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New York: F. M. Lupton. Paperback. Poor/None. Covers tattered and toned. Top half the spine chipped and loose. A good candidate for rebinding. Interior is unmarked, and pages are toned. (Please see photo.) Small 8vo. (5.75 x 8 ins.) BOOK INFO: ca. 1900. 19th century English fiction, including two by Louisa M. Alcott: The Autobiography of an Omnibus, and Roses and Forget-Me-Nots; Charlote M. Braeme: Under the Holly Berries, My Revenge, and Squire Hylton's Daughter; Emma D. E. N. Southworth: The Spectre Lover; Mrs. Mary J. Holmes: Poor Bell Barclay, and Nellie Beekman's Party. People's handbook series no. 67.

New York: Viking Press, 1951. Hardcover. Good/None. Inscribed. INSCRIBED/dated on ffep 'To Lucia, From Irwin, Sept. 24, 1951'. Light blue-green cloth boards with spine in a darker blue-green cloth. Titling on spine is worn/darkened to barely legible. Heavily rubbed at bottom corners, especially on the front. Cloth faded at edges and spine. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. 12mo, 5 x 7.5 inches. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'I wish I could pretend that I thought that this seven years' gleaning of themes light and serious constituted an intellectual journal of our era. It would be agreeable to persuade myself that I was a small-sized seismograph of the moral earthquakes of our time. I offer these essays simply as the quite spontaneous soliloquies they were as I wrote them. It… Read More

Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press/Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. Olive green cloth boards with tan cloth spine, titled in gilt; Brown titling and bird decoration on front. Lightly rubbed at corners; ends of spine are worn, and head is faded. Binding is sound. Rear board is splitting end paper 1 inch down from top. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket, as issued. 18mo, 4.5 x 6 inches. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 ? June 24, 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism. A White Hero [is] a collection of short stories that are among her finest… Read More

Boston: J. R. Osgood and company, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None-. Light brown cloth boards with gilt titling and gilt and black decoration on spine and front. Faded at extremities and worn in a couple spots, bumped along edges and corners, with a scratch and indentation on front board near bottom, and panels lightly rubbed. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. 12mo, 5 x 7.5 inches. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 ? May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed The Dean of American Letters. He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria, and the Christmas story Christmas Every… Read More

New York: The Macmillan company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Red cloth boards with black titling on the spine. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. 12mo. 5 x 7.5 inches. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents, which include: The human drift.--Nothing that ever came to anything.--That dead men rise up never.--Small-boat sailing.--Four horses and a sailor.--A classic of the sea.--A wicked woman (curtain raiser)--The birth mark (sketch). '...London fearlessly explores profound themes such as socialism, workers' rights, and animal rights. Drawing inspiration from his affiliation with The Crowd, a radical literary group in San Francisco, London presents a thought-provoking narrative that resonates with the pulse of social change.... From gripping articles to poignant sketches… Read More

New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1915. Hardcover. Good/None. Inscribed. LAID IN is a thank you letter to a Mr. Paddock written and signed by Morgan, providing her New York City address with date. Cadet blue cloth boards with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and decoration on front, rubbed at extremities and moderately soiled or toned along bottom edge and spine. Gilt upper page edges. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked, except for paperclip marks on the front pastedown and end papers where the letter was secured. Lacking dustjacket. 12mo, 5.5 x 8 inches. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents: The imprisoned splendor -- The craving -- When the woman invite -- What shall we do with mother? -- The price of understanding -- Such is the love of woman -- The making of a man. Reprinted in part from various periodicals. 'The… Read More