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The Complete Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes Volume 1 Only. 1st Limited/Numbered Edition

By: Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Gosse, Edmund (Edits and Introductions).

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, The Franfrolico Press: 1928

Seller Id: 31638

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Two Years Before The Mast

By: Dana, R.H.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: NY, The Heritage Press: 1947

Seller Id: 34781

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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African American Literature A Guide to Reading Interests

By: Dawson, Alma; Van Fleet, Connie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: CT, Libraries Unlimited: 2004

Seller Id: 45668

ISBN: 1563089319

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Bleak House and A Child's History of England

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $25.00

Publisher: IL, A. C. McClurg and Co: 1888

Seller Id: 30265

Binding: Hardcover

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).
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Ancient Greek Literature

By: Dover, K.J. And Others

Price: $25.00

Publisher: England, Oxford University Press: 1980

Seller Id: 41880

ISBN: 0192191373

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Vicar of Wakefield

By: Goldsmith; Oliver

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, John B. Alden: 1887

Seller Id: 39956

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The House of the Seven Gables

By: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Price: $7.00

Publisher: NY, J. H. Sears & Co.:

Seller Id: 8461

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales

By: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Price: $45.00

Publisher: NY, Duffield & Co.: 1927

Seller Id: 37199

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The New Hudson Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

By: Hudson, Henry Norman; Edited and Revised by Ebenezer Charlton Black with the Cooperation of Andrew Jackson George

Price: $18.00

Publisher: MA, Ginn and Company: 1935

Seller Id: 47076

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Tight bright volume in pebbled medium blue cloth with black title on cover, gilt title on spine. Tips still sharp, spine ends bumped. Tidy name on fep and rear pastedown. 144 pp text is crisp and unmarked.
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The Short Stories of Henry James

By: James, Henry; Fadiman, Clifton (Selected By, Intro & Notes)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: NY, The Modern Library/ Random House: 1949

Seller Id: 46102

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Westward Ho

By: Kinglsey, Charles

Price: $12.00

Publisher: NY, The Heritage Press: 1947

Seller Id: 34780

ISBN: 0124520251

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Milton's Paradise Lost Books I and II

By: Milton, John; Edited with Notes and an Introduction by Edward Everette Hale, Jr., Ph.D.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1900

Seller Id: 46985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1896, this is the 5th hardcover printing of 1900 in taupe cloth covered boards with burgundy titles, decorated ruled frt board and Longman's clipper ship crest on center of frt cover. Spine cloth darkened, title barely legible. Spine ends bumped, tips still sharp with color loss only save for one micro rub near the head of the front gutter. Inner hinges fine, not exlib, no names or tears in the 112 pp text, only an occasional fingerprint in margin. Text tight and fresh, but lightly rippled throughout without any evidence of water damage. 'Cun...
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The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Poe, Edgar Allan

Price: $7.00

Publisher: NY, Doubleday & Co. Inc.: 1966

Seller Id: 41170

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Kenilworth

By: Scott, Sir Walter, Bart.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: NY, George Routledge and Sons:

Seller Id: 44556

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Vanity Fair A Novel Without A Hero Vol. 1 & 2 Cornhill Edition

By: Thackeray, William Makepeace

Price: $100.00

Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1911

Seller Id: B20774

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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A Horse's Tale Slipcased 1st Edition

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $275.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Brothers: 1907

Seller Id: 46054

Binding: Illustrated Cloth

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...
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Category: LITERATURE