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By: Burgess, Anthony
Price: $35.00
Publisher: USA, The Franklin Library: 1985
Edition: Limited First Edition
Seller ID: 009743
Condition: Fine
Limited First Edition; SIGNED; No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Includes publisher's letter laid-in. Illustrations by Richard DeFlice.A Roman saga, taking in the excesses of Tiberius, Caligula and Nero and an irreverent account of the early days of Christianity. Sadoc, a dying shipping clerk, sets down for future generations a tale of epic proportions: he is charged with recounting no less an event than the birth of Christianity. View more info
By: By Award Winning Photographers and Writers of the Boston Globe.
Price: $49.95
Publisher: USA, Easton Press / Simon and Schuster: 2009
Seller ID: 010961
ISBN: 1439138060
Condition: Fine
Green leather with stamped gilt titles and decorations. Paste-on photographs front cover. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. A bit of dust dulling on the top edge; Easton Bookplate attached but not written on. First Edition, thus. 4to; 10inches tall. View more info
By: Faulkner, William; Introduction by Robert Penn Warren
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979
Seller ID: 010564
Condition: Fine
Green faux-leather raised spine bands decorated and titles in gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Minimal handling wear. A hint of rub on lower text block. Illustrated by Kenneth Francis Dewey View more info
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979
Seller ID: 007844
Condition: Fine
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Translation of Francis Steegmuller; Illustrated by Malcolm Liepke. Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provin... View more info
Price: $16.45
Publisher: New York, Heritage Press: 1962
Seller ID: 006811
Condition: Very Good
Hardcover in slipcase. Bindings tight and square. Text clean with gift inscription. Light handling wear to slipcase. Sandglass notes included. Illustrations in color. View more info
By: Hope, Anthony
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Garden City, New York:, International Collectors Library: c1960
Seller ID: 007577
An adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum.Bindings tight and square. Text clean, minor aging to text-block edges. Minimal handling wear. Includes collector notes. View more info
By: Hubbard, Elbert.
Price: $49.95
Publisher: The Roycrofters,, East Aurora, New York:: 1901
Seller ID: 004003
Condition: Very Good
Half leather with stamped spine titles and decorations. Leather on boards has art-deco style designs. Top edge stained tan others deckled. Silk place ribbon. Pages are laid-paper including the Roycroft watermark. Spine says 'Great Musicians II'. Bindings square and tight, Minimal wear. Minor fade to spine. Text clean and bright. This volume includes: Liszt, Beethoven, Handel, Verdi, Schumann, Brahms. View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York:, The Heritage Press,: 1940.
Seller ID: 000691
Golden cloth covered boards titles in gilt in blue box, edges stained blue in slipcase. Book has not been opened or read. Slipcase has usual fading and some wear to edges. View more info
![Image for <b> The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent </b>[Arthur Rackham]](/assets/images/product/010163_1)
Price: $350.00
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons at the Knickerbocker Press: 1895
Seller ID: 010163
Condition: Near Fine
A fine example of late 19th-century trade bookmaking. Van Tassel Edition. Two volumes. 8vo; xix, 294 pp.; viii, 315 pp. Both volumes with frontispieces and numerous inserted full-plates with captioned tissue guards; additionally each text page features color floral/botanical/holly-and- mistletoe borders. Four of the plates by Rackham, his 5th book.; additional Illustrations by Joseph Jefferson, Arthur Rackham, and Julian Rix. - Blue cloth with titles in gilt-and- white lozenge on upper boards, extravagant gilt decoration on upper boards and spines, beveled boards, top edge gilt; in burg... View more info
By: James, Henry
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, Heritage Press: 1963
Seller ID: 009269
Condition: Fine
The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience.No Flaws or Blemishes to unread book. With collectors notes. Slipcase has light shelf handling. View more info
By: Jones, James
Price: $39.95
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, Franklin Library: 1978
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 011134
Condition: Fine
No Flaws or Blemishes but a minor spot to the gilt on the top edge; Still Gift Quality.. Limited Edition [number not specified] True First Edition. Illustrated by Howard Rogers. Octavo, 522 pp.(xxii + 1 + 499). Full leather tara brown bindings with gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, brown moire endpapers, all edges gilt, with brown satin page-marker ribbon. Printed on 55-pound Olde Style white wove paper, with 12-point Bodoni typeface. Whistle, Jones' third and final title in his World War II trilogy, which included the preceding "From Here to Eternity" and... View more info
![Image for Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men and Women and Other Things in General. [First], Second, & Third Series. [3 vol. bound by Zaehnsdorf]](/assets/images/product/004297_5b3e0c678a89731b74efbb14f9261651.jpg)
By: Lever, Charles
Price: $295.00
Publisher: Edinburgh and London:, William Blackwood,: 1864
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 004297
Condition: Very Good
Essays are written in the character of "Cornelius O'Dowd" and published anonymously. Charles James Lever (1806 - 1872) was an Irish novelist.1864-5 - Three volumes. All First Edition. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf. Later three-quarter green morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, top edges gilt. Original boards bound in the rear. Five spine bands with stamped gilt titles and date at bottom. Armorial bookplates of Mexborough. Bindings tight and square. Volume 1 has one rubbed corner and light wear at spine corners. Volume 2 minor handling. Volume 3 minor corner rubs and top and bottom rai... View more info
By: Lover, Samuel
Price: $29.95
Publisher: Boston:, Little, Brown and Company,: 1901.
Seller ID: 007630
Volume 1 of a set of ten, number 68 of a Limited Edition of 100. Three quarter morocco and marbled boards; top edge gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear with some rubs to edges. Full color tissue-guarded frontispiece, by H. L. Richardson, plus seven more tissue-guarded plates. One by Richardson, the others from drawings by Lover etched by W H W Bicknell. 262 pages; 8.5 inches tall. View more info
By: McCarthy, Mary
Price: $39.95
Publisher: Franklin Center, PA, The Franklin Library: 1981
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 010479
Condition: Fine
SIGNED Limited Edition. Signed by the author on the third free front endpage. Illustrated by James Campbell. Special Preface by the author. First Edition, Thus. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Unopened, Unread. An "endlessly fascinating novel" of an American student finding his way in 1960s Paris from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Group (San Francisco Chronicle). View more info
By: Michel De Montaigne; Selected and Introduced by Mortimer J. Alder ; Translation of Donald M. Frame
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1982
Seller ID: 010567
Condition: Fine
Dark Brown Leather Spine to decorated brown faux leather; raised spine bands decorated and titles in gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Minimal handling wear. Gift Quality. Illustrated by Carol Wald View more info
By: Nightingale, Joseph ; Hibbert, Christopher - Editor and Introduction
Price: $14.25
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1978
Seller ID: 006940
Condition: Near Fine
No Flaws or Blemishes but a small/faint retail mark lower spine; Bindings tight and square. Text clean. Lacks slipcase. View more info
By: Prescott, William Hickling; Edited by C. Harvey Gardiner
Price: $16.45
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press,: 1967
Seller ID: 006670
Condition: Very Good
First Edition, Thus. Illustrated by Lima De Freitas; Color map on endpages; genealogy table; twenty-three four-color illustrations, ten of which are full-page.Hardcover in slipcase. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Some age spots to text-block. Moderate handling wear to slipcase. Lacks Sandglass collector notes. View more info
![Image for <b> The Christmas Alphabet </b><br>[Pop-up Book]](/assets/images/product/007469_9d54651579fdd696bb3c329e98101a5e.jpg)
By: Sabuda, Robert
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York:, Orchard Books,: 1994.
Edition: First Edition - Second Printing.
Seller ID: 007469
ISBN: 0531068579
Condition: Fine
Robert Sabuda is a leading children's pop-up book artist and paper engineer. His books, have been well received and critically acclaimed. Twenty-six intricate paper fold-outs, in pastel cards mounted in a red hardcover binding, Minimal handling, most "letters" have never been opened. Still Giftable. This TRUE First Edition - Second Printing predates the limited edition of 1996 and later Scholastic printing. Each letter of the alphabet has its own pop-up; each is perfectly intact, all mechanisms function well. View more info
By: Stokes, Adrian
Price: $39.95
Publisher: NewYork, Book Collectors Society: 0
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 010280
Condition: Fine
Limited Edition of 250; Hand-numbered 80. Red polished calf with gilt titles and decorations; Top Edge Gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. 8vo; 22.5 cm; 8.75 inches tall. [6] 75 [28] pages with index followed by b/w illustrations. Adrian Stokes (1902 - 1972) was a British writer and painter, known principally as an influential art critic. He was also a published poet. This book was originally published in 1949. View more info
By: Translation of Donald M. Frame
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA:, The Franklin Library,: 1985<br>
Seller ID: 007872
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.This edition contains: The School for Husbands; The School for Wives; The Misanthrope; The Imaginary Invalid; The Would-Be Gentleman; The Miser; and Taruffe or, The Impostor. He wrote in the 17th century.No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Leatherette. View more info
