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By: Bronte, Charlotte (Bell, Currer)
Price: $200.00 $160.00
Publisher: Hurst & Company: 1890
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2292787
Condition: Very Good
No date, circa 1890. Spine faded, edges a bit rubbed, ink gift note on front endpaper dated 1907, rear hinge just beginning to weaken. ix, 464 pp. 16mo. Half-leather: green leather spine and corners, decorative paper over boards with matching endpapers, gilt titles and fleur de lis decorations on spine, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece by O. Grosch (Oscar Edward Grosch). Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name Currer Bell.... View more info
By: Bronte, Charlotte; 'Currer Bell'; Winterich, John T.
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1978
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2294868
Condition: Near Fine
A few tiny blemishes, edges of endpapers a bit faded, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1978 Full-Leather. xviii, [1], 431 pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color lithographs by Barnett Freedman. Includes publisher's preface, 'How This Book Came to Be by John T. Winterich, and author's prefaces to the second (1847) and third (1848) editions. Jane Eyre is the story of a small, plain-faced, intelligent, and passionate English orphan. Jane is abused by her aunt and cousin and then attends a harsh charity school... View more info
By: Bronte, Charlotte; Bronte, Emily
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: Random House: 1943
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2266404
Condition: Good
Lacks slipcase. Edges rubbed, boards toned (as usual), front hinge of both volumes just starting. 1943 Hard Cover. Two volumes originally issued together as a set in publisher's slipcase. 343, [1]; 212, [2] pp. 10 x 8. Engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Pictorial paper over boards hardcover bindings, green cloth spines, gilt titles, green top page ridge. Includes the edition of Jane Eyre featured in the major motion picture 'Definitely Maybe'. Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the... View more info
By: Bronte, Charlotte; Bronte, Emily
Price: $175.00 $140.00
Publisher: Random House: 1943
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2267170
Condition: Very Good
Includes publisher's slipcase. Spines a bit soiled, boards toned (as usual), slipcase rubbed with some loss of paper from one panel, top seam weakening. 1943 Hard Cover. Two volumes originally issued together as a set in publisher's slipcase. 343, [1]; 212, [2] pp. 10 x 8. Engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Pictorial paper over boards hardcover bindings, green cloth spines, gilt titles, green top page ridge. Includes the edition of Jane Eyre featured in the major motion picture 'Definitely Maybe'. Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in... View more info
By: Bronte, Charlotte; Bronte, Emily
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: Random House: 1943
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2270872
Condition: Very Good
Lacks slipcase. Boards lightly toned, corners lightly rubbed, ink name on front endpaper. 1943 Hard Cover. Two volumes originally issued together as a set in publisher's slipcase. 343, [1]; 212, [2] pp. 10 x 8. Engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Pictorial paper over boards hardcover bindings, green cloth spines, gilt titles, green top page ridge. Includes the edition of Jane Eyre featured in the major motion picture 'Definitely Maybe'. Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title J... View more info
By: Bronte, Charlotte; Bronte, Emily
Price: $175.00 $140.00
Publisher: Random House: 1943
Seller ID: 2303474
Condition: Near Fine
Includes publisher's slipcase. Spines lightly rubbed (minimal loss of gilt), owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume, slipcase corners a bit rubbed with light discoloration to slipcase spine base. This edition is particularly prone to toning of the boards, which we do not see in this example - an unusually attractive copy of this set. 1943 Hard Cover. Two volumes originally issued together as a set in publisher's slipcase. 343, [1]; 212, [2] pp. 10 x 8. Engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Pictorial paper over boards hardcover bindings, green cloth spines, gilt titles, green top page ridg... View more info
By: Bronte, Emily
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: Random House: 1943
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2300610
Condition: Very Good
One of two volumes (the other being Jane Eyre, not included here) originally issued with a publisher's slipcase. Edges a bit rubbed, boards lightly toned (as usual). 1943 Hard Cover. 212, [2] pp. 10 x 8. Engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Pictorial paper over boards, green cloth spine, gilt titles, green top page ridge. Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centers (as an a... View more info
By: Brown, Karl F.; Newcomb, Rexford (Foreword)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1836429
Condition: Near Fine
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
By: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Price: $15.00
Publisher: R. Worthington: 1884
Seller ID: 2293334
Condition: Very Good
Laid in are a chromolithographic Christmas card and a calling card for James Whitehead, Metaphysician. Spine and pages lightly toned, ink name on front flyleaf. 1884 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 335, [3] pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt and black decorations, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers, red ruled borders on each page. A novel in blank verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published in 1857. The first-person narrative, which comprises some 11,000 lines, tells of the heroine's childhood and youth in Italy and England, her self-education in her father's hidden libra... View more info
By: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Belford, Clarke & Co.: 1880
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2298848
Condition: Very Good
Binding slightly shaken, spine slightly faded. 1880 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 533 pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles, black and brown stamped decorations, all edges gilt. A collection of poems by the nineteenth century poet married to Robert Browning, also an influential writer. Her poems are known for their religious themes, and her work influenced numerous important authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson. View more info
By: Browning, Robert; Dowden, Edward
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1949
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2261260
Condition: Very Good
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, Count Guido Franceschini, is found guilty of the murders of his young wife Pompilia Comparini and her parents, having suspect... View more info
By: Browning, Robert; Lewis, C. Day
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2294866
Condition: Near Fine
A few minor scuffs, edges of endpapers a bit faded, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1979 Full-Leather. xvii, [1], 299, [3] pp. Tall 8vo. A collection of poetry by Robert Browning, selected, edited, and introduced by C. Day Lewis, with woodcut illustrations by Peter Reddick. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. View more info
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons: 1902
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2292849
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. View more info
By: Bunyan, John
Price: $750.00 $600.00
Publisher: J. Draper for D. Henchman, at his Shop in Cornhil: 1742
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2289845
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. View more info
By: Bunyan, John; Landels, William; Deanes, Edward
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: London: James Sangster & Co., Paternoster Row:
Seller ID: 2052322
Condition: Very Good
Edges rubbed, large chip from corner of one text page resulting in minor loss of text, but a professional repair has replaced the missing paper, front & end matter lightly foxed. xxviii, 686 pp. 12 5/8 x 10 3/8. Leather spine & corners over cloth boards, gilt titles, gilt triple rule, marbled edges and endpapers. A unique collection of three of John Bunyan's works, including his famous The Pilgrim's Progress, the better part of which was written while we was imprisoned for violation of the Conventicle Act. Over three centuries later it still stands as the most famous Christian allegory (and so... View more info
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By: Bunyan, John; Southey, Robert
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: American Tract Society: 1865
Seller ID: 2286768
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... View more info
By: Bunyan, John; Winterich, John T.
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2280921
Condition: Fine
1979 Full-Leather. xv, [1], 189, [7] pp. 8vo. Blue-green full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, green beige ribbon marker bound in, color illustrations by William Blake. Includes publisher's preface and How This Book Came to Be by John T. Winterich. 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,... View more info
By: Burke, James Lee
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 2007
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2277197
Condition: Fine
Signed by author without inscription. Publisher's insert and certificate of authenticity laid in. 2007 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 373, [1] pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof B... View more info
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1911
Seller ID: 2199981
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. View more info
Price: $175.00 $140.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1887
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2294183
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. We have more books available by this author!. 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 English–American playwright and author Frances Hodgson Bur... View more info
By: Burns, Robert
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: John S. Marr: 1865
Seller ID: 2207837
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... View more info
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By: Burton, R.F. [Richard Francis]; Smithers, Leonard C.
Price: $1,500.00 $1,200.00
Publisher: H.S. Nichols & Co.: 1894
Seller ID: 2282238
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... View more info
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By: Burton, Richard; Torrens, Henry; Lane, Edward; Payne, John
Price: $45.00 $36.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1954
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2271630
Condition: Near Fine
Minimal cosmetic wear. 1954 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 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. View more info
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By: Burton, Richard; Torrens, Henry; Lane, Edward; Payne, John
Price: $45.00 $36.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1981
Seller ID: 2280927
Condition: Near Fine
A couple very faint scuffs to gilt edges, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1981 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 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. View more info
By: Burton, Sir Richard Francis
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: The Heritae Press: 1934
Seller ID: 2302543
Condition: Very Good
Lacks slipcase. Spines very faintly foxed. 1934 Hard Cover. xvii, 3975 pp. Six volumes in 3. The complete Burton translation with the complete Burton notes, the terminal essay, a complete index and 1001 decorations by Valenti Angelo. View more info
By: Butler, Samuel; Dreiser, Theodore
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1980
Seller ID: 2205695
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... View more info
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Price: $45.00
Publisher: Estes and Lauriat: 1887
Seller ID: 1864936
Condition: Good
Boards rubbed with loss from spine & corners, front free endpaper removed, hinges loosening. No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 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. View more info
By: Capote, Truman
Price: $2,250.00 $1,800.00
Publisher: Random House: 1965
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2263973
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... View more info
By: Carleton, Will
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1876
Seller ID: 2283876
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 glamou... View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)
Price: $250.00 $200.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1975
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 1996832
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... View more info
