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Harper and Brothers, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. Harper and Brothers, New York 1893. First Edition / First Printing. Matching dates on the title and copyright pages. No dedication as issued. Blue cloth boards. Illustrated front board. Lettered in gold. Two volumes. [ref: BAL 20819]. Book Condition: Very Good+, tight spines, light shelf wear, age toning.
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The Prodigal Parents, A Novel
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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Quo Vadis
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Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897. 515 pages. A Tale of the Time of Nero. Book is in remarkably good shape for being 116 years old. Clear titling on spine and front pictoral cover. Foxing slightly present on inside cover, binding, flyleafs disjoined.. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by M. De Lipman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.
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The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell (Vol II)
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The prince of India; of, Why Constantinople fell, Lew Wallace complete volume 1,2: vovel(1893) complete volume 1 and 2
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THE PRINCE OF INDIA; or Why Constantinople Fell. Volume I and II
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New York: Harper & Bros., 1893. Hardcover. Good+. 4 1/2 x 7, 502 and 578 pgs. A historical and adventurous look at the India of old.
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The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 01
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The PRINCE of INDIA - Volume 1
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New York: Harper & Bros, 1893. First Thus.. Hardcover in navy cloth boards w gilt titling + red cross &silver crescent moon, no jacket.. VeryGood++ w owner signature (1893) else unmarked, clean boards & bright gilt titling & decoration, binding tight.. Author of Ben Hur tells a tale of 14th-century intrique and the Wandering Jew. Vol 1 only. This is a handsome collectible copy, remarkably clean tight and bright for its age. 5 x 7, 502 pp, laid endpapers, tinted top edge.
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All the Right Answers
by Noah, Robert
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Book. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1988 STATED FIRST EDITION IN VERY GOOD CLEAN HARDCOVER AND BRIGHT VERY GOOD JACKET-GREAT COPY!1.
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The Prince of India (2 Volumes)
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The Prince of India; or Why Constantinople Fell.
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New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1893.. original blue cloth.. Old ink signature on each front free endpaper; a bright, fine set.. 12mo,.
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PRINCE OF INDIA: Or Why Constantinople Fell/Two (2) Volume Set
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. Original blue cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Bindings moderately soiled and rubbed. Wear to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's names on front blank endpapers of both volumes. Leaves age toned. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good-/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Kane & Abel
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Cold Mountain
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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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We Loved Them Once
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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The Sky and the Forest
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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).
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