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By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: American Tract Society: 1890
Seller ID: 2205132
Condition: Good
No jacket, no publisher date (circa 1890), faint smudge to rear wrapper, front and rear hinge starting, ink note to front endpaper. 96 pp. CONTENTS: Beautiful ponies; Mr. Paul Jarvie; The summer storm; A visit to the laurels; The misery of discontent, and the pleasure of contentment; Changes and more changes. KEYWORDS: A LITTLE MORE LITERATURE View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Sheldon & Company: 1867
Seller ID: 2205133
Condition: Good
Engraved frontispiece and one engraved plate in text. No jacket, faint smudges to boards, pencil name to second page, rear endpaper crease. 1867 Small Hard Cover. 108 pp. 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. KEYWORDS: LITTLE AGNES LUXURY OF DOING GOOD LITERATURE View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Crowell Publishing Company: 1925
Seller ID: 2260201
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... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Charles J. Peterson: 1842
Seller ID: 2276008
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Frank A. Munsey Company: 1915
Seller ID: 2298320
Condition: Good
Stain across top and bottom edges, two pages laid in (one is the front wrapper of the August issue of Argosy). 1915 Soft Cover. CONTENTS: A Full Book-Length Novel Complete: Red Robin; Two Serial Stories: Made at Sea - The Desert Crucible by Zane Grey; Six Short Stories: Froth of Dreams - Hawkins-Heat - Attorney for the Jewel - Leidy Kiefer's Spite Fence - In the Discard - Trapped; The Log-Book. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Frank A. Munsey Company: 1916
Seller ID: 2298322
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: McLoughlin Bros: 1897
Seller ID: 2299098
Condition: Good
Spine taped, light stain wrappers rubbed. 1897 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. Printed on linen. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $8.00
Seller ID: 2299630
Condition: Fine
New. Medium, black v-neck T-shirt. Blank front. Back: We Could Have Saved the Earth but We Were Too Damned Cheap.--Kurt Vonnegut. 100% cotton. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $8.00
Seller ID: 2299631
Condition: Fine
New. Large, maroon v-neck T-shirt. Blank front. Back: We Could Have Saved the Earth but We Were Too Damned Cheap.--Kurt Vonnegut. 100% cotton. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Grange Books: 2007
Seller ID: 2300596
ISBN: 0755439716
Condition: Very Good
Includes publisher's box. Two joints of box panels torn. 2007 Small Hard Cover. Ten volume set. Each red volume is beautifully crafted, featuring gilded edges, god stamping on the cover, and a ribbon marker. Enclosed in a handsome case with hinged top for easy accessibility. A wonder and unique gift that includes the works of Wordsworth, Whitman, Poe, Longfellow, Shelly, Keats, Dickinson, Donne, Byron, and Burns. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Luther Roby: 1843
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 1953827
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $8.00
Publisher: University of Tulsa: 1996
Seller ID: 2295571
Condition: Very Good
Front wrapper hole-punched, minor ink marginalia. 1996 Trade Paperback. CONTENTS: James Joyce: The Way He Lives Now, by Ron Bush; Consuming Investments: Joyce's Ulysses, by Lawrence Rainey; That Word Known to All Men in Ulysses: A Reconsideration, by Richard J. Finneran; Making Much of Nothing, by Theoharis Constantine Theoharis; John Henry Newman and the Education of Stephen Dedalus, by Jill Muller; Current JJ Checlist (74), by William S. Brockman; Poems: James Joyce and I, by Suman Gupta; Illustrations: Dazibao; Stella!, by Simon Loekle. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262955
ISBN: 0940450607
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... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2279154
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... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: 1965
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2289814
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Freeman Hunt & Co.: 1837
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2294763
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Cafe Crashers: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201717
ISBN: 1500459720
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Fine. 2013 Trade Paperback. 177 pp. Volume 1: This collection of eighteen reimagined fairytales features new takes on such classic stories as Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin, and runs the genre spectrum from comedy and romance to horror and steampunk. Authors and artists include: Matt Anderson (aka Remi Anderson), Caleb Bouchard, Kathryn Ann Metzger, Laura Metzger, Ethan Monsour, Christina Lynn Pieretti, Sarh Wellman. Keywords: TWICE-TOLD TALES ANTHOLOGY SHORT STORIES FICTION FANTASY FAIRY TALES View more info
By: 'One of the Fools' [Tourgee, Albion Winegar]
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert: 1879
Seller ID: 2296934
Condition: Good
Boards lightly toned, corners bumped, front free endpaper missing. 1879 Hard Cover. 361, [4] pp. 8vo. An anti-racism allegory set in the post-Civil War United States, in which a former Union colonel travels in North Carolina and encounters the Ku Klux Klan. Tourgee was a Radical Republican, and an activist against racism both socially and institutionally - in his newspaper column A Bystander's Notes, he encouraged resistance to segregation laws, and was chosen as lead attorney for Homer Plessy in the famous case of Plessy v. Ferguson. View more info
By: A Citizen of the West [Owen, Robert Dale]; [Mackay, Robert W. Stuart]
Price: $500.00
Publisher: George Dearborn: 1837
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2289646
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. View more info
By: A'Beckett, G.A. [Gilbert Abbott]
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Bradbury, Evans, and Co.: 1864
Seller ID: 2283682
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. View more info
By: Abbey, Edward; Macrae, John
Price: $5.00
Publisher: John Macrae / Owl Book: 1996
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2295288
ISBN: 0805031324
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... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Century Co.: 1913
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2301000
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... View more info
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By: Abbott, Jacob
Price: $25.00
Publisher: D. Lothrop & Co.: 1858
Seller ID: 2203405
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... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Mason Brothers: 1856
Seller ID: 2301435
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. View more info
By: Acocella, Joan
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Pantheon: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2207082
Condition: Very Good
Small tear to upper rear jacket. 2007 Hard Cover. From one of our most admired cultural critics (“A marvelous, canny writer”––Terry Castle, London Review of Books), thirty-one essays on some of the most influential artists of our time––writers, dancers, choreographers, sculptors––and two saints of all time, Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene. Among the people discussed: Italo Svevo, Stefan Zweig, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Joseph Roth, Vaslav Nijinsky, Lincoln Kirstein, Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Susan Sontag, and Philip... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2270610
ISBN: 0375406832
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket very faintly toned. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305 pp. Alice Adams is considered to be one of the major American writers of the last thirty years. Her stories appeared in The New Yorker from 1969 and 1995, as well as in twenty-two O. Henry Awards collections and several volumes of Best American Short Stories. After the War is her eleventh and final novel--the brilliant coda to a brilliant career. After the War begins where her acclaimed novel A Southern Exposure ended: in the small Southern town of Pinehill during World War II. With all... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270613
ISBN: 0394568249
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps lightly toned. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 257 pp. A group of friends who have known one another for decades grapples with the realization that they are growing old, attempts to come to terms with the past, and searches for new possibilities in their lives. View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270618
ISBN: 0394523350
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 304 pp. Tells the stories of a woman distraught over the loss of her husband's diaries, a teachers's unexpected attraction towards a student, and an artist's reevaluation of her life and accomplishments. View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270620
ISBN: 0394536339
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Top edge and endpapers faintly foxed, jacket lightly toned with faint crease on front flap corner, spine cloth a bit discolored along edges. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 195 pp. The author writes in these stories of people in motion, traveling in search of friends, culture, renewed engagement with life--people seeking the magic of a new place or traveling to places of childhood to put the past to rest. View more info
By: Adams, Charles Francis & John & Abigail
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press: 1875
Seller ID: 2278326
Condition: Near Fine
Bookplate of William Whitman on front endpaper, with a couple ink notations that appear to reference his personal library's organizational system. 1875 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxii, 424 pp. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece of Abigail Adams. Transcriptions of 284 letters between future President John Adams and his wife Abigail, written during the American Revolution, with a brief biographical sketch of Abigail. Index follows text. View more info
