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Row, Peterson, and Company ILLINOIS, 1935. . and several corner creases and short tears. B&W illustrations are generally clean throughout, though.HB NODJ,1935, 1st edition, GOOD+/GOOD-, NO JACKET, SOLD AS-IS, Interior Some rub, Wear, Light FoX stains some pencil mrks, Few cuts, chips Tears some pages EDGES, Tan Beige & Dark Green ? Pictorial Cloth cover shows light Soil, Stains, Rub & tiny Chips Pieces Extremities, Cloth Spine Tears along Edges, chips Spine Engs, 304 pgs, No Additional Printings On Copyright Page, heavy edgewear and some scuffing to green-printed cover illustration. Fraying to corners and split to cloth along rear spine edge; some loss to spine ends. Still, a fairly tight copy with solid text and hinges.. This is an exceptionally rare book to find in any condition!. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Merry Tales by Mark Twain - 1892
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Charles Webster, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. Charles Webster, New York 1892. First Edition / First Printing / State A. Dated 1892 with no additional printings. Green cloth boards. Issued without a frontispiece. Patterned illustrated endpaper. [ref: BAL 3435]. Book Condition: Very Good+, tight spine, clean boards. Mild age toning, light shelf wear.
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PRINCESS HILDEGARDE By Sidney Baldwin - 1st Edition,. 1935, Illustrated By Helen Chamberlin, The Princess Has Qualities of Sincerity, Truthfulness & Good Comradeship Which Both Boys & Girls Admire, This is an Exceptionally Rare Book to Find in
by By Sidney Baldwin, B/W Illustrated By Helen Chamberlin, B/W Pictorial Endpaperers with 3 Figures Running Hand in Hand Has Ink Marks , Light Soil, Tiny Chips Extremities, Toned Pages are Well-Thumbed with Moderate Soiling to Margins, and Several Corner
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Water Music.
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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1981). Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A superb copy of this title! Author's first novel.
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THE FLIGHT OF THE FALCON, a New Novel ,SIGNED on Title Page By Author, Italian Courier Becomes Circumstantially Involved in Murder of Old Peasant Woman in Rome , FICTION, Classic Murder Novel from the Popular Mystery Writer. Gothic Mystery
by DAPHNE DU MAURIER, SIGNED By Famed Writer Daphne Du Maurier Autographed (with Fountain Pen in Blue Ink on Title page) INNER Flap DJ Priceclipped, Autograph GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC, Blank Endpapers,DJ By Larry Lubin
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Doubleday, This is a BOOK CLUB EDITION, 1965 HBDJ, 1965, Early Reprint, 253 PGs, Book VG Condition and Dust Jacket in VG- Condition with minor wear around the edges DJ & Tiny Chips , Light Soil Back DJ , Interior NiCE tight Clean. Beige Grey Cloth Lettered in Black on SPine light Wear, Publishers RedDye Stain on Top Pgs Edges . Gothic Mystery set in both Mediaeval Rome and the present day, which includes the classic elements of the Genre; murder, and haunting from a phantom.. Signed by Author. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
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The Doings Of Raffles Haw
by Doyle, A. Conan
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London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited. Very Good. 1892. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 256 pages: 4.75 x 7.5 in.: 1: KB#011155: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Boards are original Dark Blue with wear at corners and gilt lettering on spine. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright (except for endpapers being lightly age-darkened), tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Raffles Haw is a millionaire, or billionaire, thanks to his possession of a secret which furnishes him with an inexhaustible supply of money. " and "The attempts by Raffles Haw, a rich eccentric, to help the poor only backfire, as his wealth brings out the worst in those around him." .
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THE HISTORY OF RINALDO RINALDINI CAPTAIN OF BANDITTI (COMPLETE IN 3 VOLUMES)
by Vulpius, Christian August
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Boston: Printed for the Booksellers. Good+. 1832. Hardcover. Clean blue paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. Complete in three volumes . 216pp, 220pp and 216pp. Interiors of the three texts are tight, clean and intact. Each volume with a frontispiece. German literature, a Corsican bandit uprising against French domination. Small piece of blue paper missing from #1's rear cover. Lightly rubbed on front corners. Prior owner's signature on top edge and frontispiece. Vol. 1 & 3 have a small narrow damp stain on bottom margin. Novel, German Literature, Fiction; Thin 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 652 pages .
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THE COMPLETE ANGLER
by WALTON. IZAAK.; COTTON. CHARLES
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John Major, London.,1824. SECOND MAJOR EDITION. Illustrated with 14 copper engraved plates and several woodcuts throughout the text. Two small patches of browning affecting the top outer corner of ten leaves, otherwise a very good copy in fine nineteenth century binding by Thomson of Exeter, with binders ticket on front paste down. Full tan calf, raised bands, compartments fully gilt. Red title label, gilt. Boards with double blind ruled and one gilt ruled borders. Marbled endpapers. School prize plate on front paste down shows that this copy was given as a prize in January 1842. Previous owners name(dated 1881) and ink name stamp on blank endpapers. Front hinge neatly repaired. Some minor rubbing to edges but generally a very good copy in an attractive nineteenth century binding.:
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The Centurions (First UK edition)
by Jean Larteguy (Author) Xan Fielding (Translator)
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Hutchinson, 1961. First UK edition-first impression. Hardcover. Very good/No Dj cover. VGC plus.Hutchinson,1961.First UK edition-first impression.Translated from the French by Xan Fielding.Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two small nicks and scratch on the edges of the cover and spine)in VGC, no Dj cover.Nice and clean pages with a couple of small foxing marks and nick on the outer edges,two small foxing marks and a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC plus for its age with light shelf wear.487pp including Author's note.A collectable and scarce first edition but without the Dj cover.
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School Days at Rugby. / Tom Brown at Oxford: A Sequel to School Days at Rugby
by HUGHES, Thomas
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. Quarter calf with gilt spine decorations and paper labels (expert contemporary replacements) and red marbled paper over boards. viii, 405pp; iv, 378pp; viii, 430pp. Frontispieces, marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Faint edgewear and scuffed marbled paper, though internally white, bright and near fine. A tight, quite handsome early printing of this English classic in a classy custom binding of the period; Ticknor and Fields first published "School Days at Rugby" in 1857 and "Tom Brown at Oxford" in 1861. From the library of Wisconsin civic leader JAMES M. LYNCH, chief clerk at the Adjutant General's Office during the Civil War, appointed quartermaster general in 1865. He boldly signs the inner flyleaf of the first volume in brown ink, dating it "Milwaukee, Wis. / Oct. 31, 1865." Inner flyleaf of the second volume ("Part First" of the 2-volume "Tom Brown at Oxford")…
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[ LIVRE MINUSCULE - MINIATURE BOOK 58 x 42 mm] Vert-Vert , suivi de La Chartreuse, L'abbaye et autres pièces
by Gresset Jean-Baptiste-Louis (1709-1777)
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aux Editions Mignardise à Paris,1855, minuscule (5,8 x 4,2 cm), 2 ff + 161 pages. Reliure Plein maroquin brun, dos à nerfs avec filets à froid, titre doré, plats avec deux filets à froid en encadrement, roulette dorée sur les coupes, fine roulette intérieure dorée, contre-plats doublés de maroquin vert bronze, toutes tranches dorées. +++++++ Charmante édition minuscule des oeuvres de Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709-1777) dans une belle reliure sobre - Reliure en très bon état, légère décoloration des contre-plats en cuir vert sur les gardes, intérieur avec quelques rousseurs en marge, Bon exemplaire..
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods.
by ECO, Umberto
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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Merry Tales (1892)
by Twain, Mark
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Merry Tales (1892)
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Oxford University Press, USA, 1996. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Merry Tales (1892) (The Oxford Mark Twain)
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Oxford University Press, March 1997. Hardcover. USED Good.
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Merry Tales (EasyRead Large Edition)
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ReadHowYouWant, 2008-11-28. Paperback. Good.
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Merry Tales (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
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Merry Tales (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
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Merry Tales (The Oxford Mark Twain)
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 230 pages approx. Hardcover with dust jacket. The Oxford Mark Twain, Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Intro by Anne Bernays, afterward by Forrest G. Robinson. Very minor scuffing and wear to jacket, cover edges, very clean and tight copy. Record # 2231325
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Kane & Abel
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New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.
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Cold Mountain
by Frazier, Charles
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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
by Cholmondeley, Mary
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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
by Rivers, Ronda
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NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
by Traven, B
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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
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
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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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Dobrodruzstvi Toma Sawyera a Huckleberryho Finna.
by Twain, Mark; Jiri Hejna
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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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