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A Child's History of England and Miscellaneous Pieces

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop Company:

Seller ID: 008526

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Text block tanned. Minor abrasion to head and foot of spine. Miscellaneous Pieces are: No Thoroughfare, Master Humphrey's Clock, The Mudfog Association, Holiday Romance, George Silverman's Explanation, The Wreck of the Golden Mary, Perils of Certain English Prisoners, and The Haunted House. 825 pp.
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The Anti-Social Character in Post-War Soviet Literature

By: Doherty, Joseph C.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Middlebury, VT, Joseph C. Doherty: 1954

Seller ID: 003663

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original black cloth with gilt lettering on boards. A Translation of a Dissertation Presented as a Partial Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Modern Languages, Middlebury College. The dissertation is typed double-spaced on 8 1/2 x 11 paper. 208 pp.
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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia and Toronto, John C. Winston Company: 1949

Seller ID: 013201

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Red cloth on boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Front hinge starting. Minor spotting on front cover. A few pages inside creased from careless use. This edition was edited by Somerset Maugham and translated by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin. We also have Tolstoy's "War and Peace" in a matching binding listed separately. 483 pp.
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The Three Musketeers, in Two Volumes

By: Dumas, Alexander

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, J.H. Sears & Co., Inc.:

Seller ID: 012507

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Two-volume set in varying shades of red on boards. Light cover corner wear. 488 pp. in total.
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Twenty Years After; A Historical Romance (Being the Continuation of the Three Musketeers)

By: Dumas, Alexandre

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., R.F. Fenno and Co.: 1899

Seller ID: 008491

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original illustrated blue cloth on boards. Cover fading and edge soil. Triumphs over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady are behind them. Civil war endangers France, and England is in turmoil under Cromwell. Their greatest opponent in Milady's son. 513 pp.
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Twenty Years After

By: Dumas, Alexandre

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, H.M. Caldwell Company:

Seller ID: 009429

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dark blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's bookplate. First free endpaper missing. No other damage and no writing. A clean, sound, square copy. 452 pp.
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Louise De La Valliere

By: Dumas, Alexandre

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, F.M. Lupton Publishing Company:

Seller ID: 013378

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original bright red cloth on boards with green and black Art Nouveau floral design on the cover, and green, black, and gilt floral design on the spine. Spine sunned. Previous owner's initial stamp inside front cover. Title page has 2" tear at bottom gutter. Text in English. Follows "Twenty Years After," in the series of three 'd'Artagnan Romances, of which "The Three Musketeers" is the first. Small print. The next story is "The Man in the Iron Mask." 459 pp.
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Daniel Deronda (2-Volume set)

By: Eliot, George

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Harper & Brothers:

Seller ID: 005286

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original brown cloth with "George Eliot" printed in script on boards. These two volumes together comprise Volume VIII of Novels of George Eliot. This Vol. I contains four books: The Spoiled Child, Meeting Streams, Maidens Choosing, and Gwendolen Gets Her Choice, on 411 pp. This Vol. II contains four books: Mordecai, Revelations, The Mother and the Son, and Fruit and Seed, on 427 pp. Text block lightly tanned. No other damage or marks.
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Selected Works

By: Eliot, George

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leopard Books: 1995

Seller ID: 010282

ISBN: 0-7529-0029-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Laminated paper boards. Unclipped DJ Very Good. Works included are Middlemarch, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob. No writing and no damage. 820 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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Romola

By: Eliot, George

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap:

Seller ID: 013330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original dark green cloth on boards with embossed green and black titles. Partial dustjacket and photo clipping of author's photograph laid in. This historical fiction piece takes place in Florence during the Italian Renaissance, and includes several notable figures from the city's history. A 1924 silent film starred Lillian and Dorothy Gish, William Powell, and Ronald Colman - the photos in this book are from that movie. 550 pp. plus two pages of advertising.
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Jackanapes

By: Ewing, Juliana Horatia

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., H.M. Caldwell Co.: 1904

Seller ID: 013204

Binding: 1/4 Cloth on Paper Boards

Condition: Good

Original light green 1/4 cloth with gilt lettering and decoration and paper covered boards. Cover features vignette of a beautiful woman. This book is from Caldwell's "Alcazar Classics" series, the "Pastel Edition". Spine is creased outward down the middle. Missing free front endpaper. Hand soil to covers. The author and her husband lived in Fredericton, New Brunswick between 1867 and 1869 (he was a British military officer). "The antics of a harum-scarum child who grows to manhood and heroically lays down his life for his friend on the battlefield." - BookRags. ...
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Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances and Other Tales

By: Ewing, Mrs. J.H.(Juliana Horatia Gatty)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., J.M. Dent & Sons Limited:

Seller ID: 004252

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth on boards. In 1867, the author married Major Ewing and moved to Fredericton, N.B. The first three stories of this book had been published in Aunt Judy's Magazine. Mrs. Ewing was one of the most popular writers of her time. Gutter strain glued at p.l, with no other damage and no writing. 300 pp.
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A Miscellany of Tales

By: Fallis, N.R.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Clarke, Irwin, & Company Limited: 1939

Seller ID: 004358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original maroon cloth with white lettering on boards. Intended as an introduction to the various authors whose work appears, with Exercises. 164 pp.
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Amelia (3 Volumes)

By: Fielding, Henry

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: London, Navarre Society:

Seller ID: 000460

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Volumes IX, X, and XI of The Works of Henry Fielding, edited by George Saintsbury, in 12 volumes. Original dark blue cloth, no DJs. Spine lettering gilt. Feet and foredges untrimmed. Absolutely NO faults. 235, 221, and 236 pp., respectively.
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The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams

By: Fielding, Henry

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Calcutta, Sydney, George G. Harrap: 1925

Seller ID: 013331

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original navy blue cloth on boards with gilt titles and embossed publishers' logo on front cover. 1/8" tear in cloth at bottom spine edge of back cover. 1/4" tear at top of hinge edge of FFEP. Front hinge starting. Originally published in 1742, this was Henry Fielding's first novel, and one of the first novels in the English language. It is described by Fielding as an "comic epic poem in prose" about a good-natured footman's trip home from London with his friend, an absent-minded parson. 310 pp.
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Readings from English and American Literature

By: Fiels, Walter Taylor

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Ginn and Company: 1919

Seller ID: 002304

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original drab green cloth with black decoration and lettering on boards. Previous owners' names and dates of '20 and '24 establish age. One was from Acadia Ladies' Seminary, Wolfville, N.S. Written in chronological order, with numerous portraits of the authors. "To make these famous men and women who are talking to us through their books, our friends in fact as well as in name, to feel their presence and their influence as living persons, is the object of this book." - Preface. 612 pp. with helps. Very clean and sound.
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Centenary Gift Book

By: Fraser, Frances and Palmer, Nettie (Eds.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Melbourne, Australia, Women's Centenary Council: 1934

Seller ID: 005719

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original crey card covers. A tribute to women by women for their contributions to Australia. Inscription on half-title. Several full-page works of art, as well as stories and essays. 166 pp.
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Ringan Gilhaize; or The Covenanters (3 Vol. Set)

By: Galt, John

Price: $400.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd: 1823

Seller ID: 010194

Binding: 3/4 Leather on Marbled Board

Condition: Very Good

Blue 3/4 calf on marbled boards. Believed rebound. Marbled endpapers. Untrimmed edges. No writing or damage to this lovely set. Galt is credited with other related works on the subject, dubbed by one blogger as "the divine right of resistance." 308, 324, and 323 pp., respectively, in the three volumes.
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The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature

By: Gardner, Edmund G.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, J.M. Sent & Sons, Ltd.: 1930

Seller ID: 009481

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Early References in Italy, Dante and the Arthurian Legend, Italian Romances of Merlin, Later Treatment. Appendix. Indexes. 349 pp.
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Crumbling Idols; Twelve Essays on Art Dealing Chiefly with Literature, Painting, and the Drama

By: Garland, Hamlin

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Stone and Kimball: 1894

Seller ID: 008732

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on boards. Top edges gilt. Deckled front and foot. Twelve essays, as "suggestions". Foxing primarily to endpapers. All text easily readable. Previous owner's name. 192 pp.
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