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Lorna Doone; A Romance of Exmoor [Two Volumes Complete]

By: Blackmore, R.D.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry T. Coats: 0

Seller ID: 011373

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

No date; Circa 1893. 51 tissue-guarded Photogravure reproductions of works by Charles L. Mitchell and Francis Frith. In original red cloth dust jackets, with gilt spine titles. Jackets have moderate shelf handling wear. Red cloth covered boards with intricate gilt decorations on spine and front. Bindings very tight. Minimal wear. Bookplates in both volumes. Top edges gilt, Vol 1 - 516 pgs, Vol 2 - 565 pgs, 8.25 inches.

Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825 -1900), referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteent...
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The Kingdom of the Wicked

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1985

Seller ID: 009743

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Limited First Edition; SIGNED; No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Includes publisher's letter laid-in. Illustrations by Richard DeFlice.
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Image for Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. A completely new edition, including over 60 poems appearing for the first time in a collected edition, of which some have never before been published.

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. A completely new edition, including over 60 poems appearing for the first time in a collected edition, of which some have never before been published.

By: Burns, Robert; Edited with an Introduction by James Burke

Price: $49.95

Publisher: London and Glasgow:, Collins: 1969

Seller ID: 010354

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Dark blue leather wraps with gilt spine titles in slipcase. 12mo; 7.25 inches tall. 736 pages with index of first lines. Book is without flaw; bindings tight and text clean. Slipcase has light shelf handling. The most complete and definite collection of the works of Robert Burns.
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The Devil's Pi

By: Cantor, Eli

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, The Composing Room, Inc.: 1967

Seller ID: 010120

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Amusing story of how the Devil is behind all the problems in a printer's shop, from proof reading to spilled ink. Issued as a Christmas greeting from the Composing Room. -------- Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Issued onion skin wrapper has toned which was only meant to protect until received. 8vo; 8 7/8 x 6 5/16 in. (22.5 x 16 cm)
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The Immortals Series. Cinq Mars, (Vol II)

By: De Vigny, Alfred; Boissier, Gaston - Preface

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Paris, Maison Mazarin: 1905

Seller ID: 007207

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Marbled leather boards with stamped gilt decoration. Metallic emblem/coin recessed into the front board. Textblock deckle edged and top gilt. End papers are brocade with Fleur de Lis decoration. Decorated series title page. Illustrations: A. Duviver - 4 captioned tissue-guarded plates. --- Bindings firm. Light wear to edges. A handsome book.
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Madame Bovary: A Storey of Provincal Life

By: Flaubert, Gustave

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 007844

Binding: Hardcover

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 provinci...
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She Stoops to Conquer or the Mistakes of a Night

By: Goldsmith, Oliver

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Heritage Press: 1962

Seller ID: 006811

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Little Journeys to Homes Of Great Musicians. Volume Nine, New Series.

By: Hubbard, Elbert.

Price: $49.95

Publisher: The Roycrofters,, East Aurora, New York:: 1901

Seller ID: 004003

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Laughing to Keep from Crying and 25 Jesse Semple Stories

By: Hughes, Langston

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Press:: 1981

Seller ID: 012328

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality with 22 page Notes from the editors. Bound in hunter green leather, with French silk end leaves, a satin book marker, three spine bands, Smyth sewn binding, on acid-free paper, all edges gilt. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 269 pages. Limited Edition of an unstated number. -

Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of the black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem.

A major poet, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays. He ...
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History of New York (Dietrich Knickerbocker's)

By: Irving, Washington

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1940

Seller ID: 000691

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

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. Decorated endpages and illustrated by 'original" lithographs of Don Freeman.
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Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada

By: Irving, Washington

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, G. P. Putnam's Sons / The Riverside Press: 1893

Seller ID: 010165

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Author's Revised Edition. The "Agapida" edition, a lavish production. Two volumes. 8vo; xxx, 379 pp.; xiv, 405 pp.------ Both volumes with frontispieces and with 30 photogravures of Granada by Mr. Richard H. Lawrence and others, each with lettered tissue guards, printed throughout with red and green page borders with a repeating floral design. -------- White cloth, gilt-extra, and additionally decorated in green and pink, titles in gilt on spine embellished with a Moorish-inspired design by Alice Cordelia Morse, boards beveled, Top Edge Gilt, decorative endpapers, in the publisher's c...
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History of New York (Dietrich Knickerbocker's)

By: Irving, Washington

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1940

Seller ID: 012039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

By: Molesworth, Mrs. [Mary Louisa Molesworth]

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co.: 1881

Seller ID: 011827

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Mrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, known as "the Jane Austen of the nursery." She typified late Victorian writing for girls. Aimed at girls too old for fairies and princesses but too young for Austen and the Bronts, books by Molesworth had their share of amusement, but they also had a good deal of moral instruction. The girls reading Molesworth would grow up to be mothers; thus, the books emphasized Victorian notions of duty and self-sacrifice.

Typical of the time, her young child characters often use a lisping style, and words may be misspelt to represen...
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