The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature by John Clark Ridpath - 1906: Renaissance Edition De Luxe

New York: The Globe Publishing Company, 1899. AG3 - Book has wear on the cover, edges, sides and corners, approx. 2" tears on the bottom sides near the spine, wrinkling on the bottom and right page edges, discoloration, and shelf wear. Volume 15 of a twenty-five volume set. A biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings.... Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Globe Publishing, 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. ***please read*** no DJ - no marks on text - my shelf location 9-E-32*

New York: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Compan, 1899. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback [publisher: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Company 1899.] Royal Edition De Luxe. Volume 25 of 25 Volumes. This final volume contains a comprehensive index for all volumes in the Ridpath Library of Universal Literature--the writers are classified according to their works, selection are made from their best books. There is a list of authors with pronunciation, by volume; authors classified, i.e. biographers, explorers, poets, etc,; titles of extracts; analytical index; bibliographical index. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Lower half of backstrap is missing. Green marbled cloth, leather over spine and corners, very clean; corners and spine head scuffed; sewn binding very solid, tight and square, endbands; top edge gilt; fore-edge and lower edge rough cut--many leaves remain uncut, in original state; pages… Read More

New York: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Compan, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback [publisher: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Company 1899.] Royal Edition De Luxe. Volume 22 of 25 Volumes. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Illustrated with frontis with onion skin protection, red-lettered, and with plates and head and tail vignettes. Green marbled cloth, leather over spine and corners, very clean; spine head and heel rubbed, lower front corner and upper rear corner scuffed; sewn binding very solid, tight and square, endbands; top edge gilt; fore-edge and lower edge rough cut--many leaves remain uncut, in original state; pages only lightly toned, very clean and completely unmarked. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature is a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings,… Read More

New York: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Compan, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback [publisher: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Company 1899.] Royal Edition De Luxe. Volume 23 of 25 Volumes. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Illustrated with frontis with onion skin protection, red-lettered, and with plates and head and tail vignettes. Green marbled cloth, leather over spine and corners, very clean; spine head and heel lightly scuffed; sewn binding very solid, tight and square, endbands; top edge gilt; fore-edge and lower edge rough cut--many leaves remain uncut, in original state; pages only lightly toned, very clean and completely unmarked. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature is a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings, comprising the best features of many… Read More

New York: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Compan, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback [publisher: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Company 1899.] Royal Edition De Luxe. Volume 17 of 25 Volumes. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Illustrated with frontis with onion skin protection, red-lettered, and with plates and head and tail vignettes. Green marbled cloth, leather over spine and corners, very clean; light wear to upper rear corner, spine head scuffed with some of leather scuffed through and heel scuffed; sewn binding very solid, tight and square, endbands; top edge gilt; fore-edge and lower edge rough cut--many leaves remain uncut, in original state; pages only lightly toned, very clean and completely unmarked. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature is a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and… Read More

New York: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Compan, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback [publisher: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Company 1899.] Royal Edition De Luxe. Volume 24 of 25 Volumes. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Illustrated with frontis with onion skin protection, red-lettered, and with plates and head and tail vignettes. Green marbled cloth, leather over spine and corners, very clean; spine head and heel scuffed with chip to spine head covering, corners with slight wear; sewn binding very solid, tight and square, endbands; top edge gilt; fore-edge and lower edge rough cut--many leaves remain uncut, in original state; pages only lightly toned, very clean and completely unmarked. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature is a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings, comprising the… Read More

New York: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Compan, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback [publisher: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Company 1899.] Royal Edition De Luxe. Volume 13 of 25 Volumes. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Illustrated with frontis with onion skin protection, red-lettered, and with plates and head and tail vignettes. Green marbled cloth, leather over spine and corners, very clean, light wear to corners and spine head snd heel; sewn binding very solid, tight and square, endbands; top edge gilt; fore-edge and lower edge rough cut--many leaves remain uncut, in original state; pages only lightly toned, very clean and completely unmarked. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature is a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings, comprising the best features of… Read More

New York: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Compan, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback [publisher: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Company 1899.] Royal Edition De Luxe. Volume 15 of 25 Volumes. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Illustrated with frontis with onion skin protection, red-lettered, and with plates and head and tail vignettes. Green marbled cloth, leather over spine and corners, very clean, light wear to corners and spine head and heel; sewn binding very solid, tight and square, endbands; top edge gilt; fore-edge and lower edge rough cut--many leaves remain uncut, in original state; pages only lightly toned, very clean and completely unmarked. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature is a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings, comprising the best features of… Read More

New York: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Compan, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback [publisher: Fifth Avenue Library Society/The Globe Publishing Company 1899.] Royal Edition De Luxe. Volume 19 of 25 Volumes. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Illustrated with frontis with onion skin protection, red-lettered, and with plates and head and tail vignettes. Green marbled cloth, leather over spine and corners, very clean; light wear to three corners, upper rear corner scuffed; spine head scuffed, heel chipped; sewn binding very solid, tight and square, endbands; top edge gilt; fore-edge and lower edge rough cut--many leaves remain uncut, in original state; pages only lightly toned, very clean and completely unmarked. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature is a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their… Read More

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).