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By: Carman, Bliss
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1904
Seller ID: 009248
Original green cloth on boards. (Cover matches The Friendship of Art, listed separately). A well-known poet philosophises about nature. Posthumous bookplate of Sir James Dunn, 1874-1956. 298 pp. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.: 1934
Seller ID: 010123
Tan cloth on boards. Small paste-on panel of knight leaning on lance. No marks or damage. 627 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
By: Clark, J.C.D.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press: 1994
Seller ID: 009621
Photo cover trade paperback. No writing or damage. 270 pp. with index. View more info
By: Colvin, Sidney
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited: 1920
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 004924
Original dark blue cloth with spine titles in gold on boards. Laid in is a two-page clipping treating of the death of Keats. This heavy book wll need extra postage, so please inquire before ordering. Previous owner's name. 600 pp. View more info
By: Conrad, Joseph
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday Doran: 1942
Seller ID: 008546
Original green patterned paper on boards. DJ heavily taped inside. Introduction by William McFee. Youth, Heart of Darkness, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Il Conde, Gaspar Ruiz, The Brute, The Secret Sharer, Freya of the Seven Isles, The Secret Agent, The Duel, Typhoon, The End of the Tether, The Shadow Line, a Personal Record. Abrasion to cover edges. No writing. 713 pp. Very heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
By: Conrad, Joseph
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Hanover House: 1953
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 010728
Black cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ has two small tears. No writing. List of stories: Youth; Heart of Darkness; The Nigger of the Narcissus; Il Conde; Gaspar Ruiz; The Brute; Typhoon; The Secret Sharer; Freya of the Seven Isles; The Duel; The End of the Tether; and The Shadow-line. Conrad will keep your would-be sailor occupied for hours ! 695 pp. View more info
By: Crayon, Geoffrey (Washington Irving)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam & Son: 1868
Edition: Author's Revised Edition
Seller ID: 009490
Brown cloth on boards. Also called Knickerbocker Edition. Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman, Buckthorne and His Friends, The Italian Banditti, and The Money-Diggers. 530 pp. View more info
By: Curle, Richard
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1950
Edition: First - First Published 1950
Seller ID: 008167
Original bright red cloth on boards. No writing. Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov, or more accurately, the six leading characters of each of the four novels are analyzed herewith. The author deliberately avoids any discussion as to who any of the "originals" might have been. 224 pp. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: London, Edward Moxon: 1840
Edition: New Edition
Seller ID: 001723
Original smooth calf on boards; dark brown on cover, lighter shade on spine. Gilt decoration and lettering. Five raised spine bands. Front endpaper separated and adhered to cover. Minor corner wear. Arranged into five parts: Literary Miscellanies, Quarrels of Authors, Calamities of Authors, Character of James the First, and The Literary Character. Minor foxing on endpapers and prelims. Marbled endpapers and edges. 484 pp. Isaac D'Israeli (1766-1848), son of Benjam... View more info
By: De Balzac, H.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Gebbie Publishing Co., Ltd.: 1899
Edition: Library Edition
Seller ID: 007449
Original maroon cloth on boards. Translated from the French to English by R.S. Scott. Previous owner's partial bookplate. Top edges gilt. Untrimmed front and foot. In A Daughter of Eve, a countess, happily married, gives in to the urging by her friends to take a lover. She falls in love with a brilliant journalist, who thereby thinks his future is secure. When his life turns sour she rescues him, and then.... Letters of Two Brides is a story of two friends in the... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: London, Navarre Society Limited: 1923
Edition: Reprinted from the First Edition
Seller ID: 010125
Beige cloth on boards. Translated by Thomas Shelton. New preface by F. J. Harvey Darton. Front hinge of Vol. I and rear hinge of Vol. II cracked. Previous owner's initials. Two portraits, 18 plates, and facsimiles of the original engraved titles. Vol. I has 548 pp. Vol. II has 530 pp. Very heavy books will need extra postage. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books, Inc.: 1944
Seller ID: 010765
Beige cloth on boards. DJ chipped head and foot, with one flap torn full length at fold. No writing or other damage. First published in 1869, when Belgium was only 30 years old. Ranks with Don Quixote and Pantagruel in significance. This is the story of the revolution of seven Low Country provinces against Philip II of Spain in the 16th Century. A tale of love and liberty, enabled by good humor. 496 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd.: 1930
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 006535
Original tweedy blue cloth on boards. DJ torn across lower spine and chipped head and foot. No further damage and no writing. First published in 1923. 289 pp. View more info
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and Co.: 1889
Edition: First Edition (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002265
Original bright red cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt on boards. Cracked endpapers and minor corner wear the only faults. Text in English, with marvellous photogravure embellishment. Floral endpapers; untrimmed front and bottom edges; gilt top edges. A "masterly little novel" according to Henry James. In French fiction, bridges the gap between social realism and the psychological novel, based on filial jealousy fostered by one brother's inheritan... View more info
By: De Quincey
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Henry Frowde/U. Of Oxford: 1909
Seller ID: 010529
Green cloth on boards. The Spanish Military Nun, Revolt of the Tartars, De Quincey's Postscript to The Spanish Military Nun, De Quincey's Notes, Editor's Notes, and two maps, The Wanderings of the Spanish Military Nun and The Flight of the Tartars. 164 pp. View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1897
Edition: Riverside Literature Series
Seller ID: 002020
Original grey-brown cloth lettered and decorated in darker brown. Minor waterstain and bowing, but clean except for previous owner's name. A historical essay which the author called The Revolt of the Tartars, or, Flight of the Kalmuck Khan and His People from the Russian Territories to the Frontiers of China. Ed. by Milton Haight Turk. Map front. and 78 pp. plus Intro., Chronological Table, and ads. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: N.Y., John B. Alden: 1885
Seller ID: 006210
Original floral-decorated green cloth on boards. Faint stain and minor edge abrasion (See photo). A beautiful older copy of this popular story. 122 pp. View more info
By: Defoe, Daniel
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., The Mershon Company:
Seller ID: 001167
Original beige cloth highly decorated in red and green on boards. No DJ. Back cover is badly waterstained and text is age-darkened. Holds together well and readable. Apparently a cheaper reprint, but rather rare. Unusual mix of product and book ads. 452 pp. View more info
By: Defoe, Daniel
Price: $30.00
Publisher: London, John Lane The Bodley Head, Ltd.: 1929
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 010132
Brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on boards. Defoe's "other book" seems not so well known as Robinson Crusoe. A curious vacillation by the artist in rendering Moll, sometimes with nipples exposed and sometimes not. See for yourself in 16 illustrations, all present. 333 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
By: Deloney, Greene, and Nashe
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Dent: 1964
Edition: Everyman's Library, No. 824
Seller ID: 000149
Original green cloth in good DJ. Intro. by George Saintsbury, and Notes by Philip Henderson. Deloney's novels are said to "deal purely with the town and country life of old England, being written in a plain,unaffected style, yet at the same time reaching moments of a transparent lyrical beauty, and breathing always the natural atmosphere of everyday life." (Jackie of Newbery and Thomas of Reading). Of Greene: "Developing the theme of romantic love, his h... View more info
