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John Brown's Body: A Poem

By: Benet, Stephen Vincent; Freeman, Douglass Southall

Price: $8.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1948

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2261480

Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass. Slipcase repaired, rear hinge weakening, owner bookplate on front endpaper, spine and slipcase edge toned. 1948 Hard Cover. xvi, [2], 454 pp. 8vo. Introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman, fourteen color illustrations by John Steuart Curry. One of the most widely read poems of our time -- a masterful retelling of the American Civil War. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898, Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, Un... View more info

Timescape (The Masterpieces of Science Fiction)

By: Benford, Gregory; Hartwell, David G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2281111

Publisher's insert laid in. 1989 Full-Leather. 412 pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by David G. Hartwell, illustrations by Bob Eggleton. Winner of the 1980 Nebula Award, Timescape has since become a classic of the science fiction genre, combining hard science, bold speculation, and human drama—a challenging and triumphant tale told by a master storyteller. 1998. Earth is falling apart, on... View more info

Tales of Soldiers & Civilians (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Bierce, Ambrose; Jackson, Joseph Henry

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1971

Seller ID: 2278055

A few tiny spots on page ridges. 1971 Full-Leather. xxx, 222 pp. 8vo. Grey full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson, illustrations by Paul Landacre. A collection of short stories set during the American Civil War, by the author best known for The Devil's Dictionary, and for his mysterious disappearance in Mexico. View more info

The Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio. in Three Volumes. [Decameron]

By: Boccaccio, Giovanni

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Guglielmo Pickering: 1825

Seller ID: 2281490

Edges rubbed, spine labels mostly absent, minor splits to spine heads and feet along joints, first gathering of volume 1 (free endpaper, flyleaf, and half-title page) loose but included. An attractive set that could be beautiful with some minor restorations. 1825 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in three volumes. cxxxv, [1], 228, [2]; [229]-586, [2]; [587]-967, [3] pp. 8vo. Full sheep, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and decorations,... View more info

The Decameron

By: Boccaccio, Giovanni; McWilliam, G.H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2265087

Slight wrinkle to a few pages. 1979 Hard Cover. xxxi, 738 pp. Black leather spine, grey cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, grey ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with woodcuts by Jose Narro. Boccaccio's 14th century collection of 100 stories, controversial at the time for its inclusion of erotic themes, and important today for the details it provides about life in Italy at the time. View more info

Planet of the Apes

By: Boulle, Pierre; Fielding, Xan (Translator)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 2010

Seller ID: 2268790

From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name and date (6/8/2010) in black ink on front flyleaf. 248, [4] pp. 8vo. Full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece by Dennis Lyall. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Boulle's classic 1963 novel differs in several ways from the 1968 movie and its various spinoffs. While the bare-bones story is familiar—a... View more info

The Life of General William T. [Tecumseh] Sherman

By: Boyd, James P.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Publishers' Union: 1891

Seller ID: 2266387

Minimal wear to corners, minor loss of gilt from spine and front board, small light spot on rear board. 1891 Hard Cover. 608 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, black & gilt decorations, black titles, decorated endpapers. Frontispiece of Sherman, illustrations, including maps of Vicksburg & Port Hudson and Chattanooga & Vicinity, throughout text. William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He ser... View more info

Chronicle of Flight: A Year-By-Year History of Aviation

By: Boyne, Walter J.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Publications International, Ltd. / The Easton Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2277127

Rebound by Easton Press in burgundy leather with photographic picture plate mounted on front board, gilt titles, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Blank publisher bookplate laid in. 2003 Full-Leather. 512 pp. A thorough history of flight from the earliest concepts to the present day, illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. View more info

The Fourth President: A Life of James Madison (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Brant, Irving

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1985

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2274891

Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. Minor scuff on page base. 1985 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. [viii], 681, [3] pp. 8vo. Original full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. A one-volume biography of the fourth president of the United States, adapted from the six-volume biography Brant spent twenty years writing. View more info

The Threepenny Opera (The Collector's Library of Famous Editions)

By: Brecht, Bertolt; Vesey, Desmond; Bentley, Eric

Price: $40.00

Publisher: The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut: 1993

Seller ID: 2144207

Publisher's Notes from the Archives insert laid in. 1993 Full-Leather. 155 pp. Tall 8o. Brown full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, coral ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the original German with the English lyrics and a new introduction by Eric Bentley. Color lithographic frontispiece and illustrations by Jack Levine. Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the T... View more info

The Physiology of Taste; or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

By: Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme; Fisher, M.F.K.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1949

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2261259

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number 6N laid in. Spine faded with small spot towards top edge, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1949 Hard Cover. xvi, 471 pp. 8vo. Translated into English from the original French by M.F.K. Fisher, with annotations. Illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book about food ever written. First published in France in 1825 and continuously in print ever since, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's mas... View more info

Image for Works of The Sisters Bronte, in Six Volumes: Jane Eyre; Shirley; Villette; The Professor, Emma, and Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, and the Rev. Patrick Bronte, Etc.; Wuthering Heights & Agnes Grey; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Bronte, Emily; Bronte, Charlotte

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2275974

A fine copy. 1979 Full-Leather. xii, 401 pp. Blue leather-bound with gilt decor on boards and gilt page ridges. Illustrated by Alan Reingold. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It was written between October 1845 and June 1846.[1] Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charl... View more info

Wuthering Heights

By: Bronte, Emily; Winterich, John T.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2205692

1980 Full-Leather. xxx, 331 pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, purple ribbon marker bound in. Lithographs by Barnett Freedman. Includes publisher's preface, 'How This Book Came to Be by John T. Winterich, biographical notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, editor's preface to the 1850 edition, and family tree of characters. The classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern Engl... View more info

What Mad Universe (The Masterpieces of Science Fiction)

By: Brown, Fredric; Gunn, James

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1986

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2281118

An exceptional copy. 1986 Full-Leather. [xvi], 190, [2] pp. 8vo. Blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by James Gunn, illustrations by Frank Mayo. A satirical science fiction novel which Anthony Boucher and Jesse McComas agreed was the best SF novel of 1949. View more info

Shakespeare [William]

By: Brown, Ivor

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Collins: 1963

Edition: 4th Printing

Seller ID: 2263987

4th printing. Spine faded. 1963 Full-Leather. 352, [4] pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound included his/her monogram on the corner of the front board: O.C.S. A biography of the immortal playwright and poet often simply called The Bard. View more info

Image for The Self-Interpreting Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, together with the Apocrypha, Concordance and Marginal References, Conformable to the Standard of the American Bible Society, with an Introduction; Illustrations; a Summary of the Several Books; an Analysis of Each Chapter; a Paraphrase and Evangelical Reflections upon the Most Important Passages; and Numerous Explanatory Notes; and the Text More Fully Elucidated by Many Thousand Explanatory and Critical Notes, and Introduction Observations on Each Book; also a Complete Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Including All Important Words, Illustrated by More Than Six Hundred Fine Engravings and Many Maps. [New Illustrated Edition of Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible (with) Watts' Psalms of David in Metre (with) An Introduction to the Right Understanding of the Word of God (with) Introduction to the Study of the Bible (with) An Illuminated Marriage Certificate. An Illuminated Lord's Prayer; also an Illuminated Ten Commandments. a Register of Marriages, Birthds, Deaths, and Memoranda. A Photographic Album with Sixteen Openings for Portraits]

The Self-Interpreting Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, together with the Apocrypha, Concordance and Marginal References, Conformable to the Standard of the American Bible Society, with an Introduction; Illustrations; a Summary of the Several Books; an Analysis of Each Chapter; a Paraphrase and Evangelical Reflections upon the Most Important Passages; and Numerous Explanatory Notes; and the Text More Fully Elucidated by Many Thousand Explanatory and Critical Notes, and Introduction Observations on Each Book; also a Complete Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Including All Important Words, Illustrated by More Than Six Hundred Fine Engravings and Many Maps. [New Illustrated Edition of Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible (with) Watts' Psalms of David in Metre (with) An Introduction to the Right Understanding of the Word of God (with) Introduction to the Study of the Bible (with) An Illuminated Marriage Certificate. An Illuminated Lord's Prayer; also an Illuminated Ten Commandments. a Register of Marriages, Birthds, Deaths, and Memoranda. A Photographic Album with Sixteen Openings for Portraits]

By: Brown, John; Cooke, Henry; Rawson, A.L. (Albert Leighton)

Price: $225.00

Publisher: American Bible Publishing Co.: 1880

Seller ID: 2263373

Leather rubbed and dried along spine edges, split beginning at base of front joint, lower clasp missing, text pages somewhat fragile and lightly toned. 1880 Full-Leather. viii, [9]-130; [4], [1]-8; 1-1059, [1]; [10], [1]-78, [24]; 1063-1379, [1]; 1-10, [12], 1-60, [2], 1-23, [1] pp. Tall 8vo. A nicely decorated pulpit Bible with debossed boards, gilt titles and decorations, including gilt turn-ins. Numerous illustrations throughout reproduced from works by artists such a... View more info

California Missions: A Guide to the Historic Trails of the Padres

By: Brown, Karl F.; Newcomb, Rexford (Foreword)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., New York: 1939

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 1836429

First edition. Small light stain on base of rear board, pencil gift note on front endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. 64 pp. Original red cloth, elaborate gilt decorations & titles, black & white photographs mounted on front board. A collection of seventy-eight photographs of churches, chapels, and other elements of twenty-three California missions, with a map showing their locations, and a timeline in order of their founding. View more info

The Ring and the Book (The Heritage Press)

By: Browning, Robert; Dowden, Edward

Price: $7.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1949

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2261260

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number 1N laid in. Spine faded, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1949 Hard Cover. xxii, 690 pp. 8vo. Introduction by Edward Dowden, illustrated with engravings by Carl Schultheiss. The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem of 21,000 lines written by Robert Browning. It was published in four installments from 1868 to 1869. The book tells the story of a murder trial in Rome in 1698, whereby an impoverished nobleman, ... View more info

Stand on Zanzibar (The Masterpieces of Science Fiction)

By: Brunner, John; Brin, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1987

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2281116

Publisher's insert laid in. 1987 Full-Leather. [xxiv], 505, [9] pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by David Brin, illustrations by Vincent DiFate. Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a coun... View more info

Image for Footprints of the World's History: An Encyclopedia of the Wonderful, the Curious and the Beautiful, as Recorded in the Historical Literature of Europe and America, from the Earliest Eras to the Present Time. The Progress of the Human Race Reflected in the Choicest Literature of All Ages. Embracing Strange Incidents, Thrilling Descriptions, and Remarkable Facts in the Lives of Celebrated Historical Characters, Rulers of Nations, Great Generals and Their Battles, Heroes in Morals and Religion, and Leaders in the World's Progress

Footprints of the World's History: An Encyclopedia of the Wonderful, the Curious and the Beautiful, as Recorded in the Historical Literature of Europe and America, from the Earliest Eras to the Present Time. The Progress of the Human Race Reflected in the Choicest Literature of All Ages. Embracing Strange Incidents, Thrilling Descriptions, and Remarkable Facts in the Lives of Celebrated Historical Characters, Rulers of Nations, Great Generals and Their Battles, Heroes in Morals and Religion, and Leaders in the World's Progress

By: Bryan, William S.; Ridpath, John Clark

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Historical Publishing Company: 1891

Seller ID: 2159445

Binding repaired, edges rubbed, portion of frontispiece tissue guard foxed. 1891 Hard Cover. xl, 608 pp. 4to. Illustrated with 250 historical and miscellaneous engravings, reproductions of ancient prints, and images by great artists, including 8 full color plates of important world events, and 16 half-tone steel engravings. Color plates include: Nelson's Last Battle; Waterloo; Battle of Bunker Hill; An Old-Time Sea Fight. (The Constitution and Guerriere); Gen. Jackson's ... View more info

The Poems of William Cullen Bryant, Collected and Arranged by the Author. in Three Volumes.

By: Bryant, William Cullen

Price: $125.00

Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.: 1871

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2263989

Spines a bit toned, ink name and date on front flyleaf of each volume. 1871 Half-Leather. x, [2], 296, [2]; vi, [2], 286, [4]; 222, [4] pp. 12mo. Half leather, gilt titles, rules, and decorations, marbled pages ridges, boards, and endpapers. A collection of verse by the popular American Romantic poet. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) was an American Romantic poet and journalist. He was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, the secon... View more info

All Men Are Brothers (Shui Hu Chuan)

By: Buck, Pearl S.; Yutang, Lin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1948

Seller ID: 2261911

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number 9M laid in. Spine faded, slipcase edges toned, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1948 Hard Cover. xxix, [1], 688 pp. Translated from the Chinese by Pearl S. Buck, with an introduction by Lin Yutang, an author's preface by Shih Naian of Tung-Tu, and a translator's preface. Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Also known as Water Margin, Outlaws of the Marsh or The Marshes of Mount Liang, this is one of the Four Great Classi... View more info

Image for Story of the Wild West and Camp Fire Chats: Being the Complete and Authentic History of the Great Heroes of the Western Plains, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, Kit Carson, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, and Generals Crooks, Miles and Custer

Story of the Wild West and Camp Fire Chats: Being the Complete and Authentic History of the Great Heroes of the Western Plains, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, Kit Carson, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, and Generals Crooks, Miles and Custer

By: Buffalo Bill (Cody, William F.)

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Historical Publishing Company: 1888

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2207557

First edition. Hinges neatly repaired, ink gift note dated Christmas 1900 on front flyleaf. 1888 Hard Cover. xvi, 766 pp. 8vo. A collection of sketches of the lives of notable pioneers and frontiersmen of the American West, illustrated with engravings throughout. Including also Sitting Bull, Geronimo and many other Famous Frontiersmen, Indian Fighters and Great Indian Chiefs. The Complete Story of the Settlement of the Great West and the Bravery, Fortitude and Daring of ... View more info

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