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Little Agnes, or the Luxury of Doing Good

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Sheldon & Company: 1867

Seller ID: 2205133

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Faint smudges to boards, pencil name to second page, rear endpaper crease. 1867 Small Hard Cover. 108 pp. Engraved frontispiece and one engraved plate in text. CONTENTS: Little Agnes; or, the luxury of doing good; The best use of a penny; To-morrow; The right way to read; Mary Liston; The will; A wolf-story; "The Lord God is a sun;" Courage and Cowardice; Many mistakes made in the world; "We are seven."
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The Mentor: January 1925 (Serial No. 263), March 1925 (Serial No. 265), April 1925 (Serial No. 266), September 1925 (Serial No. 271), October 1925 (Serial No. 272) (5-Volume Set)

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Crowell Publishing Company: 1925

Seller ID: 2260201

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Five-volume set of The Mentor: January 1925 (Serial No. 263)--one inch tear along spine-base; March 1925 (Serial No. 265)--spine lightly bumped; April 1925 (Serial No. 266)---light smudge to rear wrapper; September 1925 (Serial No. 271)--quarter-inch tear to top edge of front wrapper, two small surface tears to front wrapper; October 1925 (Serial No. 272)--very good. 64, 74, 62, 66, 72 pp. Five-volume set of The Mentor: January 1925 (Serial No. 263): Romance of Rings, by George F. Kunz; Anthony Van Dyck--Painter of Royalty. March 1925 (Serial No. 265): Joseph Conrad, Personal Memories; Old New...
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World of Fashion, Vol. I. II. III.

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Charles J. Peterson: 1842

Seller ID: 2276008

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

Hinges starting, address label on front endpaper, title and index pages missing, rear free endpaper loose but included, a few light stains on some pages. 1842 Large Hardcover. 188; iv, 188; iv, 192 pp. Three volumes in one. The Lady's World of Literature and Fashion, Vol. I. II. III. A collection of women's fashion and literature from the 1800s.
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The Argosy, May 1916

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Frank A. Munsey Company: 1916

Seller ID: 2298322

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine creased, to small tears to spine, minor small stains to wrappers. 1916 Soft Cover. CONTENTS: A Full Book-Length Novel Complete: Getting Away from Thompson; Four Serial Stories: The Old West Per Contract - From Dusk to Dark - The Heir to Three Millions - Fools of Sacrifice; Two Short Stories: A Good Indian - For the Hard Places; The Log-Book.
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Robinson Crusoe (Kriss Kringle Series)

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: McLoughlin Bros: 1897

Seller ID: 2299098

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Spine taped, light stain wrappers rubbed. 1897 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. Printed on linen.
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The Sailor Boy: A Novel

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Luther Roby: 1843

Seller ID: 1953827

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fourth American edition. Lightly rubbed, a few pages a bit foxed. 1843 Small Hard Cover. 114; 118 pp. 12mo. Two books in one volume. Original brown boards, gilt titles & decorations on spine, blind-stamped design on boards. A British work of fiction following the exploits of a young sailor.
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American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman (The Library of America)

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Library of America: 1993

Seller ID: 2262955

ISBN: 0940450607

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Page ridges very faintly foxed. 1993 Hard Cover. xxiii, 1099 pp. In nineteenth-century America, poetry was part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. The two volumes of The Library of America’s American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveal the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These extraordinary anthologies reassess America’s poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. Extending c...
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Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1960

Seller ID: 2279154

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light spots on boards, faint stain along page ridges. 1960 Hard Cover. vii, 780 pp. A thirty-fifth anniversary volume of stories that have appeared in the magazine during the past decade. Forty-seven distinguished stories that have appeared in The New Yorker since 1950. A list of the writers whose work appears in Stories from the New Yorker: 1950-1960: Roger Angell, Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Bishop, Maeve Brennan, Harold Brodkey, John Cheever, Robert M. Coates, Roald Dahl, Daniel Fuchs, Mavis Gallant, Richard T. Gill, Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Hale, Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Henderson, R. Prawer Jh...
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A Guide in the Wilderness; or the History of the First Settlements in the Western Counties of New York with Useful Instructions to Future Settlers. In a Series of Letters Addressed by Judge Cooper, of Cooperstown, to William Sampson, Barrister, of New York

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 1965

Seller ID: 2289814

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1965 reissue of 1897 edition (the first to include an introduction by James Fenimore Cooper). A few stains to wrappers, sticker on front wrapper verso. ix, 50 pp. A Guide in the Wilderness; or the History of the First Settlements in the Western Counties of New York with Useful Instructions to Future Settlers. In a Series of Letters Addressed by Judge Cooper, of Cooperstown, to William Sampson, Barrister, of New York.
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Letters about the Hudson River, and Its Vicinity. Written in 1835-1837, with Additions and Engravings (Third Edition)

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Freeman Hunt & Co.: 1837

Seller ID: 2294763

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Third edition (Sabin 33849). Frontispiece fold-out map missing portion north of Pine Orchard. Circular stain on rear board, boards lightly soiled, ink name on front free endpaper, endpapers lightly foxed. 1837 Small Hard Cover. x, 252 pp. Two fold-out maps in text (complete). One fold-out engraving of Poughkeepsie Collegiate School. A collection of travel letters about the Hudson Rivers and the surrounding areas.
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Pocahontas: A Historical Drama, in Five Acts; with an Introductory Essay and Notes

By: A Citizen of the West [Owen, Robert Dale]; [Mackay, Robert W. Stuart]

Price: $500.00

Publisher: George Dearborn: 1837

Seller ID: 2289646

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Boards a bit rubbed with minimal loss from spine head and foot, corners exposed, moderately foxed throughout, ink name on front endpaper and flyleaf. 1837 Hard Cover. Sabin 58021. Sabin gives both Owen and Mackay as possible authors, without providing rationale in support of either. Mackay is listed as the copyright holder on this copy. A historical drama focused on the life of Pocahontas, the Native American daughter of chief Powhatan famous for saving the life of John Smith. She later converted to Christianity and wed John Rolfe.
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The Comic History of England

By: A'Beckett, G.A. [Gilbert Abbott]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Bradbury, Evans, and Co.: 1864

Seller ID: 2283682

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Two books in one volume. Binding repaired, corners a bit rubbed. 1864 Hard Cover. xviii, 320, 304 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Color frontispiece (one of 20 color plates) and reproductions of 200 engravings by John Leech. The classic work by one of the original staff of Punch magazine, the weekly British humor magazine. A'Beckett also wrote the Comic History of Rome (to which John Leech also added illustrations), Comic Blackstone, etc., as well as two operas for which his wife composed the music.
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The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

By: Abbey, Edward; Macrae, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: John Macrae / Owl Book: 1996

Seller ID: 2295288

ISBN: 0805031324

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Sticker on rear wrapper, ink name on front flyleaf. 1996 Trade Paperback. xii, 400. Collects the best and most inflammatory writings of the late naturalist, environmentalist, and libertarian, a former National Park ranger and the author of Desert Solitaire, The Journey Home, and other works. This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words. The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he was the bo...
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The White Linen Nurse

By: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Century Co.: 1913

Seller ID: 2301000

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Bookplate and ink mark on front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on front free endpaper. 1913 Hard Cover. 276 pp. Blue boards. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer. EXCERPT: The White Linen Nurse was so tired that her noble expression ached. Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of her felt permanently incapacitated except her noble expression. Like a strip of lip-colored lead suspended from her poor little nose by two tugging wire-gray wrinkles her persistently conscie...
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Rollo's Tour in Europe [Rollo on the Rhine]

By: Abbott, Jacob

Price: $25.00

Publisher: D. Lothrop & Co.: 1858

Seller ID: 2203405

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, spine edges rubbed, rear hinge starting. 1858 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 15, 218 pp. Abbott is most well known for the Rollo books. These didactic little books were vehicles to teach morality to youngsters. Of the several series that Rollo either starred in or was a secondary character, the most popular and well known was the ten book Rollo's Tour of Europe Series. In these tales Rollo and Mr. George toured Europe learning more about character and morality than they learned about the individual lands that were visited. Keywords: JACOB ABBOTT ROLLO'S TO...
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Confidential Correspondence of the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine: Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of Josephine, and Also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to His Brother Joseph, and Other Important Personages

By: Abbott, John S. C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Mason Brothers: 1856

Seller ID: 2301435

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former a binder's copy - has been repaired. Loss to spine head, spine base and to front joint; ink name on title page. 1856 Hard Cover. 404 pp. With numerous illustrative notes and anecdotes. Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of Josephine, and Also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to His Brother Joseph, and Other Important Personages.
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By: Adams, Franklin P.; Chambers, Robert W.; Lyons, Eugene; Cram, Mildred; Holbrook, Weare; Sabatini, Rafael; Rickenbacker, E.V. [Eddie Vernon]; Knight, Clayton; Ripley, Clements; Swift, J. Otis; Kyne, Peter B.; Barton, Bruce; Abdullah, Achmed; Flagg, James

Price: $60.00

Publisher: International Magazine Company, Inc.: 1934

Seller ID: 2292766

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Edges lightly rubbed and foxed. 1934 Magazine. 200 pp. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2. Harrison Fisher illustration on front wrapper, Life Savers advertisement on rear wrapper. Color and black & white advertisements, photographs, and illustrations throughout. Cosmopolitan Magazine was founded in 1886, and purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1905, who merged it with another smaller publication he owned in 1925. It was called 'Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine' until 1952, the year after Hearst's death. During this period it published the first appearances of many novels and short s...
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Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine, May 1934 (Vol. XCVI, No. 5, [Whole] No. 575)

By: Adams, Franklin P.; Douglas, Lloyd C.; Vance, Louis Joseph; Baron, Walter; Cram, Mildred; Knickerbocker, H.R.; Abdullah, Achmed; Duncan, Gregor; Maugham, W. Somerset; Hambidge, Gove; Sobol, Louis; Kerr, Sophie; Robinson, Elsie; Roe, Vingie E.; Parker, Do

Price: $60.00

Publisher: International Magazine Company, Inc.: 1934

Seller ID: 2292767

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

1/4 inch tear to rear wrapper edge, faint internal crease to portion of front wrapper. 1934 Magazine. 184 pp. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2. Harrison Fisher illustration on front wrapper, Betty Crocker advertisement featuring Sylvia Sidney on rear wrapper. Color and black & white advertisements, photographs, and illustrations throughout. Cosmopolitan Magazine was founded in 1886, and purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1905, who merged it with another smaller publication he owned in 1925. It was called 'Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine' until 1952, the year after Hearst's death....
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The Education of Henry Adams (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books 76)

By: Adams, Henry; Adams, James Truslow

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1931

Seller ID: 2278349

ISBN: 0394600762

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes original jacket. Copyright states 1931, but presence of ISBN, jacket style, and $2.95 list price indicate 1970-1975 printing. Jacket edges a bit rubbed. xvi, 517, [11] pp. Introduction by James Truslow Adams. The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial...
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, in Two Volumes (The Library of America)

By: Adams, Henry; Parker; Dorothy; Cummings, E.E.; Swenson, May

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Library of America: 2000

Seller ID: 2288498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase. A few light spots on slipcase panels. Newspaper clippings laid in to volume two. 2000 Hard Cover. xxx, 986; xxxii, 1009 pp. Two volume set. Includes publisher's slipcase. In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now for the first time the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry through the post-War years restores that era in all its astonishing beauty and explosive energy. Thi...
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The Letters of John and Abigail Adams (Penguin Classics)

By: Adams, John and Abigail; Shuffleton, Frank

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 2004

Seller ID: 2296771

ISBN: 0142437115

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Second printing. Small surface tear on front wrapper from sticker removal. 2004 Trade Paperback. xxxvi, 473 pp. The Letters of John and Abigail Adams provides an insightful record of American life before, during, and after the Revolution; the letters also reveal the intellectually and emotionally fulfilling relationship between John and Abigail that lasted fifty-four years and withstood historical upheavals, long periods apart, and personal tragedies. Covering key moments in American history - the Continental Congress, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, and...
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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Mystery and the Imagination Detailing the Adventures of the World's Most Famous Detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

By: Adams, John Joseph

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Night Shade Books: 2009

Seller ID: 2299086

ISBN: 1597801607

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Third printing. Front wrapper lightly bumped, wrapper edges very lightly rubbed. 2009 Trade Paperback. 454 pp. Sherlock Holmes is back! Sherlock Holmes, the world's first--and most famous--consulting detective, came to the world's attention more than 120 years ago through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels and stories. But Conan Doyle didn't reveal all of the Great Detective's adventures...Here are some of the best Holmes pastiches of the last 30 years, twenty-eight tales of mystery and the imagination detailing Holmes's further exploits, as told by many of today's greatest storytellers, includin...
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A Life of William Shakespeare

By: Adams, Joseph Quincy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1923

Seller ID: 2266251

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, light general wear, pages faintly toned. 1923 Hard Cover. xvi, 559 pp. Adams was descended from the Presidential family, and was the first appointed director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. William Shakespeare (/'?e?ksp??r/ SHAYK-speer; 26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616)[a] was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[2][3][4] He is often called England's national poet, and the Bard of Avon.[5][b] His extant works, including collaborations, consist of ...
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Oresteia

By: Aeschylus; Morshead, E.D.A.; Warner, Rex

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1961

Seller ID: 2274057

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Spine faded, slipcase edges toned. 1961 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. In the Oresteia - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, its spirit of struggle and regeneration is eternal.
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A Death in the Family

By: Agee, James

Price: $10.00

Publisher: McDowell, Obolensky: 1985

Seller ID: 2271540

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Modern reissue. Ink name on front endpaper, light edge wear. 1985 Hard Cover. A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began writing it in 1948, but it was not quite complete when he died in 1955. It was edited and released posthumously in 1957 by editor David McDowell. Agee's widow and children were left with little money after Agee's death and McDowell wanted to help them by publishing the work. Agee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958 for the novel.
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