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Jack Sheppard, A Romance

By: Ainsworth, William Harrison

Price: $225.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons: 1856

Seller ID: 011759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Originally published as a serial in Bentley's Miscellany from 1839 to 1840, It is a historical romance and a Newgate novel based on the real-life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard. Jack Sheppard developed into one of the most popular and controversial of Ainsworth's 'Newgate' novels, complemented by some of Cruikshank's superlative illustrative work. The novel became so popular that by the end of 1839 nine different theatrical versions of it had appeared on the London stage. Ainsworth's description of illicit life also provoked criticism. The work was attacked it in T...
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The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance

By: Ainsworth, William Harrison

Price: $225.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons: 1880

Seller ID: 011760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

A romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the monarch's will when the courts could or would not do so. As the mix of fact and fiction unfolds in this tale, the court is beginning to lose favor during the reign of James I as the church once again increased its power, while Parliament's power decreased as the monarch tried to rule without them. [Thompson] William Harrison Ainsworth, (1805 -1882), English author of popular historical romances. Ai...
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $125.00

Publisher: USA, The Franklin Library: 1986

Seller ID: 009744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

As an American author, poet, and memoirist, Maya Angelou was an impactful civil rights leader who collaborated with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the Civil Rights movement. She is best known for her series of biographies and even recited her poem, “On the Pulse of the Morning,” at President Bill Clinton's making her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, is the fifth book in African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou's seven-volume autobiography series...
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Death Is A Lonely Business

By: Bradbury, Ray

Price: $75.00

Publisher: USA, The Franklin Library: 1985

Seller ID: 009745

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited First Edition; SIGNED; Includes publisher's letter laid-in. Unread. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling to boards, gilt edges fine. Double page frontispiece by Gary Kelly.
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The Kingdom of the Wicked

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $35.00

Publisher: USA, 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.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.
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Erehorne or Over the Range

By: Butler, Samuel

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Cheshire House: 1931

Seller ID: 011867

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Limited Edition of 1200 this is Number 50. Quarter leather to decorated paper over boards. Top edge gilt; others rough. 4to; 9.75 inches tall; 359 pages. Four Illustrations. Illustrations by H. Charles Tomlinson. Introduction by H. M. Tomlinson. Designed by Richard W. Ellis
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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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An Illustrated Journey Around the World

By: Daniell, Thomas, William, and Samuel ; Edited with an Introduction by Katherine Prior

Price: $85.00

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 2007

Seller ID: 011915

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

A luxurious presentation which 'recreates in words and pictures the African and Asian travels of a remarkable family of English artists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.' Housed in an illustrated slipcase, the book is bound in three-quarter buckram with a front board covered in parchment that has been printed and blocked with an illustration based on one by Thomas and William Daniell. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling to the slipcase; Still Gift Quality. Second Printing. Illustrated from Paintings, Watercolours, Aquatints and Drawings by the author...
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A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain

By: Daniell, William ; Introduction C. J. Sheperd ; Preface Robert Macfarlane

Price: $49.95

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 2008

Seller ID: 011874

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

William Daniell's "Voyage Round Great Britain" was published in eight volumes between 1814 and 1825 and included 308 hand-colored aquatints. This edition features a selection of 114 of Daniell's best and most representative aquatints. The extracts have been strung together with brief passages of editorial commentary which retrace the route Daniell purported to follow. Edited and Introduced by C.J. Shepherd. Preface by Robert Macfarlane.No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.
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On the Origin of Species

By: Darwin, Charles ; Introduction by Richard Keynes

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 2006

Seller ID: 011871

Binding: Hardcover in Slipcase

Condition: New

No book has revolutionized our view of life on earth more than Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Yet its enduring popularity is a testament to the immense energy and startling simplicity with which Darwin makes his revelations. Bound in buckram printed and blocked with a design by David Eccles; Set in Baskerville; Frontispiece and 24 pages of colour plates. 4to; 10 inches tall; 415 pages with index.No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.
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The Man in the High Castle
[Alternet History]

By: Dick, Phillip K.

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, Easton Press: 1995

Seller ID: 010192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Fine, No flaws; Unread Unopened. Leather hardcover book with gilt designs and lettering on the front. Spine has three raised ribs and gilt lettering and designs. Satin endpapers. Green ribbon attached to head of spine as a bookmark. All gilt edges. 239 pages. - Philip Kindred Dick (1928 -1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction. The Man in the High Castle is an American dystopian alternate history television series, produced by Amazon Studios, Scott Free Productions, Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions, and Big Light Productions.
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...Camille La Dame Aux Camellis

By: Dumas, Alexandre Dumas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Norwalk Connecticut:, Heritage Press,: 1955.

Seller ID: 003961

Binding: Hardcover.<P>

Blue boards and spine are covered with a blue patterned cloth; on the spine is a burgundy-red panel stamped with the title in gold leaf; Paper for this book, was made by the Chillicothe Paper Co.Book is fine, unopened unread no flaws but gentle sun-fading to spine; slip case is cream colored intact with some age spotting to extremities.Includes the Sandglass brochure.
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Romola: A Novel [2 volumes, complete]

By: Eliot, George

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The John C.Winston Company: 1910

Seller ID: 011601

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels. Described by Eliot as 'written with my best blood', the story of Romola's intellectual and spiritual awakening is a compelling portrayal of a Utopian heroine, played out against a turbulent historical backdrop of Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family. Mary Anne (alternatively Mary Ann or Marian) Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Beautifu...
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The Sound and the Fury

By: Faulkner, William; Introduction by Robert Penn Warren

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 010564

Binding: Hardcover

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
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A Narrative of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle. Being passages from the Narrative written by Captain Robert Fitzroy, R.N., additional material from the diary & letters of Charles Darwin etc.

By: Fitzroy, Captain Robert

Price: $21.95

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 1977

Seller ID: 011926

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book is without flaw. Slip case has minor scuff with break in the paper upper left edge. 8vo; 9.75 inches tall; 359 pages; Illustrated. The voyage of HMS Beagle during which Charles Darwin was a passenger formed the central part of a series of three expeditions mounted by the Admiralty to survey and chart the South American coastline. This process started in 1826 and continued until 1837. This edition has been based primarily on Robert Fitzroy's Narrative of the second surveying voyage of the Beagle.
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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 provin...
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Bodoni: Manual of Typography

By: Füssel, Stephan

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Germany, Taschen: 2010

Seller ID: 011859

ISBN: 3836505533

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The birth of the legendary typeface: The complete reproduction of Bodoni's rare masterwork. The two-volume set-published posthumously in a limited edition of 250 features 142 sets of roman and italic typefaces, a wide selection of borders, ornaments, symbols, and flowers, as well as Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, Phoenician, Armenian, Coptic, and Tibetan alphabets. Celebrated printer and type designer Giambattista Bodoni set the standard for printing the alphabet with his Manuale tipografico (1818). No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. H...
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Poems

By: G. K. Chesterton ; Selected and Introduced by Kenneth Baker

Price: $19.95

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2007

Seller ID: 011869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

G.K. Chesterton better known for his novels, especially the Father Brown stories, also wrote many poems. Kenneth Baker has selected about 120 of his favorites, including three that had not previously been published and written the introduction including an essay on how to read poetry.Unread; unopened minimal shelf handling to the slip case and a bit of sun-fading on the spine.
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She Stoops to Conquer or the Mistakes of a Night

By: Goldsmith, Oliver

Price: $16.45

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 Wind in the Willows

By: Grahame, Kenneth ; Introduction by Alan Bennett

Price: $19.95

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 1995

Seller ID: 011878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

The stories of Ratty, Toad and Badger. "One of the central classics of children's fiction, was Grahame's fourth book It began life as a series of bedtime stories told to his son Alastair, known as Mouse the first of these was told on Mouse's fourth birthday.Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Unread. Slipcase has light sun-fading on top edge. Minor spine tip fraying.
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