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Paul Jones: Founder of the American Navy - A History, in Two Volumes

By: Buell, Augustus C.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribners Sons: 1902

Seller ID: 2292849

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

1902 printing. Spine and edges a bit rubbed. xv, [1], 328, [6]; vii, [1], 379, [5] pp. Brown leather spine and corners, marbled boards and endpapers, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece of Paul Jones in first volume, etched portrait frontispiece in second volume. Also includes a map of the British Isles, an outboard profile of the Bon Homme Richard, a plan of the battle of the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis, and a facsimile of an letter from Paul Jones to George Washington.
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Image for The Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature 33 Volume Set: The Master and Margarita; Stories I & II; The Cherry Orchard and Other Plays; The Brothers Karamazov I & II; Crime and Punishment; The House of the Dead; The Idiot; Poor Folk / The Gambler; The Possessed I & II; Letters from the Underworld; Dead Souls; Taras Bulba; Virgin Soil; Oblomov; The Spy; The Artamonov Business; Foma Gordyeeff; Through Russia; Tales; A Hero of Our Time; Selected Tales; The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories / Queen of Spades; The Golovlyov Family; The First Circle; The Cossacks / The Raid; Anna Karenina I & II; Resurrection; Smoke; Fathers and Sons / Liza; The Hunting Sketches

The Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature 33 Volume Set: The Master and Margarita; Stories I & II; The Cherry Orchard and Other Plays; The Brothers Karamazov I & II; Crime and Punishment; The House of the Dead; The Idiot; Poor Folk / The Gambler; The Possessed I & II; Letters from the Underworld; Dead Souls; Taras Bulba; Virgin Soil; Oblomov; The Spy; The Artamonov Business; Foma Gordyeeff; Through Russia; Tales; A Hero of Our Time; Selected Tales; The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories / Queen of Spades; The Golovlyov Family; The First Circle; The Cossacks / The Raid; Anna Karenina I & II; Resurrection; Smoke; Fathers and Sons / Liza; The Hunting Sketches

By: Bulgakov, Mikhail; Chekhov, Anton; Dostoevesky, Fyodor; Gogol, Nikolay; Goncharov, Ivan; Gorky, Maxim; Kuprin, Alexander; Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich; Leskov, Nikolai; Pushkin, Alexander; Shchedrin; Solzhenitsyn, Alexander; Tolstoy, Leo; Turgenev, Ivan

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Geneva, Heron Books: 1972

Seller ID: 2304550

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Overall very good. Edges of some volumes lightly foxed, a couple volumes are beginning to split along joints and have minor loss from spine head and foot. 1972 Hard Cover. 33 volumes uniformly bound in red faux leather with gilt titles and elaborate decorations, gilt decorated endpapers, yellow cloth bookmarks bound in. A decorative collection of some of the finest Russian novels ever published, rendered into English by various translators including Constance Garnett and Natalie Duddington, with frontispiece illustrations in each volume. Includes: The Master and Margarita; Stories I & II; The ...
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Image for The Doctrine of the Law & Grace Unfolded: or, A Discourse touching the Law and Grace. The Nature of the one, and the Nature of the other: Shewing what they are, as they are the two Covenants; and likewise who they be, and what their Conditions are, that be under either of these two Covenants. Wherein For the better Understanding of the Reader, there is several Questions answered, touching the Law and Grace, very easy to be read, and as easy to be understood, by those that are the Sons of Wisdom, the Children of the second Covenant.

The Doctrine of the Law & Grace Unfolded: or, A Discourse touching the Law and Grace. The Nature of the one, and the Nature of the other: Shewing what they are, as they are the two Covenants; and likewise who they be, and what their Conditions are, that be under either of these two Covenants. Wherein For the better Understanding of the Reader, there is several Questions answered, touching the Law and Grace, very easy to be read, and as easy to be understood, by those that are the Sons of Wisdom, the Children of the second Covenant.

By: Bunyan, John

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Boston, J. Draper for D. Henchman, at his Shop in Cornhil: 1742

Seller ID: 2289845

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fair

Third edition, first state, with 'Cornhil' in imprint (Evans 4905). Boards rubbed, leather drying, light stained with minor transfer throughout, rear board split horizontally but still whole, ink name on endpapers. 1742 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. x, 214, p. 215 mislabeled 115, [1] pp. 12mo. Leather over wooden boards. Originally published in 1659, preceding Bunyan's well-known The Pilgrim's Progress by nearly twenty years.
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Image for The Pilgrim's Progress, From This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream [with] A Life of Bunyan by Himself, or Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

The Pilgrim's Progress, From This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream [with] A Life of Bunyan by Himself, or Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

By: Bunyan, John; Southey, Robert

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, American Tract Society: 1865

Seller ID: 2286768

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

3 inch tear along rear joint, minor split to cloth at top of front joint, edges faded, lightly foxed throughout, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1865 Hard Cover. 348, [4] pp. 8vo. Purple cloth, gilt titles and decorations, engraved frontispiece and illustrations. Pilgrim's Progress bound together with A Life of Bunyan. Religious allegory by John Bunyan, at one time second only to the Bible in popularity. It is a symbolic vision of the pilgrimage through life. The first and best-known book, published in 1678, in which the character Christian travels on the road to salvation from the City o...
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The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream... (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Bunyan, John; Venables, Edmund; Peacock, Mab

Price: $35.00

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

Seller ID: 2306796

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faded, a couple small scuffs to gilt on top edge. 1976 Full-Leather. 381, [5] pp. 8vo. Original full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, woodcut illustrations (unattributed, but initialed HO). Religious allegory by John Bunyan, at one time second only to the Bible in popularity. It is a symbolic vision of the pilgrimage through life. The first and best-known book, published in 1678, in which the character Christian travels on the road to salvation from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, is presented as a dream. W...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1911

Seller ID: 2199981

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Pages toned, original tissue guard loose but included, front hinge weak, ink on front endpaper. 1911 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1911 reprint. 290 pp. Original cream cloth hardcover boards with light green & yellow design and golden gilt text and design accents on cover & spine. Illustrations by Reginald Birch. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frances Hodgson Burnett, (November 24, 1849 - October 29, 1924) was an English American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1887

Seller ID: 2294183

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition, first state (includes DeVinne imprint). Front hinge weakening, ink stamp on front endpaper, light stain to edges of rear endpapers. 1887 Hard Cover. xi, [1], 209, [1] pp, 16 page terminal publisher ad. 8 1/2 x 7. Author's first children's novel. Original brown cloth, red, black, and gold designs on front cover and spine, gilt titles, brown endpapers. Frontispiece and 25 other illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. Little Lord Fauntleroy is the first children's novel written by EnglishAmerican playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was originally published as a serial in ...
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Roosevelt, in Two Volumes: The Lion and the Fox; The Soldier of Freedom (The Library of the Presidents) [Franklin Delano Roosevelt / FDR]

By: Burns, James MacGregor

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1985

Seller ID: 2305472

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher's Collector's Notes and blank publisher bookplate pamphlets laid in. Minimal cosmetic wear. 1985 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 722 pp. 8vo. Original blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. The Lion and the Fox is [t]he authoritative study of Roosevelt's preparation for and conduct of his first two terms as president, when domestic affairs demanded most of his attention. This remains the definitive book about the most influential American politician of the 20th century, with many penetrating insights in...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns; with Memoir, Prefatory Notes, and a Complete Marginal Glossary.

By: Burns, Robert

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Glasgow, John S. Marr: 1865

Seller ID: 2207837

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

No date, circa 1865. Rebound some time ago in full morocco with gilt titles and decorations, as well as blind-stamped devices in the spine compartments and at the board corners, original marbled endpapers retained. Possibly a personalized binding -- 'ELLA' appears in gilt at the base of the spine. Boards lightly smudged, front and end matter foxed and lightly stained, pencil owner information on front flyleaf ('Ms William W. Wilsom & Cos Book, Meadville, Crawford County, Penn'a'). 597 pp. 16mo. A collection of the verse of Robert Burns, with marginal translations of numerous instances of Scott...
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Image for The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in Twelve Volumes (Library Edition) [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights]

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in Twelve Volumes (Library Edition) [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights]

By: Burton, R.F. [Richard Francis]; Smithers, Leonard C.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, H.S. Nichols & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 2282238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First Smithers edition, also called the Library Edition (Penzer p. 117-123). Minor cosmetic wear, ink name on front endpaper of each volume, front hinge of first volume just beginning to weaken. 1894 Hard Cover. Complete in twelve volumes, a reissue of the 1885 Benares edition (which was printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only), edited by Leonard C. Smithers. 8vo. According to the preface, In Lady Burton's edition, which was a reprint of the first ten volumes only of the original issue, it was thought advisable to omit no fewer than 215 pages; in this edition, which com...
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Image for The Arabian Nights Entertainments and the Notes Upon Them [Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar the Sultan from the Execution of a Vow He Had Made to Avenge the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness; and Containing a Better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations Than is to Be Met with in Any Edition Hitherto Published; Because the Text is One which Richard Burton Himself Desired to Own: The Definitive and All-Inclusive Burton Translation with the Addition of the Notes Upon the Text Prepared by Those Scholars Who Had Previously Translated the Text into English from the Arabic, Notably Henry Torrens & Edward Lane & John Payne]

The Arabian Nights Entertainments and the Notes Upon Them [Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar the Sultan from the Execution of a Vow He Had Made to Avenge the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness; and Containing a Better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations Than is to Be Met with in Any Edition Hitherto Published; Because the Text is One which Richard Burton Himself Desired to Own: The Definitive and All-Inclusive Burton Translation with the Addition of the Notes Upon the Text Prepared by Those Scholars Who Had Previously Translated the Text into English from the Arabic, Notably Henry Torrens & Edward Lane & John Payne]

By: Burton, Richard; Torrens, Henry; Lane, Edward; Payne, John

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1954

Seller ID: 2271630

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal cosmetic wear. 1954 Full-Leather. xi, [3], 674, plus unpaginated notes section. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Comprises several versions of translation and includes illustrations by Arthur Szyk.
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The Way of All Flesh

By: Butler, Samuel; Dreiser, Theodore

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2205695

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

1980 Full-Leather. xxx, 588 pp. 8vo. Dark green full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, green ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser, illustrations by Robert Ward Johnson. The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents a relaxation from the religious outlook from a Calvinistic approach, which is presented as harsh. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it...
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Image for A Zigzag [Zig-Zag] Journey in the Sunny South; or, Wonder Tales of Early American History. A Visit to the Scenes and Associations of the Early American Settlements in the Southern States and the West Indies.

A Zigzag [Zig-Zag] Journey in the Sunny South; or, Wonder Tales of Early American History. A Visit to the Scenes and Associations of the Early American Settlements in the Southern States and the West Indies.

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat: 1887

Seller ID: 1864936

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed with loss from spine & corners, front free endpaper removed, hinges loosening. 1887 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 320 pp. Original color-illustrated paper over boards, illustrated endpapers, engravings throughout text. Late 19th century travel writing, part of The Zig-Zag Series, this volume focusing on journeys in the American South and the West Indies.
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $2,250.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1965

Seller ID: 2263973

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #285 of 500, signed & numbered by Capote on colophon, which states 'Of the first edition of In Cold Blood five hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound.' Lacks slipcase issued with this edition, but is only the more attractive for it (the slipcase was a rather plain red paper over cardboard). 1965 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 343 pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full brown morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound include...
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Death in the Long Grass

By: Capstick, Peter Hathaway

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press / The Buckingham Mint: 1977

Seller ID: 2304430

ISBN: 0312186134

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #681 of 5000 copies, hand-numbered and signed by author on limitation page. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 297 pp. Maroon full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Black-and-white photographs throughout text. Few men can say they have known Africa as Peter Hathaway Capstick has know it -- leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And...
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Death in the Dark Continent

By: Capstick, Peter Hathaway

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press / The Buckingham Mint: 1983

Seller ID: 2304431

ISBN: 0312186150

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #681 of 5000 copies, hand-numbered and signed by author on limitation page. An exceptional copy. 1983 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [3], 238 pp. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Black-and-white photographs throughout text. Critically acclaimed as a master of adventure writing for Death in the Long Grass and Death in the Silent Places, former professional hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick takes us back to Africa to encounter the worlds most dangerous big-game animals. Af...
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Farm Legends

By: Carleton, Will

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1876

Seller ID: 2283876

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very faint stain along page base, board corners lightly rubbed. 1876 Hard Cover. 131 pp. Blue boards with gilt decorations. 4-page terminal publisher ad. Original green cloth, gilt titles & decorations. Numerous engravings. A collection of poetry with a rural theme. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William McKendree Carleton (21 October 1845 18 December 1912) was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about rural life... What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer, Will Carleton has done for the American-touched with the glamour o...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Carroll, Lewis (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1975

Seller ID: 1996832

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy. 1975 Full-Leather. [iv], 161 pp. 8vo. Original light brown full leather with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations of hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, with the white rabbit pictured in green on the front board. Green ribbon marker bound in, green silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Limited edition, part of The Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. Two tone illustrations by John Tenniel throughout. An exceptionally decorative edition of Carroll's classic work. This particular edition made a brief appearance in the television series Gotham, in a...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Carroll, Lewis (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1975

Seller ID: 2140629

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy - no wear or internal marks. 1975 Full-Leather. [iv], 161 pp. 8vo. Original light brown full leather with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations of hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, with the white rabbit pictured in green on the front board. Green ribbon marker bound in, green silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Limited edition, part of The Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. Two tone illustrations by John Tenniel throughout. An exceptionally decorative edition of Carroll's classic work. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 18...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Carroll, Lewis (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1975

Seller ID: 2285610

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

A couple small smudges along spine. 1975 Full-Leather. [iv], 161, [3] pp. 8vo. Original light brown full leather with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations of hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, with the white rabbit pictured in green on the front board. Green ribbon marker bound in, green silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Limited edition, part of The Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. Two tone illustrations by John Tenniel throughout. An exceptionally decorative edition of Carroll's classic work. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 14 J...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York and Boston, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. / Norwood Press: 1893

Seller ID: 2308474

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Circa 1900 edition. Edges rubbed and exposed, light dime-sized spot on rear board, ink name and gift note dated Dec. 25 1903 on front endpapers. 1893 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 218 pp. Green cloth spine with gilt titles, pictorial paper over boards. Color frontispiece and black-and-white illustrations by L.J. Bridgman. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, a...
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One of Ours

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $30.00

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

Seller ID: 2304819

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Edges of endpapers slightly faded, tiny blemish on bottom corner of front board. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 408 pp. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by David Blossom. Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to s...
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself, in Two Volumes

By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, John Addington; Cortissoz, Royal

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Tudor Publishing Company: 1906

Seller ID: 2062149

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1934 12th printing. Front hinge of first volume just starting, small internal tear to vol. 1 backstrip. 1906 Hard Cover. xxix, [1], 359, [1]; vii, [1], 386, [1] pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles, decorations, & rules, top edge gilt. Reproductions of forty original portraits and views. The classic autobiography by the Italian Renaissance goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier, and musician, still considered the most important memoir of the era.
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Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha [Parts I & II in One Volume]

By: Cervantes [Saavedra], Miguel de; Jarvis, Charles

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co.:

Seller ID: 2164512

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No date, circa 1880. Spine slightly faded, minimal wear to corners, ink name on front flyleaf. 811 pp. 8vo. Parts 1 and 2 complete in one volume. Original blue cloth, gilt & black decorations design, titles in relief, floral decorative endpapers. Don Quixote (fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha), is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by inventing a Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influe...
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The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Cervantes, Miguel De; Cohen, J.M.

Price: $50.00

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

Seller ID: 2306880

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Minor scuffs to spine and edges. 1976 Full-Leather. 625, [3] pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the Spanish by J.M. Cohen, with illustrations by Gustave Dore. The classic tale of a man who reads too many romances and begins to believe that he's an errant knight. It is the source of the phrase 'tilting at windmills'.
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Canterbury Tales, in Contemporary Verse: A Limited Edition (The Franklin Library's The 100 Greatest Books of All Time Series)

By: Chaucer, Geoffrey; Nicolson, J.U.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1974

Seller ID: 2306871

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1974 Full-Leather. 634 pp. 8vo. Full dark brown leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, orange ribbon marker bound in. Translated into modern English by J.U. Nicolson. Color reproduction of a page from the Ellesmere Canterbury Tales precedes text, other illustration taken for the Ellesmere manuscript in text.
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Canterbury Tales: A Modern Prose Translation (The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers)

By: Chaucer, Geoffrey; Wright, David

Price: $30.00

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

Seller ID: 2306801

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Two small blemishes on rear board. 1978 Full-Leather. 532 pp. 8vo. Full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated into modern prose by David Wright, illustrated by Frederick Schneider. While Geoffrey Chaucer composed several magnificent works of poetry, his reputation as the father of English literature rests mainly on The Canterbury Tales, a group of stories told by assorted pilgrims en route to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. From the mirthful and bawdy to the profoundly moral, the tales, taken i...
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Anton Chekhov: Greatest Plays

By: Chekhov, Anton; Fen, Elisaveta

Price: $10.00

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

Seller ID: 2265136

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1979 Hard Cover. 274, [6] pp. Black leather spine, grey cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, grey ribbon marker bound in. A collection of plays by Anton Chekhov, including: The Cherry Orchard; The Sea Gull; The Three Sisters; Uncle Vanya.
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Eight Plays (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Chekhov, Anton; Fen, Elisaveta

Price: $25.00

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

Seller ID: 2307017

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 572 pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of eight plays by Anton Chekhov, translated into English from the original Russian by Elisaveta Fen. including: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; The Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; The Bear; The Proposal; A Jubilee.
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Aucassin and Nicolete [Nicolette]

By: Child, Harold (Translator)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Adam and Charles Black: 1911

Seller ID: 2300632

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Spine lightly toned, very minor general wear. 1911 Hard Cover. xliii, 132 pp. 10 x 7 3/4. 4to. Original cream cloth, navy blue titles & borders, light blue printed design on front cover & spine. Color frontispiece & 5 color illustrations by A. Anderson. Third translation of this work into English, following those of Edward FitzGerald and Andrew Lang. Aucassin et Nicolette is a medieval French chantefable, or combination of prose and verse (literally, a 'sung story'), similar to a prosimetrum. It is the only known chantefable from what was once a very popular literary tradition, and it is from ...
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