London: George Routledge and Sons, 1880. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE ---William Harrison Ainsworth was a key figure in the mid-Victorian literary scene, often outselling his contemporary Charles Dickens in the 1840s. The Star-Chamber reflects the Victorian fascination with the darker corners of British legal history, specifically the period when the monarch attempted.....

Middlesex: Penguin, 1950. Limited Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase. #1954/2000. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCELucius Apuleius’ The Golden Ass stands as the only complete Latin novel to survive from antiquity, offering a vivid blend of satire, mythology, eroticism, and religious transformation. Its episodic structure and fantastical tone influenced later European narrative.....

New York: Pantheon, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --Wendell Berry is arguably America's most influential agrarian voice, a writer whose work serves as a moral compass for the sustainable agriculture movement. 'Watch With Me' represents Berry at the height of his storytelling powers, using the fictional town of.....

New York: Literary Guild, (Harpers), 1931. Illustrations by J.J. Lankes. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The story based on the Ballad of John Henry, the "steel-drivin' man"; based on the African-American folk hero. It was made into a Broadway play and later a musical featuring Paul Robeson in the title.....

U.S.A. HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Sharpe's Escape is the twenty-third (tenth in chronological order) historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, published in 2004. Sharpe is embroiled in the British retreat through Portugal in 1810 from the defence of the.....

London: Griffith and Farran, 1858. HISTORICAL & SCHOLARLY CONTEXT+++ The Reformer’s Tool: By the late 1850s, Cruikshank was the visual face of the British Temperance movement. This work illustrates his belief that art should function as a persuasive moral instrument rather than mere decoration.+++ Victorian Seasonal Tradition: Framed as a......

London: Century, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Davis makes this ancient world come alive. Her newest novel in the series featuring Marcus Didius Falco puts the tough private eye in the lions' den to investigate an extraordinary case of murder... Winner of the.....

London: John Murray Publishers, 1924. Second Printing. A collection of short stories that explores themes of the supernatural, the mysterious, and the spaces between the known and unknown.While not as widely recognized as Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes or Professor Challenger works, this volume reflects his enduring fascination with the eerie and.....

New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1901. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Published in 1901 during the final years of Dunbar's life, Candle-Lightin' Time represents the work of an author who helped establish a national audience for African American literature. The inclusion of photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club provides an important.....

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1935. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --Mistress of Mistresses stands as a cornerstone of pre-Tolkien fantasy. Its significance lies in Eddison’s refusal to write 'down' to his audience, instead creating a complex, adult-oriented secondary world rooted in philosophy and heroic ethics. Within the context of the.....

New York: Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith, 1930. First Edition, Second Printing. Fine Binding, HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --'As I Lay Dying' is arguably Faulkner’s most technically daring work, famously written in a six-week burst of creativity while he worked nights at a power plant. By employing fifteen different narrators, Faulkner moved beyond.....

London: University Press of New England / HArdscrabble Books, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Book two of the Frost Saga continues the exciting nautical adventures launched in The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost, hailed as 'an auspicious start' by Library Journal. In.....

Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. John Fowles  made his literary debut with The Collector, a psychologically intense novel about obsession and captivity, told from both captor and captive perspectives. Its significance is heightened by the award-nominated 1965 film adaptation starring Terence Stamp.....