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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
By: Hobbes, John Oliver (Mrs. Pearl Craigie)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons:
Seller ID: 004862
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original red blindstamped cloth on boards. Private college library stamp and previous owner's name. Written in 1891, and entitled "Some Emotions and a Moral." The same year, she left her husband, taking their son with her to her parents' home. Became one of the outstanding female authors. 288 pp. View more info
By: Hugo, Victor
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Budapest, Europa Konyvkiado: 1981
Seller ID: 004542
ISBN: 9630719916
Condition: Very Good
Original black cloth on boards. Both books and DJs very good. No writing and no damage. ISBN of Volume II is 9630719991. Volume I has 856 pp. Volume II has 638 pp. One of Hugo's most popular, in Hungarian text. View more info
By: Hugo, Victor
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: London and Glasgow, Collins Clear-Type Press:
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 013322
Condition: Very Good Minus
Original red cloth on boards with gilt lettering and embossed decoration of the Collins logo on the front cover. Mermaid endpapers. Gift inscription dated 1938. Red dustjacket has a 1/16" tear, a 1/4" tear, a 1" tear at top edge, and is missing a 1/4" piece at bottom of spine. Front hinge starting. Hugo spent 15 years exiled to the island of Guernsey - this book is set there. 470 pp. View more info
By: Irving, Washington/ Stoddard, Richard Henry
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., P.F. Collier:
Seller ID: 006058
Condition: Fair
Original brown cloth on boards. Text block tanning. Corner tips of pp. 320-345 bent up. Front hinge glued to prevent separation. Life (by Stoddard); The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.; The Alhambra; A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada; Legends of the Conquest of Spain; Tales of a Traveller; Knickerbocker's History of New York; Salmagundi. Heavy book might need extra postage. 622 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Random House: 1999
Edition: Stated First Edition
Seller ID: 002238
ISBN: 0-679-45746-1
Condition: Very Good
Original black cloth spine on black boards. First gathering not well-secured in printing. A large, heavy volume of 985 pp. Contains extracts from Vidal's work. View more info
By: Kipling, Rudyard
Price: $45.00 USD
Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1899
Edition: Authorized Edition
Seller ID: 009561
Condition: Very Good
Green cloth on boards, initialed RK front and back. No writing or damage. Title shows Kipling's trademark left-facing swastika. Sixteen timeless stories of animals in their habitats. Sequel to The Jungle Book. Normal wear, clean and sound. 324 pp. View more info
By: Kipling, Rudyard
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Morang & Co., Limited: 1904
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 013253
Condition: Very Good
Original dark green cloth on boards with gilt lettering and embossed black illustration of a sailboat on the cover. Previous owner's names. Cream-coloured textured paper with rough-cut edges. This book is a collection of Kipling's poems and short stories which was originally published by MacMillan and Co. in England, and Doubleday Page in the United States. 363 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Wolfville, N.S., Acadia University: 1965
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 004552
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original black cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ edge-worn and strip missing from back. Many pieces from Kirkconnell and others as well. 530 pp. View more info