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By: Crane, Stephen; Van Doren, Carl
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1980
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2294856
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. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266483
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 1905 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1], 517, [7]; x, [2], 441, [7] pp. 8vo. Teal cloth, gilt titles, white and gilt decorations. Includes 225 illustrations from etchings by Joseph Pennell. View more info
By: Cresson, W.P.; Howe, M.A. De Wolfe
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1986
Seller ID: 2268777
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. View more info
By: Crockett, S.R.
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1922
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2205715
Condition: Very Good
3rd printing. Light smudge on front board. 1922 Hard Cover. vi, 353 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations. View more info
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By: Crozier, Brian; Nixon, Richard
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1990
Seller ID: 2274207
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. View more info
By: Cushing, Harvey
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Birmingham, The Classics of Medicine Library / Gryphon Editions, Ltd.: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2303539
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. View more info
By: Darley, F.O.C.
Price: $500.00 $400.00
Publisher: James G. Gregory: 1862
Seller ID: 2267734
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. ... View more info
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By: Darwin, Charles
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1978
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2298964
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... View more info
By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Zimmern, Helen
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Porter & Coates: 1894
Seller ID: 2292774
Condition: Very Good
Includes fold-out map following text of second volume. Crayon scribbles on endpapers and one text page of volume 2, hinges just beginning to weaken, corners a bit rubbed. 1894 Hard Cover. 273, [3]; 275, [3] pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt. A tour of Holland illustrated with photogravures, by the Italian author who also wrote a similar work on Morocco. View more info
By: De Balzac, Honore; Marriage, Ellen; Mauriac, Francois
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press / The Nonesuch Press: 1949
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2261267
Condition: Very Good
Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number 4N laid in. Spine a bit faded, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1949 Hard Cover. xv, 316, [1] pp. 8vo. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage, with an introduction by Francois Mauriac, and illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. Old Goriot or Father Goriot) is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scenes de la vie Parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comedie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot; a mysterious... View more info
By: De Maupassant, Guy; Hearn, Lafcadio; Artinian, Artine; O'Brien, Justin
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1977
Seller ID: 2205669
Condition: Near Fine
Minimal cosmetic wear to corners. 1977 Full-Leather. xii, 472 pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Over four dozen short stories (including his famous The Necklace) translated from the original French by Lafcadio Hearn and Artine Artinian, with an introduction by Justin O'Brien and illustrations from watercolors by Gunter Bohmer. View more info
By: De Montaigne, Michel; Adler, Mortimer J. (Introduction); Frame, Donald M. (Translator)
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1982
Seller ID: 2302579
Condition: Near Fine
Bookplate on front free endpaper. 1982 Hard Cover. 481 pp. Original brown leatherette hardcover binding with gilt decorations, three raised spine bands, gilt lettering & page ridges, decorative endpapers. Illustrations by Carol Wald. Essays is the title of a book written by Michel de Montaigne that was first published in 1580. Montaigne essentially invented the literary form of essay, a short subjective treatment of a given topic, of which the book contains a large number. Essai is French for 'trial' or 'attempt'. Montaigne wrote in a kind of crafted rhetoric designed to intrigue and involve t... View more info
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By: De Thou, Jacque-Auguste [Jacques]; [le Beau, Charles; Le Mascrier; Abbe Des Fontaines]
Price: $1,750.00
Publisher: S.N.: 1734
Seller ID: 2295697
Condition: Very Good
Boards rubbed with some loss/drying of leather, corners exposed. 1734 Full-Leather. Complete in sixteen volumes. Full calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooled compartments. The life's work of the French historian and book collector who lived from the mid-16th to early 17th century. Originally published in Latin under the title Historia sui temporis, in 138 books, three years after the author's death. The work, despite controversy over some of its depictions of religious matters, quickly became regarded as a scholarly classic, characterized by exhaustive research and reference to the ... View more info
By: Defoe, Daniel; Hadden, J. Cuthbert
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1930
Seller ID: 2303541
Condition: Near Fine
Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Slipcase corners a bit rubbed. 1930 Hard Cover. xvi, 299, [3] pp. 8vo. Color endpapers, title page, and illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Originally published in 1719, the famous novel of a shipwrecked survivor on a deserted island. View more info
By: Defoe, Daniel; Hadden, J. Cuthbert
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1976
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2294867
Condition: Near Fine
A few minor scuffs, faint spotting on top edge, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1976 Full-Leather. xvi, 299, [3] pp. 8vo. Blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Originally published in 1719, the famous novel of a shipwrecked survivor on a deserted island. View more info
By: Defoe, Daniel; Sutherland, James
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1978
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2292850
Condition: Near Fine
Small scuff to spine head. 1978 Full-Leather. xvi, [4], 270, [2] pp. Tall 8vo. Original full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of Defoe from a painting by Daniel Acuña. The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. Although it purports to have been written several years after the event, it actually was written in the years just p... View more info
By: Dickens, Charles
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1868
Seller ID: 2200083
Condition: Very Good
Minor loss from spine head, front hinge just starting. 1868 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 326; 257; 194, 12 pp. 8vo. Includes three complete novels: The Pickwick Papers, Barnaby Rudge & Sketches by Boz. Vol. 1 of a 6-volume set. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised ... View more info
By: Dickens, Charles
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.: 1868
Seller ID: 2200084
Condition: Good
Bottom corner lightly stained. 1868 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 340; 343; 112, 6 pp. 8vo. Volume 4 of a 6-volume set. Includes: Our Mutual Friend; Little Dorrit; Reprinted Pieces. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time. Unlike othe... View more info
By: Dickens, Charles
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1868
Seller ID: 2285880
Condition: Good
Corners rubbed with minor loss. 1868 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Volume 2 of a six-volume set. Includes complete works of Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, blind-stamped decorations. Illustrations by George Cruikshank, John Leech, and H.K. [Hablot Knight] Browne, also known as 'Phiz'. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Many of ... View more info
By: Dickens, Charles
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton / Hasell, Watson & Viney, Ld.: 1913
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2287788
Condition: Near Fine
Spine faded, front and end matter a bit toned, small bookseller ticket on front endpaper. 1913 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. v, [1], 137, [1] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles, gilt and blind-stamped decorations, grey endpapers with holiday bell (chime) motif. Tipped in color plates by Hugh Thomson. A short holiday novel, published a year after A Christmas Carol, which represents the second in Dickens's five-volume Christmas Books series. View more info
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By: Dickens, Charles
Price: $200.00 $160.00
Publisher: Collins' Clear-Type Press:
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2295928
Condition: Near Fine
Some ribbon markers a bit frayed, spines slightly faded, minor cosmetic wear to boards. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in twenty-two volumes. Flexible maroon leather boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, maroon endpapers, ribbon markers bound into each volume. Frontispiece, engraved title page, engraved plates by various artists, and illustrations from photographs. Includes: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People; The Adventures of Oliver Twist; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas N... View more info
By: Dickens, Charles; Winterich, John T.
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2205693
Condition: Near Fine
A few minor scuffs to corners. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. iii, [3], 457 pp. 8vo. Dark brown leather, gilt titles, decorations & page ridges, silk moire endpapers, yellow ribbon marker bound in. A handsomely bound volume of Dickens' beloved tale of Pip and Miss Havisham. Color illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, introduction by John T. Winterich. Keywords: CLASSICS ENGLISH LITERATURE View more info
By: Dickens, Charles; Winterich, John T.
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1981
Seller ID: 2275775
Condition: Near Fine
Minor scuffs along edges, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1981 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 371 pp. Original red full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by John T. Winterich, illustrations by Rene ben Sussan. This novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dicken's based his historical detail on Carlyle's The French Revolution, and his own observations and investigations during his numerous visits to Paris. View more info
By: Dodge, Mary Mapes; Hilpert, Ruth Ewing
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: The John C. Winston Co.: 1925
Seller ID: 2287162
Condition: Near Fine
No jacket. Near fine. 1925 Hard Cover. xiv, 325, [1] pp. Dark green cloth, elaborate gilt and mint green decorations. Color frontispiece, color cameo on front board, illustrated endpapers, and illustrations throughout text by Clara M. Burd. Introduction by Ruth Ewing Hilpert. 'Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates' (full title: 'Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland') is a novel by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865. The novel takes place in the Netherlands and is a colorful fictional portrait of early 19th-century Dutch life, as well as a tale of ... View more info
By: Donleavy, J.P. [James Patrick]
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1978
Edition: Reissue
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2298968
Condition: Fine
Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. An exceptional copy. 1978 Full-Leather. 386 pp. 8vo. Original dark green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Skip Liepke. First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States, J. P. Donleavy’s first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy’s wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventure... View more info
By: Donne, John; Grierson, Herbert
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1982
Seller ID: 2302573
Condition: Near Fine
An excellent copy. 1982 Hard Cover. 431 pp. 8vo. Red leather spine, red cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, red ribbon marker bound in. A collection of poems, edited by Sir Herbert Grierson, with reproductions of 16th and 17th century engravings, a brief introduction regarding these illustrations, and the following explanatory notes: The Printer to the Understanders; Hexastichon Bibliopolae; Hexastichon ad Bibliopolam; Dedication to the Edition of 1650; To John Donne, Donne, the delight of Phoebus; To Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with M. Donnes Satyres,... View more info
By: Donne, John; Kermode, Frank
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2266067
Condition: Near Fine
Minimal wear to corners, endpaper edges a bit faded. Unused publisher bookplate laid in. 1979 Full-Leather. xxiv, [2], 198, [2] pp. 8vo. Original full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. A collection of poems, selected, introduced, and annotated by Frank Kermode, with wood engravings by Irme Reiner. View more info
By: Dostoevsky, Feodor [Fyodor]; Coulson, Jessie
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1978
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2296116
Condition: Near Fine
Spine slightly faded, minor 1/2 inch scuff to gilt on top edge. 1978 Full-Leather. 614 pp. 8vo. Original light brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Jessie Coulson, with illustrations by Herbert Tauss. Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who h... View more info
By: Dostoevsky, Fyodor; Garnett, Constance
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble: 2011
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2280928
ISBN: 1435131827
Condition: Near Fine
2011 Full-Leather. 551, [3] pp. 8vo. Original maroon full leather, gilt titles and decorations, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Cover art by Jessica Hische, cover design by Jo Obarowski, book design by Patrice Kaplan, marbled pattern by Cockerell. Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who ... View more info
By: Dostoevsky, Fyodor; Garnett, Constance; Yarmolinsky, Avrahm
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1961
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2303535
Condition: Very Good
Lacks slipcase and Sandglass insert, otherwise an excellent copy. Ink date on front endpaper. 1961 Hard Cover. xxii, 604 pp. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg. Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama ... View more info
