Search Results: CLASSICS from Gilt Edge Books

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company Publishers No Date.... 'The Greek-Lamp Library Series'. Sporatic pale foxing to rear endpapers and top edge of book. Bright, attractively designed boards.... red title print, decoration and boardering on dark blue cloth boards. A most serviceable, respectable copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Frederic A. Stokes Company MCMXXV. The Authorized American Edition published 1925. Nineth Printing May 22, 1925 Stated. Dark blue cloth boards. Gilt title print within gilt title block to front board bright. Corner wear to front board.... spine dulled. Name to ffep. Mild light brown spotting throughout text and to exterior text edges. This early edition remains sound and square and most serviceable.. Hard Cover. Good.

Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1958. This book unlocks with sensitive and discerning keys the world and thought of Dante Alighieri, second only to Homer among poets of the Western World, first among Christian poets. It is the distillation of over thirty years of imaginative teaching and creative scholarship. Here is a gracious classroom without walls for readers diverse in age and faith and background... Attractively bound. Red cloth boards- embossed decoration to front board - gilt print to spine. No ownership markings. A nice copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: Cambridge at The University Press, 1962. Revised by W.K. Lacey. Contents provide: Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Introduction - (I) Cicero's Life, (II) Cicero's Works, (III) Cicero's Correspondence. Text, Notes, Appendix and Vocabulary. A small booklet of 127 pp plus 1. Bookplate and name to ffep. A sound bright book.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: P.F. Collier& Son Corporation (c1937) . With introductions and notes. The Harvard Classics Deluxe Edition. Registered Edition. Dark green simulated leather boards. Gilt embossed decoration to front board and spine. Gilt print to spine. No ownership markings. A beautiful copy.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press No date. Reprinted from the Deluxe Artists' Editions of the Peter Pauper Press. BOMC Edition. 228 pp plus a glossary of Archaic words and phrases. Design chapter headings and tailpieces. Patterned hardboard covers. Gilt title print to beige cloth spine. Bookplate to fep - name to ffep. Boards show damp-stain has occurred. This book remains square, sound, internally bright and most serviceable.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Dodd,Mead & Company, 1925. The life of Byron in the form of a novel. Biography is touched with imagination and the essential truth presented. The author had consulted the best sources of information. Letters, though often condensed are all authentic. Tissue-guard frontispiece is a portrait of Lord Byron. Attractively bound in silky blue cloth. Blind-stamped decoration to front board. Gilt title print to spine bright. Endpapers make up a scenic two-page spread by Edward C. Caswell. One corner shows minor bruising. A bright sound book.. Thrid Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: The Modern Library (Random House). (1911) Book Very Good in a Poor Dust Jacket. This chronicle of the five towns and France during the seige of Paris is a literary undertaking of heroic proportions. This is a classic among twentieth-century novels. Green boards with black title blocks to front and spine. Name to half title page. . France-Fiction Seige of Paris-Fiction. Catalogs: Classics.

New York: Books Inc Publishers. N.D. The World's Popular Classics Edition. Preface by Rudyard Kipling. The contents provide seven stories (ghost stories, or rather a collection of facts that never quite explain themselves). The Phantom Rickshaw - The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes - The Recrudescence of Imray - My Own Ghost Story - At The End of The Passage - The Man Who Would Be King - The Mutiny of the Mavericks. Map endpapers. Ownership label to prelim. A sound, respectable copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ghost Stories + Worlds Popular Classics Edition + Guild Library + Classics + NOISBN. Catalogs: Classics.

Connecticut: Grolier Enterprises Corp. . The World's Great Classics edition. 364pp. Attractively bound in brown simulated leather with decoration to front board in gilt. Rust-red title block, gilt print and horizontal gilt bars to spine. All edges gilt. Previous owner sticker affixed to ffep. A very desireable copy.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: MacMillan and Co; Limited 1926 (1926 Reprint) The Globe Edition. Offsetting to fep and rep. Gentle crease to title page. Green cloth boards remain bright....the gilt title print bright as well. A most serviceable copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Random House, 1947. Slipcase Very Good. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated into English quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald. A complete reprint of the First Edition and the combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix containing Fitzgerald's Prefaces and Notes. Edited with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout by the most talented work of M. Sayah. Each page is uniquely bordered with matching endpapers. A beautiful book! Patterned boards. Corner wear to slipcase. Ownership stamp to half-title page and rep. An attractive copy.. BOMC. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Omar Khayyam + Louis Untermeyer + M Sayah Illustrator + Classic + Poetry + NOISBN. Catalogs: Classics.

London: Chancellor Press, 1985. 1985 Oxford World's Classics Edition. His flamboyant style, the brilliance of his conversation and the polish of his wit made Oscar Wilde one of the most famous men of his day. He is still loved for his sparkling comedies and magical short stories, the best of which, including 'The Importance of Being Earnest', 'The Happy Prince', and 'The Selfish Giant', are in this volume. Immaculate copy!. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Chancellor Press 1985 Reprint. . Introduction by S.C. Roberts. This selection contains eleven of the most famous cases solved by Sherlock Holmes, that most clever of detectives. The stories: Silver Blaze.... The Speckled Band.... The Sign of Four.... A Scandal In Bohemia.... The Naval Treaty, etc, etc. Patterned boards. Illustrated dust jacket by Kate Jaspers. Bottom of spine shows small edge damage. An extremely clean, bright book. An Oxford World's Classics Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Clad in Achilles' own armour, which he had captured in battle, Hector waits outside the walls of Troy to meet the Greek hero in single combat. It will be a battle to the death, for Achilles comes to avenge the killing of his life-long friend, Patroklos and it will be a turning point to the long war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Drawing upon the latest researches into Bronze Age culture as well as Homeric tradition, John Appleton has re-created those episodes of the epic legend which are actually the story of a dramatic struggle between two vital and powerful men, Hector and Achilles. Mythical belief and sharp realism combine in this classic tale of vengeance and honor. . 'The Slayers' attests to the author's education in the classics; he won the Lowell Classical Scholarship at Harvard..A bright sharp-cornered book.

London: MacMillan and Co; Limited, 1930. Soldiers Three - A collection of stories setting forth certain passages in the lives and adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris and John Learoyd. A beautifully bright book! Top edge gilt bright as well as decoration to front board (elephant). 1930 to title page. Title page bordered in red. Dust jacket titled Soldiers Three and Other Stories. Jacket well illustrated by V. Kingsford.. Later Printing of the Uniform Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: The MacMillan Company 1916. Third Printing of the 1914 Revised Edition.. Frontispiece illustration: Pompey The Great. A three-act play. Act I...The determination of Pompeus to fight with his rival, then marching to Rome. Act II.... The triumph of Pompey's generalship at Dyrrachium. His overthrow by the generals of his staff. His defeat at Pharsalia. Act III... the death of that great ruler on the seashore of Pelasium in Egypt. Advertisements of books by the same author or on kindred subjects will be found at the rear of book. Burgundy cloth boards. Gilt title print to front board remains bright. Gilt to spine and top edge. Ffep missing. Pale-color spotting to fore edge and bottom edge of book. A sound, still-bright and most serviceable book.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: The Modern Library 1964 Last copyright showing. Definitive Edition translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Revised and with additional materials translated by E.M. Butler. This book offers ten chapters, two Appendices: (1) The Unfinished chapters.... (2) The passages deleted by the authors. This is followed with "Postscript by Max Brod".... To the First Edition (1925).... To the Second Edition (1935).... To the Third Edition (1946). The book concludes with a 'translator's note' and a short bio of Kafka's life. Illustrated chapter headings. Bright green cloth boards, gilt title print to spine. The familiar Modern Library decorated endpapers. A smart, clean book.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. In a feat of investigative journalism and classical scholarship, a veteran Washington correspondent has gone back almost twenty-five hundred years to throw fresh light on the most famous free speech case of all time - the trial of Socrates. The book shows how profound were the differences between democratic Athens and the philosopher whose martyrdom has made him - thanks to Plato's genius - a secular saint of western civilization. Stone brings new insights to bear on a most important question which is : How could Athen's, the first citadel of free speech in human history, come to violate its own basic principles by condemning a philosopher to death because of his non-conformist teaching? This book tries to unravel some of the mysteries behind the trial. In filling out the whole story, Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek civilization... Eighteen chapters, Epilogue, Notes and Index. Stone was a philosophy major in his youth at the… Read More

Boston,: Estes and Lauriat, 1883. Thackeray's Complete Works, The People's Edition. This book contains two seperate volumes in one, each with 15 illustrations. The first volume - 402pp, the second volume 401pp. Brown cloth boards beautifully designed. Print on front board and spine in gilt. Tissue guard protecting frontispiece. Moderate edgewear.Name to half title page. A section loose but still holding with original stitching, still, a very nice bright copy of an early edition. Illustrations all complete and in very good condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good.