designs on spine; blue-grey top edge; 264 pgs including bibliography & index; illus throughout, incl 48 full-color plates; black dust jacket has wrap-around color illus of 'Ludwig sleighing', w/ lettering in gilt; ... Read More
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon $95.00 Description: Fine copy in near fine dust jacket; dj has only tiny closed nick to front top edge & slightest foxing to folds & flap tops, else clean & bright. Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley. 12mo 7 1/4"x 4 5/8" dark-gray cloth (not blue) w/ gilt lettering on spine; 162 pgs w/ translated excerpts & commentary; w/ Grove Press dj, supplied to exported copies? ($2.00 on front flap w/ 13 Grove titles listed at back); printed in Great Britain; (4th impression wasn't until 1957); preceded in U.S. ... Read More
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Snow Falling From a Bamboo Leaf: the Art of Haiku $15.00 Description: Fine copy. 7 1/2"x 5 1/2" blue wraps w/ illus cover; author photo by Toby Greenspan on back cover, $3.95 at top; 112 pgs, history, theory, 60 new translations & 'lives of four poets': Basho, Buson, Issa & Shiki. title-page & cover illus by Hiag Akmakjian. Read More
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The Selected Poems of Shuntaro Tanikawa $20.00 Description: Fine copy in fine(-) dust jacket: just small crease to front bottom edge, else as new. Translated from the Japanese by Harold Wright. 9"x 6" white pbk w/ grey lettering; Tanikawa b.1931; 148 pgs w/ 8-pg afterword; photo-illus dust jacket w/ $12.50 on front flap, poem at back; "this is the first large sampling of his work to appear in English". jacket design by David Bullen w/ photo of the author by Kay Orihara. Read More
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$15.00 Description: Fair copy only in good(-) dust jacket; water damage to back cover & lower front panel, causing some discoloration & minor wrinkles to back, discolor at front; dj not as badly affected, w/ rumpling at back flattened & small stains disguised in photo and... Sm. 4to 10 1/4"x 6 3/4" heavy threaded, cream cloth w/ image of farmer printed in green-outline on front, traced from dj photo at back; lettering in green on spine; top edge celery green; 143 pgs w/ 136 photogravures, from the film, co ... Read More
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$17.50 Description: Fine copy, unread. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. 7 5/8"x 5 1/8" trade pbk w/ illus card-stock cover; $1.95 on front; 178 pgs w/ 8 full-page photo-illus in text; hbk pub in 1974. quote by Donald Keene on back cover. Read More
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Nathaniel Hawthorne a Modest Man $20.00 Description: Near fine copy in good(+) dust jacket; dj shows mild rubbing to corners; head of spine & rear top edge mildly rubbed & creased; base of spine rubbed w/ small nick at fold; slight fading to lettering on spine; light soiling to edges at top, spine & folds. 8vo 8 3/4"x 5 5/8" dark-green cloth w/ 'house of seven gables' image printed in blue on front; lettering in blue on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; 356 pgs including frontispiece portrait, 11 illus, bibliography & index; front of white dust jacket ... Read More
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$20.00 Description: Fine copy. Translated from the Japanese by Paul McCarthy. 8 1/2"x 5 3/8" glossy trade pbk, illus cover w/ "Nov. 1990, "$18.95 on front; 164 pgs w/ 8-page preface by McCarthy; 3 stories: "Cat (1938), "Little Kingdom (1918) & "Prof. Rado (1925, '28). quotes by Kay Boyle, Yukio Mishima, Francis King, Ronald Blythe & Donald Richie on back cover. cover art by Yamashiro Ryuichi. Read More
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$15.00 Description: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Japanese by Paul St John Mackintosh & Maki Sugiyama. 8vo 8 3/4"x 5 1/8" red-orange cloth, brite-white endpapers; 189 pgs w/ 14-page intro; illus dust jacket w/ $22.95 on front flap, author photo at back. quote by Yukio Mishima on rear flap. jacket design by Susi Mawani. Read More
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