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London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1910. Reprint. Hardcover. Missing DJ, lightly sunned spine, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, old pencil price to front endpaper, some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind embossed lettering and decorations to front. Good reading copy, no names inside. Undated but assumed early 1910s due to style of binding and title. Frontis by E. Shepard. ; Nelson's Classics; 596 pages; Eliot's first novel telling the tale of the seduction of the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, by the over proud Captain Donnithorne, and the shattered hopes and illusions of her unacknowledged lover, Adam Bede. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Very Good+. 1985. Reprint; Eighth Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Minor cover creasing. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork detail from Dedham Vale: Morning by John Constable. ; Penguin Classics; 608 pages; Elliot's first novel telling the tale of the seduction of the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, by the over proud Captain Donnithorne, and the shattered hopes and illusions of her unacknowledged lover, Adam Bede. .

London: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1933. Reprint. Hardcover. Missing DJ if issued, minor foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Red faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Undated but assumed c1933. Produced from the author's revised 1867 edition. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; B&W Illustrations; 704 pages; Dicken's classic story of a little orphan boy in London. .

Ware, Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions. Very Good; Light reading creases, small split to base of spine, one heavy . crease to rear cover. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside.. 1996. Reprint. Paperback. Trade PB . 292 pages; Conrad's first novel. A story of forbidden love, hidden treasure and political intrigue set in a remote settlement somewhere in Malaysia. ; 1853262978 .

Ware, Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions. Very Good+. 1992. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork Detail from Mrs Carl Meyer and Her Two Children by John Singer Sargent. ; 384 pages; Dark comedy of Americans in the Old World. New Englander Lewis Lambert Strether travels to Europe to bring Chad, his wealthy widowed fiancee's supposedly wayward son, back to the family business, but he encounters several unexpected complications. .

London: Sphere Books Limited. Very Good. 1975. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light edge and shelf wear, light foxing to endpapers. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names inside. Cover design uncredited. ; Sphere History of Literature in the English Language; Vol. 8; 400 pages; Collection of thirteen essays tracing the development of American literature up to the start of the twentieth century. .

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Missing DJ, corners lightly bumped, slight spotting to front board. ; First edition, first printing with no other printings listed, 1979. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; 128 pages; Collection of four essays written to mark the three hundredth anniversary of the death of the noted English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Near Fine. 1987. Reprint; Thirty-Fifth Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Penguin reissue edition, thirty-fifth printing overall, 1998. Nice tight flat copy, no names inside, appears unread and near as new. Wrap around cover artwork by Pete Fowler. ; Penguin Essentials; 112 pages; Orwell's powerful tale of how the animals of Manor Farm overthrow Mr Jones the farm owner, and how the purity of their original aims are corrupted by internal power struggles into deceit and dictatorship. .

Ware, Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions. Good+. 1999. Fourteenth Printing. Paperback. Some reading and cover creases, some shelf and edge wear, white paint spill to rear cover, lightly sunned spine, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Fourteenth printing in this edition. Nice tight copy, no names inside. New introduction and notes by E B Greenwood. Cover design by Robert Mathias with artwork detail from "At the Ball, 1875" by Berthe Morisot. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; Wordsworth Classics; 848 pages; 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ' The tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. Translated from the original Russian by Louise & Aylmer Maude. .

London: Coles Publishing Company Limited. Very Good-. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Light shelf and edge wear, paper edge toned with slight foxing, some pencil underlining and marginalia inside. ; Coles Notes no. 401. Stapled wraps. Appears to be first printing in this edition with no other printings listed, 1972. Nice tight copy. Cover design uncredited. ; Coles Notes; Vol. 401; 104 pages; Study guide originally produced for GCE and CSE examinations, but still of use for modern A level and GCSE as well as good background information for the first year of university courses. Summaries by Act and Scene plus general background to the works of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan theatre. .

New York: Signet. Very Good+. 1991. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light reading creases and shelf wear. ; First printing in this edition. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; Signet Classics; B&W Illustrations; 608 pages; The timeless bawdy and exotic Arabian Knights adapted from Sir Richard Francis Burton's unexpurgated translation. Complete with afterword, glossary and bibliography. .

New York: Signet. Very Good. 1991. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light reading creases and shelf wear. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; Signet Classics; B&W Illustrations; 608 pages; The timeless bawdy and exotic Arabian Knights adapted from Sir Richard Francis Burton's unexpurgated translation. Complete with afterword, glossary and bibliography. .

London: School Book Fairs. Fair. 1991. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Book Club Edition . Some reading and cover creases, sunned spine, missing front endpaper, inkstamp to title, paper toned. ; Good reading copy. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; B&W Illustrations; 386 pages; Omnibus edition of two classic adventure stories. Around the World In Eighty days translated from the original French by Jacqueline and Robert Baldick. The Scarlet Pimpernel edited and abridged by Doris Dickens. .

London: Edward Arnold. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Reprint; Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ with tiny closed tears to top of spine, boards slightly bowed, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Sixth printing of the pocket edition, 1969. Petrol blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and motif to front. Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; 160 pages; Discusses in a new way the various ways we can look at a novel. .

London: Heron Books. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1968. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Missing DJ if issued, corners lightly bumped, some foxing to edges of reading block. ; First printing in this edition with no other printings listed. Blue faux boards with gilt lettering to spine and decorations to front cover and spine, decorated endpapers, light blue place ribbon. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 590 pages; The second in the Barchester Chronicles, a ground breaking novel being the very first time an English author developed the idea of a series of books using the same characters! Here the ex-warden and his family deal with the new Bishop and his appalling wife, and a greedy and ambitious curate who is after the widowed Eleanor's money. With an introduction by Robert H. Taylor. .

London: Penguin Books. Very Good. 1995. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Paperback. Light cover creases. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover detail from the Sutton Hoo treasure. ; Penguin 60's; 84 pages; Selections from Michael Alexander's translation of the epic Old English poem issued to celebrate Penguin's sixtieth anniversary. .

London: Book Club Associates. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1980. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Corner crease to front fly of unclipped DJ, corners slightly bumped and rubbed, minor foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Book club edition. Glazed dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. DJ artwork by Graham Rogers. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 640 pages; Omnibus edition containing three comlete novels: Fair Stood the Wind for France; The Purple Plain; The Darling Buds of May. And a number of novellas and short stories: The Triple Echo, The Four Beauties, The Simple Life, The Major of Hussars, The Bedfordshire Clanger, The Wild Cherry Tree, The Little Farm, Great Uncle Crow. .

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. Very Good. 1930. Hardcover. Corners bumped, name tippexed out on fep, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edge grey. Good reading copy. Undated but assumed c. 1930.; B&W Illustrations; 288 pages; A thrilling tale of love and adventure set during the Wars of the Roses. Young Dick Shelton must secure his birthright and win the hand of the lovely heiress Joanna Sedley, with the aid of a mysterious outlaw ally - and his black arrows. Illustrated by A. M. Trotter. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Near Fine. 1986. Reprint; Third Printing. Paperback. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork and illustrated throughout with the original wood engravings by John Farleigh. ; Penguin Modern Classics; B&W Illustrations; 352 pages; Shaw's alegorical tale in the manner of Voltaire's "Candide". In her search for the true God, the black girl encounters a series of old gentlemen, before eventually settling down with an Irish socialist. .

London: Penguin Books Ltd. Very Good+. 1995. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Minor shelf and edge wear, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing in this edition with full number line. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork detail from Monk by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich. ; Penguin 60s; 96 pages; Collection of two short stories concidered masterpieces of psychological insight. .