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London, England: The Folio Society, 2002. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Waters, Rod. xvi, 651pp. Twenty-four indexed illustrations unique to this edition. Dark blue endpapers. Adhesive ghost to front pastedown. Tan cloth w silver lettering in blue panel, silver decoration to cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Octavo. Deep blue slipcase is clean and without wear, structurally sound. The texts of the stories in this selection follow, with minor emendations, those printed in The Complete Works of O. Henry, published by Doubleday & Co., New York, (1953). - from the colophon

New York, NY, USA: P. F. Collier & Son. Hardcover. Very Good. 218pp. Frontispiece. Brown cloth w orange decoration and lettering on cover, gold lettering and brown decoration on spine. Very light shelf wear. Binding square and sound. Strong sunning to spine. Authorized Edition, date of printing unknown. Companion volumes from The Complete Works of F. Marion Crawford in Thirty-two Volumes also available.

Austin, TX, USA: University Stores, 1974. First U.S. Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 272pp Titled wrapper shows mild sunning. Binding square and sound. Greek language texts with Introduction in English. Quarto. This book presents the Medea and Books 9 and 10 of the Odyssey in large Greek type with line-by-line context vocabulary facing each page of Greek text... so designed to foster success in the reading and enjoyment of these selections from Greek literature. (from the Introduction).

New York, NY, USA: Current Literature Publishing Company, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 376pp. Four unpaginated bw photo plates including frontis w tissue guard paper intact. Pale goldenrod cloth w gold lettering in black title panel on spine. Moderate soiling to boards, heavy soiling to spine. Bumping to head and wear to tail. Binding square and sound. Single volume from a broken seven-volume set.

London, England: Chancellor Press, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rackham, Arthur. 161pp. Thirteen indexed colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Further 15 line drawings in text. Illustrated endpapers. Creamy yellow boards w fine black lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and tight. Illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Octavo. First published in 1907 by William Heinemann Ltd., with a revised edition in 1912. This facsimile edition published in 1985 by Chancellor Press with the poem by Austin Dobson.

New York, NY, USA: George H. Doran Company, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [xiv], 398pp. Fore edge rough cut. Decorative endpapers. Brown cloth w decorative red bands and red lettering on cover, red lettering on spine. Lettering on spine is dulled. Three tiny chips to fore edge of front cover. One tiny chip to back board near top edge. Binding square and sound. No DJ. Originally published in Japan as, Shisen Wo Koete, then in an English edition under the title, Across the Death-line. This edition is a revised translation by the same translators, I. Fukumoto and T. Satchell, published under the new title, Before the Dawn.

P. F. Collier & Son, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Wenzell, A.B.; Sterner, Albert; Lynch, Albert; Hutt, Henry. Twelve indexed stories w individual pagination. Frontispiece. Red cloth w blindstamp decoration on front board, gold lettering and goldstamp decoration on spine. Very light shelf wear. Binding square and sound. Other volumes from The Moromesnil Edition Edition of Guy de Maupassant also available.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dial Press, 1981. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [5], 527pp. Colour illustrated wrapper clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Small octavo: 203 x 138mm. First published by D. Appleton (New York, 1897), this is the first Dial printing of this Virago Modern Classics edition.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 141pp + 5pp unpaginated bibliography. Prev owner name inked on ffep. Fore edge rough cut, top edge of text block dyed red. Black cloth w blindstamp lettering on cover, gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. DJ shows browning on the spine, bumping to head and tail. DJ preserved in BroDart cover. Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask, this is the first American edition, stated. A bold and disturbing theme pervades the deeply moving and tenderly ironic tale of a strange deception. A mastery of psychological analysis and profound perception into the mysterious realm where the physical and the spiritual meet.

New York and London: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2005. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xx, 874pp. Unpaginated plates including frontis. Ribbon place-marker intact. Illustrated endpapers. Brown cloth w blindstamp figure to front cover, black quarterwrap spine w gold lettering in maroon title panel. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Quarter-height printed DJ is clean and without wear. Full mylar DJ as published, clean and without wear. Small quarto: 263 x 180mm. Bleak House was first published in 1853. This facsimile edition of the Nonesuch Dickens, originally published in 1937, features the author's final text and the illustrations Dickens himself selected to complement his words.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1974. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 592pp. Top edge dyed purple but sunned. Purple cloth w gold lettering and border to spine. Tiny scuff to bottom corners. Very light shelf wear. Binding square and sound. Titled DJ showing light handling, shallow wear to tail, sunning to spine. DJ now preserved in mylar cover. Octavo. Rendered into English from the literal and complete French translation of Dr. J.C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers.. First published in this four volume edition in the USA ,1972, this is the second printing, 1974, stated. Volume II only.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1974. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 644pp. Top edge dyed purple, sunned. Purple cloth w gold lettering and border to spine. Bumping to corners. Light shelf wear. Binding square and sound. Titled DJ showing light handling, shallow wear to tail, sunning to spine. DJ now preserved in mylar cover. Octavo. Rendered into English from the literal and complete French translation of Dr. J.C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers.. First published in this four volume edition in the USA ,1972, this is the second printing, 1974, stated. Volume I only.

New York, NY, USA: Current Literature Publishing Company, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vi, 419pp. Three unpaginated plates including frontis portrait of Irving w tissue guard paper intact. Pale goldenrod cloth w gold lettering in black title panel on spine. Moderate soiling to boards, heavy soiling to spine. Bumping to head and tail. Binding square and sound. Single volume from a broken seven-volume set.

London, England: The Folio Society, 1995. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Taber, I.W.. 191pp. Indexed illustrations by I.W. Taber. Soft yellow endpapers. Prev owner name inked neatly on ffep. Illustrated blue cloth w gold lettering and border on cover, gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Deep dark blue slipcase is clean and without wear. Octavo.

New York, NY, USA: P. F. Collier & Son. Hardcover. Very Good. 332pp. Frontispiece. Brown cloth w orange decoration and lettering on cover, gold lettering and brown decoration on spine. Very light shelf wear. Binding square and sound. Strong sunning to spine. Authorized Edition, date of printing unknown. Companion volumes from The Complete Works of F. Marion Crawford in Thirty-two Volumes also available.

New York, NY, USA: Delacorte Press / Eleanor Friede, 1981. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [96pp]. Black endpapers. Prev owner name neatly on ffep. Off-white boards with stamp of author's initials, dark blue half-wrap spine with crisp gold lettering. No wear to covers or spine. DJ clean, showing very small wear at corners, light shelf wear to bottom edges. DJ preserved now in archival cover. Octavo: 22.5 x 17.5cm. First printing, stated.

London, England: The Folio Society, 2009. Cloth. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stuart, Peter. xiv, 432pp. Eleven indexed illustrations, including frontis, unique to this edition. Red endpapers. Black cloth w decoration to front cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Octavo. Red slipcase is clean and without wear, structurally sound. With an Introduction by Philip Hensher. "All the stories in this edition are translated by Constance Garnett, Gogol's first English translator. The text of this edition follows that of the first English editions, with minor emendations." - from colophon

London, England: The Folio Society, 1980. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Buday, George. 267pp. Ten wood-cuts including frontis by George Buday for this Folio edition. Deep red endpapers. Small bookplate to front pastedown. Grey and black cloth with figure to boards, gilt lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Octavo. Maroon slipcase is structurally sound, showing small wear. Translated by Daphne Hardy. Introduction by Vladimir Bukovsky.

Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 153pp. Prev owner name and stamp on half-title page. Illustrated wrap shows light handling, no edgewear. Binding square and not creased. Modern African Library edition. Reduced shipping may apply.

London, England: Fontana Modern Novels / Wm. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1970. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 157pp. Prev owner name on synopsis page. Photo illustrated wrap shows light wear. Binding sound but creased. Reduced shipping may apply. Translated from the French by James Kirkup. Born in Guinea, Camara Laye's first book, The African Child, told the story of his childhood among the Malinke tribe. It was written during his time in France studying Engineering. In this sequel, the narrator - now influenced by his experiences in Europe - sees an Africa on the brink of independence and has a dream which reveals a terrifying glimpse of the violence and unrest to come.