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By: Farnham, Willard
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Berkeley, CA, University of California Press: 1950
Edition: First
Seller ID: 006875
Original red cloth on boards. Library copy with card showing no circulation. Taints and Honors, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Notes and Index. Clean and bright. 289 pp. View more info
By: Farrer, J.A.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Co.: 1907
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002780
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
Publisher: London, Navarre Society:
Seller ID: 000460
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
Publisher: Boston, Ginn and Company: 1919
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002304
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 bo... View more info
By: France, Anatole
Price: $40.00
Publisher: London, Greening & Co., Limited: 1902
Seller ID: 010521
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 are... View more info
By: Fraser, Frances and Palmer, Nettie (Eds.)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Australia, Women's Centenary Council: 1934
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 005719
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
Publisher: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd: 1823
Edition: First Edition (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 010194
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
Publisher: London, J.M. Sent & Sons, Ltd.: 1930
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 009481
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
Publisher: Chicago, Stone and Kimball: 1894
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 008732
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
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library:
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 010086
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: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., H.M. Caldwell Company:
Seller ID: 008759
Original green cloth on boards. Gilt spine and cover decoration. Top edges gilt. No writing. Still the subject of vigorous debate - is Goldsmith serious or spoofing ? Read it and decide for yourself. 152 pp. View more info
Price: $17.50
Publisher: N.Y., The New Home Library: 1943
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 003036
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
Publisher: Moscow, Raduga Publishers: 1987
Edition: 18th Printing
Seller ID: 010109
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
Publisher: Vancouver, The Caitlin Press: 1987
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 004103
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
Publisher: N.Y., Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1928
Seller ID: 009246
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
Publisher: N.Y., Alfred A. Knopf: 1957
Edition: Stated First Edition
Seller ID: 002867
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
Publisher: London, Educational Book Company, Ltd.: 1927
Seller ID: 007943
Original yellow cloth on boards. DJ missing spine. Gift note. 116 pp. View more info
Price: $70.00
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1868
Edition: First (No additional printings)
Seller ID: 001843
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
Publisher: New York, H.M. Caldwell Company:
Seller ID: 010487
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: Hazlitt, William
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy: 1870
Seller ID: 006087
Original green blindstamped cloth on boards. Backstrip separated, but present. Hinges badly cracked and delicate. The preface ("advertisement") states that little is said here of Spenser and Shakespeare because "I had treated them separately in former publications." 247 pp. View more info
