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By: Bentley, E. C.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1988
Seller ID: 2292580
Condition: Fine
A fine copy. 1988 Hard Cover. 187 pp. Green boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decoration on boards. Page ridges gilt. On Wall Street, the mere mention of the name Sigsbee Manderson is enough to send a stock soaring—or bring it tumbling back to earth. Feared but not loved, Manderson has no one to mourn him when the gardener at his British country estate finds him facedown in the dirt, a bullet buried in his brain. There are bruises on his wrist and blood on his clothes, but no clue that will lead the police to the murderer. It will take an amateur to—inadvertently—show them the way... View more info
By: Bierce, Ambrose; Jackson, Joseph Henry
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1971
Seller ID: 2278055
Condition: Near Fine
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
![Image for The Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio. in Three Volumes. [Decameron]](/assets/images/product/2281490.jpg)
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Guglielmo Pickering: 1825
Seller ID: 2281490
Condition: Very Good
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, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Italian text. Boccaccio's 14th century collection of 100 stories, controversial at the... View more info
By: Boccaccio, Giovanni; McWilliam, G.H.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265087
Condition: Very Good
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
By: Boccaccio, John [Giovanni]; Hutton, Edward
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1980
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2284258
ISBN: 112572384X
Condition: Very Good
Blank publisher's bookplate laid in. Spine faded, edge of front a bit soiled. 1980 Full-Leather. xxi, [1], 536 pp. Tall 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic. Other topics such as wit and witticism, practical jokes, the moral ... View more info
By: Boulle, Pierre; Fielding, Xan (Translator)
Price: $300.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 2010
Seller ID: 2268790
Condition: Near Fine
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—astronaut travels to a planet populated by intelligent apes, is captured, fights to prove that he is a thinking creature—the... View more info
![Image for The Life of General William T. [Tecumseh] Sherman](/assets/images/product/2266387.jpg)
By: Boyd, James P.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Publishers' Union: 1891
Seller ID: 2266387
Condition: Near Fine
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 served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outst... View more info
![Image for The Life of General William T. [Tecumseh] Sherman](/assets/images/product/2290750.jpg)
By: Boyd, James P.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Publishers' Union: 1891
Seller ID: 2290750
Condition: Near Fine
Gilt on spine a bit faded. 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 served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of... View more info
By: Boyne, Walter J.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Publications International, Ltd. / The Easton Press: 2003
Seller ID: 2277127
ISBN: 0785372466
Condition: Near Fine
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
By: Bradbury, Ray
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble: 2001
Seller ID: 2285674
ISBN: 1435129067
Condition: Fine
A fine copy. 2001 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 885 pp. One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, Ray Bradbury has thrilled generations of readers with his imaginative tales of fantasy and science fiction. This unique collection brings together three of his best-loved books. The Martian Chronicles is the history of Earth's brief colonization of the red planet, Mars. As humans set up home in the ruins of the extinct Martian civilization, they try to remake themselves as the new Martian race. But even as they expose themselves to artifacts ... View more info
By: Brant, Irving
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1985
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274891
Condition: Near Fine
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
By: Brecht, Bertolt; Vesey, Desmond; Bentley, Eric
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut: 1993
Seller ID: 2144207
Condition: Fine
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 Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set ... View more info
By: Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme; Fisher, M.F.K.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1949
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2261259
Condition: Very Good
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 masterpiece is a historical, philosophical, and epicurean collection of recipes, reflections, and anecdotes on everything and an... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble: 2011
Seller ID: 2285673
ISBN: 1435129741
Condition: Near Fine
A very nice copy. 2011 Full-Leather. 507 pp. At Thornfield Hall, resolute and independent Jane Eyre finds fulfillment in her duties as governess, and the love of her life in her employer Edward Rochester. But when a dark secret from Rochester's past comes to light, Jane must make the most difficult decision of her life: to stay beside the man she loves regardless of the truth, or to embark upon a new life free of the encumbrances of the past. Charlotte Bronte's powerful tale of romance and strong wills at odds with one another is a classic of nineteenth century literature. This exquisite colle... View more info
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Bigelow, Brown & Co., Inc.: 1900
Seller ID: 2271254
Condition: Very Good
Minor loss of leather along gilt rule on front corner of first volume, similar minor loss from rear corner of second volume, rear board of volumes two and six lightly soiled, owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. 1900 Half-Leather. Complete in six volumes. 8vo. Red leather spines and corner over red cloth boards, five raised spine bands, gilt titles, rules, and decorations, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Photographic frontispieces. A collection of the novels and poems of the Bronte sisters. A decorative and desirable set for the devoted fan of the Brontes. View more info
By: Bronte, Charlotte (Bell, Currer)
Price: $200.00
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
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
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
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
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: $50.00
Publisher: Random House: 1943
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2280566
Condition: Good
Lacks slipcase. Edges rubbed, boards toned (as usual), ink name and date on front endpapers. 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 titl... View more info
By: Bronte, Charlotte; Bronte, Emily
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Random House: 1943
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2291057
Condition: Near Fine
Owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume, boards faintly toned (but less than we usually see), 1 inch split to bottom slipcase seam, slipcase a bit rubbed. 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 p... View more info
By: Bronte, Emily
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Random House: 1943
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274051
Condition: Good
One of two volumes (the other being Jane Eyre, not included here) originally issued with a publisher's slipcase. Boards toned (as usual), edges rubbed, ink name and date inside. 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 cent... View more info
By: Bronte, Emily
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Random House: 1943
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274052
Condition: Very Good
One of two volumes (the other being Jane Eyre, not included here) originally issued with a publisher's slipcase. Boards toned (as usual), edges a bit rubbed, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 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... View more info
By: Bronte, Emily
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1975
Seller ID: 2286242
Condition: Near Fine
1975 Full-Leather. 338 pp. 8vo. Maroon full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, 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 England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as... View more info
By: Bronte, Emily; Bronte, Charlotte
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979
Seller ID: 2275974
Condition: Fine
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, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second ed... View more info
By: Bronte, Emily; Winterich, John T.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1980
Seller ID: 2205692
Condition: Fine
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 England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the sto... View more info
By: Brown, Fredric; Gunn, James
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1986
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2281118
Condition: Fine
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
![Image for Shakespeare [William]](/assets/images/product/2263987.jpg)
By: Brown, Ivor
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Collins: 1963
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2263987
Condition: Near Fine
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]](/assets/images/product/2263373.jpg)
By: Brown, John; Cooke, Henry; Rawson, A.L. (Albert Leighton)
Price: $225.00
Publisher: American Bible Publishing Co.: 1880
Seller ID: 2263373
Condition: Good
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 as Leonardo da Vinci, Gustave Dore, Bartolome Murillo, and Johann Overbeck. View more info
