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Price: $10.00
Publisher: MO, Hallmark Editions: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 41763
ISBN: 0875291244
Condition: Very Good +
1st edition hardcover in colored paper covered boards featuring a close up of Poe's mug and a speck of color loss at tips of still sharp corners and spine ends. 62 pp text fine. Small chip at head of price-clipped dj, light color loss at tips, displays well in new mylar sleeve. B/w illustrations within. View more info
By: Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Gosse, Edmund (Edits and Introductions).
Price: $75.00
Publisher: London, The Franfrolico Press: 1928
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 31638
Condition: Good
One of 750 numbered copies, this being volume one of set 452. One volume only = The First Part. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrated with wood cuts from Holbein's The Dance of Death. Tall octavo. Cloth-backed patterned paper boards, chipped, yellowed paper label on spine retains all of the title. Corners quite rubbed, boards slightly bowed, internally tight with age toned, untrimmed leaves. 257 pp. View more info
By: Dana, R.H.
Price: $18.00
Publisher: NY, The Heritage Press: 1947
Seller Id: 34781
Condition: Very Good
Slipcased hardcover book straight and sharp, slipcase quite worn. Gorgeous brown cloth hardcover with blue spine title box and rich gilt text. Plain blue paper covered slipcase shows heavy wear at tips, 3.75" split along lower edge and some bits of color missing has kept this book solid and straight. 346 pp text is tight and unmarked. Apologia pamphlet laid in about other titles planned for this series but for numerous reasons, cannot be included at this time. Introduction by William McFee. Illustrated with engravings in color by Hans Alexander Mueller. View more info
By: Dawson, Alma; Van Fleet, Connie
Price: $10.00
Publisher: CT, Libraries Unlimited: 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller Id: 45668
ISBN: 1563089319
Condition: Very Good +
1st edition hardcover. Very good glossy pictorial boards are bumped but not rubbed. 470 p text crisp and unmarked. Features ink "tabs" on edge of page block for ease of moving around in this volume. A handbook of Aftrican American authors and their works. Reference material, Bibliography, History & Criticism. View more info
By: Dickens, Charles
Price: $25.00
Publisher: IL, A. C. McClurg and Co: 1888
Edition: Possible First
Seller Id: 30265
Condition: Fair
1888 hardcover in fair shape. Bleak House 440 pgs. A Child's History of England 190 pgs. Two books in one. Uncommon publisher of this work. Burgundy cloth with rubbed extrems. Cloth marked and frayed at tips and spine ends, name on frt pastedown. Vint bookstore stamp on fep. Well illustrated throughout. Text tight and bright with one small chip to lower edge (no text missing). View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: England, Oxford University Press: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller Id: 41880
ISBN: 0192191373
Condition: Very Good
Uncommon 1st edition hardcover edition with pocket and all pp present. 186 pp text browned. Price clipped dj flaps glued to boards. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: NY, John B. Alden: 1887
Edition: Possible First
Seller Id: 39956
Condition: Very Good
Tight burgundy boards parts pebbled cloth with gilt titles. Slim 144 pg volume suitable for a slacks pocket and a walk to the park. Small smudge on frt board. Classic literature. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: NY, J. H. Sears & Co.:
Seller Id: 8461
Condition: Very Good
Burgundy cloth with sharp tips and bumped spine ends have a diamond grid gilt frame around gilt title on frt board, spine title in black, 1/2" x 1/4" nick in cloth 1" from frt gutter. Top edge of page block dyed red, other 2 slightly spotted. No date of publication listed but former owners' name on fep along with 1927 date. 242 pp text tight and bright, book slightly cocked. Solid reading copy. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: NY, Duffield & Co.: 1927
Edition: 11th Edition
Seller Id: 37199
Condition: Good +
Blue cloth boards with paste-on artwork, full page size w/gilt titles on cover. This plate shows much surface wear but title remains legible. Gilt title on backstrip dull and barely legible. Corners and spine ends rubbed, inner hinge papers cracked, page block tight save for one plate, loose and laid in. All plates present. A solid working copy of a very collectible Parrish illustrated title. View more info
By: James, Henry; Fadiman, Clifton (Selected By, Intro & Notes)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: NY, The Modern Library/ Random House: 1949
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller Id: 46102
Condition: Near Fine
Near fine First edition of this collection by Clifton Fadiman in pine green cloth covered boards with silver title spine and lighter green guy running with the torch on spine and ML (Modern Library) initials on frt board. Tips and spine ends lightly bumped. No rubbing, no broken cloth, book is square and straight. Red letter H in a red circle stamped on blank fep. No names, tears, dog-ears or soil inside. Very good condition unclipped dj has some soil in upper right portion of frt panel, and along front flap fold, A Modern Library GIANT in red box near foot of dj spine, and G11 printed b... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: NY, The Heritage Press: 1947
Seller Id: 34780
Condition: Near Fine
Nice slipcased green cloth hardcover with gilt illust cover and spine titles (spine quite sunned). Marbled rust/cream paper covered slipcase shows heavy wear at tips but is solid and straight. Sandglass insert missing 427 pp tight and unmarked. View more info
By: Poe, Edgar Allan
Price: $7.00
Publisher: NY, Doubleday & Co. Inc.: 1966
Seller Id: 41170
Condition: Very Good
Green hardcover boards with one micro nick out of bumped rear spine edge, tips show color loss but no major rubbing. Hinge papers fine, 824 pp text crisp and unmarked. Page block fore edge uncut, others trimmed. No other date given besides 1966. View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: NY, George Routledge and Sons:
Seller Id: 44556
Condition: Very Good
No date, intro dated 1831. The Waverley Novels. A beautiful book in brown cloth with ornate black decoration, a column with ferns, thistles and various fauna on frt board and backstrip. Tips and spine ends fairly sharp, Former owner's name on dark sage green endpps have made two small holes and few small marks on second blank fep. Edges of pg block darkened, Intro, first signature loose at head, delicate but attached. No loose leaves. 423 pp plus foxed publishers adverts in rear. Washington Irving says of Sir Walter Scott's writings: "His works have incorporated themselves with the thought... View more info
By: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Price: $100.00
Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1911
Seller Id: B20774
Condition: Very Good
Minor surface wear on corners of boards, t.e.g. "A novel without a hero." Two volumes. First published 1903, this is the Cornhill edition of 1911. Total of 1108 pages. Green cloth somewhat splotchy here and there on both books, more so on foot of vol. II. Few cracked hinges in texts, both page blocks and all pages holding fine. Illustrated by the author. View more info
By: Twain, Mark
Price: $275.00
Publisher: NY, Harper & Brothers: 1907
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller Id: 46054
Condition: Near Fine
First edition blindstamped illustrated hardcover in rich red cloth with black horse and white/black/brown rider in a dress riding him. Upper tip of frt board, and lower tip of rear board slightly darker than rest of cloth. Spine ends bumped with one micro break in the cloth at head just starting, and trace of color loss on still sharp tips. A touch of paint loss on the HOR in the word Horse's on frt board. Antique Brentanos bookstore sticker at foot of rear pastedn. No names, tears or soil in the 153 pp text. Comes in a custom-made red cloth slipcase with gilt title on sunned spine; lett... View more info
