Literature & Classics from Tannery Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, fifteenth printing. White spine over black cloth with gilt design, 4to, [x] 7-84 pp heavy paper, 12 plates illustrations by the author; slipcase with gold and red pastedown cover and spine. Very Good/Good: book covers lightly scuffed,… Read more

Boston: Loring, 1863. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. By the author of "Faith Gartney's Girlhood." [A. D. T. Whitney], Boys at Chequasset ; or, "A Little Leaven." Boston, Loring, 1863, second edition. Mauve cloth hc with blind-stamped covers and edges and gilt-stamped spine titling, 12mo (16 cm), buff endpapers, 28 pp. Good/no DJ: covers wearing with small black dots… Read more

Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1902. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. Irving Bacheller, D'ri and I : A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Secnod War with the British, Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U.S.A. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, February 3d, 1902, fifth printing. Illustrated by F. C. Yohn. Red cloth hc with sepia pastedown illustration, 8vo (19… Read more

Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1892. Later printing. Hardcover. Good. John Greenleaf Whittier, with designs by E. H. Garrett, Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1892, later printing. White cloth hc with green-stamped design, 12mo (18 cm), green floral endpapers, [vi] v-[x] leaves, 1-43 leaves with text on rectos, 10 illustrated plates including portrait frontispiece, red title and capitals. Good/no DJ:… Read more

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Hardcover. Good. George Eliot, Novels of George Eliot. Vol. V. Romola. With Illustrations. New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, no date, Harper's Library Edition. Dark green cloth hc with copper facsimile signature on front, blind-stamped border and publisher's logo on back, 8vo (19 cm), dark brown endpapers, x, [11]-518 pp, 10 pp… Read more

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1885. Reprint. Leather_bound. Fair. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and The Spectre Bridegroom. From the "Sketch Book" by Washington Irving. Contains [xii?] 7-78 pp [2 pp ads], 8vo, "Illustrated with original designs by eminent artists." Fair: partly disbound, with front cover missing, thin leather rear cover present. Earliest "copyright" date 1863.

New York: Arrow Editions, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. Robert Fitzgerald, Poems, New York, Arrow Editions, 1935. First Printing of Fitzgerald's first book. Orange cloth hc, 8vo (20 cm), [vi] 62 pp; plain orange paper dustjacket with black lettering. Very Good/Good+: corners bumped, endpaers and deckled edges foxed, po sticker on front pastedown, no writing; DJ… Read more

Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1969. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. Yashpal, translated by Corinne Friend, Short Stories of Yashpal, Author and Patriot, Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia Press, 1969. Dramatic stories with "valuable insights into Indian life." Green cloth hc, 8vo (21 cm), xii, 144 pp; tan illustrated paper DJ. Good/Good: ex-library with tape residue, markings and pocket, no highlighting/underlining; DJ… Read more

Signet, 1996. Later printing. Mass Market Paper. Very Good. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Signet, 1996, 50th Anniversary Edition, mmpb, [viii] 1080 pp including reader's guide. Very Good: lightly bumped and scuffed, no markings.

London: Oxford University Press, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Library. E. A. G. Lamborn and G. B. Harrison, Shakespeare, The Man and his Stage, London, Oxford University Press, 1939 reprint. Rust-brown cloth with black lettering and heart-spade border design, 128 pp, bw photographs and facsimiles including Shakespeare's handwriting. Chapters include Shakespeare's life, social history of his age, the Theatre, and… Read more