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Complete Works of William Shakespeare, The, Illustrated by Rockwell Kent : The Cambridge Edition Text

By: Shakespeare, William, with William Aldis Wright; Illustrated by Rockwell Kent

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Garden City Publishing Company: 1936

Seller ID: 21971

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fair dust jacket

1527 pages; 4to (10.5") 27 cm; Thick heavy hardcover, dark red buckram cloth, [xx] + 1527 pages, all edges speckled, main text in 2 columns, indexes, glossary, compact synopsises, 40 full-page b/w illustrations, poems and sonnets plus all 37 plays. ; "The most distingiushed and readable one-volume Shakespeare ever printed." Edited by William Aldis Wright. New preface by Christopher Morley. Notes by Victor Gollancz. Amazing illustrations by the great Rockwell Kent. ; Book shows only a touch of shelfwear. Jacket (which has blue background, not red) is heavily worn, split near spine, but unclippe...
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Valiant Bugles, the ; Paperback Original, 1962

By: Shirreffs, Gordon D.

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Signet/New American Library: 1962

Seller ID: 20258

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

128 pages; 12mo (7") 18 cm; Paperback, 128 pages, all edges inked red. ; Signet S-2018. 1st printing, 1962, stated. Blurb: 'The army captain lived only to kill the Apache chief called The Butcher, and he would lead the US cavalry straight to hell to get him.' ; Written by famous author of Judas Gun, Rio Bravo, Lonesome Trail, etc. ; Very minor edgewear only. No crease to spine. No marks. Binding tight and square. ; Signet S Series; Vol. 2018
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Poems of Elizabeth Shreve-Chambers : Sketches of Her Life and Reminiscences

By: Shreve-Chambers, Elizabeth, and Binford T. Shreve

Price: $74.00

Publisher: Binford T. Shreve: 1919

Seller ID: 21350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

139 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark green cloth, gilt lettering on front, two b/w frontispiece portraits: Enoch Shreve and Elizabeth Shreve, each on glossy plate with tissue guard; author bio; 16 glossy b/w photos with captions; 82 original poems with rhyme and meter. ; Compiled and published by author's son, Binford T. Shreve. Printed by Bradshaw Printing, Bayard, Ohio. Charming poems written between 1836 and 1912, some few previously published in Sebring News, Ohio, but most never before published. Quaker author who taught Sunday school in local Methodist church. ; Book shows almos...
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Without Dogma : A Novel of Modern Poland

By: Sienkiewicz, Henryk, with Iza Young

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company: 1897

Seller ID: 20162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

423 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Hardcover, olive green cloth; coat of arms of Poland on front in red, black and gilt; [xvi] + 423 + 7 pages; gilt spine lettering; black endpapers; publisher catalog in rear. ; Translated by Iza Young. ; Fascinating novel, written in diary style, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, remowned Polish writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature. Originally published in Poland 1891. This is an early US edition, 1897. ; Owner long ago lightly penciled his name and/or address on front endpaper, halftitle page, and rear endpaper, and did sums on front flyleaf. No other marks. Cloth sh...
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Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, 1e : (1st US Edition, 1974) an Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-II

By: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1974

Seller ID: 12700

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

660 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Thick hardcover, black cloth, 660 pages, gray endpapers, endnotes, glossaries, index, 9 b/w photos with captions. ; 1st US edition, copyright 1973, published 1974, First Edition stated. Original pr ice 12 50 on jacket. No dimple. Translated by Thomas P. Whitney. Book designed by Sidney Feinberg. ; Top edge foxed. Front endpaper has small bookstore sticker and monochrome bookplate affixed. Jacket has light crease to front flap. No other defects.
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1001 Lewdest Limericks : An Erotic Collection

By: Stanza, Ronald

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Citadel Press/Carol Publishing Group: 1997

Seller ID: 21244

ISBN: 0806517743

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

215 pages; 8vo (8") 21 cm; Black softcover, [vi] + 215 pages, 1001 alarmingly dirty limericks. ; Copyright 1995. This edition 1997. ; This volume contains 1001 limericks selected for their raunchiness. ; A touch of edgewear only.
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Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins on Stage, Volume 4 : June 13, 1960, to September 17, 1961

By: Starr, Leonard, and Charles Pelto

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Classic Comics Press: 2008

Seller ID: 21920

ISBN: 1605850772

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

264 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Large oblong softcover, 264 pages, illustrated throughout in comic-strip style. ; Vol-4 ONLY of a 13-vol series. Introduction by Eddie Campbell. Historical essay by Richard Howel. Interview with Leonard Starr by Richard Howell and Carol Kalisk. Fifteen months worth of popular soap-opera show-biz comic strip, Mary Perkins on Stage. ; Last few pages slightly wavy. No other defects.
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Forgotten Village, the : Life in a Mexican Village, with 136 Photographs from the Film of the Same Name

By: Steinbeck, John, with Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander Hackensmid; Illustrated by Robert Kline

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Viking Press: 1941

Seller ID: 20584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket

143 pages; 4to (10.25") 26 cm; Tall hardcover, beige cloth, 143 pages, list of film credits, 136 full-page b/w photos with captions. ; 2nd printing before publication stated. ; Book shows only a touch of shelfwear. Jacket rubbed, spotted, with small edge chips, but all readable.
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Poganuc People : Their Loves and Lives (1st Edition, 1878)

By: Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Illustrated by John Filmer

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Fords, Howard & Hulbert: 1878

Seller ID: 16321

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

375 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, reddish-brown cloth, gilt title on spine, black decor and black lettering on front, 375 pages + 3-pg publisher catalog in rear, 4 full-page b/w illustrations. ; 1st edition. Copyright page 1878. No other dates. No other printings listed. List of author's works includes this title and states 'Just out.' ; Ms. Stowe's semi-autobiographiccal and final novel. ; Boards slightly bowed. Cloth worn at extremities but not frayed. Owner name, place and date (1905) neatly penned on front endpaper in fountain pen in a fine hand. Front free endpaper missing. Pages a...
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Postmodern Archipelago, the : Two Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy

By: Swanwick, Michael; Illustrated by Michael Dashow

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Tachyon Publications: 1997

Seller ID: 19099

ISBN: 0964832062

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

66 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Color illustrated softcover booklet, [iv] + 66 pages, two remarkable essays, with chapter endnotes. ; 1st edition, October 1997, stated. Cover art by Michael Dashow. Edited by Jacob Weisman. Includes: A User's Guide to the Post Moderns, 1986, and, In the Tradition, 1994, with a new introduction by author, 1997.; Very minor shelfwear. ; Highly controversial.
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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Annotated Edition : Edited with Notes and Commentary by Arthur E. Case

By: Swift, Jonathan, with Arthur E. Case

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ronald Press Company: 1955

Seller ID: 20328

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

374 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, dark blue cloth, [xvi] + 374 pages, footnotes, endnotes, appendix with bibliography, brief biography of Jonathan Swift, themes of Gulliver's Travels, textual variants, etc. ; Copyright 1938. This is 17th printing, 1955. ; Minor exterior wear. Main defect, book has several pages with margin notes neatly penciled in. Jacket sunned, spotted, with closed tears, but all readable.
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Works of Tacitus, The, Volume 1, the Annals : Annotated Edition, the Oxford Translation, Revised, with Notes

By: Tacitus

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, Publishers: 1883

Seller ID: 20332

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

464 pages; 12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Vol-1 *only* but Annals are complete. Hardcover, purple blindstamped cloth, [vi] + 464 pages, copious footnotes. English throughout. ; This edition copyright 1868. This printing 1883. Vol-1 only of a 2-vol set. ; Contents: Annals of Tacitus, Book I through Book XVI. This is the complete number of books of Annals. ; History of Rome, by Publius Cornelius Tacitus, aka Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, in the First Century of the Christian Era. ; Minor exterior wear. Cloth faded to a warm gray on spine and around edges, as usual. Gold spine lettering rubbed but just readable....
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Home Ballads with Illustrations : Bayard Taylor's Home Ballads, Illustrated

By: Taylor, Bayard

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin & Company: 1881

Seller ID: 21165

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

64 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark brown leather, gilt lettering, 64 pages numbered to 61, dark brown floral endpapers in green and gilt, all edges gilt, 24 b/w illustrations. ; Originally published 1875. This edition 1881. Front cover: Bayard Taylor's Home Ballads, Illustrated. Title page: Home Ballads by Bayard Taylor with Illustrations. ; Contents: The Quaker widow. The holly-tree. John Reed. Jane Reed. The old Pennsylvania farmer. ; Edgeworn but intact. Gift note on front flyleaf in fountain pen dated 1896. A lovely old gift book.
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This Then is Maud : Being a Monodrama as Writ and Arranged by Alfred Tennyson

By: Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Roycrofters: 1900

Seller ID: 15319

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

80 pages; 8vo (8") 21 cm; Published in the year 1900, by Roycrofters, an amazing publishing house where paper was made by hand, printing was by handpress, bindings were handsewn, and books were beautiful. This edition is bound in rich gray-brown suede leather with yapp edges, gilt title on front, deep red cloth liners, 80 heavy-duty pages, red page-marker ribbon, b/w decorative initials, red lettering on divider pages. ; Decorations designed by Samuel Warner. ; Exterior shows a touch of sunning to spine, which is unlettered. No other defects inside or out. Book is in remarkably good condition ...
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Vanity Fair : Collector's Edition Bound in Genuine Leather (Easton Press)

By: Thackeray, William Makepeace, with John T. Winterich; Illustrated by William Makepeace Thackeray

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 20354

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

759 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, dark blue-black leather, gilt lettering and decor, [xxii] + 759 pages, all edges gilt, bright blue moire cloth endpapers, blue page-marker ribbon. ; 'Illustrated with two hundred drawings made by the author for the f*rst edition, with an introduction by John T. Winterich.' Originally published 1847-1848. This edition 1979. ; No visible signs of wear. Original publisher's bookplate affixed to front endpaper, owner name in pen. No other defects. ; 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series
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Image for Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, the : Mrs. Perkin's Ball ; Our Street ; Dr. Birch ; the Kickleburys on the Rhine ; the Rose and the Ring (Leather Binding, 1871)

Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, the : Mrs. Perkin's Ball ; Our Street ; Dr. Birch ; the Kickleburys on the Rhine ; the Rose and the Ring (Leather Binding, 1871)

By: Thackeray, William Makepeace; Illustrated by W. M. Thackeray

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Smith, Elder & Company: 1871

Seller ID: 16199

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

488 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Full dark blue-green leather, six compartments on spine, beautiful gilt rules and decor on both boards and spine, decorative inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, [viii] + 328 pages + 76 full-page b/w line illustrations by the author on unnumbered plates. ; This edition dated 1871, no date on reverse of title page; we acquired it in a lot of books from 1880s. ; Edges show moderate wear. Gift note in old ink on front blank page. Former owner has affixed five additional illustrations by Thackeray onto front and rear blank pages. Binding tight. Overall q...
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Echoes in Aquarelle from Along Shore

By: Thaxter, Celia, and F. L. Mace; Illustrated by Louis K. Harlow

Price: $32.00

Publisher: L. Prang & Company: 1887

Seller ID: 21933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

36 pages; 12mo (7.25") 15 cm; Square hardcover, umber-brown boards, gold and copper embossed lettering, all edges gilt, 36 stiff heavy unnumbered pages, brief poetical excerpts, 8 monochrome and 9 color illustrations with brief captions. ; Poems by Celia Thaxter and F. L. Mace. Illustrations by Louis Kinney Harlow (1851-1913) noted artist. ; Places illustrated in aquarelle (watercolor) are: Bald Porcupine island. Mount Desert island. Profile rock. Southwest harbor. Duck brook. Hancock point. All in Maine. ; We have graded this item Fair. Edges worn, small chip to crown. Binding consists of a s...
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War and Peace, Complete in 2 Volumes

By: Tolstoy, Leo, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude; Illustrated by Vassily Verestchagin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Heritage Press: 1938

Seller ID: 18891

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

1712 pages; 8vo (8") 21 cm; Set of two hardcover volumes, brown cloth, silver decor, top edges brown, [xxiv] + 815 + [xvi] + 857 pages, 1712 total pages, chronology, footnotes, endnotes. ; Written by Leo Tolstoy. Edited and translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude. Introduction by George Macy. Color illustrations (vol-2 only) reproduced from paintings of Napoleonic Wars by Vassily Verestchagin, b/w illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg. ; No jackets, as issued. Books show no wear. No marks. Very slight fading to spines. Original slipcase of unlettered boxboard is present, quite worn but mostly ...
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Mills of Tuxbury, The

By: Townsend, Virginia F. ; Illustrated by F. T. Merrill

Price: $16.00

Publisher: A. K. Loring: 1871

Seller ID: 12591

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

363 pages; 12mo (7.25") 19 cm; Original full green cloth, gilt lettering and decor on front and spine, pale yellow endpapers, 4 b/w illustraions on glossy plates, including frontispiece. ; Dated 1871. No additional printings. Illustrations by Frank Thayer Merrill, engraved by John Andrew & Son. ; Picturesque novel of life in a New England mill town, with woman protagonist, authored by longtime assistant editor of Arthur's Home Magazine. ; Moderate exterior wear, mainly to lower tips. Pages a bit yellowed from age. 8 leaves creased at upper tips, not affecting text. Owner name and address penne...
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Following the Equator : A Journey around the World (1st Edition, 1897)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $85.00

Publisher: American Publishing Company: 1897

Seller ID: 20347

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor with no dust jacket

712 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Hardcover, blue cloth, gilt lettering and decor on spine, elephant illustration on front pastedown, 712 pages, numerous b/w photos and illustrations throughout. ; 1st edition, title page 1897, copyright page 1897, number 11 imprinted on lower margin page 161. ; One of the best and most unusual travel memoirs published in 19th century America. Mark Twain travels around the globe recording wondrous sights and adventures. ; We have graded this item Poor. Cloth spotted, endpapers chipped and discolored. Front pastedown rubbed. Gift note in fountain pen on front flyleaf...
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Category: Literature & Fiction