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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
By: Cherryh, C.J.; Wollheim, Donald A.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1986
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2281120
Condition: Fine
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 rebellious colony worlds. But Pell’s location—on the outer edge of Earth’s defensive perimeter— makes her the focal poin... View more info
![Image for Aucassin and Nicolete [Nicolette]](/assets/images/product/1809410.jpg)
By: Child, Harold (Translator)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Adam and Charles Black: 1911
Seller ID: 1809410
Condition: Very Good
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, or combination of prose and verse (literally, a 'sung story'), similar to a prosimetrum. It is the only known chantefable fro... View more info
By: Child, Leslie
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Mosher Press: 1928
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 1903633
Condition: Near Fine
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 titles in 783 distinct issues, grouped into 14 limited edition series. View more info
By: Christianson, Gale E.; Westfall, Richard S.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1989
Seller ID: 2274219
Condition: Near Fine
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 discoveries in physics, optics, and astronomy. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: John Lane / Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.: 1900
Seller ID: 2129779
Condition: Good
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, and historical topics, including: On the Binding of This Volume; London - After Forty Years; A Study in Despair; Comet-Lore; Co... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Heinemann: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263970
Condition: Near Fine
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) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was an English statesman and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... View more info
By: Chute, Marchette; Housman, John
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1988
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274881
Condition: Fine
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 London Marchette Chute has coordinated such sparse facts as we posses about the bard's personal life with his professional act... View more info
By: Clark, Ronald W.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1993
Seller ID: 2274211
Condition: Fine
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 lightning conductor; the politician who spent years as an emissary in London trying to prevent the Revolutionary War; and the ... View more info
By: Clark, Ronald W.; Fine, Reuben
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1988
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2281102
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. View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1988
Seller ID: 2277193
Condition: Near Fine
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 Space Odyssey tackles the enduring theme of man's place in the universe. ...an essential addition to every SF reader's collectio... View more info
