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1) Six Great Ideas
Adler, Mortimer

London: Macmillan, 1984. A clean, tight and unmarked copy. xii,243p.. Wraps (soft-cover). Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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2) The Earliest English Poems
Alexander, Michael [tr.]

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1967. Rubbing to covers and creasing to spine. Owner's name. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. . Wraps (soft-cover). Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Price: $2.88
3) Andersen's Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian

London: Children's Press, 1972. Hardcover. Owner's name to front endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. . Pictorial Boards. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Price: $1.73
4) The Transformations of Lucius, otherwise known as The Golden Ass
Apuleius [Robert Graves, tr.]

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1951. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat.. Wraps (soft-cover). Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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5) August Adventure: A Novel for Boys & Girls
Atkinson, M.E

London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. Hardcover. Some darkening to spine, and rubbing/soiling to coevrs. Spine slant. Owner's name/date neatly to top of front endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Endpaper maps. Illustrated. 336p.. Cloth. Fair. Illus. by Jones, Harold. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Price: $12.00
6) Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane

Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat.. Wraps (soft-cover). Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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7) Sense & Sensibility
Austen, Jane (Introduction and Notes by Dr. W. A. Craik)

London: Pan Books Ltd., 1972. With Introduction and Notes by Dr. W. A. Craik. Clean, tight, bright, and completely unmarked copy. Spine not cracked. Bibliography. 315pp.. Original Wraps. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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8) Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane (Introduction by Monica Dickens, Notes by Dr. W. A. Craik)

London: Pan Books Ltd., 1972. With Introduction by Monica Dickens and Notes by Dr. W. A. Craik. Clean, tight, bright, and completely unmarked copy. Spine not cracked. 385pp.. Original Wraps. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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9) Persuasion
Austen, Jane(Introduction and Notes by Dr. W. A. Craik)

London: Pan Books Ltd., 1971. With Introduction and Notes by Dr. W. A. Craik. Clean, tight, bright and completely unmarked copy. Spine not cracked. Bibliography. 239pp.. Original Wraps. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Price: $3.84
10) English Lyrics from Spenser to Milton
Bell, Robert Anning

London: Bell & Hyman, 1979. Hardcovers. A clean, tight and unmarked copy in like dust jacket. Illustrated in the art nouveau fashion -- a facsimile printing of the edition published in 1898. Index. viii,222p.. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Bell, Robert Anning. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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11) The Goblin and the Dragon and Other Stories
Blyton, Enid

Purnell, 1975. Hardcover. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. Illustrated.. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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12) The Book of Discovery
Bridges, T. C

London: George C. Harrap, 1937. Cloth hardcover. Owner's name to fornt endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. Illustrated.. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Price: $10.37
13) Shirley
Bronte, Charlotte

London: Collins Clear-Type Press. Full gilt burgundy flexible morocco leather covers. Slipcase. Owner's name. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in slightly edge-worn slipcase. Very neat. Illustrated.. Full-Leather. Very Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Price: $25.92
14) The Annotated Pilgrim's Progress
Bunyan, John; Wiersbe, Warren W

Chicago: Moody Press, 1980. Remnants of owner's label to front endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. Illustrated. Annotated. Index. 209p.. Hardcover in dust jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Price: $31.50
15) Look for the Buzzards
Burkett, Molly

London: Andre Deutsch, 1981. Hardcover in dust jacket. A clean, tight and unmarked book in similar dust jacket (now protected in removable archival mylar sleeve). Very neat, a very nice copy. 127p.. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Abrahams, Hilary. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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16) The Parlement of Foulys
Chaucer, Geoffrey [D. S. Brewer, ed.; C. S. Lewis, general ed.]

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1967. Hardcovers. A clean, tight and unmarked copy in like dust jacket. viii,168p.. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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17) The Canterbury Tales: Illustrated Prologue
Chaucer, Geoffrey; Alexander, Michael [ed.]

London: Scala Books, 1996. Hardcover. Illustrated from contemporary sources. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. Illustrated. 64p.. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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18) The Moonstone
Collins, Wilkie

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Penguin, 1986. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat.. Wraps (soft-cover). Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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19) Chaucer and His England
Coulton, G. G

London: Bracken Books, 1993. Reprinted from the 1908 Methuen edition. Contains references in the preface to G. K. Chesterton's controversy with the work. Hardcover in dust jacket. A clean, tight and unmarked book in similar dust jacket (now protected in removable archival mylar sleeve). Very neat. Index. xx,321p.. Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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20) William Again
Crompton, Richmal

London: George Newnes, Limited, 1923. Black lettering to red cloth hardcovers. Rubbing and wear to all corners/extremities, including head and tail of spine. Light soiling to covers. Owner's name and place to front endpaper. Front hinge loosening but still intact and firm. Some foxing to edges. Otherwise a clean and unmarked book. Illustrated. 253p.. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Illus. by Henry, Thomas. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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21) More William
Crompton, Richmal

London: George Newnes, Limited, 1923. The second impression of the first edition, dated January 1923 (first impression was December 1922). Black lettering to red cloth hardcovers. Rubbing and wear to all corners/extremities, including head and tail of spine. Light soiling to covers. Owner's name and place to front endpaper. Some foxing to edges. Otherwise a clean and unmarked book. Neat. Illustrated. 254p.. Cloth. Good. Illus. by Henry, Thomas. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Price: $72.00
22) Just -- William
Crompton, Richmal

London: George Newnes, Limited. The first edition, undated [1922]. Black lettering to red cloth hardcovers. Rubbing and wear to all corners/extremities, including head and tail of spine. Spine is rubbed at edges and detached at rear hinge. Owner's inscription to front endpaper. Rear hinge wearing but still firm and intact. Some foxing to edges. Otherwise a clean and unmarked book. Neat. Illustrated. 248+4[publisher's ads.]p.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. Illus. by Henry, Thomas. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Price: $158.40
23) Still -- William
Crompton, Richmal

London: George Newnes, Limited. Black lettering to red cloth hardcovers. Rubbing and wear to all corners/extremities, including head and tail of spine. Rear edge of spine rubbed and partially perforated at hinge. Light soiling to covers. Owner's name and place to front endpaper. Hinges firm. Some foxing to edges and endpapers. Otherwise a clean and unmarked book. Illustrated. 252p.. Cloth. Fair. Illus. by Henry, Thomas. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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24) The Vision: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
Dante Alighieri [Rev. Henry Francis Cary, tr.]

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1857. Gilt spine and blindstamped decorative decorative hardcovers. Spine gilding somewhat dulled, and some rubbing, bumping and wear to covers. Edges dust-soiled. Yellow endpaper, with owner's name at front. Some foxing to frontispiece, tissue-guard and title page. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Neat. Numerous plates, after Flaxman. Index. 587p... Decorative Cloth. Good. Illus. by Flaxman, John. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Price: $24.00
25) The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel

London: Simpkin Marshall. Cloth hardcover. Owner's name to front endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. . Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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26) David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat.. Wraps (soft-cover). Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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27) The Old Curiosity Shop
Dickens, Charles

Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat.. Wraps (soft-cover). Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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28) Nicholas Nickleby
Dickens, Charles

London: Collins Clear-Type Press. Full gilt burgundy flexible morocco leather covers. Top edge gilt. Maroon endpapers. Some slight rubbing to extremities. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Illustrated.. Full-Leather. Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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29) Christmas Books
Dickens, Charles

London: Collins Clear-Type Press. Full gilt burgundy flexible morocco leather covers. Slipcase. Top edge gilt. Maroon endpapers. Some slight rubbing to extremities. Owner's name/inscription. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in slightly edge-worn slipcase. Very neat. A handsome volume. Illustrated.. Full-Leather. Very Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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30) Sketches By Boz
Dickens, Charles

London: Collins Clear-Type Press. Full gilt burgundy flexible morocco leather covers. Slipcase. Top edge gilt. Maroon endpapers. Some slight rubbing to extremities. Owner's name/inscription. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in slightly edge-worn slipcase. Very neat. A handsome volume. Illustrated.. Full-Leather. Very Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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31) A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles

Philadelphia: David McKay. Illustrated with four full-page color plates and color pastedown to front board. Owner's bookplate. Light wear to boards, otherwise a clean, tight, solid and unmarked copy. Very nice. 351pp.. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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32) The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens, Charles

London: Collins Clear-Type Press. Full gilt burgundy flexible morocco leather covers. Slipcase. Top edge gilt. Maroon endpapers. Some slight rubbing to extremities. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in slightly edge-worn slipcase. Very neat. A handsome volume. Illustrated. Scarce book in this series.. Full-Leather. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Price: $45.00
33) Barnaby Rudge
Dickens, Charles

London: Collins Clear-Type Press. Full gilt burgundy flexible morocco leather covers. Top edge gilt. Maroon endpapers. Owner's name/inscription. Chip to top of spine. Some slight rubbing to extremities. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Illustrated.. Full-Leather. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Price: $8.64
34) The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat.. Wraps (soft-cover). Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Price: $2.88
35) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat.. Wraps (soft-cover). Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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36) The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre

Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, Limited, 1997. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat.. Wraps (soft-cover). Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Price: $3.46
37) The Three Musketeers [two volumes in one]
Dumas, Alexandre

London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press. Gilt full maroon flexible morocco leather binding. Two volumes bound as one. Some moderate wear and rubbing to covers, especially to head and tail of spine also showing a little chip to head and tail of spine. Maroon endpapers. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked book. Neat. Illustrated, plates.. Full-Leather. Good. Illus. by Matthews, R. W.. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Price: $14.40
38) Twenty Years After
Dumas, Alexandre

London: Collins Clear-Type Press. Full gilt burgundy flexible morocco leather covers. Slipcase. Top edge gilt. Maroon endpapers. Owner's name. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in slightly edge-worn slipcase. Very neat. Illustrated.. Full-Leather. Near Fine/Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Price: $32.40
39) The Curious Lottery and Other Tales of Russian Justice
Duranty, Walter

New York: Coward- McCann, 1929. Orange cloth hardcovers. Some soiling and rubbing to covers. Darkened edges. Private lending library stamps to front endpapers (no pockets or other library marks inside or out. Small felt-tip mark to top edge. Otherwise a clean and unmarked book. The first book by Duranty, New York Times correspondent in Moscow, who was taken in by the communist "experiment." x,237p.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Price: $14.40
40) Castle Rackrent, and, The Absentee
Edgeworth, Maria

Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Classics, 1994. Soft cover. Two novels in one volume. Clean, tight, sharp and completely unmarked copy. 278pp.. Original Wraps. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Price: $1.73
41) The Begum's Fortune
(edited by I. O. Evans)

London: Bernard Hanison Limited, 1958. The Fitzroy Edition. Hard cover. Ex-library with typical markings, but still a reasonably clean, tight, solid and unmarked copy in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 191pp.. Boards. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Price: $6.91
42) Silas Come Back: A True Nature Story
Edwards, Dick

New York: Exposition Press, 1971. "The banks of the Grand River at Cayuga, Ontario hold the heart-warming story of a family of wrens and their human benefactors." Hard cover. Illustrated. Inscribed by the author. Very clean, sharp, tight and completely unmarked copy in very nice dust jacket now covered in protective archival mylar. 57pp.. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Boards. As New/Very Good. Illus. by Orella S. Meyd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Price: $14.40
43) Silas Marner
Eliot, George

London: Collins Clear-Type Press. Full gilt burgundy flexible morocco leather covers. Slipcase. Top edge gilt. Maroon endpapers. Owner's name. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in slightly edge-worn slipcase. Very neat. Illustrated.. Full-Leather. Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Price: $18.00
44) Supplement to Henry IV, Part 1: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
Evans, G. Blakemore, ed

Shakespeare Association of America, 1956. Hardcovers. Gilt brown pebbled cloth hardcovers. A clean, tight and unmarked copy. Nice. Bibliography, index. [iv]iv,121p.. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Price: $11.52
45) Three School Tales
Farrar, F. W

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1901. Hardcover. Owner's inscription to inside front cover. Some rubbing, bumping and discoloration. Some loose pages. Otherwise a clean, tight, and unmarked book. Very neat. Three books in one. 451p.. Boards. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Price: $14.40
46) Tom Jones
Fielding, Henry

Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat.. Wraps (soft-cover). Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Price: $2.88
47) Commodore Hornblower
Forester, C. S

S. J. Reginald Saunders, 1945. Hardcover. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. vi,384p.. First Canadian Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Price: $6.91
48) The Vicar of Wakefield
Goldsmith, Oliver

London: Collins Clear-Type Press. Full gilt burgundy flexible morocco leather covers. Slipcase. Owner's name. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in slightly edge-worn slipcase. Very neat. Illustratedviii,134p.. Full-Leather. Very Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Price: $11.52
49) The Wind in the Willows
Grahame, Kenneth

Prospero Books, 2000. Hardcover in dust jacket. A clean, tight and unmarked book in similar dust jacket, showing some edgewear (now protected in removable archival mylar sleeve). Very neat. Ilustrated. 195p.. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Ward, Helen. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Price: $11.52
50) Pancho: A Dog of the Plains
Grant, Bruce

Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company, 1958. Illustrated by Paul Galdone. Very slight darkening to pages, yet still a clean, tight, solid and completely unmarked copy in color-illustrated dust jacket (now protected in removable archival sleeve). Very nice. 185pp.. First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Galdone, Paul. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Price: $5.76
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