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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 Argosy, May 1916

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, 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: New York, 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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Kurt Vonnegut We Could Have Saved the Earth but We Were Too Damned Cheap V-Neck T-Shirt, Medium, Black

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: .,

Seller ID: 2299630

Binding: Cloth

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.
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Kurt Vonnegut We Could Have Saved the Earth but We Were Too Damned Cheap V-Neck T-Shirt, Large, Maroon

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: .,

Seller ID: 2299631

Binding: Cloth

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.
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Wisdom: The Magazine of Knowledge and Education, Issue 26, Volume 3, Number 26, June 1958

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: California, Wisdom Society: 1958

Seller ID: 2306548

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers lightly rubbed. 1958 Magazine. Novelist Ernest Hemingway on cover. CONTENTS: Ernest Hemingway and the American Novel, the Motion Picture, the Great Outdoors, the Old Man and the Sea, From the Wisdom of; Living in This Age of Achievement; Webster--Man Who Wrote the Dictionary; How to Read a Dictionary; Intelligent Use of the Dictionary; Adventures in the Dictionary; How the Dictionary is Created; Webster's New International Dictionary; You Could Live to Be One Hundred; Birth of Jazz Music; Virtues of Humilitary; The Idealist and the Realist; Learning to Concentrate; Improving Your Read...
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Greek Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: An Exhibition Held in Connection with the XIIIth [13th] International Congress of Byzantine Studies

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford, Bodleian Library: 1966

Seller ID: 2306951

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1966 Soft Cover. Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1966. CONTENTS: Introduction; Bibliography; Greek Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: Uncial Manuscripts, Early Texts, Dated Manuscripts, Scholars' Copies, Greek in the West in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Illuminated Manuscripts, Liturgical Manuscripts, Slavonic Manuscripts, Bindings; Index to Manuscripts.
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Conradiana (Conradiana Volume VIII, Number 2: 1976)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Texas, Texas Tech University: 1976

Seller ID: 2307147

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Very nice copies. 1976 Soft Cover. 179-182 pp. Stapled once in upper left hand corner. A review of C. B. Cox's Joseph Conrad: The Modern Imagination, London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1974.
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Rose of Killarney

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, H.J. Wehman, Song Publisher:

Seller ID: 2304633

Binding: Single Sheet

Condition: Near Fine

Two small tears to bottom edge. Single sheet. Lyrics to the song Rose of Killarney. Copyright 1876 by J.L. Peters. Decorative boarder surrounds text.
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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: New York, 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 Americas 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 Americas poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. Extending chronol...
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The Chief's Daughter; or, The Settlers in Virginia (The New Series of Historical Tales Illustrating the Chief Events in Ecclesiastical History, British, American, and General, Number 3.)

By: N/A

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London, John Henry and James Parker: 1859

Seller ID: 2306597

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards soiled, rear joint starting, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, title page loose but included, hole along page edge of some pages. 1859 Small Hard Cover. 126 pp. 12mo. Colonial American fiction, featuring a frontispiece of Pocahontas saving the life of English settler John Smith. Sabin 12688.
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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: New York, 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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Essays.

By: A Barrister [Stephen, James Fitzhugh]

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder and Co.: 1862

Seller ID: 2305047

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Corners rubbed, minor transfer on front board, ink name and small bookplate on front endpapers. 1862 Hard Cover. iv, 335, 16 pp. 8vo. A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf's uncle, a graduate of Eton College, King's College, and Trinity College, Cambridge. These originally appeared in The Saturday Review. The author writes quite a bit about morality and virtue, and also reviews a work by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and assesses the philosophies of several other writers. Includes: Casuistry; Mr. Hallam; Conventional Morality; Philanthropy; The Wealth of Nature; John Bull; Physical Strength; Doing...
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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: New-York, 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: London, 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 White Linen Nurse

By: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, 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: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, 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.
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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: New York, 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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Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays

By: Acocella, Joan

Price: $8.00

Publisher: ., Pantheon: 2007

Seller ID: 2207082

ISBN: 0375424164

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Small tear to upper rear jacket. 2007 Hard Cover. From one of our most admired cultural critics (A marvelous, canny writerTerry Castle,London Review of Books), thirty-one essays on some of the most influential artists of our timewriters, dancers, choreographers, sculptorsand 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 Roth.
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After the War: A Novel

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2000

Seller ID: 2270610

ISBN: 0375406832

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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To See You Again: Stories

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 2270618

ISBN: 0394523350

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Return Trips: Stories

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1985

Seller ID: 2270620

ISBN: 0394536339

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine, June 1934 (Vol. XCVI, No. 6, [Whole] No. 576)

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: New York, 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: New York, 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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Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education: Democracy: An American Novel; Esther: A Novel; Mont Saint Michel and Chartres; The Education of Henry Adams; Poems (The Library of America Series Volume 14)

By: Adams, Henry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Library of America: 1983

Seller ID: 2305426

ISBN: 0940450127

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

5th printing. Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1246 pp. This Library of America volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful and original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil War to World War I. Now brought together for the first time in a single volume, these works show the many formsfiction, poetry, philosophical and historical speculation, autobiographyin which Adams gave expression to his vision of the meaning of the unsettling changes in American life and values. Each of the ...
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The Education of Henry Adams (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Adams, Henry

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1982

Seller ID: 2307021

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher's Notes from the Editors pamphlet laid in. Spine leans backward very slightly. 1982 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 530 pp. Full dark brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Preface by Henry Cabot Lodge, illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. 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 the...
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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: New York, 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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The Education of Henry Adams (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books 76)

By: Adams, Henry; Adams, James Truslow

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1931

Seller ID: 2305436

ISBN: 0394600762

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lacks jacket. 1931 Hard Cover. x, 517, [8] 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 publication had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize.
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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: New York, 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: New York, 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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