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Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., H.M. Caldwell Co.:
Seller ID: 005900
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original light blue cloth lettered in gold with half-moon pastedown on boards. "The antics of a harum-scarum child who grows to manhood and heroically lays down his life for his friend on the battlefield." - BookRags. Church presentation bookplate. Small, dark cover spots. 163 pp. View more info
By: Ewing, Mrs. J.H.(Juliana Horatia Gatty)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., J.M. Dent & Sons Limited:
Seller ID: 004252
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. View more info
By: Fallis, N.R.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Clarke, Irwin, & Company Limited: 1939
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 004358
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. View more info
By: Farrer, J.A.
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Co.: 1907
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002780
Condition: Good Plus
Original blue cloth on boards. Intricate gilt design . Lots of library evidence, but sound and clean otherwise. 282 pp. plus thick catalog. Classical forgeries, Bertram, Greek forgery, Italian forgery, Psalmanazar, Political forgery, Forgery in the Church, Chatterton, Lauder, Forged letters of Byron and Shelley, Friedrich Wagenfeld, Vrain-Denis Lucas, Marie-Antoinette Forgeries, Hoax of Ireland, Ballad Forgers, Miscellaneous forgeries. View more info
By: Fielding, Henry
Price: $65.00 USD
Publisher: London, Navarre Society:
Seller ID: 000460
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. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Ginn and Company: 1919
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002304
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. View more info
By: France, Anatole
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: London, Greening & Co., Limited: 1902
Seller ID: 010521
Condition: Good Plus
Embossed purple cloth on boards. Translated by Ernest Tristan. The monk Paphnutius met Thais the courtesan as a teenager, but fled in fear of rejection. Years later he vows to save her by conversion to the Christian life. As the experiment begins to succeed he realizes that he is more interested in her body than in her mind. Thais enters a convent for the rest of her life, while Paphnutius is left suffering with contradictions of his own creation. Fading to spine area. 258 pp. View more info
By: Fraser, Frances and Palmer, Nettie (Eds.)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Melbourne, Australia, Women's Centenary Council: 1934
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 005719
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. View more info
By: Galt, John
Price: $400.00 USD
Publisher: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd: 1823
Edition: First Edition (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 010194
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. View more info
Price: $60.00 USD
Publisher: London, J.M. Sent & Sons, Ltd.: 1930
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 009481
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. View more info
By: Garland, Hamlin
Price: $35.00 USD
Publisher: Chicago, Stone and Kimball: 1894
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 008732
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. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library:
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 010086
Condition: Good to Very Good
Blue cloth on stiff boards. No markss or damage to book DJ edgeworn and has a bit missing at head of spine. "The time has passed when furtive readers of Mlle. de Maupin barricaded themselves behind locked doors to read a forbidden copy of Gautier's masterpiece. - DJ flap. 332 pp. in both parts plus catalog. View more info
Price: $17.50 USD
Publisher: N.Y., The New Home Library: 1943
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 003036
Condition: Very Good
Original green cloth on boards. DJ generally chipped. with one repaired tear. Previous owner's name. Interior unmarked and undamaged. All edges green. 421 pp. View more info
By: Gorky, Maxim
Price: $22.00 USD
Publisher: Moscow, Raduga Publishers: 1987
Edition: 18th Printing
Seller ID: 010109
ISBN: 5-05-000539-6
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Printed coloured boards. Cocked. No writing or damage. An opportunity to connect with one of the earlier well-known Russian novelists. 405 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Vancouver, The Caitlin Press: 1987
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 004103
ISBN: 0920576176
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original maroon soft cover with author's self-portrait. Thirteen short stories. Limited edition of 500 copies. 172 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1928
Seller ID: 009246
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original blue cloth on boards. Richard Steele founded the Tatler, and his close friend, Joseph Addison, co-operated with him on the Spectator, which began in 1711 following the close of the Tatler. Both were popular newspapers. This book is clean and sound, with a few marginal pencil notes. 422 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Alfred A. Knopf: 1957
Edition: Stated First Edition
Seller ID: 002867
Condition: Very Good
Original floral paper boards with green cloth backing.. Corner tips showing. Samples of literary conversations between Housman and a young admirer who was also a poet, as well as poetry editor of McClure's Magazine. One of a Limited Edition of only 700 copies. 36 pp. View more info
By: Hammerton, J.A.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Educational Book Company, Ltd.: 1927
Seller ID: 007943
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original yellow cloth on boards. DJ missing spine. Gift note. 116 pp. View more info
Price: $70.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1868
Edition: First (No additional printings)
Seller ID: 001843
Condition: Very Good
Original blind-stamped green cloth on boards. Volume II only. 2 1/2 inch tear in front free endpaper previously repaired with brown paper tape, and following gutter strained. "Ticknor and Co." at base of backstrip. Printed by Welch, Bigelow at Cambridge. Tiny specks of wear at corners. Spine gilt bright. 228 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: New York, H.M. Caldwell Company:
Seller ID: 010487
Condition: Good Plus
Green embossed cloth on boards. Several strained gutters, but holding together well. The "Mrs. Bullfrog" essay is a lesson in humanity (unfortunately). Hawthorne states that Emerson wrote "Nature" in this house. 304 pp. View more info