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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
Price: $150.00 USD
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd.: 1911
Seller ID: 010205
Condition: Very Good
Blue pigskin in 3/4 style on cloth boards. Believed rebound. Begun with Autocrat in 1858 (which was hugely successful), a second volume, Professor, appeared the next year. Poet did not appear until 1872, subdued and nostalgic. Autocrat has 318 pp. Professor has 320 pp. Poet has 351 pp. Please allow for extra postage for the three books. These books have no writing and appear almost new ! 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: 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
By: Joyce, James
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Modern Library:
Seller ID: 009690
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Green cloth on boards. Spine faded. No writing. Introduction by Padraic Colum. 288 pp. plus catalog. 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
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
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., George P. Putnam: 1848
Edition: New Edition, Complete in One Volume
Seller ID: 006886
Condition: Fair to Good
Original green cloth, blindstamped "Putnam's Choice Library" on boards. The author was editor of the Union Magazine of Literature and Art, and later, joint editor of National Magazine, Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion. Pp. 2-41 consist of a biography of Spenser (1553-1599), while the balance consists of the First Book of the Faery Queen, which ends abruptly on page 244 as the conclusion is being discussed. Although there must be some text missing, it is assumed that it is of insufficient amount to alter the value and understanding of what is present. Cover is spotted, with ... View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Leipzig, Breitkopf & Hartel:
Seller ID: 006074
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original black cloth on flexible boards. Dramen, Erzahlungen, Gedichte, Kleine Schriften. Text in German. Minor damage to head of spine. Short scratch to cover. 1187 pp. Bookplate of Ernstgeorg Baron Malortie. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1976
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 001340
Condition: Good
Trade paperback, Volume 3 only. Two stamps, card pocket, and spine sticker from high school library. One gutter strain re-glued. Clean and unmarked. An excellent reference. 391 pp with detailed index. View more info
By: Klinck, Carl F./ Watters, Reginald E. (Eds.)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, W.J. Gage, Limited: 1966
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 010943
Condition: Very Good
Green cloth on boards. University library stamp. Interior clean. 626 pp. View more info
Price: $600.00 USD
Publisher: London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge: 1865
Edition: New Edition/First British Edition
Seller ID: 010193
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Full brown calf on boards. Edited by the translator's nephew, Edward Stanley Poole. Half-inch split to top of front joint of Vol. I, but soundly bound. Five raised bands each volume, which have a tree calf binding. Edges and endpapers decorated in feathered pattern. No writing. Light foxing spots to endpapers only. 555, 578, and 703 pp., respectively, in the three volumes from a doctor's library. Heavy books will need extra postage. View more info
By: Lawrence, Eugene
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1880
Seller ID: 011542
Condition: Very Good
Small, brown hardcover, handy pocket size. Immigrants, Puritans, 18th Century, Poets of the Revolution, 19th Century, Novelists, Science and Art, Orators, Poets, Humorists, Journalists, and Historians. 136 pp. with index. View more info
By: Leacock, Stephen
Price: $75.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Bell & Cockburn:
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 010766
Condition: Good Plus
Red cloth on boards. Tiny nick in faded spine. MHOP, Edmonton and two previous owners written in front. Foxing spots on title. Strained gutters required gluing - now sound. Believed to have come from Marketplace House of Prayer, West Edmonton Mall, 2008 or later. 264 funny pages. View more info
By: Lever, Charles
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited:
Seller ID: 010199
Condition: Very Good
Green cloth on boards with paper spine label. Lever began this project a few years after gaining a position as a country doctor and marrying his first wife. Apparently he wrote late at night, with little thought of organization. Lorrequer is said to be a string of Irish stories, good, bad, and indifferent. The success of his writing surprised him. He followed this with several more which we have listed separately, all in matching covers. Volume I of a 2-volume set has 280 pp. View more info
By: Lever, Charles
Price: $60.00 USD
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited:
Edition: Deluxe Edition No. 32 of 500
Seller ID: 010200
Condition: Very Good
Green cloth on boards. Limited edition. First written in 1845. A friend and competitor of Sir Walter Scott, he opted out of the "rat race" and went on vacation soon after. This book has 499 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
By: Lever, Charles
Price: $60.00 USD
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited:
Edition: First (No. 32 of 500 copies)
Seller ID: 010203
Condition: Very Good
Green cloth on boards, with paper spine labels. Limited edition. One of the sought-after military novels of this author. First written in 1844, it is the story of an Irishman who seeks glory serving under the colours of France. On graduating from a military academy, he enters the ranks of the 8th Hussars. By accident he becomes involved in political intrigue, which with further military action occupies the balance of his active life. He resigns briefly, then returns to the fray long enough to see Napoleon exiled. Offered a general's rank, he refuses to fight for the Bourbons and retires.... View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Walter Scott: 1887
Seller ID: 001399
Condition: Good
Original black cloth with spine label only on boards. Hinges cracked but holding, corners bumped, previous owner's name. Camelot Series edited by Ernest Rhys. Thought-provoking essays by the best. Unfinished edges. 360 pp. View more info
By: Longfellow, H.W.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Walter Scott: 1887
Seller ID: 004823
Condition: Good
Original red cloth on boards. The Camelot Series. Introduction by William Tirebuck, a newspaper editor and close friend of Hall Caine. Hyperion is a romantic novel published in 1839, criticized by Poe. Kavanagh is an 1849 novel which argues for a national literature for America. The Trouveres were folk singers of northern France in the 12th and 13th Centuries, the subject of this short essay. 334 pp. Stain to cover and light foxing to endpapers. View more info