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Ah, Wilderness!: And Two Other Plays: All God's Chillun Got Wings, and Beyond the Horizon

by O'Neill, Eugene

Modern Library, 1947. First Thus. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. Early Modern Library Edition, Later Printing. Not price-clipped ($2.45 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1947. Octavo. Red cloth boards stamped in gold with patterned endpapers. Binding style #11. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear and nicks. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 306 pages plus 7... Read more about this item

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$25.00

Samuel Pepys' Diary

by Pepys, Samuel; Le Gallienne, Richard

Modern Library, 1940. First Thus. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. Early Modern Library Editions, Later Printing. Not price-clipped ($1.25 price intact). Published by Modern Library, c. 1940s (no date on copyright). Octavo. Red cloth boards stamped in gold with patterned endpapers and blue topstain. Binding style #8. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light toning to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear,... Read more about this item

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$20.00

Candide

by Voltaire with an Introduction by Philip Littell

Boni & Liveright, The Modern Library [#47.1], 1918. First as such. Hardcover. minor wear to the extremities else a very good bright copy lacking the d.j. -- see scan. Toledano spine #1 / catalogue C4 [50 titles] / marbled endpapers / limp brown leatherette.

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$45.00

The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch (Modern Library)

by Bausch, Richard

Modern Library, 1996. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($14.50 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1996. Octavo. Gray cloth boards stamped in gold with patterned endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 222 pages. ISBN: 9780679601890. 100% positive feedback. 30 day... Read more about this item

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$25.00

Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson [Modern Library No. 54]

by WILSON, WOODROW; ALBERT BUSHNELL HART (Editor)

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. Early ML Printing. Hardcover. Light rubbing to edges of spine, else nearly fine. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.. 16mo. 4.675 x 6.625 in. [v], [i], 316 pp. ML Binding Style 1, brown 'limp croft leather' (leatherette), with gothic Boni & Liveright device in gilt on upper cover, gilt title to spine; Brodzky endpapers. Edited with an introduction by ALBERT BUSHNELL HART. North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden... Read more about this item

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$42.00

Flowering Judas and Other Stories [Modern Library No. 88.4]

by PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE

New York: Modern Library, 1940. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate to front pastedown & previous ownership signature to front free endpaper, else very near fine in very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Moderate toning to spine panel. Attractive 2006 Katherine Anne Porter stamp affixed to title page. Binding square & tight, text otherwise unmarked & bright.. 12mo. 5 x 7.125 in. [x], 285 pp. + adverts ML Binding Style 8, vivid green cloth, top edge sumikuro, with Kent endpapers; in... Read more about this item

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$47.00

Jane Eyre (Modern Library Movie Tie-In Edition)

by Johnson, Diane

Modern Library, 1997. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition thus, Third Printing. Not price-clipped ($19.00 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1997. Octavo. Gray boards stamped in gold. Book is like new. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. There is very light spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 682 pages. ISBN: 9780679602699. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent... Read more about this item

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$20.00

Jungle Peace (Modern Library No. 30)

by BEEBE, WILLIAM; THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Foreword by)

New York: Modern Library, 1925. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A trace of edgewear. Previous owner's bookplate to verso of half-title.. 16mo. 4.375 x 6.625 in. xi, [iii], 297, [1] pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 4 in chocolate brown 'limpcroft leather' with Bernhard torchbearer device in gilt on upper cover; Brodzky endpapers. Stated First Modern Library Edition. Dedicated to Beebe's close friend Theodore Roosevelt ( 'to Colonel and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt I offer this volume with... Read more about this item

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$53.00

My Mother's House and Sido (Modern Library)

by Colette, Rossant

Modern Library, 1995. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition Thus, 3rd Printing (1995). Not price-clipped ($14.50 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1953. Octavo. Gray cloth boards stamped in gold with patterned endpapers. Book is like new; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Very light spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 208 pages. ISBN: 9780679601579. 100% positive feedback. 30 day... Read more about this item

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$20.00

Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

by Vasari, Giorgio; Linscott, Robert N

Modern Library. Hardcover. Used - Like New/Like New. First Modern Library Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($1.65 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1959. Octavo. Green cloth boards stamped in black and gold with black topstain and patterned endpapers. Modern Library binding style No. 8. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear and light toning to spine. Book placed... Read more about this item

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$50.00

Four Plays By Lillian Hellman

by Lillian Hellman

Hardcover published by Modern Library, 1942. Collection of four plays; The Children's Hour, Days To Come, The Little Foxes, and Watch on The Rhine. Identifying first Modern Library copies can be tricky since the copy right page is generally not updated with each edition. Toledano binding style #8 - with the torchbearer figure below the title field on the front cover board. This one does appear to be the first though as there was just the one edition before the volume was updated with two additional plays... Read more about this item

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$9.00

Selected Stories of Sholom Aleichem

by Sholom Aleichem

Hardcover with dust jacket, published by Modern Library. The first edition of this title was published in 1956, this copy is a later printing as it has the #11 binding style which was in use from 1963-1967. A collection of thirty stories including, The Pair, On Account of a Hat, Tevye Wins a Fortune, Hodel and others. Aleichem's stories about Tevye were the inspiration for 'Fiddler on the Roof'. The dust jacket is intact, though it has been price clipped. Dust jacket has been protected with a clear,... Read more about this item

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$10.00

The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels (Modern Library)

by Mitford, Nancy

Modern Library, 1994. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition Thus, 2nd Printing. Not price-clipped ($18.50 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1994. Octavo. Gray cloth boards stamped in gold with patterned endpapers. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear. 616 pages. ISBN: 9780679600909. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back... Read more about this item

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$25.00

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE Modern Library #121

by Thomas Hardy

New York: Modern Library. N.D.. Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Light chipping at spine crown/top of front panel. Light edge wear on front panel. Iight shelf wear on rear panel. .

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$38.88

Droll Stories

by Balzac, Honore De

Modern Library. First Thus. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. Early Modern Library Edition, Later Printing. Published by Modern Library, c. 1930s (no date on copyright). Octavo. Red cloth boards stamped in gold with patterned endpapers and blue topstain. Binding style #8. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Toning to page ends. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, nicks, and some loss to front top left... Read more about this item

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$20.00

The Making of Man (Modern Library No. 149); An Outline of Anthropology

by CALVERTON, V.F. (Editor); FRANZ BOAS, SIGMUND FREUD et al

New York: Modern Library, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in good jacket. Some toning and light soiling to heavily chipped and worn jacket. Text clean and unmarked. Binding square, and even rather fresh, but lightly shaken with crease to spine. Sliver of sunfading to crown and foot of spine. Gilt remains very bright.. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.625 in. xv, 879 pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 6 in blue balloon cloth, Kent's flying torchbearer device in gilt to upper cover, gilt titling to spine, top edge... Read more about this item

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$131.00

They Came Like Swallows (Modern Library)

by Maxwell, William

Modern Library, 1997. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($15.50 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1997. Octavo. Gray-brown cloth boards with patterned endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is like new. A fine copy of this novel by William Maxwell. 191 pages. ISBN: 9780679602477. 100% positive feedback. 30... Read more about this item

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$50.00

Poems of William Blake [Modern Library No. 91.1]

by BLAKE WILLIAM; WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, Editor

New York: Boni & Liveright [Modern Library], 1920. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Closed tear to p. 131, otherwise near fine. A touch of wear to upper edge of spine. Binding square & tight, text unmarked.. 16mo. 4.25 x 6.625 in. xli + [i], 278 pp. Chocolate brown flexible leatherette, with gothic BL ornament on upper cover, titled in gilt with double bars on spine; Brodzky endpapers. With a 30-pp. introduction by W.B. Yeats. A crisp copy.

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$95.00

Tom Jones (Modern Library)

by Fielding, Henry

Modern Library, 1998. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($19.95 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1998. Octavo. Gray boards stamped in gold. Book is like new. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. There is light spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 982 pages. ISBN: 9780679602873. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent... Read more about this item

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$25.00

Mrs. Dalloway

by WOOLF, Virginia

New York: Modern Library, 1939. 1939 Printing. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo. 4.5 x 6.75 in. ix, 296 pp. Good in original navy cloth, with a loose front hinge, minor rubbing on the bottom edges, and previous owners' notations on the front free end paper, and a poor dust jacket that has heavy chipping on the corners and spine. The interior jacket advertises "265" titles available from the Modern Library. A previous owner has tried to reinforce the top and bottom of the jacket's spine by applying scotch... Read more about this item

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$60.00

Paradiso (Modern Library)

by Dante,,Ciardi, John

Modern Library, 1996. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($15.50 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1996. Octavo. Gray cloth boards stamped in gold with patterned endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Very light spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 362 pages. ISBN: 9780679602118. 100% positive feedback. 30 day... Read more about this item

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$25.00

A Hazard of New Fortunes (Modern Library No. 25)

by HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1917. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very near fine. Charming aquatic bookplate to front pastedown. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright. Lacking rare dust jacket.. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.625 in. 332 pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 1 in original chocolate brown 'limp croft leather', gothic Boni & Liveright device in gilt to upper cover, titled in gilt on spine; blue marbleized endpapers. First Printing, with publisher's 35-title catalogue (C3) preceding title page.... Read more about this item

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$105.00

The Plays of Strindberg: Volume 1 (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books)

by Strindberg, August

Modern Library. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Thus. Not price-clipped ($2.45 price intact). Published by The Modern Library, 1964. Octavo. Green boards stamped in gold. Modern Library style #12. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Previous owner name to flyleaf and page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear and nicks. 468 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY... Read more about this item

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$20.00

Islam : A Short History

by Karen Armstrong

Random House Publishing Group, 2000. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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$6.39

The Tale of Genji (Modern Library)

by Murasaki, Shikibu

Modern Library, 1993. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($22.00 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1993. Octavo. Gray cloth boards stamped in gold with illustrated endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear. 1325 pages. ISBN: 9780679424673. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY... Read more about this item