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Knight of the Golden Melice, the : A Historical Romance

By: Adams, John Turvill

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Derby & Jackson: 1857

Seller ID: 21161

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

473 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, olive green blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine, pale yellow endpapers, [vi] + 473 + 2 pages, rag (cotton fiber) paper throughout. ; Copyright page 1856. Title page 1857. ; Set in New England in 1600s, starring gallant rogue who titles himself Knight of the Golden Melice (honeybee) defending Native Americans against self-righteous Puritans; a popular novel in mid-1800s. ; Cloth worn at tips. Mild to moderate foxing throughout. Gilt on spine worn but just readable. Front free endpaper missing. Binding intact. (Amazonbuyers please note: This i...
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Oresteia, the : Agamemnon ; the Libation-Bearers ; the Furies (Easton Press)

By: Aeschylus, with E. D. A. Morshead and Rex Warner; Illustrated by Michael Ayrton

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 20363

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

177 pages; 4to (11.25") 29 cm; Tall hardcover, dark green morocco leather, [xxx] + 177 pages, gilt lettering and decor, all edges gilt, green moire satin cloth endpapers, endnotes, yellow page-marker ribbon, 10 full-page b/w illustrations, color portrait frontispiece illustration of Aeschylus. ; Translated by E. D. A. Morshead. Introduction by Rex Warner. ; Three great tragic plays of antiquity, a trilogy concerning Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, the Gods of the Greek Pantheon, murder and justice. ; Endpapers tanned around edges. No other defects. No jacket, as issued. ; 100 Greatest Books Ever ...
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Maledicta 11, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression : Volume 11, 1990-1995 (Volume XI)

By: Aman, Reinhold

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1990

Seller ID: 3963

Condition: Near Fine

0916500314 160 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, glossy covers. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Open letter to Janet Reno from editor (out of prison). Papua New Guinea. African folklore. Bigot '-ists'. Comedian responses to hecklers. Bowdlerization of Faulkner. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. ; No defects.
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Maledicta 5, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression (V) : Volume 5, Numbers 1 and 2, Summer and Winter 1981, Elias Petropoulos Festschrift (1 Volume)

By: Aman, Reinhold

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1981

Seller ID: 3960

Condition: Near Fine

091650025X 352 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Chinese. Tonga. French. Farsi. Dutch. Menomini (Native American) terms. Prison slang. Genital pet names. College sexual slang. Ethnic acronyms. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. ; Tiny spot on fore-edge, otherwise no defects.
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Maledicta 6, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression (VI) : Volume 6, Numbers 1 and 2, Summer and Winter 1982 (1 Volume)

By: Aman, Reinhold

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1982

Seller ID: 3961

Condition: Near Fine

0916500268 320 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, 320 pages, scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. ; Topics include: Canadian. Australian. Argentinian. Greek. Italian. Japanese. Farsi. Polish. German. Lesbian terminology. License plate taboos. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. Compled 1982, published July 1983.; One leaf creased at corner, otherwise no defects.
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Maledicta 10, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression : Volume 10, 1988-1989 (Volume X)

By: Aman, Reinhold

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1990

Seller ID: 3962

Condition: Near Fine

0916500306 320 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, 320 pages, scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. ; Topics include: Anti-religious graffiti. Medical slang. Swahili. Arabic. Ulster. Georgia (the country). Breast pet names. Rock band names. Sick jokes about Challenger. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. ; Only a touch of shelfwear.
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Maledicta 9, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression : Volume 9, 1986-1987 (Volume IX) Lillian Mermin Feinsilver Festschrift

By: Aman, Reinhold

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1987

Seller ID: 20180

Condition: Near Fine

0916500292 320 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover with top quality binding, 320 pages, a few b/w illustrations. ; Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Wimp. Graffiti. Cunnilingus. American ethnic slurs. Medical group nouns. Chernobyl jokes. Gay jokes. Gerbil jokes. Thomas Crapper. Interview with Lillian Mermin Feinsilver. More. ; Issn 0363-3659. Edited by German-American philologist, world scholar of dirty words, the great Reinhold Aman, PhD. ; Spine very slightly faded. No other defects. ; Maledicta Press Publications Series; Vol. 9
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Maledicta 1, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression : Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 1977

By: Aman, Reinhold

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1977

Seller ID: 3954

Condition: Near Fine

108 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Stiff orange softcover. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Cuban Spanish. Yiddish. Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama in England. Game of stink-pink. Skopje dialect of Macedonia. Plus departments, other articles. ; ISSN 0363-3659. Copyright 1977. No additional printings listed. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. No other defects.
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Maledicta 1, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression : Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 1977, G. Legman Festschrift

By: Aman, Reinhold

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1978

Seller ID: 3955

Condition: Near Fine

8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Stiff orange softcover. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Pages 109-328. Topics include: Gershon Legman. Children's jokes. Xenophobia. Black American nicknames. Literary graffiti. F-U and other curses. Plus departments, other articles. ; Isbn 0916500519. Issn 0363-3659. ; Slight bump to upper tip, otherwise no defects.
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Maledicta 3, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression : Volume 3, Numbers 1 and 2, 1979 (1 Volume)

By: Aman, Reinhold

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1979

Seller ID: 3957

Condition: Near Fine

0916500489 304 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Stiff orange softcover. 304 pages. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Gay terminology. Black Arts movement. Insults in Irish, Yoruba, Arabic, Spanish, Greek, English, Russian, Swiss German. Portuguese nicknames. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. ; No defects.
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Maledicta 3, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression : Volume 3, Number 2, Winter 1979

By: Aman, Reinhold

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1979

Seller ID: 20221

Condition: Near Fine

172 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, 172 pages numbered 145-316. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Interlingual taboo words. Insults and ethnic slurs in US English, Canadian English, Russian, etc. Gay terminology. Swiss swearwords. Adacemic graffiti. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. This is Number 2 only of a volume that had 2 numbers. ; No defects.
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Maledicta 7, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression : Volume VII, 1983

By: Aman, Reinhold

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1983

Seller ID: 20222

Condition: Near Fine

320 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, 320 pages, scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. ; Topics include: Peter Tamony interview and articles. Dietary stereotypes and slurs. Poonerisms. Offensive medical slag. Graffiti proverbs. Italian and Catalan insults. Dictionary definitions of smegma. Many more. Plus departments, etc. ; Issn 0363-3659.; Textblock very slightly bowed. No other defects.
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Maledicta 12, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression : Volume 12, 1996 (Volume XII)

By: Aman, Reinhold

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1996

Seller ID: 20213

Condition: Near Fine

0916500322 160 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, glossy covers, 160 pages. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Open letter to Janet Reno from editor (out of prison). Papua New Guinea. African folklore. Bigot '-ists'. Comedian responses to hecklers. Bowdlerization of Faulkner. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. ; No defects.
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For Love and Glory

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Tor Books/Tom Doherty Associates: 2003

Seller ID: 17255

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

0312874499 304 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Hardcover, 304 pages. ; 1st edition, full number line. ; No defects to book or jacket.
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Birds, The, and, The Frogs : Collector's Edition Bound in Genuine Leather (Easton Press)

By: Aristophanes, with Dudley Fitts; Illustrated by Marian Parry

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 20352

Condition: Near Fine

144 pages; 4to (11.5") 30 cm; Tall hardcover, dark green leather, gilt lettering and decor, [xii] + 52 + [xviii] + 62 pages, 144 total pages, all edges gilt, green moire cloth endpapers, page-marker ribbon, dozens of b/w and color illustrations. ; Contents: 1) The Birds, by Aristophanes, with introduction by Dudley Fitts, illustrated by Marian Parry. 2) The Frogs, by Aristophanes, translated by William James Hickie, with introduction by Gilbert Seldes, illustrated by John Austen. ; Two classic plays of antiquity. ; Endpapers tanned around edges. Ribbon tanned at tip. Original publisher's b...
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Balladenbuch, Mit Vielen Zeichnungen Deutscher Meister : Ballad Book, with Many Drawings by German Masters

By: Avenarius, Ferdinand, with Hans Bohm

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Verlag Georg D. W. Callwey: 1937

Seller ID: 20159

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

320 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; German text throughout, in old Fraktur script. Hardcover, gray cloth, green lettering and decor, 320 pages, 3 indexes, 72 b/w illustrations, about 200 ballads and narrative poems by famous German poets of the past 300 years. ; Originally published 1929. This edition, with new introduction by Hans Böhm, 1937.; Spine very slightly sunned. No other defects. No jacket.
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Year with the Birds, a : With 56 Colored Plates

By: Ball, Alice E. ; Illustrated by Robert Bruce Horsfall

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Gibbs & Van Vleck: 1917

Seller ID: 20120

Condition: Near Fine in Poor dust jacket

191 pages; 8vo (9.75") 25 cm; Hardcover, green cloth, gold spine title, 191 text pages + 56 full-color illustrations on glossy plates printed one side only. ; Text copyright 1916. This is 1st edition, 1917. ; Enchanting poetry descriptive of birds and bird life of North America, accompanied by high quality realistic original paintings showing birds in their natural habitats. Poems by Alice E. Ball and other famous poets. ; Minor shelfwear only. Jacket is mostly gone but blurbs are taped to rear endpaper. Scarce. Sold as is.
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Works of Honore de Balzac, 38 Volumes (of 40) : Balzac's Novels Translated by Miss K. P. Wormeley

By: Balzac, Honore de, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Roberts Brothers: 1888

Seller ID: 21744

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcovers. English throughout. Uniform bindings. Dark red russia leather over spines, dark red marbled boards, gray marbled endpapers, gilt titles and ornaments on spines, top edges red, about 300-550 pages per vol, many also with 8-16 pg publisher catalog in rear. Several short stories and other works are also included to round out various vols. Vols 10, 12, 14, introduction by George Frederic Parsons. ; Vols are: 1. Pierre Goriot, 1888. 2. Duchesse de Langeais, 1888. 3. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, 1886. 4. Eugenie Grandet, 1888. 5. Cousin Pons, 1886. 6. Country D...
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Following of the Star, the : A Romance (1st Edition, 1911)

By: Barclay, Florence L. ; Illustrated by F. H. Townsend

Price: $11.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1911

Seller ID: 14805

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

426 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, purple cloth, gilt lettering on front and spine, blindstamped decor, 426 pages + 6-pg publisher catalog in rear, lovely full-color glossy frontispiece illustration by F. H. Townsend. ; Same date. NAP. A m a z o n b u y e r s please note: image matches this edition, but this edition is a true first by G. P. Putnam's Sons, NOT a reprint by Grosset & Dunlap. ; Charming love story set in the small village of Bramble Dene, England; the three sections of the novel are entitled Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. ; Extremely light shelfwear visible at heel and ...
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Norwood, Or, Village Life in New England : By Henry Ward Beecher, from the New York Ledger (1e, 1st Edition, 1868)

By: Beecher, Henry Ward

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner & Company: 1868

Seller ID: 16325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

549 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, original purple cloth, gilt spine lettering, [xii] + 549 pages + 4-pg publisher catalog in rear, tan endpapers, rag (cotton fiber) paper throughout. ; 1st edition in book form. Title page 1868. Copyright page 1867. No additional printings. ; This was the first novel by the famed Congregationalist preacher. It was originally published in parts in the New York Ledger. A sprawling novel filled with all sorts of odd characters, family life, New England sociability, almost autobiographical. ; Cloth moderately worn at heel and crown, purple color mostly f...
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Category: Literature & Fiction