Search Results: Literature and Fiction from Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2005. 190 pages. Nicely bound edition of this novel in the Allan Quartermain series. Full brown leather binding that is highly decorated in gilt; satin endpapers; all edges gilt. Beautiful example of the fine quality leather used by Easton Press. The book is in virtually as-new condition.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903. 431 pages. Octavo. In the scarce dust jacket. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century. The book is in very good condition: clean, bright, and tight; very shallow chipping at head of spine; 3/4" closed tear at top of front gutter; 1/3" closed tear at foot of front gutter. The uncommon cloth covered dust jacket is in very good condition: clean, bright, and attractive; minor wear at spine extremities.. First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1905. 128 pages. Gray cloth; four-color decorated binding. Civil War fiction. The book is clean and tight, with light toning of pages and darker offsetting on endpapers.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

U.S.A.: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1927. 280 pages. 8 full page black and white illustrations. In the scarce dust jacket! Originally published in 1890, this novel was intended by Balch to be the first of a series of novels based in the "Oregon country," but Balch died of tuberculosis in 1891. The book is clean and tight, with a bright decorated binding, well protected by the lightly soiled dust jacket that has several relatively small chips along the edges.. 28th Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good++/Very Good-. Illus. by L. Maynard Dixon. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994. 318 pages. The author's debut novel and the first book in the Merry Folger series of mysteries. Mathews also has written the Jane Austen mystery series under the name Stephanie Barron. This book is SIGNED, without inscription, by the author on the title page. Both book and dust jacket are in virtually as-new condition.. SIGNED. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible- Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Boston: David R. Godine, 2009. 352 pages. Novel about desert people of North Africa circa World War I and at the same time a contemporary story about one of their descendants. Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature; he wrote this novel in 1980. Book is in as new condition.. First U. S. Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 232 pages. 12mo. Bound in black cloth with gold paper title patches on spine and front cover. First edition, first state (undamaged page number on p. 3; weighs 15.8 ounces). Collection of 14 short stories, including the first appearance in book form of "The Killers," the Hemingway classic that has been made into 4 films. The book is in good to very good condition: clean and tight, with fading and mottling of color on covers; pages lightly toned; some minor foxing limited to last 15 pages. The dust jacket is NOT present.. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Good+/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. (14), 239, (3) pages. May 1950 printing of the third book in the "Little House" series, with the date code E-Z on the copyright page--including the rare dust jacket with $2.00 price on the front flap The book is clean and tight in a dust jacket jacket that is in much nicer condition than normally found: with a little chipping at the corners and head and foot of spine. The white background on the jacket is lightly toned, as usual. Strangely, there is no title on the spine of the jacket, but names of author and illustrators are clear, and there is no evidence of sunning. Nicer than it sounds, and an acceptable copy for the collector.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Collectible-Very Good +/Good. Illus. by Helen Sewell And Mildred Boyle. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company, 1928. 52 pages. 12mo (7" X 5 1/4"). Staple-bound pamphlet in red pictorial wraps. First edition. Collection of 3 short stories originally written for publication in magazines in Century Magazine. Evelyn Magruder De Jarnette (1841-1902) was the wife of a slaveholder who lived on at "Pine Forest," a plantation in Spotsylvania, Virginia. The stories in this collection as well as others that were published in the Atlantic Monthly and Frank Leslie's various magazines reflect the typical mythological view of Virginians at the time. In 1929 Mrs. De Jarnette's daughter described that viewpoint: "The hardship s after a cruel war and the faithfulness of the family servants served as a background for Mrs. DeJarnette's writings. She makes us live again, through the tender care of her black mammies, the feeling of deep understanding and devotion that existed between the white people of Virginia and their former slaves, and there… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1902. 345 pages. SIGNED by Kate Douglas Wiggin and inscribed to Annette Markoe on May 4th 1918, the date of Miss Markoe's marriage to William Jay Schieffelin. Wiggin's inscription quotes the following lines from page 343 of her book: "I told him what is true: that my life had been one long coming to meet him, and that I was quite ready to walk with him to the end of the world." The imprinted calling card of George Christopher Riggs (husband of Wiggin) is laid in. Classic story by the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Beautiful Gilt decorated green cloth binding. Book is clean and tight with only minor edgewear; some rubbing of gilt design and lettering on the spine; light toning of pages.. SIGNED. Reprint. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Charles E. Brock. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. 401 pages. One volume in the Franklin Library's"The 100 Greatest Books of All Time" series. Beautifully bound in full red leather, beautifully decorated in gilt; silk moiré endpapers; all-edges gilt. The leather is the high quality material used by Franklin only in their early years of publishing. The book is in virtually as-new condition.. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine-/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1979. 299 pages. One of the books in the Easton Press series "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written." Beautifully bound in gilt-decorated brown leather; silk moire endpapers; all edges gilt. An unread copy in almost as-new condition (Easton Press bookplate WITHOUT owner's name adhered to front pastedown endpaper).. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Collectible-Fine. Illus. by Peter Reddick. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. 387 pages. One volume in the Franklin "The 100 Greatest Books of All Time" series. Beautifully bound in green leather beautifully decorated in gilt; silk moiré endpapers; all-edges gilt. The leather is the high quality material used by Franklin only in their early years of publishing. The book is in virtually as-new condition.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. Illus. by Eugène Abot. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. 227 pages. First printing of this collection of 3 novellas by the famed playwright Noël Coward. SIGNED by the author, without inscription, on a tipped-in leaf for members of Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle, whose bookmark is laid in. The unread book is clean and tight, with some foxing on the front cover. The dust jacket is clean, bright and crisp, with some edgewear at head and foot of the spine; one 1/3 inch closed tear at top of rear panel.. SIGNED. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. 169 pages. The book is clean and tight, with light rubbing at corners and top & bottom edges of spine. Pages are lightly tanned. Dust jacket is generally bright, with some fading along the spine; very minor chipping of spine extremities.. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 249 pages. The ninth novel in the Mitchell and Markby series of mysteries by Ann Granger. This book is SIGNED, without inscription, by the author on the title page. The book and the dust jacket, are in virtually as-new condition.. SIGNED. First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. Collectible- Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. 215 pages. Beautifully bound in 22 kt. gilt- decorated red leather with raised bands on spine; all-edges gilt; silk moire endpapers. Unused Easton Press bookplate affixed to front pastedown endpaper. In virtually as-new condition!. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by George Him. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.