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Very good edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain in the Barnes & Noble Classics series. Including new scholarship and thoughtful design - in clean dust jacket. No shelfwear. No markings.

London, Gay and Bird, 1903 Miniature hardback, 5 x 3 inches. Embossed calf leather covers (possibly the work of the Zaensdorf Bindery) with lettering and decorative patterns and gilt-edged pages. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges and corners. Otherwise very clean and tight copy. 150pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontis portrait, decorative chapter headings, letter and tailpieces. With silk pagemark. Introduction by J. Potter Briscoe.

Second American edition of illuminating work on cricket in the colonial West Indies by influential Trinidadian historian, novelist, cultural and political critic, and activist C.L.R. James (1901-1989) who also worked as cricket correspondent with The Manchester Guardian.

First Printing of Decorative Hard Cover Edition in Very Good Condition With introduction by Lionel Trilling.Two volumes with marbled boards with black spine featuring gilt titles. Slipcase intact. Slipcase is covered by green paper, with printed label on front panel. Books are tight and clean. Size: 12mo.

Harper & Brothers, New York, 1907. Very good copy of first American Edition of a book of travel writing by Henry James about his trip through the United States in 1904-1905. Ten of the fourteen chapters of the book were published in the North American Review, Harper's and the Fortnightly Review in 1905 and 1906.. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front panel. No shelf wear to spine and no soiling to back panel. No DJ. Textblock tight and square, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: W W Norton & Co, 1997, 1997. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. First Edition. Portraits of the American Landscape by 20 Contemporary Writers. including Harry Crews, Roriguez, Ackerman, Early, Robert Finch, Donald Hall, et al.