Original grey cloth on boards. DJ not price-clipped. Background, Jonathan Wild, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Amelia, Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index. At time of publication, the author was Assistant Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. ISBN 0-87580-029-7. 206 pp. View More...
Original red and white patterned cloth on boards. Small mark beside cover title (See photo). Previous owner's name. Front endpapers upside-down. Minor shelf tear at foot of spine. Murray Irwin of Moira Secondary School, Belleville, Ontario, prepared the study material. 250 pp. View More...
Brown paper boards backed in grey cloth. A calendar of pithy thoughts gleaned from experience and guided by the influence of others, from great literature and elsewhere. Unnamed author admits to four wasted years at Oxford as well as a similar number in the trenches of WW I. No writing. Two strained gutters glued for safety. 309 pp. View More...
Original tan cloth with blind-stamped portrait on boards, no DJ. 328 pp. "A witty, womanizing veteran of Napoleon's wars", whose escapades stretch the imagination while touching the funny bone. Cocked, a few scribbles. 328 pp. View More...
Original tan cloth decorated in red and silver on boards. Previous owner's bookplate. First free endpaper removed. Front hinge cracked. 406 pp. plus catalog. View More...
Green cloth on boards with pastedown female portrait. Possibly the best known of the author's works. Previous owner's name, but no other writing or damage. Orphan, David, sets off to deliver a letter to his uncle, who is paranoid and anti-social. David discovers that his father was older than his uncle, which allows for David to receive an inheritance. Uncle Ebenezer arranges with a ship's captain to kidnap David and sell him into slavery. David escapes, but becomes entangled in political battles and serious illness. Eventually, he is able to return home and claim his inheritance. Caref... View More...
Original black cloth over boards with red lettering on spine. Red and black graphic design on white dustjacket. Dustjacket is age-darkened, and somewhat worn at the top and bottom of spine. Small 1/8" piece of jacket missing at bottom of spine. Pages tanned. No marks or other damage. Undated, but after 1950. 354 pp. including Note. View More...
Original dark green textured cloth over boards. Ex-library with none of the usual markings except a small red ink stamp on bottom of text block reading "SJRL-WD" (Saint John Regional Library - Withdrawn). One-inch break between front cover and top of hinge. Previous owner's name and purchase details on front free endpaper. Two small water stains on edge of textblock not affecting text. Sir Walter Scott wrote a tribute to Swift on the title page: "No author in the British language has enjoyed the extensive popularity of the celebrated Dean of St. Patrick's. The vivid and original pwer of ... View More...
Original dark green cloth with bright spine lettering on boards. Scarce volume of Victorian reviews and essays. Previous owners' names and one leaf-pressing stain, otherwise fine. Talfourd, 176 pp. Stephen, 158 pp. View More...
Original brown leather corner tips and backing on marbled boards. Approx. half of backstrip missing, with Scotch tape on balance.. 19 chapters, beginning with Shows How the Royal Family Sat Down to Breakfast, and ending with Ballads. Previous owner's name. Patterned endpapers. 253 pp. View More...
Original red leather on flexible boards. Leather separated from boards on both covers, so I glued them. Interior clean and sound. 1014 pp. View More...
Original royal blue blind-stamped cloth on boards. Both titles and author in gilt on spine only. A rare issue, with no others found. Men's Wives (274 pp.) is dated 1868, while The Book of Snobs (278 pp.) is dated 1870. Generally grubby and a little dampstained, but not marked except with previous owner's small, stylish name stamp, "Solomon Davis". The Book of Snobs is complete, containing the "political" chapters which were sometimes omitted. Several pages of ads complete the volume. View More...
Original maroon cloth with gold decoration and titles on boards. An arresting revision of the original volume. The present author has omitted Chapters XII to XV on the ground that they are "pedagogical", and thus (apparently) of little interest to most prospective readers. His own first impression, however, was that "I was on the border of a delectable country." Inscription. 254 pp. View More...
Tan cloth on boards with black trim on spine. Top edges gilt. Rough-cut pages. Both volumes are spotted on the spines. The second volume has a dampstain on the spine (not affecting pages), and a 1 1/2" abrasion to the cloth on the back. This set is heavy, and will require extra postage. 349 pp./379 pp. View More...
Olive cloth on boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Dampstain on back cover and affecting last eight leaves. Previous owner's lovely bookplate in the front. Remains of paper stuck to second front free endpaper. Foxing inside front and back covers. This is Volume VI of the Novels and Stories of Ivan Turgenieff, and was translated from Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. 352 pp. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials. No damage. The Teaching of English Series, No. 157. Descriptions of 45 popular titles from English literature, giving choice selections with a view to answering the question, "What is this book about ?" 298 pp. plus catalog. View More...
Imagine your first novel being banned by your mother and Mackenzie King (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept). This book centers on Smart's journal writing of the 30's and 40's. Laid in is a lengthy news clipping. 285 pp. View More...
