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The Workers: An Experiment in Reality 2-Volume Set (The East & The West)

By: Wyckoff, Walter A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Charles Scribners Sons: 1899

Seller ID: 2275882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Hinges weakening, front free endpaper of first volume absent, ink name and address on endpapers. 1899 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, [5], 270, [2]; ix, [1], 378, [2] pp. 8vo. Vignettes of working class life on the East and West coasts of America.
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The Swiss Family Robinson (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)

By: Wyss, Johann David

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Everyman's Library Children's Classics / Alfred A. Knopf: 1994

Seller ID: 2291684

ISBN: 0679436405

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

8th printing. Ribbon marker beginning to fray at the end. 1994 Hard Cover. 256, [8] pp. 8vo. The children's novel that inspired several film adaptations. The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia.
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The Dove in the Eagle's Nest

By: Yonge, Charlotte M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited: 1897

Seller ID: 2286791

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Sixth printing of illustrated second edition. Spine head and spine base lightly rubbed, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1897 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 293, 6 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output. She was devoted to the Church of England, and much influenced by John Keble, a near neighbour and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Her novels reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism. She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 100 works, chie...
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The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade

By: Yonge, Charlotte M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1925

Seller ID: 2286793

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. An excellent copy. 1925 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 246 pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Color frontispiece. EXCERPT: A fine evening - six centuries ago - shed a bright parting light over Alton Wood, illuminating the gray lichens that clung to the rugged trunks of the old oak trees, and shining on the smoother bark of the graceful beech, with that sidelong light that, towards evening, gives an especial charm to woodland scenery. The long shadows lay across an open green glade, narrowing towards one end, where a path,...
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Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality. with the Life of the Author.

By: Young, Edward

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Printed for F. and C. Rivington; Otridge and Son; Longman and Rees; Cadell and Davies; Vernor and Hood; J. Mawman; T. Hurst; J. Scatcherd; and J. Hookham / J. Cundee, Printer: 1802

Seller ID: 2263775

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

'New Edition'. Spine and corners a bit rubbed, a few pages lightly foxed. 1802 Full-Leather. xviii, [4], 361, [5] pp. 8vo. Full black morocco, gilt titles and rules, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A long poem in blank verse, originally published in nine parts between 1742 and 1745. This edition includes the complete work, a biographical sketch of the author, and engraved illustrations by Thomas Stothard. This work was quite popular in its day, but became more so when William Blake provided illustrations for one of the editions printed in 1797.
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The Year of My Life: A Translation of Issa's Oraga Haru

By: Yuasa, Nobuyuki; Issa

Price: $30.00

Publisher: University of California Press: 1960

Seller ID: 2135214

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

First paperback printing. Two corners lightly stained, ink name & date inside. 1960 Mass Market Paperback. viii, 140, [2] pp. A translation of Issa's Oraga Haru, an autobiography in haibun - a mixed form of haiku and prose.
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The Shadow of the Wind

By: Zafon, Carlos Ruiz; Graves, Lucia (Translator)

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin: 2004

Seller ID: 2301628

ISBN: 0143034901

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Spine creased. 2004 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 486 pp. Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s ...
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The Angel's Game

By: Zafon, Carlos Ruiz; Graves, Lucia (Translator)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 2009

Seller ID: 2301627

ISBN: 0385528701

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 2009 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 531 pp. From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game--a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love. “The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that, when I opened those windows, its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets I could capture on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen...” In an abandoned mansion at the heart of...
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Image for The New Soviet Fiction: Pushkin's Photograph; Auto Accident in Paris; No Smiles; The Sleeper; Cat-Strangler Silver; Antileader; A Question Mark; The Art of Needles and Sins; Through the Fields; Wat Should I Tell the Cow?; The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti...

The New Soviet Fiction: Pushkin's Photograph; Auto Accident in Paris; No Smiles; The Sleeper; Cat-Strangler Silver; Antileader; A Question Mark; The Art of Needles and Sins; Through the Fields; Wat Should I Tell the Cow?; The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti...

By: Zalygin, Sergei; Bitov, Andrei; Elchin; I. Grekova; Katev, Valentin; Konetsky, Vladimir; Okudzhava, Bulat; Petrushevskaya, Lyudmila; Rasputin, Valentin; hin, Mikhail; Soloukhin, Vladimir; Tolstaya, Tatyana; Valton, Arvo; Yaroslavtsev, S.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Abbeville Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2275213

ISBN: 0896598810

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly rubbed. 1989 Hard Cover. Published within the last few years and selected by Novy Mir editor Sergei Zalygin so as to reflect literary talent from various regions of the USSR, the stories range from straightforward depictions of ordinary people's lives to a sophisticated piece by Andrei Bitov about time travel to Pushkin's era. Irina Grekova exposes intrigues in academia, Bulat Okudzhava portrays a Stalinist country bumpkin, Valentin Rasputin writes lyrically about Lake Baikal, and other, lesser-known authors provide lingering insights into human minds and emotions.
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Life and Letters of Stuart P. Sherman, in Two Volumes

By: Zeitlin, Jacob; Woodbridge, Homer

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Farrar & Rhinehart: 1929

Seller ID: 2280930

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Both volumes lack jackets, spine head and spine base of both volumes lightly rubbed, very faint minor stain on top page ridge of Volume I, ink name and date on front paste-down endpaper of Volume I. 1929 Hard Cover. Continuous pagination. Two volume set. Stuart Pratt Sherman (1881–1926) was an American literary critic, educator and journalist known for his philosophical feud with H. L. Mencken. The two men were very close in age, and their career paths have sometimes been compared, but Mencken outlived Sherman by three decades.
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Excavating Victorians (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)

By: Zimmerman, Virginia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: State University of New York Press: 2008

Seller ID: 2277108

ISBN: 0791472809

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Ink stamp on page base, faint odor of smoke. 2008 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. x, 231 pp. Excavating Victorians examines nineteenth-century Britain’s reaction to the revelations about time and natural history provided by the new sciences of geology and archaeology. The Victorians faced one of the greatest paradigm shifts in history: the bottom dropped out of time, and they had to reinvent their relationship to the earth and to time and history. These new sciences took the Victorians by storm, inundating them with fossils, skeletal remains, and potsherds—ar...
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The Girl in Scarlet [La Fortune des Rougon]

By: Zola, Emile

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Matheson and Co., Ltd.: 1900

Seller ID: 2291261

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Circa 1900. Rebound in half-leather with marbled boards and endpapers, gilt titles, top edge gilt, and original pink wrappers bound in. Front endpaper and original front wrapper loose with loss from edges of wrapper, small chip from edge of rear wrapper, board edges rubbed with small chip from spine foot. 147, [1] pp. The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two branches of the family came about, and the origins of the hereditary weaknesses passed down the generations. Murder, treachery, and greed are the keynotes, and ju...
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The Life and Letters of Bishop McQuaid, Prefaced with the History of Catholic Rochester Before His Episcopate, Vol. I

By: Zwierlein, Frederick J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Art Print Shop: 1925

Seller ID: 2275799

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, faint cup ring mark on front board, smudge on rear board. 1925 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 368 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Bernard John McQuaid (15 December 1823, in New York City – 18 January 1909, in Rochester, New York) was an American Catholic priest, the first Bishop of Rochester, U.S.A. and the first president of Seton Hall University. McQuaid Jesuit High School is named in his honor.
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The Life and Letters of Bishop McQuaid, Prefaced with the History of Catholic Rochester Before His Episcopate, In Two Volumes

By: Zwierlein, Frederick J.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The Art Print Shop: 1926

Seller ID: 2299975

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Second volume signed by author with inscription, To Archbishop Hanna from a devoted pupil, the author. Ink name and address and pencil name on front free endpaper of volume one. Surface tear to rear paste-down endpaper of volume two. 1926 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Two volume set. A third volume was published in 1927, which is not included here. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Bernard John McQuaid (15 December 1823, in New York City – 18 January 1909, in Rochester, New York) was an American Catholic priest, the first Bishop of Rochester, ...
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Dante's Divine Comedy: Purgatory

By: [Alighieri, Dante]; Lindskoog, Kathryn

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Mercer: 1997

Seller ID: 2203003

ISBN: 0865545839

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1997 Hard Cover. A masterful retelling of Dante's classic Purgatorio, written in modern prose with abundant notes.
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The Canterbury Tales

By: [Chaucer, Geoffrey]; Ackroyd, Peter (Retelling By)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Viking: 2009

Seller ID: 2294625

ISBN: 0670021229

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minimal wear to jacket spine head and foot. 2009 Hard Cover. xxii, 436 pp. Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to ...
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Peter Saunders Presents the First 30 Years of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, 1952-1982 [Thirty]

By: [Christie, Agatha] Saunders, Peter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Theatreprint, Ltd.: 1983

Seller ID: 2296579

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor general wear. 1983 Stapled Binding. 55 pp. A history of the first thirty years of Agatha Christie's murder mystery play, The Mousetrap, which first opened in London in 1952.
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The Boys of Dickens Retold (Illustrated)

By: [Dickens, Charles]

Price: $5.00

Publisher: McLoughlin Brothers: 1920

Seller ID: 2208365

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, no publisher date (circa early 1900's), ink name on front endpaper, general light wear. 1920 Hard Cover. 139 pp. CONTENTS: Oliver Twist, Tiny Tim, David Copperfield and Little Em'ly, Paul Dombey, Jo, Steerforth and Traddles, Smike, Mrs. Larriper's Jemmy, Johnny and the Boofer Lady.
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The Children of Dickens (Scribner Illustrated Classics for Younger Readers)

By: [Dickens, Charles]; Crothers, Samuel McChord

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1925

Seller ID: 2284880

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1943 printing. Includes original jacket. Pencil gift note on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with 1/2 inch closed tear to corner. 1925 Hard Cover. vi, [2], 259, [1] pp. 8vo. Retellings of portions of books by Charles Dickens, featuring such memorable characters as Mr. Micawber, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and the Jellyby family. Includes background information on the novels, and color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith.
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Profile by Gaslight: An Irregular Reader about the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

By: [Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan]; Smith, Edgar W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1944

Seller ID: 2276798

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. No jacket, very faint odor of smoke, spine very faintly toned. 1944 Hard Cover. xv, 312 pp. CONTENTS: Sherlock Holmes the Legend; Sherlock Holmes the Man; About Dr. Watson; The Baker Street Scene; The Baker Street Irregulars.
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Emerson Year Book: Selections for Every Day in the Year from the Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]; A.R.C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Company: 1901

Seller ID: 2273752

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Page ridges and endpapers lightly foxed. 1901 Small Hard Cover. 157 pp. Selections for every day in the year from the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni, in Three Volumes

By: [Fiorentino], Ser Giovanni; Waters, W.G.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliophiles: 1898

Seller ID: 2272693

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First English translation. Limited edition, #293 of 1000 sets. Spines toned. 1898 Hard Cover. Complete in three hardcover volumes. Grey cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt. Translated into English from the original Italian by W.G. Waters. Illustrations by E.R. Hughes. A collection of fifty stories written by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, the original title of which (Il Pecorone) translated as The Simpleton. Fiorentino wrote the stories in the 14th century (though they would not be published until the mid-16th century), and they later became a source for William Shakespeare's The Merc...
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The Greville Diary, Including Passages Hitherto Withheld from Publication, in Two Volumes

By: [Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke]; Wilson, Philip Whitwell

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company: 1927

Seller ID: 2291167

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Top edge of second volume lightly bumped in two spots, small dealer bookplate on rear endpaper of each volume. 1927 Hard Cover. xiv, [2], 568, [2]; xiii, [3], 602 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles, top edges gilt. Frontispieces of Queen Adelaide and Queen Victoria, various portrait plates in text. A detailed journal originally published in three large parts comprising eight total volumes. The first part, published in 1874, was widely suppressed after Queen Victoria and others expressed outrage at its tone and content. It would not be republished until the original manuscri...
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Hammett's Moral Vision: The Most Influential Investigation of Dashiell Hammett's novels Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man (The Ace Performer Collection)

By: [Hammett, Dashiell]; Thompson, Goerge J. Rhino; Nolan, William F.; Emery, Vince

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Vince Emery Productions: 2007

Seller ID: 2303192

ISBN: 097258983X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2007 Hard Cover. 246 pp. Previously only available serialized over seven issues of The Armchair Detective magazine, this examination is the single most influential book-length analysis of Dashiell Hammett’s novels. Spanning all sections of his career, the book discusses five novels: The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, and The Thin Man. Detailed analysis shows how the author and his work changed over time. Each novel is discussed in its own chapter with comparative criticism, and there is a list of resources for further reading and research. Addition...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell

By: [Holmes, Oliver Wendell]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Phillips, Sampson and Company: 1858

Seller ID: 1863209

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, second state. Minor loss from spine head, stationer's stamp on front flyleaf. 1858 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 373 pp. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles & decorations. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the Breakfast-Table series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfas...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [Every Man His Own Boswell] (Masterpieces of American Literature

By: [Holmes, Oliver Wendell]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2284246

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Blank publisher bookplate laid in. Minimal wear to spine bands and corners. 1981 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 280, [2] pp. Tall 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks, color frontispiece and monochrome illustrations by R.J. Holden. A collection of essays that originally appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, and are credited with the positive response that magazine enjoyed during its early years. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29,...
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The Works of Horace (Harper's Classical Library)

By: [Horace]; Smart, C.; Buckley, Theodore Alois

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, American Book Company: 1860

Seller ID: 2208117

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No publisher date (circa late 1800s), spine lightly toned, very small spot to page ridge. 1860 Hard Cover. xi, 325 pp. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words. Horace also crafted elegant hexameter vers...
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Tales of a Traveller

By: [Irving, Washington]; Crayon, Geoffrey

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.: 1891

Seller ID: 2285881

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly soiled. 1891 Hard Cover. vi, 530, [4] pp. 16mo. The author's revised edition, complete in one volume. Cream cloth spine over mint cloth boards, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations, floral endpapers. Engraved title page by Copeland, frontispiece by Frank T. Merrill. A collection of short stories by the author of Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, etc. Includes: STRANGE STORIES BY A NERVOUS GENTLEMAN: The Great Unknown; The Hunting-Dinner; The Adventure of My Uncle; The Adventure of My Aunt; The Bold Dragoon, or The Adventure of My Grandfather; The Adventure of t...
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The Rubaiyat of Mirza-Mem'n

By: [Khayyam, Omar]; Mirza-mem'n (Zimmerman, John Stevens)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Henry Olendorf Shepard: 1901

Seller ID: 2300634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Second edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned. 1901 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. 131 stanzas. A collection of verse, most of which has been paraphrased from McCarthy's prose translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Published pseudonymously under the name 'Mirza-Mem'n' - the author's real name was John Stevens Zimmerman. Engravings protected with captioned tissue guards, decorative borders throughout. Purple cloth with beveled edges, gilt titles. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in the Persian langu...
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The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Translated from the Arabic. A New and Complete Edition. [The Thousand and One Nights]

By: [Lane, Edward]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: William P. Nimmo: 1870

Seller ID: 2303154

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1870 Hard Cover. 540 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Two-column format. Over 100 woodcuts from illustrations by S.J. Groves. Though no translator is credited, this is most likely an Edward Lane translation given the date -- Payne and Burton would not release their versions until the 1880s, and both changed the title from The Arabian Nights Entertainments to slightly different forms of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
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