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1) Selected Works By Esther Burton
Burton, Esther

Jerome, AZ, U.S.A.: MultiCultural Educational Publishing, 2004. 323 pages. Clean inside & out but for gift inscription on first page by author. Contents include: True Stories: Jambo, Mama, Jambo; Greatest Fishing Story Ever Told; Below the Mountain Where God Lives; Conditioning; Cost of Expatriatism; Wilma's Galerie. Also included are selections from the Journals and Letters; Excerpts from Mama Guitar (a novel).. ISBN: 0-9703721-2-4. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. Literature. more information

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2) Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets
DeQuincey, Thomas

London, U.K.: JM Dent & Sons, 1911 335 pages, gilt decoration & lettering on spine, illustrated endpapers. Scuff at corners, few small light spots on boards, few light spots on pages, only library marking is stamp on front endpaper, number written on front board. Contents include: Wordsworth; Coleridge; Wordsworth and Southey; Early Memorials of Grasmere; The Saracen's Head; Society of the Lakes I, II, III; etc.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Ex-Library. more information

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3) Euripides III : Hecuba; Andromache; The Trojan Women; Ion
Grene, David; Lattimore, Richmond (editor)

Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press, 1958 255 pages. Rear cover has few small light spots, small faint stain on top edge of first few pages, approx. 2 pages have margin notes or underlining. Contents include: Hecuba; Andromache; The Trojan Women; Ion.. Soft Cover. Good. Used. more information

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4) Familiar Essays of To-Day : Familiar Essays of Today
Heydrick, Benjamin A.; Strunsky, Simeon; Eaton, Walter; White, William; Brown, Rollo; Conrad, Joseph; Barrie, James; Schauffler, Robert; Goodspeed, Edgar; Fisher, Dorothy; Johnson, Burges; Warner, Frances; Nicholson, Meredith; Kilmer, Joyce; Brooks

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930 312 pages, black cloth boards, red lettering. Book has wear at corners, light scuff, small fray at bottom of spine, two spine splits (front & rear) with cloth webbing showing, title page coming loose, owners name on first page. Contents include:In Belshazzar Court; R.F.D.; Mary White; My First Book; Timesquarese; Art of Being Out-Shone; Theme Writing; A Dog in the House; Cheerful Breakfast Table; Noon-Hour Adventuring; On Livelihoods; Furnace and I; The Laundry Problem; Winter Birds; Trembling Earth; An Introduction of Two Persons; What Is An American; Reading List of Modern Essays (1930). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Used. more information

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5) Song of Roland
Luquiens, Frederck Bliss (translator)

New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.: Macmillan Co., 1952 101 pages, red/black boards with gilt lettering & decoration. Boards are clean, tiny faint spot on edge, very light scuff at corners. A famous old French epic romanticizing a relatively unimportant incident in the withdrawal of Charlemagne's armies from Spain late in the eighth century. A series of vivid pictures of successive events. The written descriptions are so graphic, it needs no camera to enable the reader to visualize them.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used. more information

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6) Creative Thinkers : Orientation For Modern Times, A Course in Three Divisions Prepared Under the Direction of The Delphian Society; Division Two Creative Thinkers Part One, A Panoramic Study of Twenty English and American Writers From 1800 to the Present
MacMinn, Ney; Scott Jr, Walter B.; Thorp, Margaret Farrand

Delphian Society, 1937 366 pages, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering & decoration. Light scuff to corners, few tiny discolored specks on front board, margin notes, name on front endpaper. This book is Division Two, Part one. Authors include: William Wordsworth, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Henry Newman, John Ruskin, Charles Kingsley, William Morris, Thomas Henry Huxley, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Whitman, John Dos Passos, Kipling, Twain, H.G. Wells.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used. more information

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7) Representative Spanish Authors, A First Book of Spanish Literature (in Two Volumes: Volume One & Two, Volume 1 & 2
Pattison, Walter T

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr, 1947 497 pages (total of both volumes), text in English & Spanish, Vocabulary. Boards have light scuff, dents, small faint stains, side edge of volume two has light stain on side edge (does not show on pages) text free of marks. Contents include: Land and People of Spain; Spanish Prose of the Middle Ages; Juan Manuel; Lyric Poetry of the Middle Ages; Juan Ruiz; Jorge Manrique; The Romances; Garcilaso de la Vega; Fernando de Herrera; Lope de Rueda; Francisco de Quevedo; Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century in Spain; Romanticism; Jose de Espronceda; Jose Zorrilla; Duque de Rivas; Gustavo Adolfo Becquer; Realism in the Novel; Juan Valera; Benito Perez Galdos; Naturalism; The Generation of 1898; Azorin; Ruben Dario; Antonio Machado; Juan Ramon Jimenez; etc.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Used. more information

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8) Poe : A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth Century Views)
Regan, Robert (editor); Huxley, Aldous; Tate, Allen; Basler, Roy; Quinn, Patrick; Weber, Jean-Paul; Wilbur, Richard; Beebe, Maurice; Roppolo, Joseph; Kaplan, Sidney; Gargano, James; Stovall, Floyd

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, U.S.A.: Prentice Hall, 1967 183 pages, Selected Bibliography. Book is clean inside & out but for name on reverse of front cover, light scuff to covers. Essyas include: Philosophy of Composition; Vulgarity in Literature; Our Cousin, Mr. Poe; Interpretation of "Ligeia"; French Response to Poe; Poe or The Theme of the Clock; The House of Poe; The Universe of Roderick Usher; Meaning and "The Masque of the Red Death"; An Introduction to "Pym"; The Question of Poe's Narrators;; The Conscious Art of Edgar Allan Poe.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Used. more information

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9) Shakespeare's MacBeth
Shakespeare, William; Edited By Charles W. French

New York, NY, U.S.A.: The Macmillan Co., 1898. 183 pages, Index, Notes. Large stain on both covers, edgewear. scuff on front cover, corners chipped, spine top and bottom starting to fray, name and date 1902 written on first page, foxing. MacMillan's Pocket English Classics. A series of English texts, edited for use in Secondary Schools, with critical introductions, notes, etc.. Hard Cover. Good - Minus. 4-1/4" x 5-3/4". Used. Literature. more information

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10) Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare, William; Edited By Charlotte Whipple Underwood

New York, NY, U.S.A.: The Macmillan Co., 1899. 207 pages, Index, Notes. Sun fading to spine, bumped/scuffed corners, foxing, owners name and date 1902 written on first page. Few notes written in pencil on blank pages provided for student. MacMillan's Pocket English Classics. A series of English texts, edited for use in Secondary Schools, with critical introductions, notes, etc.. Hard Cover. Good. 4-1/4" x 5-3/4". Used. Literature. more information

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