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[4]+392+[2] pages with a frontispiece from a painting by William Van Dresser. Small Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth illustrated in black,cream and orange, lettered in cream and gilt. (BAL 11966) (Sisson & Martens pg 87) First edition.A tale about a love triangle on a large ranch. Though not published until the year of London's death, he had written this during his bad year of 1913. He spent much of that year visiting a dentist, finally having all of his upper teeth pulled to halt the pyorrhea raging in his gums; at about the same time, his Wolf House burned down two weeks before its completion; and his kidney problems continued to worsen, exacerbated by his drinking and his insistence upon eating raw fish and duck. [The novel] was meant to exalt the splendor of Wolf House and scientific farming and sex." "It is all sex from start to finish", he wrote to the editor of Cosmopolitan, "in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of…
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Oeuvres Complètes de J.J. Rousseau (8 Volumes)
by J. J. Rousseau
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Paris: L. Hachette et Cie, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1862. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Eight matching volumes. French text. Decorative red marbleized paper cover over boards with quarter leather/leatherette bindings. Decorative green marbleized endpapers. Covers all with some wear, including some exposed boards on some edges and corners. Raised spines rubbed, with gilt lettering and decorations largely intact, fully legible. Pages all intact with minimal or no markings, some aging. 5 of 8 cloth page markers intact. Partial contents per volume as follows: 1) Notice sur J.J. Rousseau, Discours, to Emile, 590 pages. 2) Emile, Emile et Sophie ou les Solitaires, Lettres, Vision, Politique, Du Contract Social, 664 pages. 3) Considerations sur le Governement de Pologne, Entrait du Projet de Paix Perpetuelle, Polysynodie, Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise, 672 pages. 4) Letres a Sara to Dictionnaire Botanique, Dictionnaire Musique, 666 pages. 5) Dictionnaire Musique, Les Confessions, 597pages. 6) Les Confessions, Declaration de J. J. Rousseau, Rousseau juge de Jean-Jaques, Historie du Precedent Ecrit, Les Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire, Ecrits en forme de Circulaires, Correspondance, 600 pages. 7) Correspondance, 552 pages. 8) Correspondance and Table Analytique des Oeuvres complètes, 630 pages.
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The Little Lady of the Big House
by London, Jack (1876-1916)
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The Forsyte Saga: vol. I The Man of Property; vol. II Indian Summer of a Forsyte & In Chancery; vol. III Awakening & To Let
by John Galsworthy
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Leipzig Germany: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1926. Tauchnitz Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 3 Volume set. Red cloth binding with gold lettering and black decorative pattern on spine. Raised seal ("Tauchnitz Edition") on cover. Some discoloring and wear to cover. Corners with mild bending. Interiors clean with some foxing. Page edges intact with foxing and some small marks. Large fold out family tree intact. Request pictures if desired.
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Holiday Tales. Christmas in the Adirondacks
by Murray, W. H. H
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Springfield MA: Springfield Printing and Binding Company, 1897. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Cover worn, but intact. Scuffs, spots and discoloration, with a penciled number "45" directly next to title. Overall bow to the cover, moderate. Marks to endpapers. Text and images clean and pages intact with light wear and smudging. Binding intact. Please see scanned image. A great reading copy despite the cover flaws. 113 pages.
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The Nurse, a Poem
by Tansillo, Luigi
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New York: John Furman, 1800. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated by William Roscoe. "Re-printed for William Cobbett." 30, 44, 34 p.; 14 cm. (18mo). Signatures: A-I6. Contemporary binding: half speckled calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt rules on spine; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: The Nurse. All page edges speckled. English translation only, from Roscoe's bilingual edition of 1798. Includes Roscoe's introduction on the life and works of Tansillo, largely adapted from G.A. Ranza's Italian edition of 1767, with Latin passages from book 12 of the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius. Evans, 38604. In Near Fine Condition: corners rubbed; pages are clean and tight. An attractive early 19th-century binding.
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Le Morte Darthur: The History of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. In Two Volumes (Volumes I & II)
by Malory, Sir Thomas, and Flint, Russell (illustrator)
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Boston: The Medici Society Ltd, 1925. 1st US. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. Undated (circa 1910-1920). "With 36 Illustrations in Full Colour." Likely the first American edition thus. Text, pages and blue cloth covers clean and intact. Name to front endpapers. Top edge gilt. Page edges worn and soiled. Dust jackets present but very worn with significant cracking, heavy chipping to edges and with missing section to lower spine of volume one jacket. Front panels of both DJ's also separated via cracking from rest of DJ at hinge area. Jacket front covers present with color illustrations intact. Scarce to find this edition with both volumes together and with jacket in any condition. Please see image. Two volumes. 439 and 531 pages.
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
by Styron, William
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New York: Random House (1967).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xvi, 428 pp. Dust jacket has a short tear and a lightly faded spine. The price is intact. An attractive copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
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The Forsyte Saga: vol. I The Man of Property; vol. II Indian Summer of a Forsyte & In Chancery; vol. III Awakening & To Let
by John Galsworthy
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Wilmington, New York, United States
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Leipzig Germany: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1926. Tauchnitz Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 3 Volume set. Red cloth binding with gold lettering and black decorative pattern on spine. Raised seal ("Tauchnitz Edition") on cover. Some discoloring and wear to cover. Corners with mild bending. Interiors clean with some foxing. Page edges intact with foxing and some small marks. Large fold out family tree intact. Request pictures if desired.
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Holiday Tales. Christmas in the Adirondacks
by Murray, W. H. H
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Springfield MA: Springfield Printing and Binding Company, 1897. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Cover worn, but intact. Scuffs, spots and discoloration, with a penciled number "45" directly next to title. Overall bow to the cover, moderate. Marks to endpapers. Text and images clean and pages intact with light wear and smudging. Binding intact. Please see scanned image. A great reading copy despite the cover flaws. 113 pages.
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Le Morte Darthur: The History of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. In Two Volumes (Volumes I & II)
by Malory, Sir Thomas, and Flint, Russell (illustrator)
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Wilmington, New York, United States
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Boston: The Medici Society Ltd, 1925. 1st US. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. Undated (circa 1910-1920). "With 36 Illustrations in Full Colour." Likely the first American edition thus. Text, pages and blue cloth covers clean and intact. Name to front endpapers. Top edge gilt. Page edges worn and soiled. Dust jackets present but very worn with significant cracking, heavy chipping to edges and with missing section to lower spine of volume one jacket. Front panels of both DJ's also separated via cracking from rest of DJ at hinge area. Jacket front covers present with color illustrations intact. Scarce to find this edition with both volumes together and with jacket in any condition. Please see image. Two volumes. 439 and 531 pages.
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MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA, #165, STATED 1st Modern Library Edition on copyright pg, Mentions 159 books on back of DJ & 95 cents a Copy
by by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Venetian adventurer & Author; Edited by Madeleine Boyd, Introduction by Ernest Boyd, Not Illustrated,
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LONG BEACH, California, United States
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MODERN LIBRARY NY, with #165 Twice on Spine DJ in Red, 1929 FRONT DJ Shows man at door Holding candle with bizarre reflection on door as he opens it & is titled in Red ,J Inner FlapPrice Clip but 95 Cents INTACT, Illustrated Green & White Rockwell Kent RUNNING streamer MAN Endpapers are an aqua blue color Former Owner Inscription, HBDJ, with top edge stained blue. .1929, STATED 1st Modern Library Edition on copyright pg, 1st Edition THUS, NF+/VG-, AS-IS,. Jacket Priced 95 cents with 159 title listed on rear panel with pre Zip code Coupon . Small 4 1/2 X 6 3/4 in. Blue BALLOON flexible Cloth cvr with Gold Gilt man running with Streamer on Front Light WearCloth cvr , . 12mo., xii, 492 pg NO ADS IN BACK., DJ FOXED, Lightly Frayed with TINY holes at DJ Fold & EXTREMITiES Is Titled in Red on Front DJ, ; Titled & Grape Vine design Decorated Gold Gilt on Cvr SPINE, Interior nice clean light wear Fox, Spine DJ end Tiny chips Tears, Jacket has some chipping along rear top edges and…
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Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
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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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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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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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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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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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