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The Admirable Crichton

By: Barrie, J. M.

Price: $140.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1914

Seller ID: 010243

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth with intricate gilt decorations on the front typical of Thomson's skill. Bindings tight and square. Heavy stock paper, Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear.Offsetting on free endpages.

[No Date, c1914] Printed at the Edinburgh University Press. Later Printing after Deluxe Edition of 500. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. 4to, 27 cm; 10.75 inches tall; pp. iii-235, [1]; mounted color frontispiece and 19 mounted color plates, additional black & white text illustrations throughout.

The Admirable Crichton is a comic stage play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie. ...
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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.

The Kingdom of the Wicked is a 1985 historical novel by Anthony Burgess. Like two of his earlier works, the long narrative poem Moses and the novel Man of Nazareth, Burgess wrote The Kingdom of the Wicked in part as preparation for a screenplay; in this case for the television series A.D.

A Roman saga, taking in the excesses of Tiberius, Caligula and Nero and an irreverent account of the early days of Christianity.
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Ted Kennedy. Scenes From an Epic Life

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

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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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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The Diary of a Nobody

By: Grossmith, George and Weedon

Price: $12.95

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1969

Seller ID: 007768

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Impression. Book is without flaw other than being from a smoker's library. Slipcase shows moderate shelf handling. Numerous black and white illustrations by John Lawrence.

Authors and brothers George and Weedon Grossmith weave a classic suburban English comedy. First issued in 1892 the the accident-prone character of Charles Pooter, moves in English society from parties to familial squabbles, his diary records the hilarity of his everyday life.
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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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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

History of New York (Dietrich Knickerbocker's)

By: Irving, Washington

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1940

Seller ID: 012257

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The Ambassadors

By: James, Henry

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Heritage Press: 1963

Seller ID: 009269

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes to unread book. With collectors notes. Slipcase has light shelf handling. ----- Illustrations by Leslie Saalburg. ------- 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.
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Rory O'More. Volume 1 of The Collected Works of Samuel Lover - Edition De Luxe Volume 1.

By: Lover, Samuel

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1901

Seller ID: 007630

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Birds of America

By: McCarthy, Mary

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Franklin Center, PA, The Franklin Library: 1981

Seller ID: 010479

Binding: Hardcover

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).
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The Group

By: McCarthy, Mary

Price: $29.75

Publisher: Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978

Seller ID: 011037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars. ----------- Limited Signed Edition. Illustrated by Miki. No flaws or blemishes but a bit of dulling to the gilt edges. Unread, Unopened.
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Michel De Montaigne Twenty-Nine Essays

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

Binding: Hardcover

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
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The Adventures of Herr Baby

By: Molesworth, Mrs. [Mary Louisa Molesworth]

Price: $240.00

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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