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Honey in the Horn (Pulitzer Prize 1936)

By: Davis, Harold L.

Price: $35.00

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

Seller ID: 2307073

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Top edge very faintly foxed, otherwise an excellent copy. 1977 Full-Leather. 416 pp. 8vo. Full light brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, two-page color frontispiece and color plates by Uldis Klavins. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1936. Set in Oregon in the early years of the twentieth century, H. L. Daviss Honey in the Horn chronicles the struggles faced by homesteaders as they attempted to settle down and eke out subsistence from a still-wild land. With sly humor and keenly observed detail, Davis pays h...
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Holland. in Two Volumes.

By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Zimmern, Helen

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates: 1894

Seller ID: 2292774

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Holland. in Two Volumes.

By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Zimmern, Helen

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates: 1894

Seller ID: 2303705

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ink gift note on front endpaper of first volume and rear endpaper of last volume. 1894 Hard Cover. 273, [3]; 275, [3] pp. 8vo. Blue 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.
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The Tales of Guy de Maupassant (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: De Maupassant, Guy; Hearn, Lafcadio; Artinian, Artine; O'Brien, Justin

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2205669

Binding: Full-Leather

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.
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Essays [of Michel de Montaigne], Book One [1] (The 25th Anniversary Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

By: De Montaigne, Michel; Frame, Donald M.

Price: $25.00

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

Seller ID: 2306876

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faded. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 387 pp. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Donald M. Frame. This edition was produced as the first of three volumes for The 25th Anniversary Edition of The Great Books of the Western World. 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 l...
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Essays [of Michel de Montaigne], Book Two [2] (The 25th Anniversary Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

By: De Montaigne, Michel; Frame, Donald M.

Price: $25.00

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

Seller ID: 2306877

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faded. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. x, 551 pp. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Donald M. Frame. This edition was produced as the second of three volumes for The 25th Anniversary Edition of The Great Books of the Western World. 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 l...
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Histoire Universelle de Jacque-Auguste de Thou, Depuis 1543. jusqu'en 1607. Traduite sur l'Edition Latine de Londres [in Sixteen Volumes]

By: De Thou, Jacque-Auguste [Jacques]; [le Beau, Charles; Le Mascrier; Abbe Des Fontaines]

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: A Londres [Paris], S.N.: 1734

Seller ID: 2295697

Binding: Full-Leather

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 ...
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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By: Defoe [De Foe], Daniel

Price: $10.00

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

Seller ID: 2306768

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1979 Hard Cover. xvi, 299 pp. 8vo. Brown leather spine, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Pierre Falke. Originally published in 1719, the famous novel of a shipwrecked survivor on a deserted island.
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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Defoe, Daniel

Price: $35.00

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

Seller ID: 2307068

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. 374, [1] pp. 8vo. Full light brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Walter Paget. Originally published in 1719, the famous novel of a shipwrecked survivor on a deserted island.
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The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner

By: Defoe, Daniel; Hadden, J. Cuthbert

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1976

Seller ID: 2294867

Binding: Full-Leather

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.
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Barnaby Rudge; Sketches by Boz (The Works of Charles Dickens, Library Edition, Volume 1)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1868

Seller ID: 2200083

Binding: Hard Cover

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 for...
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Nicholas Nickleby; Martin Chuzzlewit; American Notes (Vol. 2, The Complete Works of Charles Dickens, Library Edition)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1868

Seller ID: 2285880

Binding: Hard Cover

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 his...
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The Chimes

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton / Hasell, Watson & Viney, Ld.: 1913

Seller ID: 2287788

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Life & Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (The Oxford Library of Charles Dickens)

By: Dickens, Charles; Russell, Geoffrey

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York / Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, Oxford University Press / The Franklin Library: 1984

Seller ID: 2307014

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

One of 7500 copies. Spine faded. 1984 Full-Leather. xxx, 882 pp. Full red leather with navy blue leather onlays, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Includes forty illustrations by Phiz, and an introduction by Geoffrey Russell. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between 1842 and 1844. While he was writing it Dickens told a friend that he thought it was his best work,[1] but it was one of ...
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The Uncommercial Traveller and Reprinted Pieces Etc. (The Oxford Library of Charles Dickens)

By: Dickens, Charles; Staples, Leslie C.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York / Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, Oxford University Press / The Franklin Library: 1985

Seller ID: 2307015

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

One of 7500 copies. Spine faded. 1985 Full-Leather. xviii, 796 pp. Full red leather with navy blue leather onlays, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Includes eleven illustrations by G.J. Pinwell, F. Walker, and 'W.M.,' and an introduction by Leslie C. Staples. This volume not only combines the two famous collections of Dickens's contributions to All the Year Round and Household Words but also includes the following items not published in other volumes of this edition -- The Lamplighter, To Be Read at Dusk, Sunday Under Three Heads, Hunte...
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (The Oxford Library of Charles Dickens)

By: Dickens, Charles; Tillotson, Kathleen

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York / Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, Oxford University Press / The Franklin Library: 1984

Seller ID: 2307016

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

One of 7500 copies. Spine faded. 1984 Full-Leather. xviii, 796 pp. Full red leather with navy blue leather onlays, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Includes seventy-six illustrations by George Cattermole and 'Phiz,' and an introduction by Kathleen Tillotson. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels (the other was The Old Curiosity Shop) that Dickens published in his short-lived (18401841) weekly serial Mas...
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The Complete Works of Charles Dickens, in 21 Volumes: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; The Adventures of Oliver Twist; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; The Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of '80; The Life & Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit; Dombey and Son; The Personal History of David Copperfield; Bleak House; Hard Times for These Times; Little Dorrit; A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations; Our Mutual Friend; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; A Christmas Carol and Other Novels (A Christmas Carol, The Haunted Man, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Chimes); Christmas Stories; Sketches by Boz; Master Humphrey's Clock; American Notes, Pictures from Italy, The Uncommercial Traveller [Traveler], The Life of Our Lord; Miscellaneous Papers from 'The Morning Chronicle,' 'The Daily News,' 'The Examiner,' 'Household Words,' 'All the Year Round,' Etc. and Plays and Poems

By: Dickens, Charles; Winterich, John T.; Starrett, Vincent

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 2001

Seller ID: 2306196

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Blank publisher bookplates on versos of a few endpapers, or laid in. An exceptional set. 2001 Full-Leather. Complete in twenty-one uniformly bound volumes. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispieces and plates, black-and-white illustrations, by various artists, introductory material by John T. Winterich. An attractive collection of the complete works of Charles Dickens. Includes: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; The Adventures of Oliver Twist; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; ...
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John Donne: Poems, with Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Engravings (The Franklin Library)

By: Donne, John; Grierson, Herbert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1982

Seller ID: 2307046

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Spine slightly faded. 1982 Hard Cover. 431 pp. 8vo. Red leather spine over 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 S...
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Poems [of John Donne] (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Donne, John; Grierson, Herbert

Price: $30.00

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

Seller ID: 2307946

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy. 1978 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 431 pp. 8vo. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of poems, edited by Sir Herbert Grierson, with 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, Lucy, you brightnesse of our spheare; To John Donne. Who shall doubt, Donne....
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The Poems of John Donne

By: Donne, John; Kermode, Frank

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2266067

Binding: Full-Leather

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.
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Stories: Notes from Underground; The Gambler; Poor People (The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers)

By: Dostoevsky, Feodor [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]; Garnett, Constance

Price: $75.00

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

Seller ID: 2307072

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Spine slightly faded. 1979 Full-Leather. 476 pp. 8vo. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Constance Garnett. Three stories by the author of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot. Includes: Notes from Underground; The Gambler; Poor People.
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Crime and Punishment (The Collector's Library of The World's Best-Loved Books)

By: Dostoevsky, Feodor [Fyodor]; Coulson, Jessie

Price: $50.00

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

Seller ID: 2296116

Binding: Full-Leather

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...
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South Wind

By: Douglas, Norman

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1939

Seller ID: 2262404

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Spine faded, slipcase repaired but split along seam still visible, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 383 pp. 8vo. Illustrated by Carlotta Petrina. South Wind is a 1917 novel by British author Norman Douglas. It is Douglas' most famous book. It is set on an imaginary island called Nepenthe, located off the coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea, a thinly fictionalized description of Capri's residents and visitors. The novel's discussion of moral and sexual issues caused considera...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of the Four; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Doyle, A. [Arthur] Conan; Smith, Edgar W.; Starrett, Vincent

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Heritage Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2261559

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass insert laid in. Spine faded. 1981 Hard Cover. 307, [4] pp. 8vo. Includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (comprising twelve separate cases), and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (which also includes twelve cases), all featuring the inimitable detective Sherlock Holmes. This edition also includes an introduction by Vincent Starrett, and reproductions of original illustrations from various artists (Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele, William H. Hyde, George Hutchinson, D.H. Friston, and Charles Kerr).
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An American Tragedy (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Dreiser, Theodore; Hansen, Harry

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1982

Seller ID: 2144217

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

1982 Full-Leather. x, 556 pp. Tall 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, beige ribbon marker bound in. Dreiser's famous fictionalization of the upstate New York trial of Chester Gillette for the murder of Grace Brown, with an introduction by Harry Hansen and illustrations by Reginald Marsh.
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An American Tragedy (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Dreiser, Theodore; Hansen, Harry

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1982

Seller ID: 2278052

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1982 Full-Leather. x, 556 pp. Tall 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Dreiser's famous fictionalization of the upstate New York trial of Chester Gillette for the murder of Grace Brown, with an introduction by Harry Hansen and illustrations by Reginald Marsh.
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Anna Hastings: The Story of a Washington Newspaperperson (The First Edition Society)

By: Drury, Allen

Price: $25.00

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

Seller ID: 2304821

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Publisher's Notes from the Editors pamphlet laid in. Boards faintly scuffed. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 304 pp. Dark red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Uldis Klavins. . The riveting tale of one womans journey and her rise to power, Anna Hastings gives readers an inside glimpse into the workings of journalism in Washington. Drury takes his own experience in the field to reflect on the state of journalism in the 1970s. In contrast to his other series, no...
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Advise and Consent: A Novel of Washington Politics

By: Drury, Allen

Price: $35.00

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

Seller ID: 2304828

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. Publisher's Notes from the Editors pamphlet laid in. Spine slightly faded. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 714 pp. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Walt Spitzmiller. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel of American politics. Advise and Consent is far more than a timely, eye-witness chronicle of our American leaders today -- uneasy, dedicated, or bewildered -- trying to apply old concepts to new and frightening events....
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Anna Hastings: The Story of a Washington Newspaperperson (The First Edition Society)

By: Drury, Allen

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: 2306984

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Spine slightly faded. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 304 pp. Dark red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Uldis Klavins. The riveting tale of one womans journey and her rise to power, Anna Hastings gives readers an inside glimpse into the workings of journalism in Washington. Drury takes his own experience in the field to reflect on the state of journalism in the 1970s. In contrast to his other series, notably Advise and Consent, he humanizes the very field he ...
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The Country of the Dwarfs

By: Du Chaillu, Paul

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1876

Seller ID: 2296313

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Binding repaired, boards rubbed, corners exposed, ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1876 Hard Cover. viii, 314 pp., [4] publisher catalog. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Numerous engravings. An account of the author's travels in Africa, by which he encountered the peoples we now refer to as pygmies. Du Chaillu became famous as the first European to confirm their existence, and also that of African gorillas.
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