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USA: P.F.Collier & Son, 1900. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Collier, NY, c 1900. The first complete translation into English, Honore de Balzac, in Twenty-five Volumes. This is Volume Twenty-four. Hardcover in Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. Green cloth binding with bright and clear gilt lettering on spine. Boards scuffed, heavily rubbed at corners, edges also rubbed. Yellow and green endbands. Sewn binding tight, solid and square, backstrap loosened. Frontis photogravure, "CHRISTOPHE", tissue protected, with red print on tissue, tissue is loose. Text pages clean, unmarked, no tears, toned. flexible not fragile. 16th century France was a tumultuous time of civil and religious warfare, the whole time of Catherine's reign. As King Henry II spouse, she wasn't politically involved; her reign as Queen of France was from 1547-1559. When Henry II died in 1559, her political power grew and held sway during the reign of three sons,… Read More

USA: Aerie Books, 1988. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. Classic story in a Very Good Paperback Book. A universally loved story, outrageous, hummorous, adventurous. Clean and bright cover, slight edgewear, front cover creased. Text pages clean, unmarked, no tears. 300 pages. 4.25 x 7 inches. 1988, Aerie Books. USA

Boston, Massachusetts: Estes & Lauriat, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback 1891 Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Volume 19 of Thackeray's Works, Kensington Limited Edition, Limited to 1000 copies, 1891. This is No. 618. States 'Large Paper' on spine panel. "The Adventure of Philip" is in three volumes and this is volume three of that three. Frontis tissue protected: 'Parson Hunt and Little Sister', Original Etching by F.W.Pailthorpe. Eight more delightful monotone illustrations by Thackeray who illustrated many of his own books. This work of William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863, was first published between Jan1861 and Aug 1862 in the 'Cornhill Magazine" (Thackeray was editor). The Adventures of Philip was the last novel Thackeray completed and in it the reader will meet characters from his previous stories--The Newcombes, Pendennis, A Shabbby Genteel Stay. It is the story… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts: Estes & Lauriat, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback 1891 Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Kensington Limited Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. This is No. 618. "The Adventure of Philip" is in three volumes and this is volume two of that three. Illustrated. Gray cloth binding with beige title pastedown to spine, black titled. Sewn binding tight and solid-in remarkably good condition. Gray cloth has darker smudges such as from fingerprints, just a touch of corner wear, spine ends lightly compressed, title panel on spine worn, intact, lettering clear. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edge roughly. Frontis tissue protected: 'Father and Son', Original Etching by F.W.Pailthorpe. Ten more delightful monotone illustrations by Thackeray who illustrated many of his books. Pages very clean with wide margins, no markings of any kind, lightly toned-wonderful condition. Handsome solid… Read More

U.S.A: Washington Square Press, 1989. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. Classic Story in a Small Book published as paperback but has hardcover binding.--in Very Good Condition. No jacket. By the eminent American author, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910). b/w illustrations 48 page Reader's Supplement --Bibliographical Background; b/w Photographs and Historic Illustrations; Historical Background; Features of the Author's Style; Pictorial Background; Literary Allusions and Notes; Critical Excerpts. Set in the 19th century in the Mississippi Valley, Tom Sawyer's comrade, Huck Finn, is a homeless waif, liar and thief on occasion, and a casual rebel against respectability. He and a runaway slave named Jim run away together on a raft down the Mississippi River and experience many exciting adventures on the way--and on that raft Huck has an epiphany and the boy nobody wants becomes a courageous human being with a sense of his own destiny. Red illlustrated cover is… Read More

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback Book in Good Condition. Classic 19th century English Literature. Introduction and Notes by Fred Schwarzbach. Drawing on her own experiences Anne Bronte wrote her first novel out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take the only respectable career open to them -that of a governess. Agnes provides an inside view of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism, in some of the most perfect prose narrative in English literature. The illustrated cover is clean with faint edgewear, tight glued binding, small half circle brownish spot on fore-edge of text block. Pages toned, clean and free from any markings. 224 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches. 2005, Barnes & Noble Classics

England: Penguin Classics, 2004. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Penguin Classics, Deluxe Edition. Paperback in Very Good Condition. A Novel in Eight Parts. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Cover with French flap is clean, unmarked, with trace wear to upper and lower edges and spine head and heel. Thick book is soundly bound, square. Rough cut. Internals are clean, no markings of any kind, no creasing. Classic Russian Literature set in 19th century Russia. First published 1877. 838 pages, with Notes. 5.5 x 1.75 x 8.5. 2004, Penguin Classics, England

Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1984. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Reprint of 1936 Penguin Edition. First published by Metheun, 1903, England. Paperbacki n Very Good Condition. Clean and bright cover with slight wear to extremities; glued binding tight, solid and square, pages toned, clean, no marks of any kind, no creases. A brilliant, detailed picture of life in the Potteries, and a story of the destructive forces of evangelism and industrial expansion in a small community, as told through the story of Anna Tellwright, brought up in the stern tradition of Methodism by her miserly father, Ephrasim Tellwright, and her eventual rebellion. Now a BBC Television Serial. 236 pages. Arnold Bennett, b.1867 d.1931. English novelist, playwright, and journalist, his work is distinguished by the way he handles the passage of time, his accurate descriptions of apparently ordinary and dull lives, and his sympathetic portrayal of women. 4.4 x 7 inches. 1984, Penguin… Read More

USA: Tor Classics/Tom Doherty Associates, 1990. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Complete and Unabridged. Bright and clean pictorial wrappers, no cover wear, soundly bound, pages clean and unmarked. Jules Verne, 1828-1905, wrote one hundred and three volumes during his lifetime, many imaginative, but also he invented science fiction and anticipated in detail airplanes, modern submarines, radio, TV, . And he did show the world that one could travel around the world by regularly scheduled train and ship in eighty days--under the name of Phineas Fogg, his eccentric gentlemen in this fun and adventurous story. 210 pages. 6.75 x 4.25 inches. Tor Classics/Tom Doherty Associates, USA, 1990.

New York: Dodd-Mead & Company, 1922. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Ex-Library 1922 Hardcover Ex-Lib Book in Good Condition. No jacket. First Published 1893. Introduction by William J. Locke. Anatole France (1844-1924) won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1921. French dramatist, novelist and critic. This novel, an urbane satire, originally published 1893. Read and enjoy meeting Abbe Coignard, a lovable and complex scapegrace, in this vast tableau of life in 18th century France. Binding of black cloth with gilt design over entire front panel with title panel gilt edged, gilt lettered; same design on spine, gilt lettered. Solid, tight book with sewn binding. Light edge wear, with scuffing to lower front corner. The rear panel has a whitish stain and discoloration and is faded on upper edge. Endpapers have green and white period illustration of a lady in a garden. Except for lib markings, internals are very clean, unmarked, no tears, no creases, pages… Read More

USA: The Pearson Publishing Co, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7?" tall. The Pearson Publishing Co., 1910. Hardback Classic French Literature in an attractive small volume, Volume IV in a series. Binding of gray cloth with red decoration on front, red titles on front and spine. Trace wear to extremities. Tight and compact sewn binding, spine has slight lean. Internals clean, no marks, no tears, no creases, pages lightly toned. Frontis: "My Landlady", b/w. Twenty-four short stories in addition to Ball-of-Tallow ("Boule De Suif"), which is considered his masterpiece by many. Short stories by French 19th century author Guy de Maupassant, generally considered the greatest French short story writer. His short stories (he wrote 300) are often robust comedy, and are usually built around simple episodes of everyday life that reveal the hidden side of people. 313 pages. 4.5 x 6.75 inches. The Pearson Publishing Co., New York, 1910.

Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday and Company, 1945. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7. Donald McKay. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE in Very Good Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket. Drawings by Donald McKay. Clean burgundy cloth binding with gilt illustration on front, black title panel on spine with gilt titles within. Corners and spine edges lightly rubbed. Tight, solid and square. Fore-edge and lower edge rough cut. Internals lightly toned, quite clean, no marks of any kind, no creasing. Jacket is clean and edgeworn, now with archival protective cover. "Barchester Towers" (1957) is probably Trollope's best know work, about the social life in the clerical circle of nineteenth-century England; this is the second of the "Chronicles of Barsetshire" , continuing the story of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor which began in "The Warden". 508 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 1945, Doubleday and Company, Garden City, New York, USA

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Andrew Sanders. Includes Textual Note, Bibliography, Chronology, Appendix, Explanatory Notes. The text is that of George Saintsbury's 1908 Oxford edition which restores passages cut when the novel was revised in 1856. Glossy, bright, clean cover, with faint wear to edges; binding tight, solid, square. Internals quite clean, no marks, no creases. Set in the second half of the 18th century, "Barry Lyndon" is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue, born into the petty Irish gentry, one to distrust as soon as you meet him--a spy, a gambler in the dissolute clubs and courts of Europe, attempt at entry into fashionable society--he tries it all. xxxii, 349 pages. 5 x 7.75 inches. 1999, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York.

Mineola, New York, U.S.A: Dover Pubns, 1993. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Unabridged. Selection of stories reprinted from standard editions.This story opens with some of the triviality of a Victorian drawing-room comedy, and deepens into a perceptive study of good and evil and culminates in unexpected poetic justice. Clean and unmarked cover, pages clean, unmarked, toned. 101 pages. 8.25 x 5.25 inches. 1993, Dover Pubns, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.

USA: The Heritage Press, 1968. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9. Bernard Lamotte. Type: Hardback Beautiful Heritage Press Edition in Very Good Condition in a Very Good Slipcase. Introduction by Alec Waugh. The Heritage Club Sandglass laid in. 12 full page full color unique illustrations by that "most Parisian of painters", Beranrd Lamotte. Binding of black quarter cloth with elaborate gilt titles (Fontanesi typeface) and decoration, with Parisian wallpaper design covering boards. Very clean, one pencil point size black dot on front; spine cloth has a half inch scuff near the very top of the spine, no other wear to extremities. Internals are pristine. Grey slipcase has two small marks, otherwise clean, unmarked, intact, some borders sunned. "Bel-Ami" is a biography of an unscrupulous journalist, rascal who flourishes in the shady underworld of Parisian journalism. By one of the greatest French writers of the 19th century (1850-1893). 266 pages. 8 x 10.75… Read More

New York, New York, USA: The Book League of America, 1941. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Book League of America, 1941. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. A decent reading copy of this classic French novelist's works. 19th century literature. Includes Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Nantas, Captain Burle, The Deatrh of Olivier Becaille, The Inundation, Nais Micoulin, and MME Neigeon. The heroine of Nana, one of his best-known works, is the product of her squalid environment and leads a dissipated life. Zola's theme is the transmission of traits through heredity and the significant influence of the environment in shaping human beings. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and blind-stamp design on front, generally clean, faded looking. Edges lightly rubbed. Pages are toned, clean, no underlining, no highlighting. 457 pages. 8 x 5.5 inches. 1941, The Book League of America, New York, New York, USA

Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ Press, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Oxford World's Classics Paperback, 2000. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by David Coward. First published in 1993 as a World Classics Paperback. Reissued as an Oxford World Classic's Paperback in 2000. This new edition reprints the first classic English translation. Set in Holland in 1672, Dumas weaves the historical events surrounding the brutal murder of John de Witt and his brother Cornelius into a tale of romantic love. This is during a turbulent time of the Dutch Republic and the 'tulipmania' of the 17th century that brought wealth to some and ruin to many. A political allegory. Clean and bright wraps with light slight edge wear and small crease to upper corner. No spine creases. Tight and square binding. Pages and text block edges clean and free from any markings, no creases; lightly toned. Introduction, Notes on Text,… Read More

London, England: Penguin Classics, 1984. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good +Condition. Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Charles R. Anderson. Clean pictorial wrappers, with illustration of "Sita and Sarita" by Cecilia Beaux; crease to lower front corner, faint creasing to spine. Soundly bound, square. Pages clean, in first 100 or so pages there is an occasional pencil note beside text and underlined text, otherwise clean, moderately toned. A Victorian novel of love and marriage--and a novel of ideas--does it embody the triumph of chauvinism, or mourn the collapse of avant-garde feminism? It is the story of Basil Ransome, a Mississippi lawyer, Olive Chancellor, a radical feminist, and their struggle for exclusive possession of the beautiful Verena Tarrant. 438 pages with Notes. 7.8 x 5 inches. Penguin Classics, London, England, 1984.

USA: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. First Thus. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Special Edition made for "Review of Reviews" by Houghton Mifflin, Cambridge, MA, 1903. Hardcover Book in Good Condition, no jacket. Red cloth binding gilt titled on spine, not bright but quite readable. Clean, rubbed on all edges, spine head and heel lightly scuffed, front corners gently bumped. Text block edges with light foxing. Rough cut on fore edge and bottom edge. Prev owner name on endpaper. Half title page torn up two inched at hinge corner. Sewn binding is tight and solid; backstrap loosened at lower edge. Frontis: illustration of "Two rifle shots cracked from the thicket". Pages toned, very clean, no markings. Includes Trent's Trust, Mr. MacGlowrie's Widow, A Ward of Colonel Starbottle's, Prosper's Old Mother,The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin, A Pupil of Chestnut Ridge, and Dick Boyle's Business card. 264 pages. 7.8 x… Read More

Boston, MA: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 1999. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Very slight edgewear, lower corner flares up a little. Clean and unmarked. Waugh's novels are witty, sophisticated satires of fashionable London society, the English upper classes, and the young intellectuals of the 1920s. Brideshead Revisited is one of his least satirical, and most Catholic in viewpoint, perhaps because he converted to Catholicism in 1930 before it was written. 351 pages. 5 x 7.75 inches. 1999, Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, USA