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New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1996. This oversized paperback edition, with wraps that include front and rare panels with flaps, is in fine As New, unread condition. With the exception of a modern Introduction by Mark Helprin, the book is a facsimile of the original 1909 hardcover and features the Kate Douglas Wiggin text as well as the 12… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. South African author Nadine Gordimer is a Nobel Prize winner in Literature. In this collection of short stories from between 1972 and 2007, one can witness the razor-sharp insight and nuanced subtlety of a master at work. The book includes two never-before published stories in addition to 36 other stories. The book is… Read more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. This Stated First Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's not) is in Fine condition, with a Very Good+ price-unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The story deals with a 12th century Japanese hero, Kiyomori, who rises from poverty and obscurity to become the Emperor's Chief… Read more

Roslyn, New York: Walter J. Black, 1945. This is one of a number of Walter J. Black titles that came into my possession recently. Despite the 1945 copyright date, the book was published during the 1950s for the Walter J. Black Classics Club. What's remarkable is the New condition, as if the book had been published yesterday and not over… Read more

Roslyn, New York: Walter J. Black, 1951. This is one of a number of Walter J. Black titles that came into my possession recently. Despite the 1951 copyright date, the book was published later during the 1950s for the Walter J. Black Classics Club. What's remarkable is the New condition, as if the book had been published yesterday and not… Read more

Roslyn, New York: Walter J. Black, 1944. This is one of a number of Walter J. Black titles that came into my possession recently. Despite the 1944 copyright date, the book was published later during the 1950s for the Walter J. Black Classics Club. What's remarkable is the New condition, as if the book had been published yesterday and not… Read more

London: Privately Printed This privately printed London edition has no date but is most likely from the turn of the 20th Century. The book is complete and unexpurgated in one volume. This story, set during the Middle Ages, deals with a group of aristocrats who attempt to escape the plague ravaging their country. On a secluded estate, they tell 100… Read more

Although no publisher or date of publication is listed, this mammoth book was probably published between 1887 and 1890. Other copies I've been able to locate are of English origin, and this one is probably as well. It was sold only by subscription. The hundreds of Victorian illustrations of historic interest and portraits make this volume a fascinating collectible. The… Read more

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925. This First American Trade Edition, which preceded the English edition by one day, was published posthumously and was Conrad's last fictional work. Though incomplete at the time of the author's death, it is nonetheless is satisfying in its own right and shows the author at the height of his powers.. … Read more

New York: Random House, 1937. First published in 1824 and subsequently compared to Burton's Arabian Nights, this classic is reprinted in a new edition with exquisite color illustrations, as well as line drawings, by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, who traveled throughout Persia (modern day Iran) to retrace the journeys of Hajji himself. The book includes a Foreword by Christopher Morley.… Read more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. This Stated First Trade Edition (and unless it's stated it's not) is in New, unread condition, with a New, unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. There are NO remainder marks. The book is a fine collectible for Anne Tyler admirers. The novel concerns a lovable loser… Read more

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990. This First Edition, with a "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing, is in New, unread condition, with a New, unclipped dust jacket. (Click on photo.) I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. McMurtry concentrates on the distaff side of the Old West through his tale of Calamity… Read more

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969. This Stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) is in Fine condition with a close to Fine, unclipped dust jacket. As described on the front dust jacket: "An all-encompasing collection of pieces, may of them never before published in English, by people who were themselves victims and witnesses of the… Read more

Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1983. This amazing collection of hundreds of children's stories and poems is in Fine, unread condition, and a First Printing from 1983, with a required "number line" starting with a "1" to indicate printing and ending in an "83" to indicate year. The book is bound in illustrated white covers. (Click on… Read more

New York: Galahad Books, 1992. This is a Stated First Galahad Books edition of a work that was formerly published in 1940 by David McKay and Co. The book is filled with both fictional stories and true chronicles of actual sea adventures by some of history's most famous voyagers and authors. Some of the authors include Hans Christian Andersen, Christopher… Read more

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. This handsome, second printing thus from 1990 is in Fine, unread condition. The stories, originally collected by Micha Joseph bin Gorion and edited by Emanuel bin Gorion filled three volumes in earlier Hebrew editions. This English translation and abrdigement contains 113 of the original tales selected by Dan Ben-Amos. The book is bound in… Read more

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. This Stated First Edition (and if it's not stated, it isn't) novel by Hans Habe is in Fine condition with a Fine, price-clipped dust jacket, which I've placed into a Brodart protective sleeve. (Click on photo.) In this Rashoman-like work, eight people tell their story of the murder of a Rome call-girl. The… Read more

New York: Viking, 1987. This First American Edition is in Fine condition with a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. (Click on photo.) The book has a remainder mark on the bottom edge. The book is translated from the original Spanish by George R. Shivers, with input from the author. According to Salman Rushdie, Ariel Dorfman is "one of the… Read more

Houghton Mifflin, 1916. This thoughtfully conceived collection is a First Printing, with only a 1916 copyright date and no further printing history. (Later printings and editions are stated as such.) The book is in close to Fine condition (click on photo). It includes 21 plays from the greatest drama and comedy of Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Italy,… Read more

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1864. The vast collection of poetry, from classical times up to 1857, when the book was first published, is in Good + condition. It comes from a private college library and library markings are on the rear endpaper, with a tucked-in library card having only one date, January, 1935. The book is… Read more