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The Age of Innocence (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Wharton, Edith

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976

Seller ID: 2306800

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faded. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 408 pp. Original purple leather, gilt titles and decorations, silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Basis for the motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder. Illustrations by Barnett Plotkin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Whartons masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people 'dreaded scandal more than disease.' This is Newland Archers w...
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The House of Mirth (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Wharton, Edith; Mizener, Arthur

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2281097

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Edges lightly foxed. 1981 Full-Leather. x, [4], 294, [2] pp. Tall 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A literary sensation when it was published by Scribners in 1905,The House of Mirthquickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and beguiling Lily Bart and her ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of a heartless society...
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The Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann: Edited with a History of the Case [Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping]

By: Whipple, Sidney B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Notable Trials Library: 1989

Seller ID: 2309259

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Top page ridge scratched. 1989 Hard Cover. vii, 565 pp. This edition edited with a history of the case by Sidney B. Whipple, and a new introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. An account of the trial of the man accused of kidnapping the baby of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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Mapping the World: A History of Exploration

By: Whitfield, Peter

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2000

Seller ID: 2306051

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. A near fine hardcover in a fine slipcase. Fingerprint on half-title page. 2000 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 263 pp. A beautifully-illustrated book on the history of exploration, focusing mainly of European explorers, containing pictures of many beautiful maps and engravings. An edited and enlarged reprint of Whitfields New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. In this book Peter Whitfield concentrates on the intellectual context of exploration. How did explorers and their patrons understand their expanding world and their place in it? Wh...
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Leaves of Grass (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Whitman, Walt

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2294869

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

A few minor scuffs, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xli, [3], 527, [7] pp. 8vo. Dark green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Includes introduction to the original 1855 edition. Illustrated with woodcuts by Rockwell Kent. When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he rocked the literary world and forever changed the course of poetry. In subsequent editions, Whitman continued to revise and expand his poems.
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Leaves of Grass

By: Whitman, Walt

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2306798

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 536 pp. 8vo. Dark green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Text based on the 1892 'Deathbed Edition.' Illustrated with photographs of Whitman's America. When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he rocked the literary world and forever changed the course of poetry. In subsequent editions, Whitman continued to revise and expand his poems.
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The Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Whittier, John Greenleaf; Untermeyer, Louis

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1973

Seller ID: 2277133

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Minor wear to corners. 1973 Full-Leather. xvii, [5], 333, [3] pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer, and illustrations by R.J. Holden. A collection of poetry by the Quaker abolitionist best known for Snow-Bound.
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Image for The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America, in Twelve Volumes: Virginia and the Capital Region; Southern New England; The Mid-Atlantic States; Northern New England; The Deep South; The Great Lakes States; The Pacific States; The Rocky Mountain States; The Carolinas and the Appalachian States; The Desert States; Texas and the Arkansas River Valley; The Plains States

The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America, in Twelve Volumes: Virginia and the Capital Region; Southern New England; The Mid-Atlantic States; Northern New England; The Deep South; The Great Lakes States; The Pacific States; The Rocky Mountain States; The Carolinas and the Appalachian States; The Desert States; Texas and the Arkansas River Valley; The Plains States

By: Wiencek, Henry; Kennedy, Roger G.; Durham, Michael S.; Muse, Vance; Logan, William Bryant; Winckler, Suzanne; Ochshorn, Susan; Dunn, Jerry Camarillo; Hudson, Patricia L.; Ballard, Sandra L.; Gordon, Alice; White, Mel

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York / Norwalk, Connecticut, Stewart, Tabori & Chang / The Easton Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2274878

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Blank publisher bookplates laid in. A few minor scuffs to gilt on page ridges. 1989 Full-Leather. Complete in twelve volumes. 8vo. Original full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon markers bound in. Map of the United States highlighting the region of focus precedes text in each volume. A collection of regional histories commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution, featuring color photographs and black-and-white reproductions of historical photographs throughout.
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Our Town; The Skin of Our Teeth; The Matchmaker (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Wilder, Thornton

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1980

Seller ID: 2306879

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1980 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxi, 456 pp. Full green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Jim Campbell. Three plays in one volume, by the three-time Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright best known for Our Town, and also for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Includes:
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Pulitzer Prize 1928)

By: Wilder, Thornton

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976

Seller ID: 2307937

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 148 pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color illustrations by William Maughan, including a two-page spread frontispiece. Wilder's second novel, set in Lima, Peru, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. It is a series of interconnected narratives of the lives of several who die in a tragic bridge collapse.
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The Alcestiad, or, A Life in the Sun; with a Satyr Play, The Drunken Sisters (The First Edition Society)

By: Wilder, Thornton; Atkinson, Brooks

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977

Seller ID: 2306878

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. xxvii, 170 pp. Full forest green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Daniel Maffia. Two plays in one volume, by the three-time Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright best known for Our Town, and also for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
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Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Williams, William Carlos; Jarrell, Randall

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1984

Seller ID: 2306860

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faded, otherwise an excellent copy. 1984 Full-Leather. xxiii, [19], 204 pp. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with a portfolio of paintings by Charles Sheeler. This edition includes 25 poems written between 1950 and 1960 and also a substantial section from the long poem Asphodel, That Greeny Flower which W.H. Auden called one of the most beautiful love poems in the language. Among the greatest figures who have led the revolution in poetry in the 20th century, William Carlos Williams worked to ...
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From Death to Morning (The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers)

By: Wolfe, Thomas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2307042

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy. 1979 Full-Leather. 353 pp. Full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Author portrait by Dennis Lyall, illustrations by Uldis Klavins. A collection of short stories by the author of Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River; You Can't Go Home Again; etc. Includes: No Door; Death the Proud Brother; The Face of the War; Only the Dead Know Brooklyn; Dark in the Forest, Strange as Time; The Four Lost Men; Gulliver; The Bums at Sunset; One of the Girls in Our Party; The Far and the Near; In the Park; The Men ...
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The New Illustrated Natural History

By: Wood, J.G. [John George]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons: 1874

Seller ID: 2206713

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

A couple minor spots on front board, ink name and date on title page. 1874 Full-Leather. Beautiful full tree calf, extensive gilt decorations on spine and turn-ins, red leather spine label with gilt titles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A work of natural history by the author who popularized the field, illustrated with engravings throughout. Revised and adapted from J.G. Wood's earlier work 'Illustrated Natural History', originally published in 1853.
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The Caine Mutiny (Pulitzer Prize 1952)

By: Wouk, Herman

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978

Seller ID: 2307088

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Tiny blemish on front board. 1978 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 361 pp. Full blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Edward Vebell. The novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutiny and the hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American ficti...
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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats: Definitive Edition, with the Author's Final Revisions (The Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century) [William Butler]

By: Yeats, W.B. [William Butler]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2306799

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Minor scuff to gilt on page base. 1979 Full-Leather. xx, 522 pp. 8vo. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with the paintings of Anne Yeats. This collection includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and art t...
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The Girl in Scarlet [La Fortune des Rougon]

By: Zola, Emile

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, 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 Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [Every Man His Own Boswell] (Masterpieces of American Literature

By: [Holmes, Oliver Wendell]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, 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. 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, 1809 October 7, 1894) was an American physic...
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Tales of a Traveller

By: [Irving, Washington]; Crayon, Geoffrey

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, 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 the...
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The Plays and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, Volume I (The Franklin Library, The Great Books of the Western World)

By: [Shakespeare, William]; Clarke, William George; Wright, William Aldis

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978

Seller ID: 2279747

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

A fine copy. 1978 Full-Leather. 460 pp. Volume I only. Red leather with gilt decorations and gilt page ridges. Red slik moire endpapers, red ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by William Oakes. CONTENTS: The First Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Tragedy of King Richard the Third; The Comedy of Errors.
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A Day of Dedication: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Woodrow Wilson (The Library of the Presidents)

By: [Wilson, Woodrow]; Fried, Albert

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1988

Seller ID: 2274898

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. 1988 Full-Leather. 478 pp. 8vo. Original grey full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of presidential papers and speeches by Woodrow Wilson, spanning forty-six years.
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