Category: Literature & Fiction

Red Riding Hood : Retold in Verse for Boys and Girls to Read Themselves

By: De Regniers, Beatrice Schenk; Illustrated by Edward Gorey

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Aladdin/Atheneum : 1972

Seller ID: 1104

ISBN-13: 9780689704352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

42 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Hardcover, red cloth, 42 pages, 21 full-page illustrations in one or two colors. ; First Aladdin edition stated. Illustrated by the great Edward Gorey. ; Some discoloration to covers. Owner name stamped on front endpaper. This item was published as softcover and was rebound in sturdy library binding with original covers affixed to front and back. No library marks.
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Mad Murders the Movies

By: Debartolo, Dick, and Nick Meglin; Illustrated by Don Edwing

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Warner Books : 1985

Seller ID: 22442

ISBN-13: 9780446308861

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

192 pages; 12mo (7") 18 cm; Paperback, 192 pages, all edges inked yellow, fully illustrated throughout in b/w line drawings. ; Lengthy, bizarre and hilarious spoofs of eight classic movies, which are: Gone with the Wind. The Exorcist. The Maltese Falcon. Phantom of the Opera. Mutiny on the Bounty. Frankenstein. Robin Hood. The Wizard of Oz. ; Covers show a few small spots. Otherwise clean, tight and square.
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What Now ? : Young Ladies Leaving School (1e, 1st Edition, 1852)

By: Deems, Charles F.

Price: $19.00

Publisher: M. W. Dodd : 1852

Seller ID: 13949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

130 pages; 16mo (6") 15 cm; Small hardcover (4 x 6 inches) 103 x 154 mm, blue textured cloth, 130 pages, gilt spine lettering and decor, blindstamped boards, pale yellow endpapers, appendix. ; Same date. Authored by president, Greensboro Female College, Greensboro, North Carolina, and dedicated to the seven pupils who made up the graduating class of 1852 (Lucy E. Biggs, Fannie M. Bishop, Catherine S. Blake, Mary E. Clement, Susan E. Salterfield, Annie J. Slade, Nannie T. Speed). Now co-ed, known as Greensboro College, affiliated with United Methodists. ; Cloth chipped at extremities. Front end...
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Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe : With a Memoir of the Author and an Essay on his Writings, 1880

By: Defoe, Daniel (De Foe)

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Albert Cogswell, Publisher : 1880

Seller ID: 12630

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

472 pages; 12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Hardcover, green cloth, gilt lettering and black decor, 472 pages, dark olive green endpapers, 6 b/w illustrations including frontispiece. ; Attractively bound reprint of famous novel originally published in 1719. This edition 1880. ; This is NOT a cheap print-on-demand flimsy but an actual book from 1880.; Exterior shows moderate wear, mainly to ends of spine. Owner name and March 16th 1881 penciled on front flyleaf, same name penned on 2nd flyleaf with small clipping about this book affixed to same, same person's antique business card affixed to reverse of titl...
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Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton, The

By: Defoe, Daniel, with George A. Aitken

Price: $24.00

Publisher: J. M. Dent & Company : 1895

Seller ID: 23231

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

316 pages; 12mo (7") 18 cm; Small hardcover, green cloth, gilt on spine, [xxii] + 316 pages, 3 b/w illustrations. ; Originally written 1720. This edition 1895, being vol-6 of a series of 16, but stands alone. Edited and introduction by George A. Aitken. ; A great novel by the author of Robinson Crusoe, this ambitious works delivers adventures in Africa and close encounters with Quakers and pirates. ; Cloth worn at extremities, faded to tan on spine, but quite readable. Front endpaper has antique armorial bookplate, and name Henry Alden Shaw (lived 1867-1958, chief surgeon, US Military Academy)...
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Olynthiac, The, and Other Public Orations of Demosthenes, Volume 1 : Annotated Edition, Translated, with Notes

By: Demosthenes, with Charles Rann Kennedy

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, Publishers : 1884

Seller ID: 20331

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

320 pages; 12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Vol-1 *only* of a 2-vol set. Hardcover, purple blindstamped cloth, 320 pages, copious footnotes, chronology, 5 appendixes. English throughout, except, some in footnotes, there are some passages in Greek and English. ; This edition copyright 1857. This printing 1884. Vol-1 only of a 2-vol set. ; Contents: Preface. Three Olynthiacs. Four Philippics. On the peace. On Halonnesus. On the Chersonese. On the letter of Philip. On the duties of the state. On the navy boards. On the liberty of the Rhodians. For the Megalopolitans. On the treaty with Alexander. ; Minor exte...
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Suso, der Roman eines Deutschen Seelenmenschen : Suso, the Novel of a German Soul Man

By: Diehl, Ludwig

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Schtecker & Schroder : 1922

Seller ID: 23454

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

353 pages; 12mo (7.25") 18 cm; GERMAN text throughout, in old Fraktur script. Hardcover, pale yellow boards, lettering and decor in black and dark blue, top edge inked dark blue, [iv] + 353 + 3 pages. ; Copyright 1921. This unit 1922. Sixth thousand previously printed, stated. ; Light wear and a touch of foxing to exterior. Interior clean. Binding slightly misshapen but tight.
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Prisoner, the : Volume 1

By: Disch, Thomas M.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Ace Books : 1969

Seller ID: 23915

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

188 pages; 12mo (7") 18 cm; Paperback, 188 + 4 pages, all edges inked yellow. Two color photos of "Number 6" on covers. ; Ace 67900. Copyright 1968. This is 1st US paperback edition, 1969. "A new novel of eerie intrigue, based on the gripping TV show starring Patrick McGoohan." ; Front cover creased along joint. Top edge spotted and slightly discolored. Pages yellowed from age but not brittle. Binding tight and square.
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Forbidden Laughter : Soviet Underground Jokes

By: Draitser, Emil

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Almanac Press : 1978

Seller ID: 21966

ISBN-13: 9780896260450

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

87 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; Red softcover, [viii] + 87 pages, 90 b/w line illustrations, about 70 short to medium-length jokes collected in Soviet Union. Parallel text throughout in Russian (Cyrillic) and English. ; Copyright 1978. This is Revised Edition, 1978. ; Translated by John Pariser. English text edited by Douglas Kouril. ; Spine slightly rolled but intact.
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Trilby : A Novel, with Illustrations by the Author

By: du Maurier, George ; Illustrated by George du Maurier

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers : 1895

Seller ID: 8461

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

464 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, tan cloth decorated in gilt and olive green; front board decorated with roses, ribbons, and other ornaments enclosing gilt heart with eagle's wings, superimposed over spider in spider's web; 464 pages; 100+ b/w line drawings, many full page; 4 pages of publisher ads in rear. ; Very early reprint. Copyright page 1894, title page 1895. This is NOT a flimsy print-on-demand wreck but an actual book from 1895. This is the original gothic novel of the evil hypnotist Svengali, basis of later tale Phantom of the Opera. ; Cloth discolored aon spine and around ed...
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Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the : With an Introduction to Lyrics of Lowly Life by William Dean Howells

By: Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company : 1980

Seller ID: 24289

ISBN-13: 9780396078951

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

324 pages; 12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Tan softcover, [xxxii] + 289 + 3 pages, total 324 pages, b/w portrait photo on front, index of titles, index of first lines, main text in two columns, about 415 poems. ; Copyright 1895 to 1913. This compilation originally published 1913. This is a very nice facsimile edition, 1980. ; Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was a poet, novelist, lyricist and short story writer, born in Ohio to formerly enslaved parents; he composed beautiful works of rhyme and meter, some in African American dialect; his first poem was published at age 16. William Dean Howells, also an O...
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Tri Mushketera : The Three Musketeers, Russian Edition

By: Dyuma, Aleksandr (Alexander Dumas)

Price: $16.00

Publisher: AST : 1999

Seller ID: 23823

ISBN-13: 9785237001327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

653 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; From the Biblioteka Priklyuchenia I Fantastiki (Library of Adventure and Fantasy) 1998, 1999. RUSSIAN text throughout. Hardcover, red boards, color illustration and gold decor on front, endnotes, 653 pages. ; Tri Mushketera, translated by O. H. Adaskina, from Les Trois Mousquetaires, by Alexander Dumas. Endnotes by S. Shkunaev. ; Covers show light edgewear. Pages starting to yellow from age. Rear endpaper discolored. No other defects. Clean and tight. ; Biblioteka Priklyuchenia i Fantastiki Series
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Poems of the Farm

By: Eastman, Alfred C.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Lee & Shepard : 1896

Seller ID: 20785

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

136 pages; 4to (10") 27 cm; Tall hardcover, tan cloth, gold lettering and brown decor, 136 stiff foliated pages (every other page numbered, up to 67) all edges gilt, dark gray-green endpapers, 26 excellent poems by various authors, 72 beautiful b/w illustrations of rustic scenes. ; Very nice collection of rural poems aimed at young people. ; Cloth shows moderate edgewear, many spots. Owner name in fountain pen on halftitle page. Small ding to lower front fore-edge. Otherwise clean and intact. Scarce.
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Robert Burns, Rare Print Collection : Connoisseur Edition, Published for Private Circulation, 35 Plates in Portfolio

By: Eaton, Seymour

Price: $15.00

Publisher: R. G. Kennedy & Company : 1900

Seller ID: 8522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

35 pages; 4to (11") 28 cm; Hardcover portfolio, red cloth spine, tartan boards, four cord ties, inside are 8 folders, each with 4 or 5 b/w numbered plates printed one side only, with portraits of Burns, family members, dwelling places, facsimile manuscript pages, etc. 35 plates in all. Portfolio and each folder with title label affixed, as issued. ; No. 679 of unknown number. ; Exterior worn, edges heavily chipped. All ties present and functional. Several plates show small edge chips, edgewear or minor creases. No missing plates. Folders and portfolio all intact.
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Rattenfanger von Hameln, Der, und Heimatsklange : The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Sounds of Home

By: Eckert, Hermann

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Buchhandlung Schmidt & Sudert : 1885

Seller ID: 23977

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

46 pages; 16mo (6.75") 17 cm; GERMAN throughout in Fraktur script. Tan softcover, [ii] + 46 pages, of which 32 pages tell the story of the Rat Catcher (Pied Piper) of Hamelin, part in prose and part in verse, and 14 pages contain poems about Hamelin by Hermann Eckert. Small b/w illustration on front cover. Red rules on each page. Printed in Hamelin. ; Worn around edges. Spots and discoloration to covers. Pages show only a touch of foxing. No other defects. Binding tight. Quite scarce.
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Romola

By: Eliot, George

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Hurst & Company : 1907

Seller ID: 16211

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

344 pages; 16mo (6") 15 cm; Small hardcover, pale gray-green cloth decorated in pink and dark green with brown lettering, 344 pages, gilt spine title, glossy monochrome title page and portrait of George Eliot, purple page-marker ribbon. ; Originally published 1863. This edition has no date but we estimate 1907. Written in Victorian England, set in Renaissance Italy. ; Author George Eliot (1819-1880) was born Mary Ann Evans and became famous as the translator of Leben Jesu (Life of Jesus) which denied the divinity of Jesus and the truth of miracles. She wrote many famous novels including Silas ...
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Romola : George Eliot's Works

By: Eliot, George

Price: $20.00

Publisher: John W. Lovell Company : 1883

Seller ID: 21167

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

535 pages; 12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Hardcover, umber-brown cloth, pale pink endpapers, 535 pages. ; Originally published 1863. This edition 1883. ; Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) (pen name George Eliot) was an English author and translator whose highly popular novel Romola was based on the life of feminist and social reformer Barbara Bodichon. She was also a Freethinker and nonjoining Unitarian. ; Cloth shows wear at tips, with very small chip at heel. Small antique b/w book label on front endpaper. Gift note on same, in very faded ink, dated 1883. No other interior marks. Fore-edge lightly foxed. Bind...
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

By: Eliot, T. S. ; Illustrated by Edward Gorey

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Company : 1982

Seller ID: 20468

ISBN-13: 9780151686568

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

56 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Hardcover, white cloth, orange boards, copper-toned lettering and decor, [viii] + 56 pages, 15 wonderful poems about cats, illustrated throughout with whimsical line drawings by Edward Gorey. ; Poems by the great T. S. Eliot. Originally published 1939. This edition 1982. This is 34th printing. ; Famously quoted by the Old Man in the film Logan's Run and sung on Broadway in the musical Cats. ; Jacket clipped. No other defects.
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Gentleman Junkie, and, the Deadly Streets : Deluxe Hardcover Limited Edition Box Set

By: Ellison, Harlan; Illustrated by Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Subterranean Press : 2013

Seller ID: 23475

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

512 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Boxed set of 2 hardcovers, black boards, blue endpapers, 512 pages, 38 short stories. Cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. Includes slipcase with matching art, bound in pale yellow cloth. Co-published by Edgeworks Abbey. Vol-1 SIGNED by Harlan Ellison and Limited Edition, number 35 of 250, stated. ; Set includes: Vol-1, Gentleman Junkie: And Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation, 9781596065390, 271 + 9 pages, originally published 1958-1961, this edition 2013, foreword by Frank M. Robinson. Vol-2, The Deadly Streets: Stories Wrung Shrieking from the Shadows, 9781596...
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Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Illustrated by Lester Elliot

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Greystone Press : 1951

Seller ID: 23424

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

159 pages; 24mo (5.75") 15 cm; Small hardcover, 5.75 inches tall, 15 cm tall, brown textured buckram cloth over spine, gray-green marbled boards, 159 pages, 4 noteworthy essays, 5 b/w illustrations including author portrait. ; Illustrated by Lester Elliot. This edition copyright 1951 by Creative Bookmaking Guild. Title page says Greystone Press. Spine says Castle Books. ; Contents: Self Reliance. Compensation. Love. Friendship. ; Normal edgewear. No marks, no major defects. An attractive little volume.
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Category: Literature & Fiction