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Virgil's Æneis, translated into Scottish verse, by The Famous Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld. A new edition. Wherein the many errors of the former are corrected, and the Defects supply'd, from an excellent Manuscript. To which is added a large Glossary by Douglas, Gawin (trans.); Virgil; Ruddiman, Thomas (glossary) - 1710

by Douglas, Gawin (trans.); Virgil; Ruddiman, Thomas (glossary)

Virgil's Æneis, translated into Scottish verse, by The Famous Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld. A new edition. Wherein the many errors of the former are corrected, and the Defects supply'd, from an excellent Manuscript. To which is added a large Glossary by Douglas, Gawin (trans.); Virgil; Ruddiman, Thomas (glossary) - 1710

Virgil's Æneis, translated into Scottish verse, by The Famous Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld. A new edition. Wherein the many errors of the former are corrected, and the Defects supply'd, from an excellent Manuscript. To which is added a large Glossary

by Douglas, Gawin (trans.); Virgil; Ruddiman, Thomas (glossary)

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Edinburgh: Mr. Andrew Symson and Mr. Robert Freebairn, 1710. Second Edition. Full Calf. Good Condition. ...Explaining the Difficult Words: Which may serve for a Dictionary to the Old Scottish Language. And to the whole is prefix'd an exact account of the author's life and writings, from the best Histories and Records. The glossary was edited by Thomas Ruddiman and formed the basis for Jameson's Scottish Dictionary. Contemporary paneled calf rebacked in beige leather with 5 raised bands and title. Functional, but not the most attractive rebacking . Armorial bookplate of the Delamere House Library, Cheshire., corners lightly bumped, endpapers toned with a few small tears, a few surface scrapes. Modest age toning, foxing and offsetting throughout, heavier in a few spots, a few pencil marks in margins some wear to margins in a couple spots. Previous owner's name to endpaper with a few pencil notes. With the list of subscribers. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Poetry; Classics (Latin & Greek); Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 035920.

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The Grizzly Papers in 5 Issues of The Overland Monthly

The Grizzly Papers in 5 Issues of The Overland Monthly

by Bierce, Ambrose; Harte, Bret et al.

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San Francisco: John H. Carmany & Co, 1871. First Edition. Paper Wraps. Very Good. January - June, 1871 (Issues 1-4, 6) of The Overland Monthly. Light wear to wraps. corners bent and a few short tears to edges of issue 2. Rear of issue 6 detached but present. The Grizzly Papers are notably more literary and thoughtful than his journalism of the period. Not in BAL (actually earlier than anything in BAL). Also includes Harte's "Further Language From Truthful James", his sequel to the poem known as The Heathen Chinee. Five issues in a custom clamshell box with morocco label. Faint soiling to blue cloth of box. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Americana; Antiquarian & Rare; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 033008.
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A Lytell geste of Robin Hode with other ancient & modern ballads and songs relating to this...

A Lytell geste of Robin Hode with other ancient & modern ballads and songs relating to this celebrated yeoman to which is prefixed his history and character, grounded upon other documents than those made use of by his former biographer, "Mister Ritson.

by GUTCH, John Matthew

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London: Longman. Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1847. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 2 volumes. Vol. I. pp. viii, xxxviii, [2], 391, [1]. Vol. II. pp. [4], vii, [1], xxii, [2], 447, [1]. Frontispiece in each volume. Wood engravings by F.W. Fairholt. Green cloth with gilt front cover image of Medieval knights. Some shelf wear and rubbing. Hinges and corner tips carefully repaired. Inner joints strengthened. Name and date (1858) written in an old hand on front fly leaf of each volume. Some foxing to frontispieces and title pages. Occasional mild marginal soiling on several pages. Otherwise a generally clean copy. An excellent source book of Robin Hood lore. Volume I contains J.M. Gutch's biography of Robin Hood; a printing of the Middle English ballad "The Lytell Geste of Robin Hode" accompanied by a modern English version; W. Hone's "Dissertation upon the Morris Dance and Maid Marian", taken from his "Year Book"; Francis Douce's "A… Read More
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THE EIGHT VOLUMES OF LETTERS WRIT BY A TURKISH SPY, WHO LIV'D FIVE AND  FORTY YEARS...
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THE EIGHT VOLUMES OF LETTERS WRIT BY A TURKISH SPY, WHO LIV'D FIVE AND FORTY YEARS UNDISCOVER'D AT PARIS Complete in 8 Volumes

by Marana, Giovanni Paolo

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London: Printed for G. Strahan Et Al. Good+. 1741. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Giving an Imperial Account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable Transactions of Europe and discovering several Intrigues and Secrets of the Christian Courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1642 to the year 1682. Complete in eight volumes. Full leather. Spine has raised bands, gilt decorated panels & title. Vol. #1, 312pp with a frontispiece of Mahmud the Turkish Spy; #2, 276pp; #3, 287pp; #4, 288pp; #5, 276pp; #6, 264pp; #7, 248pp; #8, 280pp. Text blocks tight, clean and intact. Although some hinges are split or splitting, all covers are firmly attached. Spine ends have light wear. Prior owner signatures. Rare Section; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 2231 pages .
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The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin Esq., containing his View of the Lancashire Dialect, With...

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Manchester: J. Slack, 1818. Hardcover. 226pp. Full patterned calf stamped in gold on the front and the back panel, spine elaborately tooled in blind with black label lettered in gold affixed. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and nineteen inserted plates. With the armorial bookplate of Charles Napier Lawrence, Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate to front pastedown endpaper. Bound with Plebeian Politics, or the Principles and Practices of certain Mole-Eyed Maniacs Vulgarly Called Warrites. Printed and published by J. Slack, Manchester, 1818. 83pp. Frontispiece and six inserted plates. Mild edge wear else a fine copy. ; Octavo.
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Manticore.
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Manticore.

by DAVIES, Robertson

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Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1972. Decorative label signed by Robertson Davies laid in. First edition / First printing. Bright orange cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket, with a short closed tear to the top front panel light creases, and wear primarily to the rear top corner of the spine. An exceptional copy of both the book and the fragile dust jacket. Second book in the Deptford Trilogy.
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THE FLIGHT OF THE FALCON, a New Novel ,SIGNED on Title Page By Author, Italian Courier Becomes...
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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 Vintner's Luck
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The Vintner's Luck

by Elizabeth Knox

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Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 1998. First Edition. Glossy Pictorial Cover. Very Good. In clear mylar Brodart cover - Owners single name also. Flat signed by author on title page. First editions/first printings have no mention of any awards on the cover and have the number line ending with a 1 Publisher Notes A novel of angels, wine, and love without boundaries set in nineteenth-century Burgundy. One summer night in 1808, Sobran Jodeau sets out to drown his love sorrows in his family's vineyard. Drunk, he stumbles on an angel: "Someone had set a statue down on the ridge. Sobran blinked and swayed. For a second he saw what he knew--gilt, paint and varnish, the sculpted labial eye of a church statue. Then he swooned while still walking forward, and the angel stood quickly to catch him." Once he gets over his shock, Sobran decides that Xas, the male angel, is his guardian sent to counsel him on everything from marriage to wine production. But Xas turns out to be a far more… Read More
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The Grizzly Papers in 5 Issues of The Overland Monthly

The Grizzly Papers in 5 Issues of The Overland Monthly

by Bierce, Ambrose; Harte, Bret et al.

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San Francisco: John H. Carmany & Co, 1871. First Edition. Paper Wraps. Very Good. January - June, 1871 (Issues 1-4, 6) of The Overland Monthly. Light wear to wraps. corners bent and a few short tears to edges of issue 2. Rear of issue 6 detached but present. The Grizzly Papers are notably more literary and thoughtful than his journalism of the period. Not in BAL (actually earlier than anything in BAL). Also includes Harte's "Further Language From Truthful James", his sequel to the poem known as The Heathen Chinee. Five issues in a custom clamshell box with morocco label. Faint soiling to blue cloth of box. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Americana; Antiquarian & Rare; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 033008.
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Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog
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Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog: With Other Tales and Sketches

by Charles Dickens (as Boz)

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This is a scarce, very early Charles Dickens book that was published when he was only 25 years old. "PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE, ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG" by Boz ("Boz" was the pen name of Dickens). 1837; Carey, Lea and Blanchard; Philadelphia. The book contains "Other Tales and Sketches, from Bentley's Miscellany, and the Library of Fiction" including a story by James Fenimore (spelled "Fennimore" on the contents page) Cooper titled "An Evening of Visits." There are 11 stories in all - please see the photos for the complete list of contents. This is one of the first stories by Dickens published in book form in the United States.Condition:Worn corners (the tips of the boards are exposed); 1/2" cloth tears at the top edge of the spine, small cloth tears at the bottom edge. The front board bows at the center just a bit. There is a crack at the front hinge between the end papers. The pages are in good condition with only some occasional light foxing (heaviest on the title page - see photo) and staining.… Read More
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The Twenty-Seventh City.
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The Twenty-Seventh City.

by FRANZEN, Jonathan. SIgned September 1988 by Franzen.

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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. Signed on half-title with the place noted as Webster Groves and dated 15 September 88. Early signature with full first name. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth spine, light gray-blue paper-covered boards. Near fine in price-clipped, fine dust jacket. The author's first book. Franzen grew up in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis. This book was published in September of 1988.
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Virgil's Aeneis, Translated into Scottish Verse, by the Famous Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld. A...
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Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Andrew Symson, and Mr. Robert Freebairn, and sold at their Shops, 1710. Very Good. Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Andrew Symson, and Mr. Robert Freebairn, and sold at their Shops, 1710. Second Edition. Quarto. [5], 2-19, [iv.], [8], 3 - 486, [96] pp, includes list of subscribers. Bound in full contemporary calf; six raised bands; gilt ruling and spine decoration; edges sprayed red. Wear to edges, corners bumped, general scuffing; split and flaked along joints though boards remain attached, front board a little more loose but overall binding holding, rather crude paper repair along gutter of leaf 5C. Bookplate of Victor Albert George Child Villiers to front pastedown, along with additional recent ownership stamp. Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound. Collated and presumed complete, ESTC noting that "The arrangement of the preliminaries varies from copy to copy." This middle Scots translation of the Aeneid, often called Eneados, was originally completed by the poet and… Read More
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Gypsies

Gypsies

by Greenfeld, Howard

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New York: Crown Publishers. An account of the Gypsy way of life, including its origins, history, traditions, customs, occupations, and the changes that modern living has occasioned. EX LIBRARY/USUAL MARKINGS. Profusely & WONDERFULLY illustrated w/photos, Introduction, Bibliography, Index, 111 clean, crisp & solid pp. Excellent Personal cpy/Reference! . Good. Hardcover. 1977.
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Kane & Abel
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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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Red Pottage
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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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Cold Mountain

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 Treasure Of Sierra Madre

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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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
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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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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
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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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The Sky and the Forest
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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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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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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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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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