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By: Van Dyke, Henry
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1911
Seller ID: 2263026
Condition: Near Fine
Spine faded with small discolored spot to head. 1911 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 56 pp. Original dark green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Binding designed by Rome K. Richardson, with initials R R flanking design on front board. A Christmas story by the popular early 20th century author and clergyman. View more info
By: Van Dyke, Henry
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1912
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269670
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Boards lightly soiled, end matter lightly foxed, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1912 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 370 pp. 8vo. Margaret Armstrong binding design with her initials incorporated. Original blue cloth, gilt titles & decorations, top edge gilt. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Henry van Dyke (1852 – 1933) was an American author, educator, and clergyman. View more info
By: Van Dyke, Henry
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1908
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2277159
Condition: Very Good
1913 printing. Endpapers just beginning to split along hinges, ink gift note on front endpaper, brief pencil note following preface. 1908 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, [4], 325, [3] pp. 8vo. 7 1/2 x 5. Decorative trade binding, gilt titles, gold, red and green decorations, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and plates. CONTENTS: I. Travellers' Joy; II. Going up to Jerusalem; III. The Gates of Zion; IV. Mizpah and the Mount of Olives; V. An Excursion to Bethlehem and Hebron; VI. The Temple and the Sepulchre; VII. Jericho and Jordan; VIII. A Journey to Jerash; IX.... View more info
By: Van Dyke, Henry
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1898
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283606
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Spine and edges slightly faded, very faint discoloration to portion of front board. 1898 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 71, [5] pp. 8vo. Amy Richards trade binding with her initials incorporated. Original green cloth, gilt titles & decorations, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and plates by Corwin K. Tinson. A Christmas legend by the author known for his religiously themed fiction. View more info
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By: Verne, Jules; Brunetti, Mendor T.
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1978
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2298961
Condition: Near Fine
Spine faded, otherwise an excellent copy. 1978 Full-Leather. 472 pp. 8vo. Original blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Mendor T. Brunetti, full-page illustrations by Peter Fiore. Join Captain Nemo and the Nautilus as they journey into the deep in Jules Verne's classic science fiction tale. In an age that has seen the wildest speculations of science become reality, Jules Verne is regarded as both a technological prophet and one of the most exciting masters of imagination the world has ever known. Of all his ... View more info
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By: Verne, Jules; Frewer, Ellen E.
Price: $600.00 $480.00
Publisher: Scribner, Armstrong & Co.: 1878
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2291995
Condition: Good
First American edition. Tear along spine head, corners rubbed with some loss, hinges weak, one gathering sprung but holding. 1878 Hard Cover. x, [4], 370, [4] pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt & black titles, gilt decorations including images of planets and hot air balloon. Translated from Verne's original French by Ellen E. Frewer, with 96 engraved illustrations. One of Verne's lesser-known works, Hector Servadac (also titled Off on a Comet in some translations) tells the story of a group of people living on a piece of land that has broken away from Earth after the comet Gallia collides wit... View more info
By: Verne, Jules; Jules-Verne, Jean
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1970
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2281094
Condition: Fine
An exceptional copy. 1970 Full-Leather. xiii, [5], 206, [2] pp. Tall 8vo. Black full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Jean Jules-Verne, illustrations by Robert Shore. From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la terre à la lune) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a ... View more info
By: Vidal, Gore
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1981
Edition: Reissue
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2298972
Condition: Near Fine
Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. Publisher's Notes from the Editors pamphlet laid in. 1981 Full-Leather. 493, [3] pp. 8vo. Original black full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Map by Quentin Fiore. The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of t... View more info
By: Virgil (Publius Virgilus Maro); Dryden, John
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1973
Seller ID: 2286127
Condition: Near Fine
1973 genuine full leather edition released with the 100 Greatest series, not the later Franklin Library reissue which only had a leather spine, nor the faux full leather version. Minimal cosmetic wear. 464 pp. Black full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Virgil's epic poem, which remained unfinished upon his death, presented here in the verse translation of John Dryden. View more info
By: Virgil; Calverley, C. S.; Hadas, Moses
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1960
Seller ID: 2298757
ISBN: 1125142561
Condition: Very Good
Lacks sandglass. Includes publisher's slipcase. Edges of slipcase panels lightly toned. Spine lightly toned. 1960 Large Hardcover. xxvii, 96 pp. Includes publisher's slipcase Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire-a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics, or Eclogues.The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say t... View more info
By: Virgil; Dryden, John (Translator)
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1982
Seller ID: 2302577
Condition: Fine
A fine copy. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 425 pp. The Aeneid (/??ni??d/ ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aeneis [ae??ne??s]) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC,[1] that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter.[2] The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and hi... View more info
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: Editions de la Bonne Etoile: 1930
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 2117111
Condition: Very Good
Limited edition, #2374 of 2500. Undated, circa 1930. Front joint repaired, spine faded, ink name stamp on title page. 143 pp. 4to. Navy blue leather spine & corners, navy blue cloth boards, gilt titles & rules, marbled endpapers, color plates (some rather risque) by Berthomme Saint-Andre throughout. French text. L'Ingenu, written after Voltaire's most well-known work Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France. View more info
By: Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de; Aldington, Richard; Morand, Paul
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1977
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2284249
Condition: Very Good
Blank publisher's bookplate laid in. Spine bands and corners a bit scuffed. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xix, [1], 131, [3] pp. Tall 8vo. Dark grey full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington, with an introduction by Paul Morand. Color frontispiece and color and black-and-white illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he li... View more info
By: Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de; Aldington, Richard; Morand, Paul
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1977
Seller ID: 2285619
Condition: Very Good
Spine lightly rubbed, small smudge on top edge. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xix, [1], 131, [3] pp. Tall 8vo. Dark grey full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington, with an introduction by Paul Morand. Color frontispiece and color and black-and-white illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in the best of all possi... View more info
By: Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de; Aldington, Richard; Morand, Paul
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1977
Seller ID: 2291373
Condition: Near Fine
1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xix, [1], 131, [7] pp. Tall 8vo. Dark grey full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington, with an introduction by Paul Morand. Color frontispiece and color and black-and-white illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in the best of all possible worlds. On the surface a witty, bantering ta... View more info
By: Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet; Smollet, Tobias
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265127
Condition: Very Good
A few scuffs to gilt on front boards and page ridge. 1979 Hard Cover. 154, [4] pp. 8vo. Dark green leather spine, green cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, green ribbon marker bound in. Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in the best of all possible worlds. On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human sufferin... View more info
By: Vonnegut, Kurt
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1976
Seller ID: 2285668
Condition: Near Fine
First edition, preceding the Delacorte trade edition. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 256, [2] pp. 8vo. Light brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Wilbur Swain and his twin sister, Eliza, are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that their wealthy parents are forced to send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But behind their facade of idiocy, the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanced computers. View more info
By: Vonnegut, Kurt
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2298965
Condition: Fine
An exceptional copy. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 319, [1] pp. 8vo. Original dark green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Alan E. Cober. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate’s least known co-conspirator. View more info
By: Walton, Izaak; Lang, Andrew
Price: $125.00
Publisher: J.M. Dent and Company, at Aldine House: 1896
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2291116
Condition: Very Good
First thus. 1/4 inch tear to spine head, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1896 Hard Cover. lviii, [2], 319, [1] pp. 8vo. Original dark olive cloth, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations, top edge gilt. Includes all 21 original chapters by Isaak Walton, a new introduction and notes by Andrew Lang, and illustrations by Edmund Joseph Sullivan. The Compleat Angler was first published in 1653, but Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century. It is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse; 6 verses were quoted from John Dennys's 1613 work Secrets of Angli... View more info
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2286229
Condition: Near Fine
First edition, preceding the Random House trade edition. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxi, [1], 294, [4] pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of All the King's Men, who remains the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. View more info
By: Wells, H.G. [Herbert George]
Price: $225.00 $180.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 2010
Seller ID: 2268788
Condition: Near Fine
From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name and date (9/14/2011) in blue ink on front flyleaf, and a brief note on the copyright date stating when he began and finished the book (10/12/11, 10/17/11). 2010 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 342, [8] pp. 8vo. Full green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 scientific romance novel by the British author H. G. Wells. The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protag... View more info
By: Wells, H.G. [Herbert George]; Bergonzi, Bernard
Price: $60.00 $48.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1967
Seller ID: 2268781
Condition: Near Fine
From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name and date ('86) in black ink on front flyleaf. 1967 Full-Leather. xvii, [3], 164, [10] pp. Full dark brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. The word 'invisible' in the title is cleverly debossed instead of stamped in gilt like the rest of the title. The classic science fiction tale of a man who can turn himself invisible, with an introduction by Bernard Bergonzi and illustrations by Charles Mozley. View more info
By: Wharton, Edith; Mizener, Arthur
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1981
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2281097
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 Mirth quickly 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 soc... View more info
By: Whitman, Walt
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1977
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2294869
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. View more info
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang / The Easton Press: 1989
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2274878
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. View more info
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1909
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2290469
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 1909 Hard Cover. 225, [5] pp. 8vo. Grey cloth, color cameo on front board, green titles with green, yellow, and blue decorations, top edge gilt, decorated endpapers. Trade binding with initials TBH on front board. Color frontispiece and three tinted plates by Alice Barber Stephens, N.C. Wyeth also credited as an illustrator. Decorative borders on each page. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kinderga... View more info
By: Wilde, Oscar; Douglas, Lord Alfred; Jackson, Holbrook
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1945
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2261270
Condition: Near Fine
Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Special Publication: S24 insert laid in. Slipcase is very good - edges rubbed with minor chip from top edge of opening. 1945 Hard Cover. 51 pp. 8vo. Translated from the French by Lord Alfred Douglas, with a new introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Decorated and hand-illuminated by Valenti Angelo. Originally published in 1891 in French, and first translated into English in 1894. Oscar Wilde tells the tragic Biblical story of Salome in one act. An abridged version of the text was used for Richard Strauss's early 20th century opera. Despite initial ridicule b... View more info
By: Wilder, Thornton
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1976
Seller ID: 2285637
Condition: Near Fine
Edges of endpapers slightly faded. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 148 pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color illustrations by William Maughan. 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. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons: 1874
Seller ID: 2206713
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. View more info
By: Wood, Rev. J.G.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1875
Seller ID: 2289755
Condition: Good
Previously owned by Clyde Grange (labeled as number 33 in his library). Edge wear, spine repaired, bookplate inside front cover, small library stamp throughout. 1875 Hard Cover. 351, [1] pp. 8vo. Illustrations throughout the text. Original green cloth, black and gold design with cover depicting a lizard, beveled edges. CONTENTS: Introduction; Marine and Aquatic Trespassers: The Whales; Dolphins and Sirens; Seals; Reptilian Water Trespassers; Partial Water Trespassers: Carnivora; Roder Water Trespassers: The Beaver; Pachydermatous Water Trespassers: The Hippopotamus; Marsupial and Monotrematous... View more info
