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By: Thackeray, W. M.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Rodgers Company:
Seller ID: 003634
Original brown leather corner tips and backing on marbled boards. Approx. half of backstrip missing, with Scotch tape on balance.. 19 chapters, beginning with Shows How the Royal Family Sat Down to Breakfast, and ending with Ballads. Previous owner's name. Patterned endpapers. 253 pp. View more info
By: Thackeray, W. M.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: N.Y., H.M. Caldwell Co.:
Edition: NOISBN
Seller ID: 006308
Original green cloth with gold shield in centre and small corner shields on boards. Top edges gilt. Red ribbon bookmark. Escutcheon Series. No writing and no damage to this copy. 415 pp. View more info
By: Thackeray, W. M.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Henry Frowde, Oxford U. Press:
Seller ID: 007038
Original red leather on flexible boards. Leather separated from boards on both covers, so I glued them. Interior clean and sound. 1014 pp. View more info
By: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Price: $150.00
Publisher: N.Y., D. Appleton and Co.: 1870
Seller ID: 002275
Original royal blue blind-stamped cloth on boards. Both titles and author in gilt on spine only. A rare issue, with no others found. Men's Wives (274 pp.) is dated 1868, while The Book of Snobs (278 pp.) is dated 1870. Generally grubby and a little dampstained, but not marked except with previous owner's small, stylish name stamp, "Solomon Davis". The Book of Snobs is complete, containing the "political" chapters which were sometimes omitted. Severa... View more info
By: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Price: $30.00
Publisher: N.Y., Hurst and Company: 1852
Seller ID: 004406
Original 3/4 maroon leather on marbled boards. Marbled edges. Marbled endpapers. Front joint split halfway down, but holding securely. Both hinges cracked. Edges rubbed. 831 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.: 1912
Edition: Reprint (Revised)
Seller ID: 004518
Original maroon cloth with gold decoration and titles on boards. An arresting revision of the original volume. The present author has omitted Chapters XII to XV on the ground that they are "pedagogical", and thus (apparently) of little interest to most prospective readers. His own first impression, however, was that "I was on the border of a delectable country." Inscription. 254 pp. View more info
By: Tillotson, Fussell, Waingrow, and Rogerson (Eds.)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: San Diego, CA, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich: 1969
Seller ID: 010944
Orange cloth on boards. No writing or damage. 1554 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Collins Clear-Type Press:
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 007694
Original red cloth on boards. Gold title and decoration on spine. No writing or damage. Said to be Trollope's favourite novel, he criticizes it for revealing itself too early. It's all about inheritance, court fights, romance, risk of losing a house, forgery, and other jucy bits. 762 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Peterborough, ON, Broadview Press: 2005
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 008507
Original photo cover trade paperback. Bought new from university bookstore. A reprint of the 1875 work. 408 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd.: 1932
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 010838
Blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials. No damage. The Teaching of English Series, No. 157. Descriptions of 45 popular titles from English literature, giving choice selections with a view to answering the question, "What is this book about ?" 298 pp. plus catalog. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Toronto, Deneau: 1986
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 012620
Imagine your first novel being banned by your mother and Mackenzie King (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept). This book centers on Smart's journal writing of the 30's and 40's. Laid in is a lengthy news clipping. 285 pp. View more info
By: Various Authors
Price: $200.00
Publisher: London, Clarendon Press Oxford: 1916
Edition: First Edition (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 010129
Dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on boards. Both volumes dated 1916. Rear hinge of Vol. I cracked. No writing. A number of writers comment on various aspects of Shakespeare's life and surroundings. Volume I has 546 pp. Volume II has 610 pp. Very heavy books will need extra postage. View more info
By: Voltaire
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Oxford, Voltaire Foundation; Taylor Institution: 1986
Edition: First (No additional printings)
Seller ID: 010709
White (blank) softcover. Part of the Complete Works. French and English. 542 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
By: Wagner, Richard
Price: $450.00
Publisher: London/New York, William Heinemann/Doubleday Page: 1911
Seller ID: 004186
Original tan cloth elaborately decorated and lettered in gold on boards. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. Formerly in a private school library, but card and date due slip left in to show that it was never circulated (These are attached inside the rear board, so easily removed). Six small library stamps on inside covers/endpapers, and a few at random throughout, not affecting either text or illustrations. ALL drawings present, flat, and protected by tissue gu... View more info
By: Walpole, Hugh
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd.: 1934
Edition: Cumberland Edition
Seller ID: 005240
Original maroon cloth on blindstamped boards. Gold spine titles. A romantic novel set in Polchester, which town is the protagonist of the story, in the early Twentieth Century. Harmer John seems too good to be true. Book is heavily cocked. Previous owner's name. 485 pp. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, and Company: 1882
Edition: Enlarged Edition
Seller ID: 008689
Original green cloth on boards. Christmas gift note and date (1882). Bookplate of Darrel Abel, who was a writer and professor at Purdue University for thirty years. A few brief underlines and marginal notes. Authors in Their Relations to Life, Novels and Novelists (Charles Dickens), Wit and Humor, The Ludicrous Side of Life, Genius, Intellectual Health and Disease, Use and Misuse of Words, Wordsworth, Bryant, Stupid Conservatism and Malignant Reform. 344 pp. Use an... View more info
By: Wilde, Oscar
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Greystone Press:
Seller ID: 012358
Patterned blue cloth backed in black cloth on boards. DJ protected by plastic wrapper. Text is tanned. No writing. Contains The Picture of Dorian Gray, Five plays, poems, essays and fairy tales. 526 pp. View more info
By: Woolf, Virginia
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London, The Hogarth Press: 1957
Edition: Ninth Impression
Seller ID: 004163
Original green cloth on boards. DJ missing small piece head of spine, and tear at upper back corner. Previous owner's name, otherwise clean and unmarked. First published in 1925, it is an attempt to view literature with the eyes of the Common Reader who is neither scholar nor critic. From the first essay, The Common Reader, one is welcomed to the world of reading for its own sake. 305 pp. View more info
By: Woolf, Virginia
Price: $70.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company: 1927
Edition: Fifth Printing
Seller ID: 010497
Orange cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Cloth tape to head and foot of spine. Cover soil. Untrimmed bottom edges. The whole story takes place in a single day, in London in 1923. This book has been well-read, but has lots of life in it still. 296 pp. View more info
By: Woolf, Virginia
Price: $100.00
Publisher: London, Leonard/Virginia Woolf at Hogarth Press: 1929
Edition: Third Impression
Seller ID: 012278
Light brown cloth on boards. McMaster University library copy donated by Cyrus Eaton (library bookplate dated November, 1930 ). Gutter crack Pp. 160-161 which I would glue if it were mine. Some light pencil notations in margins. Odor-free. 172 pp. View more info
