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![Image for A Zigzag [Zig-Zag] Journey in the Sunny South; or, Wonder Tales of Early American History. A Visit to the Scenes and Associations of the Early American Settlements in the Southern States and the West Indies.](/assets/images/product/1864936.jpg)
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Estes and Lauriat: 1887
Seller ID: 1864936
Condition: Good
Boards rubbed with loss from spine & corners, front free endpaper removed, hinges loosening.No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 1887 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 320 pp. Original color-illustrated paper over boards, illustrated endpapers, engravings throughout text. Late 19th century travel writing, part of The Zig-Zag Series, this volume focusing on journeys in the American South and the West Indies. View more info
By: Cain, James M.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1988
Seller ID: 2294568
Condition: Fine
A fine copy. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 209 pp. Imitation leather. ABOUT THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE: The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by James M. Cain. The novel was successful and notorious upon publication. It is regarded as one of the more important crime novels of the 20th century. The novel's mix of sexuality and violence was startling in its time and caused it to be banned in Boston.[1] The story is narrated in the first person by Frank Chambers, a young drifter who stops at a rural California diner for a meal and ends up workin... View more info
By: Camus, Albert; Gilbert, Stuart; Fowlie, Wallace
Price: $75.00
Publisher: The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut: 1993
Seller ID: 2144222
Condition: Fine
Publisher's Notes from the Archives insert laid in. 1993 Full-Leather. xix, [1], 181 pp. Blue full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, blue ribbon marker bound in. Camus's classic novel of existentialism and the absurd, translated from the original French by Stuart Gilbert, with an introduction by William Fowlie and color illustrations by Daniel Maffia. View more info
By: Capote, Truman
Price: $2,250.00
Publisher: Random House: 1965
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2263973
Condition: Fine
Limited edition, #285 of 500, signed & numbered by Capote on colophon, which states 'Of the first edition of In Cold Blood five hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound.' Lacks slipcase issued with this edition, but is only the more attractive for it (the slipcase was a rather plain red paper over cardboard). 1965 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 343 pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full brown morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound include... View more info
By: Carey, Peter
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2289808
Condition: Fine
First edition, preceding the Alfred A. Knopf trade edition. Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. 1991 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 279, [3] pp. 8vo. Full dark green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, green ribbon marker bound in. Two-page color frontispiece by Nanette Biers. Franklin Library's Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special foreword and frontispiece that appear only in the limited edition. Granny Catchprice runs her... View more info
By: Carleton, Will
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1876
Seller ID: 2283876
Condition: Very Good
Very faint stain along page base, board corners lightly rubbed. 1876 Hard Cover. 131 pp. Blue boards with gilt decorations. 4-page terminal publisher ad. Original green cloth, gilt titles & decorations. Numerous engravings. A collection of poetry with a rural theme. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William McKendree Carleton (21 October 1845 – 18 December 1912) was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about rural life... What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer, Will Carleton has done for the American-touched with the glamou... View more info
By: Carlyle, Thomas
Price: $30.00
Publisher: White, Stokes and Allen / Bernhard Tauchnitz: 1888
Seller ID: 2269852
Condition: Very Good
No copyright date, circa 1890. Two volumes repaired at hinges, spines toned, two faint spots on rear board of third volume. 1888 Half-Leather. 366; 388; 430 pp. 16mo. Leather spine & corners, red & brown morocco spine labels, gilt titles & rules, top edge gilt, marbled boards & endpapers. The most famous work by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian, drawing together numerous sources to provide a detailed picture of the French Revolution. Still considered an authoritative work. View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)
Price: $250.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA: 1975
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 1996832
Condition: Fine
An exceptional copy. 1975 Full-Leather. [iv], 161 pp. 8vo. Original light brown full leather with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations of hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, with the white rabbit pictured in green on the front board. Green ribbon marker bound in, green silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Limited edition, part of The Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. Two tone illustrations by John Tenniel throughout. An exceptionally decorative edition of Carroll's classic work. This particular edition made a brief appearance in the television series Gotham, in a... View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)
Price: $150.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA: 1975
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2140629
Condition: Fine
An exceptional copy - no wear or internal marks. 1975 Full-Leather. [iv], 161 pp. 8vo. Original light brown full leather with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations of hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, with the white rabbit pictured in green on the front board. Green ribbon marker bound in, green silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Limited edition, part of The Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. Two tone illustrations by John Tenniel throughout. An exceptionally decorative edition of Carroll's classic work. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 18... View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)
Price: $75.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1975
Seller ID: 2285610
Condition: Near Fine
A couple small smudges along spine. 1975 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. [iv], 161, [3] pp. 8vo. Original light brown full leather with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations of hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, with the white rabbit pictured in green on the front board. Green ribbon marker bound in, green silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Limited edition, part of The Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. Two tone illustrations by John Tenniel throughout. An exceptionally decorative edition of Carroll's classic work. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: C... View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: H.M. Caldwell Co.: 1900
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2291648
Condition: Good
Circa 1900. Binding just beginning to wean, faint 1/2 inch stain on page fore-edge, some discoloration of gilt on spine and front board. We have more books available by this author!. 202, [2] pp. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, black-and-white illustrations from the originals by John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, g... View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis; Marcus, Leonard S.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble: 2010
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2284275
ISBN: 1435122941
Condition: Near Fine
2010 Hard Cover. xiv, 1165, [5] pp. 8vo. Color illustrated endpapers, black-and-white reproductions of John Tenniel's illustrations throughout. Introduction by Leonard S. Marcus. Includes: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass; Sylvie and Bruno; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded; The Hunting of the Snark; Early Verse; Puzzles from Wonderland; Prologues to Plays; Phantasmagoria; College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel; Acrostics, Inscriptions, and Other Verse; Three Sunsets and Other Poems; Stories: A Tangled Tale, Novelty and Romancement, A Photographer's Day Out, Wilhelm vo... View more info
By: Carter, Jimmy
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1982
Edition: Reissue
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2274884
Condition: Fine
Signed without inscription by Carter on front flyleaf. Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. 1982 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, [2], 622 pp. 8vo. Original grey full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Keeping Faith is Jimmy Carter's account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Offce. Mr. Carter writes candidly about the crises that confronted him during his tenure as President of the United States and leader of the free world, from 1977 to 1981. 'The President who ca... View more info
By: Casanova, Giacomo; Trask, Willard R.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263980
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 1966 Full-Leather. viii, 349, [1], [i]-vi, 330, [10] 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. Translated with an introduction by Willard R. Trask. The first two books of the famous ladies-man's autobiography, in one volume. Casanova's memoirs are one of the most important primary sources for accounts of European customs of the 18th century. First English translation, from th... View more info
![Image for Napoleon (The Library of Great Lives) [Bonaparte]](/assets/images/product/2274873.jpg)
By: Castelot, Andre; Daniels, Guy; Ross, Stephen T.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1991
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274873
Condition: Fine
Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. An exceptional copy. 1991 Full-Leather. Original dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A reissue of the 1971 biography, with a new introduction by Stephen T. Ross. Translated from the original French by Guy Daniels. Color frontispiece of Napoleon by Chris Calle, black-and-white reproductions of historical illustrations. View more info
By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, John Addington; Cortissoz, Royal
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Tudor Publishing Company: 1906
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2062149
Condition: Very Good
1934 12th printing. Front hinge of first volume just starting, small internal tear to vol. 1 backstrip. 1906 Hard Cover. xxix, [1], 359, [1]; vii, [1], 386, [1] pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles, decorations, & rules, top edge gilt. Reproductions of forty original portraits and views. The classic autobiography by the Italian Renaissance goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier, and musician, still considered the most important memoir of the era. View more info
![Image for The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself [Autobiography]](/assets/images/product/2261910.jpg)
By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, John Addington; Craven, Thomas
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1937
Seller ID: 2261910
Condition: Near Fine
Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number 2N laid in. Spine and slipcase edges lightly toned, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1937 Hard Cover. viii, [2], 301, [1] pp. Translated and edited by John Addington Symonds, with an introduction by Thomas Craven and illustrations by Fritz Kredel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Benvenuto Cellini (November 3, 1500 – February 13, 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier and musician of the Renaissance, who also wrote a famous autobiography. Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed acco... View more info
![Image for Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha [Parts I & II in One Volume]](/assets/images/product/2164512.jpg)
By: Cervantes [Saavedra], Miguel de; Jarvis, Charles
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Belford, Clarke & Co.:
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2164512
Condition: Near Fine
No date, circa 1880. Spine slightly faded, minimal wear to corners, ink name on front flyleaf. 811 pp. 8vo. Parts 1 and 2 complete in one volume. Original blue cloth, gilt & black decorations design, titles in relief, floral decorative endpapers. Don Quixote (fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha), is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by inventing a Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influe... View more info
By: Cervantes, Miguel De; Clark, J.W.; Shore, T. Teignmouth
Price: $375.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 2013
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 2276355
Condition: Near Fine
Limited edition, #447 of 600 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase. Publisher's limitation slip and blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 2013 Full-Leather. xxviii, 737, [5] pp. Numerous plates by Gustave Dore throughout. Original light brown full leather, gilt titles and rules, all edges gilt, image of Don Quixote and Pancho Villa on front board, mirrored on an engraved plate mounted on the slipcase, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. This translation contains the entirety of Cervantes's famous work in one volume (it was originally published in two parts, the second released ten years ... View more info
By: Cervantes, Miguel De; Cohen, J.M.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265123
Condition: Very Good
Light stain to bottom page corner. 1979 Hard Cover. 625, [3] pp. 8vo. Brown leather spine, brown cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, brown ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the Spanish by J.M. Cohen, with illustrations by Jose & Luis Jiminez y Aranda. The classic tale of a man who reads too many romances and begins to believe that he's an errant knight. View more info
By: Cervantes, Miguel De; Cohen, J.M.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1976
Seller ID: 2286237
Condition: Very Good
Minor wear to bottom corner. 1976 Full-Leather. 625, [3] pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the Spanish by J.M. Cohen, with illustrations by Gustave Dore. The classic tale of a man who reads too many romances and begins to believe that he's an errant knight. It is the source of the phrase 'tilting at windmills'. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1996
Seller ID: 2268772
Condition: Near Fine
From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name and date (4/13/96) in black ink on front flyleaf. 1996 Full-Leather. 159, [5] pp. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A decoratively bound reissue of the work first published in 1915, with color illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. View more info
By: Chateaubriand, [Francois-Rene De]; Harry, James Spence; Didot, Firmin; Harding, Edward J.
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Cassell & Company Limited: 1884
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2285434
Condition: Very Good
First thus. Margins of a few pages towards the end a bit foxed, corners a bit rubbed with 1 inch chip from spine head. 1884 Large Hardcover. 172 pp. Translated from the French by James Spence Harry, from Firmin Didot's edition of the Viscount's works, with an introduction by Edward J. Harding. A novella by the French writer who had an immense influence on the Romantic movement in France. This edition includes illustrations by numerous artists, engraved by Gustave Dore, one of the pre-eminent engravers of the 19th century, who is known for his editions of Dante's Inferno, Milton's Paradise Lost... View more info
By: Chatwin, Bruce
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2289833
Condition: Fine
First edition, preceding the Viking Penguin trade edition. Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. 1987 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 293, [3] pp. 8vo. Black full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color reproductions of bark paintings by Aborigines. Franklin Library's Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special foreword and frontispiece that appear only in the limited edition. The late Bruce Chatwin carved o... View more info
By: Chaucer, Geoffrey; Nicolson, J.U.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1981
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265096
Condition: Near Fine
1981 Hard Cover. 634 pp. 8vo. Green leather spine, green cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, green ribbon marker bound in. Translated into contemporary verse by J.U. Nicolson, illustrated with woodcuts by William Caxton. View more info
By: Chaucer, Geoffrey; Nicolson, J.U.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1981
Seller ID: 2275976
ISBN: 1127278185
Condition: Near Fine
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 that Chaucer began working on his most famous text, The Canterbury Tales. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are... View more info
By: Chaucer, Geoffrey; Nicolson, J.U.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press / The Franklin Library: 1985
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2285062
Condition: Near Fine
1985 Half-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 618 pp. 8vo. Printed by The Franklin Library for The Oxford Library of the World's Great Books. Black leather spine over blue cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Woodcuts by William Caxton. The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, in 1389, Clerk of the King's work. It was... View more info
By: Chaucer, Geoffrey; Nicolson, J.U.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1974
Seller ID: 2285584
Condition: Near Fine
1974 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 634 pp. 8vo. Full dark brown leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, orange ribbon marker bound in. Translated into modern English by J.U. Nicolson. Color reproduction of a page from the Ellesmere Canterbury Tales precedes text. View more info
By: Chekhov, Anton; Fen, Elisaveta
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265136
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. View more info
By: Chekhov, Anton; Fen, Elisaveta
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1976
Seller ID: 2286136
Condition: Fine
An exceptional copy. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 572 pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of eight plays by Anton Chekhov, including: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; The Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; The Bear; The Proposal; A Jubilee. View more info
