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By: Chaucer, Geoffrey; Nicolson, J.U.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1981
Seller ID: 2275976
A very nice copy. 1981 Full-Leather. 617 pp. Green leather-bound with gilt decor on boards and gilt page ridges. Woodcuts by William Caxton. The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury[2]) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.[3] In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, in 1389, Clerk of the King's work.[4] It was during these years th... View more info
By: Chekhov, Anton; Fen, Elisaveta
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265136
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. View more info
By: Cherryh, C.J.; Wollheim, Donald A.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1986
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2281120
An exceptional copy. 1986 Full-Leather. [xvi], 439, [9] pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Donald A. Wollheim, color frontispiece by Vincent DiFate. Pell’s Station, orbiting the alien world simply called Downbelow, had always managed to remain neutral in the ever escalating conflict between “The Company,” whose fleets from Earth had colonized space, and its increasingly independent and reb... View more info
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By: Child, Harold (Translator)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Adam and Charles Black: 1911
Seller ID: 1809410
Spine a bit toned, boards lightly rubbed & soiled, small dealer bookplate on front endpaper. 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, gilt page borders. 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, ... View more info
By: Child, Leslie
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Mosher Press: 1928
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 1903633
Includes original jacket. Jacket edges lightly rubbed with minimal loss from spine ends. 1928 Hard Cover. 40 pp. 12mo. Original green French wrappers over cardstock boards, with glassine dust jacket. Woodcut illustration on front board. Printed on Aurelian laid paper. Edition limited to 200 copies. A collection of short poems. Published by Thomas Bird Mosher at his Mosher Press during its career of over 30 years as a private press. Mosher ultimately released over 400 tit... View more info
By: Christianson, Gale E.; Westfall, Richard S.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1989
Seller ID: 2274219
Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1989 Full-Leather. xxi, [1], 623, [3] pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of Isaac Newton. Foreword by Richard S. Westfall. A biography of Newton probes the scientist's reclusive personality, recreates the turbulent intellectual atmosphere of seventeenth-century Europe, and lucidly describes Newton's epoch-making discoverie... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: John Lane / Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.: 1900
Seller ID: 2129779
Former library copy, only a few marks. 2 inch chip from spine head, cloth splitting along joints, edges rubbed. Internally sound and clean. 1900 Full-Leather. [iv], 247, [1] pp. Tall 8vo. Bound in replica of 'the most decorative binding in English ownership which can be ascribed to Le Gascon with any appearance of probability.' Includes frontispiece and five engraved plates by Swan Electric Engraving Co. A collection of articles on various literary, political, social, an... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Heinemann: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263970
First edition. Spine faded, rear board faintly scuffed. 1966 Full-Leather. xxxvi, [2], 608 pp. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps, two fold-out tables follow text. 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 front corner: O.C.S. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC PC (Can)... View more info
By: Chute, Marchette; Housman, John
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1988
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274881
Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. 1988 Full-Leather. [xii], 395, [1] pp. 8vo. Dark brown leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, orange silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Foreword by John Housman written specially for this edition, two-panel map of Shakespeare's London precedes text. What is it about this man's work that distinguishes him from his contemporaries and transcends the boundaries of space and time? In Shakespeare of L... View more info
By: Clark, Ronald W.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1993
Seller ID: 2274211
Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1993 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, [1], 530 pp. 8vo. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Franklin. The first full-scale biography of Franklin in over 60 years! This fully documented account of the most versatile man of his age paints a lively portrait of the writer who invented the l... View more info
By: Clark, Ronald W.; Fine, Reuben
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1988
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2281102
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. View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1988
Seller ID: 2277193
Publisher's insert laid in. 1988 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 221, [1] pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by James Gunn. Based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, made into one of the most influential films of our century, brilliant, compulsive, prophetic, 2001: A Spac... View more info
By: Cleaves, Freeman
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1997
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274993
Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. Faintly scuffed. 1997 Full-Leather. xiv, [2], 422 pp. 8vo. Full dark green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated with presidential seal, ribbon marker bound in. A biography of the ninth President of the United States of America, who served the shortest term of any president (he died a month after his inauguration of pneumonia). Freeman Cleaves's great achievement in this book is to descri... View more info
By: Clement, Hal; Cherryh, C.J.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1987
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2281122
Publisher's insert laid in. 1987 Mass Market Paperback. 224 pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by C.J. Cherryh, color frontispiece and black-and-white illustrations by Vincent DiFate. Every so often a science-fiction novel is published which is immediately recognized as a classic--a book which makes an instant and lasting appeal to readers, which is read and re-read with increasing enjoyment.... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Estes and Lauriat: 1881
Seller ID: 2279552
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. View more info
By: Colburn & Berger
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Phinney & Co., Publishers.: 1855
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2273489
First edition. Scarce - only 9 copies located in OCLC. Binding repaired and edges reinforced, with some retinting of worn areas and evidence of dye used in this process on gilt spine decorations, a few pages lightly foxed. 1855 Full-Leather. 92, [2] pp. Blue blind-stamped leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt. Engravings of gravestones and monuments throughout, with brief historical information about some of the individuals interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery... View more info
By: Cole, Donald B.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1997
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274995
Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. 1997 Full-Leather. xiii, [1], 477, [3] pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated with presidential seal, ribbon marker bound in. A biography of the eighth President of the United States of America, who founded the Democratic Party. Van Buren had previously served as Governor of New York, Secretary of State, and Vice President. View more info
By: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Walsh, Henry C.
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Henry Altemus: 1889
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2272322
Loss of gilt from spine titles and illustrator name on front board, corners exposed, minor tide mark to base of front endpapers, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1889 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio. 1889 reissue of the edition first published in 1876 by Harper. Numerous full-page engravings by Gustave Dore. A visually striking edition of the famous nautical poem known for its (oft-misquoted) lines: Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink. First publish... View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie; Starrett, Vincent
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1959
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2261275
Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number II:25 laid in. Spine faded. 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 numbe... View more info
By: Congreve, William; Kronenberger, Louis
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1959
Seller ID: 2261913
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... View more info
By: Conrad, Joseph; Croft-Cooke, Rupert
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1961
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2281284
Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass insert Number XI: 26 laid in. Slipcase edges a bit faded, slipcase corners lightly rubbed. 1961 Hard Cover. xxiii, 376 pp. Includes an introduction by Rupert Croft-Cooke, the author's note from the 1917 edition, and illustrations by Lima de Freitas. Joseph Conrad's 1904 adventure novel, set amid the mist-covered mountains of a fictional South American republic, spins a colorful tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion. The st... View more info
By: Conrad, Joseph; Monserrat, Nicholas
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1959
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2261262
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 consequ... View more info
By: Conrad, Joseph; Monserrat, Nicholas
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1977
Seller ID: 2205690
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. View more info
Price: $1,750.00
Publisher: Stringer & Townsend: 1854
Seller ID: 1797797
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. 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 ... View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: The John C. Winston Company:
Seller ID: 1806283
Fore edge lightly foxed. We have more books available by this author!. 400 pp. Original maroon cloth, gilt titles, orange titles on front board with decorations, small color picture plate mounted on front board. A novel by the author most well known for his Leatherstocking Tales featuring Natty Bumpo. View more info
By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Hale, Edward Everett
Price: $45.00
Publisher: The Easton Press, Norwalk: 1979
Seller ID: 2172416
1979 Full-Leather. xi, 377 pp. 8vo. Dark 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. View more info
By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Hale, Edward Everett
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2205673
Top page ridge faintly spotted. 1979 Full-Leather. 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. View more info
By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Hale, Edward Everett
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2278043
Page ridges faintly spotted, otherwise an excellent copy. 1979 Full-Leather. 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. View more info
By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Hansen, Harry
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1968
Seller ID: 2278051
1968 Full-Leather. xxi, [3], 411, [3] pp. 8vo. Original brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Harry Hansen, illustrations by John Steuart Curry. The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo. His fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as the trapper or the old man... View more info
By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Spiller, Robert E.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1981
Seller ID: 2207940
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 considere... View more info
