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Anton Chekhov: Greatest Plays

By: Chekhov, Anton; Fen, Elisaveta

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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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Aucassin and Nicolete [Nicolette]

By: Child, Harold (Translator)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 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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The World Crisis: The First World War, Complete in Six [6] Volumes: 1911-1914; 1915; 1916-1918 Part I; 1916-1918 Part II; The Aftermath; The Eastern Front (The Easton Press Collector's Edition, Bound in Genuine Leather)

By: Churchill, Winston S. [Spencer]

Price: $495.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1991

Seller ID: 2304806

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Top edges lightly foxed, spines a bit faded. 1991 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in six volumes. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2. 8vo. Original full crimson leather, gilt design on front cover, black leather title panels with gilt titles, five raised spine bands, gilt page ridges, yellow ribbon marker bound into each volume, silk moire endpapers. Fold-out maps. Churchill's extraordinary work on World War I. The text for this collector's edition is taken from the original complete edition -- the work was later distilled into a three-volume edition entitled The Great War.
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Freud: The Man and the Cause (The Library of Great Lives)

By: Clark, Ronald W.; Fine, Reuben

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1988

Seller ID: 2281102

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. Minimal cosmetic wear. 1988 Full-Leather. 238, [2] pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece, black-and-white photographs throughout. As much a study of the man as the movement he founded, Clark's biography explores such controversial matters as Freud's sex life, his cocaine habit, and his attitudes toward women.
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The Boys of '61; or, Four Years of Fighting. Personal Observation with the Army and Navy, from the First Battle of Bull Run to the Fall of Richmond.

By: Coffin, Charles Carleton

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Estes and Lauriat: 1881

Seller ID: 2279552

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine rubbed, hinges repaired, ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1881 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, [4], 558, [2] pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations, pictorial endpapers, woodcut illustrations and maps throughout text. A contemporary history of the American Civil War based on firsthand accounts.
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Colette: Stories [Sidonie Gabrielle] (The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers)

By: Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1977

Seller ID: 2292804

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Gilt on top page edge rubbed, ribbon marker a bit frayed at end, bookplate on front endpaper. 1977 Full-Leather. xi, 496 pp. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by David McCall Johnston and Chris Duke. A collection of stories by the French writer known for the originality of her narrative style.
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Colette: Stories [Sidonie Gabrielle] (The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers)

By: Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1977

Seller ID: 2303196

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

A few minor scuffs to boards. 1977 Full-Leather. xi, 496 pp. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by David McCall Johnston and Chris Duke. A collection of stories by the French writer known for the originality of her narrative style.
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The Moonstone

By: Collins, Wilkie; Starrett, Vincent

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1959

Seller ID: 2282250

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase. Lacks Sandglass insert. Spine faded and a bit rubbed. 1959 Hard Cover. xviii, 464 pp. 8vo. Introduction by Vincent Starrett, illustrations by Dignimont. Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T.S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre, including a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who ha...
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The Analects of Confucius

By: Confucius; Giles, Lionel

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, The Limited Editions Club / Plantin Press: 1970

Seller ID: 2304381

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's box, with monthly letter and prospectus sheet laid in. Onion skin jacket included. #753 of 1500, signed by illustrator Tseng Yu-Ho on limitation page. Laid in is a bookseller's slip, owner bookplate of Walter Norwood Thompson on front paste-down endpaper, seams of box corners along spine split but box still sturdy and square. 1970 Hard Cover. xxvii, [5], 131 pp. Decorative cloth boards, paper spine label mirrored on box. Illustrated with twelve double-spread paintings by Tseng Yu-Ho. A distillation of Confucius's thought, presented in a series of aphorisms, translated with...
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The Analects of Confucius (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Confucius; Giles, Lionel

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1976

Seller ID: 2294865

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

A few minor scuffs, edges of endpapers a bit faded, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1976 Full-Leather. xxv, [4], 130 pp. 8vo. Original yellow leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in, silk moire endpapers. Illustrated with paintings by Tseng Yu-Ho. A distillation of Confucius's thought, presented in a series of aphorisms.
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The Way of the World: Comedy in Five Acts

By: Congreve, William; Kronenberger, Louis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1959

Seller ID: 2261913

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Special Publication: S26 laid in. Spine faded, slipcase edge faded. 1959 Hard Cover. xix, [1], 108 pp. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger, illustrations by T.M. Cleland. With piercing accuracy William Congreve depicted the shallow, brittle world of society where the right artifice in manners, fashion and conversation—and money—eased the passage to success. Through sparkling, witty dialogue and brilliant characterisation—Lady Plyant, Valentine, Lady Touchwood, Mirabell and Millamant—Congreve exposed the follies and vanities of that world, and sug...
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Lord Jim: A Tale

By: Conrad, Joseph; Monserrat, Nicholas

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1959

Seller ID: 2261262

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number IX: 24 laid in. Spine faded, slipcase edges toned. 1959 Hard Cover. x, [1], 407 pp. 8vo. Conrad's moving tale of a sailor who is accused of abandoning ship. Introduction by Nicholas Monsarrat, color lithographs by Lynd Ward. Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. The novel is in two main parts, firstly Jim's lapse aboard the Patna and his consequent fall, and secondly an adventure story about Jim's rise and the tale's denouement amongst the people of Patusan - set in t...
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Lord Jim: A Tale

By: Conrad, Joseph; Monserrat, Nicholas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2205690

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Edges of endpapers slightly faded. 1977 Full-Leather. x, [4], 407 pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Conrad's moving tale of a sailor who is accused of abandoning ship.
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Cooper's Novels, in Thirty-Three Volumes (New Edition)

By: Cooper, J. Fenimore

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: Stringer & Townsend: 1854

Seller ID: 1797797

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Corners & spine rubbed with some loss of gilt, front & end matter of a few volumes lightly foxed. Interiors exceptionally well preserved. Spine labels professionally replaced in emulation of original style. An excellent set. 1854 Half-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in thirty-three volumes. 12mo. 65 volumes in 33. Sewn bindings. Butterscotch leather spines & corners over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. An apparent variant of the set referenced in Spiller & Blackburn's bibliography (slightly different ordering of volumes, half-leather instead of cloth). The th...
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Cooper's Sea Tales, Comprising: The Pilot; The Red Rover; The Waterwitch; The Sea Lions; The Two Admirals

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

Price: $75.00

Publisher: George Routledge and Sons: 1880

Seller ID: 2302640

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1880s printing. Corners rubbed, spine and pages lightly toned, rear board lightly foxed. We have more books available by this author!. 166, 186, 184, iv, 185, iv, 192 pp. 8vo. Blue-green cloth, gilt titles, gold, silver, and black stamped decorations, floral decorated endpapers. An engraved frontispiece precedes three stories. A collection of nautical stories for juvenile readers, reprinted from five of Cooper's earlier works. Cooper is best known for his five-volume Leatherstocking Saga (historical fiction featuring Natty Bumpo), but he also wrote a two-volume history of the United States Nav...
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The Last of the Mohicans (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Hale, Edward Everett

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2205673

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Top page ridge faintly spotted. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 377 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson, introduction by Edward Everett Hale. The second, and most well-known, installment in Cooper's five-volume Leatherstocking Saga.
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The Last of the Mohicans (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Hale, Edward Everett

Price: $40.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2278043

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Page ridges faintly spotted, otherwise an excellent copy. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1], 377, [1] pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson, introduction by Edward Everett Hale. The second, and most well-known, installment in Cooper's five-volume Leatherstocking Saga.
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The Pathfinder (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Spiller, Robert E.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2207940

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Two minor scuffs to spine bands, gilt page ridges lightly rubbed. 1981 Full-Leather. xvi, 474 pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Richard M. Powers, introduction by Robert E. Spiller. The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is an historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and is considered as forming the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales.
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The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Winterich, John T.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1963

Seller ID: 2278044

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Minor loss of gilt from top edge of front board, a couple minor scuffs along edges. 1963 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xv, [3], 406 pp. 8vo. Black full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Henry C. Pitz, introduction by John T. Winterich. The action takes place during the American Revolution. The share of historical fact in the story is not large, but the action takes place so near to great events that the characters are all invested with something of the dusky light of heroes, while Georg...
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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

By: Crane, Stephen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1981

Seller ID: 2286131

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Top edge and fore edge faintly foxed, otherwise an excellent copy. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 200 pp. 8vo. Brown leather spine, gilt titles & decoration, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Crane's famous work on the American Civil War, with color plates from paintings by, and illustrations from sketches by, Winslow Homer.
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The Red Badge of Courage (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Crane, Stephen; Van Doren, Carl

Price: $40.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2294856

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

A few small spots on top edge, a few minor scuffs, endpaper edges slightly faded. 1980 Full-Leather. xiii, [3], 170 pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Crane's famous work on the American Civil War, with an introduction by Carl Van Doren and illustrations by John Steuart Curry.
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James Monroe (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Cresson, W.P.; Howe, M.A. De Wolfe

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2268777

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher insert laid in. From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name and date ('86) in black ink on front endpaper. 1986 Full-Leather. xiv, 577, [3] pp. 8vo. Full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated with presidential seal, ribbon marker bound in. A biography of James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, with an introduction by M.A. De Wolfe Howe.
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Sandy

By: Crockett, S.R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1922

Seller ID: 2205715

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

3rd printing. Light smudge on front board. 1922 Hard Cover. vi, 353 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Frontispiece by R. Pearson Lawrence. A novel set in Scotland.
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De Gaulle (The Library of Great Lives) [DeGaulle]

By: Crozier, Brian; Nixon, Richard

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1990

Seller ID: 2274207

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1990 Full-Leather. xiii, [3], 726 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of De Gaulle. A biography which discusses De Gaulle's dealings with Churchill & Roosevelt, as well as his attitude toward Communism. Crozier records the events of the period and sheds light upon De Gaulle's successes and failures.
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The Pituitary Body and Its Disorders: Clinical States Produced by Disorders of the Hypophysis Cerebri - An Amplification of the Harvey Lecture for December, 1910

By: Cushing, Harvey

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Birmingham, The Classics of Medicine Library / Gryphon Editions, Ltd.: 1979

Seller ID: 2303539

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. x, 341 pp. 8vo. Full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece, 319 black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout, including a large fold-out. A reissue of the work originally published in 1912 by the first exclusive neurosurgeon, who also wrote a multi-volume biography of William Osler.
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Following the Guidon

By: Custer, Elizabeth B.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1890

Seller ID: 2303664

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. One of the plates called for in the contents does not appear, but we see no evidence that it was removed - possibly a publisher error? Boards lightly rubbed, hinges just beginning to weaken, ink name on front flyleaf. 1890 Hard Cover. xx, 341, [3] pp. 8vo. Includes frontispiece George Armstrong Custer with his scouts, music tablature for Garryowen and other short pieces, 12 engraved plates, and two cuts. Two of the illustrations depict buffalo 'hunting' (one showing them being shot from the windows of train cars). The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was ...
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Following the Guidon

By: Custer, Elizabeth B.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1890

Seller ID: 2303671

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Exterior in fantastic condition. Tiny smudge on fore edge, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1890 Hard Cover. xx, 341, [3] pp. 8vo. Includes frontispiece George Armstrong Custer with his scouts, music tablature for Garryowen and other short pieces, 12 engraved plates, and two cuts. Two of the illustrations depict buffalo 'hunting' (one showing them being shot from the windows of train cars). The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go along, thus setting ...
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Boots and Saddles; or, Life in Dakota with General Custer

By: Custer, Elizabeth B.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1885

Seller ID: 2305732

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition, second issue (Howes C-980). Front hinge weakening with first gathering slightly sprung, small circular discoloration on rear board edge, ink owner stamp dated 1899 on front flyleaf, margins of a few pages lightly soiled. 1885 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 312 pp. 8vo. Includes frontispiece portrait of George Armstrong Custer, and single-page 'Outline Map of Portions of Montana & Dakota'. The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go ...
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The Cooper Vignettes. From Drawings By F. O. C. Darley. India Proofs Before Letter.

By: Darley, F.O.C.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, James G. Gregory: 1862

Seller ID: 2267734

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Printed on flyleaf is the following text: 'Presented to Chas. Knickerbocker, by the Steel Plate Engravers of the Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. 'as a mark of esteem' and dated 1872, which seems to indicate this volume was custom-bound for Mr. Knickerbocker in that year. Professionally rebacked with original backstrip laid down, reinforcement to edges of first and last few pages. Two photographs and two engravings laid in. Foxed throughout, boards a bit rubbed with some drying along edges, later pencil gift note on front flyleaf dated 1903 presenting the book to J.H. Wilcox from his mother. ...
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The Origin of Species [By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life] (The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

By: Darwin, Charles

Price: $40.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1978

Seller ID: 2298964

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Spine slightly faded, edges of endpapers faded. 1978 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 610 pp. 8vo. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Darwin's landmark work on evolution and natural selection, with illustrations by Walter Rane. Darwin consolidated a lifetime of work in On the Origin of Species, compiling his discoveries from the voyage of the Beagle, his experiments, research and correspondence. He argues for the transmutation of species over time by the process of natural selection. His work...
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