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By: BELLOW, Saul.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: (New York):, Viking, (1994).: 1994
Seller ID: B2219
ISBN: 0670853313
8vo. xiii, 327 pp. Quarter black cloth over grey boards, gilt-stamped spine title, dust jacket. Fine. ISBN: 0670853313 Dust jacket present. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York:, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., (1901).: 1901
Seller ID: B2191
12mo. xviii, 271 pp. Frontis. Original maroon cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. Very good. View more info
By: CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924)
Price: $2,500.00
Publisher: [no place]:, November 14: 1908
Seller ID: AA5003
Condition: 253 x 203 mm. 1 page, handwritten on watermarked paper rubber stamped "Someries, Luton, Beds. Small ink stain. Fine.
[no place]:: November 14. 1908. hardcover. 253 x 203 mm. 1 page, handwritten on watermarked paper rubber stamped. "Someries, Luton, Beds. Small ink stain. Fine.. “Dear Sir. I hope you will not take it ill if I decline to compete with Mr. H. Caine. If I ever take the public into my confidence in the matter of earnings [profits?] ... and so on, it will have to be in my own time and without referring to anyone else’s experiences. Yours faithfully, J. Conrad” This letter references Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine Hall Caine (1853-1931), known as “Hall Caine”, the Victorian playwright. N... View more info
By: COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851).
Price: $265.00
Publisher: Philadelphia:, Lea & Blanchard, 1841.: 1841
Seller ID: BL4586
First edition. 2 volumes. 12mo. [v]-xi, [1], [13]-267; 282 pp. Twentieth century full brown cloth, printed paper spine label. Text block is foxed. [Complete]. The last, and one of the most popular, of the Leatherstocking Tales. "Spiller, an important critic of Cooper, insists upon the noteworthy role of The Deerslayer: "For Natty as Deerslayer has now become a symbol of the human values toward which Cooper had been reaching, and his story the most 'poetic' of the Leather-Stocking Tales, in which romance and moral import combine to create what many critics hold to be Cooper at his best... View more info
By: CORNEILLE, P.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Paris:, Garnier Freres, n.d.:
Seller ID: B2093
Small 8vo. xxxi, 96 pp. Original quarter black cloth over printed boards; extremities rubbed. Ownership marks, pencil marginalia. Vey good. View more info
By: cummings, e. e.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: n.p.:, S.A. Jacobs, The Golden Eagle Press, 1923 [1949].: 1923
Seller ID: B2142
Reprint. Small 8vo. Unpaginated, [12] ff. Teal paper boards, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles, gold paper slipcase; slipcase worn. Very good. View more info
By: DARWIN, Erasmus.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: (London:, The Scolar Press Limited, 1973).: 1973
Seller ID: BL3264
ISBN: 0859670686
Facsimile reprint of the 1803 edition. 29 cm. [xiv], 174, [2], 124 pp. Illus. Gilt-stamped tan cloth, dust-jacket; jacket edges frayed. Very good. ISBN: 0859670686 / 0-85967-068-6 View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Boston:, James Loring, 1839.: 1839
Seller ID: BL4546
20 cm. 12mo. 367 pp. Original blue-green blind and gilt-stamped cloth; some fading, foxing throughout. Very good. Contents [four essays]: On a man's writing memoirs of himself.--On decision of character.--On the application of the epithet romantic.--On some of the causes by which Evangelical religion has been rendered unacceptable to persons of cultivated taste. View more info
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York:, Ransom House, 1931.: 1931
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: LV1984
Large 8vo. 29 pp. Original vellum-backed brown printed boards, spine printed with black titling, original slip-case. Very good. LIMITED EDITION of 500 numbered copies, signed by the author. // "Jeffers promised [Bennett Cerf] something suitable for Random House "in six month." Random House ended up publishing Descent to the Dead (1931), the sequence Jeffers wrote in Ireland and England as a limited edition title (it was later incorporated in Give Your Heart to the Hawks), and when Liveright went bankrupt in 1933, Random House became Jeffers' publisher." Una Jeffers' letters su... View more info
By: LE SAGE, Alain Rene (1668-1747).
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hartford:, S. Andrus and Son, 1855.: 1855
Seller ID: BL4624
16mo. [3]-337, [1] pp. Original brown cloth, gilt spine title; spine ends worn. Small hole excising the word "bubbies" [p.9 of Asmodeus's Crutches, with verso of leaf also affected]. Good. This issue rare. "On a dark October night in Madrid, Don Cleophas Leandro Perez Zambullo, a student of Alcala, is in dreadful trouble. While visiting Donna Thomasa, his beloved, three or four hired bravos set upon him in her apartment, and when he loses his sword in the struggle, he is forced to take flight over the rooftops of the neighboring houses. Spying a light in a garret, he enters throug... View more info
By: LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Cambridge [Mass.]:, John Owen, 1840.: 1840
Seller ID: BL4540
Small 8vo. xv, [3]-144 pp. Stained. Original half calf, marbled boards; worn, signatures unraveling, separated from spine. As is. View more info
By: O'CASEY, Sean.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York:, Macmillan, 1926.: 1926
Seller ID: B2122
Small 8vo. 136 pp Original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine title; spine ends frayed, cover edges water-stained, lower edge rubbed. Very good. View more info
By: SCHILLER, Friedrich (1759-1805).
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Cincinnati:, J. Eggers and Wilde, 1862.: 1862
Seller ID: BL4659
12mo. iv, [1], 6-168 pp. English preface and German main text. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title (faded). Very good. Rare Cincinnati imprint. Originally written by Schiller in 1804, it retells the story of the famous Swiss marksman. View more info
Price: $400.00
Publisher: New York:, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.: 1932
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: LV1874
8vo. xvi, [1], [1 blank], 205 pp. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth, dust-jacket; jacket spine ends chipped. SIGNED by actress Lynn Fontanne (1887-1983) and her husband Alfred Lunt (1892-1977) at cast list page (facing p. xvi). Additional ownership signature of Gretchen Davidson. Very good in good jacket. [G01065] "Reunion in Vienna is Sherwood's comedic contemplation on the Hapsburgs, in which Prince Maximilian Rudolph rekindles his love for his former mistress, Elena. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne starred in the 1931 Broadway production, directed by Worthington Miner and co-starring Henry Trave... View more info
By: SMOLLETT, Tobias George, M.D. (1721-1771).
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Philadelphia:, Isaac Bird, 1833.: 1833
Seller ID: BL4660
2 volumes. 12mo. [4 9/10 inches]. 228; 216 pp. Original full sheep, black leather spine labels (fragmented/remnant); heavily worn, spine on vol. I with added piece applied for reinforcement, waterstained, some leaves curled. Ownership label & pencil signature of H.C. Whitman; inscription of George Beverly to Edward Betty, 1895 – to William Taft, 1897. Poor. View more info
By: THACKERAY, William Makepeace.
Price: $17.00
Publisher: New York:, Harper & Brothers, 1869.: 1869
Seller ID: LV2067
// 8vo. 267, 2, [2] pp. Numerous illustrations. Original printed wrappers; spine a remnant, extremities chipped. Very rare in original printed wrappers. The story was first printed in 1862. This issue is not listed in WorldCat. Good. First Edition. View more info
Price: $700.00
Publisher: [Paris]:, Deux-Ponts Sanson, 1791-1792.: 1791
Seller ID: LV2178
97 of 100 volumes (lacking volumes 2, 12, and 13). 12mo. Each book with additional titles, engraved portrait frontis. [after Ch. Nicoville?]; occasional light stains or wrinkles. Original full calf, gilt spine, red and black leather spine labels; covers worn, some joints cracked, some head and tails frayed away, small oval leather labels naming the spine volume number occasionally missing, later shelf-stickers mounted at foot of spines. Early ownership bookplates of The Honble. William Craig, "one of the Lords of Council and Session and Lord Commissioner of Justiciary", several blind e... View more info
By: [CARY, Joyce] WRIGHT, Andrew.
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York:, Harper & Brothers, n.d.:
Seller ID: B2210
Small 8vo. 186 pp. Frontis., bibliog., index. Maroon cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust jacket. Fine. Dust jacket present. View more info
