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BOSTON: HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY; THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1880 BEAUTIFUL GREEN COVER, GOLD AND BLACK PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT DATE 1881 IN PENCIL, VERY LIGHT FOXING INSIDE VERY FRONT AND BACK PAGES. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS IN HISTORY. CONTENTS OF THE INFERNO, PURGATORIO AND PARADISO. Dante Alighieri (Italian:;… Read more about this item

CAMBRIDGE: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY; RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1879 BEAUTIFUL DARK BLUE COVERT, GOLD AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD TRIM PAGE EDGES. FORMER OWNER NAME ON TITLE PAGE. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. THREE PARTS: THE DIVINE TRAGEDY, THE GOLDEN LEGEND AND THE NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES. VERY NICE BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF LONGFELLOW. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: A.C. ARMSTRONG & SON, 1884 BEAUTIFUL SET IN RICH BROWN COVER, INLAY DESIGN FRONT, GOLD PRINT AND DARK DESIGN SPINE. INDICATED AS LIBRARY EDITION. 2074 TOTAL PAGES, 6.25 POUNDS. WONDERFUL SET FOR THE LOVER OF POE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. FORMER OWNER HAS NUMBER ON TITLE PAGES IN PENCIL FOR THEIR LIBRARY. FRONTISPIECE VOLUME ONE IS A PICTURE… Read more about this item

PHILADELPHIA: Porter & Coates, 1882 NICE LOOKING MUSTARD COLOR COVER, GOLD AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS # WRITTEN INSIDE FRONT IN PENCIL. TIGHT AND CLEAN, ONE PICTURE LOOSE. TEN CHAPTERS. NICE ARTWORK. The novel is presented by an unnamed narrator who makes an annual visit to the fictional town of Cedarville. On his first visit, he stops… Read more about this item

BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS, 1882 VERY NICE LOOKING BOOK, LIGHT BROWN COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. BLACK DESIGN, FORMER OWNERS # IN PENCIL ON TITLE PAGE, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. RIGHT UPPER CORNER FRONT BUMPED. A VERY NICE COLLECTION OF BALLADS AND SONNETS BY AN INTELLIGENT ARTICULATE PERSONALITY. INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9… Read more about this item

BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS, 1880 LIGHT BROWN COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. FRONTISPIECE IS PICTURE OF INGELOW, SIGNED SINCERELY YOURS JEAN INGELOW, VERY LIGHT FOXING ON FRONTISPIECE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. WONDERFUL PIECE OF HISTORY THAT HAS A GREAT COLLECTION OF HER FAMOUS POEMS. Jean Ingelow (17 March 1820 – 20 July 1897) was an English poet… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882 BEAUTIFUL RARE BOOK, BLUE COVER, GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. GOLD TRIM PAGE EDGES. FORMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT DATE 1889. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. HOLLANDS PICTURE FRONTISPIECE. VERY NICE ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. TERRIFIC BOOK BY A WONDERFUL POET AND AUTHOR. Josiah Gilbert Holland (July 24, 1819 – October 12, 1881) was… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 1893 BEAUTIFUL TWO BOOK SET, FIRST EDITION, DARK BLUE COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. RED AND SILVER DESIGN FRONT. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT IN PENCIL BOTH BOOKS. TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE. VERY LIGHT EDGE WEAR ON SPINES AND LOWER RIGHT CORNERS. A VERY INTERESTING ENTERTAINING READ BY AN ACCOMPLISHED AUTHOR, POLITICIAN AND CIVIL… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1916 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, BLACK DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. A WONDERFUL ACTION ADVENTURE WRITER. AN ENTERTAINING, INTERESTING STORY. James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson… Read more about this item

CHICAGO: STANTON AND VANVILET CO., 1905 NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN COVER, BLACK PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. FOR THE LOVER OF COMEDY AND HISTORY. STEWART WAS A FAMOUS COMEDIAN OF HIS TIME. Cal Stewart (b. 1856 Charlotte County, Virginia, d. December 7, 1919) was an American comedian and humorist who pioneered in vaudeville and early… Read more about this item

CHINA: HARPER COLLINS, 2007 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH TERRIFIC DETAIL, PICTURES AND DISPLAYS TO INTERACT WITH. MAPS, WOLF HAIR, SECTIONS THAT OPEN UP, SLIDE CHANGE TO WEREWOLF, PHOTOS THAT CHANGE PICTURE. LOOKS AS NEW. FOR THE LOVER OF VAMPIRES AND THE DARK WORLD SURROUNDING. A MUST HAVE FOR THOSE WHO LOVE VAMPIRES AND THE WORLD THAT SURROUNDS THEM. Vampyre: The Terrifying Lost… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., 1897 BEAUTIFUL DARK GREEN BOOK, NICE RAISED DESIGN ON COVER AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, UPPER EDGE OF PAGES HAVE GOLD COATING. CLEAN AND TIGHT, VERY GOOD SHAPE. INSCRIPTION IN FRONT WHERE GIVEN AS CHRISTMAS GIFT. WONDERFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT BY GARRETT. Kingsley, Charles, 1819-75, English author and clergyman. Ordained… Read more about this item

UNITED STATES: BELFORD, CLARKE & CO., 1887 NICE LOOKING RARE BOOK, BLACK TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, TITLE PAGE LOOSE BUT GOOD SHAPE, NEW EDITION COMPLETE ONE VOLUME. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. TERRIFIC BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF GREAT WRITING IN FICTION AND POETRY. Impressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot (Marian Evans),… Read more about this item

LONDON: WILDWOOD HOUSE, 1973 WONERFUL BOOK FOR THE ART LOVER AND LOVER OF HISTORY. THE GRAVE WAS WRITTEN BY ROBERT BLAIR IN 1808 AND REFLECTS ON LIFE AND DEATH. BLAKES ARTWORK IS TERRIFIC. LARGE FOLIO SIZE BOOK, LIGHT COVER WITH ARTWORK FRONT. FIRST TWO PAGES LOOSE BUT VERY GOOD SHAPE, ARTWORK AND POEM PRESENTED VERY NICELY. A PRIZE POSSESSION. Rev… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1940 COLLORFUL COVER, SHOWS SOME WEAR ON THE OUTSIDE, TAPE ALONG SPINE AND RED MARKER ARTFULLY FILLS IN TITLE ON FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. FIRST AND LAST BLANK PAGES MISSING. FIELD WAS KNOWN AS THE CHILDRENS POET. LITTLE BOY BLUE AND WYNKEN BLYNKEN AND NOD ARE 2 OF HIS… Read more about this item

INDIANAPOLIS: THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY, 1905 NICE LOOKING BLACK COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. LIGHT WEAR EDGES. FORMER ORNERS NAME AND INSCRIPTION INSIDE FRONT. RILEY'S WORKS ARE ALWAYS COMPRISED OF GREAT POETRY AND BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK. VAWTER HAS CONTRIBUTED WONDERFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. A VERY UPLIFTING AND ENTERTAINING BOOK. James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American… Read more about this item

CHICAGO: J. H. BEERS & CO., 1915 RARE TWO BOOKS SET, 1/3 LEATHER ON SPINE AND CORNERS, VOLUME ONE HAS HAD COVER REBOUND AND IS IN EXCELLENT SHAPE. VOLUME II HAS ORIGINAL COVER WITH LIGHT WEAR SPINE AND EDGES. GOLD PRINT SPINES. BOTH ARE CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. VERY NICE SET. MARBLING ON PAGE EDGES. VOLUME I HAS TABLE OF… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: MITCHELL & MILLER, 1893 RARE EARLY PUBLICATION OF LIFE MAGAZINE. BECAUSE IT IS SOFT COVER THERE ARE VERY FEW LEFT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH WONDERFUL ARTWORK. CONTAINS General-interest and light entertainment, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It featured some of the most important writers, editors, illustrators and cartoonists of its time. WONDERFUL PEACE OF HISTORY… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: MITCHELL & MILLER, 1893 RARE EARLY PUBLICATION OF LIFE MAGAZINE. BECAUSE IT IS SOFT COVER THERE ARE VERY FEW LEFT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH WONDERFUL ARTWORK. CONTAINS General-interest and light entertainment, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It featured some of the most important writers, editors, illustrators and cartoonists of its time. WONDERFUL PEACE OF HISTORY… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: MITCHELL & MILLER, 1890 RARE EARLY PUBLICATION OF LIFE MAGAZINE. BECAUSE IT IS SOFT COVER THERE ARE VERY FEW LEFT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH WONDERFUL ARTWORK. CONTAINS General-interest and light entertainment, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It featured some of the most important writers, editors, illustrators and cartoonists of its time. WONDERFUL PEACE OF HISTORY… Read more about this item